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”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 50 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 72. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good morning. I have friends running the Austin Marathon this morning. So glad I’m not. I’m enjoying the smell of my steeping tea and watching the local news.
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The King had a voice like black velvet…or perhaps really excellent coffee with cream in it. Blissful to listen to!
It’s 46 heading for 63 and cloudy at the moment. Clouds are supposed to clear off this afternoon. I hope so. PV monitoring still borked. Yesterday we generated 1.47 KWHs and the m-t-d at 116.7 is still on track. But not by much.
I’d say I had a respiratory virus of some kind if I had the fever and body aches that go with a virus. What I do have it the headache, stuffy nose, chest feeling full, and the cough. Since you can only treat the symptoms on that lot anyway that’s what I’m doing. And hoping whatever’s in the air causing it goes away soon. Making a chicken veggie & black bean soup thickened w/ polenta for dinner. Hopefully that will help.
Slept in a bit but that didn’t help. Sigh. Meanwhile there’s boosting to do so I’d best get to it. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
What a rotten thing to endure, bfitz. Sending you white light. May you heal soon.
Sending healing thoughts. Maybe it’s allergies? People here feel really awful when cedar is high.
Thank you. It’s something like allergies if not exactly that since antihistamines don’t work on it either. Heaven on knows what the power company and the developer let loose/stirred up when they were “clearing” the area between my back fence and the creek. But it’s not good for me to breathe apparently. Thank you again. {{{anotherdemocrat}}}
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! I’m enjoying a very slow day after a week of rushing around. Yesterday Elder Son came over, and together we searched for an inspection station nearby. We found one right up the street in my usual shopping center, called Ashburn Village. If I present myself and le car at 7:30 Wednesday morning, he’ll do the necessary. Meanwhile, I can hang out at McDonald’s, eating their awful food and drinking their terrible coffee.
Eric and I then went shopping at Trader Joe’s. Afterwards he made a list of things that need to be done with the car and will remind me periodically.
Last night I had dinner with a dear fellow who lives upstairs and plays for our musicals. We’ve both had heart attacks, so we both know how it feels. We complained to each other how we felt we should be getting more done each day than we do. I’m glad I asked him to the special Valentine’s Day dinner, because he stays alone in his apartment too much. He seemed to have a great time, hailing all the people he knew.
Today will be devoted to listening to the audio files from the play and doing at least three singing lessons on YouTube. It’s going to rain this afternoon, they say, so that’ll be a nice change. I finished the first draft of the article on diabetes, but it’s kind of blah. I need it to sparkle! I need it to stop people in their tracks. I’ll think of something, I always do. The deadline isn’t until March 1.
That’s enough from moi! Hope everyone at the Pond will have a good day! I brought home the rest of the filet mignon that I couldn’t finish yesterday, and the cheese board. They had run out of chocolate-covered strawberries by the time we wanted dessert. Oh, well, first-world problem!
Good morning, 48 and partly sunny in Bellingham. We’ll be at our son’s house this afternoon, cooking a family dinner together. I have a bit more to do to finish the valentine flowers so I should be in the garage now but I’m lingering with coffee and music. I hope my leg can handle so much activity. Best wishes to all.
28 here in Kingston, going up to 38. Hope this melts some of the piles of now here. More snow predicted for tomorrow and Wednesday. Sigh.
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Good morning. Holiday today so I slept in, and will go to kickboxing later. Otherwise, will do housework and refresh the paid survey site frequently hoping to make some money. Anywat, I hope everyone has a good day.
It’s 39 heading for 70 and looks to be sunny – so far – today. PV monitoring still borked. Yesterday we generated 11 KWHs and the m-t-d at 127.7 is on track.
I cannot seem to shake this whatever it is. The cough is probably most stressful to Natalia and I’m not happy about it myself but the headache is what bothers me most. I can tell by the way it’s messing with my eyes that it’s right on the edge of turning into a migraine. Which I certainly don’t need. Oh well. Lots of boosting to do, holiday or no holiday. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Hope you feel better soon BFitz. Thank you for the boosting you do!
Thank you. & you’re very welcome. {{{Dee}}}
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! We had lots of rain yesterday, which sent me to sleep several times, but it’s stopped now. Still gray and rather warm—39 F. Today is darling Granddaughter’s 17th birthday! And it’s George Washington’s birthday (we still call it that in this town), so she can sleep as long as she likes. I was awakened early by pain in my feet. It’s arthritis.
Made banana-walnut bran muffins this morning and shared some with the neighbors. They’re so good they didn’t even need any jam, just a bit of butter. I want to get my hair done this morning because having my bangs cover my eyes makes me look like a moron. I will scream, “Cut, must cut!” to my long-suffering stylist.
We have an all-hands rehearsal tonight. Had I But Known how much work this was going to involve, I wouldn’t have tried out for the play. Still, the actors in NYC lived through it, so I expect we can too.
That’s enough from me today. Hope everyone at the Pond will have a good day with signs of spring on the way!
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 54 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 68. Cloudy skies in the forecast but the skies are fairly clear right now with a gorgeous orange sunrise over the mountains.
I think they should rename Presidents Day back to Lincoln’s Birthday. Being president deserves no special honor – a lot of them, including the rotting pumpkin – are terrible people: slave owners, war mongers, murderers and felons. For me it just means no mail, no banking.
I have many projects queued up from my too-busy January and ridiculously busy first couple of weeks of February but I plan to pace myself. I have upped my daily walk to one mile on a new loop and it feels good to get the sunshine and exercise and slow everything down. The desert wildflowers are blooming early this year due to the rain and warmth and we will try to get ourselves up to Picacho Peak State Park to see the poppies and walk those paths.
See all y’all later!
Jan, your descriptions of your surroundings are so colorful and graphic I feel as if I’m there with you! Thanks!
Good morning, 48 and partly cloudy in Bellingham today. Yesterday was fun with family, food, and flowers but today my legs need a serious rest. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. I was going to vote right at 7am but my stomach had other plans. I’m going to log off early instead and vote this afternoon. For now, I’m asking my stomach if I can have some yogurt and watching the local news.
Yikes! Hope your stomach agreed to the yogurt. Healing Energy. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
RIP
My family voted for him one election year, can’t remember which. May he rest in peace.
May he rest in Power. I know he’ll keep doing the good work wherever he is.
We needed a Jesse Jackson to forcefully get the points across about the state of civil rights in America. His contribution was enormous.
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Good Tuesday morning, Meese! it’s a gray, misty morning, 36 F. right now in Ashburn, creeping up to the 50s later.
Hoping I can get my act together sufficiently to make it to the 10 a.m. “balance” class. The teacher works us all to exhaustion. Today I have to make some food for the Mardi Gras party, contact some hard-to-get-hold-of people, practice singing, and work on memorizing the Narrator’s part in the play.
Tomorrow I have to take my car in at the unearthly hour of 7:30 a.m. How shall I bear it? Never mind, first-world problem! I’d probably find it easier to get up in the morning if I didn’t keep waking up at night.
Ramadan begins soon! I won’t even try to fast. Anyway, I think I’m exempt because I’m old. This is Fat Tuesday, also, and today begins the Year of the Fire Horse. James Michener’s book Hawaii said this particular year in the Chinese zodiac is considered very unlucky. Gulp!
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond, hoping that the various body parts—another’s stomach, princesspat’ legs, bfitz’s chest and throat—will start to feel better. Tally-ho and pip-pip!
It’s 53 heading for 70 and overcast today. PV system still borked. Yesterday we generated 12.2 KWHs and the m-t-d at 140 is still on track. We even have enough in the sock to be on track at the end of this cloudy day.
I’m feeling better but not good. Still have the cough. The sinusitis part is back to it’s “normal” level though so that’s good. Yesterday’s wind stirred up a whole lot of goop. I usually turn on the air filter in the evening after I light the fire and when I turned it on last night it roared into life with a readout of 999 and bright red bar. Took over an hour to work it down to 110 when the bar turned orange. Another hour worked it through the green to reach a readout in the 40s and a blue bar. Half hour more, just as I was going to bed, it was at it’s usual low teens. But no wonder I was having coughing fits yesterday!
This week I’m going to be doing a lot of “going out” – vet clinic yesterday for refill on Cloud’s meds, credit union, library, & grocery shopping tomorrow, vet clinic for Cloud’s monthly injection Friday. Oh well. Meanwhile the sun just came out – for how long is iffy – and I need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
I had something nasty last year between Thanksgiving and Solstice and the symptoms did not match any clear malady – the cough was the worst. I went to the ER to eliminate pneumonia and ended up with a diagnosis of bronchial infection which I got an antibiotic for. It was an awful med and I only felt good when I stopped taking it. In any event, I just treated the symptoms because that is all I could really do. Good luck!
Sorry your holiday season was diminished by feeling rotten. Yeah, that’s really all we can do these days. Between the stuff naturally in the air with this warmth (tree pollen) and the crud added in by the construction stuff. . . I just hope it will go away soon.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 52 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 64. It has been raining for a while and the radar suggests that it will be another hour or so before it clears the area. The clouds will linger. I have some errands to run later this morning and I would be grateful for no rain – the drivers are bad enough on sunny days, the rain only makes it worse.
There are faint glimmerings that the legal system is managing to slow down the end of American democracy. The question is will the rotting pumpkin and his jackboots obey the court orders now that public sentiment is clearly against them or will they decide to defy the judges and dare them to stop their dirty work? We are finding out that the system only works when the political party in power agrees to rein in their rogue leaders. It worked when Nixon crowned himself king but will it work for Trump 2.0? I guess we shall see.
I made great progress on clearing the fresh things on my work stack but my Inbox is still a bit of a mess. I need to email some clients to push off projects so that I can work on what I can reasonably expect to get done this week.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 33 and cloudy outside my windows today. Lowland snow happened last night so I hope the plants starting to bud in the garden will be ok with the lower temps. I finishes reading Jim Butcher’s latest book in the Harry Dresden series so my mind is still in his world. Interesting how a creative mind can form a world with words that lingers after the last pages are read. I always need a few days before starting a new book. Best wishes to all.
Wednesday Meese – 31 here in Kingston. Light snow predicted.
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Josh Johnson:
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The Onion! A more “patriotic” Puerto Rico, hahahaha!