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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The Comment Edit feature that I found does not seem to work with our WordPress theme, maybe because we use the comment feature that gives us the links and bolding/italicization. That is too important to give up. Back to the drawing board!
I have a possible plan to fix our comment editing dilemma. I am going to see if I can add “edit comment” rights to everyone’s user role. I can edit comments (as you may have noticed!) so the capability exists; I just need to see if it can be selectively applied.
Wednesday Meese. Another cold morning here in Kingston but it looks like it will be a lovely day.
Puerto Rico
More blackouts
“Selective power outages tonight at #PuertoRico . At this time, there are more than 52,000 customers (homes/businesses) without power. The most affected region is Mayagüez. The private Ecoeléctrica power plant has been out for days and several @Genera_PR backup units are on.”
Good morning. Got so much done yesterday — the exercise, so many new library patrons, and I got my flu & covid vaccines. Today, I’m going to the gym at noon, hope to continue the greatness of yesterday. Oh, and I need to work on Saturday’s music diary, it’ll be at the orange place at 6pm.
I am going to wait a while for my COVID and flu shots. Our flu season starts a little later here and they recommend waiting until October. I may get my Shingles vaccine now, though. I really need to stop putting it off.
Jan (clearing throat and speaking in a low voice), if the vaccine in question is Shingrix, get it on a day when you don’t have to do anything much.
The after-effects can be described by no other word than “grim.”
It was 62 when I got up this morning, 66 now, and heading for 86. Sunny at the moment but there are a lot of clouds to the northwest so I don’t know how long it will stay sunny. Yesterday we generated 10.1 KWHs and the m-t-d is 41.5 – not great but still on track for the “at least” goal. So that’s good.
One week ago I did laundry and Rennie zipped outside as usual. It was his last day of being able to hide how sick he was. Maybe he was saying goodbye to all his favorite places. A bittersweet memory now that I do know how sick he was. I’m worried about Freddie going out next week on laundry day. For fear he’ll go looking for Rennie. But he hasn’t seemed to be looking for him or calling him. Possibly, cats being a species that go into hiding when they’re about to die, Freddie and the other boys know that’s pretty much what he did. It’s just that “mom” took to that place instead of him having to find it for himself/in the house.
Prayers or whatever for Suzanne/aashirs nani – she’s buying a house in TX near her daughter. At least she hopes she is. The seller has accepted the offer, the bank’s approved the loan – but the seller has been jacking up the closing costs almost daily since they did accept the offer. From $50K to (as of yesterday) $67K. They’ve managed, between her & her daughter & SIL to scrape it up but it took everything they had, as in everything except this month’s bills, but it can all fall through if the em effers jack the closing costs again. Closing is tomorrow.
Anyway, time to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Mah Goddess, bfitz! When we sold our house, the buyers wanted it so much they offered NO closing costs.Texas must be really different.
But what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts—we had to make a lot of changes they wanted.
Will send good vibes to aashir’s nanny!
Good beautiful Wednesday morning, Moosekind! It’s a gorgeous day, still only 58 F. I rose at six and made fresh Banana-Walnut bran muffins. Distributed half a dozen among the neighbors, then Dearly and I sat down to eat ours. Right in the middle, Stanley Steemer arrived to do the carpets! Oh, well. The team leader said he could smell the muffins all the way down the hall—well, that was the cinnamon and cloves that went into them. When they left, I gave them the remaining four muffins to eat with their morning coffee. It feels great to have the interruption over and done with.
Yesterday we went to see Granddaughter’s volleyball game. She’s on the Junior Varsity League, and she was everywhere, heading the ball, jumping up and throwing it over, sliding on her chest on the floor—great Goddess! Her team lost, but not by much. After her game, the Yorktown High Senior Varsity Team marched in. We didn’t stay to watch that game, but dear Goddess! The girls were six feet tall, veritable AMAZONS! Those girls—dare I say it?—will conquer the world!
I hadn’t realized that so much went on at high schools after hours: at Chantilly High, which Nora attends, there were people playing tennis, football guys doing a practice, and of course, the volleyball teams. We will have to buy stadium seats, because Dearly’s bony derriere cannot take prolonged sitting on the hard benches. Younger Son said some potty-mouthed boys were sitting behind him, which made me glad I’m as deaf as a post. I could only hear the screams, yells, and chants from the Junior Chantilly Chargers.
Enough from me, must get on with my day. It will only get up to 78 F.! I do love autumn. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and a SUPER day to Kamala and Tim!
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies are in the forecast. It was a pleasant 72 degrees when I took my walk but it won’t last.
I can’t stay on my computer, I have a maintenance guy coming by to look at the air conditioning unit and I do not want to miss his knock on the door.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 59 and mostly sunny in Bellingham today. RonK and I are going to lunch today, prolly to the bookstore cafe. Ron would like to go somewhere new, but I’m opting for the comfort of familiarity. It’s nice to just relax and know the food is safely gf. Best wishes to all.
Safely gluten-free is a big deal. My daughter can’t tolerate gluten and has had more than one instance where something that the menu said was gluten-free was not.
Thursday Meese. Woke up to a humming sound – my furnace had kicked on (thankfully) – temp here was 50.
Got pissed off when I saw this:
Mason Schermerhorn
Not shocking. The mainstream media is determined to find a shooter who is not a young white male convinced of their victimhood by toxic white supremacy.
In what other country does your child get on the school bus in the morning and ends up in a body bag in the afternoon?
Outrageous that the friggin’ MSM identified that sweet young lad as the shooter. Shooters are white, because their dads have the money to buy guns.
Good morning. Just a walk today, yesterday I ran 12 minutes and did weights. Arm is still a teensy bit sore from the shots but that’s fine. So beyond tired of all the shootings in this country. I honestly don’t know how kids get up the nerve to even set foot on campus.
An entire generation of kids has become hostage to the gun lobby and their insistence that mass shooting can’t be stopped so we should not even try. Bastids.
It’s 69 heading for 87 and mostly sunny at the moment. Yesterday was a very good sunny day – we generated 17.46 KWHs. The m-t-d is 59 and at the moment we’re on track for over 400. We shall see what we shall see.
Aashirs nani is supposed to close at 5 pm central time today. Remotely, she’s still in KS, using her cousin’s laptop as her computer just died 2 days ago. Her daughter will be at the signing to get the keys. Then tomorrow tonight things get loaded up and tomorrow a good friend will be driving her to TX. It’s a 9-hour drive. If everything goes as planned, she’ll be sleeping in her new home tomorrow night. 🙏🏻🕯🙏🏻🕯🙏🏻
I’m not OK but I’m managing. But it’s still less than a week. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Tonight she & her cousin pack (and catch cats). Tomorrow her friend drives her to Texas. (Running 2 thoughts at once makes for mixed up sentences.)
{{{bfitz!}}}
Good Thursday morning, Meese. Feel terrible because I woke up at 3:45 ayem and could not get back to sleep. And I have so much to do today! Well, the errands and exercise can wait until the afternoon, when the housekeeper will be here.
Another beautiful, rainless but cool, day has dawned. It was 54 F. when we woke up this morning. Today the high will be about 80 F. Wish I knew a way to stop waking up in the middle of the night. Perhaps I need a stronger sleeping pill.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} Healing Energy.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 77 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 102. Sunny skies are in the forecast. Pretty much no chance for rain which is why the heat is staying so high.
Historian Allan Lichtman predicts Kamala will win! That is a BHD.
I am going to have to read the rest of the news headlines later. I had early morning projects that ran long and I have to get my walk in before it heats up. The good news is that the air conditioning guys showed up and the a/c is working again. The bad news is that they do not do proactive maintenance here and we had to wait until there was no cooling to get it fixed. After they repaired the line and recharged it, it was clearly running better than it had been for quite a while – I wonder how that impacted my electric bill? :(
See all y’all later!
Good Friday Meese. 52 here going up to a cloudy 78.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. I finally thought to look at the app when I started running so I’d have a distance as well as time: 12 minutes -.63 mi. So almost 2/3. I think I’ll get up to a whole mile soon, especially since the weather seems to have turned. Glad that some journalists are finally talking about T’s obvious impairment. Though Chris Hayes’ talking about the “breathless” discussion of Biden’s age last night was….eyeroll worthy.
It’s 69 heading for 85, sunny at the moment, and heading for a heck of a drop overnight. I may have to get up in the middle of the night to close up the house. Yesterday we of course didn’t get any rain with those afternoon clouds. We generated 10.7 KWHs. The m-t-d is 69.6 and still on a decent track.
Aashirs nani closed last night. A few minor “glitches” but by 6:20 she became the owner of a house in Texas! If things are going as planned – and I haven’t heard otherwise – she, her friends, and her cats are on the road right now getting her (and the cats) to their new home. Her grandson should be at the new house to do what needs to be done so it’ll be ready for her when she gets there. Definitely necessary since she’s not bringing any of her furniture with her. Clothes, kitchen stuff, computer, & cats are what she’s bringing with her.
Earicicle’s mom is in hospital. A probably needless and definitely not done right surgery led to sepsis. But they caught it early and she should be OK and ready to go home in another day or two. Prayers would be good.
Another rough day without my baby cat. But time is passing and I’ll get used to it. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Prayers for aashir’s nani!
And {{{bfitz}}} for you, dear lady.
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 79 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 100. Sunny skies are in the forecast. It will probably get higher – yesterday it topped out at 104. It is all guesswork this time of year – maybe it always is! We are technically in the monsoon season until the end of the month but we are not having monsoon weather patterns. We need a high to sit over the Four Corners (where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet) in order to have the rains and their cooldown.
I can’t look at the news. I woke up terrified that tRump had won and I don’t want to read the 24×7 speculation and today’s polls. It is all too close which is disheartening. I worry a lot that misogyny is more powerful than racism and that having elected one Black president may mean we have gotten over one hurdle but that the other one is insurmountable.
On that cheery note, I need to get off my computer and get my walk in before it gets too hot. The short week did not shorten what I needed to get done and I have a stack of projects that need to get done today.
See all y’all later!
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! It was gray and 64 F. when we woke up, but it’s now quite a nice day and 66 F. We’ll get up to a rainless 80 F.
Rehearsal tonight from 8 to 9. I must study my lines: “Going up.” “Going down.” “Forty-sixth floor.” Duh.
In the meantime, another play is coming to me. It’s NOTHING like the last one, no risque remarks at all. I already have someone in mind for the most important male character. It won’t be my last Leading Man, that’s for sure: he apparently was so mortified by playing my would-be lover that he’s been in hiding in Neighorhood 3 for the last three weeks. Last I heard, he was trying to get people to join him in Spanish conversation practice.
Enough about that. Feeling much better this morning, as I did get some sleep last night. Need to do errands this morning and work this afternoon. I’m quite excited about this one-act play. The old adage, “The more you write, the more ideas you get,” is apparently true.
I need to call Costco to make an appointment to get my hearing aids cleaned. Exciting plans are afoot—our Blue Ridge Writers’ anthology has gone LIVE on KDP (I’m hearing reports that it looks really good), plans are proceeding for the huge practical joke I intend to play (have to bone up on a Swedish accent) at the Authors’ Festival, and…it’s time to order the Christmas pudding. It seems bizarre for the British Food Store in Laguna, CA, to get these foodstuffs from the U.K. and then to ship them all the way to the East Coast, but who am I to question their arrangements?
Jan, sorry the polls and trolls are getting to you. I believe we will be dancing the Kamala Walz on November 6–two months from today!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Sorry for the double sentence, my keyboard has died.
Good afternoon, 62 and sunny in Bellingham. I’ve been working in the garden the last few days and that means staying off my legs in the mornings and gardening while (mostly) seated in the afternoons. Bri was here yesterday and with her doing the hard work restoring the hedge I could focus on replanting the patio flower pots. So I’m really tired today but grateful for garden therapy. Helps ease my persistent tRump angst. I share your worries Jan, just can’t trust voters to be wise and thoughtful. As always my best wishes to all.
Good morning. I think I actually slept last night, which is amazing. Today: groceries, laundry, cooking and editing tonight’s music diary. It’s on music from the convention and campaign. At the orange place at 6pm central time. Tomorrow afternoon I have a local candidate forum, and I’m actually undecided on the mayor’s race. Both of the main people running are friendly acquaintances, I don’t think the current mayor has been bad but I hate to not support a woman….