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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Good morning. So this is weird: All flights in and out of El Paso are grounded for 10 days. All. Flights. Commercial and private, not even medical flights — and they showed the statement issued to pilots pretty much saying they will shoot them down for violating it. I don’t know what kind of dystopian crap President Steven Miller is planning there but wow this is going to be bad. As one guy said — are they also setting up checkpoints for people driving in? They’re within the limit where CBP can just ask for your ID, so that wouldn’t even require an announcement. What the hell is going on? So, with that happy statement, I have to get ready for work. Ugh.
Jesus! You KNOW Goebbels is planning something awful.
It’s 38 heading for 62 and sunny at the moment. PV monitor still not accessible. If they don’t fix it soon I’m not sure what I’ll do. Probably start an excel spreadsheet and track it myself. But that means going out to the inverter once a day – no matter what the weather – to get the data. And possibly mining old Moose posts for comparative data since I posted it here. Anyway, yesterday we generated 8.5 KWHs and the m-t-d at 86.6 is still on track.
Natalia’s work situation is getting more stressful. I’m not sure she’s going to make it through to full Social Security retirement age. Heck, I’m not entirely sure she’ll make it through the end of this fiscal year. But she’s several years beyond the point where she can take full University retirement (that’s an age + years of service calculation). I will certainly miss her whenever she takes retirement. If she’s not working in town she has no need of a place to live in town. She can live at the farm. But her physical and mental health are more important.
Meanwhile, I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! When I got out of bed just before 7, it was RAINING! If y’all knew how rare that is in Ashburned, you would not be surprised that I am hysterical. And it kept on raining! Then it stopped before 8. We have a current temperature above freezing, which will help melt the snowcrete. Yay!
Today will be my usual busy day: have an appointment with the foot doctor at noon. Must finish that diabetes article, listen to singing lessons on YouTube, and memorize the first part of the play. Yesterday I received an “OK” from the costumers on my outfit. I’m wearing a black jacket, black slacks, black shoes, and a blue shirt as the Narrator. As the Mysterious Man I’ll add a black hat.
Hope RonK enjoyed a happy birthday dinner! Y’all have convinced me to change my mind about Gavin. Also, I am furious that Big Pharma is colluding to raise the price of insulin. Doing this article on diabetes has made me realize what they have to contend with. The guy who discovered or invented artificial insulin didn’t want anyone to pay more than $15 for it.
Tonight I have agreed to meet the other guy who’s doing the same roles so we can practice. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!