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. I voted yesterday, turnout was pretty good for mid-afternoon on a weekday. Busy day today: early lunch to do kickboxing, then noon Ash Wednesday service and after work I’m going to my Dem club’s meeting mostly because I need to ask for donations to the AIDS Ride. Next Thursday there’s a donation match, so I’ve written up little slips to hand out.
It’s 59 heading for 75 and sunny at the moment. PV monitoring system finally fixed their “terms of service” and “terms of privacy” boxes so I could actually check that I accept them, which I did because no choice – I accept them or lose access to the monitoring service – and I can now get to my monitoring portal. At the moment they’re apparently working on something else as it’s only showing the day’s usage with no options to look at anything else, but at least I’m in. (And don’t have to walk out to the inverter in all weathers to get the day’s data.) Yesterday we generated 8 KWHs and the m-t-d at 148.1 is still on track.
I cannot shake this cough. Everything else is back to normal. Or as normal as can be with as much gunk in the air. I’ll be running errands today and I’m going to get some plain cough syrup. The generic Nyquil is a multi-symptom concoction (that tastes nasty – artificial raspberry flavor) and I really don’t need all those chemicals hitting my stomach.
After reading Anne Louise Avery’s “Pancake Day” in her Patreon yesterday we ended up having pancakes – more like crepes really – following the recipe in the post. They were quite good but about 3x the amount of bread I normally eat in a day. LOL. I did eat all the pancakes but couldn’t manage all the fillings. So. Duly pancaked and a shriven as I can manage, going into Lent doing pretty much my normal not-quite-minimalist routine. And boosting of course. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 33 and cloudy in Bellingham. We’re both slow and sleepy this morning but that’s ok. Coffee and solitaire got me and a crossword puzzle for Ron will get our day underway. Best wishes to all.