Carolina got whupped

but Oregon won.....windchill of 29 walking just after sunrise, predicted high of 44 later today......maybe there will be some interesting NFL game on this afternoon, otherwise I do have some books to read ......I've still got one pork chop to cook, and leftover stuffing and green beans too, so that will be for today.....I'll figure something for Monday, probably involving chicken and rice-and-gravy.....might go to Wal*Mart tomorrow......

back from the parade

it was great, as usual....high-lights this time in my opinion would be the Corsa Club for one thing....never seen so many Corsas and regular Corvairs at once before....there was even a Corvair powered Chevy Greenwood van bringing up the rear of that parade unit....I remember WB wanted a Greenwood, before he bought the VW bus.....the other new thing this year was those Shriners doing the precision go-kart drill, that was trick.....and of course the hillbilly jalopies are a fan favorite.....one jalopy this year had a guy standing on the front running board with one flap of the hood open, adjusting the carb as they went down the street.....the hillbilly Santa was a nice touch....and lots of church and civic groups throwing candy to the kids along the street....I even picked up a Mary Jane....somebody there had a dog with them that was going nuts snarfing down candies, wrapper and all......anyway, I came back to the house and fixed myself a grilled swiss on wheat with fried baloney.....Carolina plays Auburn for the SEC Championship today at 4.....if the Gamecocks win, it will probably be declared a national holiday in SC tomorrow.....it's clouding up pretty good now, a front coming this afternoon....

snow?

20% chance of snow on Saturday.....later in the day if it does happen, no snow predicted on the parade in the morning....it was another subfreezing night, but the idea of leaving the space heater on in the bedroom is working pretty well.....I have the ceiling fan in reverse and turned to the lowest speed, so any warm air up close to the high ceiling should be directed down to bed level.....yesterday for supper I fixed chicken, stuffing, and green beans sauteed with diced sweet onion....I watched old movies until 10, no basketball on .....

the joy of language

poking around on the net.....I fixed myself an afternoon libation of rye and ginger ale with a dash of bitters....it tastes good, so I Googled that....and found out that a "rye-and- ginger" is simply a "high ball".....scotch and ginger is sometimes called a "Presbyterian".....one obscure drink-naming website said whisky and ginger ale with a dash of angostura should be a "bitter Presbyterian", or maybe a "Calvinist"......one post from overseas said that when Americans came into the bar and ordered "whiskey American" he gave them the rye-ginger-bitters highball.....one post was from a guy who said he would go into bars and order a "highball" just to see what he would get.....once the waitress came back and told him "Honey, you've just ordered a type of glass." A highball glass is a tall thin glass, to better keep in the bubbles....from the ginger ale.....could go on with this, but that's probably enough for now.....I'm going to go get another highball with a dash.....

28F, calm

so the early walk was cold, but that biting wind was gone today.....so I did the park walk after reading the paper and looking online, and then drove to the store for the things I forgot to get the other day....eggs, peanuts, butter....I also got half-and-half for my oatmeal, natural almonds because they were on sale, and swiss cheese this time, because the cheese is almost used up, for my grilled cheese 1/2 sandwich at lunch.....bought some thick baloney too, 'cause the Spam is almost gone too....that tornado Tuesday night hit the main street in Easley, and closed their little business district right in time for the holiday buying season....that's what it said on the evening news, anyway....and it was in the paper this morning too....store owners were saying that one thing could leave them in the red this year.....acts of God.....

bitterly cold night

that's what the weather lady says....a "hard freeze", in the 20's....air from Canada.....there was in fact a tornado in Gray Court last night, around the time I was going to bed....nobody hurt, but lots of trees down, sheds and barns knocked down and around, and the one mobile home blown off it's jacks.....the deep freeze nights will probably continue for a week or so looks like....will be time for the ski jacket and muffler on the morning walks....

31 windchill

early this morning, after being 68 around the time I went to bed last night....maybe a tornado touched down briefly in Gray Court, a mobile home was blown off it's foundation....and there was lots of rain in the middle of the night.....the Clinton Christmas Parade is on Saturday, the tree lighting is tomorrow evening.....I won't go to that, but I will go to the parade....I forgot to buy eggs in the store yesterday, but I have one left for Thursday breakfast....Wednesday breakfast is oatmeal....there's a strong cold WSW wind right now, I'm trying to decide if I really want to go walk around the park or not.....