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 37 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 61. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. It got super cold overnight. When I covered my plants, it was in the 60s, this morning it’s 29. The news is just all about the weather. I have water & power, so all is good. Might use the fireplace when I get back from church. I have a curbside grocery order to pick up, I expect even the parking lot will be insane but at least I’m not going in the store — we lose our minds here when there’s cold weather.
I tried to ask you last week but my comment was posted too late to catch up with you.
What the heck is going on it Texas?!? It sounded like the Terrible Republicans, with help from Democrats, turned away the Truly Awful Christian Nationalist Republicans who wanted to take over the legislature. Will it make any real difference?
The Rs were fighting amongst themselves – and neither Lt. Gov. Patrick nor Gov. Abbott are particularly pleasant people. Which you’d think would make a career in politics difficult, but…Republicans, I guess. The Speaker has promised to not completely freeze Dems out, which is the best we could get, so a few voted for him.
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WP logged me out in the middle of writing my post then deleted it when I tried to go back and copy it before relogging in. Sigh. I will see if I can remember what I wrote.
It’s 16 heading for 24 and sunny. Yesterday we generated 8 KWHs and the m-t-d at 101 gained a bit more. I connected with my best friend via email. Her new HVAC system is leaking. They’re running dehydrators to dry things out & prevent mold until they can get it fixed. She doesn’t know how much is covered by the warranty. An instructor brought her a signed 1st edition (I’m not sure as a gift or just to show her) of *Waiting for the Galactic Bus” – which reminded me where I got my “render them harmless” mantra. I get my spiritual beliefs from odd places sometimes. Anyway, Sunday chores are done with minimal damage to hands and back. Time to get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! In Ashburn we have overcast skies and 38 F. What rain? What snow? “They” lie.
We stayed up far too late watching the Commies sock it to the Lions. Even my hard heart softened at the sight of the Lions’ bleak faces. Their expressions said, “What just happened?” Meanwhile there is much rejoicing in the DMZ. If by some amazing chance the Commies were to go to the Super Bowl…well, nobody beats the Chiefs. Nobody.
We’re having ham for tonight’s dinner. I’m going to try a Scottish dessert called “cranachan,” or something like that. You layer raspberries, honey, whipped cream, and toasted oats in a footed glass. Scotch whisky is one of the ingredients, but I’m going to leave that out.
This will be a totally fun day with all the laundry I haven’t done for two weeks, plus a massive cleanup operation in my office. If I spend an hour a day throwing away stuff, by the end of the week it’ll be cleaned up, right? Bueller? Bueller?
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond. (Please, Goddess, let me get ALL the laundry done today.)
Good morning, 40 and sunny outside my windows today. We’re still sick but the cough suppressant meds are working so we may survive. Share misery has become a bit dramatic! I’m not going to do much today with the hope breathing will continue to improve. Best wishes to all.
I hope you feel better soon! I am glad you found a good medicine to take. I stocked up last month on a homeopathic nighttime decongestant that I have used in the past that works great for clearing up my lungs so I can sleep. I don’t know if I have a cold or just dust that irritates my lungs once in a while but it is nice to have something that works. It’s name is Boericke & Tafel Nighttime Cough & Bronchial Syrup and Amazon stocks it.
Good morning, meeses! Monday, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr Day …
It is 37 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 59. Sunny skies are in the forecast. We might see 70s by mid-week but it won’t be permanent. Next weekend shows a chance for rain – we could certainly use some. Last January, we had a lot of precipitation and the skiers were happy and the little desert creatures were happy.
I will hope for the best for those in the crosshairs of the terrible people soon to be running the federal government. I hope that some of the people from the Biden Administration, but not the idiots who encouraged Joe to run in 2024, find some jobs where they can help strengthen organizations who can directly aid people whose families will be ripped apart, whose health care will be cancelled and whose life savings will be caught up in the impending global financial crisis that will be triggered by the oligarchs sucking up every dime they can while they are in power. Goddess help those who don’t have the resources to ride it out for four years. Our form of government, which does not allow for course corrections, has some serious problems. When it was possible, in the 1970s, to remove a president for crimes and malfeasance in office and general incompetence, there was a glimmer of hope. But like Bush in 2004, the people “spoke” and wanted the criminal back in the Oval Office. It can’t be helped because the Republican Party will never take out its own trash – unlimited power is more important than preserving the longest running democracy in the history of the world. It was a nice run with a few ups and downs. The problem was that we did not learn from the “downs” that you don’t give power back to those who led us there (the Confederacy, MAGAtism) and that is what led to its demise.
I completed a PITA project over the weekend and will work quietly today on a new project that does not have a hard deadline but has some difficult people as part of the implementation team. I will do what I can to avoid them and get the project done as quickly as possible.
See all y’all later!
Thanks for all the pictures through the years, and the extra ones today. We have freezing temperatures, so the news here is all about the weather. Warming centers are open for homeless people and anyone who loses electricity or just needs them. We might get as much as an inch of ice/snow tomorrow, not unprecedented but more than we can deal with. Today: going to kickboxing (they’ll surely be closed tomorrow) and maybe use the treadmill at the gym this afternoon because I am not running outside even at the peak of warmth today — 39 degrees.
Sorry, I copied my check in from the orange place, Bob has done White House pictures through the Biden years, and that is obviously changing after today.