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Cold here again. Today is garbage pick up day and my bins are frozen to the driveway – locked in ice from snow melt :(
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Oh, crud, Sis!
It’s 34 heading for 37, overcast and drizzly. Yesterday we generated 1.9 KWHs and the m-t-d at 57.76 is so not on track we’re not going to reach 100 if we don’t get some sunshine. Even the 2.5K system got 147 back in ’15. The only time in the live of the system when the system was actually working that we’ve gotten less than 100 was in ’14 with the 2.5K system.
The lack of sunshine isn’t good for my emotional health either. Which is in bad enough shape as I wait to see if I get my Social Security next Wednesday. Oh well. One day at a time. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Bfitz, I’m fairly sure you and I will receive them since we live in the continental United States. I did read on AOL just now that some U.S. citizens who live overseas may not receive them on time. Apparently there’s a form overseas residents have to fill out. Crud.
Holding the Good Thought. SSA is much more inclined to do its job than obey illegal EOs. Unlike the employees at Ag & HHS who think folks needing help are really scammers and are happy to shut them off.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 46 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 59. Mostly cloudy skies are in the forecast. This morning I saw one very bright star in the ENE sky but the rest were too dim to cut through the cloud cover. The moon was full this morning at 6:53am MST and I saw her over the mountains yesterday evening and into the night.
I was pleased to see that children of service members in Germany walked out of an assembly that featured Defense Secretary Hogsbreath. They were protesting his cancellation of Black History Month events that they had been looking forward to. You can put literal piles of human garbage into important positions but you cannot make people like them. We have the power to withhold our consent to be governed by the tRump malAdministration and eventually it will crumble.
I was up early and got enough done that I am going to call it a day and sit and watch sporting events from the weekend that I recorded.
See all y’all later!
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! It’s 32 F. here in Ashburn and Meese, it ain’t gonna get much higher. We woke up to a winter wonderland of snow this morning. The snow finally began, tentatively at first, then with growing enthusiasm as the afternoon progressed. When I walked to the front of the building to check it about 9 p.m. last night, it was still snowing merrily.
We’re supposed to get rain that will wash all this away. Oh, lawks, I had the NIGHT FROM HAIL last night! I think it was mah eczema acting up: you know, an unbearable itch that goes on and on and makes me scratch until my ear or whatever’s involved turns red and swollen. As well, it attacked my lower lip! YOWL! I have to rehearse tonight and we’re going to do blocking, which means I have to stand next to some of the other actors. If the swelling hasn’t subsided by the time we go to rehearsal, I’ll put on a mask and say that although I myself am not contagious, I may have been exposed to someone who is. Such are the uses of vanity.
I’m sick about what Melon and the Felon are doing. You shoulda heard what Jeff Tiedrich has to say on the subject of that press conference yesterday. The Devilish Duo are ruining so many people’s lives it’s unbelievable!
I’ve mixed up the sugar cookie dough for the Valentine cookies for tomorrow. After lunch I’ll roll out the dough and bake the cookies. Because the Loudoun County Public Schools, which supply our restaurant waiters, are closed today, we are being offered a carry-out lunch-dinner combo. I’ll have to go pick it up in a minute.
Have two plays to read through because we’re rehearsing “Animals vs. Humanity” (whereby the animal kingdom sues humans for acting so ugly) tomorrow. Oh, HAIL, Tulsi-who-hath-no-pulsi has just been confirmed, my phone just informed me.
That’s enough from me for the moment. Wishing everyone at the Pond a nice, stress-free day!
Good morning, 19 and sunny outside my windows today. I’ve glanced at the news but as Josh Marshall says, We’re in dystopian quasi-science fiction territory here.” So to protect my sanity I’m going to try to stay news lite today. My sewing room needs attention so that’s where I plan to be today. Best wishes to all.