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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It’s 62 heading for 83 and sunny. At the moment and supposed to be all day. Yesterday it did clear off enough to generate 18.45 KWHs and the m-t-d at 302 gained a little ground.
Well, my Social Security came in so I’m assuming Diana’s (and Suzanne’s) did too. One more month of security.
I had a fire last night and dried laundry in front of it. With the windows open. Even then the den was over 90 by the time I went to bed. Warm enough that although I missed one window when I was closing up and it got down to 50 overnight it was still 70 in the kitchen when I got up this morning. Unless something really weird happens with the weather the next laundry will be hung outside. LOL. I baked molasses nutmeg oatmeal cookies too. Not sure if that’ll be the last of the baking for the summer. We shall see in a couple of weeks when I finish off this batch.
Meanwhile, rocky night, 5 hours of sleep (maybe), groggy, and need to get started on my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! It’s raining, thank Goddess. I love the sound, the scent, the look. We still have a 4-and-a-half-inch rainfall deficit for the year to date, so rain on, say I!
I must go to the gym this morning or die in the attempt. My weight is creeping back up again.
AH GOT MAH SOCIAL! Yay! Hope bfitz received hers too. I’ll set about arranging a birthday present for my grandson, who will be 11 on 30 May. Can’t believe it! I’m glad I had the exhausting but happy experience of being a nanny-granny to two of my grandchildren. I couldn’t stop feeling guilty that I was spending more time with them than I did my own children when they were that age. However, as I reminded myself, if you really love your child, the first thing you try to do is keep a roof over that child’s head. I clung to that thought for years.
Feeling outraged and helpless because I read the front section of the WaPo. It carried a heart-rending story of federal workers who are depressed and at sea because of losing their jobs in the chaos. Some have committed suicide. I hate Thing and his minions with a visceral hatred that knows no bounds. Are they all multibillionaires? One thing is certain, they know nothing and care less about how government is supposed to work. I’m sure they envision a happy return to feudal times in the year 1000 A.D.
It was the Black Death that finally upended the status quo and made workers able to bargain for more rights and more money. Hope it doesn’t take an epidemic this time.
Well, now that I’ve cheered y’all up I’ll go back to wrestling with my latest project: writing my own song lyrics to someone else’s tune (I’m not musical, I can’t make up tunes). The first three stanzas are okay, but the tune’s ending is decidedly downbeat and I wanted the lyrics to be upbeat.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
There was an article yesterday that someone posted on BlueSky and that I bookmarked but have not had time to read yet. It describes the end game for the oligarchs – essentially hoping for (helping along?) mass extinction events to prune the population so that there are more resources for them. Their theory is that the poors need a few genocides here and there for civilization (ie the Rich) to survive. What a ghastly thing, that the multi-billionaires want to kill us off! And even more ghastly that they are being given the power to do so by the MAGAts.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 73 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 95. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The moon was over the mountains this morning – her light is dwindling quite rapidly, she will be new on Monday at 8:02pm MST. Seems like she was just full.
I only scanned the news briefly yesterday and I will give today’s news a pass as well. I had a couple of not very productive days filled with errands and unexpected projects so I am going to check my lists and my Inbox and make sure I have not missed anything and then get off my computer and give myself a break. There are a few sporting events I have on my watch list today. I was glad to see the WNBA Atlanta Dream beat the Indiana Fever in Indianapolis and quiet the racist fans who go to the games just to harass the Black players. Gross and MAGAtty.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 51 and partly cloudy. I finally got over my attitude re chrome books and bought one to replace an old computer. It took less than an hour to set up, it’s easy to use, and the price was very affordable. Sometimes I get in my own way :)
I’ve got some desk work to do this morning and this afternoon I’ll work in the garden with Bri. She found the variety of hydrangea we have been looking for so we’ll plant and prune and all will be well in my garden. If I stay away from the news I should have a good day. Best wishes to all