pleasant today

61 now, might get up to 70? blue skies, gentle breezes.....went grocery shopping, and trimmed and mowed out front....leaving the back to another day.....while I was out I heard the two neighbor ladies talking.....the lady over the back fence was telling about their weekend.....Earl was having trouble with that dog getting out again....he had fixed the fence this side a while back, but now the dog, which isn't even his dog, it's his son's, but his son and his wife and kids live in an apartment so the pit bull bitch became this neighborhood's problem.....anyway....Earl was digging post holes to put up a higher fence, and hit the water-line.....so the City came out to fix the water line, and they hit the sewer line with the back-hoe......it's always somethin', I guess.....watched some strange French flick with subtitles last night......got stuff for fish tacos .....and they had pimento cheese spread two for one so I got some.....Dixie fish tacos?

thunder shook the house

after midnight.....lots of wind and rain and lightning ......they say this Spring storm killed six people across the South....Atlanta lost power.....tree debris on the streets and sidewalks this morning.....but it's gone off to the East , and today doesn't look too bad right now, but it's not going to be in the 80's like yesterday.....in the 60's I guess later today......I stayed up until 11:30 watching the NCAA basketball Final.....and then the storm was making too much of a racket to get to sleep for a couple of hours.....so I got off to a late start today....not that it makes any difference to anything in particular......I might try a hash-brown casserole today, I've got stuff for that.....

warmer, windy

66F with a 15mph SSW wind......I got out and trimmed the branches off the magnolia that were rubbing against the house and making a noise at night when it's windy....and it's been windy a lot lately.....should have done that a long time ago, but it's easy to be lazy....used the electric pole-saw.....and then decided that any more yard work could wait 'til another day.....the arthritis is already flaring up the last couple of days, and it would be foolish to aggravate it more really.....so I've used up the Frito pie suppers, but I still have ham for a couple of more meals, and I still have another casserole I could fix.....so maybe I can get by on Wednesday with a somewhat smaller shopping.....it might get to the 80's next weekend, so I need to think of lighter warm-weather meals.....the basketball tonight doesn't start until 9.....see if I make it all the way through that....saw two western movies from 1952 last night.....

on the front porch

in the afternoon I could hear a rock and roll band playing over there a couple of blocks away at the bandstand by the train tracks in the center of town.....couldn't figure out what was going on....but then later I heard all the Harleys firing up and remembered that today there was a charity motorcycle ride going on here in Clinton.....

off to a slow start

messed up my sleep schedule staying up a little late watching basketball.....was awake at like 2 in the morning and not getting back to sleep....part of that being a pain in my right foot that flared up for some reason....a podiatrist once showed me on an X-ray that I had arthritis in that foot, but it hasn't bothered me much for the last few years.....can't think of what I did that would make it flare up right now....but that's what it feels like, joint pain.....oh well, it worked out some on my morning walk......nice morning, predicted high of 74 today......if it's nice again Monday morning I should consider cutting the grass.....if my foot isn't bothering me still? There was a strong west wind all day yesterday, and I think it blew a branch down off an old oak tree around the corner on Washington, because the City was out there with a big truck and the skip-loader.....I didn't actually go and see what they were doing, but that's what it sounded like was going on.....the wind hasn't kicked up again yet today, though they say it might later.....so right now while it's calm and sunny on the front porch I'm going to go out and eat an apple.....I think there's a Lakers game on sometime in the afternoon.....

Fatz Cafe

at 7:30 this morning for my pancake breakfast....with two sausage patties, fruit cup, and coffee.....Cindy was my waitress, and Edson bussed the table.....it wasn't very busy, but people who have done these things before were saying that around 9:30 it would probably be overflowing into the bar.....they had enough pre-sale to ensure a big crowd.....this was the fundraiser thing for Thornwell.....I didn't get more stacks of pancakes, the first stack was plenty, it was all I could eat....so now I'm back at the house and have read the morning paper and am thinking of going for a walk....it's looking nice outside, should get about ten or fifteen degrees warmer today than it was yesterday.....had leftover frito pie last night, and today I'm thinking of ham- steak with fried potatoes and baked beans.....Final Four on this evening.....NBA Friday Night had Hawks-Celtics......

nicer looking this morning

still chilly, but the sun is out and no rain is predicted.....should warm up .......last night I saw most of the Padre opener, which they won.....and later I was switching back and forth between the Dodgers-Giants and the Celtics-Spurs......I guess the Lakers still have a chance of finishing with the best record and getting home-court advantage.....I didn't stay awake to see how the late games came out, just read about them online after breakfast.....it said on the puzzle page in the newspaper that Jumble will no longer be carried after today.....but then I remembered.....April Fools!