Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 18th

June 17, 2023 JanF Community 68

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!!”).

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

    Morning low of 73 degrees in the Desert Southwest with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies are in the forecast.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Sunday Meese. Happy Father’s Day. 58 here in Kingston, going up to 68 and raining.

    Puerto Rico

  3. Good morning. Still alarmingly hot — expected high today is 103. Got my tea steeping, will cook next week’s lunch this afternoon. The music diary last night was hoppin’, I volunteered for the next 2 weeks, I already had an idea for next week (books & music) then the weekend of July 4 was open, so I’ll post one with songs that get misinterpreted as unthinking patriotism, like Springsteen’s Born in the USA. I think true patriotism calls out the things that we do wrong. Anyway, I’m watching the news and enjoying the smell of my steeping tea. Hoping that people think we’re closed tomorrow, I could really use a slow day.

  5. Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s 73 F. here, going up to 86 F. on this sunny Father’s Day. Younger Son is expected to join us by 11:30, so that all four can go down the hall and around the corner to the Father’s Day buffet.

    Actually, I feel rather ill. This cold has taken hold, so I’ve been fighting it off with cold pills. Hope to feel better since I have to conduct a ritual at Solstice, and for once, I hope it doesn’t rain that evening. We’re 9 and a half inches under normal for the year, so I don’t think we’ll really get any rain.

    Most unusually, young Karl actually wanted something other than baby pancakes for breakfast. He had egg and bacon. I think I’m going to grab a book and lie down, Moosekind, I’m feeling pretty crappeh.

    Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!

  6. It’s 68 heading for 80. It was sunny while I was doing my housework but it’s already clouding up again. The rain chances have dropped below 25% but the clouds don’t care. Yesterday we generated 20.6 KWHs – the best for June so far but not the best for the year – and the m-t-d is a still not on track 280. I know that more clouds combined with less rain pretty much everything west of the Mississippi is the new normal of climate collapse. I know it. I don’t have to like it.

    Well, I’ve done the household chores and am heading over to twitter, spoutible, and DK to do my boosting chores to the music in Dee’s diary. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

  7. Good afternoon, 59 and mostly cloudy. We were going to be at a multi family barbeque today but due to rain showers plans have changed. So RonK is slow cooking A pork loin and we’ll have a quiet dinner with our son and Elsa tonight instead. A quiet day is always good for me :)

    Best wishes to all.

  9. Puerto Rico

    Attention, Puerto Ricans in Florida! The CPI will be in Orlando! We invite you to an open forum where experts will talk with CPI journalists about the profile of Puerto Ricans in Florida and how it has changed in the last decade. Don’t miss it!

    How much of the $86 million have they already spent on the hospital in #Vieques ? ????

  10. Good morning. So, Juneteenth is NOT a state holiday in Texas, how’s that for irony? It’s ten billion degrees out, but I did my 30 minutes. Cleaned up & at my desk. Happy Monday.

    • The state that joined the Union in 1848 just to secede in 1860 is always a rollercoaster. It’s ironic that TX doesn’t celebrate Juneteenth but not really surprising. At least not to a person who grew up there. (Glad you got your walk in & hope it’s a quiet day for you.)

  11. Good Juneteenth morning, Moosekind! It’s 66 F. here in Ashburn, going up to 85 F. or some such temp.

    Yesterday I felt so ill that I asked Dearly to administer a Covid test. I don’t have it, this is just a summer cold. It’s significant, in my own mind at least, that during the period I wore masks to public places such as the barber shop and the grocery store, I never became ill.

    So anyway, that’s my dreary little news portion. We did have a nice Father’s Day and I enjoyed spending some time with nine-year-old Karl. He’s growing up–he actually ate bacon and eggs for breakfast rather than baby pancakes.

    Have two doctor appointments today, bummer. The morning one requires driving but the afternoon one is here, so I can walk. Takes 8 minutes.

    Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.

  12. Good morning, meeses! Monday and Juneteenth …

    It is 75 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 90. Sunny skies are in the forecast. Yesterday it got over a 100 (the patio thermometer said 104 for a short while) so it did not cool down much overnight. Today we have a red flag fire warning because of the heat and high winds.

    Because the Democratic Primary has no drama, the national media has to gin one up. No, national media, Robert “doodiehead” Kennedy, Jr is not a serious candidate. He is a crank and a goofball and is only a headache to his embarrassed family, not to Joe Biden.

    Juneteenth is a perfect reminder of the reluctance of white America to give full rights to enslaved people and their offspring. That Texas was where they sought to extend slavery as long as they could should shock no one. Right now 30% of Americans believe that ending slavery was a “big mistake” and that discriminating against people for race, color, creed, and gender is perfectly fine. I would expect that any Republican president – especially Blinded-By-His-Whites Tim Scott – will immediately repeal the Juneteenth federal holiday because it “makes white people feel uncomfortable to think about slavery or that Black people are oppressed.”

    Today is still a federal holiday so the good news is that there won’t be a lot of news related to the damage that House Republicans are planning. I am interested in seeing how we run against the Biden 18 – the 18 House Republicans who won in Biden+ districts – now that we have proof that they walk in lockstep to the MAGAT ideology and could not care less about their constituents. I live in one of those districts; I hope we can find a strong candidate to replace self-loathing Mexican American Juan Ciscomani.

    None of my clients will be closed today so I have to stay near email. I used to have a client who would close with the bank holidays because so much of their work was related to banking and the mail. There are a lot of places in Pima County and Tucson closed including the University of Arizona. I am hoping for a quiet day – I am not quite caught up from last week and an extra weekend day would be nice.

    See all y’all later!

  14. I was surprised to see a Bulwark article “by” Barack Obama. It turns out to be a speech he made in 2015 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment. Good words:

    “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.” That’s what President Lincoln once wrote. “Honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”

    Mr. Speaker, leaders and members of both parties, distinguished guests: We gather here to commemorate a century and a half of freedom—not simply for former slaves, but for all of us.

    Today, the issue of chattel slavery seems so simple, so obvious—it is wrong in every sense. Stealing men, women, and children from their homelands. Tearing husband from wife, parent from child; stripped and sold to the highest bidder; shackled in chains and bloodied with the whip. It’s antithetical not only to our conception of human rights and dignity, but to our conception of ourselves—a people founded on the premise that all are created equal. […]

    A hundred and fifty years proved the cure to be necessary but not sufficient. Progress proved halting, too often deferred. Newly freed slaves may have been liberated by the letter of the law, but their daily lives told another tale. They couldn’t vote. They couldn’t fill most occupations. They couldn’t protect themselves or their families from indignity or from violence. And so abolitionists and freedmen and women and radical Republicans kept cajoling and kept rabble-rousing, and within a few years of the war’s end at Appomattox, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing voting rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law.[…]

    And that’s what we celebrate today. The long arc of progress. Progress that is never assured, never guaranteed, but always possible, always there to be earned—no matter how stuck we might seem sometimes. No matter how divided or despairing we may appear. No matter what ugliness may bubble up. Progress, so long as we’re willing to push for it; so long as we’re willing to reach for each other.

    We would do a disservice to those warriors of justice — Tubman, and Douglass, and Lincoln, and King —w ere we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today. We condemn ourselves to shackles once more if we fail to answer those who wonder if they’re truly equals in their communities, or in their justice systems, or in a job interview. We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms.

    But we betray our most noble past as well if we were to deny the possibility of movement, the possibility of progress; if we were to let cynicism consume us and fear overwhelm us. If we lost hope. For however slow, however incomplete, however harshly, loudly, rudely challenged at each point along our journey, in America, we can create the change that we seek. All it requires is that our generation be willing to do what those who came before us have done: To rise above the cynicism and rise above the fear, to hold fast to our values, to see ourselves in each other, to cherish dignity and opportunity not just for our own children but for somebody else’s child. To remember that our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others—regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice. To be honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. To nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth. To nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth. That is our choice. Today, we affirm hope.

    As always, Barack Obama is more hopeful than I am. But he is right that we have to keep trying.

    • Yeah. He is – or at least was – more hopeful than I am. But we do have to keep trying.

  15. It’s 69 heading for 89 and sunny. It’s even supposed to be sunny all day. Yesterday it was sunnier than it was supposed to be, for which I am grateful, but at 14.6 KWHs for the day & 294 for the m-t-d, we’re still losing ground. Other than the year the system was down for a full week we’ve never had a June that generated less than May but we look to be doing so this year. Sigh.

    The world (societies mostly created by colonizers & forced on the rest) is an ugly place and the Earth is doing Her best to stay afloat while Colonizer Culture keeps drilling holes in the boat – and throwing overboard both the equipment needed to fix things and the people who point out what’s needed to be done. But everybody I know seems to be slogging along. Things aren’t getting better, for some folks things are getting worse, but everybody’s still slogging. And so I will be about my own version of slogging – boosting what I can where I can. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

  16. Tuesday Meese. 59 and cloudy here in Kingston going up to 79. Have a doc appointment this morning, and then will spend the rest of the day writing. Keeping an eye on Caribbean weather
    Puerto Rico

  17. Good morning. Yesterday was exhausting — people were calling up to literally the last minute, I slept in today. Will log off early and go to the gym for my exercise. Currently watching astronomy and eating breakfast.

    • {{{anotherdemocrat}}} Wise idea to do the gym in the heat you’re having. Healing Energy & moar {{{HUGS}}}

  18. It’s 69 heading for 93 and I will be closing up the house once I post this. Sunny and supposed to stay so. It mostly did yesterday. We generated 21.7 KWHs which is the best single day since May of 2022. (We got 4 or 5 days last month over 21 but none quite to 21.7 – this is the only day so far this month that’s even reached 21. sigh.) The m-t-d at 316 gained a little but still is not on track.

    I’m doing laundry today. Want to get it out early so I can bring it back in before the heat and humidity peak. We shall see. I’m hoping the grass will be dry by the time the clothes are washed and ready to hang. The cats are hovering around. They know what morning laundry day means and they want to be ready to make a break for it while I’m juggling the heavy basket of wet clothes trying to get out the back door. LOLsigh. (Are there more important things going on in the world? Yes. Do they impact me? Yes. Can I do anything about them? No.)

    Anyway, off to start my boosting chores while the washing machine does its thing. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

  19. Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …

    It is 73 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies clouding up this afternoon. Yesterday it got over 100 and when I got up this morning at 3:30am it was still 83. Windows stayed closed!!

    It looks like a pretty easy news day: ignore orange menace articles (check), ignore 2024 horse race articles (check), scan “Republicans screwing themselves over for 2024 House races articles” put two in Pocket (check).

    I have a lot of projects queued up for the day and I should turn my attention back to them.

    See all y’all later!

  20. Good afternoon, 54 and cloudy outside my window today. I was at the lab yesterday, still trying to get my warfarin levels where they should be. A small dosage adjustment shows up in testing 3 days later so it’s a slow process, but that’s ok. The lab routine finally efficient again so it doesn’t take much time.
    After the lab I went to Lowes Garden Shop and was pleased with the choices…..lots of healthy plants at the right price. So I dan have some color and when the deer snack on them I can just find replacements.
    And after that I worked at my desk for the rest of the day. I have been just doing the basics for too long, so it’s past time to focus and get the mess organized and files cleaned out.
    I slept late today so am slow getting busy, but that needs to happen now. Best wishes to all.

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