63 fair humidity 94% wind zero

quiet Sunday morning.....french toast and two sausage links, coffee, orange juice....last night Dan called and we figured out how to do a Skype video chat, which was interesting.....technology marches on.....some of the cousins are promoting a Tingle reunion on Nov. 6, at the usual place.....I'm ready to make enchilada pie for that.....watched USC beat #1 Alabama yesterday afternoon, with a leg and a thigh and some stuffing and some green beans microwaved at half-time for dinner....also just about finished off my peanut supply watching the game.....I've got some books to read, but I'll find myself reading a few pages, and then just starting to doze off sitting here......

steak quesadilla?

I have one flour tortilla left, and a piece of steak I saved from last night.....might be today's lunch....did watch the Reds-Phillies last night, which was another interesting game, I only fell asleep for maybe one inning.....Laurens lost, Clinton won, Gamecocks and Tigers both play this afternoon at 3:30, on ABC and CBS.....in HD.....dawn walk today was comfortable with a flannel shirt, park walk around 9 you could do without the flannel shirt.....going to get to mid-80's late in the afternoon, around football time I guess......will probably just microwave a leftover chicken dinner plate at half-time.....

iron skillet

steak and onion, with fried potatoes, and green beans.....so I'll watch the local evening news, and then probably the Phillies and Reds, since their game the other night was a good one.....or maybe there will be some old movie on that's more interesting.....

different walk

went over and looked in the pawn shop a couple of blocks away....he has lots of guitars in there, and they change every once in a while....never any real bargains though that I've seen.....then I came back by the body shops and garage and around back that way.....the NAPA over there closed a while back, that was the auto parts I could walk to.....there's another NAPA over by my insurance agent.....speaking of insurance, I got my auto renewal today in the mail....not due until Nov. 5th.....and I got a letter from GEICO saying I should switch to them, since their customers report an average savings of $500 a year.....hell, I only pay about $360 a year, so if I switch to them they'll pay me? I don't think so......the chicken dinner last night was good, made good gravy....I might have a chicken salad sandwich for lunch today......another beautiful day here, not too hot, not too cold, blue sky, breezy.......

chicken in the pot

slowing cooking.....45 early on today, about 70 outside right now, and 60 in the house....so I opened a couple of windows after I finished cutting the grass out back.....they say it might get up to 80 in the afternoon....I noticed that it was about 80 in Coos Bay yesterday....hotter than the Summer there? I saved a little of that steak from last night to make a sandwich for lunch today....I watched that Doc Halliday dude pitch his historic no-hitter on TBS, if not for that one walk it would have been a perfect game.....the Braves and the Phillies had so many games on TV during the season I'm familiar with their team, which sort of makes it more interesting.....the city fathers want to move trick-or-treat to Saturday at the end on the month, instead of the actual All Hollows' Eve on Sunday? Don't quite get the logic....Saturday is when they are having the Fall Festival a couple of blocks from here at the town square or whatever it is....they say kids can get candy there from the vendors and church groups or whatever, instead of going house to house.....so do I expect the t-or-t on Sat or Sun? Or do I just leave the porch light off and forget it this year, since they are messing with the tradition anyway......

no clouds today

so it's warming up faster....still just 61 at lunch time though.....was 40 on the early walk...had a cheesy bean burrito for lunch.....did get a whole chicken at the store, and cornbread stuffing, cut green beans, a couple of marked down pieces of steak, biscuits 2-4-1, link sausage .99 the box, 6 lbs. of Granny Smith apples for $4, etc....anyway, a weeks worth of groceries I hope, should work....going to have some of the steak with leftover mashed potatoes and some veggie for tonight, and then put the chicken in the crock pot in the morning....I'll do the stuffing on the stove top, with fried green apple in it....sounds good already.....can use the chicken drippings as part of the liquid for the stuffing....always thinking ahead.....with it down in the 40's at night, it's good sleeping weather....it's dark when I wake up, but time changes at the end of this month?

by late afternoon

warm enough to sit on the front porch....songbird singing, woodpecker pecking, Old Glory making that flag-flapping sound on Miss Ann's flagpole next door....every once in a while a car goes by, and the folk inside the car wave at the old man sitting on his front porch....clouds coming and going.....I'm low on groceries, so I'm going to just fix a pimento cheese and Frito omelette for supper....don't laugh 'til you try that....in the morning I'll go shopping....the ad says chicken legs and thighs .99 lb., or whole hens the same price...so I'll probably be eating chicken this coming week.....maybe with cornbread stuffing as a side....and cut green beans? I need more butter substitute, and something else....I'll remember what, maybe.....earlier I plugged the Fender dreadnought with the magnetic pickup into the big old Fender amp.....that works great, for a clean acoustic sound.....picked at that for a while.....