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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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Good morning. Yesterday was exhausting. Just regular work, but it just went on and on. Also preparing a diary for noon tomorrow when there’s a match for the AIDS Ride.
It’s a little over 60 outside – our high for the day was 68 just after midnight – it’s supposed to hold as is until midmorning then start dropping steadily over the day and night until it bottoms out at 30 around dawn. It’s still pretty dark but I think the sun’s trying to come out. Yesterday we generated 6.54 KWHs and the m-t-d at 84.12 lost more ground.
The 2 houses directly west of me, the ones they broke ground on last July, appear to be about finished. Yesterday they had a landscaping crew in to unroll sod over the remaining permeable area after the beeping little frontloader replaced the topsoil they’d scraped off last July. The inch of rain we got over night should give it a decent start. If we don’t get any hard freezes before the roots get established. There’s a long long long way to go on the rest of the houses but these 2 at least should be a lot quieter/less annoying from here on out.
Natalia’s new meds are working. She was able to sleep last night, the itching is eased up enough she can concentrate on work and not on not scratching, and the rash is better. Not smaller yet but no longer weeping or angry looking. And a lovely bit of “mental health” news as well. Someone from one of the admin departments texted her yesterday to ask when she was retiring. And then came downstairs to talk to her – she wants Natalia’s job. She’s a good and competent person Natalia feels just fine leaving the department to. (You can’t take care of a department for almost 2 decades and just walk away from it.) There are changes coming in the department the other woman is currently in and she wants out of there before they take effect but she’s too young to retire and she knows/likes some of the people in “our” department already. She wanted to know who she needed to watch out for (Natalia said she said “Are there any assholes?”) And of course there are a couple. But only a couple. So, tentatively anyway, that part’s good. If this works out they’ll have at least 6 weeks to work together to make the transition smooth.
Meanwhile my cough is better and both hands & feet are relatively warm. It’s warm enough in the house right now I don’t need a sweater (I’ll need a coat this afternoon when I do my grocery store run – LOL) but it’s be plenty cool enough for a fire this evening. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
bfitz, are you sure you don’t have pneumonia? That lingering cough sounds worrisome to me.
{{{Diana}}} No fever, no body aches. Since I think the cough was caused by something the construction crew was spraying (some kind of wood sealant) I also think I’m very lucky that it’s going away at all. I understand that inhaling that supposedly safe crap can cause permanent damage. But my neighbor’s cough started to go away about 2 weeks ago. I’m guessing I got more of it than he did. (Or it’s just that I already have a sinus condition and I’m 40 years old than he is. LOL.) It IS getting better. Truly. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind!
Got a morning coffee at 10, then lunch off-campus with a friend. This afternoon have a mani at 3:00 and then rehearsal at 6:45 p.m. It’s 60 F. in Ashburn under cloudy skies but will get up to around 80 today. Tomorrow we’re back to cold and rain. Yesterday was so perfect—84 F. under flawless blue skies—that it felt like a dream.
I have assembled the spices I’ll need to make my friend’s recipe for gingerbread tomorrow. Oh, Thursday is going to be so busy!
Yesterday I rested a lot. Can’t get used to stupid Daylight Saving. Can’t get used to waking up n the dark. Will be so dam’ happy when the Boyz come over on Sunday because they’re both tall and can change the clocks that I can’t reach.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and no harm to immigrants in this country and to our fellow human beings in Iran.