1-14-12, A Saturday this one is. Now what did I have planned for today?

Dag gumit!! I GOT to start making better notes to myself!!   Last evening I thought of something important ( to me anyway) that I should do today.. What the hell was it?
Replace the battery in my portable phone? possibility, this one won't talk bout about 20 minutes before it dies and cuts me off.
Wash BOT? ( big ole truck)  cause it's been sitting and is dusty filthy? Don't think so
I ran a load of wash, so that ain't it.
Mow the yard?  Are you NUTS?  No , that ain't it,

I Remember!!! Terrorize the cats by running The Screaming Yellow Meanie and vacuuming the house!!
That thing strikes fear into Tiny and even Basset will git under the couch.

Whew!! Glad I got that figured out!!

Weather seems warm to me for this time of year. Was 38 °F when I first looked this morning. Seems to me that this time of year it's supposed to be colder , BUT, checked weather history and that's bout right.Checked the climate history and found this info.

The month of January is characterized by gradually rising daily high temperatures, with daily highs around 56°F throughout the month, exceeding 73°F or dropping below 37°F only one day in ten. Daily low temperatures are around 36°F, falling below 22°F or exceeding 49°F only one day in ten.

 Of course growing up on the farm I know it was colder !! MUCH colder when I had to walk down to the Hen house/ shed and feed the animals and make sure the water wasn't frozen on the stock tank for the cows. :-) 
 Funny what  our minds remember sometimes isn't it?

Anywho...
39.1 °F
Clear   
Windchill:     39 °F
Humidity:     48%
Wind:     2.0 mph from the SW
Wind Gust:     8.0 mph
Visibility:     10.0 miles
Dew Point:     21 °F
Pressure:     30.25 in (Steady)

NWS forecast: Sunny, with a high near 65. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south.

About breakfast here in a bit. I  been racking my brain for how to incorporate the left over shrimp into  a meal this early.  What I think I may do is mix up some onions, chopped bell peppers and chopped shrimp and cook that up with a couple of eggs. Cooked slow so as to NOT make the shrimp tough. Think that'll work? I'll let you know. :-)

I know I have mentioned this before but a couple of breakfast meals really stand out in my memory .
One was at a Mexican place in Corpus Christi Texas with wifie #3.  A plate they called Migas, soft corn tortilla strips with sunny side up eggs, spicy seasonings with onion bits. Warm corn tortillas, retried beans and sliced fresh tomato!!

Another that really stands out was waay back in my NASA days.  The night before there had been a traveling party with a group of NASA people.  First one place for cocktails, then another for appetizers, and another for main meal, and yet another for desert and after dinner drinks. Then we hit a local club/bar with a reserved table for us all.
It didn't end there.

Nest morning we met up at one of the condos where this one guy had gathered all the left overs and made up buffet type breakfast!   Date and I managed to make it even, early that morning.  I remember having a scramble of eggs with left over stuff on a muffin and to top it off   Russian  Caviar on toast slices with sour cream!! and of course Champagne.
Those were some fun times in the NASA area during the Apollo missions.


Bofore I forget, another  food breakfast memory.
 The year before Ann and I were married she got us on a snow ski trip to Utah with the local club she belonged too.  We had a couple of condos in Park City Utah.   We/she packed up all the seasonings and what not and the first next day after we arrived and got settled into our Condo unit with two other couples. We went to the store and got stuff from a big warm you up get you moving breakfast  for a day on the mountain!!

Grilled thick pork chops on the fancy cook top, real potato pancakes, eggs just right, sliced tomato, onions and forget what else  but I bet toasted English Muffins.  That meal will stay with you a while sliding down the mountain!!

Most nights we gathered in one condo or the other for supper and drinks and someone cooked up spaghetti with veal chops in a marinara sauce to lay on top of the pasta and of course garlic bread with a heavy red wine.

OK, coffee cup empty,  BRB...  (6:30AM in case you wondered)

9AM, floor all vacuumed and stuff back in place, ( chairs, foot stools, cat scratch post etc, etc ) cats haven't reappeared yet though . It don't take long IF I do a little prep work. Move dining room chairs outta the way, put the foot stools up in the matching chairs , generally get everything outta the way so I don't have to stop and move something.  I did have to dump the  container twice!! Could have knitted another cat out of the hair I picked up. :-)


So.. guess I'm free to git out and moving, but do I really want to go this early? Guess I should could  and get it over with hopefully before all the soccer moms get out and make the roads crazy.   Sooo. I'm off first to Batteries Plus for a phone battery, then swing by one pet supply store for an item or two for the kitties :-)   OH!! And get my lottery ticket ( I got a new set of numbers that'll work for me for sure!! )

See ya after later

Noon!!! Plus just a little!! Got all my running done. Dang Battery place was out of the battery I needed for portable phone, but Rat Shack right down the road had one. Deader than a doornail when we put it in, but it's charging now. Hope it works.

Stopped by Pet's Mart and found some new cat food can lids that needed replacing. They work good to keep the food fresh after opening.   Last stop was going to be Long John Silvers but I was there before they opened, so Subway won out! :-)

Got home and all settled back in and clicked on PBS for my cooking shows. The fat sloppy stupid Bitch is on..  Lida. Honestly she is sloppy. Always touching this and that and sticking her hand in her mouth and NEVER washes her hands!! And chews with her mouth open!!! Disgusting!   That and her phony ass Italian accent , but only when she's around another Italian. ( Yes I have complained to my local PBS but it don't go anygood)

BTW, upto 70 out side.. Cats are in and out, in and out. :-)

Later,,Whoopie!!!  I found a hard drive I can have the geek put in the new camera system tomorrow. I had a couple of USB stand alone storage devices. One uses and old style hard driver, but the other uses the new style. So I just copied any important stuff from it to this computer then jerked it out  for use elsewhere.  :-)  Save having to go buy one.

Nearly 10PM..  Got all involved with a movie I couldn't walk away from.
Cowboys and Aliens. Fun Movie some pretty good western stuff and well, Aliens!!  give it a look when you get a chance.
Kitchen is clean of course , coffee set up for morning.  I'm outta here....