forty and fog

the upper Piedmont "cold air wedge" has returned.....air comes down from NE and wedges up against the GA-NC mountain ranges.....yesterday this made Clinton 30 degrees colder than one hour from here in Columbia, where the wedge doesn't reach.....storm front went through before my bedtime......thunder, rain, some hail.....but cold enough here not to get tornado warnings, like they had in Atlanta....where the wedge doesn't reach.....my Monday afternoon walk was in the low 40s, and the last two blocks coming back to the house were in a light driving mist or drizzle.....Spring will not get here this week except on paper.....highs in the 50s and overnights in the 30s predicted for at least a week.....my sides with chicken yesterday were mashed potatoes and green beans, the sides with the last of the chicken today will be ranch beans and mac n cheese......tomorrow off to the market.....I might make a sandwich for lunch with fried corned beef and a fried egg on rye.....mayo and honey mustard.....finished one Steinhauer novel and got the next one in the series via Whispernet for kindle....two guys from the City are in the neighborhood this week edging the sidewalks and shoveling weeds and dirt to the gutter where the vacuum truck can suck it all up.....they do this once a year I think....I'll start edging my part again when it warms up enough......