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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 70 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 93. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Sunday Meese. Getting the popcorn ready to watch the start of the WNBA playoffs today.
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Good morning. Got my flu and covid vaxes yesterday (vaxs? what would be the plural?) Anyway, I feel fine, slight soreness on the covid arm. Tea is steeping, I’m going to toast some walnuts for my lunch (sweet potatoes, black beans, mango, avocado) later. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying the smell of my steeping tea and watching the news.
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s another bone-dry, lovely day in Ashburn. It’s 67 F. right now, heading for a high of 86 F.
Had a great time last night at the “Open Mic” party. My actor friend let me in through a side door. He is a terrific dancer—used to teach it, in fact—and we danced so much I was down a pound when I weighed before breakfast this morning. Speaking of breakfast, I can’t make any because Dearly is asleep. He sleeps a LOT.
Have to majorly study my lines today, as well as sending my cousin an e-birthday card, ordering little grandson’s school pictures, and sending the script of my Reader Theater play, “Deception,” to the parties concerned. We’re going to enact it this Saturday. It’ll be the last Reader Theater play of the year, because in October we’ll talk about stage makeup, and November will bring elections for the new Board and an introduction of the spring musical, “Into the Woods.”
I’d better do what I can do while Dearly is still asleep. It’s already 8:30. I wish I knew how to make coffee.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and healing white light and wellness to all who need it!
This you MUST learn!!! “I wish I knew how to make coffee.”
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It’s 71 heading for 92/heat index 99 and mostly sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 11.14 KWHs and the m-t-d at 168.8 lost a little ground but is still on track.
Cloud is feeling better enough to avoid actually taking his meds (as in I get it on his face but not in his mouth) if I’m not scruffing him right. And I can’t do that when he’s on the floor – I have my own arthritis issues. So this morning I hauled him up on the counter to give him his meds. Hopefully that will stop the fur pulling again.
My son should be here this afternoon with carrots and a rotisserie chicken. The return of summer(ish) weather means neither Natalia nor I really want to the real cooking it takes to get raw meat safe to eat. She’ll be home from the farm sometime this evening.
Got my Sunday chores done and am heading off to do my daily boosting. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
:) The weather people are calling this “second summer”. We didn’t even get a real “false fall”, because usually that is 2 or 3 days where you want long sleeves. We didn’t even get mornings for long sleeves, all we got were mornings below 70 degrees.
{{{anotherdemocrat}}} sigh. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good afternoon, 60 and cloudy in Bellingham today. I had hoped to have a family dinner here tonight but my hands and ankle joints have rebelled so we’ll try again next week. Our son is recovering from his surgery but he needs a quiet day too as he needs to return to work tomorrow. Marcus will be here tomorrow morning to remove an aspen tree and to thin branches from several other tall trees, and I have a Dr. appointment in the afternoon so a quiet day today is best for me as well. As always, my best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 73 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 95. Sunny skies are in the forecast. Today is the official end of the monsoon season. We did not have nearly enough rain so I am hoping that the Pacific hurricane season can bring us some moisture. Maybe this winter’s rains (which usually start in January) will be more plentiful. The moon was neatly at last quarter Sunday morning and visible for hours across the eastern sky over the mountains; this morning she is smaller but just as bright. The cool breeze across the deck was welcome. In about a month, we can let the cool air in from outside and turn off the air conditioning.
Not much new, christian white nationalists are showing their vision of America and it is terrifying – I hope it splatters back on Republicans in the next election. You can’t use the nazis to win elections and then pretend you did not know what nazism was all about! I was reading some of the awful quotes from the MAGA youth movement’s leader and it is disgusting – truly the “basket of deplorables” that Hillary identified in 2016. No thinking person wants that America.
I have a week with only a few set appointments and a plan to start working on my longer list now that my short list is nearly completed. The WNBA playoffs have started and the Racist Enabling Indiana Fever lost their first game to the Dream. The Liberty v Mercury game came right down to the wire then the Mercury collapsed in overtime. The better team won – we knew that a healthy Liberty was going to be difficult to beat. I still think that the championship will be the Lynx versus the Evil Empire but it could be a rematch of the 2023 finals. In any event, it will be fun to watch!
See all y’all later!
My Liberty just barely won – I enjoyed the game. I truly don’t care who wins the championship as long as it isn’t the Evil Empire.
Happy Monday. We are in the season the weather people call “2nd summer”. It’s not getting into the 100s, but you can’t really say it’s cooling off either. Sigh. The stupid protesters made them cancel the end of the Vuelta. How attacking a bike race helps the people in Gaza is beyond me. They also canceled the podium ceremony, so the riders held their own. Pretty sure no one will be back next year.
That seems so stupid. It has always annoyed me that in the Tour de France spectators are allowed to step onto the roads the racers are biking on! I stopped watching because of that. Now it seems they’ve ruined another race. Someone should impose some discipline on these things.
It is unfortunate that the only way people can think to get attention on an important issue is to be disruptive, oftentimes causing chaos at events and possibly harming their own cause. I am not sure what the solution is – in a perfect world evildoers would be castigated by the media, shunned by decent people and made to change their ways. Right now we have no traditional media willing to put their necks out and certainly no one in power able to rein in the Israeli government. It took decades for Apartheid to be destroyed by economic boycotts and demonstrations and, sadly, there are now laws against “being mean to Israel” on the books of most red states so the current government there can act with impunity. Sucks. :(
I don’t know how these jerks can imagine there’s anyone on the planet that doesn’t know about the starvation in Gaza. And how throwing urine on guys riding bikes will get food to the children. I don’t hate the people in Gaza,these jerks aren’t their fault. But I do really hate their advocates.
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! It’s 61 F. right now in Ashburn, heading for a high of 81 F. later. Yesterday it was quite hot when I went to the garden to water my poor tomatoes, which were not, alas, in very good shape.
“They” say we’ll have rain Tuesday and Wednesday. As always, I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’m so sick of Kirknews I could utter one scree-am.
I have desk work until this afternoon, at which time I have a board meeting at 3, followed by a concert at 4, home to make an inadequate dinner at 5, then a headset fitting at 7. After that I plan to practice Scene 2 lines with the woman playing the detective. I’m going to walk into the headset adjustment place wearing my blonde Diana wig (the character I’m playing is called Diane), blue eyeliner, navy blue mascara, black jacket and tank top, and white jeans. That should stir things up a bit. Hope the new wiggy will fit.
Have been avoiding the news as much as possible. Can’t do anything about it until November 4, and hearing too much just makes me depressed. I’m depressed anyway because Dearly is so far from well. He’s not in pain, it’s his breathing. I’ll just have to help him as much as I can.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, and healing white light to those who need it.
If you hate KirkNews you would despise the headlines I wake up to every day here in Arizona. They are taking over the NFL football stadium in Phoenix for their “memorial service” which will look like a nazi rally. The buildings in the white christian nationalist enclave in Scottsdale have names like “Victory Center” which is creepy. It sounds like the widow is planning to be the new face of the group. I wonder what happens when she realizes that the people her husband created and cultivated despise women? tRump won in Arizona by motivating incels and people convinced that women took all the jobs that men “deserved” to have by their maleness, to vote. You can’t unteach that.
His widow is just as hateful as he was. But I’m sure she has a special dispensation from Jesus for committing the crime of being born female.
It’s 67 heading for 91/heat index 95 and mostly sunny/a bit hazy at the moment. There are clouds and maybe rain in the forecast for this afternoon. I hope late afternoon. Yesterday we generated 10.7 KWHs and the m-t-d at 179.2 lost a little more ground but is still on track.
Natalia’s younger sister has been/is being brainwashed by her “conservative” significant other. Just as my youngest sister was. I have no idea whether or not she’ll get over it even if they separate. My sister hasn’t. sigh. Too gee-dee women in America are gormless. It’s upsetting when I just see it online. It’s worse when it’s in the family.
The construction people were “considerate” enough to have the dumpster brought in just after 6 (as in 6:07 am) rather than 4 am or something like that. I called the developer this morning and told him, yes I want the privacy fence. If he hadn’t designed the house so the “back” door exited onto my side yard instead of their own back yard (& so the porch roof didn’t channel rainwater to the foundation of my house) I probably wouldn’t have wanted the privacy fence. Those things are very isolating and I like to be on good terms if not friendly terms with my neighbors. But with that door and porch situated where they are it would be all too easy for that homeowner to treat my side yard as if it were his back yard – putting us on very unfriendly terms. Oh well. Done. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Tuesday Meese. 58 here in Kingston going up to a cloudy 77.
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Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 97. Mostly sunny skies with a chance for afternoon rain. Right now there are wispy clouds over the mountains and the waning moon looks like she is wearing a shawl. It is not as cool as yesterday early morning but it should be nice for my walk.
I am keeping half an eye on the Continuing Resolution in Congress and the hope for the Affordable Care Act subsidies surviving and trying really hard to ignore the sturm und drang surrounding the malAdministration’s call to cancel the First Amendment and round up all liberals and put them in detention camps. The sad thing is that this “Supreme” Court will likely give them that permission! Thanks, Bernie Sanders! Your narcissism gave us tRump, this Supreme Court and literally the dissolution of our Constitution and country. In some ways it is a relief because no one was in the mood to celebrate America’s 250 birthday with the Felon presiding – at this rate it will not survive until next year.
I will not be working tomorrow so I need to get a few things done today to stay ahead of the curve.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Had a restless night, so glad today & tomorrow are wfh. Arm that I got my covid vax still hurts. Which is fine, I’d rather a couple of days of arm pain than the alternative. Just watched a report that covid rates are high in my area. Anyway, happy Tuesday.
Good morning, Meese, just popping in for a quick one to say “hi.” Overcast and 65 F. at the moment, going up to 69 F. for a high. I’ll have to bring the porch cushions in.
My leading man has Covid. Bummer. I’m sorry for the poor guy, of course, but am now stuck for a leading man for my little play, “Deception.” Well, I asked the second handsomest man in the Drama Club, but he’ll be out of town. One of two things will happen: either we’ll ditch the play, or I’ll find a man that we can pass off as the “Campus Casanova.” Compared to the Awfulness going on this country and the world, my problems are Very Small Beer.
Walked into the theater last night wearing my blonde Princess Diana wig and everyone did a double take. LOL! I do love to stir things up.
My sweet cousin in Brenham, Texas, picked up my e-birthday card this morning. She pointed out that for this month and until November 9, we three oldest “girl cousins” will all be 81 at the same time! Funny, that.
Must hasten to pick up tickets from next door and then to Cardiac Rehab. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
It’s 67 heading for 90/heat index 95 and sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 9.83 KWHs and the m-t-d at 189 lost a little more. Still on track for 350 but not 360. Anyway, house is open and will be for another hour or so.
I’m relatively safe and healthy, even with the lousy night I had, and all of my family is as well (that I know of) but that’s about all the good news I can think of. Everywhere I look there’s evil going on. It’s very tiring, living in the 21st century version of Quisling Sweden/Vichy France. Even more tiring to know all the folks in “marginalized” populations are living in the 21st century version of occupied France or even Nazi Germany itself. And remembering what it took to bring down fascism in the 20th century. Knowing that the anti-fascists in the 20th century who did it are the fascists of the 21st century.
Got to keep on keepin’ on. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 54 and morning clouds have cleared so the sun is shinning on my garden today. To my deep relief the C scan I had yesterday shows a small kidney stone and some cysts but no kidney cancer, yay! No surprise I have wide spread arthritis, but that’s a given. I needed a long nap after the exam so fatigue continues to be an issue as well.
Marcus had to reschedule his visit so the trees will wait for another opening in his schedule. I would like the work to be done before winter and I’m sure that will happen. Bri will be here this week and we can continue to work on pruning the lower branches.
Past time for me to get busy…..as always, my best wishes to all.
Yay on the “no cancer”! One less thing to worry about.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 93. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We had a lot of clouds and rain over the mountains and south of the city but nothing here. There are some rain chances later in the week.
In WNBA playoff news, the Racist Enabling Indiana Fever won at home in their white nationalist compound but will have to go back to Atlanta where the Dream has a lot of success. The Evil Empire lost to the Seattle Storm who were avenging their worst loss in playoff history but that contest moves to Las Vegas where the Aces are nearly unbeatable. Tonight the Mercury go to New York and I hope they can win to take that series to another game. I don’t have as much hope for the Golden State Valkyries against the Lynx tonight even in a sold-out Ballhala. If they only had to beat the Lynx, they would have a chance but they have to beat the refs as well. :(
I have a few things I need to do before I shut down early to run errands and go to appointments. I best get to it.
See all y’all later!
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! The Steemers are finally coming, so they say, between 8 and noon, so I have to hurry. First, the good news:
It began to rain at 5:30, while we were having dinner at the Pub down the hall and kept it up all night long! It’s still dark and rainy at 6:45. Surely this must put a dent in the drought.
Second, Ah got mah Social! I keep reading on AOL that we’re supposed to do something or get something on our Social in October, but I’m not sure what.
Now the bad news: I was sent home from Cardiac Rehab yesterday because I had not taken my Plavix. I don’t HAVE any Plavix. I asked for some last Friday, but the drugstore whined they’d have to contact my doctor. Well, the cardiologist did nothing. I called the office and SCREECHED, they said they’d send the order in that very day and I’d have all the meds by afternoon. Well, the drugstore refused to dispense them because they said they didn’t have the order.
Sorry to bore you with this. I don’t see why it’s up to me to tell them I need the prescription refilled. It should be automatic. This Plavix is supposed to keep blood clots from forming around my stent.
I suppose I’ll have to have another fight when the offices open. Well, all I caN do is wish a good day to all at the Pond. I abhor “living in interesting times.”
I really don’t know how people who do not have their wits about them or who have no one to advocate for them can survive our “health care” system. Maybe that’s the point. :(
Oh no – the Plavix situation sucks (try contacting the pharmaceutical company) I have two expired bottles of Clopidogrel here (Nad’s no longer taking it – if that might help)
Thanks, Sis! I’ll get on MyChart and see whether the order has been put in before I start screaming at anyone. I had hoped to graduate from Rehab at the end of September but at this rate I’ll just have to drop out.
Wednesday Meese.
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