sunnier

but still with a wind most of the day....I did go over to WalMart, and found a few things I was looking for....I got some mixed nuts that were cheap, but they are way salty...oh well....and I got some rye swirled with pumpernickel for bread....had oatmeal for breakfast, and grilled swiss on rye with fried pickle slices and Fritos for lunch.....strawberries for a snack in the morning, and some of the salty nuts in the afternoon....since I had stew last night, tonight I will do something else, and have fish and hash brown patty with pink kidney beans. Frozen hash brown patties are real easy to deal with, and cheap. They put in a small row of shops at one end of the WalMart parking lot...they are called "The Shoppes at Wal*Mart" .... classy name....I did not go over and look at them....I think there's a phone store, and a shoe store, and a couple of other places that I didn't really see what they were from where I had parked.....

the HVAC downdraft

is in the entrance hall, so cooking aromas end up by my front door, even though the kitchen is at the back of the house, in the traditional manner....so right now if you came in the house, you would smell simmering beef stew, mixed with skillet sausage and pickle. Fried pickle in your sandwich is another strange southern thing, but I like it.....you can also get it breaded and deep-fried as bar food....so they say, I haven't been in a bar in ages....29F on the morning walk, but the sun is out now so it will be warmer than that on the afternoon walk, maybe up to 50 or so.....I've been reading scary near-future sci fi books from the library....I'm glad I won't live to see it when the coastal cities are all flooded out, and gene-altered blights rage through the ecosystem .....and there is no more gasoline, etc....damn it, maybe I will....or the kids and grandkids.....anyway, need to go to Wal*Mart tomorrow I guess, get some things.....

used the windshield scraper

and then went to the store....they had strawberries on sale, so I got some of those....and I got the fixings for a crock-pot beef stew, and a few other things.....was 30F on the newspaper walk, but no ice on the sidewalk, just some snow on the lawns still.....

snow on the ground

now, and they say there will be more in the morning....IFC had on "Bright Young Things" tonight...that's a good movie, in my opinion....I'm about ready to go on to bed shortly....the roads should be melted before noon, so I can do my weekly grocery shopping OK.....

almost noon

and the snow is coming down pretty good....

on the radar

it looks like it's snowing north of Atlanta, and north of Greenville a little bit, but so far here it's just cloudy and windy.....actually about 10 degrees warmer on the morning walk than yesterday....on the GoClinton site, it says that the city council voted to start a farmer's market on Saturday mornings beginning this May.....$10 for a space on the big lawn behind the city building, where they have the Easter egg hunt....that's just a couple of blocks from my house....but that would be the same time as the one in Laurens, and it's not very well attended even, so what's the point? Wait and see if it really happens.....

Sun's come out

it was cloudy on the morning walk, 28F, no wind.....went to the library, the grocery store for orange juice, the gas station, and the ABC....which are all close together is what is loosely called the south Broad retail area.....so I'm all set if it starts snowing Tuesday....I can just stay inside and watch....