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 37 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 61. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. It got super cold overnight. When I covered my plants, it was in the 60s, this morning it’s 29. The news is just all about the weather. I have water & power, so all is good. Might use the fireplace when I get back from church. I have a curbside grocery order to pick up, I expect even the parking lot will be insane but at least I’m not going in the store — we lose our minds here when there’s cold weather.
I tried to ask you last week but my comment was posted too late to catch up with you.
What the heck is going on it Texas?!? It sounded like the Terrible Republicans, with help from Democrats, turned away the Truly Awful Christian Nationalist Republicans who wanted to take over the legislature. Will it make any real difference?
The Rs were fighting amongst themselves – and neither Lt. Gov. Patrick nor Gov. Abbott are particularly pleasant people. Which you’d think would make a career in politics difficult, but…Republicans, I guess. The Speaker has promised to not completely freeze Dems out, which is the best we could get, so a few voted for him.
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WP logged me out in the middle of writing my post then deleted it when I tried to go back and copy it before relogging in. Sigh. I will see if I can remember what I wrote.
It’s 16 heading for 24 and sunny. Yesterday we generated 8 KWHs and the m-t-d at 101 gained a bit more. I connected with my best friend via email. Her new HVAC system is leaking. They’re running dehydrators to dry things out & prevent mold until they can get it fixed. She doesn’t know how much is covered by the warranty. An instructor brought her a signed 1st edition (I’m not sure as a gift or just to show her) of *Waiting for the Galactic Bus” – which reminded me where I got my “render them harmless” mantra. I get my spiritual beliefs from odd places sometimes. Anyway, Sunday chores are done with minimal damage to hands and back. Time to get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! In Ashburn we have overcast skies and 38 F. What rain? What snow? “They” lie.
We stayed up far too late watching the Commies sock it to the Lions. Even my hard heart softened at the sight of the Lions’ bleak faces. Their expressions said, “What just happened?” Meanwhile there is much rejoicing in the DMZ. If by some amazing chance the Commies were to go to the Super Bowl…well, nobody beats the Chiefs. Nobody.
We’re having ham for tonight’s dinner. I’m going to try a Scottish dessert called “cranachan,” or something like that. You layer raspberries, honey, whipped cream, and toasted oats in a footed glass. Scotch whisky is one of the ingredients, but I’m going to leave that out.
This will be a totally fun day with all the laundry I haven’t done for two weeks, plus a massive cleanup operation in my office. If I spend an hour a day throwing away stuff, by the end of the week it’ll be cleaned up, right? Bueller? Bueller?
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond. (Please, Goddess, let me get ALL the laundry done today.)
Good morning, 40 and sunny outside my windows today. We’re still sick but the cough suppressant meds are working so we may survive. Share misery has become a bit dramatic! I’m not going to do much today with the hope breathing will continue to improve. Best wishes to all.
I hope you feel better soon! I am glad you found a good medicine to take. I stocked up last month on a homeopathic nighttime decongestant that I have used in the past that works great for clearing up my lungs so I can sleep. I don’t know if I have a cold or just dust that irritates my lungs once in a while but it is nice to have something that works. It’s name is Boericke & Tafel Nighttime Cough & Bronchial Syrup and Amazon stocks it.
Thank you, I’ll order some today. I’m gurgling with every breath and the sound is so annoying.
Good morning, meeses! Monday, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr Day …
It is 37 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 59. Sunny skies are in the forecast. We might see 70s by mid-week but it won’t be permanent. Next weekend shows a chance for rain – we could certainly use some. Last January, we had a lot of precipitation and the skiers were happy and the little desert creatures were happy.
I will hope for the best for those in the crosshairs of the terrible people soon to be running the federal government. I hope that some of the people from the Biden Administration, but not the idiots who encouraged Joe to run in 2024, find some jobs where they can help strengthen organizations who can directly aid people whose families will be ripped apart, whose health care will be cancelled and whose life savings will be caught up in the impending global financial crisis that will be triggered by the oligarchs sucking up every dime they can while they are in power. Goddess help those who don’t have the resources to ride it out for four years. Our form of government, which does not allow for course corrections, has some serious problems. When it was possible, in the 1970s, to remove a president for crimes and malfeasance in office and general incompetence, there was a glimmer of hope. But like Bush in 2004, the people “spoke” and wanted the criminal back in the Oval Office. It can’t be helped because the Republican Party will never take out its own trash – unlimited power is more important than preserving the longest running democracy in the history of the world. It was a nice run with a few ups and downs. The problem was that we did not learn from the “downs” that you don’t give power back to those who led us there (the Confederacy, MAGAtism) and that is what led to its demise.
I completed a PITA project over the weekend and will work quietly today on a new project that does not have a hard deadline but has some difficult people as part of the implementation team. I will do what I can to avoid them and get the project done as quickly as possible.
See all y’all later!
Thanks for all the pictures through the years, and the extra ones today. We have freezing temperatures, so the news here is all about the weather. Warming centers are open for homeless people and anyone who loses electricity or just needs them. We might get as much as an inch of ice/snow tomorrow, not unprecedented but more than we can deal with. Today: going to kickboxing (they’ll surely be closed tomorrow) and maybe use the treadmill at the gym this afternoon because I am not running outside even at the peak of warmth today — 39 degrees.
Sorry, I copied my check in from the orange place, Bob has done White House pictures through the Biden years, and that is obviously changing after today.
It was 8 at dawn, 13 now, heading for 24. It’s supposed to get cloudy but right now it’s sunny. Hope it lasts a while. Moving into the light/Light. Yesterday we generated 9.83 KWHs and the m-t-d at 111 gained some more.
Can’t do anything about what’s going on in the “outer” world except hope that folks survive it. And continue my boosting as long as I’m able. No matter now creaky I am – and I am creaky today. Off to start the boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 27 and frosty in Bellingham today. I’m still very congested and have no stamina but overall not as sick, so that’s progress. I have not watched any news today, and my intention to be partially aware is firmly in place. I usually watch historical events whether I like them or not but today I just can’t. Best wishes to all.
Tuesday Meese. 3 degrees here in Kingston going up to 19.
I loved seeing this
Puerto Rico
Dee, that was a marvelous necklace Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore! Good for her!
I thought so :)
Thank you for sharing the Ketnaji Brown Jackson photo. Do you think a shell necklace will protect non-African people? I am looking for something my daughter can wear to protect her from getting swept up in workplace raids.
Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, is such a breath of fresh air after the corruption and malfeasance of past presidents. The beaches should not be private!
Good morning. It snowed here! Crazy. And the Baton Rouge office of the National Weather Service issued their first ever blizzard warning. Anyway, my agency is closed today because of the weather — except for people whose wfh day it is. So I’m working. Grr.
Anotherdemocrat, that’s a turn-up for the book! Snow in Austin—who’d ‘a thunk it?
Good freezin’ Toosday mornin’, Meese. See, it’s so cold that my command of the English language done left me. We have clear skies but it’s cold as Thing’s heart. Right now it’s 13 F. in snowy Ashburn, going up to who knows what—I’m not turning on the telly to find out what the high for the day is.
I have been disgustingly ill, with an ailment too indelicate to describe. It began with stomach cramps Sunday night, while I was trying to make out the Yorkshire accents in “All Creatures Great and Small.” Ugh, the pain. At any rate, yesterday I was obliged to spend the day in bed when I wasn’t in the Smallest Room, so I missed my friend’s memorial service. I was devastated. I had wanted to be there so much. Even her little dog was there, brought by the people who adopted him. All in all, 75 persons attended, so I’m told, and ALL of the Blue Ridge Writers’ Group except for moi!
Feeling better this morning except still fragile. At least I’m out of bed. Soon I will get dressed and figure out whether I can attend a meeting this afternoon. This was to have been such a busy week—auditions, cast calls, Play Selection Committee Meeting, Afternoon Tea—the lot! Still, it’s a first-world problem.
Of course I didn’t watch the InHogUration yesterday. I feel as if I don’t want to watch the news ever again.
“Me, me, me!” That’s enough about that. Hope everyone will figure out a way to live through the next four years. Wait, what am I saying? There probably won’t be an election in four years. He’ll get rid of elections.
Well, anyway, wishing a good day to all at the Pond. That much I can do. Blessed be.
It was 6 at dawn, windchill below zero, 9 now and heading for 23. But sunny. That part’s good. We generated 9.2 KWHs yesterday and the m-t-d at 120 is exactly on track for 180. Ironic that. Oh well. We shall see what today brings.
A good if very small win yesterday for the homeless folks in the Taos NM area. With overnights dropping below zero in northern NM, the guv declared a weather emergency which meant all the shelters took in everybody who showed up – with pets – and the schools opened their gyms for pallets on the floor once the shelters were full. The issue was getting folks to the sheltering places. A volunteer org was happy to step up, had the vehicles & licensed drivers, but estimated they’s need $2K in gas to get everybody calling them. Aji started a fundraiser yesterday afternoon & with the help of folks on Xitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon (a Bluesky person also had a large presence there & immediately took The Word over), the goal was made by sundown. Community. It’s how we are going to survive the next 4 years & beyond.
Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 39 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 54. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We had a hellacious wind come up over the mountains last night about 11:30pm or so that was unrelenting for what seemed like forever (but was more likely just a half hour). I think it was the goddess moaning in agony realizing that her beautiful planet will not likely survive another 4 years of Republican rule. I know that I am not certain if I will! For now I am going to avoid the news and see if that helps my agony. I need to find a way to put Breaking News emails into my spam folder if they have the word “Trump” in them. I don’t need to know what he is doing or plans to do or has done.
I am going to have to work for another four years because I can’t count on being able to retire while Republicans are running the government and threatening to repeal Social Security and Medicare. I probably should start eating better. Time for my walk.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 27 and partly cloudy in Bellingham today. I’m still sick but have a new cough med, and that is allowing me to sleep. RonK and our son are feeling much better so that gives me hope. Yesterday was grim, personally as well as for our country, today is a new normal, like it or not. As always my best wishes to all.
Good morning. Another freeze but the wet stuff is gone. Going to go to kickboxing this afternoon, and I’m trying to talk myself into running before work tomorrow. The weather is all the news here is talking about.
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! The current temp is, like, 8 F. and the high on this sunny but freezing day will be 24 F. Both Fairfax County and Loudoun County public schools are delaying their opening by two hours. Despite the sunshine, the snow is not going to melt.
Happy to report I’m feeling so much better that I ate dinner last night—very fattening—and a somewhat restrained breakfast. Feeling so much better, in fact, that tonight I’ll do a couple of errands in the main clubhouse this morning and audition at the theater this evening. This was a most unpleasant illness, but it didn’t have the other hallmarks of Noro.
Naturally, many of my plans for the week have gone by the wayside. I still need to clear off the sofa in my office so my grandson can sleep on it. Speaking of which, I’d better get on that. At least I did most of the laundry yesterday and completed my February assignment for the writers’ group, so that’s something.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Warming up. It’s 23 heading for 40. Yesterday the high was 23. Yesterday we generated double digits for the 1st time this year. Barely at 10.03 KWHs but still double digits. The m-t-d is 130, on track and gaining. Off and on cloudy today so we probably won’t do it again. But we will soon.
I managed to eke out the milk so that I’ve just used the last of it in my oatmeal. Once it gets above freezing, I’ll to a Braum’s run for milk & a Walmart run for kibble. Other than that it’s another day. I wish prayers were more effective. But I’ll keep praying anyway. Safety & comfort – because you can’t be comfortable if you’re hungry, thirsty, cold, in pain, or afraid. Anyway, on to my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}