same as yesterday morning

freezing.....but sunny.....walked the park after lunch yesterday, it was still chilly.....might get into the low 50s again today.....wind is blowing over icy mountains to get here.....did the chicken leg quarters 45 minutes covered at 350 in the iron skillet, and then turned them over and did 15 minutes more uncovered to crispy up the skin some.....used up the last of a bag of noodles, and remains of containers of alfredo sauce and sour cream to make a pasta side, and the other side was cut corn.  So maybe tomorrow I'll have a repeat of that, with today being pan-fried country ham slice, biscuit and gravy, corn.....used up oatnut loaf and deli roast beef for Wednesday lunch.....chili dogs return on the mid-day menu.....got pumpernickel for breakfast toast this week.....another French movie last night, with one of those endings that really didn't tie everything up.....at least as far as I could tell.....

clear, bright, windchill 0 degrees C

yesterday the temp range was low 33, high 43.....I stepped out on the front porch a couple of times, but came back inside real quick.....so they say Thursday and Friday will be like today.....near freezing at night and highs in the 50s.....and then "chance of rain and snow showers" Saturday.....I diced up some onion and some deli roast beef, browned that a little and added beans.....heated that up and put it on toast for supper.....good enough.....not much to inspire in the grocery ads......chicken leg quarters .99/lb.....might look at those.....need OJ this week, and bread....got enough apples.....see what they have  out for pork chops maybe.....well, I'll go do that now.....

light snow/wintry mix?

there's a couple of reports like that from weather stations in the county right around first light this morning.....but here all I saw was cold wet rain..... felt like below freezing though when I drove over for the paper.....rain coming down pretty hard, cold wind again today.....it says today should end up "much warmer" than Monday....it wouldn't take much to accomplish that, it stayed dang cold yesterday all day.....we'll see if it gets out of the 40s or not later.....I guess it started coming down around midnight....the lot next door has a pond in the middle when I look out the bathroom window.....so finished off the ribs, with baked potato and cole slaw sides.....lunch was something different.....a corned beef hash and fried egg sandwich with a little honey-mustard on oatnut toast.....is there any sandwich shop with that on the menu?  watched a movie I guess was from Israel last night....Russian gangsters again, they are everywhere it seems......still following the story of Cicero on kindle......his slave Tiro invented stenography, that's why we have many of Cicero's Senate speeches.....

clouded over, cold north wind

36F windchill....the rain is staying south of here right now, but there's a 70% chance this afternoon or evening.....it got up to 65 Sunday afternoon, I went walking some around the downtown.....corned beef hash with egg and cheese, buttery oatnut toast, glass of wine was supper.....today I can do the other half of the ribs.....then I might be down to something like beans on toast for Tuesday.....actually beans on toast is pretty good.....something they fixed in England during the Blitz.....I could kick it up a notch with some thin slices of the deli roast beef.....or I have a can of Progresso split-pea soup...."flavored with ham" it says.....but I can save that 'til after I get some cornbread to have with it.....they go good together.....I got the next book after Imperium via Whispernet or whatever they call it so I read the start of that last night.....

foggy

maybe some sun is starting to burn through.....fog came up last night before bedtime.....so it should be warmer today they say, 40s yesterday 60s today.....I pounded the second piece of strip steak with garlic and cooked it in olive oil, with the beans and slaw sides.....today I'll do corned beef hash with an egg on top.....I watched the first half of GA-SC men's basketball.....it was terrible, it looked like there was an alien force field over the rims or something.....either team would throw up a shot and it would just go flying off somewhere.....then I read in the paper this morning it went into overtime, and the Bulldogs won.....watched some French action movie last night.....watch enough of those and you might realize that you don't have to read the subtitles all the time....you start learning some French.....it stayed cold and damp all day Saturday, so all the walking I got done was for the paper in the morning.....maybe I'll do a second walk today if it does get into the 60s....

VTOL

I posted that thing on fb about the helicopter plane.....reminded me of the time I went camping in the Mojave and I was just sitting there in the afternoon drinking a beer and this noise comes up from the end of the valley...and three Ospreys from some Marine base out there come roaring flying damned close to the ground.....like under the radar or something.....I was the only person out there for miles around....I stood up and waved my arms, and got a wing waggle from the third one.....they looked awesome.....

waterfalls

the storm drains sounded like waterfalls this morning when I walked for the paper.....it was drumming down on the roof when I first got up, but it stopped for my walk.....part of the way I walked in the street, 'cause the sidewalk was under water....you can do that on a Saturday morning since there aren't any cars on the road.....or hardly any....drizzle again right now, that might keep coming and going for a while but the main storm is between here and the coast now.....my iron-skillet spare-ribs have developed into an art form....well, they hit the spot anyway, tasted good to me and achieved the proper doneness.....so today can be steak platter again.....yesterday lunch was deli-sliced roast beef melt with swiss and oatnut loaf and a little grilled sweet onion.....a pepper and some corn chips...glass of merlot....finished Imperium in the afternoon and bought a sci-fi book for the kindle.....slept well with the rain on the roof.....the City bill came and I paid it....so when I pay for DSL the first week of next month than that's all the bills for this month.....