cooler today so far

clouds and breeze make it good weather for walking.....really nice right now out in the back yard.....taco nite was a huge success, I guess I was craving some tacos....lots of white corn tortillas left, and plenty of taco fillings, so I might just do that again today....or have chicken with potato salad, which needs eating up......it had cooled off into the 70's by 11 last night, so it was comfortable enough sleeping under the ceiling fan.....they are having school registration today and tomorrow I think, teachers are having prep days.....football teams are having workouts......people start coming back to the college pretty soon, a couple of weeks yet I guess.....hmm, sounds like I got something in the mailbox, I'll go check that out.....

lower humidity

is nice, along with a wind coming through the house.....don't have the AC on, just ceiling fans.....there was a small earthquake in Gray Court the other day.....and a 4.1 in Ensenada? In Gray Court it was 2.1 I think....."on an unnamed fault related to the formation of the Blue Ridge Mountains"......hmm.....it was a good thing I checked that jar of salsa in the fridge before I went to the store.....it was all funny looking, so I got it thrown out and got a bottle of Old El Paso taco sauce to use at supper .......nothing on hand but funny salsa would have been a bummer....I swept and vacuumed earlier, before lunch.....but I'm going to have to mop the kitchen too sometime soon.....maybe tomorrow.....

taco nite

and I've got chili cheese dogs with onion for lunches.....got more coffee, eggs, wheat bread.....besides tacos and pintos I can have chicken with rice and green beans for a couple of suppers....we'll make it through the week somehow.....it stormed east of here last night before bedtime, but all we got here was a bit of a breeze.....enough to cool things off some for sleeping....I've got the Clinton paper to look through.....they are saying it will be a little cooler over the next few days, still in the 90's but not high 90's.....pleasant enough out so far today.....

took about an hour and a half

to cut all the grass and take a shower.....beautiful morning for a little yard work, around 80 and breezy.....but with the high humidity it's still a work-out, for an old fart.....was a high of 100 yesterday, but some storms went by pretty close in the evening, close enough to cool it off for a good night's sleep.....had chicken, potato salad, corn-on-the-cob for supper Monday.....guess I'll finish off the chicken today.....or I do have a can of chili beans.....we'll see .....I need to buy eggs and bread tomorrow.....and maybe taco stuff? I should check and see if the grocery ads are here.....I've finished 3 out of 5 library books......

bought a new hairbrush

my old one broke yesterday, the handle came off....so I got the cheapest one at the grocery store, also got the cheapest box of wine, and a bag of ice......in this weather, ice is a good thing.....don't know when I'll get another overcast morning to cut the weeds......there was an article in the real estate supplement to the Sunday paper about patio homes for empty-nesters who are down-sizing ......this one buyer was saying a big reason he liked the smaller place was it only took 15 minutes to mow the lawn.....he said at their old house they had six acres, so it always took him from Saturday to Wednesday to cut the grass, working at it a couple of hours a day.....that's just crazy.....another housing trend is "lush carpeting".....older people are getting damned tired of all that hardwood and tile that's heck to clean and hurts your ankles eventually.....I figured that out years ago.....yesterday I had a bowl of noodles for supper....it said it was orange chicken flavor, but I don't know.....didn't have much flavor at all, so I put some soy sauce on it, and added some crunchy rice noodles to kick it up a notch.....going to get up around 100 again today I suppose.....

some rain last night

cooled things off nicely before bedtime, so I could leave some windows open for sleeping......now around 10:30 Sunday morning it's starting to burn off, with a mostly West wind.....french toast with sausage for breakfast.....yesterday I made a little different lunch.....ham and egg on a wheat bun with mayo and lettuce.....I remember a little corner cafe on York Blvd. near Oxy where I used to get a fried egg sandwich sometimes......it was across from York Taco and down one block maybe......York Taco was awesome......if you went west from there on York there was the Sea Breeze.....this little beer bar with nets and floats hanging on the walls, and coin pool tables, and a pitcher of PBR for $1.00.....in the morning anyway I think that was the special price......shoot, you used to be able to get a plastic quart of Pabst for 75 cents in a mom-and-pop market where some kid was behind the counter who didn't give a damn how old you were as long as you were handing him the money.....the old days.....there was a Jack-in-the-Box a couple of blocks off campus where you ordered and gave them your money, but you almost never got back what you ordered exactly.....but you would get more items than you had paid for, so what the heck? I think they just gave away the tacos if they had been sitting a while, if they had made too many by mistake or something.....don't know what I want for lunch today.....guess what I've got is ham-and-cheddar.....

nice cool morning for a drive

went over to the Farmers Market in Laurens....I had only been over to it once this season I think....nothing much new....there was a guy there with local honey and with that homemade brown sugar candy I can remember from the old days.....a lady used to have it at the Swap Meet too......but I didn't buy any, it can't be good for your teeth or for any other body parts.....was tempting though......in the 70's and misty and cloudy so far today.....might be more thunderstorms this afternoon.....it was so rainy in Charlotte that streets were turning into rivers and some folks were flooded out of their houses.....in the paper it said two ladies were shoplifting at a coat outlet, and when the police chased them they tried to cross a swollen creek to escape, but one was drowned and the other is missing......the heat wave is going to crank up to around 100 again by Monday, with increased humidity too......I had 4 oz. of steak and a salad and a buttered roll last night.....today can be chicken and salad and a roll.....it's burning off rapidly outside looks like.....it's tax-free weekend for back-to-school, but I'm not going to go back to school.....