enough cloud cover

to keep it cool this morning earlier so I could go out and deal with the front yard.....staying around 70 inside and out so far.....afternoons are getting to mid-80s......maybe Friday morning it will be cool enough to tackle the back yard.....that artichoke yesterday didn't look that great, but it turned out to be a good one after all.....with garlic pounded steak and mesquite black beans.....the other half of the ribs is thawing out for the oven later today.....a potato can go into the big iron skillet with the ribs.....it's about time to start spraying with mosquito stuff before porch-sitting in the evening.....didn't get any mail today or yesterday either.....no bills or ads, that's about all I ever get anyway.....the paper said that the Badcock furniture store that closed recently will reopen as Home Sweet Home....with a new city approved facade and free-standing sign.....city approval is needed because the building is within the Historic District.....there's a panel that decides.....I think it was last week that I read that the Greek place across the tracks that had closed and that I had never been in anyway has reopened as a family style "meat-and-three" .......I don't have money to waste eating out anyway.....