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Good morning. Didn’t get out to exercise yesterday, I ended up working even past 4:30. Kept getting callbacks and I couldn’t just not call them back. Anyway, today I really must exercise. Too warm for open windows – 74 already, and soooo muggy.
Good Wednesday Meese. Good weather is still holding out here in Kingston
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Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 52 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 63. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast but it is overcast now.
Wisconsin voters rejected the Melon Husk and voted for the left leaning candidate for State Supreme Court Justice – it wasn’t even close, the vile Brad Schimel lost by 10 points. They also rejected the right-wing Moms for Hate candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. That one was a little closer, 5 points, but a solid win. Maybe that purple state will swing back Blue? I hope so.
I am working on end of month project cleanup and a hot project that had been simmering for a few weeks. It is time to bring it to a boil.
See all y’all later!
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! THREE CHEERS for what happened in Wisconsin! Three jeers for Florida, but what do we expect? Florida. I’m so amused when I think of the Canadians selling their vacation houses and the idea the state will have to force children to work because the Feds deported all the immigrants who sweated under the hot sun to pick whatever it is Florida grows.
I have a morning free of appointments until noon. Wildly happy about that. Must catch up with all the stuff I didn’t do yesterday.
We rehearsed Scenes 1 through 5 last night and mother-in-law and I flubbed again. We did the scene over and that time we did MUCH better. I don’t know what it is about Scene 1 that eludes me. I think it’s the crossings—stage left, upstage, and center stage. I become confused and blow my lines. Well, just two of my lines.
Saw a thin, beautiful slice of moon in the clear night sky when we came out of Rehearsal. This will make me happy for days. Good thing too, because the weather is ugly-cloudy. Yesterday was beautiful but so windy it took a $20 right from Dearly’s trembling hand and blew it across the road. This happened when he was getting cash from the ATM. I don’t like to use ATMs, I go inside, but that’s easy for me to say. I don’t walk slowly and painfully with a cane.
So anyway, it’s cloudy, 43 F., won’t get up beyond 60 F., and breezy. Today at noon I see the foot doctor, then get my nails done, then the UU dinner at 5, followed by Rehearsal at 7. What sins did I commit in a previous incarnation to be so busy now? (Ignore me, I’m just a bit grumpy.)
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, to the poor souls laid off by Melon and the Felon—may they find good jobs with benefits—and for all those who are ill. Blessed be.
The Florida special elections were probably never going to flip but they were closer than expected and they did make the Republicans sweat; it made the Felon pull the nomination of the vile New York Representative Elaine Stefanik for Ambassador to the UN because they worried about the thin House majority. If every Republican in a district that will be decimated by the tariffs and federal agency cuts and mass layoffs would vote with their constituents instead of with their party, the Republicans would have no majority. I hope they wake up and do the right thing instead of the safe thing. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is regretting his vote to confirm RFkheadJR and it won’t even save his seat! He will have put a permanent blemish on his soul – and be responsible for millions of deaths – for no reason.
It’s 68 and has been since I went to bed last night, heading for 76. Very overcast, rumbling thunder, and light rain. Yesterday we generated 15.5 KWHs before the clouds moved in. That started us out on track, barely, but while we’re supposed to get a few hours of sunshine this afternoon it certainly won’t be 15 KWHs worth and the rest of the week we’re socked in.
Yay! for the one bright spot that is Wisconsin election results! (Hoping Cory Booker’s filibuster will get the rest of the Dems to follow suit. If we can’t do good we should be spending as much time a possible blocking bad.)
We’re not getting anything like the rain they keep saying we’re getting but we certainly have gotten the wind. The tarp was blown off my remaining small pile of firewood. It was up against the neighbor’s fence and I’ve retrieved it but I haven’t even looked for the bungy cords that were holding it in place yet. I did bring a few armloads of firewood onto the sunporch to dry in case I need more than what I brought into the house yesterday before the coming cold spell is over.
Meanwhile I had a wretched night, complete with having to get up and walk out a muscle spasm on the treadmill, and slept very late thanks to how dark it is. So I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
My Senator, Ruben Gallego, is putting holds on all the Veterans Administration nominees to protest the cuts at the VA. It is a way to gum up the Senate which is a great thing. The second dumbest man in the Senate, Tommy Tuberville, put holds on all military promotions last year to protest the Biden Administration’s abortion policies. We need to block wherever we can – whenever we can – to slow down what is happening.
That’s it. If we can’t stop it we sure as heck can slow it down. NO unanimous consent on anything, holds on everything.
Good morning, 49 and partly cloudy in Bellingham today. Nice to wake up to good news from Wisconsin this morning. Gives me hope the spell will break, one election at a time.
My sister sent me a box of iris bulbs from her garden in sunny New Mexico so today’s task is to find a dry sunny spot to plant them in my PNW garden. Ron will dig them in after I spread them around soI’ll try to do that this morning. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. 42 this morning here in Kingston going up to 68 with April showers.
Glad to see Wisconsin win and for Sen Cory Booker’s filibuster.
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Good morning. Did my walk — ran for the middle 10 minutes. In the office, depressingly warm (74 — in a couple of months, that will count as cold, but for now it’s too warm for 5 am) Anyway, hi.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 41 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 63. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. Yesterday it was extremely windy again and I think that they got rain in Phoenix – none of it made it here. This morning I did see my stars over the mountains!
I don’t have much to say about the Republican’s destruction of our country. I pray that the vulnerable are protected in these frightening times. The tariffs, if they are allowed to go into effect, will cause a lot of hardship. It will be like the COVID shortages, literally another fkup by tRump creating economic pain for non-billionaires. The Senate blocked the Canadian tariffs last night but the chances of that bill even getting a vote in the House are slim to none. Bastids. I am hoping that my replacement air conditioner arrives as scheduled early next week and does not get caught up in the tariff economy. I have no idea where it is coming from and have to hope that it doesn’t get “redirected” to someone who will pay to jump ahead of the queue. Next week we will see temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. :(
I am watching the Women’s Basketball portals and it is amazing what is happening – entire teams wiped out. I understand what Arizona Wildcats coach Adia Barnes is talking about, it is not worth spending time on recruiting and developing when your players just disappear after two or three years. The TCU team created their team that got into the Elite Eight completely with portal transfers. Who is going to take a chance on a raw high school recruit who might need a year of seasoning before she can play when the portal is filled with players that other coaches developed into good players. Sad, really.
Today is “get organized day” and I am pulling together all the scraps of paper on my desk into to-do lists (some get to be tossed!) to make sure that I am working on the correct projects going into the weekend. Sometimes the people I am doing projects for go silent so I need to make sure I have one day, tomorrow, to communicate with them on the status.
See all y’all later!
Good Thursday morning, Meese. When I arose at 6:30, I opened the door of the screened porch to find runoff from the light rain still chuckling through the gutters, and the birds trilling excitedly about the tasty worms and juicy insects to be found in the wet grass. It’s still gray outside, 55 F. at the moment, going up to 81 F. So gray, warm, and humid are the words of the day.
Last night at the end of Rehearsal the Director said we needed to speed up the action to make it more like a farce. I finally had an epiphany: the scene during which I abuse the hotelier to his face while jabbing my forefinger in his chest and then a second later asking him to marry me, is meant to be comic. Oh, okay! You coulda fooled moi. Anyway, by Scene 9 we’re newlyweds but Director Kate said we weren’t acting lovey-dovey enough, so tonight we’ll have to work on that. (Suits me, he’s awful cute.)
The problem with directing 80-year-olds is that a lot of us have memory problems. We don’t say the lines exactly as written, which means, of course, other people’s cues get messed up.
But enough of this theatrical chitchat. Yesterday was a horror story, the details of which I do not have the mojo to recount. Y’all are lucky! Today I will attempt to do the things I didn’t get done yesterday.
We had one day to rejoice about Cory Booker and Wisconsin, but this morning everyone is tariff-eyed. Stupid, stupid Felon! Here’s hoping the Melon has cracked.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, a good day to those who are ill, and a good day to the poor souls who are jobless in the concrete jungle. May they find the jobs of their DREAMS as remotely as they want them!
It’s 55 and we won’t see 60 again until Monday. Won’t see the sun again until Monday as well although the PV system is on at the moment. Barely. Yesterday it cleared off enough for us to generate 8.3 KWHs and the m-t-d at 24 is not on track.
A weirdness this morning. I was heading for the treadmill for my 1st 10-minute session, glanced out the French window and saw a little black cat crouching on a flat stone at the edge of the garden. Looked like Rennie of course and about a foot away from where Rennie’s ashes are buried. I didn’t want to scare him so I just kept going. When I finished my treadmill session the little cat was gone. And so was the kibble I’d left on the top step for the wandering neighborhood cats. We’ll see if he comes back. And I’ll worry about what do to if he does when he does.
Damp and chilly messes with my joints and low back. Dark messes with my head. So. I’d still best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 41 and cloudy outside my windows today. Bri will be here this afternoon and we’ll try to move a plant so we can use the space in a different way. I hope the barbeque will move to that spot but we’ll have to level it first and then decide if there is enough room. Feeling gratiful I have the garden work to distract me from the felon’s chaos. A large ICE raid happened here yesterday and one of Ava’s friends father was taken. Lots of fear and tears, sigh
As always my best wishes to all.
Oh, goddess, how awful for Ava’s friend and her family. I worry about everyone not born in America and the fear they and their families feel even when they followed all the rules and are now citizens or have green cards. If they aren’t Caucasian, it makes them a target in the Felon’s No Due Process for Non-Whites America. :(
Poor Ava’s friend! She’ll be desolate without her father. The Felon is like a vengeful, petty, tyrannical four-year-old. Can’t he be taken away by the men in white coats or something?
Evil ones being evil. Holding Ava’s friend’s family in The Light.
Thanks Jan, 37 people were taken, all long time employees of a local roofing company. The ICE facility in Bellingham is big and focused on border activity and their activity is usually low key. This was a masked daytime raid with the intention of being seen. I really feel for the families and am upset this is happening in our community.
I sent you an email this morning but am not sure if I still have your correct address. My gmail is the same we’ve always used so if you didn’t receive anything from me would you please let me know? Thanks
I will check for it. I am very negligent checking my online email account lately and need to be better. I missed an email a week or so ago from an online friend who was going to be coming through town. I would not have had time to meet with them in any event as I am up to my ears in work projects right now and can’t break for even an unscheduled cup of coffee but I should try to avoid making it look like I disappeared! :)
Thanks, I know you really busy now so no worries.
Friday Meese. 56 here in Kingston, going up to 65.
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FYI Myrna is 90.
Good morning. Did my walk, avoiding the news. Not much else to say. Hope your Friday is good.
Good gray Friday morning, Moosekind! Feeling very tired today because we really got worked over during Rehearsal last night. It helps that I remind myself, “You asked for this. You auditioned!”
Director Kate wasn’t happy with the frivolous tone of my marriage proposal to the hotelier, so I had to issue it in the form of a command. Considering how acidulous nature of the hotelier, it doesn’t work for me, but then, I’m not directing. Luckily the scene doesn’t last that long.
My grandson just Signaled me that their flight is on time! No journalists were listening in. I’ll be glad to see them. On the news, some business entity is saying there’s a 60 percent chance of a recession. Oh, mah Gawd.
Hope Bfitz is nowhere NEAR the awful tornadoes! Is Jonesboro anywhere near Fayetteville? It looked as if Jonesboro is in the area to be hit.
Guess what woke me up this morning—lightning, no less! And it had been raining for some time. It’s stopped now. Actually, it started to rain when we left Rehearsal at 10 past 9 last night, so I turned around and walked home through the buildings. Of course I couldn’t hear the thunder, being stone-deaf, but Dearly heard it all right.
That’s enough of my jabbering. As usual, I sent healing energy to the 13 people on my list of the ill. And I’m rejoicing in the marvelous pinks, purples, whites, cream colors, and pale greens of spring in the DC area. Probably won’t see the Moon for a while, as we’re expecting gray skies now through Sunday, at least.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} Jonesboro is on the other side of the state from me. We’ve just got heavy rain ATM and a flash flood warning. Since I won’t be going out anyway, that’s not a problem for me. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Thank Goddess!
It’s 55 and may get up to or even over 60 today. Very dark – PV system isn’t on – and raining at the moment. Yesterday it cleared off enough to generate 4.5 KWHs which it probably won’t do today and brought the m-t-d up to 28.
Trouble getting to sleep then slept heavily until just after 8. Stiff, achy in the joints, and groggy. But the cats are eating the new food for the 2nd day so that’s good. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 45 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 61. It is raining right now and may rain some more later in the afternoon. It rained last night, I could hear it and smell it in the wash this morning when I went to check on my stars and mountains.
I am glad that my stock market investments are selected for “wealth preservation” and are not in any aggressive growth stocks. There will be another generation that will have to delay retirement and house buying as the stock market crashes from the Mad Tariff King’s demented whims. I guess billionaires don’t invest in the stock market any longer as they seem unfazed by the Felon’s craziness. The one bit of good news is that the court orders are finally being followed and federal employees are being reinstated. That is a big deal in Arizona because our federal parks are key drivers to our multi-billion dollar tourism industry and park support staff layoffs were making it a less than pleasant experience.
Today is a busy sports day with MLB baseball, softball, professional volleyball and the Women’s Final Four. I love that we are 3 hours earlier than the East coast as the Final Four games will be at 4pm and 6:30pm and I literally do not have to lose sleep over them.
See all y’all later!
The billionaires are waiting until after the Crash so they can buy up everything they don’t already own for pennies on the dollar.
Good morning, 41 and partly cloudy outside my windows today. Bri moved the plant growing by the lower patio yesterday so now the space is ready to make a level base for the barbeque, yay! I have a few pansies and primroses to plant today and then we’ll have a few rainy days so the plants (and me) can rest. It’s nice to see the winter weary garden looking cared for again. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. Not going to the hands-off rally here. This is Austin, it will be huge and the absence of one middle-aged blonde lady won’t make any difference. My feet would scream at me for standing that long. I will hit the stations at kickboxing with special vigor, though.
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