wind SW 6 mph

a little breeze like that is enough to make for a good park walk, with the temp at 82.....went grocery shopping, and got stuff for chicken tostadas, pork chops with biscuits and gravy, and red beans and rice with sausage.....also taco salad with kidney beans is an option.....I can have bean and cheese tostadas as a lunch choice too.....I had the house closed up and the AC on from around 4 until dark yesterday.....might have to do that again today.....otherwise I'm doing fine with ceiling fans and whatever breeze comes in.....

warmer this morning

than it was yesterday at the same time.....but still cool enough to walk the park and not get overheated too much.....reading in the paper, I guess that storm Sunday night did quite a bit of damage around Fountain Inn and even Grey Court.....trees down, and damage to houses and cars, etc....the worst of it West of Clinton......I got an onion finally yesterday, so I had my steak smothered with onion last night, with beans and slaw as the sides......the weather is predicted to stay hot, so I'm thinking I'll go to mexican food this coming week, like taco salad and tostadas or something.....I can use up more of the slaw mix instead of buying lettuce.....well, sounds like the mail just got here so I'll go look at that.....

the clanging crossing bell

I was hearing last night wasn't because of the storm, it was because a train had come apart and one car then "slightly" derailed.....at the main intersection in town, right across from Mc Donald's.....trains seem to be going through OK now.....it said online that the couplings between the 13th and 14th car just uncoupled.....I wonder how often that happens? Anyway, dampish and cool this morning, nice weather for a walk.....and I need to do some shopping this morning too I think, couple of things......

evening thunderstorms

two of them, maybe an hour and a half apart......lots of lightning both times, enough to glitch the electricity.......and a real downpour the second storm......they did cool things off anyway.....now the frogs and crickets are making a real racket outside.....and the bell at a railroad crossing was clanging for a long time, the storm must have shorted something out over there......so now I'm about ready to call it a night....maybe I'll look at some ten o'clock news first.....

90's in the afternoon

I think today will just be a little cold supper....leftover wings, leftover biscuit, slaw....don't want to heat up the kitchen at all....the biscuits get better sitting a few days, I think....had a swiss cheeseburger for lunch, toad-in-a-hole for breakfast.....just been staying inside reading.....

walk-off homer

watched a baseball game Saturday afternoon and on into the evening .....12 innings before Pujols hit it into the bullpen.....had to run the AC before the sun went down, it was around 90 outside, and muggy enough to be uncomfortable.....but a little later it was nice enough to sit on the porch for a while, as it started cooling off some.....I fixed chicken wings, a biscuit with gravy, and more cole slaw for supper.....plenty of slaw left to use up.....mild here this Sunday morning, pleasant early walk.....

got some walking done

a couple of times around the square in Laurens.....went over early to see what was going on for the first day of Farmers Market.....some booths set up with produce, and bake sale stuff, and herbs and what all.....some of the hot rods were there already, I think there will be more as the day goes on....and I guess there will be live music later too.....my idea was to take a look before it got very hot or crowded....didn't spend any money since I didn't take any money to spend.....I'm not a good customer as far as impulse spending goes......and as far as getting a watermelon or local peaches, the people who sell out of the back of a pick-up along the highway have the best prices as far as I can tell.....last night was very pleasant for porch-sitting....lots of fireflys, mild weather....no mosquitos bit me.....I figured out how to bring up the "music and musicals" genre on Netflix, and watched an Iron Butterfly concert yesterday....I knew there had to be an option like that somewhere.....there's still plenty to learn about streaming, new things to figure out.....the steak dinner last night was excellent.....they run those rib-eyes on special once a month or so.....a couple of the local hamburger places have rib-eye sandwiches on the menu too......