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, 54 and sunny outside my windows today. Lisa was born 57 years ago so lots of memories as I wish her Happy Birthday. The spring of 1968 was a sad time with the deaths of RFK and MLK, but I was young and full of love for my baby girl. This is yet another hard time for this country but regardless our lives do go on. Best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 86 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies are in the forecast. I saw the nearly full moon last night and the fairly fresh full moon this morning from my office window. My day is complete.
I spent the morning documenting a security issue that I need to follow up on and running stubborn updates on Microsoft Patch Tuesday plus 1. I will now rest. I got my COVID booster yesterday and I have zero symptoms but I will use it as an excuse to take an earlier than usual nap.
See all y’all later!
Good morning Meese. Missed posting due to Tuesday prep for colonoscopy on Wednesday. Ugh. I slept all day yesterday after the procedure. Results were good. Several benign polyps removed.
Puerto Rico
Three cheers for you, Dee, having that unpleasant procedure and getting through it! Glad everything turned out OK, and glad you caught up on your sleep. I’m never having another one after that episode in 2022, but then, I’m older than you and haven’t a whole lot of time left.
My first time having one – and will refuse to do another!
{{{Dee}}} Well, the procedure sux but I’m so very glad the results are good. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Thank you Sis!
Good morning. Light rain but lots of lightning so I walked inside the garage instead of on the roof.
Stay safe, another!
Good Thursday morning, Meese! Bright and sunny today, without as much of the haziness we had yesterday from Canadian wildfires. Right now it’s 75 F. in Ashburnikins, going for a high of 91 F. “They” say it will rain on Thing’s parade.
Yesterday evening we had a pleasant surprise visit from Younger Son, who gave us the latest family news. Karl, aged 11, has been asked to join the All-Stars team for his school (baseball), so is becoming less lazy about practicing. Nora, aged 16, is hopelessly spoiled by her parents, and is STILL doing volleyball. My poor daughter-in-law, whose daily commute is three to four hours because of “Everybody back to the office five days a week” is being allowed to telecommute today and the rest of the week because of The Parade. Younger Son still likes his job, which allows him to work at home most of the time, except when he has to visit clients.
After seeing two doctors in two days I am deeply disgruntled with the medical profession. The allergist’s nurse yesterday pricked my back for a series of tests that showed I am not at all allergic to the environment. The old git who saw me said it couldn’t be a food allergy, because I’d have reactions immediately, serious ones. He refused to prescribe Prednisone, which he claimed had “side effects.” Instead, he prescribed a topical cream to be applied twice a day. He seemed completely unsympathetic to the pain and suffering I’ve experienced. I can well understand why my neighbor, the Allergy Queen of Birch Point, only saw him once.
But enough about that, it’s boring. Today is meeting day for my Writers’ Group. I must hustle to the gym, then come home and bake Little Fellow Lemon Tarts. After the meeting I would like to go to the sing-a-long at 4 o’clock. I probably won’t have a voice after class, but never mind. Then I’ll come home and throw together a dinner that Dearly will probably hate (broken noodles with artichokes, olives, and tomatoes, all out of jars).
Darling Niece said the trouble is confined to a very small portion of LA and they’re all fine, living as they do in Burbank.
That’s enough from me. Glad there’s now very little itching, so I can stop b*tching and wish everyone at the Pond a good day!
{{{Diana}}} I wouldn’t go back to that practice/clinic either. Medical people can get away with that crap because technically an allergy is a very severe reaction that will kill you if you don’t have an epi-pen handy or get to ER quickly. There are less severe reactions to food – and also to some medications – that can cause what you’re dealing with but what’s most likely is contact dermatitis. And you’ve been addressing that by changing the soaps, creams, lotions, etc that you use. Only thing I can think of is to treat it like it’s poison ivy and try whatever OTC relief products you can tolerate for that. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
It’s 67 heading for 76 and we’re supposed to get more rain although it’s sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 14.15 KWHs and the m-t-d at 192.43 lost a bit more ground.
My friend’s checked out 2 attorneys now. It’s slow going because it’s hard to fit it in during the workday and she’s so exhausted when she gets home. But she’s doing better. Relaxing more. It’s stressful of course but she’s not going home to a 2nd “job” of trying to please a manipulating narcissist. So far she hasn’t been able to coordinate with her siblings or anyone to go back to the house and get her stuff. She’s not worried about furniture, other than a side table or two, but her clothing, books, harps, and some of her kitchen stuff. Once that gets gotten and either brought here or taken to the farm and she chooses a lawyer and pays the retainer and fees to get started, she’ll be able to relax even more.
Meanwhile, I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 57 and cloudy outside my windows today. Today is flower day, but just 6 arrangements so it should be easy. I cleaned my floral space, cut the greens, found the vases, and set up the fans yesterday. I’m so relieved Lisa and Erica are hosting this family party…..nice to just have flowers to do and desserts to pick up at the bakery. I’ll go to TJ’s for flowers soon. I miss going to my friends flower shop but I get carried away with all the choices. TJ’s has fewer flowers so it’s easier to keep it simple. Best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 90 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 100. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. I saw the moon last night and early this morning!
A planned busy morning got busier and now I am out of time.
See all y’all later!
Meeses – I just got an email from Diana. She had a heart attack this morning at the gym. 90% blockage. They put in a stent and say she’s out of danger now. She might be able to go home tomorrow (Friday) but isn’t sure and asked me to let folks know. So. Prayers up.
Oh!!! Thanks for letting us know! Prayers lifted for her. Thankful the stent worked
all good thoughts
Oh no! I have neglected reading check-ins because I have been ungawdly busy this past week.
PLEASE keep us posted.
Friday Meese. Not raining here in Kingston today – sadly it will rain tomorrow when there are a lot of protests planned here.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Nice one to walk my mile before work. So much bad happening in the world. Glad I have work and won’t know about today’s developments until later.
It’s 69 heading for 79 overcast and breezy. Supposed to get rain in a few hours. We shall see. Yesterday we generated 8.25 KWHs and the m-t-d at 200.86 lost more ground.
Too cloudy to see the moon. Other than that one glimpse through the trees when she was at full the other night, I haven’t see her in over a week. My friend was supposed to have a zoom meeting with a counselor this morning but that was cancelled – after 7 pm last night. She’s tired of jacking with the system and going through channels. Especially since her insurance won’t cover it anyway. She’s having lunch with a friend who’s a retired counselor and going to ask her for a recommendation. If insurance isn’t going to cover it, why should she bother to stay in network. Things are being a lot slower than anybody’s happy about. Except maybe the jerk she’s divorcing. While they’re still married, he’s still getting most if not all his free ride.
I haven’t heard from Diana this morning. If she emails rather than posts later today I will of course give everybody the update.
Meanwhile, I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 89 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 100. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Thank goodness that there are still courts that are willing to follow the law. If the federal government could force a state’s National Guard Troops to be turned against the citizens of a state without the governor’s permission on the whim of a petty dictator, there is no longer a government. If that were happening to a red state with a Democratic president, there would be armed revolt.
Time to get off my computer.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Not going to the protest here, my allergies are out of control. Yesterday, just super extreme sneezing and runny nose and I barely slept last night. So I’m not going outside today if I can help it. I hope it goes well.
Good morning. Hope all is going well for Diana.
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Good morning, meeses! Saturday, No Kings Day …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 104. Sunny skies are in the forecast. We will see 100s for the foreseeable future. Tomorrow starts Monsoon Season and we can hope for the winds to shift and bring us some rain. I can see the moonlight on the green space but the moon is rising after I go to bed and she is so far SW that I can barely see her from my office window in the morning. BUT SHE IS THERE and a source of comfort every single day.
I hope people stay safe on No Kings Day and the various gatherings around the country. Tucson’s is in Reid Park which is a centrally located park that also houses the zoo. Goddess take care of those targeted by the jackboots in the Felon’s administration and his MAGAt followers.
See all y’all later!
It’s 74 heading for 84 and overcast but at least not dark this morning. Yesterday we generated 10.6 KWHs and the m-t-d at 211.81 lost more ground.
I didn’t hear from Diana yesterday but basket DM’d me last night (8:30 CDT) that she’d posted a brief note at Squirrel that she was home. More prayers up & Healing Energy sent for a quick recovery.
My friend’s soon (hopefully) to be ex decided he was tired of driving her 11-year-old car so got himself a new one. And made the – ahem – magnanimous gesture of taking her car to the shop, having new tired put on, paid for it, then texted her – half hour before the place closed – that she could pick it up any time. So we dropped everything and got it, just under the wire. The car she’s been driving is her mom’s old car and actually belongs to the family trust. He is seriously positioning himself to be the good guy in this divorce. Thank heavens she’s saved all his old nasty texts. But if he stays in “good guy” mode and doesn’t contest the divorce, fine. Once she’s severed the legal tie, she severs the psychic & spiritual ones as well. Meanwhile she’s at the farm for the weekend spending time with her cat. And sisters.
Rocky night. Sinusitis took a several-hour chunk out of what would have been my night’s sleep. Oh well. Need to close up the house. Then off to stary my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good gray (potentially stormy) Saturday morning, Meese! It’s 74 F. in Ashburn under cloudy skies, with rain expected between noon and 4 p.m. Goddess naturally doesn’t approve of this parade nonsense, so thunderstorms are expected around 6:30, when the massive, multimillion dollar tribute to His Loathsomeness is expected to begin.
Bfitz, I would have emailed an update to you yesterday but I had no juice for my cell phone because Dearly brought the wrong charger, the nurses at the nurses’ station didn’t have the right one, etc. I did come home yesterday at 5, after picking up a BOATLOAD of prescriptions from the campus drugstore.
Briefly:
I had a heart attack (excuse me, a myocardial infarction) while on the rowing machine last Thursday morning.
The staff member in charge of the gym acted promptly and professionally. Within minutes there was a swarm of black-clad (I counted eight) emergency medical techs in the gym, questioning me. Two of them were so handsome I began to feel better immediately.
The guys in the Rescue Squad vehicle with the screeching siren told me if I hadn’t sought immediate medical attention, I would have died. I kept thinking, “Don’t let me die, I can’t die, I have to look after Dearly.”
The cardiologist who performed the emergency surgery said the artery leading to my heart was 90 percent blocked. He said it was a major myocardial infarction.
I had to stay in the hospital for a day and a half. The doctors and nurses were wonderful, endlessly patient and kind. Left at 4 yesterday, had to stop to pick up a boatload of meds (Great Mother, can anyone really need that much?), then came home. Dearly made me a proper cup of tea. Last night I enjoyed 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Couldn’t sleep in the hospital because there was noise and light the whole night long. Also, the python (blood pressure monitor) squeezed my arm periodically, which of course put paid to getting any shuteye.
So there you have it! VERY GRATEFUL to be home, to be ALIVE, and to live here, where I received the attention I needed. It’s true that my beloved rowing machine is off limits until July 24, and I do have to undergo 12 weeks of cardiac rehab, but other than that, alles is gut. BTW, the meds were FREE! Iss not thatt the lucky thing, now!
The Shred Truck is coming, gotta go! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
{{{Diana}}} So very glad you’re safe & home. Moar Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
So glad that you are ok! All good thoughts to you.
SO glad to hear from you – all is again well with the world.
Blessed be Lady D! So happy to hear from you!!!
Thanks for all the good wishes, Meese!
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