ten degrees

above freezing outside after breakfast, 42F.....about 52 inside.....later I was online and the power went out....so I went for a walk around the park, and by the time I got back the power was back on....don't know what happened.....the traffic lights were out down by the highway and the train tracks....I wonder if the railroad crossing arms have their own power, or what happens if a train comes through when the power is out? If the power had stayed off, I could have had a cold sandwich for lunch I guess.....yesterday's supper was leftovers, roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas, with gravy.....the lid from the slow cooker fits exactly over this one dinner plate I have, so you can microwave a leftover dinner that way.....well, I should eat my mid-morning apple, and drink my apple juice.....apples have something in them that's anti-senility.....can't remember what it's called.....

windchill:48 degrees

wore my denim jacket on the newspaper walk, had chicken corn chowder for Sunday supper.....cool weather stuff going on.....Padres did not make the post-season.....Braves will play the Giants, but the games from SF will be on TV here after midnight....I'll read about it in the morning online, because the result will be too late to make the morning paper.....talked to my neighbor Earl some yesterday, he was out fixing the back fence because he says his dog has been getting out in the middle of the night....I thought I heard a dog in my side yard the other night.....the orange cat has kittens under the abandoned house, and the dog will stand there and bark at the foundation.....Earl says that he has contacted the City several times asking what they are going to do about tearing down the burned-out house, but he says they say there is no money for that right now....I guess he got the fence patched up, since I heard no barking last night....well, I'm going to go walk over by the mill.....

chilly, north wind

sunny and clear, but not warm enough out to sit on the front porch without a flannel shirt or a sweater or something....Fall has really fell I guess.....got Breakfast with the Beatles on the space radio.....had french toast for breakfast....had Boston butt pork steak with mashed potatoes and early peas smothered in white gravy last night.....watched old movies after watching the Braves get beat by the Phillies.....they showed the Padres beat the Giants on a split screen in the last inning of that game.....so the whole season for the Padres, Giants, and Braves comes down to today.....consult your local newspaper for the various possible outcomes, or check online I suppose.....Clemson lost, Hosers lost, Laurens won, Clinton won.....over in downtown Laurens the other day, two of the stores were going out of business this weekend they said.....the recession is over?

wanted to also mention

the barefoot buskers doing old-timey music on one street corner, with fiddle and a parlor guitar like my Stella....also with harp, jug, kazoo, etc....lot of music from two guys....they were getting quite a few bucks tossed in the guitar case, and people taking pictures.....last time I saw that guitar guy he was just by himself, but it's better with the fiddle guy, 'cause they were getting some of that high lonesome harmony going vocal wise.....

for example

six Q-puns cost six dollars, and I got a pulled pork sandwich for six, but the town takes 25% of the six, which is $1.50....so the vendor gets $4.50.....and I bet the town charges the 7 cent tax on the whole six....plus the vendor pays for the space....but I guess they still make money or they wouldn't come from all over to do it.....at 4.50 I would call it a very good sandwich....I poured on some of their homemade honey mustard sauce....and of course got some dripping on my jeans....oh well...there were two bands playing at once, set up a couple blocks apart, the Deadbeats were a bunch of high-school kids it looked like, playing R&B and blues.....the guitar kid was tearing it up.....the Shrimp Shack Band had the big stage, and they were a middle-aged bar band, pretty slick, could probably play any song you asked for....both local bands.....I saw Cindy and her kids there, and met Matt's mom....it started to get crowded by late morning, so I left because the Clemson games starts at noon I think anyway.....the world's tallest pin-ball machine was a strange contraption.....4 Q-puns to make it run, but "everybody is a winner!"

rib report

First I stopped by the new sportsbar-pub, which looks like more sportsbar than pub....but a very nice clean new place....got a pint of Guinness for $4, and then went to the Square and got two samples.....a $2 sample bowl of hash, which was pretty good....the same people from Greenwood who were selling hash last year at the Clinton Fall thing....and a "two bones" rib sample from a stand called Baloney Joe's....lots of meat on two bones, done with a rub, very tasty.....that was $2 also, so with the $1 tip I left at the pub it all came to under $10, and I still have a $1 "Q-pun" I can use tomorrow when I go back.....

10/01/10

adds up to three.....or twenty-one? Cool enough to cut the grass out front without working up much of a sweat.....the new pub and sportsbar in Laurens is going whole hog for the Squealin'.....drink specials, bands, and direct from Ireland, the "Jameson Girls".....celtic women pushing whiskey.....the only bar in Clinton closed, The Study Club over at College Station....I never did go there, it was open strange hours.....but what happened I guess is the people who had the Study Club let the lease expire and went in with another couple and opened the bigger place in Laurens, at what should be a better location I suppose....it's right next to the River Walk Park....the Squealin' starts in an hour or so....I'm still thinking of checking that out and also looking into the pub this afternoon.....I'll eat a sandwich before I go over there, because those fancy BBQ dudes want too much for their ribs or whatever, in my opinion.....beautiful day for festivities.....up in the NC mountains there is a little town that, when the lumber mill closed, positioned itself as a Bavarian village.....put up false German-looking store fronts, and runs a big beer-bust mit lederhosen and all in Sept. and Oct.