The Baptist church ladies

Put on a spread to rival a reunion feast, very nice of them.....the ice tea was most welcome, because we had all been sweating during the burial service in the early afternoon sun.....there was an awning and chairs and some breeze.....and the soldiers played taps and folded the flag off the coffin and gave it to Charlotte....and words were spoken as is proper.....they opened the casket briefly at the end.....Carl had an expression on his face that reminded me of a face WB would make sometimes......I think I heard somebody say they had snuck a bottle of Rock n Rye into the casket for him.....and then folks wandered inside into some air conditioned rooms for the food and visiting.....Rusty and Jack were there....I hadn't seen Jack since 1963, I think.....and too many other relatives were there for me to list....later a brother of Aunt Doris was there who I don't think I'd met before.....so we ate and talked and more people arrived for the church service.....Charlotte played an introduction of moving piano music, and once again proper words were spoken, etc.....and then there was more greeting and visiting.....and the core group of cousins who are always present at such occasions wandered back out to the grave site, where the casket was now safely in the ground.....we told a few more tales and made various observations and eventually we headed back to our vehicles and R.I.P Carl Lucius Tingle.....

severe fog?

the fog warning was under the severe weather heading.....was pretty foggy walking early....didn't see any school busses.....maybe it really is a four day weekend .....never did get any rain yesterday right here.....I guess I could cut the grass out back right now, while it's still just 72 and hazy....the chow mien worked well, tasty stuff and enough left for another day.....well, the mail just came....so I'll look at that and then look at the back lawn, decide what to do....

One of those days

When I look at my library books but don't pick one up to read....can't get into reading for some reason....so I walked and ate lunch and took a nap...now I might go sit on the porch and watch the motionless neighborhood.....according to fb posts the actual schedule for tomorrow is a private family burial service at one thirty, and then a family gathering with refreshments at two, and then the church service at three.....it looks like it might take a half hour or so to get there.....no rain yet this afternoon, but those pop up thunderstorms might happen again towards evening....

more rain, humidity

series of thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and evening, probably some more coming this afternoon....tomorrow I'll go find Lanford Baptist Church for Uncle Carl's services at 3:00 in the afternoon....the obituary says the family will be at home at the Old Tingle Family Place....guess I know where that is....so I had a sort of a breakfast for supper again....sausage, hash-browns, egg over easy with cajun sauce.....today I'll do beef and veggie stir-fry with noodles....might have a pimento cheeseburger for lunch.....looks like it's not raining yet, so I'll go for a walk....it will be a muggy walk I'm sure.....

A little light rain

After grocery shopping....I went walking anyway, and got wetter from sweat than from rain.....so I got stir fry veggies to have with the rest of the beef in chow mien.....and I can finish off the bratwurst today with hash browns and green beans.....the avocados didn't look that good this week, so no avocado burgers on the holiday weekend....did get some pimento cheese spread so p imento slider burgers are an option....did buy a bag of sea salt and vinegar potato chips, and creamy slaw from the deli case for my Labor Day hamburger meal.....will be burgers for supper for a couple other days too I suppose.....and chow mien will be a couple other suppers....so that's another week covered more or less.....right now it doesn't look like too much chance of more rain any time soon....staying plenty muggy though...

fog and damp

flooded where we were in June in Charleston....pictures of folks in kayaks paddling through the old market building a couple of blocks from the suite we stayed in.....no flooding here, just a steady rain yesterday......time to go grocery shopping....I need olive oil, onion, apples, maybe an avocado.....Labor Day weekend so I could have hamburgers.....I forgot curry powder last week so I can get some this time....and maybe some chicken salad from the deli, so I can fix curried chicken salad sandwiches for some lunches....those are good.....maybe some slaw too to go with hamburgers.....need orange juice.....don't know what else.....don't really feel like another taco attack binge.....we'll see.....

steamy hurricane weather morning

it's just 72 degrees.....but with 100% humidity you end up dripping sweat just walking around.....I'm going to go and see if I can get my walk around the park done before the first band of showers gets here.....rain bands off the storm are all over the South.....I had olives, onion, and swiss cheese with the steak on my supper salad.....tonight I might have leftover sausage and shells....yesterday I had brat and swiss grilled on rye for lunch.....today maybe steak with pickles and lettuce, mustard and mayo sandwich.....with a few fritos and a glass of wine.....today was poached egg on toast breakfast.....they are saying it might rain on into the holiday weekend, if the storm just sits and spins slowly....