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”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 79 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 100. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Sunday Meese. 73 going up to 87 here in Kingston. It didn’t rain yesterday – so had a really nice celebration.
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Good morning. It’s raining again/still, more flood watches. Lucky no floods in Austin, just all around us. I’m watching Le Tour. There’s a benefit concert today, I hope lots of people turn out.
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It’s 72 heading for 82 – heat index isn’t supposed to reach 90 but considering how humid the air feels I wouldn’t bet on that. We started the day sunny but it’s already gotten over that. More rain expected/predicted. Which we need. Yesterday we generated 10.56 KWHs, so we lost some ground. But the m-t-d, with today’s slight addition thus far, is now 200 so we’re not doing too badly.
Got my Sunday chores done. Head, back, and hands are all protesting. My son will be here this afternoon for a visit and to bring stuff from Sam’s Club. My friend will be home this evening, with or without stuff from the Berryville Farmers Market, depending. Meanwhile, I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 61 and sunny outside my windows today. One of the reasons we decided to stay here as long as possible is because of the garden, but yesterday I was questioning my life choices…..so many plants and trees to care for! Oh well, I’ll do some more today while I have a chat with myself re plant perfection:) Best wishes to all.
Monday Meese. Another hot, rainy, thunderstorm day ahead here in Kingston.
Lots of flooding upstate, thankfully not by me.
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“Here to tell about it. Bad Bunny has set his fans in Puerto Rico to reconnect with their own origin and invites them to look inward and stop looking outward. People who were always told that this was less, are getting a different message today.”
Nice win by the Liberty yesterday but too close for comfort!
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Am watching the Indiana haters group attacking DeWanna Bonner online for her great game yesterday.
Don’t know if you saw this:
It only took 2 games for DeWanna Bonner to make Fever exit look like genius move
I had to go to bed at half-time – these west coast games end too late for my tired body! I saw the write-up on the game and thanks to WNBA League Pass I can watch the second half of the game on replay later today. I am pretty sure I would have been yelling at my TV for the last 5 minutes of the game and would have been too agitated to sleep. :)
Thanks for that link! Without Bonner, we would not have survived the loss of Satou and Kah.
Good morning. Raining again/still, but they say it should start drying out tomorrow. Watching Le Tour on my tablet until time to work. Anyway, hi. Happy Monday.
It’s 72 heading for 84, heat index 90, slightly breezy, and sunny at the moment. Widget says more clouds and possible rain again today. Sigh. Yesterday we generated 11.86 KWHs and lost more ground. The m-t-d at 211.5 is still on track for 500. Barely and only because July is a 31-day month.
Very short visit with my son yesterday afternoon. He brought me stuff from Sam’s Club and then we talked a little more about how wonderful that motorcycle road trip vacation of his was. My friend brought back some fresh green beans and cherry tomatoes and also some fresh mozzerella cheese (Berryville Farmers Market). So I’m guessing we’ll be having a green-bean salad for dinner tonight.
Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Monday morning, Moosekind, and happy Bastille Day—I suppose! Today is the day that one may receive free Bastille Day custard tarts from La Madeleine restaurant. Sometimes I still wish we lived close to one.
The nail salon called Saturday night to switch my appointment from this morning to Sunday morning, so I had to spend qute a while there for mani-pedi-waxing. After that I had to rest, then get ready to go to dinner at the appalling hour of 4:30. Sunday is the one day of the week we don’t need reservations at the fancy restaurant around the corner from our flat.
We’re expecting BEEG thunderstorms this afternoon, we’ll see whether they actually materialize. I have a board meeting from 3:30 to 4:30, hope it doesn’t go over. Woke up so early this morning I might have to have a rest before I take my shower. Not much going on here at the ranch. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning, meeses! Monday, Bastille Day …
It is 81 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 99. Mostly sunny skies with a very slight chance of rain – more expected tomorrow and Wednesday.
I can only check in and then I have a full day of things to do that will require eyes forward. Please behave! ;)
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 67 and sunny in Bellingham today. Thanks to a new wasp nest by the veggie garden I’m going to be cautious re garden work today. Ron has a nasty sting on his hand so someone from Bio Bug is coming tomorrow. Best wishes to all.
I moved one of the patio couch cushions yesterday – and what seemed to be hundreds of yellowjackets flew out at me – they had made a nest under the cushions. Luckily I didn’t get stung.
Yikes, glad you were not stung! I was stung by a a swarm of wasps when I was a child and have had a severe reaction to stings as a result so I keep Benadryl and an epi pen ready to use. We found the nest and used a can of spray but the wasps are still flying around so Bio Bug will be here soon to remove the nest. I hope it’s not under the siding of the house because I’m finding a few dead wasps indoors.
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Had major thunderstorms yesterday, and flooding here in upstate NY. Today promises to be partly sunny.
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Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 79 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 97. Mostly cloudy skies with a chance for rain this afternoon. Right now it is mostly clear and I could see the moonlight on the green space but the moon herself was just out of sight above the overhang. I will probably see her in the SW later this morning but probably not until after sunrise.
We really have a poorly constructed government if a department, authorized by Congress, can be dismantled and shut down by executive order from a petulant king-wanna-be. I think the next Democratic president needs to shut down the odious Department of Homeland Security and make former ICE agents have to find jobs with “terrorized, assaulted and kidnapped black and brown people and sent them to die in foreign gulags” on their resume. What a mess! I feel sorry for young people planning on attending colleges this fall only to find out that the Department of Education and FAFSA has been shut down. Goddess help us all!
I have many things to do today to wrap up a project and then get some neglected personal accounting tasks done.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. So glad I’m wfh today. I just get to do things slower, and that’s nice. The news is still all about the flooding — and it’s raining again/still. Anyway — hi, happy Tuesday.
It’s 72, muggy & partly overcast, heading for 89/heat index 95 today. Yesterday we got some rain, lots of clouds, and generated 10.5 KWHs. The m-t-d at 221.94 lost more ground and is no longer on track for 500.
Hoping to do laundry today. The forecast shows rain chance under 25% so I probably will. There are no actually clear days in the forecast this week. Sigh. I’ll give it another hour or so before I actually put the laundry on though. House closed up – only open for 45 minutes, more to air out than to cool – and time to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Tuesday morning, Meese, and happy St. Swithin’s Day! So far it’s a fairish day, although at the moment the blue is veiled by white clouds. The temperature is 78 F., going up even higher, and the humidity makes the air feel like warm minestrone soup.
I’m waiting for a pickup by Transportation to Cardiac Rehab. Lawks, I’m not sure I’ll know how to stick on all those electrodes or whatever they are when I arrive there. I have to wear a special shirt they gave me. It has a pocket for the heart monitor.
This afternoon I need to get my hair done for the musical evening tonight. No sex or drugs, but plenty of rock and roll! One of my neighbors across the hall is going to sing: I didn’t know he could. He talked his way through the song in our spring musical, I understand. I never saw his scene because I was too busy changing costumes.
Work is proceeding on “They Call Me ‘V.'” I have to make sure to mention how she was against slavery and against the war. The timeline of the book we’re basing the monologue on is so convoluted it’s really hard to keep the actual sequence straight. Her tutor, Winchester, came home after graduating from Princeton and inherited 2,000 acres of prime farmland in Mississippi. He sold almost all of it except for a couple of hundred for raising food, freed all of the enslaved workers, then hired them back for pay. His white neighbors thought he was crazy. Anyway, he taught Varina Greek, Latin, and French.
Even in those days there were people who knew enslavement was wrong. However, they were just too comfortable with it. The system collapsed, just as our society is going to collapse, based as it is on unfettered capitalism, endless growth and exploitation of the working class.
I have been thinking of onetime Moose Fineena lately. She died last year on July 10, almost two weeks before what would have been her 70th birthday. I miss her.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
{{{Diana}}} I think of Feena a lot. Hard to believe it’s been a whole year. It seems like yesterday, it seems like forever. Sigh. Healing Energy to you. Moar {{{HUGS}}} Blessed Be.
“Fineena” – be nice if my fingers were working today.
Good morning, 65 and sunny in Bellingham today. I finally got the hoses sorted out so I can water the blooming hydrangeas without getting soaked my a leaking hose but I need to find a better hose. The only non leaker is so heavy and stiff it’s really hard to manage. I feared the hard freeze had killed the plants but they are recovering and it’s nice to see them blooming again. So after the wasps are gone I’ll deal with the hose and water the garden. Best wishes to all.
Good morning Meese. We’re under another heat advisory here in Kingston.
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