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, 54 cloudy, wind and rain…..gloomy weather suits my grumpy mood! It’s been a week, seems like the orange occupant was never gone :( Oh well, hair cut today, PT tomorrow so I’ll look better and feel better in spite of myself.
I focused on laundry and a simple sewing project yesterday and while it was satisfying to be busy I got alarmingly tired. So I’ll stay off my legs this morning and see what happens this afternoon. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. it’s only 24 degrees here in Kingston NY. Wildfires continue to rage in NY/NJ.
Puerto Rico
Thanks bfitz for posting on Vieques – no word yet from Shelly
You’re welcome. Seriously hope Shelly’s OK. {{{Dee}}}
Good morning. Did my walk/run, it’s chilly by Texas standards. I needed long sleeves. In the office, hope I have enough caffeine. Lots of people on Blue Sky, it’s getting much busier. Hope everyone has a good day today.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 52 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 81. Sunny skies are in the forecast. This high is likely to be a temporary blip and then we will get cool again for the remainder of the week. Average November temperatures are a high of 76 and a low of 49 with average December a high of 65 and a lot of 41. We will be more like December. The moon was bathing my office with moonlight this morning!
I have not completely settled into a “what I will read and what I will ignore” news reading mode yet. I need to focus more on the fact that the Biden Administration will be in power for two more months and this time, unlike in 2016, we know just how awful a tRump maladministration will be and it is hoped that we could plan for that. I think that in 2016, the Obama Administration, in its belief in the best of humanity, thought that tRump would mature in the job and also that the institutional guardrails would hold. I definitely feel relieved that Rick Snot is not the Senate Majority leader and that mostly sane John Thune will be in charge. He will make sure that the traditional Republican guardrails are in place and understands that you don’t want to destroy everything and start over as Melon wants to do. I hope there are enough sane Republicans to block the worst tRump cabinet nominees, the ones who will do the most irreparable damage like Attorney General and Defense Secretary. We shall see! The Senate is not set yet because of automatic recounts taking place in Pennsylvania over Casey’s seat but even if he pulls out a win (not likely), it will be 52 to 48 with a JD Vance tie-breaker. We would need 3 Senate Republicans unwilling to go along with the MAGAtry and I only count two. That’s pretty close so I will not stress it right now.
After leisurely moving through projects yesterday morning and planning to take a “day of rest”, a crisis project hit that pulled me back to my desk and make me very grumpy. As usual, it looks better in the light of day (and after I was able to take my time this morning doing cleanup), so I am going to try today to take my “day of rest.”
See all y’all later!
Good Thursday morning, Meese! It’s cloudy this morning, thank Goddess, 41 F., and not getting much higher than 52 F., with rain expected later today. We need it so badly.
Yesterday I went to a morning coffee with my building neighbors, an afternoon forum of candidates who are vying for our votes in the firehouse primary on Saturday, then down the hall for dinner at the Pub with the hallway neighbors, and then to a musical event with dancing still farther down the hall. I hadn’t danced in 50 years—I mean, danced fast. I can do slow dancing. Made an absolute fool of myself, since Leading Man kept trying to twirl me around and I ended up twirling him. However, everyone else was rather snockered by that time, so I thought, who cares? At any rate, I had such a good time that when I arrived home I couldn’t get to sleep right away so I feel tired. Dearly had planned to attend as well, but as he went to the doctor in the morning, and out to dinner in the evening, he was just too tired to go anywhere.
Today I have my Writers’ Group meeting. Oh, lawks, I have to bang out an email with today’s agenda on it. I’ll do that as soon as I’m conscious.
Was walking past the Pub bar yesterday afternoon when two of the guys in my building hailed me and asked if I’d heard the news. I’d just come from the candidates’ forum, so I said no. One guy then informed me that Rapey McForehead was to be Attorney General. YECCH!
I dunno, we’re in for hell, people. Now that I’ve cheered you up, I’ll leave you. Do try to have as good a day as possible, won’t you, Pond dwellers? BTW, saw the lovely outline of the moon in the still-blue sky yesterday—the rain should end tomorrow in time for me to see Her Fullness.
It’s 46 going to 64 and sunny today. Yesterday we generated 3.8 KWHs, not much but just enough with what we already had to reach 78.3 and stay on track for 180. We of course didn’t get any rain to go with the clouds.
The clouds started clearing around sundown so I did get to see the moon before going to bed and left my curtains open so I’d get moonlight tracking across my bed once She was in the western part of the sky. So that was good.
I do not know what I’m going to do about Xitter. More and more of my friends are moving off it to bluesky and other platforms. Basket’s shutting down his account this weekend. The TOS change that goes starts tomorrow is something he doesn’t want to be a part of. But I’ve got folks depending on me for the needs list. And I really don’t have the mental/emotional bandwidth to run that thread on 2 platforms, as guilty as I feel about not running it on bluesky yet. I keep thinking about it. Meanwhile, off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}