cold May Day

we are stuck in a weather pattern where the NE wind is pushing cold air and clouds down from Nova Scotia, or some such intemperate place......so I guess I'll wait and see if it gets any nicer later in the day before I go out for another walk.....went by Allstate on my way to the grocery store and gave them the check......got stuff to make beef curry on brown rice....read some online recipes yesterday and I think I can fake a curry OK with what I've got....also got ham steak, biscuits and gravy, baby limas for the suppers that aren't curry.....Cinco de Mayo I'll make chili-cheese enchilada, an experimental Sunday supper.....lunches will still be corned beef and cheese on dark rye.....or maybe ham steak and cheese couple times.....

mostly sunny

some haze, no wind......high 70s predicted.....got one library book left to finish, and I've got a sea adventure going on kindle.....haven't seen the grocery ad yet, so I don't have any ideas for shopping tomorrow.....a curry might be possible.....beef or chicken.....yesterday morning was good for walking....not too hot, not too cold....should be like that today too....so I'll go walk the park and then probably drive over to Walmart area to look for a couple of things before lunch.....took a pretty good nap yesterday after lunch.....stayed up 'til after 10:30 reading last night and then slept well....was getting light before I woke up....

2" of rain over the weekend

never got past 55F Sunday.....today 55 is the predicted low, 73 the high.....was raining when I woke up, but on my early walk there was just fog and mist.....then there was light rain while I was reading the paper.....looks like I can walk in a few minutes OK, it has all gone East on the radar.....I have one chicken meal left which I might fix this evening, or I could do french bread pizza.....this was an oatmeal breakfast morning....with raisins, cocoa, nutmeg.....Wednesday bills will get paid for DSL, city utilities, and 6 months of car insurance.....and I'll go grocery shopping....all on May Day.....so there won't be any more April showers after that 'cause it will be May......

raining, kinda chilly

Saturday there was a break in the weather around lunch time so I could take a walk .....don't know if there will be any such break today or not....right now it doesn't look like it.....we'll be lucky to make it to 60 I think.....a damp and gloomy Sunday morning in general.....raining pretty loud at the moment.....last night I 'waved a Boston Market frozen meal.....meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy.....it was alright, for $2.50.....lots of potatoes.....so for Sunday supper back to chicken, rice, corn.....looks like today I'll just be reading and/or falling asleep on the sofa.....maybe play some guitar, some piano.....had pumpernickel french toast with rye whisky batter and two sausage links for breakfast.....lunch will be grilled Colby and corned-beef with onion.....right now I'll eat a Gala apple as a snack.....

they were right

it's raining.....looks like a lot of it coming this way.....baseball games are getting shifted to other times ......Blue Hose split a double-header with Coastal Carolina yesterday over on campus.....Spring sports are free.....doubt if they sell beer though at their baseball field.....maybe they have hot dogs.....I'll have to decide later whether to have a cold sandwich with corned beef, Colby, pickles, mustard, mayo....or a hot sandwich of grilled corned beef and Colby on pumpernickel.....that'll be my big dilemma of the day.....Colby cheese is said to be good for grilled sandwiches 'cause of its lower melting point.....finished my Swedish thriller, so now I'm working on two sci-fi novels at the same time.....started watching an Irish drunk detective mini-series last night.....was warm out on the front porch as it was getting dark and the bats were coming out.....not many mosquitoes yet, or any lighting-bugs.....predictions are for rainy days at least through Wednesday.....

warmer days

but the nights are pretty cold 'cause of the low humidity.....but it will get more humid as the rain arrives through the weekend.....in the Greenville paper there's stuff going on like a big downtown BBQ contest, and the minor league baseball team has a 3 day homestand.....with a high chance of getting rained out, or at least rained on.....not my problem.....I'll just stay home anyway.....finished off the pot roast Thursday, can heat up chicken, rice, and maybe peas this evening......used up the chili dog sauce, so the last hot dog can be garnished with diced onion and BBQ sauce instead.....stayed up until 10:30 getting towards the end of a Swedish crime thriller, I guess you call it.....I'll finish that sometime today I imagine.....the mail has been coming really early this week, so I already got a new Guitar Player today....something to look at.....

yesterday was normal

high of 75, low of 51.....that's normal and that's what it was yesterday.....today about 5 degrees below normal looks like.....cloudy early on, starting to burn off maybe.....I put oregano and a little curry powder on one side of the chicken pieces, and after half an hour at 350 turned them over and put on BBQ sauce for another half hour uncovered.....worked pretty good.....two hot dogs left, and then lunches can be Colby and corned beef on pumpernickel.....the sweet corn from Florida was OK.....probably be another month or so 'til you can get the picked-that-morning corn out of the back of a pick-up parked by the road......maybe I can finish off pot roast tonight.....there was just a short spell of rain last night.....rainy weekend predicted.....