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, 46, rainy and windy in Bellingham today. Our son and RonK finally listened to me re why I wanted to change the patio set up, and with some fine tuning it now works better for me. The table is closer to the hedge and out of the sun, the canopy is now angled in the center of the patio, and the seating is arranged around the outdoor wood stove. It looks inviting, I’ve got an easy to use dry spot by the fire, and there is plenty of room for more people when needed….yay! Finishing the pruning is delayed due to rain but now that the patios are cleaned up I can I’m fine with waiting. Best wishes to all.
Bessie Smith day:
Good morning. It is gross and muggy out, we might get rain later but mostly it’s just like walking around in a steam room. Or Austin in July. Not April. Wfh day, early lunch so I can go to kickboxing. It is weird not checking in with my group at the orange place.
Wednesday Meese 62 here in Kingston going up to 85! Have not heard any word about my friend Minerva’s status today in hospital – she made her funeral arrangements last weekend. :(
Holding her – & you – In the Light 🕯🕯🕯
It’s 64 heading for 73 and overcast – between 50% & 75% chance of rain all day which means 100% certainty it will be cloudy all day. Yesterday we generated 7.57 KWHs and the m-t-d at 182.05 is at least reached my average usage in a month with no A/C. Hoping for no A/C use this month. (It’s April for heaven’s sake.) The rest of the month’s generation goes in the sock against months when there is A/C use.
Got a couple of screaming weather alerts around midnight – tornado warning – but that alert program/app/whatever does the whole county. Neither the county alert system nor the city sirens went off. We got some really high winds for 15 minutes or so and .4″ of rain overall. I managed to get back to sleep once the wind died down.
Felt weird yesterday not to read Black Kos. I hope my link will take me to DK’s new site when it goes live. We shall see what we shall see. Meanwhile I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! Ah got mah Social! Poking around in my bank accounts I discovered two accounts have been suspended, no reason given. One is the account I use to pay for my hair and nails, the other is savings for Granddaughter. I shall have words with the bank this afternoon.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it’s already 71 F. and destined to break records for April by going to more than 90! How ’bout that!
Just made Low-Fat Blueberry Bran Muffins and gave some to the neighbors. Now I’ve got to beat all the scatter rugs into submission and wash them, as with the 90-something temperatures I can dry them on the screened porch.
We had a music rehearsal last night. I wasn’t expecting to have to speak, so when I was called up to the stage I was caught short. Disgraceful! I’ll be so glad when this play finishes. We’re all so old and doddery we keep forgetting our lines.
Only things on the agenda today are studying the script, exercise, foot doctor at noon, and rehearsal tonight at 6:30. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
OK – DK’s up & my link that used to take me to my comments/stream etc page now takes me to my stories. It’s a few more steps and I have to chose a specific person, but I can get to my followers (none of my follows transferred over which could be why I don’t have stream – or not) and click on someone to get to their diaries and comments. That way I’ll be able to get to Black Kos (via Dee’s comments) and at least the diaries I boost (via their author). Heck it even shows me as a member of a group – The Village – even though the old site erased all my groups when I was banned. I guess that’s because I am the “creator” of The Village. LOL. So. It’s doable. And that’s good.
Do you want to be reinstated? I can speak to Markos- he will listen
I think so. I can’t do what I used to do (in writing diaries & that sort of thing). I’m afraid people will expect me to. But I’d like to be able to at least RRC whatever I’m reading.
Will try
Thank you. I appreciate it.
I hope it works to ask! It is much easier to navigate as a member and I know Bfitz does a lot of good work over there.
If you succeed in getting bfitz reinstated, I will finally contribute to dkos. Every time I see the “ask,” I mutter either aloud or mentally, “Not until you reinstate bfitz.” If she gets in again, I’ll kick in a lot more than $5.
I’ll re-up my own contributions if I get reinstated. I stopped mine when they banned me – was both angry and amused that they kept asking me after they banned me.
Good afternoon, meeses! Wednesday…
It was 50 degrees when I got up this morning and it is 82 now. Sunny skies. I got a nice walk in, had lunch and will now sit for a while. Yesterday was hectic and tomorrow will be hectic again.
My 23 year old car passed emissions testing which is good news but I can only get plates for one year at a time now instead of two so that is a PITA. There were no lines at the test station so if I can be as lucky next year I guess it doesn’t matter. I appreciate that they care enough in Arizona about emissions to make everyone get tested.
USA Soccer lost to Japan in rainy Seattle last night. They were playing almost all new people so I am sure that the coach learned a lot about how those players adjust to game conditions. She will have to make some cuts soon so every game is important. They play one more game v Japan on Friday, this time in Colorado.
See all y’all later!
Thursday Meese. Bluesky was down for a few hours. Warm weather day here in Kingston. I’m very sad today because my comrade-sister Minerva Solla transitioned yesterday.
{{{Dee}}} Holding you & your friend in The Light.
Sending condolences to you and her other friends and family.
Good morning. Woke up ridiculously early. But I requested tomorrow off, so at least it’s my Friday.
Good Thursday morning, Meese! It’s becoming sunny and it’s already 74 F. in Ashburger. The high will be more than 90 F. I love it! Will have fried ice cubes for lunch again today. I’ve already lost a few ounces since yesterday.
The proposed merger between United and American is not good news for those of us who fly Space Available. I’m getting a Covid vaccine in the next hour or so, then off to the gym, need to have lunch, need to buy a ticket for the play for my grandson, then off to biography book club this afternoon. The busy-ness never ends.
Rehearsal went all right the first half last night—my team was on—but fell apart the second half. Whole scenes were dropped. We open a week from today! Goddess help us.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} Welp, if I were the director, at this point I’d call on you writers to create a quick resolution/new ending that wraps everything up to the 1st act and can the 2nd act entirely. Otherwise. . . hope things come together. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Is there a new COVID vaccine or are you behind? Or did I miss one!!?!?
It’s 61 heading for 80 and sunny at the moment. The western sky is mostly gray so it won’t stay sunny long. sigh. Yesterday we generated 5.45 KWHs (& at least got .4″ rain) and the m-t-d at 187.51 lost a lot more ground. We’ve exactly half the month left to go. We shall see what we shall see.
I only look at the headlines collected by Rantt and that’s bad enough. Colonizer Culture is busily killing the goose thinking they’ll get rich by getting all the golden eggs at once. And manipulating the news & the Market as well. Very depressing. Nothing I can do about it except what I already am. And on that somber note, I’ll be off about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 72 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 82. Intermittent sun and clouds today, I will wait for afternoon to take my walk, I prefer the sun and closer to 80.
I am waiting for a maintenance guy to handle the last remaining issue on the water problem I was dealing with last week. Next will come trying to get the landlord to pay part of the water bill. I am not hopeful.
Arizona was hit harder than any other state by the cuts in SNAP from the hateful HR1 bill maybe because the state government did not make helping people apply for and keep up with changes in the program a priority. “Helping people in need” was not a priority of the previous Republican administration and the Republican legislature has never met a safety net that they did not want to shred. Four hundred thousand people cut from the rolls and depending now on food banks. I hope the Democrats running for legislative seats and US House seats can convince people that voting to starve people is a terrible thing.
See all y’all later!