Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit.
Welcomings will be posted at the start of each week (usually Saturday night with a Sunday date). To find the posts, just bookmark this link and Voila! (which is Moose for “I found everyone!!”).
The format is simple: each day, the first moose to arrive on-line will post a comment welcoming the new day and complaining (or bragging!) about their weather. Or mentioning an interesting or thought provoking news item. Or simply checking in.
So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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Wednesday Meese. 24 degrees right now here in Kingston.
Puerto Rico
“Hurricane Melissa
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! It’s 30 F. in slowly dawning Ashburn, going up to 55 F. today.
It’s still pitch black outside. Had a horrible night’s non-sleep. Today I received my SS, but it’s the usual amount. The funeral home supposedly notified SSA of my husband’s demise that supposedly means I would receive the survivor benefit. With another shutdown looming, things don’t look good for finding out anything.
Gad, it’s got to the point where I can cope with national news better than my own tiresome problems. Right now I’m wondering how to put together a winter solstice ritual. Looking online hasn’t helped much. This is a time of literal and metaphorical darkness, but our Earth needs her long, cold winter sleep. The light will return bit by bit and we all HOPE it will really return, metaphorically speaking, when a stake is driven through Mango’s alleged heart at a crossroads at midnight. That would do a lot to help people!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.