heck of a thunderstorm

lots of lightning strikes close by....I think one might have hit an oak tree across the street in the church-yard.....it looks like a big branch is down touching the ground instead of being up where it should be......the power went out for about one minute.....it's coming up from the South, instead of down from the North like the afternoon storms usually do, so when I went outside it was like a blast of swamp air.....I think it's rolling towards Laurens now.....the thunder is receding, but the rain is still dumping down good.......

clouding up some

I don't think it's going to get as hot as they were saying it would today.....hopefully it will rain in the afternoon.....I guess it was around 80 again this morning when I was out walking around 9:30......got my Guitar Player magazine in the mail......it has lots of stuff this month about fuzz pedals.....I got a little package of real thin ham slices Wednesday, they are perfect for grilled ham and cheese sandwiches......I should cook the other piece of steak today, and make a green salad.....I had cold chicken and potato salad last night, with a buttered roll.....watched one of those odd Italian westerns last night, where the lips don't match the words.....it didn't start cooling off at all until around ten maybe.....all of my bills have cleared through, so the balance in the computer has caught up with the balance in the checkbook.....actually, the bank says I have one dollar more than my by-hand figure, I'll go with that.....

caught a little break

early on today.....clouded over and some NW wind for my dawn walk and the walk around the mill park....but now a little after 10 it's 90 heat index.....got the house closed up and the thermostat set at 85.....last night a little after 10 it was still 90 outside, with the AC still running.....yesterday was a record-breaking 8/3.....broke a record from 1888 by 2 degrees I think it was.....the humidity wasn't that bad yesterday and overnight, but it's going to get up high today.....so we go from a bad air warning to a heat health warning.....today is 8/4.....8/4/o8 I got the power and water turned on in this house, and became an official resident.....three years into this trip and I'm still pleased as punch, getting along fine please and thank you.....watched True Stories last night.....search that on Netflix.....you'll see why you should always drive through Texas as fast as you can.....still watching the news from overseas in the evening, instead of the shit from Fox/Murdoch or whatever.....

got the groceries

so for supper I can have steak, beans, corn-on-the-cob......enough for another steak meal, and I got chilled deli chicken and potato salad for several meals, and some fancy bagged salad greens, apples, an onion.....and what all.....enough for another week anyway....remembered the orange juice.....a can of olives on sale......got some dinner rolls free because I bought the deli chicken and deli potato salad....a "deli deal".......

humidity down, ozone up

it didn't get to 100 yesterday, just 98......and no heat advisory, since the humidity wasn't high enough to push the heat index into triple digits.....so 101 today is what they are saying.....with an air quality warning.....I'm trying to think of what I need at the store, maybe salad fixings of some sort for suppers.....I still have two of those whole wheat buns left.....I watched Vicious Lips last night, without a doubt the worse 80's girl-band flick ever.....search for it on Netflix.....well, off to the grocery store....

100 today, 100 tomorrow

that's what the channel 7 weatherlady says anyway.....I have City of Clinton showing up on Facebook this morning telling us that next year when they get the new billing software up and running, you will be able to go paperless with them.....so Clinton makes it to the 21st century, at least in that regard.....we are going to get the meters with radios in them too, so they just have to drive down the street and computers tally your utility usage......so there won't be all those dogs barking at the meter reader.....yesterday was Lammas, loaf-mass, the pagan celebration of first wheat harvest, the day John Barleycorn must die, aka the Green Man.....and today is the 2nd.....three years ago I got Back Down Home on the 2nd, and on the 4th I got the permit from the City to occupy my dwelling.....so I'm in the middle of three festival days.....why not? David and them are up in the High Sierra by now I think.....and Cindy says that they had to take Uncle Ed in an ambulance to the hospital this morning, and the sisters are gathering.....he's close to 90.....and the debt-ceiling fiasco ends?

must'a rained after I fell asleep

I was out on the front porch from maybe 10:30 to 11 last night waiting for the thunderstorm over towards Ora to blow on down here, but it didn't while I was still out there....lots of wind, but no rain while I was awake, but things were wet this morning.....and it's not too bad early on here, overcast and some wind when I was doing my walking.....so the record-breaking July heat is over, but the August heat is going to be pretty much the same they say......I might make a patty melt for lunch, I need to use up hamburger meat.....I'm reading a science fiction book with variable light speed theory in it, and that concept makes my head hurt.....you can get some things explained that way, but you have to have a constant that isn't constant.....well, change does happen.....