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 50 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 77. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Sunday Meese. 41 here in Kingston.
Had problems logging in yesterday, but is working today.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Busy day yesterday, today will just be church & parceling out next week’s food. For now, I’m watching local news (UT women to the elite 8, yay) and loving the smell of my steeping tea.
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Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! We have 68 F. already and a nice day in progress: blue sky and sunshine. In case you’re interested, we are now three and a half inches under normal yearly rainfall for this time of the year. I hope very much to go for a walk after tea.
Two of the three people in our flat are having naps after yrs truly cooked a large Sunday breakfast. I’m still very much awake, despite having had a bad night. Never mind, I’ll have my nap after lunch. I do hope to get out for a walk today.
We invited Nora the Beautiful over here in the hope she’d show us how to activate a cylindrical device we bought. You’re supposed to go to Spotify and download songs on it. Like many Olds, we’re clueless. Turns out we don’t have the right charger, so we can’t do anything with it yet. It’s true that we fear tech: I had this Apple watch sitting around for months before Elder Son came over and got it going.
Have lined up two of three interviews for stories for the summer issue. Still feeling very disappointed that the third possible interviewee changed his mind, but it is not for me to question his decisions.
What other news? Felon can’t let an hour pass without interfering in something. Now he’s wanting DEI to be eradicated in the Smithsonian. The people who manage the Museum of African-American history are wondering how you mention the evils of slavery without mentioning the white people who perpetrated it. He also has commanded the Naval Academy in Annapolis not to consider race when people apply. Next he’ll be accusing the cherry blossoms in the Tidal Basin of holding views that don’t please him. That is, if he even notices cherry blossoms. Did y’all hear about the Turkish student who was arrested by masked men not in uniform and hauled off to imprisonment? Her crime was writing an anti-Tr**p op-ed to a newspaper. She is over here on a student visa and has not been charged. It’s just sheer fascism.
Some guy on TV said he expected the entire Tr**p administration to implode by Memorial Day. Think it’ll happen?
Well, it’s a lovely end-of-March Sunday, the teenaged volleyball champ is having a well-deserved rest, and Dearly sleeps all the time. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Well, I screwed up the bolding. Only meant to bold the italicized portion. Pray overlook my mistake!
The * works as a shortcut to create bolding and has a mind of its own!
The high of 70 was just after midnight. We’re at 67 and dropping slowly. Sunny at the moment but clouds moving in. Yesterday we generated 16 KWHs and since that brings the m-t-d to 406.95, I’m happy. 416 would put this March in 2nd place which would also be nice. I’ll delighted if we managed to do over 422 for best March for the life of the system to date but this is just fine.
I’ve got the issue of the computer randomly doing clickety-click mute/unmute again. I’m pretty sure it’s a temperature-related problem. It’s only done it once so far today. Hoping with the temps dropping that’ll be it. I think this is the first time this year/since late last Fall the house was warm enough that the heat didn’t kick on by morning. sigh. Oh well. Done my Sunday housecleaning chores. Time to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good afternoon, 49 and mostly sunny in Bellingham today. We made a small start with the patio shuffle yesterday, and big relief……looks good! Next week we’ll move a shrub and then we can see if moving the barbeque to the lower patio will work and if so then the shade canapoy can move to the upper patio and then we can move the tables and hopefully it will all look and function as planned. To me, when something looks right and as if nothing happened it’s a job well done. Sp that’s the outcome I’m hoping for.
My plan for the patio containers is to plant fewer plants but still have interesting combinations. I tried to do that last year but I still planted more plants than I can easily care for now. So this year I hope the create more interest with fewer plants plan works! I need to keep maintenance more simple and given the uncertainty of the felon being in power work with a smaller budget. Feeling tired today so I haven’t done much, but now it’s time to get busy. As always my best wishes to all.
Good morning. Monday, ugh. Got my walk done and will go to kickboxing after work. Got to work on the paperwork for not having to be here 5 days.
Good fair Monday morning, Moosekind! Well, the weather at the moment is certainly an improvement over the ugly clouds that prevailed from 7 to 9 a.m. I’m going on a Cherry Blossom tour this morning, so must hasten to wash and dress.
Right now in Ashburn it’s 68 F. It’s so hot in our apartment! Yes, we could open the windows, but in the afternoon all the planes start coming in from Europe, so that kills any chance of conversation or sleep. When the windows are closed, they keep out a lot of noise.
I enjoyed having Nora here for the weekend, even though she used most of the time to catch up on her sleep. I took her to the barbershop, ostensibly to get her “split ends cut off,” but it ended up being a trim, shampoo, and blow-dry. Her hair reaches well past her shoulders, so the process was not only time-consuming, but expensive. She certainly was a hit, though! The barbers, most of whom are Asian, loved her beautiful almond-shaped eyes.
What else…rehearsal every night this week. Tonight it’s music, so I’m only required to be there for the Finale. Just asked my “mother-in-law,” Lottie, to practice lines with me afterwards. It helps to have another person speak the cues.
The weather wenches and wizards are gleefully predicting heavy storms, LARGE hail, tornadoes, goblins, and whathaveyou for an hour or two this evening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pull me other leg, it’s got bells on.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, and prayers for healing for those who are ill.
It’s 42 heading for 61 and overcast. We managed 6.89 KWHs yesterday and the m-t-d is at a respectable 413.46 so that’s good. If it gets 3 more today we’re in 2nd place and it if clears off enough to get 9 we’ll be in first. Yay!
The week of high 70s-low 80s the widget was showing a few days ago had dropped to 2 days barely above 70 (tomorrow & Wednesday) and then 8 days of mid 50s to mid 60s. No overnights below freezing but it says it’ll get close a time or two. I can’t say that’s great but it will let me have my music a bit longer and slow the bugs down a bit.
If anybody has something to spare for the animal shelter in Taos NM, Aji did a fundraiser for them at both Xitter & Bluesky yesterday. (Couple of others for local people too but those were in a community roundup. The animal shelter was standalone.)
I’m groggy and stiff and moving slowly today. Surprise. Anyway, best be off to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}.
Good morning, 49 and cloudy in Bellingham today. Buds are forming on my old maple trees so spring is coming to the garden. It’s nice to see the established plants growing again, but the soil is still to cold and wet for the multitude of veggie starts RonK is growing indoors. Best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 72 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with a expected daytime high of 77. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. Last night we saw the thinnest waxing crescent moon in the western sky, the thin line was on the bottom and you could see the moon shadow above the curved line. She is about 7.7% illumination this morning.
As they used to say at the Old Place, “What Digby Said”:
In Realworldia, people are having their benefits taken away and are losing their jobs and their homes.
I am trying to get some end of month accounting done and will ignore emails so that I can have a quiet day after a too busy weekend.
See all y’all later!
Tuesday Meese. It will be 50 degrees and sunny here in Kingston today – spring temps all week. I’m elated.
Tuned in to Cory Booker’s filibuster!
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Cool enough here to have a window open. Glad I still have the 2 wfh days.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 55 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 72. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We keep thinking we will get rain because the winds have been blowing but so far it is just “blowing wind.” Rain is on the forecast for Friday – along with highs in the 60s – but forecasting the weather here is notoriously difficult.
Horrific abuse of federal power with the literal kidnapping of a legal resident living in Maryland to send him to a torture prison in El Salvador. Turns out it was an “Administrative Error” but the Felon and his brownshirts refuse to correct it. For people who think that being a citizen will be some sort of protection, when there is no due process, you ain’t got nothin’. Goddess help us all.
I am slowly getting unburied from my too busy weekend and now I am ready for April! Not really – just trying that on for size.
See all y’all later!
Good Tuesday morning, Meese, and Rabbit, Rabbit! Happy April Fools’ Day! What if I told you the Melon and the Felon are aboard that stupid rocket that just took off? Yeah, that’s a joke. Wish it was not.
Yesterday’s Pink Snow Tour (wind blowing cherry blossoms off the trees) was the most exhausting four hours I’ve spent in recent memory. One wouldn’t think sitting on a bus would be so tiring, but it was inch-inch, crawl-crawl, stop-start, stop-start, all the way. I did managed to see the Jefferson Memorial (outside only, we never got off the bus), with the huge statue of him in it. Naturally, in light of the revelations of the last 20 years, I’m not nearly as keen on him as I was.
Luckily, Rehearsal last night was not onerous, although the Director had to tell the hotelier and me to “look more like newlyweds.” We shuffled a bit closer to each other, but that was about it. While Rehearsal was going on from 7 to 9, we did get some thunder (some people heard it, but I’m too deaf), a little lightning, and an hour of rain. Not sure how much. The wind-rain-bla-bla arrived six hours later than forecast. For once, I was glad, because yesterday morning was a glorious day. The cherry blossoms, which are mostly still clinging to the trees, were unbelievably beautiful.
We saw a girl in a royal blue formal gown, which puffed out several feet all around her, walking slowly along, with an attendant bearing a bouquet in front of her and an attendant holding up her train walking behind. It must have been the young lady’s…quinceanara (sp?), can’t spell it, but it means “fifteenth birthday” in Spanish. Her attendant took a photo of her beneath the cherry trees. It was entertaining to watch families having picnics, a trio of nuns raptly contemplating the Tidal Basin, cyclists, mothers with babies and people with dogs, all walking around and admiring the trees in peak bloom.
Today errands (including getting hair done), wrestling with the IRS, making dinner so we can eat early, and Rehearsal. I’ll take my script with me, to read while I wait for the stylist to finish tenderly carving a beard on some guy’s face, until she has time to attend to me.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and a good day to all the poor souls who are without jobs, without research funding, and without hope because of the Melon and the Felon.
It’s 52 heading for 72 & sunny at the moment. Windy too. Hope it will stay sunny today because the rest of the week is supposed to be cloudy (and maybe give us some rain.) Yay! for March. Yesterday we generated right at 15 KWHs and wrapped it up with 428 KWHs – the winner & new champeen is March 2025. For the 4K system April’s highest was 476.5 and the lowest was 375. So April 2025 goals are to do at least 376 and at best 477 or over. My “reasonable to hope for” target is 450.
Yesterday’s errands were expensive but I was stocking up on cat supplies, including a couple of months’ worth of flea goo. And getting several small bags of different kibbles because Cloud has gone picky again and Freddie’s almost as bad. Sigh. They always love a new bag so we’ll see if they still eat the stuff I opened yesterday throughout today.
I’m slow and creaky. The oak tree just started leafing out overnight. Explains some of the gunk in the air. Oh well. I’d best get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}