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 (usually Saturday night with a Sunday date). To find the posts, just bookmark this link and Voila! (which is Moose for “I found everyone!!”).
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Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! We’re having gorgeous weather in Ashburn, sunny, with ragged veils of white drifting across the dreamy blue sky. Right now the temperature stands at 65 F., going for a high of 79 F., with low humidity. This June day could hardly be more perfect!
After the frenetic activity of Monday and Tuesday, I would love to just sit and STARE, but at least I get to do things on my own timetable today. This morning will be spent doing laundry, walking to the garden to see what’s happening there, going to gym to try to use something other than the treadmill, and shopping at Trader Joe’s. We’re very low on certain things.
Monday, after a truly awful, sleepless night, I had to rush off to the vigil in front of the NRA headquarters. There were about half the number of people there that used to attend. Apparently the NRA HQ building is still occupied. I saw some people I hadn’t seen in 15 months. Afterwards, I came home and spent the rest of the day trying to catch up on my sleep.
Yesterday I rushed off to meet Darling Niece at Starbucks in Reston. After our delightful coffee and chat, I handed over the beautiful dresses and suits I can no longer wear because of (1) pandemic pounds, and (2) lack of opportunities to wear them. Before we moved to The Home, I visualized dressing nicely, even to nylons and court shoes, with Dearly in jacket and tie, having dinner in one of the three nice restaurants here. Huh! If some of those diners could wear bikinis to dinner, they would. Most of them dress like the inhabitants of Lower Slobbovia. Pooh.
Anyway, I photographed the clothes before I left here yesterday morning. Darling Niece is going to keep any of the clothes she fancies, as long as they fit, of course, and sell the rest on eBay. She probably won’t make much profit as she has to mail the items to the buyers, but if she does make any, she’ll stash it away for her child’s college education.
Yesterday afternoon’s highlight was a visit to the foot doctor. Tuesday just happens to be the day she’s at the local medical center. I didn’t have an appointment but they squeezed me in. I told them I had been going crazy with pain and taking DRUGS (Advil and Tylenol PM, not during the same 24-hour period). She told me I had an infected toe! After injecting the area with anesthetic and doing various unpleasant things, she prescribed an antibiotic, staying off my feet as much as poss, soaking the foot periodically, and another visit next Tuesday. The awful pain has already nearly gone away, after only two of the capsules.
The dog is barking horribly to go out, so I must depart. Wishing a good day to all!
{{{Diana}}} – I was worried. I’m so glad the pain in the foot turned out to be something so easily dealt with. Enjoy the weather while it lasts. Healing Energy & moar {{{HUGS}}}
It’s 73 heading for 94 – heat index 96 – the humidity is, slowly, moving back in. The temps won’t drop after sundown, more like after midnight, and aren’t going below 70. It’s summer, right? Maybe on the A/C today, probably on the A/C tomorrow. We generated 21.7 KWHs yesterday, 2nd highest for the month. Starting today with m-t-d at 236.6, which is at least gaining. We shall see what we shall see.
Same ol’ same ol’ politically speaking. Our team is striving to make things better for everybody. RW is striving to stop us because they don’t want things to be better for everybody. LW is striving to stop us because whatever we’re striving to do isn’t good enough and isn’t the “right” (their) way. And of course both RW and LW will try to take credit, successfully with their bases, for whatever we manage to accomplish in spite of them. And the RW propaganda machine keeps rolling propaganda. sigh.
Jill’s husband’s car was stolen yesterday. He filed a report with the cops accusing her of having orchestrated the theft via twitter. We’ll see just how many impossible things the cops can believe at one time to continue seeing him as the victim and her as the bitch. Aji, Amelia, Fineena all still holding on. Holding the Good Thoughts that delay is allowing solutions to reach them and not just the situation’s getting worse while they hold.
I’ll need to close up the house in a half hour or so. We’ll see if it’s still cool enough for me to take a walk. I don’t want to be raising my core temperature if I can help it. Coffee and over to Dee’s diary. & twitter of course. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning. Local news was preempted for coverage of the summit. Oh well. I can give the weather forecast: 100 degrees & it ain’t gonna rain. Today’s plan: just work. I should take some dance breaks.
Good morning, 54 and cloudy in Bellingham. I was outdoors most of yesterday and finally finished planting the pots around the back entrance, yay! It’s nice to see color and good to be done for now.
Today is a house keeping day, but I will see Ava this afternoon. A friend has hired her to help care for her visiting grand babies this summer and Ava is excited to have a job. We’ll be the drivers. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. 46 going up to 78 and sunny here in Kingston NY. Lovely day and I’m going to get some gardening done!
Juneteenth Vote
No votes
This:
Not surprising to see Tom Tiffany (WI) on that list. He was a rabid right-wing ideologue in the Wisconsin State Senate and is bent on making a name for himself nationally by being a total asshole in the US House. He won the Sean Duffy seat in a special election and won it outright last year running against a Native American woman.
I noticed this morning that if you take the names of the two GQP members from Arizona – Biggs and Gosar – and smash them together you get most of the word BIGOT.
Puerto Rico
I ended up working late yesterday, so I am logging off at 3 today and I’m gonna go to the gym. It’s still super hot — heat index will over 100 at the point I’m planning to be out of the house. Sigh. Will look for a parking place in the shade. But it’ll still be nice to stop work early.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 81 degrees in the Desert Southwest with an expected daytime high of 109 – it will only feel like 104! Needless to say, sunny skies are in the forecast although there is a haze from some wildfires burning to the northeast.
We will try to get moving early to go to the Saguaro National Forest and visit the Sonoran Desert Museum. Although being early will not help, the 7:30am temperature will already be 100 which means not much outdoor walking. We may be stuck driving around to admire the stately cacti.
See all y’all later!
Welp, it’s 79 heading for 95 with a supposed heat index of 100 and mostly sunny today. The temps will actually drop a degree or 2 before they start rising again so I’m letting the cats enjoy the open windows while that happens. But I’ll be closing up within the half hour. Definitely gonna be running the A/C today. The air already feels heavy. In a few hours it’ll feel like getting a hot-towel facial without needing the towel. Sigh. But we generated 20.6 KWHs yesterday and the 257 m-t-d is catching up.
Jill, responding to a DARVO nastygram Ronald put out about her, (there’s a reason she puts everything online – it’s a public record of “receipts” she knows she’ll need) got put in twitter jail for mentioning well-check visits and DV visits. Figures. Twitter always blames the victim for telling what happened to them. Not supposed to talk about that. I haven’t checked yet but she should be out by now.
Nothing new on Aji’s, Amelia’s, or Karen’s situations. Aji did get some unexpected gifts being at home instead of wherever the MRI was supposed to take place. Her “girl” – the red-tailed hawk that’s her avatar – dropped a tail feather for her. In the 7 years she’s been around them, she’s never dropped a feather where they could find it. Some old friends-who-are-family came over (all vaxxed, sat outside, & masked anyway) and they had a very pleasant and “old ordinary” visit. And one of those friends is an artist who gave Aji his newest painting. That’s got to say umpty-hundred things to Aji. To me, looking at the photo of it, it said “there’s still a lot of road in front of you.” I’m holding that Thought in my heart. And of course Good Thoughts for everyone, Healing Energy for everyone who needs and accepts it.
It’s a good thing I’m not really having to think or focus today. This much water in the air is demanding of energy to keep from imploding. OK, not true. But it feels like it. But I still need coffee. ????☕ Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good Thursday morning, Meese! It’s a gorgeous day in Ashburn, with an absolutely flawless blue sky, the sun shining on deep green summer trees, low humidity. This is the last of our perfect days for a while. At the moment it’s 67 F., on its way up to 77 F. Starting tomorrow it will become progressively hotter and stormier.
MUCH has been happening! On Tuesday Younger Son and DIL bought a house! It’s in Fairfax County AND it has room for Grandma and Grandpa!
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3922-Poplar-Creek-Ct-Fairfax-VA-22033/59787437_zpid/
Until we can expand the basement powder room to a full bathroom and install a kitchenette, we’ll probably sleep in the upstairs spare bedroom. Miss Pink Cheeks will be in the “Princess Suite,” a bedroom with its own bathroom. She’s a lucky girl!
Younger Son and DIL will close the sale on 15 July, which is St. Swithin’s Day. Hope it doesn’t rain.
For the next two months we will be doing one thing each day to clean out this place. I’ve already started that process but much remains to be done.
The only bad thing is that we’ll probably be out of here before the Authors Festival takes place on 22 September. I have a boxful of author’s copies of my book that I’d hoped to sell. Sigh. Well, there goes that.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and to BlogGoddess on holiday in the desert!
{{{Diana}}} – YAY!!!! I’m so happy things are working out the way you wanted them to. (Stay officially an extra week to “clean up” and part of that could be the Authors Festival ????????) Holding of Good Thoughts! Healing Energy and moar {{{HUGS}}}
The house looks spacious and inviting Diana. Exciting news!
Congratulations! I know that is something you have been hoping for. Do you have to sell your interest in your current home – I thought it was a “pay once, you are set for life” deal? Just curious about how that works.
You are probably glad that you downsized once already – this move will surely be easier. Moving from your house to their house would likely have delayed decisions on tossing stuff.
Hi, Jan! One of the reasons we moved here is that we were told if we leave because of death or any other reason, we will get 90 percent of our “entrance fee” back. I don’t know how long that takes. I do know that we have to keep paying the monthly “service fee” until this place is resold.
We have downsized twice already so this time will be the third. I do wish we could see our future living quarters so we can estimate what we’ll need to take and what we’ll need to discard.
Good morning, 54 and sunny in Bellingham. Looks like summer outside my window this morning and I have no plans so I’ll see what the day brings my way. Best wishes to all.
I actually slept fairly well last night, only woke up 3 times. Went to the gym yesterday & made it to 8 repeats of those 90 second running segments, but I feel like the treadmill helps, and of course air conditioning helps. Overnight low is supposed to be 72 so I’ll try it out in the real world in the morning. Very happy about the Juneteenth holiday, and that people are talking about it.
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! Another lovely day here, although it will be hotter. It’s 65 F. right now in Ashburn, rising to 86 F., so this morning will be devoted to chores and the afternoon to rest and reading. I’m still reading the Pelosi biography. WHAT a woman! My admiration grows with every chapter I read. Susan Page is a sloppy, ungrammatical writer, however. If it weren’t for the subject, I wouldn’t keep on reading. Will not read anything by her again.
Because Juneteenth falls on a Saturday, three of the working parents in our family have the day off. I expect Younger Son and DIL are busy packing. For our part, I want to take the discarded HP printer to a place in the Greenbriar Shopping Center near our soon-to-be home. Hardly anyone wants used printers nowadays. Used laptops are a different story.
I must get down to the garden before it gets too hot and then get some exercise in on the seated bicycle. I don’t like the seated bike, it makes my knees hurt. The treadmill is so much better! However, the doctor said not to use it.
Wishing a nice, peaceful Saturday to all with no bad news.
Good morning, meeeses! Friday …
It is 84 degrees in the Desert Southwest with an expected daytime high of 109. It is a dry heat but hot nonetheless.
Momentous news day yesterday; the Affordable Care Act survives another challenge and millions of lives will be saved – now we need to elect a few more Democratic Senators, kill the filibuster and make the needed fixes that the health care law needs.
A lot of Republicans showed their asses over the Juneteenth holiday. The most insane one I saw is the guy who declared with a straight face that it is intended to replace the Fourth of July. JHC, these people are truly deplorable! Although, given the choice of commemorating a bunch of rich white male slaveowners signing a document to free themselves from the tyranny of taxation versus commemorating the official (not literal) end of slavery in America, I would choose the latter. But I will take both days off!
Apparently Joe Manchin and Stacey Abrams agree on something related to voter rights. I have not had time to dig into it but the key to any solution is to test the resolve of Joe Manchin to resist the call to kill the filibuster when his Republican pals trash him over his legislating. The first test may be the “infrastructure” bill, though. I personally hope the compromise that lets the rich skate and sucks money out of the ARP goes down in flames. Maybe a few West Virginia bridges collapsing will wake Manchin up to the damage his pigheadedness is causing.
Today is rest and recover day after a couple of days of tough walking and long drives. Although that is my plan and I may be overridden.
See all y’all later!
It’s almost 80 already and I’m gonna close up the house as soon as I finish checking in. Sunny again. That part’s good anyway. Even the forecast 95 isn’t bad – but I could sure do without the humidity and 107 heat index! Which fortunately this should be the last day of for a while. Yesterday we generated 20.2 KWHs and the m-t-d at 277.5 is still gaining.
I haven’t heard from anybody yet this morning so figure everything’s pretty much the same as yesterday. Politically as well, sorry to say. But not as sorry as I would have been this time last year. We may be hanging onto our democracy by our toenails while we work as fast as we can under the circumstances to restore a measure of health to people and country – and to secure the election system so we can keep doing it – but we are doing that and it’s so much better than what we were doing even 6 months ago.
Hurrah for Juneteenth! the 1st official federal holiday to commemorate slaves being freed. The enforcement of the proclamation of slaves being freed. A federal holiday pointing out the “well duh” fact that laws mean nothing without enforcement.
My son should be here shortly to pick up a check for the blueberry farm – and then be back a little later with 8 gallons of blueberries. So by end of day I’ll have about 6-1/2 gallons of blueberries in the freezer for next winter, 1/2 gallon to eat fresh, and a gallon for my friend. So I’ll get a visit from her on her way home from work – yes, the university is back to “everybody in the office or else” – when she comes by to pick them up. We’re both fully vaxxed so we actually can have a visit.
Off to close up the house. And then to twitter. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 58 and partly sunny in Bellingham. We made more progress on our good enough garage cleanup yesterday but we both need a recovery day so today will be quiet. I’m feeling better about our new plan as it’s more realistic. I hope we can restore the outside this summer and then the last big project will be done.
Best wishes to all.
Juneteenth Saturday Meese! 65 going up to 88 today here in Kingston NY.
I have a post going up this morning at 8AM EST re Juneteenth
Puerto Rico/ USVI
Good morning, meeses! Saturday … Juneteenth!!
It is 86 degrees in the Desert Southwest at 4:30am. It will be 106 when I depart for the Frozen Tundra – arriving into 66 degrees later tonight.
Morally bankrupt Catholic Church hierarchy signals that they prefer a serial adulterer pornstar paying off baby cager whose narcissism led to the deaths of 600,000+ Americans over a devout Catholic who celebrates his religion joyfully and demonstrates his values with his caring for the least among us – because zygotes must be saved. I hope Joe can find a priest willing to defy the ban and give him a host.
I will be glad to be on a real keyboard; when my words cannot flow out at 110 WPM, it is frustrating.
See all y’all later!
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