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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 66 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 91. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
My religious grandson is celebrating his first year of initiation today so I will be attending this afternoon.
Weather is coolish here. Rain.
Puerto Rico
#PuertoRico Clean water and reliable service: another broken dream for our people
https://bsky.app/profile/deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social/post/3mmley7ulqk2j
“In rural areas of Puerto Rico, especially the most remote, the lack of access to clean drinking water has always been a major problem. A visit to our countryside is enough to make the intermittent water supply evident. There is a long history of efforts by citizens and communities to establish, together with municipalities and consortiums, rural aqueducts that help alleviate the situation.
But the instability of the water service persists, and both in cities and urban suburbs as well as on inland roads, one increasingly sees the so-called “cisterns,” plastic or metal tanks placed on roofs or embankments adjacent to residences and businesses, which have already become part of the landscape of our country.
In cities and urban centers, until a few years ago, a stable water service flowed from the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (AAA), the public corporation in charge of the storage, filtration and distribution of drinking water and the treatment of used water in our country, which together with the Electric Power Authority (AEE) made up the indispensable duo of our public utilities.
That is now a thing of the past.”
Very distressing read:
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Good morning. I did a lot yesterday, getting a head start on today so I’ll have time to go to the gym and lift weights. For now, just enjoying the smell of my steeping tea – I got a blend that has notes of chocolate and caramel, so it is really lovely.
It’s 60 heading for 82 and foggy. Yesterday we generated 8 KWHs and the m-t-d at 322.16 lost more ground. We’ve 8 production days left in May so it’s technically possible to generated over 450 by the end of the month. But the forecast makes it exceedingly unlikely and in fact we’ll be lucky make 400. sigh.
basket’s here and sleeping at the moment. He arrived around 5 and the pizza Lang had brought was cold – but still good. (Half of it’s left for lunch today – if he doens’t want it for breakfast instead of oatmeal.) We had a lovely visit last night but he was falling asleep sitting up by 8. Not surprising. I doubt he got any sleep on the plane and I know he didn’t get any waiting in the Chicago airport waiting for his flight to KCI. We don’t have any particular plans. He’ll be him setting up my new laptop when he feels up to it and otherwise we’ll just be hanging out together. Which is just fine by me. It’s so very nice to have him here.
Meanwhile, I’d best get as much boosting done as I can while he’s still asleep. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 54 and sunny outside my windows today. We have a quiet day in the garden planned, then salmon tacos for dinner. Feeling grateful to have such choices. Best wishes to all.
Good morning on Memorial Day Meese
Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans
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