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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It’s 32 heading for 46 but the windchill will never make it into the 40s (it didn’t yesterday either). At least it’s sunny today. Yesterday we generated 5.38 KWHs and the m-t-d at 57 is not on track. Hoping we’ll gain a little ground back today but there’s no chance of catching up with a single day’s production this time of year. Warming trend but more clouds for the rest of the week.
Creaky and slow. Surprise. And aired up tires yesterday. About time. One only had 7 psi pressure. Today a trip to Tractor Supply. Anyway, I’d best get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! ‘Tis RAINING, blessed be Yemaya! Lawks, how we need it! It’s warm, though: at a few minutes past 10 it’s already 60 F., going up to 65 F. The rain will become heavier (it’s heavier right now, in fact), and then a cold front will move in.
I did two stupid things: as I make Cornish pasties only once a year, I forgot that a pound of hamburger plus vegetables is going to require eight pastry circles, not four. I only bought one box of pastry, though, having forgotten this. So we had Cornish and cabbage for dinner, but I had to get washed and brushed and run out to Trader Joe’s as soon as it opened so I could buy more pastry. I’ll roll out the circles at lunchtime today. The filling’s in the fridge.
I did something else incredibly stupid, even for ME. There was a horrid age spot on my face, so I put bee venom cream on it. Well, it didn’t do anything for the spot, but it did poison the skin around it. Yikes! I’ve been putting a healing gel on it and it does seem to be getting better. The bee venom, however, is definitely shrinking and flattening the horrible actinic keratosis thing that popped up on my aged visage for no reason at all several years ago. When I asked our useless dermatologist NP to remove it, she said she could, but it would just pop up again. The horrors of old age!
Feeling quite optimistic today. A psychic Tarot card reader on FB drew a card that seemed to describe the exact situation I’ve been going through. The worst is over and it’s nothin’ but blue skies from now on. Magnificent!
OK, enough of my nonsense. Off I go to start the Yule newsletter to the family. Wishing all at the Pond a good day. I will not wish a nice day to the Rethugs.
Good afternoon, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 68 degrees with high clouds in Tucson 🏜. The temperature was 41 degrees when I got up at 4am and dropped to 39 before it started rising again. Freeze warnings in the city last night; I don’t know if that happened. My walk at ahout noon was sunny but I did need a jacket.
Being busy means I don’t have to think about next January 20th. I worked on a project and then researched and ordered a new color printer since mine seems to be incapable of printing without streaks. It is quite old and I have been nursing it along but at this point it is not worth buying new toner for it and hoping that fixes it.
See all y’all later!!