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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 77 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Sunday Meese. We’re back to a heat warning here in the Hudson Valley. Ugh.
Puerto Rico
“They climbed back up”
English translation:
https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-bad-bunny-nuevayol-english-translation-lyrics
In case you don’t know the history:
Oct. 25, 1977: Puerto Rican Nationalists Occupy Statue of Liberty
On October 25, 1977, 30 Puerto Rican nationalists and their supporters (including Yuri Kochiyama) occupied the Statue of Liberty for eight hours, hanging the Puerto Rican flag from Lady Liberty’s crown.
Morning. Once again, nothing “good”. More flooding yesterday, this time to our north and at least 3 dead in Georgetown. In addition to more than 40 in Kerrville, and all the missing children. No flooding here in town, just lots of rain. Today: church and cooking, getting ready for a regular work week.
OMG, I have a cousin in Georgetown. As far as I know she’s safe, though.
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Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s a glorious day here, 77 F. right now, going up to 80’s later. We must enjoy today all we can because the rest of the week will be thundery and hot. Naturally we won’t get to see the full moon Wednesday night—or is it Thursday?—but yesterday Her Beautiful Self was at three-quarters, so I enjoyed that.
Went down to the community garden before 8 this morning to pick parsley and mint. If only the tomatoes would get ripe! There’s enough mint and parsley that I could make tabouleh for dinner if I did but have the tomatoes. I saw a little gray bunny wabbit marching determinedly around the gardens, as if wondering which lot of tomatoes to sink its sharp little teeth into.
This will be a busy week as I’m in charge of the morning coffee for the building at 10 a.m.—this happens every two months and all the women take turns doing it. Then on Thursday I’ll finally make Little Fellow Lemon Tarts for my writers, while we sing the song lyrics we’ve written. One of my best writers really knocked it out of the park. One of the biggest problems people have around here is getting a reservation for dinner. She did a takeoff on “I can’t get no satisfaction” with:
“I can’t get no reservation
I can’t get no reservation,
Well, I tried—and I tried—and I tried—and I TRIED—”
I think it’s going to be laugh fest on Thursday.
In other news I did some work on the August Reader Theater play yesterday. I hope people will think it’s funny.
Will stop rambling now and get on with things. Wishing all at the Pond a good day and a solemn remembrance of those little children swept away in Texas. What does a heart sound like when it breaks? I hope none of us will ever know.
It’s 75 heading for 88/heat index 96 and overcast. May or may not get sun this afternoon according to the widget. Yesterday we generated 19.77 KWHs and the m-t-d at 88 is on track to make 500. We’ll see if today changes that.
Got my Sunday chores done. My hands and back are protesting, as usual. Eating oatmeal and trying not to worry about my TX relatives. The fact I haven’t heard from them is good. In my family it’s usually only bad news that gets passed around. Meanwhile, I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 62 and sunny in Bellingham today. Erica and her family are back home now so my house is very quiet. I’m usually ok when she leaves but I’m really missing her this morning. So grateful to have had this time with all of them.
I turned the news off this week and it was a relief to just focus on family. Everyone is worried and angry re the national mess so we will stay basically informed but following every horrible event every moment is exhausting. I’ve scanned the news this morning and now I’m going to find my gardening clothes and do some easy pruning. Best wishes to all.
Monday Meese. Nasty weather continues here in the Hudson Valley – rain, rain and more rain.
Was elated to see our Women’s Basketball team win the gold in the FIBA Women’s Americup, in Chile.
Puerto Rico
I am sure that the Chicago Sky will be happy to get Kamilla Cardoso back. She was playing for the Brazilian team and with her standing around under the basket they might have pulled off a win over the Minnesota Lynx last night. I feel badly for the Sky, losing their point guard to a season ending injury. When I lived in Wisconsin, they were the WNBA team that I was most likely to root for because of their proximity. Now, I watch them because I really like Angel Reese; she was on my favorite Unrivalled Team, the Rose, and is a real talent. Plus people are mean to her and she does not deserve the hate.
I’m a big Cardoso fan (all things SC Gamecocks) and hate the way so many haters go after Reese.
I’m paying close attention to the upcoming WNBA players association negotiations with the League and the NBA.
Good morning. Raining again/still so I did my walk in the garage. No flooding in Austin. I have Le Tour going on my tablet. They are at the “releasing the names” part of the disaster, making the sadness even worse.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 81 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 102. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The moon should is visible in the afternoon and into the evening but won’t be visible in the early morning until after she starts waning. Full moon on Thursday, July 10th!
I was reading a sad story about the impact of the shutdown of scientific research in America. A lab at the University of Arizona that has been studying metastatic breast cancer for several decades will be shutting down because they were defunded. They have been part of studies that have led to new treatments and drug therapies. Boom, gone. It is sad for the next generation of women who might have been saved by an insight gained from research that will no longer take place. I hope Canada and Europe can pick up the pieces and keep the candle burning until America’s MAGAt movement is eradicated. The hope of a deep pockets philanthropist is waning as every time someone thinks to step forward that are smacked down and targeted by tRump’s “Justice” Department. This is 1000 times worse than what Bush did to the DOJ during his reign of error – at least back then there were a few career DOJ officials who wouldn’t stand for it. Even tRump 1.0 had a few guardrails. Now there are literally no holds barred – the DOJ is weaponized to destroy any seedlings of decency that might still exist. Bastids.
I have to adjust my schedule to take my walk by 6am which cuts into my best braining time. I usually get up between 4am and 5am and work until about 8. It seems like once I break for my walk, it is difficult to get back into project work. Today it should not be a problem, I am just clearing off my desktop – physical and computer – to keep the focus on the important things.
See all y’all later!
It’s 73 and so humid I opened only 2 windows – and closed them again 10 minutes later. Heading for 90, heat index 98, and overcast. sigh. Yesterday we generated 16.82 KWHs and the m-t-d at 104.67 lost a little ground but we’re still on track to reach 500 for July.
Emailed my younger son yesterday. Yes, I know that “no news is good news” from the family but I was getting nervous. They’re OK. And the flooding is a few miles away from them so they can get to wherever they need to go. So that’s relief.
There’s a whole lot of awfulness going on. Hard to look at much of anything and think good will come of it. Hard to keep boosting folks’ needs watching most of them not get met. But some of them get at least enough to keep going and that makes it worth doing. So I’d best be off doing it. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 60 and sunny outside my windows today. I want to do more in the garden today but my joints are still complaining from yesterday’s activity so I’ll rest this morning and work at my desk this afternoon. Best wishes to all.
Tuesday Meese. Picked up my car from the shop yesterday – new roters and other stuff was a little over 1000 bucks.Way cheaper than a new or gently owned. I’ll stick to my 2006 Subaru.
Puerto Rico
I have a 22 year old car that I put about $1,000 into every year or two. The last expense was a set of tires which is really a scheduled maintenance item rather than a mechanical issue that showed up. My mechanic tells me that I should easily get 200,000 miles on it – I think it is at about 118,000 right now.
You just reminded me to check my mileage :)
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 81 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 104. Sunny skies are in the forecast. I saw the moon rise in the late afternoon sky and if I craned my neck I could see her when I was getting ready for bed. She moves pretty quickly out of view in the ESE sky.
I am going to take my walk while it is still cool and then come back and finish some accounting projects.
See all y’all later!
It’s 75 heading for 85 heat index 90 today. Sort of sunny at the moment but the widget says rain. So we’ll definitely get clouds, whether or not we get water. Yesterday we generated 17.6 KWHs so the m-t-d at 122.35 neither gained nor lost ground.
My friend’s husband had sounded pleasant/reasonable enough a week ago that she ventured to text about a time when she could come by and pick up her stuff – or at least some of it. Mistake. He texted back something snotty about talking to his lawyer about when & if she could come by to take anything from the house. I’m kind of grateful actually. It reminded her not to ever go back there alone. Meanwhile she has her own lawyer now and forwarded that text to him. Most of what she wants, other than her clothing, is stuff she owned before they married.
News is bad, of course. Mostly of it I’m not reading about. Nothing’s happening they didn’t tell us they were going to do it they got control of the govt. But folks still have to eat and pay rent. So I’m off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! It’s already 85 F., at 10 a.m., and our blue skies and sunlight are supposed to give way to “stormy vetter” about 3 p.m. Crud.
Yesterday I did something profoundly stupid: I accidentally took another dose of The Biggy. Its brand name or whatever is LoPressor. Anyway, I felt faint, enervated, nauseated, and dizzy. It was a rotten day, that much I can tell you. Did manage to have a decent night. Must now hotfoot it to the barbershop because Dearly needs the car this afternoon. Hope the violent weather holds off until he’s back home.
I have some first-world problems I won’t bore you with, considering that other people have it much worse. Still grieving over those innocents who died in Texas. Innocents died in Gaza and Sudan, too, but that was owing to war waged by evil men. The tragedy in Texas could have been averted if the Stupids had felt like it. My sister-in-law wrote from Australia that both Thing and Bibi should be strung up like the monsters they are.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond. I’m not a fan of 2025 so far, are you?
Good morning, 61 and sunny. I was at the dentist yesterday and the hygienist has created a garden space using small banners with words of peace and kindness. I complimented him, and his answer was that he feels he needs to counter the tRump meanness is every small way he can, sigh. Small acts of resistance are important but meaningful…..I felt sad but also supported as I looked at his serene garden spot.
I’ve got a boring day of housework, deskwork and laundry going but if I can stay focused I’ll have more free time tomorrow. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. Getting ready for wfh. Watching Star Wars for hope & distraction.
And for some reason, this never posted this morning.
Wednesday Meese. Rain, rain and more rain here. This is going to throw a real wrench into this weekend when I celebrate my 27th year as a priest of Yemaya. Guests and godchildren won’t be able to sit outside on the patio and in the garden. Sigh.
Puerto Rico
Okay, I’m going to make sure my check-in posts today. All I did yesterday was work & watch Star Wars (Andor) and of course Le Tour. Today, I’m taking early lunch to go to kickboxing. Local news is all about the ongoing search efforts and incredibly sad stories about the lost.