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”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 48 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 73. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
I am going to be tweaking some web site changes today. Fingers crossed that it does not cause any issues! I need to turn off the old hosting and that means unwinding and forwarding some email accounts attached to it.
Remember that I no longer check Xtwitter so if you need to DM me, use BlueSky.
Change number 1: There is now a BlueSky share button on all the posts.
Yay!
Great!
Change number 2: I had decided to shut down the Facebook pages for the Motley Moose after the automatic connections and sharing from the MotleyMoose web site were not longer being processed due to technical changes at Meta and Twitter. I did that in August of 2023 with the plan to shut down the MotleyMoose Facebook account at the end of 2023.
Here it is the end of 2024 and, because I have been really busy, the Facebook account is still active! After thinking about it long and hard, I decided that the Motley Moose Facebook account and its hundreds of friends is not really mine to choose to shut down completely. So I added a “Friends of the Old Moose” Facebook Group and once I am sure I have all the MM email addresses and forwards in place, I will invite all the Moose’s Friends to the group. If anyone (hopefully anyseverals) volunteers to be an admin, I will feel better about closing the MotleyMoose Facebook account knowing that I did my best to regather those who were friends at one time. In any event, I will keep the FB account open until April 30, 2025 and then I will remove it.
Raining here and 35 degrees.
Puerto Rico
Morales is a beloved filmmaker, actor, director, and poet from Lajas, Puerto Rico. One of his biggest milestones is receiving an Oscar nomination for Lo que le pasó a Santiago (Best International Film), which he directed in 1989. To this day, it is still the only Puerto Rican film ever nominated for an Academy Award in history, cementing Morales as one of Puerto Rico’s most influential filmmakers.
Good morning. Did my double workout yesterday, up to 1.4 mi running — my coach says that’s on target for hitting 1.6 on the 11th. I registered for a 5K in February, so I have officially lost my mind. Tea is steeping, I put extra cocoa flakes in my tea bags because….well, because chocolate. All I need to do this afternoon is finish making next week’s lunch, so maybe I’ll go to the gym. Maybe.
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Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s already 58 F. in Ashburn, going up to 65 F. or higher. Although we awakened to the welcome sound of rain, blue sky is trying to break through the clouds. To no avail, however—it’s supposed to rain heavily when the Washington Commies play against the Atlanta Falcons tonight.
Although I did not get to the gym yesterday, I DID finish the newsletter and wrestled all the graphics into it. I then .pdf’d the file. Today I’ll send it out after I return from the gym. In addition to all my other chores I have two plays to read for the Play Selection Committee: one written by two of the Drama Club members and one written by some cat I never heard of. This is a valuable exercise for me because it reminds me not to write long speeches next time I write a play. Basically, our plays are attuned to old folks’ bladders: some can’t even make it 90 minutes, so we have to keep it to an hour or less. Thus does physiology govern our lives.
Jan, thanks for doing all you do to maintain the site. If I weren’t so clueless I’d try to be an admin, but I can’t even hook up my new printer! Have to wait for the tech guy to do it. When I read the brochure, I gather it can print, make copies, send faxes, scan, and even make coffee if asked politely. Wow, can’t wait!
Dearly is sleeping off his Proper Sunday Breakfast. I’m going to take a shower, grab my book and my water bottle, and take off for the gym! I’ll send out the newsletter after I return.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
It’s 49 heading for 57 and overcast. Supposedly the sun will come out this afternoon. Yesterday it didn’t. We generated 1.9 KWHs and the m-t-d at 144 is barely on track for 150 unless we get more sunshine than we have lately.
Thank you very much, Jan, for taking care of the technical things that allow us to meet at the Moose Pond.
Got my Sunday chores done. Used up the last of my milk with breakfast so I’ll have to go get some later. Since my older son won’t be coming over today – he’s in TX visiting his brother & family – maybe I’ll swing by IHOP and pick up a GF breakfast for dinner. LOL. Meanwhile I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}