north wind in the afternoon

so it's not so terribly muggy....can leave the windows open and the AC turned off.....at least right now.....had a hamburger with pickles and potato chips for lunch, with a glass of wine.....I'm going to iron skillet 4 oz. of rib-eye for supper, with the beans and the slaw as the sides I suppose.....then Saturday I should use up more chicken wings, probably with biscuits and gravy as one side....and either beans or slaw as the other.....life remains so complicated.....watched Alexander Nevsky last night....don't know what I'll find this evening......I've got a Supertramp channel running on Pandora....I always liked them....."can we have kippers for breakfast, do they have them in Texas?"

took about an hour and a half

from 8 to 9:30 roughly....to cut the grass....front, back, and sides....trying to take advantage of a relatively cool morning, it started out overcast.....at 10:30 it's 77 with a breeze coming in the living room through the west window.....

got cooled off nicely

when a thunderstorm came down from north of here with a little rain and wind.....so it was nice out on the front porch after dark.....some better air for sleeping tonight.....

air kicked on at 2:30

97 heat index in Clinton, 2nd of June......remember those last stinkin' hot days of school? And the first days of school in September were always stinkin' too.....and schools back there in ancient times didn't have any air conditioned classrooms.....the offices for the Principal and whoever might have window units.....don't remember really.....finished a good sci-fi book, and I've got one of those history-oriented type mystery-thriller things started now.....the type of thing where you might actually learn some history, or least get some ideas of what to google about the "facts".....

fairly comfortable

walk around the mill park, enough of a breeze to keep some cool....80 inside and out this time of morning.....the City utility dudes are out in Earl's backyard.....he has a power pole in his yard, and it looks like maybe they are trimming the trees away from the lines, or working at something on the line that goes to the houses down the rest of the Washington block, through their backyards.....last night I went out on the front porch about 9:30, and came right back inside.....it was still too hot and muggy to sit and rock in any real comfort.....watched Fellini's 8 1/2 last night, that's a long movie....a long strange movie.....Netflix has decided that I like "cerebral drama", so it offers up choices like that.....I should try to trigger "French New Wave".....I might finish off the blackeye peas this evening, and then treat myself Friday to a steak dinner.....small piece of rib-eye with chili beans and slaw as sides? The store brand "chili beans" are sort of like the Texas Ranch Beans I've favored for a long time, but they don't have them here that I've found....

breeze from the north

makes it bearable on the front porch.....for a little while.....heat index of 95 outside, but still OK inside.....fixed a wasabi mustard and mayo burger with pickle slices for lunch....forgot to buy an onion, for the second time....oh well, I did pick up a jar of those bread-and-butter pickle slices which I like.....I've got good library books to read, so I've been reading this afternoon mostly, with a break jammin' on the latest guitar for a half hour or so.....it said on the news the other night that in this "dangerous" heat and humidity the elderly might want to not over do it with their usual exercise....cut back some in this weather was the advice...but I still feel somewhat guilty about not getting all my walking done.....well, I walked around in the grocery store I guess....I did remember to get more peanuts (unsalted) ....the pickles said they were unsalted too.....I didn't know they were ever salted, just pickled.....what do I know....

hazy, muggy

80 in the house at by 10 am, so I've closed windows and switched the air on so it will start when it gets around 85 in the entrance hall....got the ceiling fan on in the living room....just got back from the store, got stuff for hamburgers....including wasabi horseradish mustard that was on close- out real cheap....there might be good reason for that, we'll see....and I got rib-eye steak and chicken wings, microwave mac-and-cheese, orange juice, more of those good Pink Lady apples, and etc....for supper I think I'll do wings, biscuits, cole slaw.....got the weekly paper to read....nothing in the mail but a BofA credit card offer....how could I pay back a credit card?