afternoon walk

at 36F and gusty on and off breeze.....needed to walk though, move muscles some.....it's clear out, so sitting inside where it's warm you don't realize that it hasn't really warmed up out there, even with all the sunshine.....

walked for the paper

at 21F....but no wind to speak of, so it wasn't that bad.....later the Jeep did start at 25F so I could go turn in my library books and get some more....still lots of food, so I didn't go to the store while I was over on that end of town.....think I'll make tacos tonight.....at the Resort, Taco Night was just another excuse for a party.....

by around nine

it had warmed up to 25F, so I went for my walk, etc...am considering Pimento cheese quesadilla for lunch in a while....of course supper will be black-eyed peas.....

no sunrise walk for the newspaper

because it's 19F outside....I'll wait for the sun to maybe bring things up closer to freezing before I try to make it around to the store and back. The weather dude last night said the interaction between a high and a low was acting to funnel an "Arctic blast" into the Upstate. Oh well, I've got plenty of food and drink on hand, and Encore Western is having a 24 hour "Gunsmoke" marathon. Last night I caught a couple hours worth of the "Have Gun-Will Travel" marathon....that was pretty cool.....

trying for variety

or at least not eating the same dinner one night that I had the night before.....while I was in WalMart getting a four-pak of Heet, I wandered into the food section and found a little jar of chipped beef looking just like I remembered it always looking....even with the stars around the rim like a jelly jar....anyway, I know how to make chipped beef on toast, or SOS or Shit on a Shingle....but I Googled it anyway for the fun of it....there are lots of entries of course, but the interesting one was from seebeecookbook which told how they fixed it according to military manuals from WWI forward.....and there was a really fancy southerncooking version with mushrooms and all kinds of good stuff....but I'm just going to do the basic, like Joan used to make. It got all the way up to 34F today....whoop-de-do!

getting even colder

they were saying there would be lows in the 20's this week, but now they are saying lows in the teens. By the way, are the first three years of this decade the "pre-teens"? We'll all have to go to boy-band shows, and twit? And how long will it take me to eat a couple gallons of black-eyed peas with ham? It's tasty, anyway. SC plays UConn in the Pizza Bowl at 2 in the afternoon....This morning I'm thinking of driving over to WalMart....mainly just to get out of the house....and I could buy some Heet .....that's the alcohol for the gas tank that you should probably use if it's going to be in the teens at night......

important progress has been made

this year the cheap champagne has a stopper that you twist one way to open the bottle, and then you can put it back on and twist the other way to recork the bottle. Somebody should get an award for that. I don't think it worked that way last year anyway....can't really remember that far back....not so cold today, not freezing at sunrise for a change....but they say a cold front is on the way that will take us back to freezing for a week or so.....8 plus 3 is 11, so that is when the Rose Parade comes on here......the black-eyed peas are slowly cooking.....