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 morning Meese!
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Good Saturday morning, Meese! It’s 69 F. in Ashburned, with partly cloudy skies. Our high today will be 72 F. It looks like one of those silvery September days when you remember when your children were growing up, and back to school meant shopping for shoes and school supplies. “They” say it’ll rain but I don’t think that’s true.
Last night I came back from rehearsal, where I played the Voice in the Elevator. There’s an old Italian mama in the play, straight from Sicily, and the actress playing her doesn’t speak Italian. OMG! She murders the Italian speeches, poor thing. It makes me CRINGE. Non parla italiano, but I’ve listened to enough opera to know when the pronunciation is completely off. I spoke to the assistant director, and she is going to do something about it.
The director is kind of an eejit, and he says the audience won’t know the difference. Huh! There’s a whole slew of people here who watch films of Italian opera once a month. They’ll know, that much I can tell you.
But enough about that. The Shred Truck will be here in an hour, I have to run up to the dry cleaner/tailor shop, then go to the gym. Also must get on with the editing, I’m only halfway through the first book.
Tonight the theater next door is showing “To Sir with Love,” and I’m so homesick for England I plan to see it, even though I’ve seen it before. I read the book before it was made into a movie.
Today is September 7. Let us remember that this was the birthdate in 1533 of Good Queen Bess, after whom the Commonwealth of Virginia was named. After she ascended the throne, the Puritans were raging then as now, but she liked plays and she wanted to see plays, so she refused to close the theaters. Because of her we have Shakespeare. Let’s hear it for Good Queen Bess!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Yay, Good Queen Bess!!
Good morning, meeses! Saturday …
It is 79 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 97. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
The race to kick Florida’s Senator Rick “Medicare Fraud” Snot to the curb is apparently neck and neck. It will be impossible to turn Florida blue at the presidential level – MAGATry is baked in – but maybe they can purpleate it when it comes to unseating a Senator that everyone hates. Apparently it is close in Texas also where the despised Ted Cruz is facing a popular Democratic challenger. I am trying to find little bright spots in our challenge to hold the Senate.
TV’s streaming access wars may have saved me from being tempted to watch the debate next week. My streaming service is fighting with Disney who owns ABC and ESPN as well as Disney and we have no ABC channel right now. I really can’t stand to see or hear the orange anal cyst and his attacks on women and people of color will leave wounds. I will wait and read about it later.
I woke up with plans to organize the scattered mess that is my desk. The biggest problem I am having with early morning work projects is that I work until I feel it is going to get too hot for my walk and then when I come back from my walk, I have lost all interest in working, want to have breakfast and then take a nap! The early mornings are starting to cool down so I will soon be able to put off my walk until I reach a good breaking point, not when the clock strikes HOT.
See all y’all later!
I have made plans not to watch. Will read reactions from folks I follow afterwards
It’s 57 heading for 77 and sunny. The house is only partially open, I’ll open the rest of the windows when it warms up a bit. Yesterday we generated 14.38 KWHs and the m-t-d is 84. Still on track for something good. And as long as I can keep the A/C off, making up for some of last month.
Aashirs nani must have left later than originally planned as she was still over an hour from her new home when I signed off last night. (She did a quick check in on the road knowing I’d worry about her if I didn’t hear from her the whole day.) I expect things were very busy once they did get there. Unloading, cats to settle, food, lots of people around. Hopefully things will have quieted down by this afternoon and she’ll have time to do more than a quick check in.
It’s been a week. Rennie was here to say good morning to last Saturday. And not here to say good night to. I expect/hope things will start to ease up a little once we’re through a few more “firsts” – and once I get his ashes back and bury them in the iris garden with Charlie’s. Meanwhile there’s still boosting to do. Holding the Good/Healing Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
I know we don’t listen to the same music, but what you said about Rennie reminded me of what the Foo Fighters singer said about writing Walk. He woke up the morning after Cobain’s death and thought “Curt will never do this again”, made coffee, and all the things he did that day. Just reminded me of what you said. Sending you good thoughts.
Thank you. And yes, it’s like that. But after the firsts – this the first time of x without them – it gets a little easier. Thank you again. {{{anotherdemocrat}}}
I think I have finally figured out how to get the Comment Editor plugin working. The Comments Form we currently use that gives us the nice buttons to Bold Italicize Link and the Block Quote is outdated and it does not interact with the Comment Editor plugin I want to use. I did not realize that it was outdated (and no longer supported!) until I tried to install it to test with on a new WP site I had set up to play with changes.
I found a more up-to-date Comments Form and will install that, make sure it works and then turn on the Comment Editor. If it works here on Saturday’s post, I will post something about how it works off of the first comment tomorrow morning.
Once princesspat checks in (and Saturday’s check-ins are complete), I will make the Comment Editor change.
Testing new Simple Comment Quicktags plugin.
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Good morning, 62 and sunny in the sleepy PNW. Sorry to be so slow with checking in Jan. I woke up late, then Elsa arrived for the day, then the family phone chat celebrating John’s birthday started…..busy morning! We’ll have a birthday lunch for him next weekend and I hope to be outdoors so I need to shuffle and level 2 tables on the lower patio. The pavers have shifted, leaving both a slope and a dip so I hope to find an easy fix for now and do the proper fix of lifting the stones and releveling them for another day. We can’t do that ourselves any more and both of our sons are super busy with work so infilling with gravel may be the easy way for now. Grateful for family and distractions from tRump angst. As always, my best wishes to all.
No problem being “late.” I wanted to test the timer on your comment because I knew it would be later than the others and no one would lose a comment they spent hours on! :)
Here goes!
It does not work on my phone so I will have to try again later from my computer. It might be a caching issue.
If anyone is still here Saturday evening, here’s my diary: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/7/2264097/-Another-Saturday-Night-music-to-campaign-by