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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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Good morning. Heading for another record-high day. 105 is just wrong for May. I did get out to kickboxing yesterday, plan to do so again today. Anyway, that’s all the news I can think of: it’s ridiculously hot.
Something I saw on the Bluesky said that a bunch of MAGAtty school board members got bounced in Texas in an election last night. I hope that is true!
Good morning Meese. Yet another week of rain ahead here in Kingston. :(
Not much PR news today
Yay, you got in!
YES! Thanks for your help Jan
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! It’s still quite soggy in Ash-no-longer-quite-so-burned. We received 1.47 inches of rain yesterday, which does indeed dent, but not eradicate, the 5-inch deficit. Showers and thunderstorms are predicted for the rest of the week.Today’s high will be 75 f. or thereabouts.
I hope my tomatoes are all right. Naturally, I refuse to visit the garden during these downpours. I told the little darlings they’d have to mostly look after themselves and solve their own little problems. I’ll pull the weeds, of course.
Not much news today. Our building is having a morning coffee at 10, so I’d better commit hurry-scurry pretty soon. After that I have a working session with the president of the Board. I also need to send out a couple of emails.
Back at the ranch, we had just decided that our orchid was dead and were going to throw it out, when I discovered a new little leaf growing! Say whut? I’m not much of a one for orchids, and our flat is very cold and dark. However, I trimmed off some dead-looking grey stragglers, watered it, and set it back on the window sill.
Gotta clean up this space, Moosekind, the maid’s coming tomorrow. I did hide my wig away. She’s done her duty.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and food and medicine for the Gazans!
It’s 71 heading for 89 and sunny today. Yesterday we generated 20.98 KWHs and the m-t-d at 203 gained a bit more.
I’ve got the house opened up. With a cat staking out the prime territory of the west window by my computer desk/table. As in he got it by pushing out the other 2 cats who were enjoying it. Youngest and biggest, Bobbie’s not exactly a bully – he doesn’t fight although he sometimes plays a little rough – but he uses his larger size and weight to push the others out of whatever territory he wants.
The only good news I know of is that the dog rescuer in Taos County’s fundraiser to fix her truck got met last night. Mostly because the match was up today so Suzanne/Aashirs nani put in the last $300 to meet that match. She shouldn’t have – she’s got a sick cat she’s spending a lot of her Social Security on – but she’s a grownup and if she thinks she can rearrange her spending. . . well, so can I and I sent her a bit. Nowhere near $300 but something. Meanwhile, I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought. {{{Meeses}}}
Thurs Meese. Rain, rain and more rain here till next week. :(
Puerto Rico
Good morning. It was less hot than I feared for my walk, with the 105 yesterday I thought it wouldn’t cool off overnight. Anyway, here I am in the office. Did my 30 minutes walking.
It’s 77 heading for 81 and sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 20.1 KWHs and the m-t-d at 233 gained a little more.
I need to close up the house before I get started on my boosting. Last week fires in the evening. This week opening up early and closing by 9 am to keep the heat out. (& from the current forecast we might have a fire next week.) Early summer in AR. The cats won’t be happy. They’re in some of the windows I need to close. Oh well. Once closed up, I’ll be off to do my daily boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Thursday morning, Meese! It’s 69 F. at this writing and the sun is desperately seeking to shine through some ugly gray clouds. High today around 81 F. and humid.
Now that I’m getting more sleep, I’ve a new fund of energy. Actually changed the sheets on the bed this morning. Yesterday I visited my garden plot and am happy to report the little darlings are looking very healthy. I do wish I hadn’t accidentally grabbed the Roma tomato plant instead of the cherry tomato one.
Today is my last day of eating porridge for breakfast for some time. Hope it works. One of Elder Son’s friends, when diagnosed with high cholesterol, ate oatmeal six days a week in the hope of avoiding having to take a statin. It worked. I quite like porridge, it’s just that it tends to pall when you eat it day after day. (First-world problem!)
Dearly, who is awake on and off during the night, reported at breakfast that we had quite a lot of rain in the wee hours. Today, with the acting workshop canceled because Madame La Directrice has bronchitis, I’ll spend the rest of the morning preparing interview questions for her. It’s 69 F. right now in Ashburn, so it’s warm but ugly.
Bfitz, I was thinking about your poor hands. I hope they’re better now that the weather is warming.
Going to get ready for my day, now that “changing filters” men have stopped clomping in and out. Time’s getting on! Wishing all at the Pond a good day.
My PCP prescribed a statin to get my cholesterol down and I tried it for a while and hated the side effects. I was told that Black Seed Oil was good to lower cholesterol so I started using that. I have yet to have my cholesterol retested but I plan to spend the $34 and do that in the next couple of weeks. If it didn’t help, I will have to look up the benefits of oatmeal!
{{{Diana}}} My hands are mostly fine. Enough that I have to think about them to notice otherwise. Hope the oatmeal works for you. Not having been to a doctor in years I haven’t a clue about my cholesterol but I eat oatmeal for breakfast daily. (Along with a 4 oz glass of OJ, a small turkey sausage patty, a TBSP of ground flaxseed, and my supplements.) Moar {{{HUGS}}}
You must be beautifully healthy, bfitz! I’m glad your hands have stopped hurting so much.
Just read an article in the AARP Bulletin about how BAD sugar is for you, how it causes Alzheimer’s, high triglycerides, liver damage, and so on. And here I sit, with a flat full of cookies, chocolate, ice cream, and cake. And fruit! Fruit has sugar in it. I was planning to make Little Fellow Lemon Tarts for my writers in June, but now I shall have to rethink.
{{{Diana}}} Moderation in everything. Part of what causes problems with sugar is that it’s pure carbs. The human body is not made to deal with much of that. Honey’s about the only natural form of it and in the wild honey’s hard to find and a lot harder to get. It has to have sugar – the brain runs on it – but too much is like blooding your engine with gasoline. Or trying to run your car on jet fuel. Pair your Little Fellow Lemon Tarts with a cheese tray and everybody will be fine. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 85 degrees in Tucson 🌵 and that is the expected high. Sunny skies.
I have several projects I am tending so I can’t stay or read the news. The latter is probably a blessing.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 51 and cloudy with rain this afternoon. I’m fortunate that RICE still works for keeping the swelling down in my blood clot damaged leg but I still get very restless after a few days. But regardless I’ve done my time so I’ll see if I can do something more fun this afternoon. Best wishes to all.
Friday Meese. More weird weather here in Kingston. It’s going to be 80 which is a high temp for our time of year, and the rain continues.
Puerto Rico
Barrio Borikén: Stories from Chicago is an upcoming documentary highlighting the vibrant legacy of Puerto Ricans in Humboldt Park. This parade clip is just a glimpse of the energy, pride, and resilience you’ll see in the film. Your donation helps us finish this important project—we’re in the final editing stages! And don’t forget: this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade is coming up! Let’s celebrate our history and build the future together.
We’ll be waiting for you on Saturday, May 17th at 3pm to march from the Capitol to Fortaleza!
Our existence is resistance.
Our rights are respected. Our lives matter. 🏳️🌈🇵🇷🏳️⚧️
Good morning. Summer is definitely here, ugh. But I did my walk. Yesterday was the deadline for House-originating bills to pass out of committee and a lot of bills died; I haven’t heard if the book-banning one was among them. Counting the days till the Lege leaves town.
Our legislature is done except for the budget. Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed dozens of bills including a couple of anti-trans bathroom bills and a terrible bill that would have required hospitals to ask every patient if they were a citizen. Of course, according to the bill’s author, that was only to “keep track of costs”, not to notify the feds of the location of undocumented immigrants. Riiiighht. If people are afraid to get medical care when they are sick, we are not going to survive the next pandemic.
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 59 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 88. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We are going to have nearly perfect May weather for the next 5 days and I am going to try to spend a lot of it outdoors.
It sounds like the Supreme Court is leaning towards letting the Orange Fascist and his White Supremacy Party cancel birthright citizenship because, I guess, what does it matter when you are a white male or a white male-controlled female christianist who can say “I have mine, screw you.” Goddess help us if we go down that path.
I was pleased to see that Harvard is telling their researchers to continue their projects even though the federal funds are cut off. They, and the other wealthy private research universities, need to dig deep and find a way to keep scientific research alive until we can get out of this mess. For now at least, until the federal government shuts it down, the Arizona Board of Regents created a bridge fund that can be tapped into by our public universities to pay for continuing their projects. You can’t just set some projects aside and pick them back up in a few years when the nazis are driven out of power. Unfortunately, keeping that going will require a legislature that values science and education and has the courage to stand up to the destroyers. We have a legislature enthrall to their fascist overlord so scientific progress is hanging by a thread.
I have a slight reprieve from two of my projects so I am taking time to organize and plan today. I need to get back to it while my train of thought is still on track. Tonight is the start of the WNBA season and my Arizona Wildcats softball team is hosting a regional for the NCAA tournament so I will have a lot of sports watching options.
See all y’all later!
It’s 73 heading for 84 and sunny at the moment. I need to close up the house in a few minutes. Yesterday we generated 14 KWHs and the m-t-d at 237.8 lost a little ground. Not much, but still lost.
I am totally pissed at myself -still, from last night. I put my evening cocoa on to heat then broke my cardinal rule – Never leave the kitchen when milk is on the stove. I went to “just check” something in my email. By the time I got back the stove was a total mess and the milk was wasted. Even half a cup is still wasted food, blast it. Oh well. I had a piece of cheese to make up for the calories & protein because after I cleaned it up I didn’t feel like making another batch of cocoa. Sigh. Not a big thing in the scheme of things. My wasting or not wasting half cup of milk didn’t/doesn’t make one bit of difference to the hungry & soon-to-be hungry people in the world. But very irritating.
Off to start my boosting day. Hope to bring help to some of those hungry or otherwise needy people. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! Going up to the high 80s today, if you please. Right now it’s 75 F. The sun popped out after an early morning sprinkle, so now we have blue skies.
Had to see the vampire this morning. She was late, so that made me extra cross. I HATE being deprived of my early morning tea. I’m sitting here waiting for the IT guy to show up and take CoPilot off this machine. I hate it.
Thank Goddess, my interview with Madame La Directrice has been deferred until next Thursday. That’ll give me time to go through four of her resumes and think up some terrific questions.
To make life extra weird, I went on the community Facebook page and asked if anyone had a baby wading pool (empty). I need it for the Reader Theatre play tomorrow. I borrowed a cute logo from our Club Secretary, so the programs I created look quite nice.
I wish there were something we could do to help the Gazans, those needlessly starving and hurt people. I’d send money if I thought it would do any good! Bibi is blockading all aid. I hope he burns in hell along with Idi, Donald, Elon, and the other Evil Ones.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Are you worried about baby wading pools filled with babies delivered to your door? :)
Not exactly, no. I need the baby wading pool for my play. However, I’ll just print out a picture of one and the audience will get the idea.
Saturday Meese. Another rainy day here in Kingston, with major thunder/lightning on the menu.
Today’s Caribbean Matters is about the Pope’s Black ancestry – and the reactions to that news
Puerto Rico
(march is today)
The march will depart tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. from the Capitol to Resistencia Street, in front of La Fortaleza, and will coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
I will watch for that Caribbean Matters as the topic intrigues me. A branch of my family ended up in Louisiana and their story is interesting and complicated.
Here it is:
Thank you!!
Good morning, meeses! Saturday …
It is 63 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected high of 88. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The morning star was over the mountains this morning with some wispy clouds. I was surprised when there was a crash of thunder and a 15 minute downpour at about 4:15am. It is a bit early for the Monsoon and there was no rain in the forecast. It did make the wash smell wonderful!
The tRump “Kill The Peoples to Enrich the Wealthy” bill is on hold for a while. I am under no delusion that the MAGAt Republican Congressmen will continue to push back forcefully against their leader – nor am I under any delusion that the “moderate” Republicans who have vowed that they will NEVER cut Medicaid won’t fold like cheap suits – but at least it dings the armor a bit. Every dent helps us in the long run. Even the captive Supreme Court doesn’t like that old laws are being resurrected to add dictatorial powers to the presidency and extended the injunction against using the Alien Enemies Act to round up and send immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. I am also not under any delusions that SCOTUS will hold that line but, for now, it almost feels like the rule of law is still in place.
I have a quiet morning to work on projects and will do that. My softball team won the first game of a double elimination and will play at 1pm. The Phoenix Mercury WNBA team I am following (for now) plays at 7pm tonight. I will lightly follow the Valkyries but I am a little irritated with them over their roster cuts. They had 19 players in camp so there were going to be painful cuts to get down to 12 but cutting Laeticia Amihere, their leading scorer from the last post-season game, made no sense. I hope the good players get picked up by other teams later in the season or find (non-dangerous) places to play overseas.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Ridiculously hot, but at least it won’t get over 100. Glad today’s exercise will be indoors (kickboxing). Happy weekend!
It’s 67 heading for 85 and sunny. At the moment anyway. Yesterday we generated 16.5 KWHs and the m-t-d at 254.8 neither gained nor lost ground.
Bathrooms done for the week. Breakfast eaten and cats asleep. I’ll close up the house when the outdoor temps get to 75. Meanwhile, off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Saturday morning, Meese! Sunny and blue-skied now in Ashburn, although we woke up to sprinkles. I now understand the meaning of the headline, “Woman nearly itched to death for 7 years.” It was in the True Confessions mags I used to read as a teen. Too bad I didn’t read the actual ad to find out what the cure was. Anyway, I’ll take a shower to see if that helps. Our high today will be—gulp—88 F.
Today we’re putting on my 10-minute “Reader Theater” play during the Drama Club meeting. We’re meeting at 1 to run through the script a couple of times. I have a black beret, a clapboard, and a red satin bow tie to wear with my white shirt. I hope everyone thinks “Relatively Speaking” is funny. Everyone I called to remind them to be there at 1 p.m. for rehearsal was giggling.
Had a pedicure yesterday and my poor old feet feel SO much better! Bored with my usual goldish-pink toenail polish, Mr. Tony decided to paint them a kind of Mediterranean blue. Well, hail, Memorial Day is on the way, so why not? I’m still fascinated by the way he rubs slices of fresh orange over my soles—it’s a perpetual mystery to me why feet need Vitamin C—but who am I to argue?
Got to run, still hoping to go to the gym. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!