scattered showers

right now it looks like they a staying a couple of counties due south .....cloudy here now, but I should be able to go walk the park OK.....yesterday after lunch I went out and trimmed up the front yard.....it had dried up enough to do that.....got some library books.....and I've got two things going on kindle.....slowly working through that ham slice, might use more of it in a sandwich at lunch.....can finish off the tamale pie this evening, and then shop next morning.....a little chilly early on today, was 46 after breakfast.....might get up to 68 this afternoon.....

record breaking Cinco de Mayo

the coldest and wettest May 5th at GSP weather station.....high of 54 and 3.16 inches of rain.....once again, the wind and rain didn't stop until after the sun was going down.....some sun this morning, and the wind has shifted back around to SW.....but Upstate rivers might go over their banks as the runoff comes down from the mountains, and rain continues on into the week.....I did get to walk for the paper today, and maybe I can get another walk done later.....did not walk at all Sunday.....right now I'm going over to the library......

Tamale pie

Raining all day for my Cinco de Mayo.....but it's worked out OK with some tequila and a dish of tamale pie done in the oven.....ended up tasting very much like the chili cheese tamales we used to get in the middle of the night at the Tamale Factory in East L.A. in the late 1960s.....that strange place where you drove up and pushed a button and a steel window opened and you handed in your money and an unseen person handed back out your tamales.....good stuff.....I have leftovers enough for another lunch or dinner.....

was sunny in Pittsburgh

watched a Pirates game yesterday.....looked a lot nicer there then it was here....too nasty to go outside for more than three or four minutes ......so I found something on TV.....a baseball game and two minutes of the Derby show.....the two minutes when they actually ran the race.....I had found the post time online.....did my ham platter supper all in the iron skillet, heated it up that way, worked pretty good....maybe I'll do the last of the curry for Sunday lunch.....and I'll bake the enchilada pie for Cinco de Supper.....raining right now, rained all night I think.....we might get another inch today.....and a real sunny day isn't expected until Thursday.....so the weeds will just keep growing in the yard some more....this weather is good for only hibernation.....sleep well at night and one hour naps after lunch lately.....watched Julius Caesar last night from 1953.....with Richard Burton and lots of other famous actors of the day.....lend me your ears.....

another wet weekend

not ideal conditions for Spring Fling in Spartanburg.....if Furman graduation is moved indoors, you'll need a ticket for seating......the Monday after May 1 is a Bank Holiday in Great Britain.....so this is a holiday weekend over there.....saw a segment on BBC about how it's been so wet lately that the white cliffs of Dover are falling down in places, sending rock slides into the ocean.....10 times more rock slides than a typical year.....so the paths along the tops of the cliff are closed just as tourist season starts in Dover.....on the Early May Bank Holiday.....it's still cold and wet over there too....here it is running ten degrees below usual for daily highs.....66 yesterday instead of 76.....I might watch the Kentucky Derby this afternoon.....might be raining on it too.....flood warnings for Georgia counties not far from here.....reheated beef curry was warm and filling for Friday supper.....Saturday can be the fried ham steak, biscuits and gravy, tiny butter beans again.....really too nasty out this morning for a pleasant walk in the park, so that probably won't get done again.....NE wind makes it feel like it's in the 40s outside....

weather pattern continues

it will take the low front moving from the West some time yet to push the high up North of here out to sea.....until that happens the air will keep moving in a clock-wise rotation dragging cold and damp off the Atlantic and leaving it in the Upstate.....maybe some time next week we might get a sunny day.....graduations and Farmers Market openings might get chilly rain this weekend.....rained last night so the yard is soaked again, too wet to cut the grass.....the warmest time yesterday was after dark....after the wind stopped.....before then it was just plain uncomfortable on the front porch.....there's lots of leftovers for more ham platters.....plenty of gravy left, etc.....might fry a little ham at lunch for a sandwich.....I'll go walking again with a hooded sweatshirt on, to battle the breeze.....it's good weather for sleeping at night, and for naps in the afternoon....but that's about all it's good for.....

misting, damp

foggy, overcast, humid.....some NE wind.....rain went through around dawn.....bit of drizzle on the early walk.....too wet for yard work today looks like to me.....the beef curry on brown rice made for a hearty meal, and there are leftovers.....I put in curry powder, chili powder, and extra cumin.....today I'll fry some ham steak and make biscuits and pepper gravy....heat up baby limas in a little butter.....so it's a gloomy looking day again....in May?  PC graduation is around Mothers Day I think, so that must be coming up sometime soon.....the church across the street has the sign up for a youth Summer camp again this year.....it was a big success last year they say, popular with the powers that be in town anyway.....they were all patting themselves on the back about it.....kids seemed to enjoy it while it lasted....middle of June through early August.....I can watch from my front porch while they play games on the big lawn opposite......it moves to various venues around town during the week, and they go to a water park one time, and maybe camping one weekend or a few days.....according to the 2010 census there's 40.6% poverty rate in our school district....so some kids get fed when school's out too this way....