late night light show

We had a brief heavy rainstorm pass over Clinton around supper time, and a heavier storm with thunder, lightning, hail, and tornado warnings kept going on north and east of here well into the night.....after 10 I was sitting out on the front porch with stars in the sky here, but with massive lightning going on due East and some miles away....couldn't hear the thunder, could just see the flashing in the distant clouds.....it went on for a long time, was still going on when I went in to go to sleep.....must have been over towards Union and Spartanburg.....this morning it's foggy and mid-50's, supposed to get into mid-80's later in the day......Sunday french toast breakfast.....and I'm thinking of birthday french toast breakfast tomorrow too, what the heck.....since I seem to remember that Jalisco is closed on Mondays, maybe my birthday treat meal could be lunch at Whiteford's with cheeseburger, onion rings, and a chocolate malt....I think they have onion rings....and maybe I can find German chocolate cake at the grocery store bakery, pigging out once a year can't be too bad.....last year I bought a pecan pie.....haven't had any sweets since Christmas....

pretty sweaty walk

around the Mill Park.....after I got back from driving back roads through the woods over to Ora and back....saw lots of stuff in bloom out in the sticks, and lots of turkey running around, crossing the road in places....I had read in the local paper that there was a good turkey population this year, so they are allowing a longer hunt, or something like that.....

almost swampy

63, fog, 100% humidity on the sunrise walk....if you watch any of the Masters you can see our weather.....Augusta isn't far from here.....the hash-brown casserole is one of those things that seemed to get better reheated.....or maybe that's my imagination.....it was 70 in the kitchen at breakfast, after months of 50 seems like......Lee surrendered 4/9, Joan died 4/10, I was born 4/11, the twins 4/12,(also 4/12 the Civil War started) Caroline 4/13.....so a few busy days coming up.....I read a thing that said it was a man from Laurens who fired the first shot.....the cannon that fired on Fort Sumter.....they are having some kind of re-enactment Tuesday down in Charleston, with somebody from his family shooting off the cannon....it's all about tourism dollars? Last night on the front porch I could smell that night-blooming jasmine.....there's a bunch of that along the north fence.....I might drive out to Ora this morning......

it's been good weather

for the kids being out of school this week.....should be another mild day here, get up around 80.....some overcast now in the morning, and some chance of an afternoon thunderstorm or shower today and for the next few days......it was so nice on the front porch in the afternoon yesterday I just about fell asleep sitting up out there.....I saved a little bit of ham from last night to make a grilled ham and pimento cheese sandwich for lunch today, with some more of those strange potato chips.....this was an oatmeal for breakfast day.....supper will be hash-brown casserole, lima beans......got a good night's sleep, not too much in the way of aches and pains after doing yard work .....

went ahead and cut the grass out back

well, the weeds anyway.....took maybe and hour and a half to slowly mow the back and side "lawns"....slowly is the only way I go anymore.....looks good, to me anyway......for lunch, a fried egg half-sandwich on a slice of wheat berry with honey bread spread with pimento cheese stuff.....delicious.....and I have a bag of "low country boil" flavor potato chips....I didn't know what that meant so I bought them.....a fairly large bag for 88 cents, couldn't go too far wrong.....what it means is "spicy", far as I can tell.....I have leftovers to work on for supper....the last of the ham-steak, mac-n-cheese, lima beans......and then it looks like alternating hash-brown casserole and fish tacos until next grocery day....except maybe for Monday, when I might go out for a birthday dinner....I want to try that hole-in-the-wall mexican place here in Clinton, the Jalisco (which around here is pronounced with a Jay, not an Haitch)..... Anyway, folks tell me that it's a good place, only open for dinner, has authentic margaritas.......it looks like they are having Bible School, or something, this week across the street at the church, since this is Spring Break for the local school kids I guess.....

50 and Fair

cool bright morning.....I may be running out of excuses for not getting out there and mowing down the weeds out back....they are getting pretty tall.....and it would constitute exercise I suppose.....I'll think about it a little more.....I had two fish tacos last night, no beans.....though I do have beans in the cupboard, just wasn't hungry enough to mess with them.....