Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 21st

June 21, 2026 JanF Community 41

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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  3. Good morning. Getting ready for work and kickboxing. Looking forward to trying that “get up from the floor” thing again. Nothing else going on here. Interesting primary results last night.

  4. It’s 69 humidity 100% heading for 81 heat index 85, starting out sunny but according to the widget that won’t last long. Sigh. Yesterday we generated 5.74 KWHs – which is just about enough to cover yesterday’s usage since the A/C didn’t cycle on – and the m-t-d at 317.58 got even further behind.

    Having a kitten in the house is a good thing. At least this kitten who is already meticulous about using the litter box and isn’t causing issues with the older cats. Never had a cat integrate so quickly before. But then I haven’t had a 2 month old cat in the house since Feb 1996. And he & his littermate brother were the only cats in the house. But she’s sweet and cute and very actively kitten. She brings a smile even when we’re most stressed and/or disheartened. Any new cat is expensive – at least if you get the exam and initial shots and all that – and there’s a spay in her future which is more expensive than the neuter for the boys. But it’s good to have her here.

    Doing double duty on the boosting – running a Mutual Aid thread at both Xitter and Bluesky – is time and personal energy (AKA spoons) consuming. But Xitter folks were so happy to have me back those 2 days I was banned from Bluesky and Bluesky folks worked so hard to get me reinstated. . . I can’t abandon either one. So I’d best be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

  5. Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind! ‘Tis too delicious for words here in Ash-no-longer-quite-so-burned. We received 1.10 inches of rain yesterday before it finally stopped. Today, with the cold front, it will be a sedate 82 F. with very little WIND. One might actually go for a walk.

    Had a great time at “Open Mic” last night. The Poison Tiara was a great success, the silver shoes, having been successfully broken in, behaved beautifully, and the dress (floaty dark blue organza-type fabric over a dark blue underskirt)—well, I’ve always loved that dress. My date showed up, freaked out after 6 hours in heavy traffic, but rallied remarkably after a couple of glasses of white wine. When one of my favorite guys showed up, he rallied the troops, so to speak. First, he got us to line dancing, which I emphatically do not know how to do. Second, he decreed a “change partners after 45 seconds” dance, which enabled me to dance with another favorite guy. It was sad that this was the last “Open Mic” because the pianist was retiring. Still, we all have to retire some time.

    Enjoying a second cup of coffee because on Friday I have to see the vampire, and without food and drink I will be a bitter, mean old bee-yatch. I just might nip out to Lidl tomorrow morning early to stockpile some hazelnut croissants to comfort myself when the vampire releases me on Friday.

    As a bonus, last night, after leaving the dance hall with my date, I saw Herself! She was half-full and looked so lovely in the clear summer night sky. It’s so often foggy here that I hadn’t seen her in ages. That was the cherry on the sundae, believe me.

    Still in my dressing gown, need to get moving. Wish a good day to all at the Pond!

  6. Good evening, meeses! Wednesday …

    It is 102 degrees and the possibility of rain literally vaporized. The moon is heading to full and I see her every night before bedtime so that is soothing.

    We have discovered that in our new neighborhood when it is very hot, everyone gets home from work at the same time, cranks up their a/c to max and takes down the power grid. Two nights in a row we lost power – the first night just a flicker but last night it was 5 seconds and took down computers and the TV. So this morning I bought a battery backup to keep the computers up for quick power outages because I often leave documents open with reminders of things I need to do in the morning. Plus it is not a good idea to abruptly remove power from a device! I am hoping that having the battery backup means that I will never lose power again! :)

    See all y’all tomorrow!

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