Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Apr. 23rd through Apr. 29th

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit.

Welcomings will be posted at the start of each week (every Sunday morning). To find the posts, just bookmark this link and Voila! (which is Moose for “I found everyone!!”).

The format is simple: each day, the first moose to arrive on-line will post a comment welcoming the new day and complaining (or bragging!) about their weather. Or mentioning an interesting or thought provoking news item. Or simply checking in.

So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?

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30 Comments

  1. Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …

    Morning low of 41 degrees in Madison WI with an expected daytime high of 63. Sunny skies are in the forecast.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Good morning. Spent the weekend at the Women’s Conference – had a wonderful time. Am now getting ready to head into New York City for the Daily Kos meetup at noon.

  3. Slept in again, having a nice relaxing morning. I may cook this afternoon even though I’m not going to work tomorrow. So, that’ll be baked oatmeal & stir-frying some vegetables to add to dinners. And clear out the dvr. Handmaid’s Tale starts Wednesday so I need to get a Hulu subscription, and Bill Nye Saves The World is on Netflix, so again I need to get a subscription for that. Brain is playing The Miracle of Joey Ramone to me (all the stolen voices, will someday be returned, the most beautiful sound I ever heard”)

  4. Good morning, Moosekind, and happy Shakespeare’s birthday! He’d have been 453 today. This is the first time in the last 20 years I haven’t provided a birthday cake and a ritual for him. (Sniff.) Still too embarrassed after the awful whopper I made last year in a blog post.

    Contrary to the forecast by our local weather persons, this morning has dawned thusly:

    “Full many a glorious morning have I seen
    Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye
    Kissing with golden face the meadows green
    Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy…”

    Our current temp. is 46 F., going up to 60 F. They predicted cold, gloomy rain with a high in the 50s.

    Busy day—have to put the beef stew on before I run to the hairdresser, then back home for a bit before picking up Miss Pink Cheeks for a Brownie activity. That will occupy most of the afternoon, so thank Goddess the stew will be slow-cooking away. Here I am, retired for the past 11 years, and I’ve no time to read the Sunday paper or indeed, the daily paper. (Yes, this is a very First-World problem, I realize.)

    Wishing all a good day!

  5. 40-something at dawn heading for mid-60s and wonderfully clear and sunny – to the point we’ve already generated more electricity this morning than the whole day Friday and over 2/3 what we generated yesterday. YES! :) At this rate we’ll crest 300 KWHs for the month by lunchtime. Supposed to be the same tomorrow which will be lovely. I’d really like to crest 400 this month – which is quite possible, even if April 2016’s 476 isn’t.

    Michael’s on TO again so I did a cut-and-paste (from here) diary for him – then discovered that anything scheduled still posts even if the writer is on TO. So I dumped the lynx stuff in Michael’s and went back to my Sunday routine. (Orange muffins this week.) I’ll scrub today’s information out of mine and take the date out of the title. Ceiling Cat knows Michael and so knows I’ll need it in the future sometime. LOL. Need to check my community needs stuff. Wish I had someplace besides the DK Village diaries to post my “Eyes on the Prize, Team Blue” list – but too many links for WordPress and the jsfv supporters at DK have never managed to get a community together, just crap in any diary that doesn’t support jsfv and try to get The Village totally banded or disbanded. Unfortunately they’ve done a lot of damage to The Village over there. Even members who are still there (First Amendment, rugbymom, etc.) have shyed off from commenting. Oh well. DK’s loss. But it does mean my more political activity at DK is restricted to The Village diaries. sigh.

    Gonna pay another visit to the Breakfast here and at DK, then go read Denise’s FP and stuff like that before I need to get back on doing offline/home stuff. Bright the day and wind to thy wings, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  6. If I understand it properly, this comment is how I gain access to commenting, reccing, etc?

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      Welcome aboard!

  7. Good morning, meese! Monday …

    It is 37 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 68. Sunny skies are in the forecast with a few clouds rolling in this evening.

    The French people appear to be benefiting from a glimpse at the horror that the right-wing has visited on their friends across the channel and their friends across the big pond. Now they just have to keep Putin out of the general election. Also, they may want to deny Jim Comey a visa. :)

    Reminder: we are resisting Republicanism, not Trumpism. After reading snippets from the AP interview with the gorbellied knotty-pated ratsbane (h/t Shakespeare), the idea that he will serve out his full 4 year term becomes inscreasingly unlikely. A President Pence will inherit a Congress that is just as balky, if not more so depending on how he takes over the presidency, but we will still have Mulvaney and Pruitt – and the chance for the justice who will strike down Roe v Wade and Obergefell. We need to regain power so our resistance is not just marches but legislative blockades – in Washington and in the states. My hope is that Hillary Clinton’s legacy, since she was denied the presidency, will be a virtual tsunami of women and young people inspired by her campaign, running for public office.

    #ResistRepublicans

    See all y’all later!

    • Absolutely – I always write about blocking the R administration – pvl45 is just the skwerrel to keep the media occupied while the Rs try to eviscerate every step of progress, every good thing this country has managed to do. We need to block them. (While keeping the skwerrel too far away to bite. It might be rabid.)

  8. Morning, Meese!

    We had a great weekend here, weather-wise. Though, today the clouds are coming back with 100% chance of rain. That’s fine with me; rain is not snow.

  9. Good Monday morning Meese.
    Trying to get my ass in gear – really tired from a full weekend. Had a great time at The DKos meetup in NY – got to meet both old friends and new ones.

    From twitter:

    Le Pen in France as number 2 is troubling – very troubling.

    • Now that the field has narrowed to two, she is a distant 2nd. But troubling because we all know how elections can be hacked. The fact that all but the leftiest of the left and the butthurtiest of the butthurt (think Sanders with a French accent) have endorsed Macron is a great sign. Too bad we did not have any Country Over Party Republicans or Sanders doing that here.

    • Thanks for the heads up on President Obama. I knew he was speaking today but I was not sure of the time: CSPAN:

      Former President Obama delivers remarks at the University of Chicago in his first public appearance since leaving the White House. Airing LIVE Monday, Apr 24 11:00am CDT on C-SPAN

  10. Good rainy Monday morning, Moosekind! It’s 52 F. in NoVa right now, going up to 54 F. later. Don’t mind at all if it rains, as we’re still three inches under for the year. It’s going to be a Slow Cooker Chicken Vegetable Soup day.

    We have to get ready to go out for the morning and it’s just as well, because the heavy rain is coming this afternoon.

    Hopeful that Marine Le Pen won’t win. Y’know, he won’t do it because he’s too much of a gentleman, but I bet President Obama (courtesy title my foot, he’s still POTUS to me) would like to write a book drenched in vitriol about how the Rethugs treated him during his presidency. We all thought he was too nice to them in the early days, but remember this: when you’re a good person yourself, it never occurs to you that other people are out to get you and will rejoice to see you suffer. That’s how a lot of good people end up in trouble.

    Bfitz, glad to hear Watts Up! I didn’t have time to visit the Petit Dejeuner yesterday. Why is Michael on timeout?

    Wishing as good a day as possible to all at the Pond and Beyond!

  11. Chilly morning (48!) but it’ll be 80 this afternoon, then lows in the 70s the rest of the week, highs in the 90s. Plan for today: take some cash donations to the Ride office & my bike to finally get tuned up. Lovely, luxurious day.

  12. Good morning, 47 and cloudy in Bellingham. We were in Seattle yesterday, celebrating our grandson’s 16th birthday. We all wanted a low key day so lunch, gifts, and a visit to his favorite frozen yogurt store was perfect. How is it possible he is now 16?

    It’s a pool morning for me, so time to find some coffee and get ready to go. Have a good day everyone!

  13. 39 at another clear blue dawn heading for mid 70s (so I may walk home today) – already have 1 KWH for the day – got 22.8 yesterday and ended the day with 321.8 month to date. It would be nice to do it again. :) Clouds and rain moving in again tomorrow – late I hope – but I will enjoy the heart-lifting sunshine while we have it.

    The Marches are also heart-lifting – they tell everybody, even us folks in bloody-red states, that we are not alone. We are the majority, we are stronger together than they are, we will overcome. The number of women stepping up to run for office – I think Emily’s list said something like 11,000 – says the “sleeping giant” has awakened and she’s a woman. The ballot box is the “defense against dark arts” in our country. And the first spell is “expelliarmus” – we will do this.

    Meanwhile, gotta get to work. Bright the day and wind to thy wings, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  14. 54 right and heading to a high of 69…and loads and loads of sunshine. happy dance

    Tonight is the last night of my church reading group (The Third Reconstruction by Dr. Barber); we’ve had to reschedule this last meetup twice now, so I’m hoping the third time is the charm. The more conservative members of my church who started out with us dropped out over time, leaving a core group of six self-described liberals. That’s not as discouraging as it sounds; some of the drops were people that had personal crises to contend with (illness, deaths in the family), and discovering five other liberals at my very white Macomb County church is actually good news. Even more encouraging is that I’ve been approached by each person separately, and they’ve all said, “Reading is good. But what is our action going to be?” I expect most of tonight will be devoted to that conversation.

    One of Dr. Barber’s key points is that we must recognize the centrality of race if we are to move forward together. I’m also going to suggest another reading group in the fall (our church is virtually empty during the summer, because being Michiganders, much of the summer is devoted to “going up north.”) I really wish Eric Foner’s Reconstruction wasn’t so darn long (even his abridged version is 300+pages), because one thing that has become clear to me is the utter lack of historical knowledge by so many of us. However, taking a different approach, I just ordered Michael Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America and will see if it’s a potential pick. If nothing else, the book includes a reading list, so if it’s not Dyson’s book, other options will be right at my fingertips.

    • Sweet! It’s funny how much joy those little actions bring…squeeing right along with you.

  15. Good afternoon fellow Meeses! We had a high of 69 degrees here in sunny Costa Mesa, CA.

  16. Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …

    It is 57 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 70. The forecast calls for sunny skies this morning, clouding up this afternoon and then rain tonight. This front is bringing in cooler temperatures – 46 will be the high on Thursday!

    I am afraid to look at the news because apparently Mr. 40% is going to try to upgrade his polling number by attacking North Korea and triggering a nuclear attack on South Korea and the death of millions. This is why you don’t put the largest military the world has ever known in the tiny hands of a man who cannot think past the next two minutes and, even then, only as it relates to his own personal comfort. I am sure that the generals running our country right now have game planned a Korea War II. I wonder if they will release the estimates of civilian casualties from that plan so Americans can realize the full impact of what they are about to do.

    Arkansas killed a few more men, Sotomayor dissenting.

    It sounds as if a government shutdown will not be held hostage to the border wall with the Republican White House blinking last night. Now, if we can get the ACA insurer payments permanently included in the next budget, they can probably get enough Democrats on board to pass a budget through September 30th.

    See all y’all later!

  17. Good Tuesday morning Meese.
    50 degrees and raining here in Saugerties NY.

    My commentary topic today on Black Kos is about the removal of Confederate /white supremacist memorial monument from New Orleans

    On a side note – never thought a prom dress would become a space to make a #BLM statement :)

    • I noticed that a Republican gubernatorial candidate from Virginia, a guy named Stewart, went so far Johnny Reb on his pro-Confederacy stand that even Republicans withdrew their endorsements. I did not know that there was a limit to how pro-slavery a modern Republican could be – I am shocked!

  18. Back to work. Oatmeal, tea. Supposed to be 90 today & tomorrow, there’s a slight chance of thunderstorms Friday night into Saturday — exactly the wrong time. But it’s only 20%, so maybe things will be ok. Wondering what the deal is that #45 wants the entire Senate at the White House, trying not to let my mind go to the “before” part of a disaster movie. Brain is playing poppy, dance-y Discotheque.

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