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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 72 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 91. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. We got rain! Not a lot, but it actually did cool us off — no 100s yesterday. Today’s plan: church & cooking. Wish I could watch the Tour of Britain, it’s the last day racing for one of my favorites, Geraint Thomas. There’ll be highlights on youtube, but it’s not the whole race. Not paying $20 for a month of some sports thing when this is the only thing I want to see. Anyway, hope everyone has a good day.
Good morning!
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It’s 55 heading for 82 and mostly sunny. Just as well since the house being built next door now has its 2nd floor framed and covered with moisture barrier and even without the roof my solar panels were completely shaded by 7 pm. Yesterday we generated 15.93 KWHs and the m-t-d t 73.26 gained a little ground.
The good news is that Natalia tested negative and will be home this evening. Also that there was less pulled-out fur (as opposed to just shed fur) on the floor to vacuum this morning so he is improving.
The bad news, well, the Meese are pretty much the only folks who’ll understand just how important/upsetting this is for me. Last night/early this morning I was blessed with the Full Moon (Aji’s people call it the Turning Leaves Moon) riding high in the sky and casting a window-sized beam of light into my room that moved across my bed, floor, then up the eastern wall before She dropped behind the trees & hill on the western horizon. This will be the last time it will ever happen. By the time the next full moon, the roof will be on house/it will be finished and will block Her. I’m seriously trying to put as good a face on things as I can since there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it. (Yes, I checked before they ever broke ground. Before this particular development company bought it from the previous development company who just sat on the land for 2 years.) I’m upset about loss of electricity production for several reasons although I think I’ll still generate enough to cover what I use. Barely. But you folks know why I’m upset about the building blocking the moon.
Anyway, I’m running behind my time. Managed all my morning chores and had best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
I am so sorry to hear this, bfitz! Last night I was bathed in moonlight as I was falling asleep and the feeling is wonderful. Do you have any other rooms in your house that will not be impacted by the new building going up? Maybe you can make a point of visiting them when the moon is full to replenish your moon reservoir.
Yes, you do understand why this upsets me. No, the other rooms in the house with west windows are just as impacted. I’ll be able to step out on the sunporch (or outside) to see her, depending on weather conditions and what phase she’s in, but no more being bathed in moonlight as I sleep once the roof goes on the house next door. sigh.
Oh, Bfitz, I’m so sorry. Sorry about your solar panels being blocked and sorry your view of Her is blocked now. It’s so unfair!
Good Sunday afternoon, Meese. We received the lightest possible shower yesterday, nothing to speak of, and this morning there were a few “burps” of moisture that could be seen on the windowpanes. When we woke up it was 63 F. and overcast—brrr! It was cold. Now the sun is out and it’s 73 F.
Have been busy all day, since I woke up this morning until the time I had my nap. Guess what I did! I went to church. I dressed modestly and went down the hall, where the service was being held in a huge, barnlike structure with dreadful acoustics. However, the mics were set up so I could mostly hear the service.
Was surprised to see one of my writers there, and many members of the Drama Club. Only one of the hymns was familiar. I was Episcopalian, so I don’t really know the modern hymns. I still think the Church of England’s music is some of the most beautiful I’ve ever heard.
I found the sermon contradictory and annoying. I could see how it would comfort some people, if their minds weren’t busily picking holes in what was being said, and if they completely disregarded science. I kept these opinions to myself, however. I even partook of communion, although what was offered seemed like hideously salty crackers dipped in vinegar.
Still have lots to do. We’ll have spaghetti and salad tonight, followed by fresh mango. I need to go to the gym. After dinner I have to read over my lines, pencil in the new stage directions (Gods, they change every day), and start reading through what my writers have written. Tomorrow I have two mortal doctor appointments! The afternoon one is going to make me miss the Board meeting, and the Silvertones concert. I’ll be so glad when my term on the Board ends in December!
My husband’s health is failing more every day. I’ll be curtailing my activities after the play is over—or sooner, if the worst happens. We shall see.
Will remember to go out and look at the Moon tonight, and look hard for all the people, like bfitz, who can’t see Her.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
I am sorry to hear that Dearly’s health is failing. :(
Thank you, Jan. He is so pale! His breathing is getting worse, despite the inhalers and the oxygen concentrator. He made it to his 95th birthday, and I’m hoping he’ll make it to our 58th wedding anniversary in October. And then to the election. And then to Christmas. I don’t want him to go.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 95. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. Last night the just-barely-not-full moon rose over the mountains in the clear sky – it was magnificent! This morning she is over my shoulder looking into my office window as she was yesterday morning as well. We will be warming up again for a few days with little chance for rain. There has been a lot of activity over the mountains over the past week and I am hoping it is replenishing our aquifer.
The WNBA post-season is starting to come into focus. There is only one remaining spot and it is likely to be the Seattle Storm in and the LA Sparks out. The Phoenix Mercury did themselves no favors for playoff seeding going to Connecticut and losing. I suspect that they looked past a team with a poor record – bad mistake! Any team can beat any other team on any given night if the circumstances are right.
See all y’all later!
Monday. Happy? Well, I have a job and a car and no one is bombing my city so compared to many, this is great. Barely slept and my foot hurts (yes I should see a doctor), grump grump grump.If I had walked, today would have been a good Moon picture, near full and by the Capitol. Will see if it looks as good Thursday.
It’s 53 heading for 81 and mostly sunny again today. Yesterday we generated 14 KWHs and the m-t-d at 87.1 gained a little ground/is almost back on track.
Since the construction crew didn’t work yesterday, I got an additional night/early morning bathed in moonlight. I’m not sure if they’ll get to the roof today. Currently they’re still working on framing the 2nd story. I might get another night of moonlight. Maybe. And another day when the shadow of the house “only” starts shutting down my PV system by 6:30 pm. We shall see. (The developers really do not give a single damn about the neighbors or the looks of the neighborhood. Even building the ticky-tacky 2-story house wouldn’t have caused me issues – eyesore maybe but not issues – if they’d built it 15′ further north on the lot.)
Natalia’s over the Covid, thank heavens. But looking tired and she really didn’t want to go back to work. Not the regular crap-from-the-system issues but stress from the active-shooter situation (false alarm – there were active shooter false alarms/swatting all over the country on the 1st day of classes) which was 2 hours of lockdown in the Chair’s office with 17 other people including 2 students hiding under the Chair’s desk and crying the whole time followed by cops in riot gear with assault rifles ordering them around like they were a combination of prisoners and recruits at boot camp. She already had Covid although she didn’t test for it until the next day. But not going back, getting back into the normal routine, well the anxiety and fear have had time to fester. There’s a reason why old folks say when a horse throws you, get right back on. And it’s not even the control-freaks dismissing the fear for gain. It’s that if you don’t get right back on, it will be harder – sometimes impossible – to get back on at all. But she’s off to work and hopefully the routine will reestablish itself.
Speaking of routines, I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! It was 59 F. when we woke up, and at nearly noon it’s still only 66 F. Made a point of going out to look at Her last night and looked extra hard for the people who can’t see her. Last night She looked like a large, cream-colored pearl, not red or coppery at all. I was so happy to see Her!
Just came back from a visit with the new Nurse-Practitioner Dermatologist. She was certainly more helpful than the other one, who, I understand, has moved to North Carolina (Goddess help her). She burned off several of my warts. I told her I hadn’t been playing with frogs or toads, but she said it was the human papilloma virus and practically everyone has it. That’s reassuring.
I worked like a demon yesterday and was rewarded with nearly 8 hours’ sleep. Today I have to pencil in the new stage directions, rehearse Scene 9 for half an hour with my, uh, lover in the play, then rehearse Scenes 3 through 9 the rest of the time.
What else—we have a beautiful week of no rain ahead of us. I’d rejoice except that we are in Stage 1 drought.
Am expecting two big packages today. That reminds me, must send a check to my cousin for the shipping costs. Also have a visit with my primary doctor today. Have a long list of questions and a picture showing my face at Peak Ugliness. Honestly, I’d frighten little kids if they saw me like that!
Time to make lunch for self and Dearly. He’s fading away before my eyes. He doesn’t need assistance with the ordinary tasks of life, but I do all the shopping, food prep, and so forth. I’m beginning to do the dishes too, which means I’ll be even more tired. He hardly eats, sleeps very badly, and doesn’t move about much except to take a shower. The GOOD news is that this is the 21st century, so he can do all his banking on his iPhone, read books on his iPad with the Kindle app, and watch all sorts of things on the telly, especially with BritBox.
Gotta run. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, sending healing white light to all who need it.
{{{Diana}}} Holding you & Dearly both in The Light. Healing Energy. Blessed Be. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Thanks, bfitz!
{{{Diana & Dearly}}} sending all good thoughts.
Thanks, another!
Good afternoon, 61 and mostly cloudy in Bellingham today. The boat will be in the harbor late afternoon today so Elsa will be going home and the dog toys will stay in basket here when I pick them up. She has been a good dog so we will miss her but she will be happy to see her guy again.
Diana, hugs to you and Dearly as you navigate this stage of life. I fuss with the complications of electronics but yes, being able to enjoy music, read on line, have a Kindle full of books, etc makes my life more interesting. I’m glad they are making Dearly’s days more interesting too. Take care of yourself as you care for him.
Bfitz, I do know how a new structure can change what we see…..I still miss the bay view I used to enjoy. Our neighbor is pleasant and loves living in her house, but I still look at it and sigh. The many trees I’ve planted often interfere with my moonlight moments, but I know who is responsible :) Sorry you are not going to have the moon as your companion in the ways you are accustomed to. I hope a new view will emerge.
I’m woefully behind with all my lists and life expectations so this Monday seems more overwhelming than usual. Time to triage and just do something. As always my best wishes to all.
{{{princesspat}}} Thanks. Yes, our views – physical and mental – do change over the years. Sometimes because of what we’ve done, sometimes what others do that is totally out of our control. So we live with it, one way or another. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Tuesday Meese. Nice fall weather here in Kingston.
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Good morning. It’s actually cool! I have my kitchen window & front door open for fresh, cool air. 65 degrees would be great for a walk but I’m resting my foot.
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! We saw the beautiful, just-past-the-full Moon last night, coming out of Rehearsal to walk home. I enjoyed the rare sight.
It’s 55 F. here in Ashburn, with yet another beautiful, bone-dry day in store. Yesterday was full of doctor appointments. My primary doctor read through my questions, said the only drug I could stop taking was the extra dose of Pepcid-AC, and that I had to keep taking all the others. I showed her the photos of my face at peak ugliness, so she said I need to see an allergist, a very good one. She gave me a referral and said this doctor could test me for a gluten allergy.
Then she said I could have the booster the drugstore was blithering about. Why a woman my age would be in danger of getting diphtheria or whooping cough, I don’t know, but I have an appointment to get it next week.
Rehearsal last night was exhausting. The director was exasperated with me. I was dead on my feet when I arrived home. The good thing that happened was the painting arrived safe and sound. My father painted it many years ago. I’d forgotten all about it, when my cousin in Nebraska suddenly asked if I wanted it. I said yes, of course. Remember that American Gothic couple painted by wossname—was it Grant Somebody? Well, this showed the couple with their little boy, who was stretching out his hand to a small white dog. I loved my father’s whimsicality.
Got to get ready for Cardiac Rehab. I’m so tired that all I want to do is stay home and rest, but No Rest for the Wicked! Blessings on everyone’s camels and wishing you all a good day.
It’s 55 heading for 84 and sunny. Which is good. Yesterday we generated 14.7 KWHs and the m-t-d at 101.76 is (barely) back on track.
The roof still hasn’t been put on the house next door so I had moonlight again this morning. In the “too early to get up/too late to go back to sleep” time slot so I did my back exercises bathed in moonlight. And that was wonderful. It’s so very stupid I finally called the developer this morning – there’s a door and 2 picture windows facing my house instead of the street. And just in case it was not supposed to be that way, I checked while there was still time to change it. No, this was by design. The porch is about a foot from my property line. The house’s living room and picture windows are about 15′ from our bedroom windows. Which we already curtain of course but will have much heavier curtains soon. I can’t think why anyone would buy such a house. Supposedly that’s the back door so that makes it OK. The front door on the other side of the house – facing another house in the process of being built but more like 50′ away – looks like the entrance to a storage closet. I suppose that’s a tiny foyer or “mud room” or something. I don’t know if the designer is mentally deficient or just evil, sitting back and cackling at how uncomfortable everybody is going to be once those houses finally sell/are occupied. But I’ll leave it to them to lay out the cash for a privacy fence. And keep my curtains closed.
Anyway, Natalia’s doing/feeling better. Not as tired, depressed, or anxious. Which is good. Meanwhile I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 59 and light clouds. We met our son at the dock yesterday so both he and Elsa are home now and our house feels very quiet. Elsa was glad to see him as was I but he seemed very tired. It was a long travel day for him. I expect Elsa will nap all day, being the dog on food duty for 10 days is tiring!
I addressed a tall stack of unopened mail yesterday and found a card from an old college friend announcing her death from bone cancer. She has stayed in contact with me but I haven’t responded as frequently and needless to say I’m regretting that. I want to send her a long letter :(
Now that my desktop is more clear I can pay the bills and then I want to sort out the old papers cluttering all the desk storage space. Do I need to keep the carbons of old checks? No I don’t but I have been so getting rid of them will free a drawer and then I’ll have more desk surface for even more stacks! I’ll try to do better but old habits do linger. As always my best wishes to all.
Good afternoon, Meeses! Tuesday …
It is 100 degrees in Tucson but the humidity is in the teens so it is not unpleasant.
My estimate for my early morning work project was sadly off and I did not finish until nearly 10am. That is all the work I can tolerate.
Today is a full WNBA day with the Mercury hosting the Sparks. One observer of the WNBA league said that Caitlin Clark fans are angry that her season is over because their “great white hope” putting uppity Black Women in their places will not happen. The observer suggested that Clark does not want the racist fans but I call bs. Her dissing of Bonner makes it plain how much she enjoys it.
See all y’all later!
I am so sick of Clark and her MAGA fans I could spit. Yay – my Liberty won.
Wednesday Meese. Chilly here in Kingston. Only going up to 68 today.
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Good morning. Didn’t exercise yesterday, I swear I’m taking an early lunch & going to kickboxing. Stupid protesters cut the Vuelta early again yesterday, because apparently robbing the riders of stage victories somehow benefits the starving children. Why do they think this benefits their cause? Sigh. Anyway, I’ll watch what they allow of the race today.
It’s 66 heading for 90 and mostly sunny. Hope it stays that way since the evening production is cut short. Yesterday we generated 14.1 KWHs and the m-t-d at 115.9 is still on track.
Well, the roof is going on the house next door, mostly framed already, and if they don’t do anything else it’s not as bad as I feared. As far as the PV system is concerned, it’s pretty much exactly what I feared. But there’s actually chunk of space in the sky between that roof and the trees to the south that the moon can shine through onto my bed during the few days around full. So cloud’s permitting, I will still have my moonlight. Not as much of fit, I doubt the beam of light will manage to travel completely across my bed before it drops below the roof line, but some. And some will definitely do. And considering everything else in our colonizer culture/patriarchal society, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that convoluted, ugly, and poorly-sited should be the in thing these days. About the only benefit is that it actually should keep off the rain for whatever poor deluded family that buys the bloody thing. At least until one of those totally unnecessary joins and valleys decides to leak anyway.
I’ll actually have to close up the house and probably turn the A/C back on today. Our Autumnal cool spell is over and we’re back to summer for a bit. But Natalia’s doing better and so is Cloud so that’s good. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Can you have your solar panels raised to get more sun or is that impossible? I am sad that you will lose some of your electric production but glad to hear that you will not go completely moonless!
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! Good news and bad news: the good news is that we’re getting DRIZZLE! Yep, you can’t see it falling but it’s chuckling through the rainspout, and the temp. in Ashburned is 60 F. under the overcast sky.
Second good news: I’m to receive some sort of remuneration from Facebark. Don’t know how much or when, but all contributions gratefully received. Third, you may already know—the Democrat, Walkinshaw, won the special election yesterday, 75% to 25%! People in Northern Virginia are plenty mad at losing their jobs for no reason other than Mango’s dislike of the fed’rul gummint.
Bad news: This affects only moi and is very first-world. Despite calling the reservation number the instant the announcement of Open Mic night appeared four weeks ago, I can’t get a ticket! Ah’m gonna die. There’s no sex and drugs at Open Mic night, but there’s plenty of rock’n’roll. One of my neighbors and some of my fellow actors will be singing. I want to be there to cheer them on. However…I do Know People, and may be able to gain admittance through one of them. He’s acting the part of the art gallery manager in the play.
Got to get washed and brushed, we’re having a Building Coffee Hour at 10. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!