mattie g

Getting all worked up about whether or not we'll see decent snow over the next three months is just dumb.

Because maybaaaaaaayyyy... The MJO is gonna save maaaaaayyyyyyy

Personally, I'm more of a Noel, but I was about the only person I knew of who was big into Oasis and other "Britpop" stuff, thus the moniker!

A couple rounds of very light graupel in Burke this morning, but enough to whiten cars, decks, and roofs. First flakes that I've seen this year.

By the way...I was known as "The Oasis Guy" in college.

And all the snow that fell to ground was blinding...

I’m a Spurs fan, so I’m not unhappy that this match was postponed. It would have been more akin to a rugby match than soccer, which absolutely would have played into Burnley’s hands.

Let’s be honest…you’re just way TF west, rather than north.

If we ended up with 20-30” region-wide by early January, I’d honestly be OK with punting the rest of the season.

64 and sunny with a little bit of wind here in HHI. Kids hit the beach and decided to go for a swim. I teed off at 7:50 am this morning. Was a little drizzly, but it cleared up nicely and hit about 62 degrees by the time we finished at 11:40.

The consumer has come to expect the store to be open. That expectation leads to false day-of demand because the store being open allows the consumer to be lazy and not plan ahead. Edit: I don't have an issue with grocery stores being open, say, in the morning, but anything beyond that is just silly.

Trailing waves always work out for us, so I’m sure we’d all be quite confident going into it.

Messy and volatile was my Saturday night college wheelhouse (and Friday and Thursday…and maybe Wednesday nights).

Here’s the thing…Target absolutely doesn’t *need* to be open on Thanksgiving. But because other brick-and-mortar stores are open, they’re afraid they’ll lose sales to those other stores on that day and not be able to make them up afterwards. If everyone were closed it wouldn’t make a lick of difference.

I love to cook (and I'm halfway decent at it, if I do say so myself!), so I really enjoy that part of Thanksgiving. I might just sneak in some random menu item that I'll just have to do for myself. I'll definitely enjoy the day though! I've fried turkey a number of times. I really like it, and I've definitely preferred it to some other turkeys I've had in the past. I've also cooked whole and spatchcocked turkeys on the Big Green Egg. I personally like the spatchcocked bird much better, as it cooks really evenly and a lot more quickly. That sounds fantastic!

In-laws decided to have the Thanksgiving feast pre-made and delivered this year. I'll be making one of my family's traditional desserts, and there's another one or two traditional sides that we'll be making today or tomorrow, but otherwise it's all going to be prepared for us. I'm a little bummed, if I'm honest! I get the idea behind doing it that way, but I've always felt that the cooking is more of an event than the eating.

Wait...did he just refer to "Biden Blackouts?" What an embarrassingly unprofessional fuqstiq. Dude's brain is a ball of rot from all the juice he's been juicin'.

Brisk 43 degrees on Hilton Head this morning. Folks are bundled up like we're getting ready to ice fish on the Great Slave Lake.

Pretty crappy drive from Richmond through the northern half of South Carolina today. Wish the rain would have stayed up at home rather than all along the southern half I-95 today…

Winter cancel?

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Thanks! How much/how often should I water and for how long (for how many weeks)? It’s easy enough to do the plants, but the sod is a different story. We’re out of town for a week for Thanksgiving, so I need to give the neighbors very strict instructions on what to do!

Thank goodness the landscaping company finally came today to finish up planting in front of the new porch and laying about 150 sq ft of sod (we got our yard re-graded because of standing water issues). We were expecting them to come about six weeks ago, so hopefully it all takes. It was lots of fun watering it this afternoon.

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