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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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It’s 31 heading for 50 and sunny at the moment. We generated 7.89 KWHs yesterday and the m-t-d at 9.75 is definitely not on track. But it did gain a smidge.
Saw Herself in the eastern sky just before dark when I went out to fill bird feeders. Saw Her again in the early hours in the western sky out my bedroom windows. And had the blessing of knowing Her light would stream across the foot of my bed as I returned to sleep and She continued Her nightly trek.
Got a few things out to decorate where it can be seen from the street. Saving the real decorating (in the den where I spend most of my waking hours) until Yule when the grandkids will be here to do it. As has been our family Tradition for the last 23 years. Meanwhile I’ve a bunch of boosting to do so I’d best be about it. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 46 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 61. Sunny skies with a chance for late afternoon rain. It looks like we won’t hit the 70s again until early next week. The nearly full moon is spectacular. The full moon will be tomorrow at 4:14pm MST and will be another Super Moon. She has been – literally! – beaming down on me for the past few days from over the mountains to the east.
I am going to ignore the news for a few days. There is nothing good there and even the headlines are infuriating! The Arizona Wildcats basketball team has five more pre-conference games before they begin Big XII play, one will be tonight and then they will play regional rival University of New Mexico on Sunday. People are dissing them because they are playing all their pre-conference games at home and none against Power Four teams. Pooh on them! The team is made up of transfers and freshmen and had never played together before, they are all learning the campus and the city of Tucson. They are getting better and winning games which builds confidence. There will be plenty of time to test themselves against the conference. I have never been a fan of teams playing someone who will crush their spirits by beating them 100 to 22. As long as our coaches prepare the players mentally for the conference schedule, I am comfortable with that.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, and raining outside my windows today. I’m going to try to change my morning routine but old patterns do persist. I’ve been staying upstairs for most of the morning and that is good for my old legs but the rest of my life is not getting enough attention. So I’m at my desk computer now and my hope is that spending an hour or so here every morning will result in less desk mess stress.
Pt was good but tiring yesterday so my Christmas prep list is a bit longer. I’m going to bring the Christmas Spode to the kitchen and dining room today….it looks cheerful and I enjoy using it. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. They say it will be 8 degrees tonight here in Kingston. brrr.
My women’s basketball team plays this evening. Will try to stay awake to see the game at 7 – but doubt I’ll make it since I now get up at midnight to start my day.
I started watching my Arizona Wildcats basketball game at 6pm but couldn’t stay up past the 3rd quarter. They ended up losing to Southern University by 6 points but it was a moral victory. Southern University, SWAC leader, travels the country in the pre-conference, scaring all the top 25 teams they play, and gathering the money they will need to support their program. Their RPI is 5! Arizona is RPI 240. Anyway, our players just learned a major lesson about speed and quickness and ball protection and will be a better team as the result of the loss. They started out as if they were playing Northern Colorado and got so far behind it took everything they had just to catch up and stay within 2 the rest of the way. Sunday we play University of New Mexico and it will be interesting to see how the lineup changes and what they look like after their first loss. The Wisconsin Badgers start their Big 10 season on Sunday at home. Fun time of year!
Watched the game. Have a really soft spot in my heart for the Lady Jags – lived on the HBCU’s campus in Baton Rouge as a kid, when Baton Rouge was still segregated.
They are a very good team! It is no surprise that they win the SWAC year in and year out.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 37 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 59. Sunny skies are in the forecast. Yesterday afternoon we had rain that obscured the mountains and blocked the rising moon. I saw her later high in the sky and this morning she is looking over my left shoulder from my office window! She will be completely full later today at 4:14pm MST but she will be casting her full moon light on us for the next 24 hours. We should see her rise in the clear blue sky this afternoon.
I have meetings later today and need to get prepped for them and finish a project that I can’t let drag past Friday. I need to pivot completely to year end accounting projects for my clients and for myself. I have about 80% of my energy back after my bout with bronchitis but I still have to take it easy so I don’t regress. That sucked – I am not used to getting sick and I do not like it one bit!!
See all y’all later!
So glad you ae feeling better Jan.
Good morning. Did my walk, in the office. Wondering what fresh horrors mango Mussolini and his minions have in store for today.
One of them involves redesigning Dulles Airport! Dear Goddess, he can’t leave ANYTHING alone! And of course, certain Rethugs want to change the name of Dulles Airport to Fart–=I mean “Trump”—airport.
It’s 35 heading for 39 and very overcast. Supposed to be raining or even snowing but it’s just windy and overcast. PV system is still in night mode. Sigh. Yesterday we generated 7.57 KWHs and the m-t-d at 17.28 as almost on track. sigh.
Bless autorenew. I didn’t have to take my library books back yesterday. Did do the grocery store run – as much to run the engine and charge up the battery as anything else. As in I wasn’t actually out of anything. But I don’t want to wait until I am. Nothing particularly new or urgent going on. Everything is trucking along more or less as it should in my life and household. Even if it’s anything but in the wider world. Now I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Thursday morning, Meese1 It’s 28 F. and gray here in Ashburn, bummer, because tonight is the Cold Moon full moon. The memorial service went off very well. I did not disgrace myself even once, although I did enjoy wearing the black hat with the ribbon on the side and the veil.
The turnout was surprising, considering that in his final years Dearly was a virtual recluse. The Drama Club consists of 120 members: half of them showed up, the men in suits. Four of my writers were there, along with many neighbors, our long-time English friend, and DIL’s parents. The staff here were superb. Mah Boyz and Wife of Elder Son were outstanding! They did everything! The audiovisual staffer helped Granddaughter to Bluetooth the playlist on her phone so we could hear the music. People seemed to like the script I wrote, and a bunch of people came to the reception afterwards. Elder Son and DIL ordered the food from dear old Wegman’s, so that was OK.
Yesterday I was absolutely knackered. Goodness knows why, because the kids did all the work. Today, after a good night’s sleep, feel ready to cope with more paperwork, thank-you notes to the staff (I am SO GLAD I live here), and waking up my writers. Need to nip out to Harris Teeter later as three snowflakes might conceivably fall tomorrow, and attend the Christmas tree lighting on Great Oak Common at 5:15 p.m. ONE DAY I’ll get back to the gym! Yay!
Have missed you all. But now the worst is over as far as my public face is concerned. My friends are asking me to dinner, which is great. I’m still dumbfounded that the musicians, the technical lighting director, the director, the costumers, and the producers all came to the service! Dearly didn’t even know them.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and may you see Herself tonight.
Diana, it’s good to have family and community support. Take care.
{{{Diana}}} I’m so very glad you live where you live, have the community that you do. One more, very major, step taken. Moar Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 40 and raining in Bellingham. I worked in the garden with Bri yesterday so the Spode migration will happen today. It’s good to have the garden beds mulched, the hoses put away, spent flowers clipped, etc. We will start pruning in Jan or Feb but for now the garden is at rest for the winter. I will plant some winter pansies in the pots on the patios, candles on the tables, fires in the stove, etc so we can still enjoy some outdoor time in an easy way. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. I’m ridiculously tired and I don’t know why. I only woke up 3 times last night, for me that’s great. Barely did 1 mile walking, but that’s better than nothing. Just gotta hang on until 5.
{{{anotherdemocrat}}} Considering what’s going on in the world you’re probably. . . holding off depression and despair takes a lot of energy and is very tiring. Take care of yourself as best you can. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Thanks for all the hugs!
Always welcome. Moar {{{HUGS}}} 😁
It’s 34 heading for 46 although the wind chill won’t get above 40 today. It’s cloudy at the moment but supposed to clear off later. I hope “later” is by midmorning. Yesterday we generated 5.98 KWHs and the m-t-d at 23.26 is just a little shy of being on track. Easy to make up today. IF the clouds clear off soon enough.
Still waiting for my stamps to arrive so I can mail out my holiday cards. I’ve put up a few decorations, things that can be seen from the street if one looks, and will probably get the wreath (instead of a tree) next week. Not decorate until Yule but the likelihood of finding a wreath if I wait much longer is slim. And I listen to orchestral/symphonic holiday concerts every afternoon instead the Vaughn Williams I usually listen to in the afternoons. So I guess I could say I doing the season. Or something.
Meanwhile there are folks to boost and I’d best get to boosting them. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
OMG, I just lost everything! You touch one wrong button with these fake nails and it all disappears. Anyway, good Friday morning, Moosekind. It’s 26 F. in Ashburn and snowing heavily in a most satisfactory manner. This would be no big deal to some of you but to us, who see this sight only once in five years, it’s enjoyable. A lot of it is even sticking to the ground. The schoolkids are starting two hours late today, so I’m sure they’re ecstatic.
Yesterday evening, as if watching the Christmas tree lighting and listening to Christmas carols sung by singers in Victorian costume weren’t exciting enough for The Aged, Nora came to dinner! I was ready to leave the carol singers when she arrived, so we put our names down for dinner at the Pub. Turned out there was a 22-minute wait, so we came back to the flat and she tried to install the copy of Chrome on my MacBook Air that I’d downloaded. Alas, it turned out that my Mac was too old for it! I bought it in 2014.
My bank’s website and Gmail do not like outmoded versions of Chrome and Safari, so what to do? I groaned at the thought of buying a brand-new MacBook Air: $1,500 is a lot of money for a machine that I don’t use full time. However, Nora went online and found a MacBook Air at Costco for $749! She helped me order it and after it arrives I’ll pay her to transfer the content of the old Mac to the new one.
I don’t trust this Lenovo with my financial information, not after those Pakistanis hacked in and showed me sitting at my desk in this office and even the paintings hanging on the wall behind me! Anyway, I love having two different PCs, it makes me feel as if I have two heads, and I’m looking from one laptop to the other like a spectator at a tennis match.
Nora and I had a great time hanging out. What bliss to have a teenaged granddaughter Who Knows It All! As I was getting ready to walk her out to the parking lot, we noticed that the citrus fruit from DeathSantis-land had been delivered! So I gave her the box of grapefruit intended for her family, walked out with her and bowed to the Cold Moon, and then bade Nora goodnight.
Had a rough night because of intense foot pain. Thank Goddess the podiatrist will be here next week! The corrective shoes princesspat told me about should arrive today. I have a quiet day planned: write thank-you notes to the staff, begin recording my journal entry, read the essays recycled by my writers, and go to the gym! Rowing is one thing I can do sitting down.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} It is definitely wonderful to have a grandchild who “knows everything”. And quiet days of busy-nesses are good. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
I hope the OOfos help Diana. I wear mine everyday and am considering buying another pair with a closed toe for winter. I miss wearing leather shoes, but the comfort of walking with support is more important.
Good morning, 44 and raining in Bellingham. I’m doing the familiar things that make the house cozy, but seasonal cheer seems elusive. Oh well, It’s nice to see the Spode dishes in place in the dining room and kitchen regardless. Today I’ll do some winter arrangements for the porches and hang a wreath on the doors. Best wishes to all.
Good afternoon, meeses! Friday …
I thought sure I had checked in, I remember having the weather up on my phone but then later in the morning I couldn’t remember talking about my full moon. Oh well! The full moon was splendid last night and this morning. As far as the weather, it is 57 and sunny right now. I will be watching some volleyball today as the tournament has started.
See all y’all later!
Saturday Meese. It’s warmed up here to 28 lol.
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Good Saturday morning, Meese! The roads are frizzing, so I won’t go out until afternoon. Right now it’s gray but trending blue in Ashburn, with a predicted high of 40 F. I really need to get my nails done because a friend has asked me to dinner and a movie. Both places are right next door on campus, so it’s not as if we’ll have to totter along icy sidewalks.
The new Mac is arriving today! I told Nora she needn’t rush over here to install it as it’s not my primary computer. The OOfoos (sp.?) shoes arrived last night. I put them on immediately, and immediately my feet began feeling better!
Must exercise today and tomorrow because Monday I cannot leave this flat until the Oxygen people pick up all the equipment. I could leave it at a public library, it seems, but really, as a frail-as-hail 81-year-old woman, I can hardly lift the wretched things.
Have a lot to get to. Was expecting the mail would bring a lot of unasked-for Christmas cards that I could send to friends, but no, I actually had to order some from Amazon. Bummer.
Glad to know that photovoltaics are working out for PR, Dee!
I still feel Dearly’s benign presence everywhere. I hope I made him happy. He used to say to me, in those last weeks, “I’m lucky.”
Oh, well, it’s too early in the day to get sentimental. Off to check the laundry and do regular things like getting dressed and going to the gym!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Good morning. Getting ready to go to kickboxing, then a full day of errands & housework. I’m making risotto for dinner next week, I enjoyed the batch I made for Thanksgiving so much. And with frozen risotto, it’s easy — just add veggies. Anyway — happy Saturday to all.
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It’s 36 heading for 52 and socked-in foggy right now. Hopefully it will be sunny when the fog clears off. Yesterday we generated 6.54 KWHs and the m-t-d at 29.82 is just a smidge under being on track. We shall see what today brings.
I did see Herself when I got up to go to the bathroom around 4 am. She was veiled in either fog or light clouds so not clearly or shining brightly. But brightly enough there was a discernable streak of moonlight across the foot of my bed. So that was good. Natalia’s at the farm as usual. Her cat managed to get an abscess (her sister took him to the vet yesterday) and she’s worried about him being alone except for folks coming by to feed him most of the week. I wish she could bring him here. But he’s not sociable with other kitties and while we could possibly work on that and get everybody tolerate each other, it certainly won’t happen while he’s injured/feeling vulnerable.
Feeling a bit grungy this morning. Hopefully the oatmeal will settle my stomach. Meanwhile I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 48 and cloudy in Bellingham today. Sue will be here today so with her help my house will be clean and looking festive. I was in Fairhaven with my daughter in law yesterday and we enjoyed looking around and planning some Christmas activities for our growing older family. I needed a nap when I got home but it was fun to spend some time together. Best wishes to all.