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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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It’s 19 heading for 33 and overcast today. Sigh. Yesterday we generated 8.5 KWHs and the m-t-d at 34 is close enough to on track that we could have caught up if we’d done it again. Which obviously we are not.
Took down and put up all the holiday things. Burned the wreath (a little at a time, my woodstove is very small) last night. The season is over until December. Back to “normal” – whatever that is besides a setting on the washing machine.
Dark enough that I didn’t wake up until 8 this morning. Not that I got 8 or more hours of sleep but I got closer than I would have if it had been sunny. Hands are cold and stiff. Brains a bit groggy. Which is making me very slow today. Oh well. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
I am not ready mentally to take down the tree, possibly over the weekend. We were late to start the season and I want to extend it for a little longer. I am still thinking about leaving the colored lights out on the deck where they are intertwined with the patio lights – I am not sick of them yet.
The holidays last as long as you do. LOL.
Wednesday Meese. 23 degrees here in Kingston. It’s going to be interesting looking at the CIA surveillance records that I’m in.
The arsonist tourist
Unverified
They can’t do anything to do you now, can they, Sis?
No. Too many years have passed – however it will be interesting to see. I’ve already seen other FBI and NY “Red Squad” records via the Freedom of Information Act – full of outright lies
The govt has always been better at making up myths to excuse their excesses than in actually investigating anything.
Good morning. They’re backing off the ice/snow prediction, at least for the metro area. Still unusually cold, I’m going to get outside this afternoon to breathe in some of that cold air so Saturday’s walk/run in the park isn’t too much of a shock.
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind1 The forecast for Ashburn is 31 F. for a high, with snow flurries. Right now it’s 26 F. with the sun rising over the woods and a blue sky emerging from the clouds. Explain to me how these conditions will produce snow flurries.
Sigh. The Great Printer Installation was an unmitigated disaster. The poor techs who tried to do it were here for two hours instead of the expected half hour. It seems that during the overnight flight and subsequent trucking around, parts of the printer became unseated. The printer spit out so many green and yellow pages during the test prints that the yellow cartridge was totally depleted and the blue cartridge half-depleted. Josh got on the phone with Xerox and browbeat them into sending me two replacement cartridges overnight FREE. Bless his heart! And Billy is going to bring me a small black and white printer to use for a couple of days until this one can operate.
Hot news! The travelers managed to Get On from Haneda Airport and are now home, presumably sleeping off their jet lag. Luckily Fairfax County schools are closed again today.
The guy we voted for won yesterday and so did the Democrat in another district. Two out of three ain’t bad! M’Daughter and I are so depressed by Thing that we want to cool it with the news as much as possible. It’s no comfort to realize how much men hate women.
I have a morning coffee at 10, after that Billy is coming by with the printer, and I have lots of reading to do: the script, the Thomas Jefferson biography (the controversial one), and another look at my writers’ essays.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and a WONDERFUL day to our Vice President and President, whom I will miss bitterly. Alors, c’est un pile of ordure.
Glad to hear that some Democrats won the special elections. Did they hold onto the legislature enough to block the Fleece Fascist?
This this this:
The scab that was healing has been ripped off and I feel like we lost a lot of ground. I hope I am wrong.
Jan, they did. Gubernator Dumbkin will have a hard row to hoe to get his dumb laws passed.
It’s 18 – windchill 1 – heading for 29 and sunny. Yesterday it cleared off enough we got 3.76 KWHs instead of 1.somthing but it means we lost more ground. M-t-d is 38.3 and will take multiple days of generating over 6 to catch up. sigh.
Sinusitis overnight. Slept between midnight and 2 then again between 5 and 8. Still groggy. Also my hands ache a bit. I only went out to take out litterbox detritus & refill the bird feeding station but that was enough. At least my hands aren’t white any longer. I’ve got to go get milk today by I’ll do it sometime after noon. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought. {{{Meeses}}}
Healing thoughts for YOU too, dearest!
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 39 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 57. Overcast skies and a chance for rain. We are going to be getting high winds later in the day. Nothing like Southern California, thank goodness!
I am going as news free as possible but every once in a while a headline hits me. I am disappointed in Joe Biden not letting go of the “I would have won the election” narrative that is stuck in his brain. No, he would not have won, he would have lost in a landslide and probably would have damaged our future prospects by taking a bunch of close House and Senate races with him. His rewriting of history is an insult to Kamala Harris and to everything she sacrificed to try to salvage the Biden legacy. He can leave now and no one will miss him. He will forever be remembered as the guy who helped put Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court by not believing a Black woman and who trashed the rest of his legacy in pettiness by not believing in a Black woman. Don’t expect any lionization from me.
I had a fractured morning trying to get some things organized and now I am going to log off and try to avoid working the rest of the day.
See all y’all later!
Thank you!!! He would not have.
Good morning, 35 and foggy in Bellingham today. I seem to have a cold, so that may explain some of the low energy I’ve been struggling with. I’m feeling better today but very cooped up so RonK and I are going to find a new to us lunch spot and the tree can just keep glowing in the corner for a few more days. I’m past the point of being contagious and Ron isn’t sick so we’ll be careful re spreading and catching germs.
Reading around this morning led me to a look at USA politics written be a Ukrainian analyst…..we’re looking alarming and foolish from that perspective! Oh well, I’ll be 80 yrs old soon, so it’s time to live a quiet life, reflect on what I have learned, and hold on the my hope we will muddle through. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. 21 degrees here in Kingston.
Puerto Rico
About the video I posted yesterday as “unverified”
The New Yorker story spoke and explained the mini film Bad Bunny has posted.
Watching it made me cry
Fossil fuels for fossil fools1
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 39 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 54. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We had some selective rain yesterday, a common thing in the valley, where it was raining in some areas but clear blue skies in other areas. There is finally snow on Mount Lemmon which is a good sign – our reservoirs are replenished from snow in the mountains during the winter that melt in the spring.
It will be an odd “I wonder what’s open” day with Carter’s funeral taking place in Washington DC. From what I heard, the seeping orange pustule will be in attendance. I used to wish that he would do something terrible so that people would see exactly who and what he is but, really, everyone already knows and not enough cared. So now I just hope that his face doesn’t seep into my curated news sources. I wish the people at the ceremony would look at him, make a disgusted face and turn away, refusing to acknowledge him or shake hands. But they won’t because Democratic electeds are decent human beings and won’t want to upset those in attendance honoring Jimmy Carter’s legacy.
I have a gnarly problem I am trying to work through on a client’s network so I need to get back to it before they begin work. I thought I had a “rested brain” solution but it did not work. Back to the drawing board.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. No frozen precipitation here. It is cold, okay not freezing but on my walk I put my jacket’s hood up & I wished I’d worn gloves. Feel so bad for the people in California.
Good Thursday morning, Meese! Another beautiful day has dawned over the snow, which is beginning to melt where eejits have driven vehicles across the lawn. The trees no longer boast an edging of white lace—too bad. Right now in Ashburn it’s a blustery 24 F.
My writers are meeting today, so I’ll ask them what they’ve learned from this exercise of pretending they are going to write novels. Should be interesting! I’ve read so many plays lately, as a member of the Play Selection Committee, that it struck me that three of the outlines my writers submitted would make good plays.
In other news I’ve been lent a temporary printer. Hope those cartridges for the real printer will arrive El Soonoh. I don’t like HP printers, particularly inkjets, so I’m glad this is temporary.
What else…I hope YouTube has videos on how to dance. I want to watch them in preparation for the next “Open Mic” night. Meanwhile, Dearly has to wait a week for his new glasses. He went out to see about them yesterday.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, rain for the poor souls in California who’ve lost EVERYTHING, and respect for Jimmy Carter, whose funeral is at National Cathedral today.
It’s 23 going to 35 overcast and supposed to start snowing in about an hour. And keep snowing until tomorrow morning. Which I’ll believe if it actually happens. Considering that we’ll have several hours above freezing today & tomorrow, even if it does I expect it won’t last long. Anyway, yesterday we generated 8.79 KWHs, highest single day so far for month & year, and the m-t-d at 46.9 gained a bit of ground. Which it’s going to lose and then some today.
Yesterday was clear and not very windy so my trip to get milk wasn’t too bad. And being clear I actually got to see the moon, both early in the evening while I was putting out birdseed & trash and later through my bedroom window as I went to bed. I left the curtains open a bit so the moonlight could shine on my bed as it was descending. Which it did as I woke multiple times to see. That was a nice gift since I won’t be able to see her for several days at least with the predicted cloud cover. Anyway, off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 35 and the fog has lifted so I can now see a bit of blue sky. It’s been twilight all day for most of this week. I’m feeling better today so I’ll use the energy I’ve got for my desk mess and see how much I can do.
I watched President Carters funeral service today and it was unsettling to see tRump seated with the former presidents. Like it or not he now has a new presence in our countries history, may we all find our way to cope with that reality. Best wishes to all.
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! Never tell me I’m the first to reach the Pond this morning? Hope it’s not frozen. Right now the outside temperature is hovering between 21 and 22 F. in Ashburn, and another beautiful day is dawning. I don’t see the nascent moon because the sky clouds over at night. It’s supposed to be full on Monday. Bfitz, I’m glad you’ve been seeing it.
Yesterday’s writing session went very well. The writers were considerably less cross than I’d expected at being obliged to outline their “pretend” novels. Turned out that several of them had been kicking around novel ideas for years, anyway. However, in March we’ll wrap up our novel writing and start on poetry in April.
This weekend I need to study the script for the audition Monday night. I think I could play the part of Irene in “Crazy for You.” Another thing to do if I get the time is to look up Imbolc rituals. I’ve booked a space for February 1.
That’s all I have today, Moosekind! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning. We had rain yesterday but it didn’t freeze so we’re okay. Really sad about California, wish they could have had the rain we got. Going to kickboxing today, they’re taking my picture, I’m the member of the month. Will run after, we’re going to have wind chills in the 30s all day so I’ll wait till it’s as warm as it’s gonna get.
It’s 30, heading for 35, lightly snowing, and the PV system is off because it’s got 5″ of snow covering it. Yesterday we generated 2 KWHs and the m-t-d at 48.87 is not on track and is going to lose a lot more ground before we start producing again.
My son’s car decided it would only go on (relatively) level ground today so he came over here and got the Subaru. It doesn’t go in top gear any longer but that’s not an issue when where you’re trying to get to is the top of a snow-covered hill. Its AWD is perfect for that.
I’ve got a couple of pans of birdseed out – usually I put it on the ground for the groundfeeders but not today – and I’ve got at least 2 dozen if not 3 dozen birds in the elm tree eyeing each other and seeing who’s brave enough to dive down into the pans for the food. None of them like getting that close to each other to have more than 3 in a pan at a time.
Time to get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Bfitz, that’s a lot of snow for you, isn’t it?
20 years ago this would have been normal. But for the last 10 years? Yeah, that’s a lot of snow for us.
Good morning, meeses! Friday that (::looks around cautiously::) actually feels like a Friday …
It is 52 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 57. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
I saw photos from Carter’s funeral and was glad to see that most people wanted nothing to do with the orange dumpster fire. Michelle Obama found a “scheduling conflict” and could not make it – she is my hero, unwilling to pretend that Donald Trump deserves anything but scorn. I saw this in the paper:
Apparently Mike Pence’s wife also refused to greet the disgraced twice-impeached felon who will be returning to the White House.
I was shocked to see that the Supreme Court did the right thing and refused to intervene in blocking tRump’s sentencing in a state court for felonies he committed before he became president. If they had stepped in, especially after the conversation that tRump had with Bloody Alito, it would have been a betrayal of their oaths of office which should put the Constitution over their partisan leanings. NOW, let’s see if they can do it one more time by allowing Merrick Garland to release Jack Smith’s January 6th Special Counsel report.
I am setting things up for a push to get two big projects completed over the weekend. If I get one of them done, I will consider it a victory. Right now, I am going to wrap up online and go take my walk.
See all y’all later!
Good afternoon, 35 and rain showers in Bellingham today. This annoying cold is not going away as fast as I would like so not much is happening here. The tree is out but the ornaments are still in the living room so I’ll try to do something about that today. Best wishes to all.
Saturday Meese. 25 degrees and snowing lightly here in Kingston. Received the sad news of the passing of the Young Lords founder, Cha Cha Jimenez in Chicago.
May he rest in power. He was one good-lookin’ guy, in old age as well as youth.
Healing to his family. Rest to him if he wants it while he wants it.
Good morning. Up and getting ready for double workout Saturday. Kickboxing is a great warmup for running. And I’ll need it, it will be 40 degrees when I get to the park. Okay, that isn’t exactly freezing but for spending an hour or more, it’s cold to a Texan. I’ll probably not wear the thermals I packed in my gym bag. And hey — I’m hosting the music diary tonight at the orange place. Please come by at 6pm. I wrote about my running playlists.