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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Good Saturday morning, Meese! Another gray day. Haven’t seen the moon in ages, yet She will be full on Monday night. It’s 74 F. under a gray sky. Like Denise in NY state, we have a Code Orange. Isn’t it ironic? Just as we thought it was safe to come out of the house, we have to stay home because of the bad air and wear masks when we do go out.
Yesterday evening we had dinner in one of the better restaurants here with a very nice couple. They’re the ones who are encouraging me to write a play. With his new mobility device, Dearly is able to venture farther afield. Anyway, Dearly got on well with the male half of the couple (a dear man, who was in the original writers’ group with me), and his wife is an interesting person in her own right. I’m glad Dearly is getting out a bit more: taking Monty for a walk was pretty much his whole social life. He claimed Monty was a rock star, everyone knew him by name, and always stopped to talk.
Well, since Dearly had pneumonia at Christmas and the hissing, spitting oxygen generator arrived, Dearly couldn’t have gone for walks even if Monty were still alive. He’s pretty much been staying home and watching telly, aside from doctor visits and visits to our sons’ houses.
Have taken one of my new prescription pills, will take another at lunchtime today. I now know what arthritis sufferers go through. It’s unfortunate that the pain is in my foot. I need both feet to exercise! I’m going to become ENORMOUS, as somehow I can’t stop eating.
Ugh, that’s enough from me. Y’all have more cheerful things to think about! Hope everyone has a great day and a good four-day weekend!
It’s 79 and only going to 84 today, even the heat index is supposed to be under 90, but it’s muggy as all get out and I can’t call it comfortable. More cloudy than not but not heavy clouds and they periodically part and let the full sun through. We wrapped up June with 521.8 KWHs – not great by any means but not bad. Didn’t quite reach last year’s 526 but better than 2021’s 502 and better than the best May’s ever done. So I’m calling it good and am thankful. The best July we’ve ever had was 562.5 in 2019 so that’s the dreamed of/desired target but again anything over 500 is good.
I didn’t latch the sliding window onto the sunporch well enough and the cats managed to open it over the night. Which partly explains why the house feels clammy and the A/C kicked on at 6:15. Partly. Mostly it’s because it takes 3 days for this house to really absorb whatever the outside weather is doing. So 3 days of 100+ highs with close to 80 lows means it’ll take at least 3 days of overnights in the 60s to cool it down again. Which we’re supposed to get next week. Hopefully I’ll be able to turn the A/C off again for a few days at least. We shall see what we shall see.
I can’t think of anything unusual I’ve been doing the last several days but my tremors are making themselves known today. They aren’t visible to my eyes but I can certainly feel them – most of the way up my arm in fact – and the mouse certainly is reacting to them. Difficult to click things, very difficult to highlight things to cut and paste. That’s slowing me down today. sigh. Best get to it then. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meese}}}
Good morning, 64 and sunny outside my window today. I’m finally done pushing logs around and have planted the last plants in the garden area I’ve been working on, whew! I’m pleased with how it all looks and to have another comfortable shady area to be in, but this is the last new planting area. The work is just to hard for me to do now. Thanks to our son and to RonK for helping me finish. So today I’ll clean up the empty pots, soil bags, etc and start pruning and editing the beds on the other side of the pathway. Best wishes to all.