high wind warning

25 degree windchill when I went out the door after breakfast.....a short thunderstorm went through last night.....while I was watching some Swedish movie that was more than three hours long.....I'm going over to the grocery store soon, I need apples, raisins, eggs, cheese....I need a package of sponges, my last one is getting ratty.....I still have two chili dogs left, I'll look for some kind of lunch meat.....and maybe sandwich rolls in the bakery section.....for something a little different....I think I got whole wheat rolls there one time cheap.....probably buy some cubed steak, haven't done that in a while....make sort of chicken-fried steak for a couple suppers anyway.....well, off I go.....

Nicer in the afternoon

After lunch the sun came out and I could go for a downtown walk and even sit out on the porch for a while....but clouds are coming and going still....it has got up around sixty.....I think I'll try to take a little nap...

raining this morning

but in the 40s instead of the 20s like it had been lately at sunrise.....air is now moving up from SW instead of down from NE.....good chance of rain all day long, then a chance of snow after dark in the forecast.....peas soup and cornbread will be good on a cold damp day I guess....it was good last night.....the grocery ad was in the mail yesterday.....maybe cube steak and/or pork steak for the coming food week....two of the featured items .....only one egg left, so I need those.....stuffing mix is two for one in the ad.....so I drove in the rain to get the newspaper, might not get any walking done today unless I can see a break on the radar sometime.....finished a sci-fi book on kindle last night....yesterday I went to the library and found three books that might be good.....and I've got the spy novel to finish.....watched the last Bally K show on Prime, so now I don't know what I'll do after watching the newscasts from overseas in the evening....I'll search British comedy again, might find something.....

hard frost

a hard frost is below 28F for a few hours, that's one definition anyway.....it was 25F at sunrise, lots of cars had icy windshields.....why does it seem like there is more traffic on Monday mornings....and why are there Friday afternoon traffic jams?  Do some people drive to work and back once a week?  They drive crazier on Mondays too.....clear skies and sunny, maybe it will warm up as the day goes along.....I'm going to dice up some ham and onion to go in the split-pea soup.....bake some cornbread.....put some cornbread in the bowl and some soup on top....garnish with parmesan-romono cheese.....I think I can get Monday and Tuesday suppers out of that......I drove out through the country yesterday.....there is a lot of country around here....farm country and just plain woods.....got on the Interstate for about ten miles so I could kick up to 70 mph and give the engine some good exercise.....no movies last night, just reading .....found a third Milo Weaver book on kindle....

it did snow some yesterday

started around 11 and actually accumulated a bit on the ground before the front went over and the sun came out....so about 12:30 I went for a mostly sunny walk with the ground steaming as the snow went away.....another little front came through after dark, but I didn't go out to look if it snowed anymore then, don't think it did.....just a little more rain.....Sunday morning 30F at sunrise, some clouds....no wind....I'll do the Sunday breakfast for supper thing with corned beef hash and eggs scramble, biscuits and gravy.....got my newspaper walk done this morning, read the paper.....should drive somewhere later in the day, on the theory that the Jeep needs to drive some when it's been getting below freezing every night.....didn't watch any movie last night, just read until a little after ten and then went to bed....

ice pellets

ice pellets and rain drops when I went out the door to get the paper.....wintry mix they call it....the Jeep cranked over OK so I drove for the paper rather than walk in wintry mix.....right now it's just plain rain and 32F windchill outside.....don't think I'll be going for a walk anytime soon....did get  a park walk done after lunch yesterday......bundled up pretty good.....microwaved a plate with chicken leg quarter and two sides for Friday supper, so tonight can be country ham platter like Thursday.....a cousin on fb said there's big snowflakes coming down in Clemson, which isn't too far from here.....maybe it's moving this way.....probably just be cold and wet here though.....well, I can stay inside and read....again....

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28 and clear, not much wind .....they are still saying chance of snow Saturday morning, like a couple of weeks ago?  Did my second walk in Walmart yesterday, since it never did warm up much outside.....one thing I got was Merlot, three bucks per litre.....the $15 box of Franzia said Product of France this time.....sometimes it says Chile, or Argentina.....so French wine for a while....the country ham for supper was really tasty.....with biscuits and gravy, corn.....this time I bought "biscuit gravy" mix....it's good.....it sort of tastes like white sauce made with Bisquik.....could be a white sauce substitute in recipes.....I've been using a alfredo sauce from a jar as a substitute.....stopped making my own white sauce 'cause I never have milk in the fridge, haven't bought any in years.....movie from Brazil last night, so I guess that wasn't Spanish they were speaking....'cause some Pope gave Brazil to Portugal a long time ago.....got a good sci-fi book on kindle, a guy I was reading about ten years ago has a couple more books out I never read ....Alistair Reynolds.....supper menu for Friday is baked chicken, whole wheat noodles, corn.....chile dog and Chili Fritos for lunch.....