there was a deluge

late yesterday afternoon.....I went out on the porch when I heard it starting to come down, and saw that I hadn't rolled up the car window....so I got soaked pretty good in the time it took to go to the car and back.....so I just sat on the porch and dripped for a while.....felt good actually.....72 and humid for the early walk this morning.....french toast, honey ham, coffee, juice for Sunday breakfast.....Saturday supper was microwaving a plate of enchilada and beans....tasty......I might make taquitos for lunch today, and chicken dinner this evening.....I think I get the channel that has the Chargers at Cowboys tonight.....that crick in my neck from the other day has moved into my left shoulder.....but my back has been good lately....one thing or another.....sunny day today will probably lead to another afternoon storm, 50% chance......

must have rained while I was asleep

muggy and soaked this morning, puddles everywhere.....going to get hot later they say, and then a cold front and rain come down on Sunday.....did my walking this morning, and then vacuumed and mopped, and went and got some wine at the grocery store.....and spent half an hour trying to make the natural gas website work.....they now have online bill pay, but it's one of those things where they send you an email with a password, but it's mixed upper case letters and numbers.....mine had "O" in it twice......and I couldn't get it to work for the longest damn time because the first O is a zer0, but the second O is an upper case letter.....why the hell do they do things that way? The password is a puzzle......so I don't think I'll actually switch over to paying them that way....I'll just keep using my bank account bill pay, it's less confusing.....plus the gas authority charges 2.5 % to use your card, which they don't tell you until the end.....that's enough excitement for me for the weekend......

some rain yesterday evening

they say it got up to 90, but it seemed cool enough to me all day long.....watched some preseason football, but just up to half-time again, then turned it off.....out on the front porch around ten you could hear a pep rally or something coming from over at the college.....the freshmen are there for an orientation week.....there was drumming and chants of some sort.....later next week there will be a party downtown to introduce the new students to the town, and a band and dance afterwards.....it will be a band from Laurens that has a couple of records out, and goes on little regional tours and such.....the shrimp enchilada experiment was a success, just like I knew what I was doing......leftovers for several meals looks like.....I'll have a fish burger for lunch, and chicken with rice and green beans for supper.....I put a tablespoon of organic pure cocoa in my oatmeal and raisins this morning.....I think I'll keep doing that, it was good.....beautiful looking day right now.....clear, temperate, a gentle breeze.....

did I "sleep wrong"?

I've got a sore neck this morning.....rubbed some stuff on it and it's better, but still somewhat stiff....it's usually my lower back that bothers me first thing in the morning, not my neck....oh well....another fairly cool morning, so after the newspaper walk I got out and trimmed up the front yard with the weed-eater and the lawn- mower........yesterday I went ahead and tried the fish sandwich idea for lunch, even though I still had one chili-dog left.....the fish "portions" are a good size for the buns, so that's going to work.....I'll have the last dog today, and I have some taco filling still for a taco or two for lunch sometime.....supper Wednesday was a chicken fillet, long-grain-and-wild-rice, and green beans cooked with onion.....today I'm thinking of going head on and faking shrimp enchiladas...or I could google that concept for ideas.....the sun has burned through the clouds now.....was 90 yesterday, might be the same today by late afternoon......

enchiladas de camerones

went ahead and got some frozen shrimp.....and enchilada sauce, etc....so I can use up some of those tortillas that way......and whole wheat hamburger buns and minced fish patties for lunches....tartar sauce, pickle slices......orange-pineapple-bananna juice.....various other things.....didn't take a list to the store, just faked it.....real nice weather again today....walked to the Post Office when I got back from the grocery trip, to mail a birthday card to Colton.....the Pharmacy School is starting up again, with twice as many students as last year.....I guess that thing is going to work, they apparently turned away many applicants.....

tortillas

I've still got a lot of them......didn't get many ideas from the grocery flyer, but they do have the bags of frozen shrimp two for one again.....maybe I could make shrimp enchiladas? It's staying mid-80's today so far, a few clouds helping keep it cooler......cooler than mid-90's......I didn't see any fish patties in the sales flyer, but they must have something like that.....need to remember orange juice.....and the bi-weekly bag of ice......besides the ads, the only other thing in the mail was an offer about insurance for "final expenses"......I don't think I'll worry much about that if I'm dead......I'm reading a good book about Julian the Apostate, a noble Roman for sure......

fresh

feels like, and smells like mountain air....in fact the air is moving down again today from the North Carolina and Kentucky mountains.....cool and dry air.....but last night the weather lady said that by Thursday things would turn around again and we would be getting that warm moisture up from Alabama and Georgia ......so it will get hot and sticky , but maybe not to the extreme degrees of July.....school is back in, so this morning I had to wait for school busses before walking across Elizabeth.....and the crazy mothers are back, dropping off the kids and then speeding to get to work on time.....still working on tacos and beans for supper, and chili dog lunches.....I think I saw some small wheat buns on the bread aisle, so maybe I could find some fish patties too, and some tartar sauce.....and have fillet o' fish burgers for lunches next week.....the ads should come today for groceries tomorrow.....I want to get more bread-and-butter pickle slices too, those are all gone....those sound good on a fish sandwich......