rained all night

and was still raining during breakfast, but moved on east by the time I went out the door right before sunrise.....so lots of standing water in places but I didn't get wet.....was 68 yesterday, might be 64 today.....it was still warm enough around nine at night to sit on the porch and watch it rain....didn't need to run any heat at all overnight....one more roast pork dinner left, and then grocery shopping.....maybe it's time for a whole chicken....I should drive some today, the Jeep has been sitting since Saturday....but it's warmer so it should crank over easier anyway.....can have the last of the smoked beef sausage on wheat roll for lunch.....the grocery ad featured swirl rye sandwich loaf fresh baked for $1.99.....we'll see tomorrow if they actually have that on hand.....

grits n gravy

eggs over easy and some sausage.....Sunday supper.....lunch was strips of pork steak fried up, with BBQ sauce and pickle chips.....cloud cover this morning, so it's mid 40s instead of around freezing.....the storm front to the west should get here late afternoon, and rain until early Tuesday morning....finished my spy novel on kindle.....watched a heist movie where the ending was tricky, but at least understandable......was warm enough yesterday that folks were out porch-sitting some....

nice sunrise

pink and orange in the east.....but you couldn't actually see the sun at 7:30, what with the time change.....was still dark out while fixing breakfast.....street lights still on during the newspaper walk.....if these morning clouds burn off it might get to high 60s later today.....and then 80% chance of rain by tomorrow night.....I grilled some sausage with onion and toasted the roll in the skillet too for a lunch sandwich yesterday.....that worked.....watched another movie with a confusing ending.....it was in English, but I still couldn't figure it out....maybe the screenwriters went on strike half way through the shooting.....did laundry in the afternoon, the new jeans said to wash separate or with like colors in cold water before wearing.....so that's what I did....didn't see any evidence of color bleeding really.....so these jeans are relaxed fit and comfortable, and the right length so I don't have to roll up the cuffs....ten bucks at Walmart....Faded Glory?  I got bitters and Roses' lime juice while I was over there, since the grocery stores around here don't carry them.....neither do the ABCs.....they can only sell things with alcohol in them.....so Spring next week?

24 windchill early on

but it got up to 61 Friday....and might get around that again this afternoon....no rain until Monday ......I sliced up some of the roast pork, and covered that and some dressing with gravy....used the last of the squash.....microwaved that platter and had a tasty supper.....might be the same thing today, except with peas.....or I have a clam chowder option.....thinking of going over to Walmart this morning because I don't have a pair of blue jeans without any holes.....one pair has a hole in the seat, the other pair a hole in the left knee....it's probably a couple of years since I last bought jeans.....watched Avatar on Prime last night....never seen that before, waited until it was on for free.....started reading The Piano Tuner.....I guess I've pretty much gone through all the good pecans left under the trees out back, there's a pile of shells at one end of the front porch where I've been sitting and eating them when it's nice out.....the smaller darker pecans that are left must be from a previous year, they are mostly rotten when you crack them open.....smoked beef sausage on half a whole wheat roll makes for a hearty lunch.....be doing that for a few days looks like.....

overnight freeze again

in the 20s around sunrise....but they are calling for highs in the 60s by Sunday, 68 for Greenville and the Irish Festival.....I did get outside some yesterday afternoon, in a somewhat chilly breeze....but it was sunny.....the black-eyed peas meal was hot and plenty.....so today I can microwave a pork-steak platter for supper.....lunch can be sausage on a roll, with maybe pickle slices, mayo, honey mustard.....stayed up until around 10:30 and slept through 'til morning OK.....was watching a French flic flick.....there seems to be plenty of crime in Paris....enough to fuel a film industry.....about half way through reading Rasputin's Daughter.....

Hendrix at 70

That's a scary thought right there.....it's the heading of an article in the Greenville paper....about the release of the last album of studio tapes from Jimi Hendrix.....so I punched up MOG on Roku and sure enough the album was in new releases....so I cranked up the stereo and listened to it
 this morning.....I don't know what it costs to buy your  own digital copy or a CD in the mail, but I wouldn't have paid very much myself....and I marked it as a favorite on MOG so I can go back and listen to it anytime I want anyway?  The economics of the music industry has become
confusing to me ......and the "at 70" part just reminded me of how much time has passed....

time will change

next week it will barely be light when I go out the door at 7:30.....was 30F this morning....clear, bright, calm.....good personal attributes, those.....it's still just 36 out now, so 2nd walk might be delayed until afternoon .....hopefully it warms up some by then.....I got Boston Butt steaks yesterday, hadn't tried that before....$1.99/lb......iron skillet in the oven with sea-salt, olive oil, minced garlic, oregano.....covered at 350 for about an hour, and then turned over and uncovered at 425 for maybe 20 minutes.....perfect.....made gravy and apple cornbread dressing.....yellow squash with sweet onion as the other side dish.....so there's plenty of meat already cooked for a week, can be used various ways.....today I'll brown some pork with onion in olive oil and add a can of black-eyed peas and have that over cornbread for supper.....lunches this week will be either the pork on whole wheat sandwich roll, or I've got a beef kielbasa that was at a good price....got jack cheese for a change.....remembered to get kitchen sponges.....they were on a two-for-one sale.....