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 41 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 68. Mostly cloudy skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. I didn’t take any flower pictures yesterday, maybe today. For now I’m just enjoying the smell of my steeping tea and watching local news. Hey — does anyone know if there’s a limit to how strong you can make tea? In a gallon of water, I put 2 gallon-sized bags, 2 normal size bags of chocolate puerh tea, 2 bags of loose leaf flavored tea and one of Barry’s, an Irish brand. I just wonder if the water has a capacity of how much tea it absorbs. Yes I really like my tea strong.
Don’t know about the others, but Barry’s is one of the teas we drink every day. We like strong black tea with milk and sugar—at least his Lordship does, I don’t use sugar in my tea.
Tea is full of antioxidants that protect you against various dreadful conditions. Can’t remember what they all are, but you’re better off drinking tea than not drinking it. So, go for it!
Oh, I love my tea, was just wondering if I was wasting some of those bags because the water can maybe only take a certain amount.
It may not be an issue of how much the water can hold as an issue of at what point your taste buds can’t tell the difference. They’ve only got so many receptors and once they’ve all been hit, that’s it. The easiest way to tell is try making it with fewer teabags and see if you can tell.
A sunny Sunday here! Yay! Tonight is the big March Madness women’s basketball selection Sunday – so I’m gonna have to take a nap so I can stay awake to see it.
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The selection show will be on at 5pm MST so I will probably not need a nap to stay up for it! I am actually hoping that the Arizona Wildcats don’t get one of the Plus 4 spots and instead get a WBIT bid. I would like to see them in person this year and that would be my last chance.
Good drizzly Sunday morning, Moosekind! Sure, and isn’t it just like the Auld Sod, gray as it is with the promise of more rain. It’s okay with me: Dearly is watching Formula 1, where the rain is causing havoc in Melbourne, Australia, and I’m about to get ready for the day.
Breakfast has been cooked and eaten. Early morning tea has been drunk, as has coffee. Elder Son is going to cook our dinner as a way of celebrating my birthday.
Yesterday, half the cast was absent from the Drama Club meeting, as was most of the audience. One can only suppose people had better things to do with their time than to listen to cast autobiographies. Mine, as Irene, was well received. Afterwards I had the opportunity to do a bit of priestessing. One of the duties of a friendly neighborhood priestess is to listen, without judgment or offering advice, to overburdened souls who need to get something off their chest. At any rate, the actor who has the lead role in the musical talked to me for an hour. He’s a dear man that I hope will become a friend.
Today I have to type a long, long list of dates and sent them to the Chair of the Drama Club Board. Hope I don’t fall asleep while I’m doing it.
Guess what, seven years ago today we moved from our house to here. It’s funny to think I didn’t like it here at first. Now, I’m having the time of my life! I love being in plays, leading the writers’ group, hanging out with the UUs and Progressives, playing drums, and dancing at the “Open Mic” nights. Never thought old age would be so much fun.
Wishing a good day and no bad news or bad weather to all at the Pond!
It’s 39 now but there was frost on the roofs so it must have been at least right at freezing early this morning. Heading for 58. Yesterday we got 7.2 KWHs and the m-t-d at 202 definitely lost ground. Here’s hoping we gain some back today. Or at least don’t lose any more.
Got all my Sunday chores done but woke up tired and was really slow about it. Still being slow for that matter. But they’re done and it’s another whole week before I have to do them again. Meanwhile I’m very late getting started on my boosting day so I’d best get to it. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 41 and partly cloudy. I woke up so rain so it’s nice to see a bit of blue in the sky now. We’re cooking corn beef, cabbage, and Irish soda bread for dinner tonight and then we’ll start watching season 3 of The Wheel of Time series. I’m trying to keep our real life interesting with the hope the mess of the felon and his minions will be background noise. I chatted via text with Marcus yesterday and he will call me next week to schedule pruning the top of the laurel hedge. He is relocating his business to the Seattle area so I’m greatly relieved he still wants to work with me. The top of the high hedge needs to be hand clipped this year so his skill and tall ladders are needed. My hope is that thinning the branches will let more light reach the new lower growth and then the hedge will fill in again. Nurturing and restoring the hedge has been a years work so it’s good to see it looking healthy again. Best wishes to all.