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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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It’s 39 heading for 73 and sunny again. ATM. Yesterday we generated more than I though was possible this time of year & w/ that house next door – 8.34 KWHs! Which tells you how much cloud cover we’ve had this month/year. The mo-t-d is 71.55 and definitely on track for 180. We shall see what today brings.
Totally p.o.’d at the vet clinic. Ran out of Cloud’s meds this morning – without even a full dose for him. I hadn’t been paying attention because we should have had another full week’s worth. Called the place as soon as the office opened. Of course no managers there yet. But I’ve lodged my complaint and requested that they have his refill plus the missing 7 ml – for me to pick up around 12:30. I’ll need to talk to a vet about whether to give Cloud a “make-up dose” when I get home or just wait and do his regular dose this evening. I’ll get gas & hit Walmart while I’m out. Meanwhile, I’ve got a bunch of boosting to do so I’d best be about it. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 46 and cloudy in Bellingham today. PT felt fine yesterday, but after lunch and a nap my legs were really tired so I didn’t do much. It’s discouraging, but oh well. I have a well edited list so I’ll see what I can do today. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. Got in a good walk. In the office. Actually glad today, I’ll miss the blow-by-blow of every Epstein email discovery. Reading about Larry Summers and Ken Starr was bad enough.
No one needs to be reminded of those two people. It is not a shock that disgusting misogynist Larry Summers was part of the teenage girl pickup email chat group.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday that feels like a Friday …
It is 63 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 82. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. Yesterday there were some periods where it was overcast and it got a bit chilly. I try to take my afternoon walk when the sun is out as it bakes my old bones – yesterday, I almost needed a sweatshirt. Today, I need to turn on the furnace to burn the dust off the coils. The unit is next to the smoke alarm and the annual dust burnoff always triggers it. Plus, the furnace is new (as part of the HVAC work done in the spring) and I want to make sure it works before we need it, which could be this weekend.
The “government” is open and now people will try to figure out what they hell they will do when their health insurance premiums double and triple. I suspect many will go without which will not be good for anyone except RatfkJr who would like all sick people to die because they are an inconvenient reminder of his failure as HHS Secretary – and really as a human being. Sean Duffy wants to punish air traffic controllers who called in rather than work for free. Good plan! There is already a huge shortage and the best way to alleviate that is to fire trained air traffic controllers, tick off the rest so that they quit and show everyone what an awful job it is! This is the most incompetent government ever and some days I am not sure there will be anything left when Democrats eventually take over again. It is what Republican do time and time again – take over the government, run it into the ground, and then point out that the government UNDER DEMOCRATIC CONTROL is a mess. Blast them!
I have a bunch of tweaky little projects I need to do today and I have to stick around for one more visit to patch the ceiling. I did get my haircut which feels good and I am making progress on cleaning up stacks of papers to get ready for the end-of-year push.
See all y’all later!
Good Thursday morning, Meese. Sunny and cold in Ashburn today, 47 F. right now, going up to 58 F. and breezy later. Ugh. One more reason to walk inside.
Texted hubby this morning to ask about his night. He reported it was “mixed.” He also said he seemed to be doing worse this morning. This is alarming, considering the doctor called me yeste4rday to tell me he was doing better. At least, I think that’s what she said. Her accent was unintelligible. This is very stressful.
I have to get dressed and start baking cookies. Today is the day my writers meet. I have a focus group tomorrow, but am wondering whether I should go. All I can do is hope for more and better news.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and let’s try to ignore the news.
{{{Diana}}} Moar Holding you and your family in The Light. Moar Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Thank you, dear bfitz!
Thursday Meese. Cold here in Kingston – staying in and getting my writing for the weekend done.
Puerto Rico
Melissa
It’s 45 heading for 76 and sunny at the moment. There are some clouds in the western sky but not a lot and not very thick. Yesterday we generated 7.2 KWHs and the m-t-d at 78.75 is on track and gaining some “padding” to cover the next cloudy day.
There’s so much evil going on in the world it’s hard to pick a topic to focus on. Which I suppose is the point. When the point of no return of immediate (measured in decades if not years) issues like our increasingly fascist government/society is right there, nobody seems to pay any attention to the fact that we’ve actually already missed the point of no return on long-term (measured in millennia at the very least) issues like climate collapse. Meanwhile, there are daily things to be dealt with. Food on the table and washing the dishes afterwards. Survival things for one’s own household then for as many folks as one can possibly help. So I’m off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 57 and raining in Bellingham. I got most of the power to the patios sorted out yesterday so we can now turn some lights on and off with a remote, yay! It’s dark and wet now so the lights are nice to see from the house. I’ve got a long list I should do today so I hope my old joints cooperate. Best wishes to all.
Good Friday morn Meese. Cold here in Kingston :(
ICE/Native American
Indigenous people here have been killed by aggressive Border Patrol people for years for doing things like “answering their door and denying access to masked strangers.” It is not a leap to imagine those jackbooted thugs arresting and attempting to deport indigenous people. Many of the native people here are from Mexican tribes that were here before the Gadsden Purchase carved out a piece of Mexico that included them and attached it to Arizona and New Mexico. Grrr!
Puerto Rico/Puerto Ricans
Melissa
Did my walk. Capris and short sleeves – in November. Just wrong. Anyway, hi. Happy Friday.
It’s 63 heading for 77 and sunny. Yesterday we generated 7.27 KWHs and the m-t-d at 86 is still on track and gained a smidge more.
Yesterday afternoon my computer decided to disable everything on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen – including the clock. After turning it off and leaving it off overnight it’s fixed itself. It also did an update coming back up that did reboots. Reboots disconnect the sound system. (All the indicators and “fix” programs say there’s sound but there isn’t.) So I had to turn my computer off again to get the sound back. Slightly over half an hour of jacking around, waiting, and more jacking around before here I am, safely online again. As Diana says, “first world problem” – but I can’t boost the requests for food & shelter for folks dealing w/ “3rd world problems” without it. Since it IS working, I’m off to do just that. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 61 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 82. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. This morning I could see the waning crescent in the eastern skies without craning my neck. She will be new next Wednesday, November 19th.
I don’t have too much to say. I need to go “news light” again because there is so much awful stuff out there. That the Republican Party is fine with the support of actual nazis is discouraging. There won’t be an intervention by the principled Republicans like there was in the early 1960s – all of the people with principles were kicked out of the party or disassociated themselves from it voluntarily. JD Vance seems to be the main cheerleader for welcoming the nazis – his comment about how Americans can’t buy houses because 30 million immigrants bought them all echos comments made by Hitler and officials of the Third Reich. He is a real piece of work considering that his wife, the daughter of immigrants, essentially supported their family until he was able to write a faux biography and make money as a grifter. In any event, I want no part of their interparty civil war and I just hope we can keep it from splattering on people who just want to live their lives in harmony with their neighbors and the planet.
I got the one work project done that I needed to get done today so I will be able to get off my computer soon. I have to run to Sprouts later this morning and then do a few accounting things and then I can settle in for a busy sports watching day.
See all y’all later!
Good Friday morning, Moosekind! It’s a beautiful day in Ashburger right now, 47 F. going up to 60 F.
Yesterday the oatmeal cookies turned out very well, but I’m so out of touch as a baker that the molasses cookies were a disaster! Will never make them again. In fact, I’m thinking of swearing off sugar altogether. Encountered ex-Leading Man in the hallway yesterday. He swore off sugar after his Type II diabetes diagnosis, has lost 30-odd pounds, and feels great.
I just texted Dearly in the hospital. Hope to hear from him soon. It’s lonely here, although I did receive an offer to go over to my friend’s house last night and crack open a couple of nonalky beers while we reminisce about the old days. Another time I’d like to do that. I did tidy up a bit.
Got up an hour later this morning because twice during the night I had to wake up and stamp on the floor to kill the leg cramps. Wish I knew whatinell to do to get rid of leg cramps during the night. I do keep the bedroom quite cool because I can’t sleep in a hot room.
I have a focus group from 1 to 2:30, conducted by a Harvard researcher from Boston. Should be interesting.
The other day I suddenly started missing our old house: the scents of windfall apples and woodsmoke, the excitement of getting out the decorations, stirring the plum pudding mixture (although we never used pudding charms), and making wishes for the coming year. I like it here, there’s lots to do, but this time of year at our house was always infused with a particular kind of excitement. And little Nora loved going around the street with me to deliver Christmas goodies to the neighbors.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} Are you taking mineral supplements? Those leg cramps can be caused by lack of magnesium. Or calcium. Which at your age you shouldn’t take together BTW. (I take 500 mg calcium in the morning w/ vit C & D, 600 mg magnesium at noon, and another 500 mg calcium in the evening w/ vit C.) And give it at least a couple of weeks before deciding whether or not it works.
Nice to have fond memories of the holiday season. They can be a bulwark against current unpleasantnesses. Holding you in The Light. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 52 and raining outside my windows today. The pinecone lights around the patio canopies look cheerful and today I want to finish the wiring so I can add lights to a small tree. It’s a small task, but tending to home and garden is helping me cope with the realities living in our troubled country. Best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Saturday …
It is 55 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 82. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast with a slight chance for evening rain. Tomorrow we are going to be much colder with a pretty good chance for rain. Fingers crossed that the roof patch holds!
I have a muscle pull in my back that kept me tossing and turning and I did not get much sleep. I have no idea how I got it! I drove my car, went shopping for a few food items (nothing heavy) and then sat and watched sporting events. Nothing extreme on either of my walks. Oh, well, I hope arnica helps – it is quite annoying.
See all y’all later!
God morning. Posted
It’s 65 heading for 81 and sunny at the moment. Yesterday we generated 6.5 KWHs and the m-t-d at 92.55 gained another smidge.
I captured and freed outside a dozen wasps yesterday and already one today. I have no idea how they are getting into the house. Not only are there screens on all the windows, all the windows and doors are closed. This is totally driving me up the wall.
Natalia didn’t go to the farm last night because she’s got a few things she needs to do in town. She’ll be heading out later today. And staying over until Tuesday night because she’s got family coming into the area. (Branson’s just a hop & a skip down the road from the farm.)
At least I’ve got my Saturday chores done. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}