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!