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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 61 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 86. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
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Daylight Saving Time officially ended at 2am on Sunday November 2nd. Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour (messing with the gears!) unless you live in Arizona (except for some of the tribal areas) or Hawaii.
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I had hoped to see the moon in the early morning sky but alas she was below the horizon when I got up. Last night she rose over the mountains before the sun went down and I managed to catch a glimpse of her in the dark ESE sky briefly from one of my windows. Tomorrow morning, moonset is 4:29am MST and I will definitely see her.
I didn’t exactly see She because I didn’t get up to look out the window but sometime around 2 am I woke to moonlight blanketing me/my bed. 😁
Jan – don’t know if you saw this:
Good for her!
Last week the Phoenix city council rejected a call to rename a bridge after Kirk. The right-wing knee jerk rush to lionize a racist hatemonger simply because he was killed is gross. It is the Confederate general statuary all over again, putting up monuments to the men who fought to keep people enslaved. I hope we can clean up all of the garbage someday.
Good Sunday morning Meese
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Enjoyed the extra hour of (attempting to) sleep. Got my tea steeping, watching the local news. I don’t have to cook this weekend, so I could go to the gym this afternoon….
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It’s 37 heading for 58 and sunny. Yesterday cleared off and we generated 6.6 KWHs which starts us nicely on track for 180 for November.
I managed to get my Sunday chores done. Mostly. There are still too many boxes about for a thorough vacuuming – or as thorough as I ever manage to do – but I got up as much cat hair & dust bunnies as I could. Just finished my oatmeal and am about to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! Feel as if I’ve been presented with an extra hour, which is just as well because I have a lot to do today.
It’s a lovely Sunday morning here, currently 55 F. in Ashburn, going up to 65 F. later. I have a Zoom training for the election at 2 p.m. Why? We’ve been doing this for years. All we do is hand out sample Democratic ballots while smiling hard and pretending to be ten times nicer than we really are.
Hoping to go around the corner to one of the three “nice” restaurants with Dearly tonight. My friend Z and her hubby are meeting us there. Dearly ate far less than usual this morning—half an egg, half a slice of Air Toast, one half a small grilled tomato, no beans or anything like that. Worrisome.
Have some work to do before I can go to the gym. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning, 48 and partly sunny outside my windows today. I tried to do some garden clean up yesterday but everything is soggy so I’ll try again today. I’ll just focus on the patio areas and leave the rest to Bri and the lawn service guys. I want to mulch the leaves for compost but I think it’s to difficult for us now. RonK’s surgery site is healing but lifting wet heavy leaves isn’t good for him now and it’s even harder for me. Best wishes to all.
Good Monday morning Meese.
Puerto Rico
Melissa
Good morning. I will eventually get tired of cold weather, but for now, needing a sweatshirt in the morning is neat. Walked 1.15 mi, not bad. Not where I was, but I’ll get there.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 63 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 86. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. I did not see the moon this morning because I let myself sleep in – I expect that I will see her tomorrow morning when she won’t set until 5:40am MST.
I wonder what will finally make the Republicans cave on their shutdown? The push will surely have to come from the red state governors because Congressional Republicans are completely in thrall to their cult leader. And tRump will not find a personal moment of empathy after a lifetime of me-me-me – he has never cared about other people’s suffering because he does not even see them. Everything is transactional so someone will have to tell him that it is in his best interests to ease up, good luck finding someone who will!
I have a big list of things to do after a chaotic week and an unfocused weekend so I best get to it.
See all y’all later!
It’s 48 heading for 70 and sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 5.99 KWHs and the m-t-d at 12.6 is still on track.
Natalia meant to pick up GF burgers for dinner last night on her way home from the farm but the GF burger place is out of business. Sigh. Everything was unusually crowded yesterday but she did manage to get Chicken Pad Thai instead and get home a mere hour and a half later than planned. Meanwhile I’d taken an early shower and put the laundry on. It’ll be cool enough for a fire in the evening most nights this week, but not early enough to do laundry.
I wish I thought the govt would be up and running soon. But I don’t. And what that’s going to do to the economy. . . small businesses depend on holiday sale they aren’t getting are just flat going to go out of business, that’s an unfortunate given. But the whole economy – sales of food & hygiene supplies from laundry soap to toilet paper and more – is just going to tank. And I don’t give a damn about whose fault or point fingers. That doesn’t get people fed, clothed, or housed. And yes, to have access to medical care at need. If our team can’t figure out something to do besides point fingers and fundraise off it, they aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit (to quote LBJ about a different topic). So, I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 45 and cloudy in Bellingham today. I enjoyed working in the garden yesterday, and to my relief I can walk this morning. I trimmed plants, cleaned spider webs from the outdoor furniture, put summer umbrellas away, moved tables and chairs to storage, etc. I want to do more but it will be easier to keep the patio and entrance areas tidy for winter now. Thanks to RonK and our son for doing the lifting and carrying while I cleaned and sorted. I’ll rest this morning and find some easy garden therapy to do this afternoon. Best wishes to all.
yay for walking!
Good morning. So Dick Cheney has joined Henry Kissinger in Hell. (I don’t actually believe in that place but I’ll make an exception for exceptionally evil people) Getting ready for wfh, hoping I can get a lot of new users set up.
No tears shed for Dick “Dick” Cheney. In many ways we are reaping what he has sown – permanent wars, the corruption of government for partisan gain – he set the stage for tRump and his Republican Party’s reign of terror. His hell was seeing what he created and knowing that it will probably destroy his daughter.
From Erik Loomis: Cheney
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Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 61 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 84. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. I missed the moon glow this morning, I was up before the moon set but from the WNW she is behind buildings an hour earlier. She will be full about 24 hours from now, at 6:19 am MST tomorrow morning, and she won’t set until 6:55am so I will surely see her.
The courts have ordered the federal government to release the emergency SNAP funds. It will be interesting to see if they do. Senate Democrats tried to pass a bill to reinstate SNAP funds and Senate Republicans called it “a stunt”. Good lord, their entire party is a stunt but one with real life victims. I wish we had an honest media not beholden to the MAGAT’s king who would tell people that the food is being withheld because Republicans want to destroy the Affordable Care Act and cancel their insurance. People are finding out what Unified Republican Governance means when the government is run by people with no empathy.
I will be keeping an eye on the elections in California, New Jersey, Virginia and New York City but mostly I will be watching Women’s College Basketball. The season started yesterday and there are going to be some fun matchups tonight.
I have a bunch of errands to run today and need to sort through my to-do stack before I can shut down my computer. I am pretty sure there is stuff in there that is important and that I just tossed aside to deal with when I had time. I need to take the time right now.
See all y’all later!
It’s 49 heading for 73 today and sunny. It’s still clouding up in the early afternoon and that added to the (incomplete) house next door shading the panels in the late afternoon is keeping us from getting the 7+ possible this time of year. Yesterday we generated 5.93 KWHs and the m-t-d at 18.55 is still on track.
It’s Natalia’s 65th birthday. She now doesn’t/shouldn’t have to worry about healthcare if she decides to leave the university before her 67th birthday. I at least got to take full retirement with my 66th birthday but she’s one of the late Boomers who got even more of a shaft from the “oh, oh Social Security is going broke” rewrite during the RR administration. We’ll see if she can stick it out. With an R supermajority in our legislature, working for the state – especially the university – has gotten more & more stressful as the lege keeps requiring things (including the use of software totally not designed for public or educational uses) that make admin jobs harder & harder to actually do. Another “at least” – at least I was able to retire before they switched from BASIS to Workday.
Things are getting worse in the wide world. I am OK as long as my Social Security keeps coming in. But an awful lot of folks are not. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
More and more software decisions are made based on well-placed people at software vendors trading perks with decision makers – and less has to do with the fitness of the product. In the olden days, state governments and institutions of higher learning used to write their own software or hire firms who would write something specifically for them. Now their donors insist that they use XYZ software because they played golf with their CEO. Grrrr!
Good day Meese.
Good thing I checked my local elections site to see what referendums we are voting on today. My polling place has changed.
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Good Election Day morning, Meese! It’s 56 F. on a fair autumn morning in Ashburn, heading for a high of 63 F. later. Last night after visiting the Recycling Room I stepped outside and saw Her almost-full gorgeous self! Oh, She was lovely.
Well, my friends, early Monday morn I was awakened at half after midnight by a security guard standing over my bed. He said Dearly had fallen, was bleeding profusely, and needed to go to the ER. After ascertaining that he was in his right mind, they took him away in an ambulance. By now it was 1:30 in the morning. Just before noon Dearly called me to say he was being transferred to Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. Later he called me to say that they were keeping him for a couple of days to “investigate” what’s wrong with him. I haven’t heard anything since.
I voted a couple of hours ago and was pleased to see so many of my fellow Drama Club members working the polls. Some of them are in the play, too, although there’s no rehearsal or performance today. Several of them told me they missed me in the play. Because it’s such a gorgeous day here in Northern Virginia, it’ll be good for turnout. I’m going to collect some clothes for Dearly and then go to see him. The traffic will die down very soon. Will keep an interested eye on the returns tonight!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
{{{Diana}}} Sending lots & lots of Healing Energy to Dearly – & to you. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
{{{{Diana}}}} sending all good thoughts your way
Thank you, dear Becky!
Good afternoon from cloudy Bellingham. I was at PT this morning and needed a nap to recover. Diana, I hope all’s as well as can be with you and dearly now. Best wishes to all.