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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 45 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 72. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning, I’m off to do the 5K. Should be fun. Will check in again later.
Good luck!
Have fun. {{{anotherdemocrat}}}
Sunday Meese. Have about 4 inches of snow and ice outside. I’m staying inside and spending the afternoon watching women’s basketball.
This is distressing:
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Jesus tapdancing Christ! Is there no end to their hideousness? Stopping all financial aid, scholarships, and grants to Black and Latino students? Godzilla should appear and eat these fiends!
Looks like they just go lower and lower
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Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s 43 F. in Ashburn, on its way up to 60 F. later, with high winds and perhaps a tornado or two. Crud. It’s been raining since we stepped off the shuttle bus at the Unitarian Church yesterday. Sometimes the rain has been quite steady, and it’s raining still. As we’re still in drought, that’s OK.
The service was very restrained and nice. Some people talk too much. I’ve decided I really like people who say one or two things and then shut up. The service was conducted during the hours I normally take a nap, so by the time I came home, I was wiped.
My dear friends from Montreal may stop by to see me on their way to Fort Lauderdale week after next. This is splendide! Haven’t seen them since Nora and I stayed with them the summer of 2019. Speaking of Nora, today she is Sweet Sixteen! She’s in Richmond for a volleyball tournament. Younger Son is down there with her.
What else: study the play, work on the article, FOR SURE go to the gym! OMG! Yesterday was mostly spent sitting, so my weight before breakfast this morning was awful! Fortunately the second number was still a “2.” I want to look decent for the play because I’m in a few scenes and will actually require three changes of costume (if I have my way).
We are supposed to get four-letter word on Wednesday and Thursday. The six to eight inches may be entirely imaginary, of course.
There is one thing we can all do (besides changing the Gulf of America back to the Gulf of Mexico on Google). On February 28 we buy NOTHING. Not from an online store or a real store, to show the TechBros and the BizBros that we do have power. This one-day disruption of the economy will be followed by another unless they clean up their act.
Empires rise, decline, and fall. Ours started declining with Ronnie Ray-Gun. We are now living through the fall.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, although that sounds kind of ironic. I think we should do the best we can in our personal lives, because there’s not much we can do about the Melon and the Felon, or Putie.
{{{Diana}}} Our decline started when Ford pardoned Nixon and proved Rs can get away with anything. It just depends on how much each evil prez can convince Congressional Rs to support. That’s what’s been the step-by-step to where we are now. And yes, they not only can but will go lower.
Someone replied to Republican Senators complaining about the federal workers in their states being fired and the federal programs that help their constituents being cancelled with the comment “too bad you don’t know anyone in the powerful deliberative body that was empowered by the Constitution!” I wonder what it will take for them to say “enough, stop this bs!”
I have to take care of myself and my people first and hope folks can hang on until leaders emerge to help us fight this.
It’s 20 heading for 34 and cloudy at the moment but the widget says it will clear off for a few hours today and tomorrow before we get slammed Tuesday. Yesterday we generated 2.32 KWHs. The m-t-d at 81.88 is nowhere near on track and we’re looking at being lucky to reach 180 (what I use in a no-A/C month). We got a dusting of snow over night but not so much that the sun can’t get through it. We’ll get something today. If we get the snow predicted for Tuesday followed by Wednesday’s predicted seriously hard freeze, well, I don’t expect any production at all from Tuesday until sometime late next Sunday.
Got my vacuuming done. Yes my back and hands ache. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Done!
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Hello, 29 and cloudy in Bellingham. It was warmer and raining earlier today so I hope the snow is melting even though the tempts have dropped. I’ve been restlessly resting, but not I need to do something. Trying to balance enough rest to keep my old body happy and enough activity to keep my soul happy is a challenge! Thankful I have a comfortable home and computers to keep my mind traveling around the world. I’ve looked at the news but am choosing to not focus on the mess today. Best wishes to all.
Monday Meese. I don’t celebrate Slaveholding Presidents.
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I am wondering if we should celebrate any presidents. I was reviewing the past 50 years of the presidency in my mind this morning and it is no shock that our country is a mess. After every party change from Democratic to Republican, all the guardrails are ripped out and the economy and lives in general are upended. After every party change from Republican to Democratic, the new president spends most of his time cleaning up the freaking mess and gets blamed for hard decisions. It may just be like that old appliance we try to keep running and finally after multiple repairs, it can’t be fixed any longer because the gears are worn out and there is nothing left to attach new gears to.
All of my clients are working so it is not much of a holiday.
Hi. Yesterday was much harder than I expected. I couldn’t figure out why, because I used to do 5Ks all the time, and then it hit me: 1. I wasn’t trying to run 2. that was 30 years ago, and 30-something me could do things that 60-something me finds challenging. Oh — and they were never in winter. So this morning my feet hurt rather a lot, and I’m breathing carefully, been wheezy since the race. I bought a ticket to see the new Captain America movie, need to get lunch made for the week and cover my plants again. That sounds like an overly ambitious day.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 52 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 73. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We are expecting 80s by the end of the week.
It is no surprise to anyone who believes in government that indiscriminately firing federal workers would lead to chaos. That the people doing the firing know literally nothing about anything is patently obvious, that they are putting our security and our lives in danger is becoming pretty clear. From firing air traffic controllers to firing the people who manage and monitor our nuclear stockpiles to defunding health care research and clinical trials, the State of the Union is shambolic. I am trying to imagine a way out of this mess and I don’t see it – the Republican Party has no interest in fixing it and the Democrats in Washington are powerless to do anything except stand at a microphone.
One of my basketball teams won yesterday and I can watch the stream today after I finish help desk. I could not watch it live because I was working on a major project all weekend that needed to be ready this morning. I got it done so now I just have to wait to see if everything is working as expected.
See all y’all later!
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! It’s a bright but cold day, 32 F. right now in Ashburn, on its way up to 42 F., but very windy. At least it’s not as windy as yesterday, when we had 62 mph at Dulles Airport a few miles down the road.
Have just spent a tiresome hour trying to sign in to my main bank account. Apparently the bookmark was old and ugly, so I had to “clear browser history and install new password.” Ugh.
I feel kind of funny this morning, very tired legs and feet—what does this mean? It’s not as if I overdid it yesterday. I did manage to get some work done on Sunday, need to shape and finish my story for the newsletter. I completed my “backstory” for the character of Irene and managed to inject a few funny bits. Now I have to read it aloud, then find out from the Director how much time we are allowed to speak. I also need to read through the play again.
The out-of-towners are coming to tea this afternoon. Apparently Miss 16’s volleyball team did not do well. Great Scott, I can’t think why. She is so keen! And lawks, does she have energy.
Glanced over the morning paper, which was a HUGE mistake. And the fiends are causing chaos right at tax time! I need to attend to that very soon. We rely on that tax refund. It’s Dearly that wants the refund, he regards it as free money. At one time I had arranged things so that we either owed $100 or received $100, but along came Dubya and messed up things with his tax cuts, and so forth. I gave up. There are better ways things to spend my time.
I sent out rosy vibes of love and white healing light this morning, to the ill people that I know about. Sadly, one of my favorite fellow actors has had to drop out of the play. He didn’t have a large role this time, and it’s just as well. He’s such a nice guy. I just hope he gets over whatever-it-is and is able to participate in the next production.
That’s all I have right now, gotta run. May Melon and the Felon take off for outer space (if we can send one man to the moon, why can’t we send two?), and may everyone at the Pond enjoy a nice, news-free day.
It’s 26 heading for 45 and a beautiful sunny day. At the moment. Yesterday we generated 7.77 KWHs and the m-t-d at 89.76 gained a little. I am devoutly hoping the clouds that will move in later do so a lot later so we can at least get in one good day of production before tomorrow’s (predicted) snow shuts us down completely for several days. After sundown today we’re supposed to drop below freezing and not get above it until maybe Friday, maybe Saturday. We shall see what we shall see.
If there’s anything good going on out in the wide, wide world I haven’t heard about it. But folks who are still alive are still alive. And still truckin’ along. My son’s taken to transporting several of his workers to & from work. They don’t have cars and the bus system around here is, um, not designed for food service workers. So he’ll be over here today to swap out cars. I won’t need to go anywhere anyway and he will need the Subaru to get through the snow. Meanwhile, I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 39 and cloudy in Bellingham. Our son will be here today to do some repairs to the bathroom walls and woodwork. The ventilation fans are all now working properly but they when then were not moisture and steam caused some damage. But fixing it will require replacing some wallpaper which worries me. I have saved extra lengths of the paper but I’m not sure I can do that work anymore. Oh well, if I can’t we’ll find another way. Best wishes to all.
It’s currently 10 degrees here in Kingston, only going up to 22. Ugh – and I have to go out today for my quarterly CT-Scan
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Good morning. Yesterday was nice, I liked the Captain America movie and did a moderate kickboxing workout. Just enough activity. Got to cover my plants this afternoon we have extremely cold temps coming. And I thought I had breakfast done but I don’t so I’ll cook this evening. Ordered curbside because I am not going inside the store, Austinites lose our minds when they say a freeze is coming.
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! It’s 24 F. outside with awful winds in Ashburn. The weather wenches have changed our forecast from 6 to 8 inches of heavy snow to four flakes Wednesday night and 8 flakes Thursday morning. I suppose I’ll go to the grocery store tomorrow, feel too wiped today. Today’s high will be only 30 F.
Had the night from hell. Why? Woke up after only 4 hours’ sleep for the usual reason at 3:15, went back to bed, could not sleep, so read the paper. Dearly was already awake. I suggested we have a big porridgy breakfast and then go back to sleep, so we did that.
Feeling too tired to write much (aren’t you relieved?), so will just get ready to face the day. Need to read the play again, work a bit more on my character bio and my article, and begin drafting an email to my writers about their next assignment. I’ll send it out tomorrow.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and good health to those who aren’t feeling well. I’ve concluded that Melon and the Felon are psychopaths.
Someone on BlueSky suggested that perhaps there is something wrong with our system of government if voters, not even constituting a majority of those who voted, can choose to put the entire world in the hands of a man whose brain has turned to mush. Ya think?
Yesterday stayed sunny most of the day and we generated 12.99 KWHs bringing the m-t-d to 102.57 KWHs.
Today’s high was 32 just after midnight. The low will be 10 just before midnight. Temps slowly dropping through the day. Overcast of course. It started lightly snowing about 15 minutes ago. We’re supposed to get over 7″ so it’ll probably start snowing more heavily shortly. My son didn’t get over here yesterday so he was here early, while I was still in my pajamas, to get the Subaru. I got the trash out yesterday expecting the city to do an early pick up before the weather hit but apparently they aren’t going to. Sigh. I’ll leave it out anyway. Got a last round of birdseed & suet out just as the first flakes were dropping. I’m not sure I’ll be able to get any more out if the storm is as bad as everyone seems to be fearing. Back step will be too slippery for me to safely go out and the gate will be frozen shut even if I wanted to slog through mid-calf deep (or even ankle deep) snow. But I’m ready as I can be for whatever happens. Just hope we don’t lose power. No internet if I don’t have power. Anyway, off to start my boosting day. Hold the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 39 and cloudy in Bellingham. I need to focus on my desk today but I’m procrastinating with coffee and solitaire. Best wishes to all.