back from grocery shopping

green beans and corn, cans two for one....also got lima beans and baked beans....and biscuits and cornbread....and rye bread ....and sweet potatoes....all things to go with ham.....I'm going to wait until after Easter, and see if they have leftover Easter lilies marked down.....today looks like I might do the second walk in shorts and sandals.....was 36.5 around dawn, still chilly until the sun gets up a little....watched Dersu Azala last night, one of the films Kurosawa did in his later years....good movie....

sunny on the front porch

so I sat out there quite a while catching some rays, as they used to say....people out walking dogs or whatever.....and I heard a good number of trains going by....I take that as a leading economic indicator....the more trains, maybe the better things are getting.....right now I've turned on the radio, and I'm going to take a nap on the sofa ......or just listen to the music if I don't fall asleep...

Actual Spring-type day developing

front door open, well, with the glass door closed....the "storm door" that substitutes for a screen door.....this lets a lot of sunshine into the entry hall, which is the core of the heating and cooling in this place.....it's where the thermostat is, and the HVAC intake.....went for my second walk earlier than usual, because it was such a nice morning out.....

my oh my

that turned out just awesome.....after polishing off my plate of potatoes and ham with turnip greens, I found myself leaning over the stove -top picking at the crunchy parts of the scalloped casserole around the edge of the Corning Ware....damn, wicked stuff......

grilled ham and swiss on wheat

for lunch. Later I guess I'll go ahead and make a relatively small batch of scalloped potatoes and ham alfredo, with greens.....I've got some greens, but not much else in the vegetable side department right now....rained a lot last night, with lightning flashing in the distance where the extreme weather storm track was, to the north and east through Greenville and Greer....warm fog on the morning walk, broken clouds on the after lunch walk....warm enough now to crack a couple of windows open.....

tornado watch

thunder, lighting, wind and rain for about ten minutes, and then it was gone.....but the weather service says the unsettled conditions will continue on into the evening....watching basketball....had a ham and swiss omelette.....

french toast and sausage links

for Sunday breakfast. The ham did fine in the crock-pot....the bone just fell out of it....lots of ham now for sandwiches or whatever....I saved some of the juices in an old pickle jar, to make ham gravy for my grits some time.....gray day here, going to rain in the afternoon and evening according to predictions.....it's Palm Sunday? At the swap meet, there were people who wove little crucifix things out of palm leaves and sold them this time of year....they did a good business...