fried ham and french toast

for Sunday breakfast.....maybe these low clouds will burn off later and it will end up nice out like yesterday......now they are saying 50% chance of thunderstorms Thursday, my birthday.....but it should still be in the 70s......37 this morning early on, but stayed warm enough in the house overnight that the heater wasn't needed....had a couple of windows open during the day for a change and the house got some warm air in it.....plus running the oven a bit might have helped too.....made a mac-n-cheese ham bake.....small elbow mac, diced ham, diced onion, leftover cream style corn, a jar of Ragu Double Cheddar sauce, parmesan-romono and seasoned bread crumbs on top.....1/2 hr. at 350 to get it bubbly and a little crunchy 'round the edge.....leftovers from that for a couple more times looks like.....but Sunday supper can be french bread pizza and spinach salad, instead of leftovers I think....finished off my curried ham salad for Saturday lunch, but might make another batch of that....lunch today can just be another grilled ham and swiss on pumpernickel.....I read in the Greenville paper about a guy who had a hot-dog cart, but who has now opened Downtown Dogs I think it's called .....anyway, one thing the article mentioned was a Rueben dog.....homemade sauerkraut, swiss, thousand island....sounds good.....somebody came by late yesterday afternoon and mowed the vacant lot next door....looks nice....

bright looking morning

maybe the clouds will stay away today......no rain predicted until Thursday.....NCAA BB is on this evening, something to look at besides streamed movies.....have to turn the sound off though, or the commercials will drive me nuts.....had scalloped potatoes and a spinach salad for Friday supper.....I might make mac-n-cheese with ham today, or I might think of something else.....finished a Russian revolution novel ......on Saturdays I usually walk over by the square instead of over by the park, can do that in a few minutes....it's mid-40s out, should be nice enough on the sunny side of the street....I think I slept through until dawning....don't remember getting up anytime anyway....

better today maybe

Thursday was cold and raining......every time I stepped out on the front porch I just turned around and went back inside.....today I could walk for the paper, bundled up in Winter wraps.....still 37 windchill around 9:30 in the morning.....so maybe the park walk later if it warms up some.....sunshine and no clouds, but a North wind is blowing....there's a lot of scalloped potatoes left, and those are one of those things that always taste even better reheated.....so I'll have that this evening again I guess.....can either have ham salad sandwich again for lunch, or maybe grilled ham and swiss on rye with onion and honey mustard.....so I just read all day pretty much while it was raining....and took a nap.....got plenty of reading material.....it snowed again in the mountains, so the wind is coming down off of icy conditions still.....

Fall conditions

actually late Fall verging on Winter again.....that's what the weatherman said last night.....the seasons are all screwed up.....I imagine Congress is to blame.....39 windchill right now.....100% chance of rain today and tomorrow.....drove to get the morning paper.....but I did get out yesterday and cut the grass out back, got something done in that regard.....finished off beans and rice, might do the scalloped potatoes this afternoon.....use the oven to help heat the house.....might get up to 50 today outside.....so not much walking going to get done I don't think, the bands of rain blanket the radar all the way down to the Gulf.....but it might be nice by my birthday in a week.....78 predicted for Masters at Augusta down the road from here that weekend?  So if you want to see what it's like 'round here, watch the golf some, see how Tiger does.....I made a good ham salad sandwich for lunch yesterday.....the ham salad was my favorite at D'Elias.....

miserable cold NE wind

and it was so nice yesterday for yard work.....was going to try to finish that today but it might be too nasty out....maybe it will warm up some in the afternoon....was 75 Tuesday, and they are saying 45 and rain Thursday....maybe 60 today.....finished off black-eyed peas yesterday, still have red beans and rice for today.....and at the store I got fixings for scalloped potatoes and mac-n-cheese.....both with ham....cream corn for curried cream corn....mayo for curried ham salad sandwiches......and I suppose a curried ham and macaroni salad could be featured in a lunch or supper.....got CA burgundy for two weeks.....so hot dish suppers looks like mostly.....maybe by Sunday when it's back in the 70s a salad supper.....

yard work

I did start doing yard work yesterday.....spent around an hour and a half with the hedge trimmer and picking up the trimmings and other debris and taking it to the curb.....they should pick it up today, Tuesday being yard debris day in mill village.....this morning I think I'll try to get the front yard done, what you can see from the street.....weed-eating and mowing.....and maybe I'll do the sides and back Wednesday.....Thursday a cold snap with 70% chance of rain is predicted.....I fixed red beans and rice with ham, garlic, onion, greens for supper.....today can be leftover cornbread and black-eyed peas.....I cleaned the ham off the bone .....ended up with plenty of meat for another week looks like......scalloped potatoes with ham.....curried ham salad lunch sandwiches.....I'll need to get more mayo tomorrow for that.....is there a ham-based pasta dish?

rained in the night

but it should clear off later and get into the 70s again......there were a number of cars yesterday afternoon at the neighbor's house on Washington....must have been a big Easter dinner going on....they were out cleaning up their yard Saturday....but I still haven't started on yard-work yet.....it's damp out there right now.....I guess I could at least pick up sticks that have fallen in the winds lately, take 'em to the curb.....I'll think about it.....had fried ham, eggs over easy, and grits with red gravy for supper yesterday.....watched the two basketball games.....saw the horrible broken leg accident.....how does that  happen?  you just come down wrong on it somehow?  didn't watch any movies later, read some instead....got a Guitar Player the other day in the mail, been finding things to read in there too.....