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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 79 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
My thoughts
Poor response
Black women are not important it seems
That sux. Not surprising but it really sux.
Rain and heat here today Will be heading out this afternoon to my goddaughters birthday celebration She was initiated as a priestess in 2008
Be careful going and coming & have fun while you’re there. {{{Dee}}}
PR
Good morning. I didn’t get any cooking done yesterday, and I had to use the situp ball to get up from the floor, but I did get a diary drafted at the orange place for Romancing the Vote. Auction starts Wednesday, and there’s so much amazing stuff: handmade jewelry, knitted/crocheted things (so many bi- and trans- pride things), and of course lots of signed books, author visits to your book club, etc. And for those of us with modest budgets, there are great stickers and coloring sheets. So that took a lot of writing and pasting of links. Gotta cook after church today.
I hear the Republican party platform will include a plank for arresting women who’ve had abortions for murder. Is there no end to what Texans will put up with?
Ya know, I really hate it when this platform logs me out while I’m in the middle of writing a post. I always double check to be sure I’m logged in when I start writing it. And clicking the “back” on the notification that I have to be logged in to post erases what I wrote so I can’t copy it. Yes, I know I should have copied it before I hit post. sigh.
It’s 76 going to 90 heat index 99 and is actually sunny. Just as well as I suspect the A/C will cycle on by 9 am. Yesterday we generated 10.92 KWHs and the m-t-d at 356.88 is well within reach of the current and future low production for June mark. It’s even possible to reach 400 by EOD Tuesday.
Saw the moon in the wee hours – mostly hidden by trees and almost down but beautiful as always. Meant to vacuum but my back said “nope”. Cats are all sleeping. Wish I could sleep in the daytime. Oh well. Need to be about my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
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Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s 70 F. degrees in Ashburger. Just turned off the A.C., because why should I freeze? It has been raining happily since I got up at 7:30. It’s now 10:43 a.m. I find I have to shut the door to the screened porch, even though I love listening to the rain.
Just got off the phone with Younger Son. Our plans have changed AGAIN. We are ditching the idea of going to Scotland and planning just a nice few days bopping around London and environs. The children in the family are of an age to whine that they’re bored, they want to go to concerts at home, they’d rather be with their friends at the swimming pool, bla bla bla. Who knows what will happen to air travel in the future? There may not BE any. I mean, now we wake up and sing, “How are things in dear old Hormuz?” instead of wondering how things are in Glockamorra.
I plan to have a nice, quiet day at home, working on the mss. and trying to take off these false eyelashes. If they don’t come off, I’ll go out and buy some eye makeup remover oil tomorrow, but I am NOT going out today.
I really, really, really want to finish editing this mss. so I can be FREE.
Sigh. Bygone days are really bygone. Neither of my local offspring are planning a July 4 family celebration. Fortunately, the Home has a lot of fun things going on.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good afternoon, 57 and light clouds in sleepy Bellingham today. Our son stayed at his house last night, yay! He is no longer taking the strongest pain med so it’s safer for him to drive now. He still has a med regime he needs to follow but being done with the strongest narcotic is great progress. Starting PT and having regular checkups with his new doc are helping too.
I’ve had a needed quiet day, but now it’s time to do my part for dinner and then we’ll watch House of Dragon this evening. Best wishes to all.
Glad he’s doing better!
Heat dome here Birthday party yesterday was lovely
PR
Happy Monday. Once again I packed gym clothes and will try going after work. I made the cornbread muffins yesterday, they’re not bad. I miss having an oven, it takes a long time to make one small pan at a time in the air fryer. But hey, I have an air fryer and that’s a nice thing. Hope everyone has a good day.
What happened to your oven?
I remember years ago at our house when the oven went on the blink, four of us were sitting around the dining room table, three of us moaning because we didn’t have an oven. Younger Son’s Chinese girlfriend said, “In China nobody have oven.”
That wouldn’t work for us Yanks, so we went out and bought the BEST oven I’ve ever had. It had TWO ovens so while the roast beef was merrily roasting below, the roast potatoes were roasting cosily in the upper oven.
I don’t know. One evening, I was preheating it to have veggie buffalo wings, and it just never got hot. Sad. If I ever win the lottery, the two things I’ll do for myself before donating are: buy an oven and rep!ace my broken couch. But neither is so awful that I must do something right away. Just inconvenient.
Bummer! Buy $1 scratch-off tickets. One aunt gave two to another aunt for her birthday. The first scratch-off yielded $100; the second, $1,000!
You just never know.
77 here going up to 89 with excessive heat plus rain = not my choice
It’s 78 heat index 85 heading for 92 heat index 100 but at least it’s sunny (& breezy) today. Yesterday we generated 18.92 KWHs and the m-t-d at 375.80 is out of last place for June production (yay) with 2 more production days to go. So we’re very likely to get over 400 – but not possible to get to 438 which is the next “marker”. Still better than last place is good.
A/C cycled on at 4:30 am but not since. The house is very humid right now. That will mostly go away once it starts cycling on more often. And I’ll feel cold. LOL. Miss Jenny has a strong personality. If she wants to eat from a dish Freddie’s eating from, she does – and Freddie backs off. I’m a little worried that he’ll bop her a little too hard when she pounces on his tail but other than that things seem to be going well. (Ask and you shall receive or something – she just did, he raised his paw with a warn-off sort of squeak – not a growl like for an adult – and she put back her ears and backed off.)
OK, I thought I’d have time to do a bit of end of month bookkeeping before starting my boosting but cats have taken all that time. LOL. So off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Yay, Jenny! I love your cat tales, bfitz!
Good Monday morning, Moosekind, and may you see the moon tonight. It’s always too cloudy to see it in this benighted area of the country.
‘Tis overcast in Ashburn, and 72 F. Guess what A-hole wants to do now—he wants to cut down the TREES in Lafayette Square so there will be just 47 of them, to match his position as 47th “prez-dint”! Eff him and Eff Bernie for causing this mess. The first I ever heard of Women’s Liberation was in 1970. I climbed aboard a bus (didn’t drive in those days) with my eight-week-old baby and traveled to Lafayette Square. It was filled with women, some of them roosting in trees, others passionately declaiming into the microphone. I went home when it was over, thinking, “All this time I’ve thought there was something wrong with me. It’s not me, it’s them!”
LOL, the baby in question will be 56 years old on Thursday. This morning, after a rotten night, I got up and blearily made carrot bran muffins. They’re delicious, even though I did kinda forget to add the half-cup of white flour. The only sweetening is 3 tablespoons of brown sugar, grated orange peel, and the carrots themselves. Plans for the day include finishing editing a section, running out to the store to get some eyelash glue dissolver, and attending the rock-‘n’-roll concert on the lawn this afternoon.
Delighted to hear that the birthday party was lovely, Sis, and that Hans felt well enough to go home! That’s a little less work for you, princesspat.
Wishing a good day and no allergies to all at the Pond.
Good morning, 59 and cloudy outside my windows today. I’m finally feeling better re my decisions to keep my summer gardening more simple this year. All the work we started in the spring is done, the drip watering system is working so it’s easier to water the planting beds, and the ferns and perennial plants planted in the former flower pots are growing. With Bri’s help the garden looks well cared for so now I can just putter around. Best wishes to all.
I saw that your son was in his own home. Yay! Does he have his doggie with him or is he not able to take care of her yet?
Good luck to the New York Liberty in their game against the Evil Empire! I hope that they sort out the roles of their players in time. I don’t think the NBA coach they put in charge of the team is very good and the only thing holding the team together are the shared memories from the Sandy Brondello era – the run to the championship and the effort to repeat that. The owner really screwed up.
Good afternoon, meeses! Monday …
It is 100ish and sunny with a lot of wind. It will be cooler than last week which is a blessing but we would like some monsoon rains, por favor. I saw the nearly full moon last night rising over the mountains. She will be full later this afternoon.
Yesterday I watched some great women’s basketball, a quadruple overtime win by the Washington Mystics over the Portland Fire and a win by my new chosen favorite team, the Golden State Valkyries (sorry, Dee!). There is a bit of controversy in the WNBA right now over what was deemed a “hit” by one of the players on the darling of the white supremacist MAGAts. What I saw was a bunch of players tripping over themselves to get a loose ball and falling on each other and using “hands” to get up. One of those “hands” touched Caitlyn Clark near the neck and shoulder area. In real time, everyone got up and went chasing after the ball, no one lay on the floor in pain or was slow to rejoin the action. But in Social Media “everything is stupid” time, one of the players “jammed her fist” into someone’s “throat.” She received a suspension after an investigation that apparently included no player interviews but just the social media clips. More embarrassing is that the coach of the racist enabling Indiana Fever called out the WNBA for not doing more to protect what she called “generational talent” and star players, meaning Clark. A few days went by and Nate Tibbets, the coach of the Phoenix Mercury issued a release calling out the “investigation” and the awful statement by the Fever coach. This guy is no favorite of mine, but he is spot on with this:
Indeed. I will be watching closely how they deal with aggressive play by white players and straight players and players playing for coaches whose heads are up their asses.
I am going to grab the last bit of full moon energy to finish up June projects tomorrow. I will be taking time off over the stretched out holiday weekend and hoping to be able to ignore any client problems until the middle of next week. I have to start testing my ability to “log off” and go silent without freaking out my clients.
See all y’all later!!
Good morning. Getting ready for work. Going to the dermatologist today, there’s a suspicious spot on my forehead. Use sunscreen, y’all. But this evening I’m going to an author event for a book that sounds awesome: Rules for Aging and Larceny by Julia London. So it’ll be an interesting day.
It’s 78 heat index 84 heading for 94 heat index 100. Light breezy and sunny. Yesterday we generated 19.84 KWHs and the m-t-d at 395.64 is at least not in last place for June production and will get over the 400 mark today.
Jenny was fussy and trying to nurse on Bobbie last so I gave her a couple of teaspoons of yogurt (plain, full fat), that being the closest to kitten milk replacer I have in the house. That seemed to satisfy her and doesn’t seem to have had any ill effects. She wanted “mommy’s milk” again just a few minutes ago but not as much – maybe 1 teaspoon – and didn’t want to lap it. She wanted to lick it off my finger. Maybe that was because it’s cold right out of the fridge and maybe it’s just that she really is big enough to have been at least mostly weaned when she came to my house. She does have her adult teeth. And it could be that having been without kitten milk for several days, yogurt passed last night but doesn’t really cut it this morning. If she keeps seeming needy for milk I’ll get some kitten milk replacer for her. Meanwhile Cloud and Bobbie seem to pretty much have adjusted to her being here. Freddie is still a little needy for attention. Which I’m happy to give him.
Got a repair person coming today to replace the water-damaged ceiling tiles by the chimney. I’d best move a few boxes and things so they can get to it. There’s a lot of old water damage in this room from leaks in the roof Aspen replaced 6 years ago but that’s not their responsibility. Someday I’ll manage to get it repaired/repainted or something. (It’s not the painting so much as the sanding that needs to be done first that keeps me from doing it myself on most of it.)
Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good/Healing/Protecting Thought for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
I didn’t see the moon last night (sigh) but Aji’s Instagram has a gorgeous photo of her. Aji’s people call this one Berry Moon.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 75 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 97. Sunny skies are in the forecast. This morning I saw the bright full moon shining at me over the fence when I went to the side yard. It startled me because it was just above the horizon, ready to set, perfectly framed by the neighborhood houses. It does not look like she is missing a bit of light (she is at 99.6%) so I am certain there is some full moon energy for me to grab to finish my June projects.
I have the SCOTUS blog web site up in a tab and will be watching for the Fourteenth Amendment ruling. Goddess help us all if the Republican Supreme Court destroys birthright citizenship in service to their white supremacist masters. The chaos that would be unleashed would be epic and the human pain unimaginable. Fk everyone who voted for the Republicans to bring us to this point.
I will be watching the WNBA Commissioners Cup Championship tonight. The winners will have a large donation made in their name to a charity of their choice.
I have many things to do and need to finish them before a string of conference calls and remote work begin. I want to get everything tidied up for my planned time away from client work.
See all y’all later!
Thank goodness. SCOTUS is 5.5 to 3.5 upholding birthright citizenship. Burp Keggernaugh said that tRump’s order does not violate the 14th Amendment but the statute that was passed to support it. It is a win, nonetheless.
Jackson on Clarence “I AM WHITE!!!” Thomas’ dissent: