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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 66 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 82. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. I did not exercise yesterday, but I did buy new walking shoes because the doctor said my foot pain was likely due to old shoes. So I will walk in the morning. Today: pour up my gallon of tea, go to church, make next week’s dinner. It’s a cool & lovely 60 degrees, brrr!
It’s 58 according to one widget and 62 according to another but we’re heading for 84 and it’s sunny. And supposed to stay sunny today. Yesterday we did get a few clouds in the midafternoon which dropped the total generated to 11 KWHs but the m-t-d at 294.93 will definitely get over 300 by end of day. We’re almost at the 295 we got in 2023 and will be ahead of the 300 we got in 2022. Not great but good.
My son is quite good at online searches – I am not – and checked out other than chronica kidney disease possibilities for Cloud’s high SDMA reading (normal is 0 – 14, his was 18). There are a fair number of them. The easiest to deal with are stress and dehydration. It also seems that hyperthyroidism can mimic kidney disease as well as mask it. And there are various other things that come under the heading of damage (potentially treatable) rather than disease (not treatable). He suggests that in 3 months when the numbers are run again if Cloud is still high, definitely if higher, that I request a full urinalysis and renal function test. Meanwhile, I was right. Cloud won’t eat the very expensive Rx K/D kibble.
Natalia will be home this afternoon or evening, depending on when she and her sisters left the Austin area. And I may or may not see my son this afternoon, depending on whether or not he goes to Sam’s Club today. Vacuuming and other Sunday chores done. Now I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Rx pet food must have the flavor removed. Our various pets who have been on it over the years never liked it.
Oh, man. I just lost a decent-sized post here about what’s going on. Bummer. We’re alive. Everyone have a good day!
Sunday Meese. Posted
Good morning, 57 and cloudy outside my windows today. Ron will be manning a Land Trust booth at a Seafood Fair today and Ava will be joining him so they will have a busy morning. I’ve got a garden idea to explore so that’s where I’ll be. Best wishes to all.
Monday Meese. Nice fall weather here in Kingston today.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. I walked a little bit, it’s too cool a morning not to. 60 degrees, brrr. Anyway, happy Monday.
For Jan
“Let me reintroduce myself”, indeed! Two game sealing 3 pointers in the closing minutes. She looks exhausted – I think her 38 year old body, even though it is an athlete’s body, is showing the wear and tear of a long emotional season but she found a way to help her team win. I would love for her to get another championship ring so she can retire on a high note.
I’m a DB fan – and loved watching drop those 3 pointers.
Here’s an article from one of the Mercury sports sites on Bonner:
Bonner Mental Journey
Thanks for the link Jan
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 66 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 88. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The monsoonal rains appear to have ended their cycle which will usher in more typical fall weather – morning lows in the upper 60s and low 70s and highs in the upper 80s low 90s. I have been seeing the waxing crescent in the WSW sky in the evening, it will be a few days before she is visible over the mountains after dark.
The Phoenix Mercury won another come from behind victory and will be in the WNBA championship game facing either the Evil Empire or the Racist Enabling Indiana Fever. I have been warming up to the Las Vegas Aces watching them try to overcome the clear pro-Indiana refereeing and their hilarious post-game news conference. The same ref crew that botched game management in the Lynx-Mercury game 3, traveled to Indiana to suck there. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was right – they are incompetent. I wish she had not been suspended for the game last night, it will always feel like an asterisk game, but the league had no choice – she was abusive to the fans and literally had to be dragged off the court by her staff during the closing seconds of the game. It would have been wrong to allow her back on the sidelines. Would a different call on the Thomas Collier contact have changed the outcome of that game with 20 seconds left? Probably not but it will take a while for the anger over it to fade away. NBA refs, who train the WNBA refs, said it was the right “no call” but someone got hurt at the end of the play and no one can be happy about that. In any event, the WNBA playoffs – and the MLB playoffs where my team ended up with the best record in baseball – will help distract from the suckitude that will result from the government shutdown.
I have some accounting to do before I can close the month so I best get back to it.
See all y’all later!
It’s 57 heading for 82 and another wonderfully sunny morning, hopefully sunny day. Yesterday we generated 11.1 KWHs and the m-t-d is at 305.9 with 2 more generating days left in September. We won’t make it to 2018’s 340 for the month but we’re safely out of last place.
Natalia’s home, Cloud seems to be doing OK (also the other cats), and I had a nice if short visit with my son and my 25 y.o. grandson yesterday. My personal world is fine. I wish it were so for the rest of the world. Sigh. I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{HUGS}}}
Good Monday morning, Moosekind. It’s 69 F. in Ashburn under cloudy but rainless skies, heading for 80 F. ‘Tis humid.
Younger Son and family came over yesterday for brunch. We got Dearly out to join us at the nice restaurant down the hall and around the corner. We had to wait 45 minutes for our party of six to be seated, which is EXACTLY why I try never to participate in Sunday brunch. Anyway, we ate a huge, terribly stuffing, most unhealthful lunch and practically had to roll ourselves home.
This morning we are waiting for Nurse Ratched to come and dress Dearly’s wound. There’s a concert on the lawn I plan to attend at 4, then I’ll come home and prepare dinner.
My DIL and her colleagues are quite looking forward to the shutdown. She has a 4-hour-a-day commute from her house in Chantilly (Fairfax County), VA to Union Station in DC. She’s exhausted. She’s the hardest-working person in her office, so I hope she doesn’t get laid off. Her family will be up a creek if she does, since she’s the high earner.
Well, whaddaya know, Gubernator Dumbkin followed through on his promise and sent us $200 each for “tax relief.” Well, good, now I can donate it to the Loudoun County food bank. It will be a goddamn MISERABLE holiday season for all the government workers who’ve been discarded like so much used tissue. How will they make rent, buy gas and groceries, and give their children a decent holiday? The misery inflicted by this mentally subnormal person and his henchmen is comparable to that of the Depression Era. Doesn’t anything ever HAPPEN to these villains? Don’t they fall victim to stroke, heart attack, or defenestration? I get so furious thinking about it my blood pressure skyrockets.
Did absolutely nothing all weekend, so I now have a “to-do” list. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning, 61 and light rain outside my windows today. Nice to wake up to the smell of fresh air and to see the leaves starting to change on my old maple trees. I’m just waking up after another restless night so I’ll have a quiet morning and go to a hair appointment this afternoon. Best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 70 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 90. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The stars over the mountains are bright this morning.
It looks like the government will be shutting down. Unlike in past years where there was still a structure in place to provide thin but sustainable safety nets, this time around the people running the federal government want the safety net to collapse and are anxious for people to die – and die slowly and miserably. If scribes survive, the story of this time will fill future generations with horror.
I have two end of month things I need to do then I am going to take the rest of the week off from work.
See all y’all later!
Tuesday Meese. The freakout from the right re Bad Bunny and Superbowl is dominating Puerto Rico news.
Good morning. Going to the dermatologist this morning. Yesterday was nicely uneventful. Getting ready for a short morning of wfh.
It’s 57 heading for 82 and sunny in the eastern sky will clouds covering the western sky. We shall see what the day brings. Yesterday we generated 10.87 KWHs and the m-t-d starts this last day of September at 316.82 – won’t be able to reach the next “marker” of 340 we got in 2018 but it’s still well out of last place. Even with the loss of that last hour & a half of sunshine in the evenings.
Natalia’s officially divorced but there’s still stuff to do before it’s over. The mortgage is still in her name, her name is still on the deed, and her stuff is still in that house. Step by step. Cloud seems to be doing better by the day. Since he won’t eat the kidney disease diet we’ll just have to hope/pray that what’s he’s got isn’t really kidney disease – and will get better with the treatments we’re now/already giving him for hyperthyroid, arthritis, and diarrhea.
I seriously hope the Social Security Administration got the 1st of month SSI & SSDI payments out early. And that the shutdown is over by the 2nd Wednesday when regular retirement payments are due to go out. Meanwhile, tomorrow being the 1st, a whole lot of folks are CFing for rent and I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! It’s 67 F. in Ashburn, going up to 78 F. Today when I stepped out to the porch, it was one of those still grey mornings with only the crickets singing. We have had a few spots of rain.
Yesterday, on the way home from the German Oompah Band concert on Great Oak Common, I passed a hydrangea bush, or what had been a hydrangea bush. People, it was even more dead than Elvis. Couldn’t the wretched “gardeners” here have spared a little water for it?
This evening I’m going to a birthday dinner. The honoree is 90. She turned 90 on September 11, but no one wants to celebrate on that day, so we’ll celebrate at the Potomac Restaurant tonight. Suzi is the most famous writer here at the home: her Garage Sale Mysteries have been made into Hallmark movies. She’s writing another one, but slowly.
Dearly is still confused by his meds. Nurse Rached didn’t show up until after dinner yesterday and is so scatterbrained she left her nurse’s kit behind.
Went to pick up my “The Art of Murder” t-shirt at Rehearsal yesterday evening but the producer with the shirts wasn’t there yet. Everyone told me how much I was missed. I miss them too. My fellow actors are so good! But I need to be with Dearly and that’s that. One of my neighbors picked up the shirt when it appeared and left it in my cubby in the mailroom. I’ll wear it to advertise the play.
Must scuttle off to do errands. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and a perfectly lousy day to das Herren Twitler, Goebbels, and Goering, Secretary of War.
Good morning, 58 and cloudy outside my windows today. Just waking up, sipping my coffee and listening to music. I’ll deal with reality soon but for now it’s a peaceful moment. Best wishes to all.
Jan!
Napheesa Collier calls out WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert: ‘Worst leadership in the world’
That Collier statement was amazing and so needed! I reread parts of it several times. I have no idea why the WNBA ownership group chose – and keeps – Cathy Engelbert as the commissioner. Maybe they want someone more ignorant than they are, which for some ownership groups is difficult. Although the Dallas Wings decided that the videographer turned into a head coach was a bad idea and fired him. I think he got is plays via AI.
The commissioner and one of the players union officers angry at each other is probably not a good sign for coming up with a new Collective Bargaining Agreement; it is likely that Phee’s statement will fire all the players up and make it easier for them to just say no. I was wondering if Engelbert’s diss of Caitlin Clark will turn the rabid Fever fans into a screaming mob calling for her ouster? It would be a better use of their energy than going after DeWanna Bonner.
I would love to see the rabid fever fans turn on Engelbert.