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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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Good morning, 31 and partly cloudy. I’ve cleaned up a major desk mess and have the computer issues sorted so now I hope I can focus and get the work done. But for now I’m enjoying a quiet moment with a cup of tea, music and solitaire. Best wishes to all.
I am heading to my easy chair to play solitaire. Tea sounds good!
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 59 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 68. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Another busy day in a string of busy days. The end is in sight.
See all y’all tomorrow!
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 50 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 70. Mostly sunny skies with a slight chance for rain. Tomorrow and through the weekend we will have rain and colder temperatures with overnight lows into the 30s.
Holy sheet! The freaking headlines today!! Goddess help us all.
I am going to duck back into organizing my work projects. I have completed the two hard deadline projects and now have to see what fell by the wayside while I was concentrating on them. I also have to start in on the second phase of both projects which have soft deadlines that are far enough out to deal with in a less hair-on-fire way.
My Wisconsin Badgers Women’s basketball team upset a ranked Big Ten opponent at home in a squeaker. I was able to watch live through the 3rd quarter but then needed to go to bed (I will watch the streaming video later today). Gift Uchenna, a graduate transfer who was born in Nigeria, led the team with 22 points and 14 rebounds and reached 500+ career rebounds. A true Gift! They are fun to watch.
See all y’all later!
Congrats to your Badgers. My SC Gamecocks lost :(
I saw that! I watched the end of the game – they lost their compass and couldn’t find the inside of the basket. I imagine that flight home was not fun.
Good morning. In the office, ugh. Walked 1.3 miles, so that’s something. Preparing for the onslaught of noise, it’s been so nice not being around people – in person. We might have ice this weekend, so people are freaking out. I moved my usual Saturday grocery order to this evening. Hoping that the parking lot is not a total madhouse. I wouldn’t walk into a grocery store anywhere in the state right now, people stock up like it’s the apocalypse.
It’s 22 heading for 55 and supposed to be sunny until close to sundown. I hope so. Yesterday we generated 7.63 KWHs and the m-t-d at 141.69 is on track for over 200. But if the possibly 20 inches of snow predicted actually shows up, combined with below freezing overnight to turn it to ice, my panels today and tomorrow may be all the generation we get for January. Even at above freezing (slightly) for the highs, it would take a long time for that much ice to melt.
I’ve got food and I’ve got firewood. Please goddess the power doesn’t go out but if it does we’ll have food, water, and the burners on my gas stove still work when the power’s out even if the oven doesn’t. If Natalia’s sister can get the chimney guys out to the farm to fix the chimney by tomorrow, she’ll go to the farm as usual. If not, well, her BIL will go by daily to take care of her cat. (Her sister & BIL live half mile down the road. Cat has a heated cat bed so he’ll be safe.)
Meanwhile, all the stuff I was worrying about with DDG – getting the link on the toolbar, importing my favorites bar – DDG did during set up. As in it asked if I wanted that & I clicked yes. That was it. DDG is slower loading than Edge. That’s the only issue I’ve found so far. In everything I’ve done it works as well as Edge. And the searches, without AI, are pleasure.
So. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good, Healing, & especially Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Thursday morning, Meese! It’s a flawless blue and gold day here in Ashburger, so lovely it’s hard to believe we’re supposed to get The Big One starting at tea time on Saturday afternoon. There seems no doubt we’ll get something, even though it may not be the 13″-14″ inches predicted by the European model.
Yesterday I had to take myself to Costco to the Hearing Aid department. Turned out my left hearing aid was so bad they’ve sent it off to the hospital in Chicago and I won’t get it back for two weeks.
Today I have Biography Book Club at 1:30 p.m. and Physical Therapy at 3:45 p.m. Nora is coming over tonight for dinner, so that’ll be fun.
Gods, I am being pestered by a very persistent gentleman. He texts me five times a day, LONG texts! Every time he has a passing thought, he shares it. I’ve been trying to gently discourage him by answering only half his texts, using very short messages, but it doesn’t work all that well. Also, every time I mention an activity, he immediately wants to do it too. Hope I can find him a lady friend as garrulous and needy as he is. Having dinner with a male friend from the Drama Club is one thing, but this quasi-courtship is going over like a lead balloon. My poor husband died only a couple of months ago! I am not in the mood for “ro-mance,” and I may never be. Grrr! Glad I’ll be out of the country starting Tuesday!
In the meantime, back at the ranch, I have to stop the newspaper, start packing, and send off a birthday gift card. Bfitz, glad DDG is working out for you!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
Good morning, 30 and cloudy outside my windows today. I was awake and restless last night so I walked around the garden for awhile. Being outdoors at night when the world is quiet is appealing, but the reality of my old self pushing a walker around in the dark is a bit sobering! Oh well, what happens in the garden stays in the garden :) Best wishes to all.
Good Friday Meese.
Puerto Rico
Hurricane Melissa
Good morning. We have heavy mist that will become rain, no freeze tonight. Temperatures will drop all day tomorrow and there’s a 70% chance of precipitation of some kind. I really hope my club changes the candidate forum to virtual. That weather just sounds unreasonable.
Good gray Friday moaning, Moosekind! What are we moaning about today? Why, a whole new set of first-world worries, that’s what.
Yesterday Nora brought me a letter from the benefits dept. at United Airlines, which is being run by the New York Life insurance company. I was supposed to sign and return said document as of January 21. Yesterday, as we all recall, was January 22. They put the WRONG street address on the envelope and the WRONG date of death for Dearly Beloved. I’ll call as soon as this lady gets to the office. Dearly always wanted me to claim his insurance benefits from United. Gods, how do people get things so wrong? On January 2 I sent a letter enclosing the death certificate, a copy of our marriage certificate, and so on to an address in Texas, which a lady on the telephone informed me was the United Airlines Benefit Office.
This kept me up most of the night. I need to attend to other things today. My left tire has low pressure. If I went to the filling station, would they put air in? I could also buy gas to make it worth their while. Two of my nails have broken off and I need to get my hair done since I can’t get it done after ice has slicked all the roads. First-world problems!
M’Daughter and family are driving home to Massachusetts. They were supposed to leave at 7 a.m. and hope to reach Mass. by 3:30 today. Hope they do.
Nora showed me a picture of her prom dress. It’s just beautiful, a form-fitting sheath of pale yellow that reaches the ankles. She’ll look gorgeous! Girls nowadays don’t wait for some boy to ask them to the prom: they go in a bunch and if someone asks to dance with one of them, that’s fine. So much better than in our day.
It’s 31 F. in Ashburn. I’d better get to my chores. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
It’s 29 heading for 32 – maybe – about midday then dropping steadily down to 9 by dawn tomorrow. Snow is supposed to start after sundown but it’s already cloudy so I doubt we’ll get much production today. Yesterday we did another “highest for the month & year thus far” and generated 8.9 KWHs. The m-t-d at 150.6 is at least most of what I generally use in a month so even if we get enough snow that I’m out of production for the final week, although we wouldn’t hit our goal, it still won’t be bad.
University is letting out at 3 pm so everybody can get where they’re going before the snow starts. Still not sure if Natalia’s going to the farm tonight. It’ll depend on whether her sister could get the chimney people out today – and they could fix whatever’s wrong today. I’m glad I’m OK for food. Lang came to get the Subaru yesterday afternoon and brought milk – but he had to go to 3 different stores to find any and ended up being stuck with what they had. And that was not a brand or fat content that I normally get. We’ve got plenty of firewood. Just in case.
Anyway, off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 32 and sunny in Bellingham today. I should be downstairs and busy but I’m listening to an interesting podcast with Heather Cox Richardson instead. Lisa is coming tomorrow to help me with some storage locker tasks and to help Ron set up his new iPad so I do need to get the remaining Christmas clutter put away. Best wishes to all.
Good afternoon, meeses! Friday …
It is 61 and overcast with rain off and on. I was very productive this morning but I am starting to feel the effects of the stress of the end of year / beginning of year projects and not having a regular schedule. I think I need to set aside a time every day to do nothing useful or productive so I can train myself to disengage when I need to.
See all y’all tomorrow!
Good morning. It is insanely cold & getting colder. The kickboxing place is closed and my Dem club made the wise decision to have our forum virtually. There is ice on the ground, and sleet falling and we’re Texans so elected officials, the news, just everyone is begging people to please stay home.
It’s 9 wind chill -3 heading for 16 wind chill 4 and overcast. It’s snowing lightly right now. I can’t tell how much snow we got overnight – it didn’t start until around midnight (it had been predicted to start around 6 pm). It covers the grass so that’s a couple of inches at least. The widget says we’re supposed to get another 10″ by midday tomorrow, most of it between sundown and dawn. Whatever. Yesterday we generated 4.86 KWHs and the m-t-d at 155.52 may be it for January. The temps won’t get any sunshine until Monday afternoon and it won’t get above freezing until Tuesday. So the likelihood of the PV panels getting clear enough to generate by Friday is slim.
Natalia’s sister did manage to get the chimney guys out to the farm yesterday so that’s where she is. Strong sense of duty. Her sister’s a med tech Friday through Sunday and her BIL got a torn rotator cuff. In this kind of weather the cattle have to be fed twice a day. So she went to help. And her cat was very glad to see her. (She called me to tell me she’d gotten there safely and I heard him in the background.)
I swept snow off the the back step – just enough to put out birdseed. And a pathway on the carport to the sheltered corner I put out catfood for an cat/critter caught outside in the cold. As long as it stays blowing snow and not ice I can continue to do that. Meanwhile, I obviously have power and internet so I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Saturday morning, Meese! It’s 9 F. and cloudy here. The forecasters keep lowering the expected snow totals: now, it’s 6″-9″ rather than 22″ or 10″-12″. Laugh, laugh—if we get our usual half-inch, showing blades of grass sticking through, I may expire of merriment.
In a little while I have to get ready to go to a friend’s house for coffee. As I’ve just finished breakfast and am still drinking breakfast coffee, what am I gonna do? They’ve canceled tonight’s showing of the movie but will show it at 1:30. It’ll be worth missing my nap if I get to drool over handsome Denzel Washington in “Pelican Brief.”
That said, I’m beginning to think that Trevor and I won’t fly until Wednesday. It’s already past 9, so I’d better start getting ready.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
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Good afternoon, meeses! Saturday …
It is 55 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 57. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance for rain. I see the sun and the rain appears to be gone so we are probably done.
I spent the morning getting ahead of the client system work I usually do on Sunday so that I can do something outside tomorrow when it is nicer.
See all y’all tomorrow!