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52/314: Souper
Jan. 6th, 2026 09:55 pmA soup night. I just didn't have the energy to cook. Not even to warm up the Sunday leftovers. It was easier to pour a can of sodium-laden soup into the pan and turn on the burner for a few minutes. I did have the energy to pour the heated soup into a bowl, rather than just eating it out of the pan. I even dug out the scissors and opened a new sleeve of crackers. I may feel like I'm at death's door, but damned if I'm going to exert myself to knock. Let the old creep come out and fetch me.
Tonight we have one last night with a low in the forties, and Wednesday we start a string of nights going down into the thirties. These will be the coldest nights yet this winter, and they really aren't all that cold. None of them are predicted to hit freezing. Still, they will be boosting my utility bill. But then the next week we get a string of days with highs in the sixties instead of our normal January fifties. That could counter the chilly nights and push my bill back down a bit. I'll take what I can get.
That is if the whole long range weather report isn't just a PACK OF LIES! It sometimes is, or at least is a pack of mistakes. If it has mistakes, maybe we'll get some more rain this month. That string of mild days doesn't look very promising though. It looks like another harbinger of drought and a hot summer. Tonight there's a flood watch, and they will be diverting the river into a cutoff that feeds a large basin where excess water can percolate down into the parched aquifer. One more good thing, at least. Like that soup.
Tonight we have one last night with a low in the forties, and Wednesday we start a string of nights going down into the thirties. These will be the coldest nights yet this winter, and they really aren't all that cold. None of them are predicted to hit freezing. Still, they will be boosting my utility bill. But then the next week we get a string of days with highs in the sixties instead of our normal January fifties. That could counter the chilly nights and push my bill back down a bit. I'll take what I can get.
That is if the whole long range weather report isn't just a PACK OF LIES! It sometimes is, or at least is a pack of mistakes. If it has mistakes, maybe we'll get some more rain this month. That string of mild days doesn't look very promising though. It looks like another harbinger of drought and a hot summer. Tonight there's a flood watch, and they will be diverting the river into a cutoff that feeds a large basin where excess water can percolate down into the parched aquifer. One more good thing, at least. Like that soup.
