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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 45 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 72. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. It is insanely cold for here — 45 degrees & super windy. That’s February weather. There was great turnout for the Hands Off rally here, the Capitol police estimated 7,000 people! Very proud of Austin.
YAY! Sorry about the cold. Was the rally at the state capitol? That’s a beautiful building, I was there years ago.
Yep. Here’s a post with good pictures
https://bsky.app/profile/essephreak.bsky.social/post/3lm3wn2dfhs2q
Yay! Austin!
Thanks, wow! Let’s hear it for Austin!
Good Sunday Meese! Posted
Good gray Sunday morning, Moosekind! One tires of gray mornings, but that’s a first-world problem. Right now it’s 59 F., and imaginary rain is predicted again for the evening. The imaginary showers stayed imaginary yesterday.
Lots to do today. We’ve had a large unseemly breakfast and will have a light lunch, so we can go to dinner at the perfectly stupid hour of 4 p.m. At least we should get a seat at that time of day. The upside is that dining early will give us some evening for what I need to do, which is read through the poems my writers have submitted.
Feeling a bit down about the play. I’ll practice Scene 1 by myself today, trying to nail the tricky bits. Tomorrow I have Drum Circle, so I’ll be pounding away in the afternoon. We’ll have Rehearsal every night this coming week, of course. Two and a half weeks until we open!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, and healing energy to all who are troubled in spirit or in body.
It’s 40 heading for 44 and cloudy again. Yesterday we generated 2 whole KWHs and the m-t-d at 31 is definitely not on track. But the sun comes back tomorrow, along with the temps in the 70s. We shall see what we shall see.
Early tomorrow morning should be the last freeze of the season. Current normal anyway. That’s 6 weeks ahead of when the last freeze was expected 40 years ago. If I were still gardening, I’d have everything planned already and be impatiently waiting another 2 weeks to put out my tomato plants – “just in case”. (And of course would already have all the green leafys planted and some cut-and-come-again harvested.
Welp, vacuuming done and breakfast just eaten so I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Oh, and my desired format for the PV data just showed up again this morning. I didn’t have to look 3 places and calculate anything to get what I wanted. Yay!
Good show! Here’s to sunshine tomorrow!
Crap! The techbro phone app formatting is back. sigh.
Good morning, 41 and light clouds. Real rain will start this afternoon so I hope I can finish my outdoor tasks before I get too wet. RonK went to the protest marches yesterday but I stayed home. An old friend who now lives near Yuma, Arizona is in town so we had a lovely visit. So nice to reminisce about our big project drapery sewing days, and to share the reality of aging with arthritis. Our son and Elsa will be here for dinner tonight and after we’ll watch The Wheel of Time. I’m enjoying the tv series and ignoring “but it’s different in the books” critics…..different mediums, same story so no complaints from me. Best wishes to all.
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! It’s 46 F. and actually R-A-I-N-I-N-G here in Ashburger. Dearly says it began during the night. I was out like a light, eventually, so I knew nothing about it until this morning. Last night the local weather person admitted that this area is in severe drought. Cold today and cold for the rest of the week.
Yesterday I went to the library in the next building, intending to practice my entrances and exits, when I was stricken with a nasty illness. I had wondered why I had stomach cramps during my afternoon nap! Anyway, that finished my practice. Had to go home, drink lots of Pepto Bismol, and eat a bland, meager supper.
This afternoon I have Drum Circle—hope I feel like going to that—and tonight, Rehearsal. Gods. I have to overcome this illness, cannot let the Director down.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 50 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 79. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The moon is not where I can see her in the dark skies but she is big and bright enough that I might see her this afternoon rising over the mountains. I have not seen her since her slender 7% illumination earlier last month.
It feels like it is too soon to be April but here we are. I received my earned benefit last month but I feel like it will be “hold my breath and hope” until the DOGE is shat out of the bowels of government. Maybe the riches-getting-poorer will tell the Republicans to rein in their mad king and they will listen. HAHAHAHA! Of course they won’t listen! They are a cult, their mad king can’t be reined in now and the sad riches will just have to learn to get by on 5 billion instead of 25 billion.
I had a productive weekend but ran out of energy to finish all that I wanted to. I am hoping that the planned maintenance around my apartment unit today and tomorrow is not too disruptive and that I can work while they are tearing things apart. Fingers crossed that my air conditioner replacement arrives on time and works out of the box. They put them on the roofs and so they bring a crane to swap the old out and the new in so there are a lot of moving parts to the project. In any event, I can’t control it – just wait then watch then hope.
See all y’all later!
Another weirdly cold morning. I did my walk in my warmest fleece, with a hat & gloves. In April. That stuff is normally gathering dust in storage by now. I’m relishing the cold, though because all too soon our lows will be 80. Anyway, hi. Happy Monday.
It’s 44 heading for 64 and sunny today. Yesterday it started to clear off in late-ish afternoon and we generated 7.9 KWHs. The m-t-d is 39.88 and way off track. We’ll see if we can maybe gain a ground today.
Had to reboot my computer this morning, which of course took advantage of that to install an update. So both me and the computer are slow this morning. I did see the moon for a brief moment last night. It was cloudy again but when I checked out my bedroom window just before getting into bed she was visible through a, well not break but a thinning of the clouds. Glad it’s cool enough to have a fire this evening as I have to do laundry and it’s certainly too cold to be outside hanging it out right now. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good afternoon,41 and sunny outside my windows today. I’ve had a very quiet morning, so time for lunch and then to decide what tasks to start and prolly not finish today :) Oh well, small progress is still progress. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. Saving exercise for afternoon today. Watching local news, I’m so glad I have these 2 wfh days. Anyway, happy Tuesday.
Good morning Meese. I’m in rant mode today – will let it hang out in Black Kos this evening
Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny said “Long live Free Puerto Rico” in the Tiny Desk concert
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! Our weather is so variable today—the sun keeps trying to come out, but clouds keep interfering. To make things more exciting, it’s a nasty 37 F. in Ashburn with a cold wind. The high is expected to be 49 F. I shall not go out more than absolutely necessary.
I do have to go out on errands, though. Yesterday I still felt so awful from the unexpected gastric attack that I almost didn’t go to Drum Circle. This time I scored a doumbek. It was a very soothing hour of drumming. After a while we switched to drumming up a rainstorm, right down to the croaking frog! There must be some magic associated with drumming, because I felt much better after the hour.
Went to rehearsal, only to find that my man wasn’t there! The Director said he was in the hospital, but hoped to be back for this evening’s rehearsal. I didn’t know what to do, other than to chase an invisible Lank around the stage. One of the producers was sitting in the theater seats, reading his lines. I felt stupid asking her to marry me!
These are the hazards associated with elderly actors. One of the chorus girls has had an operation on her nose, for which she is wearing a bandage. Another actress fell, somehow, and is black and blue from her left eye all the way down her left arm. My morning prayer list is so long now it takes a good 15 minutes to recite all the names.
Duh. This morning I woke up with an unexplained swollen lower right lip. What causes this? For a while I thought it was the detergent I use to wash the bedding (and everything else), but it can’t be that, or I’d wake up every morning with a fat lip. I can’t wear a mask to hide it, either, as it’s difficult enough for the audience to hear our regular voices, never mind masks. First world problems!
How long has that thing been in office, less than 100 days? He’s ruined the economy and everything else in eight weeks. As someone pointed out, the supposedly “senile, doddering” Joe Biden never taxed penguins, not a single one!
Loathing and disgust to them all, including John Roberts. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, though, and spirals of healing white light to those who are ill.
Chief “Justice” John Roberts has given up on trying to salvage his legacy – literally creating a new monarchy – and will now just go through the motions. Maybe if enough medium rich people (not the mega billionaires, they don’t care) get ticked off at the trillions of dollars they are losing and will lose they will kick out the bums who let this happen and return sanity. Not everyone will get MuskMoney to run their 2026 and 2028 campaigns – let the sorting begin.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 57 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 84 degrees. Sunny skies are in the forecast. We will be in the 90s for the rest of the week. My replacement air conditioner will be installed today, just in the nick of time. I am not looking forward to the disruption but I am looking forward to getting the portable a/c unit out of the living room. It is blocking one of the patio doors (it has to vent outside) and it takes up a lot of space. We tried to avoid running it because it is noisy but we were glad to have it the few days over the past two weeks when it was in the upper 80s.
I am trying to sort out my 2025-2026 Women’s Basketball loyalties. The Arizona Wildcats coach left to coach SMU and will be in the ACC. She took the last two players who entered the portal yesterday with her (along with her two freshmen recruits) and we literally have one player still on the roster – a woman rehabbing from a late season injury to a knee that had been repaired in 2023 – and no signed recruits. The Athletic Director is not having much luck finding a new coach, it is a crappy job with the new NIL rules and revenue sharing: the women’s basketball program will get 2% of the cut for the university, less than $500,000, with the bulk going to men’s programs mainly football. Whoever she hires won’t be paid much and will have no roster to work with. If it is like what happened to Wisconsin when that university made a series of terrible coaching decisions, the program will start bleeding season ticket holders and end up playing in front of 500 people. It sucks. Maybe I will be surprised and the AD will find a superstar coach but how can they have any success starting with a roster with one hurt player? :(
Time to get back to project work.
See all y’all later!
It’s 44 heading for 68 – cooler than was predicted yesterday – and sunny. For some reason my system “dashboard” isn’t show any information at all – as in the header is there but the rest of the screen is blank – which I devoutly hope will be fixed soon. So I’m going on memory of what it ended being last night when I closed that tab. We generated a little over 20 KWHs (I think for the 1st time this year, definitely the 1st time this month) which means we gained a little ground. The m-t-d is just under or right at 60 so there’s a lot of ground still to gain.
Sinusitis again last night. I got at least 5 hours of sleep but probably not much more. I did at least see the moon. She was shining brightly and I left the curtains opens so her light could shine on my bed as I slept. Need to get to my boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 41 and cloudy outside my windows today. I’m trying to control my worries re our retirement account but looks like I need a reality check…sigh And I need a doom and gloom antidote asap. Ava is on spring break so going to the bookstore cafe for lunch is possibility. Best wishes to all.
Posted a rant
Good morning. Headed out for blood draw ahead of my physical in a couple of weeks. Didn’t exercise yesterday, when I logged in to work after my car repair, I just worked till 4. Got 5 new people set up; which is a lot for just the afternoon. Anyway, happy Wednesday everyone.
Good bright Wednesday morning, Moosekind! I’d call it a gorgeous, sunny day if it didn’t happen to be 35 F. in Ashburn this morning, going up to a whopping 53 F. There doesn’t appear to be so much nasty wind today.
Coming out of Rehearsal last night, I saw Her! She seemed to be about 70 percent full. Glad I did see Her, because as usual it’ll be cloudy when She’s full on Saturday. When I held up SkyView, I could see the constellation Leo.
Rehearsal went much better last night. My man was back from the hospital. He feels much better, and sang his part in a nice strong voice. Apparently he has late-life diabetes, or is about to develop it, or something. After that time in the hospital he appears to have lost weight, to the point I nearly said, “Lank, Lank, you have shrank,” but I restrained myself.
The show is beginning to sound really good! When I first read the lyrics I thought, “Dear Goddess, Libretto, you get a ‘D.'” But now that the cast has learned the music, it sounds excellent. The cowboys in Nevada also sound great. Apparently I’m still “upstaging” myself and not being “open,” but the Director commended me for a “more energetic entrance.” That’s because I was wearing Mary Jane shoes instead of The Cripplers.
Have to get ready to read my part in the Earth Day play. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and to the 14 people on my morning prayer list!