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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:
Posted
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
A repost
Good morning. I didn’t spend a lot of time at the gym yesterday, but I did go. And I’m going today. Hope everyone has a good day.
It’s 60 heading for 85 and sunny at the moment. Clouds are of course predicted for later in the day. Yesterday we generated 18.07 KWHs and the m-t-d at 340.23 gained a smidge.
Well, I have a new laptop and am now operating on Windows 11. Bless him, basket gave me the computer (says it’s an early 75th birthday present) and set it up for me. It’s going to take some getting used to. The mouse pad, which I don’t use, takes up a lot more space than on my old smaller laptop but since it’s got a number pad the keyboard itself is smaller and tighter. My fingers are going to have to get used to that. Both the farther up from the edge of the computer and the tighter spacing. So far I’m hitting a lot of next key over from the one I want typos – and hitting the number lock when I’m aiming for either the backspace or the delete. (I already had enough trouble hitting backspace when I wanted the delete.) And there’s more hardware – the laptop has fewer usb ports so he also got a docking station. He turned off the voice reader, thank heavens, but of course can’t stop the audio ads. Supposedly Google isn’t on this machine at all. We shall see if it trojaned itself in. Also supposedly AI is turned off. We shall see if it turns itself back on. So a very wonderful gift – the techie part even more than the hardware part – but one I will seriously have to get used to. I still have to use Duck Duck Go for my music – it’s irritating but at least no ads, obnoxious or otherwise – but I’m using Edge for a while to see if the AI really is turned off. He/basket slept a lot yesterday and I expect him to today. The man needs it. Meanwhile I’d best get my boosting done while he does. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
This:
Has me wondering if finding out he had Black grandparents and enslaved ancestors has affected him
Or he is making a concerted effort to show decency in a hateful world. He is despised by the christianists who want their churches to turn their backs on needy people instead of embracing them. A much needed antidote to the faux religiousity that defines the MAGAts.
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! Somehow I lost a whole day yesterday, but woke up this morning determined to get back on track.
The rain is falling quietly, in an almost absent-minded fashion, and it’s 67 F. in Ashburn.
Saturday night my friend and I had a nice dinner, then went a few hundred yards away to watch the second-weirdest movie I have ever seen. It was all about a lunch box in Mumbai going to the wrong recipient every work day for a period of four weeks.
Yesterday it was too cold to wear what I’d planned (a light summer dress), so I put on some purplish things and went out to supper and karaoke at a place in Leesburg. It was fun listening to all the songs, marveling at the peculiar footgear of the dancers, and chatting with the busload of people from the Home, whom I’d arrived with. I danced only one dance, but that was OK.
Today is a brunch buffet, preceded by work and followed by work. I don’t know what to do about my forefinger. It’s had two nail emergencies since the last mani. I’m afraid I’ll have to make another appointment before I fly on Friday.
Time to get back to work. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and hello to the visitor from California!
Good afternoon, meeses! Monday …
It is either 97 or 84 but definitely sunny. Yesterday afternoon we had a 30 second rain “storm” complete with thunder. The wind sure did blow!
I got a lot of things done this weekend mostly organizing my stacks of notes and queuing up some emails to send out tomorrow morning. I started a project this morning and I am hoping to get a second wind to finish it.
See all y’all later!
Tuesday Meese Gonna be hot for spring here today – 84.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Yesterday started out well: successful workout at the gym, came home and watched astronomy….. Then my watch broke, like it physically just came apart. Trip way up north to the Apple store, where they didn’t actually lol at the idea of fixing my 15 year old watch. So I get a week of my wrist feeling weird while I wait to find out if it’s dead for sure. Then my stomach went kablooey, like really alarmingly kablooey. I have no idea why, I didn’t eat anything unusual. So lucky today is wfh. I’m nibbling carefully at breakfast. Sigh.
{{{anotherdemocrat}}} Healing Energy for you – & your watch. Hope it’s “just” a 24-hour bug. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
I rarely watch men’s basketball but enjoyed seeing the NY Kicks win
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/knicks-cavaliers-game-4-updates-nba-finals/live/
Knicks not kicks
Actually, it sounded like there was a lot of KICKing – got a little wild. :) My daughter went to an outside of the arena gathering to watch the Milwaukee Bucks win during their championship year and loved it. Definitely for the kids, though.
It’s 61 heading for 80. Sunny at the moment but the clouds are already moving in from the west and we’ve got a 50% chance of some rain this afternoon. Which means we may or may not get any rain but we’ll definitely have clouds most of the day. sigh. Yesterday we generated 19.04 KWHs and the m-t-d at 359.27 gained another smidge. We’ve 6 more production days in May. We shall see what we shall see.
It’s being a very pleasant visit with basket. Mostly he’s sleeping and he certainly needs it. And as usual, I do most of the talking when he’s awake. He really doesn’t talk much. But just being together is good. Natalia’s home from the farm, taking another day off which she needs because she spent her long weekend either grubbing out invasive honeysuckle from the area that used to be and hopefully will be again a garden or chasing sheep that had gotten out. The 3 of us are meeting Lang today at Ohana’s for Poke bowl lunch. After which, depending on how energetic people are feeling, we may do a tourist thing or two – or we may just come back home and hang out together some more.
I’m still getting used to this keyboard. And praying I never hit the button in the top right corner where the delete key is on my old laptop because the button in that position on this laptop is the power button. The larger screen is great. Anyway I’d best be about my boosting to clear what I can before basket gets up. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Guten Dienstag morgen, Meese! It’s 67 F., on its way to 77 F. under rainy skies. I love listening to the rain and looking out at the lush green woods across the way. The trees are fully out now. A meteo on the TV said we’ve had so much rain in the DMV (District-Maryland-Virginia) that we’ve cut our rainfall deficit in half. I know later this summer we’ll be hot and panting because we’ll have a lack of precipitation.
Just realized, to my bone-chilling horror, that I have three days to get organized before my flight takes off Friday morning. I will wear a mask, possibly two, while flying. The electronics alone (Kindle charger, iPhone charger, hearing aid charger box) will take up my whole flight bag.
Would love to be able to wean myself off sleeping pills. Perhaps I’ll try it this summer. However, I won ‘t be able to do that until I return. This annoying cough keeps me awake a good bit of the night.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and waving to basket!