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Wednesday Meese. 70 and cloudy here in Kingston going up 88. Have to take my ancient 2006 Subaru in to the mechanic today. Fingers crossed it will pass inspection.
Puerto Rico
~!@#$%^&* Stephen Miller, Melon Husk, and the Felon!
“Alligator Alcatraz” my foot! The idea is that those who try to escape will be eaten by alligators or pythons.
Not only will the Cuban team be denied visas, all the soccer teams from overseas will be denied visas. We’re rapidly becoming what the Felon calls “a sh*thole country.”
I think the chances that the Los Angeles Olympics takes place, with the tRump Administration deciding who can enter the country, is getting close to 0. I worry about the future of the various sports I follow that rely on foreign players – with visas – to be in our country.
Though I don’t follow Major League baseball – my husband does – along with the Little League, where so many players are from the Caribbean/Latin America.
Dump’s ICE is going to make a huge mess of the upcoming Little League World Series in August, which takes place in PA.
Good morning. Wed/Friday, yay! Getting ready to work, but after those 8 hours I’m free till Monday. More Star Wars today.
Yay for time off!
It’s 68 heading for 88/heat index 90 and sunny at the moment but clouds in the forecast. Yesterday we generated 17 KWHs so we start the month on track, if barely.
The several days around the 1st of any month are overwhelming and depressing – so many people trying desperately to make rent. First on time so not late fees, then at all. Many of them do make it, thank heavens. But some don’t. I don’t know if my boosting helps any, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. So I’d best get to it. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! Yesterday it “rained prodigiously,” as Jane Austen might have said, although I don’t know how much we received. Lawks, there was a tremendous crack of thunder about 2:30 p.m., followed by lots of rain. Sounded as if Someone Up There was hurling the piano down the stairs.
Right now the ugly morning has turned into blue skies and sunshine, thereby perking everyone up. We have 75 F. and lower humidity in Ashburn at the moment.
July 2nd! Many of the very best people were born on July 2nd, including Elder Son, who is 55 years old today. The hospital where he was born, Columbia Hospital for Women, no longer exists. He’s one of the few who can say he’s a DC native. At any rate, he has turned out to be a son to be proud of, and I’m grateful.
I’m trying to work up the mojo to call the cardiologist’s office and complain that I’m being vastly overmedicated. I have no energy. Can’t even go for walks in the the air-conditioned hallways. I fall asleep right after dinner. Can’t get any work done and Goddess knows I’ve got work to do! This morning I had to go back to bed after breakfast—not to sleep, but just to rest.
I’m also rather horribly conscious that if THEY can take away health coverage from 17 million people, THEY can take away our Social. This is too awful to contemplate.
Best thing to do is concentrate on our own little worlds and forget the rest. There’s not a whole lot we can do, although we Virginians get to make our voices heard in November.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} Happy birthday to your son. Healing Energy to you. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
I worry that CMS Director Dr. Oz, he who said “does it really matter if 3% of all children die from COVID?” during the pandemic, will decide to start picking which seniors should get Medicare benefits and which have “lived long enough” and can be denied benefits. Bastids.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 91 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 97. Mostly sunny skies right now. We are expecting thunderstorms this afternoon so I got all my errands run this morning. The first big rain of the season is a good time to be off the roads as people figure out where their windshield wipers are and how to avoid flooded areas.
I hope that Lisa Murkowski is happy that her name will forever be linked with the destruction of the safety net for the poors – and not in a good way. It is impossible to know for sure if some other NO vote would have switched to YES at the last minute but as it sits right now, she is the person who let the ugly Senate bill get two steps closer to becoming a law. I am not a John McCain fan but he will always be remembered for killing the bill that would have ended the ACA and taken health care away from 45 million people. Lisa Murkowski will forever be remembered for the dead children she leaves in her cowardly wake.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 59 and sunny in Bellingham. The family is going to Mt Baker today so I’m home with the dogs and they are doing their best to watch my every move. We had a fun taco dinner outdoors last night but my legs need to rest today. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. Rain here again today in Kingston, going up to 86. Looks like none on the weekend.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. agency is closed today, so I slept in and now I’m watching local news and sipping tea. Going to make a breakfast thing for next week this afternoon. And I have a reminder set to go to kickboxing.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday that will feel like Friday …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 90. Mostly sunny skies this morning with a chance for rain in the late morning. Yesterday we got our first big rain of the monsoon season and it brought a lot of water to the region. Rain over the mountains filling our reservoirs, rain in the valley washing things clean, hooray! Last year we did not have much rain during the monsoon season, I seem to remember not getting any until late August. This year’s is more or less on schedule.
I am still trying to avoid the news. Yesterday I watched the USA Women’s Soccer Team beat the Canadian national team 3 to 0 as their last match of the summer camp. They have very good team, filled with young players and veterans and they look ready to compete and win. Many of the players will finish their NWSL professional soccer seasons and then meet again in October for the next training camp. Second year coach Emma Hayes will have a lot of decisions to make regarding who will be on the final roster going into the next set of International games but she has done a great job of finding new players and getting them to work together as a team. Tonight my WNBA team, the Phoenix Mercury, will be in Dallas to play the Wings. Even though they are in second place in the league, only one of their players was chosen as an All-Star team starter with one as an alternate. Just like in all sports, fan voting does not end up with the best players for their All Star teams, just the most popular or best known. It will be interesting to see how the teams end up with one of the team captains being the face of the Racist Enabling Indiana Fever basketball team. Will players be embarrassed to play on her team if she picks them? We shall see! In any event, the games that count will start again tonight after a three day hiatus.
See all y’all later!
“the face of the Racist Enabling Indiana Fever basketball team” was ranked number 9 by player voters for the All Star Game. She should not be captain of anything.
It’s 71 heading for 90/heat index 100 and sunny at the moment. According to the widget we’ll have clouds this afternoon when a monsoonal rain would happen if we were going to get any rain. Which we’re not. Yesterday we generated 15 KWHs and the m-t-d at 32 is already not on track for 500. We’ll see if we can make up for that.
My friend had an appointment in Fayetteville yesterday and another today so she was/is back overnight. She’ll be heading back to the farm this afternoon for the rest of her “vacation”. But she caught up on the news. She’s been gone long enough (5 weeks) that her husband texted her that he’s seeing an attorney about an uncontested divorce and will have the paperwork sent to her “new address” (namely here). He’s assuming a relationship between us that does not exist and never has existed but that feels so much better to him than realizing his own behavior is what ended his 2nd marriage. (As it probably did his first since she kicked him out.) But that means she only needs an attorney to make sure the uncontested/consent divorce his lawyer draws up isn’t going to trap her into some financial situation that’s good for him and very bad for her. That’s what her entire marriage is/was and she needs to be totally free of that.
Folks still need help raising rent so I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
she caught me up on the news. sigh.
Good rather nice Thursday morning, Meese! The outside temp. is already 79 F., heading for a high of 91 F. We’ll have lower humidity and as for tomorrow, all the weather peeps are promising that this will be the nicest Fourth of July we’ve had in years.
I’m trying to work up the courage to call the cardiologist’s office and complain about being over-medicated. There are days when I feel assertive and days when I don’t.
Back at the ranch, I managed to get a half-hour walk in yesterday evening. I wonder whether loss of appetite is a feature of post-cardiac recovery. Nothing seems appealing, and the weirdos that do the menus here seem determined to kill us off quickly: fried stuff, croque monsieurs, lots of white bread, UGH! But I shouldn’t complain, many people have it worse.
Feel upset at the thought of that nasty bill passing and people losing their healthcare.
On the other hand, work on “They Call Me V” went well yesterday and I’m hoping it will go equally well today between bouts of activity. I need to run to Trader Joe’s this morning, and this afternoon at 3 there’s a Songbirds concert. Tomorrow my dear Mike M. is doing a Fourth of July Courtyard Concert in the evening. I’m going to interview him in August for the quarterly.
Visited the Community Garden yesterday on my walk. I’m going to miss gardens when I’m dead—all the gorgeous colors and exuberant flowers! The Sungolds are languishing, the Romas are rampant, one tomato has little teef marks on it, the planted lavender is flourishing, the potted lavender is not.
Must rest my back for a while. I’m not accustomed to feeling so frail. Whatsamatta, am I old or sump’n? Wish a good day to all at the Pond.
The 4th.
Puerto Rico
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I am with Frederick Douglass. I did not suffer the “stripes” but I ally with those who did and who are still not treated properly by this country I live in. I won’t celebrate the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the signing of a document written by white male slave owners to advance their own personal economic advantages. There was no “independence” for a lot of people and those same people, women, people of color, indigenous people, religious minorities, immigrants, LGBT, as well as the poor, the hungry the homeless, are still marginalized today and being used to gin up the hate from the majority. That one political party, which lied itself into power, is being allowed to dismantle the Constitution and install a dictator is all you need to know about the “perfection” of this Nation. Meh.
Good morning. Watching the History channel while I eat breakfast. Going to the gym later, then I’ll cook and watch Murderbot, Bono’s stories thing, and whatever else since I’ll cancel Apple+ soon. Just, distraction from the awfulness of the world.
It’s 73 going up to 90/heat index 98, sunny at the moment but clouds supposed to move in this afternoon. Yesterday we generated 18.19 KWHs and the m-t-d at 50.62 is (barely) back on track for 500.
Today’s the celebration of the day white English land- & slave-owning men declared their independence from the white English land- & slave-owning men in England because they were being treated like colonies and not white English land- and slave-owning men. woo. hoo.
Meanwhile there are still a whole lot of people needing rent and while I can’t boost all of them, I can boost the ones in my mentions. So I’d best be about that. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! It’s so slow and lovely today that I keep thinking it’s Sunday, and that tomorrow the weekly grind will begin again.
It’s hard to celebrate the Fourth of July knowing that loathsome villains are in power. And Frederick Douglass was perfectly right: it’s all right for us whities, but not for Black people, nor for Natives. I’ve never felt the same about Thanksgiving since I read how Natives feel about it, and it used to be my favorite holiday of the year.
Well, let’s concentrate on the gorgeous weather, the fact that it’s 76 F. going up to all the eights, with low humidity, and the fact that it’s fair enough to dry laundry on the screened porch. By laundry I mean all the bathroom rugs in the house. It’s time they were washed. It’s the Fourth and I’ve never set up the porch for the summer! I keep meaning to go out and buy an outdoor carpet that won’t buckle (thereby causing me to trip, stumble and fall), but Dearly is so wrapped up in watching sports or napping that we’ve never got round to it.
I keep thinking about “V.” She was one White woman who opposed the war and opposed slavery, yet what could she do about it? While her children were small she was economically dependent on her husband. Most women of her class were. What could she actually do? Nowadays, women can vote, but only at set times, and even then some votes aren’t counted. I read there was a whole county in New York State that didn’t count votes for Kamala.
Right now I don’t see what we can actually do, other than support those who are actively resisting. Not everyone allows ICE to get away with doing whatever it wants.
Well, time to get washed and brushed. The Home is putting on a buffet for us at lunchtime (this is the one day of the year I’ll eat a hot dog), and tonight there is the Courtyard Concert at 7 p.m.
Saw the lovely half-moon last night in a fading sky. She’s at 61 percent illumination, my companion said. She’ll be full July 10.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning, meeses! Friday – just Friday – and a day off from work …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 91. Mostly sunny skies. We had another excellent monsoonal downpour yesterday. I am hoping for more today – to stop the people shooting off fireworks from gathering – but sadly there is none in the forecast.
I am disgusted that a literal insurrectionist and his band of co-conspirators were given the power to rip apart our Constitution and destroy the lives and livelihood of millions of people. To see their faces filled with joy knowing that they will not suffer for one second from the Big Terrible Bill that was passed made me livid. But not nearly as livid as the email from the Freaking Social Security Administration touting it’s passage and claiming that it is good for seniors. Bullsh*t. The tax cut is temporary PLUS it just means that the Social Security Trust Fund loses needed replenishment and will be empty sooner than expected. I despise these people with the white hot light of a million suns. May karma visit them and give them their just desserts.
I have a big project that needs eyes forward that can only be done on a day when no one is working so I need to get back to it.
See all y’all later!
Jan, question – just saw this story – any insights?
Former interim head coach Nikki Blue files lawsuit against Phoenix Mercury
It was before my time so I don’t know much about her or her story. I would not be surprised if there were quite a bit of truth to it. That the Mercury ownership paid their new white male coach, a guy who never coached a women’s team ever, a million dollars is a big red flag. He is not very good but he is white and male.
Ahhhh. I don’t know much about their coaching history. I followed some of the Mercury players like The GOAT Diana Taurasi
Good morning, 53 and sunny in Bellingham today. We will all be at Erich’s this afternoon for a family barbeque but all the 4th decor is staying in the tote this year. We’ll celebrate family and summer but flag waving isn’t happening. I’m baking a pound cake to serve with fresh strawberries, Ron is making a blue cheese and bacon potato salad, and Sophie made marsh mellows to toast so the kitchen is busy. Best wishes to all.
Saturday Meese. Headed out today for a celebration honoring a dear friend.
Puerto Rico
Morning. Nothing good about it. Terrible flooding near here, with at least 23 dead and 20 missing children. It’s about an hour away from Austin, people may be familiar because it was a big place for the eclipse. World Central Kitchen is on the way to feed the survivors and local animal shelters are taking in pets from shelters out there. I’m watching Le Tour to get my mind off the disaster.
I’m hosting the music diary at the orange place tonight, it’s already written: Liberals Are Patriotic. Please do come by, it posts at 6 central time. I am going to edit it and add ways people can help, but it’ll also be good to have distraction.
{{{anotherdemocrat}}} Healing Energy to all concerned. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
It’s 75 heading for 91/heat index 98 and sunny. For now anyway. Yesterday we generated 17.44 KWHs and the m-t-d at 67.97 is still on track to get over 500 for July.
There is so much evil going on in the world. Some of it directly caused by evil people/governments (like genocide in Gaza, among other places). Some of it caused indirectly by evil people/governments (like global warming/climate collapse-caused major flooding). But it’s all caused by evil people/governments. Of which ours is one. A major one. Sigh. I’ve done/am doing what I can about that. Meanwhile I go by the “if I can save/help one person. . .” rule. And I’d best be about that. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}