spilling down into the Upstate

cold air from Canada, coming down the eastern edge of the mountains they say.....but it's still in the 50s early on, not down in the 30s or anything like that....but its dark and gloomy looking, with a chilly wind.....the ribs last night were good, and there's half a baked potato and 4 or 5 ribs leftover for another supper.....this afternoon I'll do the roast beef and red potatoes.....they had those little fruitcakes from Texas out at the grocery store yesterday, but I didn't get one....maybe closer to Christmas .....today sure looks like December so far.....they sell Christmas trees at the high school it said in the paper, that's a new one on me.....the Future Farmers or something like that?

Rain staying north of here so far

High clouds and 70F at noon.....they finally came and took away the track hoe that had been sitting near my front porch since before Thanksgiving.....my boots have shipped.....I got a 2lb. sirloin tip roast, and a pound and a half of those St. Louis style ribs I like....think I'll do the ribs today, with baked potato.....the beef roast should be plenty for lunch sandwiches for quite a while.....I've got little red potatoes to cook with it....also got some long grain and wild rice mix in a box for a side with beef after the potatoes are eaten up....it should make gravy, the roast.....corned beef for lunch today....

73 yesterday afternoon, 57 this morning

rain and cold are rumored to be on the way for later today, just a few clouds in evidence so far.....coming back from the corner store with my newspaper I was surprised to see the house next door to Roscoe burned out .....Roscoe is a dog.....I didn't hear any sirens in the night....the street was still wet from the fire engine it looked like....maybe since that house is about a block from the fire station they didn't use any sirens.....nothing woke me up anyway.....I'm thinking of looking at beef roast this week, been a while since I cooked that.....maybe something will be on special when I go to the store here in a few minutes....otherwise I have no idea of what I'm going to get....I'm low on eggs and orange juice I suppose....could probably get more olive oil this week too.....I got wine at Walmart the other day, since the Franzia boxes are maybe three dollars cheaper there, something like that.....well, off we go.....

mid-50s this morning, cloudy

the front is supposed to come through tonight late, so colder and rainy Wednesday.....didn't see much inspiring in the grocery ads this week, don't know what I'll do for a menu.....I looked for wellingtons at Walmart and Tractor Supply but didn't see what I wanted.....so I went ahead and ordered Doc Martens Industrial Wellingtons (not hard toe) from Amazon.....Super Saver Free Shipping.....might be here next Monday.....the Wolverines I got last time have about had it, I wear out boots.....so no mail today....nice walking weather.... not too hot, not too cold......

lots of fog early

but it looks like it will burn off pretty quick.....did get up to 70 yesterday, might again today.....fog predicted tomorrow early again.....rain by Tuesday night.....just watched random bits and pieces of football games Sunday afternoon and evening.....couldn't work up the concentration to watch a whole game anyway....read quite a bit, played dobro, guitar, and piano.....sat on the front porch in the sunshine.....this morning I'll drive over to Walmart to look for a few things.....can have a pork chop supper tonight, rib-eye Tuesday, grocery shopping Wednesday.....

not sunny

for Sunday morning.....it has been bright early lately, but not today.....clouded over but not all that cold, mid-40s.....was a warm parade morning Saturday....I found a bench in the sun over in front of the school district office, and watched for an hour or so, and then got hungry and went home and made a sandwich.....look at GoClinton.com for a slideshow of the event.....the parade, not the sandwich.....I guess our parade is pretty funky compared to other localities, but Clinton is in fact pretty funky in general.....a small piece of rib-eye, half a baked potato, and some veggies was supper.....Georgia came dang close to winning, but no cigar.....might just have a french bread pizza for Sunday supper....must be some NFL games on....besides the Panthers.....it got warm enough yesterday to open a couple windows for a while....and to sit on the front porch eating pecans from the back yard again.....pecans have multiple health benefits, google it......I didn't have any ham or sausage left for Sunday breakfast, so I just had the french toast, coffee, juice.....I'll have a curried turkey salad sandwich for lunch.....

it was midnight

before the Pac12 championship game was over....they were slipping and sliding in the rain at Stanford....so I slept through to 6am pretty well.....around 40 for the early walk.....the parade should start at 10, but it never does....so maybe I'll take a walk over there at 10:30.....see if they are ready by then.....should be mid50s at that time.....stay on the sunny side of the street.....at 4 this afternoon Georgia plays Alabama for the SEC championship.....if Georgia beats them and then beats Norte Dame then the BCS trophy would be local sort of.....it's not far from here to Athens.....what are the odds?  Curried turkey salad sandwich made a good lunch yesterday.....more of that left for more sandwiches.....but today maybe back to the corned beef and cheddar, just to mix things up....I can have steak and baked potato later today, with mixed vegetables.....mid60s predicted for today's high.....