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Good morning, 39 and raining in Bellingham. Between family drama and T Day prep I’ve been busy and looks like I’ve forgotten to visit the moose pond. Erica and her family have decided it’s best for them to stay home this year and I’m both relieved and feeling sad. They are exhausted with school, work and life pressures so the long drive and the after holiday deadlines are too much. I want them to stay safe but will really miss being together. And Lisa’s dog (Finn) had a seizure on Sunday so his time with us will end soon. They still want to be here so we will have two old dogs, Maggie and Finn, and rowdy Elsa gathered under the table. I’ve worked hard to have more Family photos and items ready to share but that was Sophie’s request so I’ll see what happens with that tomorrow.
With family help I cleaned up my floral “shop” in the garage last week and I was able to do the flowers there yesterday. The electric fire place heater kept me warm, the new stress mats cushioned the concrete floor, and everything I needed was at hand. I haven’t been able to work there since last Feburary so I’m very grateful to be back in my creative space.
I’ve got food to prep and the table to set so best get on with my day. Best wishes to all.
So glad you checked in. I was getting concerned. Have a good Thanksgiving w/ however many of your family can get there. Healing Energy. {{{princesspat}}}
Thursday Thanksgiving Day Meese. 37 and raining here in Kingston, going up to 41. I’m so relieved to not be cooking today for the first time in around 30 years. Heading over to my god-daughter’s around one o’clock and will enjoy spending time with her, her husband and kids (who are college age)
Will spend Friday and the weekend enjoying women’s basketball tournaments. Wishing you all a peaceful day and weekend.
Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico – all the votes have still not been counted
There are a lot of pre-conference basketball tournament games being played (my teams aren’t on TV) and it is also nearly the end of volleyball season with the NCAA Tournament Selection show on Sunday. My Badger Women’s Hockey team will be playing this weekend and the USA Women’s Soccer Team will be playing the England Lionesses on Saturday morning in London in an International Friendly. They will play another game in the Netherlands on December 3rd.
Good morning, Meeses! Thursday, the day set aside to give thanks …
It is 55 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 70. Partly cloudy skies are in the forecast. I caught the moonrise over the mountains this morning, with the thin waning crescent just clearing the peaks covered in mist. She will be new on Saturday around mid-day. I am going to grab some of her waxing energy to get me through a too-busy start to December.
I am not sure what worries me more – the return of the fetid orange crud or how this election cleared the way for billionaire techbros to declare democracy a quaint relic and gain power. The billionaire techbros invented JD Vance and even when tRump is out of power, what his MAGAt army joined forces with in the 2024 election will be more difficult to eradicate. When the richest man in the world can literally buy a presidency, that’s a real problem. Today I will give thanks that so far I see enough people who are disgusted by tRump and aware of the dangers to our democracy that if we don’t give in and don’t give up, we can get through this.
We are going to have Thai food for Thanksgiving, having decided that days off are days off and we should not have to work hard! I had to pick it up last night because the restaurant is closed today but our selections heat up well. I did have some Mango Sticky Rice last night because I couldn’t wait.
See all y’all later!
Yeah, ElNo’s threat against Congressman Vindman is really concerning. He knows what he’s doing, that it is highly likely someone will attack him. In a functioning country, he’s be arrested for making a threat like that.
Melon Husk is also doxxing federal workers and unleashing his millions of crazed followers on them while taunting them that he will be eliminating their jobs. The only thing we can hope for is that tRump gets upset that Melon is stealing the limelight and cuts him out of the inner circle. He may be auditioning new, more compliant billionaire buddies – I saw that he was hosting Mark Zuckerberg for Thanksgiving.
Good morning. Watching parade prep, tried out my risotto last night & it is really good. Will work on my music diary (it’s not till 12/14 but I like to get started early) and I swear I’ll walk/run this afternoon. Hope everyone has a good day.
It’s 35 but the windchill is 23, heading 44 and cloudy at the moment. Sun’s supposed to come out this afternoon. I hope so. Yesterday we only generated 2.5 KWHs and the m-t-d at 165.86 is over 14 to go with 3 days left to generate it. We shall see what we shall see.
Got an email from my DIL, the family plans to be here with turkey, “fixings”, and 2 kinds of pie between 2 and 4. I hope they’re right because the temps are supposed to drop fast after sundown but knowing my family they’ll probably be here between 4 and 6. No matter. I’ll enjoy the visit and the food whenever they and it gets here. Meanwhile, I’d best get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 50 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 68. Mostly cloudy skies are in the forecast.
I intend to ignore the news today and will instead watch sporting events. We had a nice Day of Thanks meal yesterday and will have leftovers today.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Watching astronomy, later I’ll pick up groceries, make next week’s lunch and maybe go to the gym. It is actually cold — my heat kicked on for the first time since spring. And ugh, I have to change the light in my bedroom, which is really hard for a short person. I’ll worry about that later, for now — breakfast and astronomy.
Good Friday Meese.
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It’s 27, up from 20 at dawn, heading for 47 and sunny today. Yesterday the sun came out in the afternoon and we managed to generate 4.3 KWHs. The m-t-d is 170.22 so between today and tomorrow – IF it stays sunny – we should get a little over the 180 target. We’re already ahead of ’19, ’22, & ’23 and have the potential to reach 4th place for the life of the system thus far.
The family didn’t get here until 6 pm. As I expected. We had a nice visit – only 45 minutes but still very pleasant. But that means I didn’t eat until 7 and so ate too much – what should have been 2 meals of turkey & dressing was consumed last night. (Thank heavens for ginger ale, I was a bit queasy after that. But it was good. LOL.) I’ll have the rest of the turkey and gravy with the wild rice pilaf. There were also veggies, jalapeno corn muffins, GF crackers & port wine cheese, and an apple caramel crisp. Plus a pint of lovely homemade cranberry sauce that will mostly go into cranberry walnut bread when I bake again in a few days. The pies weren’t ready even a late as the left to get here so my grandson will be bringing me several slices of pumpkin and pecan pie sometime today. And I’ll get to see him again for a few minutes.
Anyway, I need to get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
What a feast, bfitz! It sounds wonderful!
Good cold grey Friday morning, Meese. It’s 41 F. in Ashburn, not going to get much higher. I have to run to the nail place at 10:45 and I’m nowhere near ready.
The housekeeper is coming this afternoon, RIGHT at our naptime, so I’ll just head over to the gym. I have dinner with the UUs tonight at 5, so I’m looking forward to that. Dearly will stay at home with the remains of the French apple tarte and a Hungry Man TV dinner.
Thanksgiving was nice, in Younger Son’s light-filled house. The dog was sequestered, thank Goddess. He’s a big bruiser of a boxer. Happy to see people, but he doesn’t know his own strength. I almost got into it with my Jewish daughter-in-law, whom I adore. She thinks Thing was elected because “people wanted a change.” A CHANGE? How is he a change? Kamala would have been a change. She appears to think nothing will bad will happen.
Her parents, who are slightly younger than I, looked at me as if they know things will change very much for the worse. No one in 1930s Germany thought things would change much after Adolf Schicklgruber became Reichskanzler, but they did. Daughter thinks Mexican babies will be drowned in the Rio Grande.
I told Younger Son’s wife that we had nightmares after the election that she would lose her highly paid government job and they’d subsequently lose their nice house. Or else they’d all have to move wherever Melon tells them to, some red state where contraception will be illegal. She shook her head and said it was good that the deadwood will be cleared out of the government. They seem to think nothing bad will happen. Gods!
Well, now that I’ve gritched, I’ve got to get a move on. Wishing everyone at the Pond a nice Black Friday!
Good morning, 39 and cloudy in Bellingham today. My Thanksgiving list is retired, yay! We enjoyed our day together with tasty food, some lego building, sharing memories as we looked at old family photos, a neighborhood walk after dinner, a basic cleanup, and then early to bed. I am very weary but so far the pain is manageable so that’s good.
Today is out 57th anniversary so we’ll have a quiet lunch at a waterfront restaurant and perhaps choose a Christmas tree as we come back home. And tomorrow I’ll start another list :) Best wishes to all.
Happy anniversary, princesspat and RonK!
Happy Anniversary. Enjoy your lunch & have fun picking a christmas tree. {{{HUGS}}} to you both.
Happy Anniversary, princesspat and Ron!!
Good morning, meeses! Saturday, the last day of November – yikes!
It is 52 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 73. Mostly cloudy skies are in the forecast. It looks like “maybe more sun” is in the forecast for tomorrow. The week ahead looks like mid-70’s, sunny, with cool mornings in the 50s.
I have to put my nose to the grindstone today and finish accounting projects deferred until the end of the month – which is today! I might be able to airbrush some of them into December 1st but two of them I can’t.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Got a busy day ahead: kickboxing and then my workout group and we’re going for breakfast tacos after; then finish making next week’s lunch. It is cold (for us), not really looking forward to time in the park but oh well. And the stupid cedar trees are doing their thing so I’ll be sneezing my head off.
Good cold Saturday morning, Meese, and happy St. Andrew’s Day! It’s 31 F. and will struggle to get up into the 40s. The sky is a cold, Canadian-lake type of blue, with white veils of cloud drifting across very slowly. It’ll be bone-dry, of course. This afternoon it will become very windy, so I’ll walk inside if I have to go anywhere.
It is so very, very agreeable not to have to rush off somewhere. I’ve divided my chores into Today chores and Tomorrow chores. A fellow actor is home after surgery, so I’ll take her a “Get Well Soon” card and some fruit. My Goddess, a lot of fruit arrived yesterday! I hadn’t thought there would be quite so MUCH of it! White grapefruit, red grapefruit, oranges, and tangerines. I’d already planned to give some tangerines away. As there’s no room in the fridge, I’ve put them in a cooler in a sheltered corner of the porch, and covered them tenderly with clean bath towels.
But enough of that citrusy chit-chat. Last night’s UU dinner was fun, but I never made it to the gym yesterday. Must do that today and tomorrow. Tomorrow is a carol and lesson service from 3 to 5, so I want to go to that. Hope I don’t cry.
I put together a nice hot breakfast for Dearly and inquired as to his schedule today. Will he have time between his after-breakfast nap, his after-lunch nap, and his after-dinner nap, and watching Formula I Qualifying to ascend to the 4th floor to our storage locker to get the Christmas wreaths and put back the autumn and Halloween wreaths? Stay tuned.
That’s enough of my nonsense. M’Daughter and SIL report that it’s snowing in Lenox, MA. As former Texans, they’re thrilled. SIL added that it gets dark at 4:30 p.m. up there.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning Meese. Posted
It’s 41 already, windchill 30, heading for 52 and overcast. Yesterday we generated 7.4 KWHs and the m-t-d at 177 is still/only 3 short of the 180 goal. I’m seeing little bits of blue between the clouds so I think we’ll make it. We’re already beat the “at least” goal, so I’m fairly happy with what we’ve got even if we don’t make it. But I’ll be happier if we do. LOL.
My grandson was busy so my DIL brought me the pumpkin and pecan pie. I ate the pecan pie last night and will have the pumpkin tonight and tomorrow. If I can get the energy up, I’ll bake cranberry walnut bread today. If not, I’ll finish off the jalapeno corn muffins instead. Or have a piece of toast. Lovely to have options. Riches to have options.
My hands are creaky and it’s hard to write (and type but writing’s harder) so I need to get started on my Xmas/Yule cards. Need my brother’s new address though. He moved on the 1st and forgot to send it to me. Oh well, I can work on the rest of my list. A few fewer cards this year b/c there’s no postal delivery where Fineena and Aunt Ellen are. Meanwhile I’d best get to my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 39 and cloudy in Bellingham today. We were to tired to bring home a tree yesterday so that will happen next week. But today I’ll put the last of the TDay stuff away and bring out the Christmas stuff so the house will look cozy regardless. Best wishes to all.