Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: May 24th through May 30th

May 24, 2015 JanF Community 146

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 (every Sunday morning). 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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NOTE: The comments page will now split off after 20 or so left margin comments with the most recent comments on the current page. To see the older comments, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the link.

42 Comments

  1. Good morning, Motley Meese! The week begins …

    It is 57 degrees in Madison WI, on its way up to 77. Rain is in the forecast.


    What are you reading on the Internets these days?

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. This is a bit of good news: No Resume? Criminal Background? No Problem At This Yonkers Bakery:

    The open-hiring policy at Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, N.Y., invites local residents to apply for jobs — regardless of their immigration status, whether they have criminal or drug records, or even prior work experience.

    It’s all part of the company’s social-justice business model, based on the philosophy of Bernie Glassman, an aeronautical engineer-turned-Buddhist monk who founded the industrial food facility in 1982.

    “He was a visionary — he thought business success and social justice were two sides of the same coin,” Mike Brady, CEO and president of Greyston, says of Glassman in a Ted Talk.

  3. Good morning, Jan and Meese! 49 F. here in NoVa under fair skies, going up to 84 F. today. Thanks for that bit of good news about the bakery, Jan. When will people understand that the underlying cause of riots, homelessness, and the like is the lack of jobs? That’s an oversimplication, of course, but if people had jobs they would be better able to get housing and create stable families.

    Just woke up so have not had time to look at the news. Lots of work to do today. Yesterday I realized I’d bought yellow squash seedlings, not zucchini, so that’s a disappointment. There’s a place up the road where I might be able to get zucchini.

    Continuing to clean up the porch and patio for the summer–have written NOTHING and the first of the month is coming up! Yikes. Hope everyone will have a good day!

    • How disappointing! I have tried gardens in the past and I am not very good at them. One year I planted a “few” tomato plants and ended up with elebentybillion tomatoes. One can only eat so many and everyone knows someone giving out free tomatoes so there is no place for them to go. I love zucchini and cucumbers but they take too long to grow!!!

      I know what you mean by the first of the month sneaking up. When it was Friday, the 15th, I thought I had plenty of time to catch up on accounting odds and ends and all of a sudden it was the 22nd … and a long weekend with no mail! I will try to catch up today (Monday).

  4. Good morning, Meese. It’s sunny, in the high fifties but will, after a bit, hit 80.
    Am headed out to the harbor to go birding and general “looking arounding”.
    Hope it’s a good day for all.

  5. Wow, we’re having flooding & water rescues — not in town, but south & west. The Blanco River has flooded so much that it is over I35 in San Marcos & the highway is closed. In Austin, it has stopped raining & I’m actually going to my Sunday workout. Lake Travis is up 6.9 feet overnight — overnight. I’ll take pics of the creek near me (it’s down a nice, big hill, no worries) later today.

  6. 57 here in Saugerties going up to 83. The grill is ready, the porch is cleaned up – will be cooking out this afternoon after doing my morning diary responses.

    Have a good day folks!

  7. Good morning, 52 and cloudy in Bellingham today. I feel more rested today…..just about ready to be bored. But if I address the lists I’ve been ignoring there will be no time for that!

    Some very good news from our young friend who had the aortic dissension in March. He has made amazing progress and is back in Bellingham in the inpatient rehab facility that has the PT pool I go to. He still has a long recovery ahead, but now his family can be with him and the therapist are very skilled and caring, so his future is looking much more promising. He celebrated his forty third birthday yesterday.

    After so much activity my house seems very quiet today. I think I’ll see if the grand girls have time for some fun.

    • Ha! “ready to be bored”. Me too! But it often leads to guilt over the to-do lists being added to instead of subtracted from. :)

      Glad to hear that your friend is doing better. Your family and friends deserve a break from bad medical news.

  8. storm damage: 2 small trees were uprooted down the street from me, but the “wow” part is on Guadalupe — several big trees snapped in half. Like – 100 year plus trees & not uprooted, but snapped in the middle. 3 or 4. And there’s branches & leaves all over the street. And one office building had damage — couldn’t see it, but there’s insulation spread out all over Guad & 41st-43rd. I’d almost think a small tornado hit that area.

  9. My daughter in Austin said they were under a tornado watch last night. They took shelter in a closet but the storm apparently passed over them. It must have been terrible!

    It’s sad about the trees but I hope no human or animal lives were lost.

  10. Been raining since 0130 – the weather thingy says .6″ but it sure feels like more – in Fay., AR. Temps in the mid 60s. Hope the tea tree oil I added to the laundry will keep it from souring because it’s sure not going to dry in this weather even with the help of the ceiling fan! Just before the clouds moved in yesterday I managed to get another couple of pounds of cherries – so yes! there will be at least one batch of jam – but that may be it. The fungus is really taking off – so much water is causing the cherries to split which gives the fungus all the opening it needs. I’ll be lucky to get an edible handful a day to go with my lunch the rest of the week.

    Glad and sorry to hear the Austin news – I knew those old trees on Guadalupe – but good that the water, which has to go somewhere, went into the lake. That’s what it’s there for. Hope nobody was hurt. I heard that Ireland passed the Gay Marriage thing – the first nation to do so and good for them!

    I may or may not be online tomorrow – either way, have a good Memorial Day holiday. {{{HUGS}}}

    • I was watching Weather Nation last night (Saturday) to see if they would show the nasty bit of rain I drove through and I noticed that Arkansas is going to have rain and heavy rain for the next week. I hope you get some breaks in there. It can be depressing.

      Have a good whats-left-of-the-weekend, bfitz!

  11. Good morning, meese! Monday … sort of.

    It is 66 degrees on its way up to 78. Morning thunderstorms are in the forecast. I was caught in late evening thunderstorms yesterday … at night … and my hands are sore from clenching the wheel for 2 hours. I have a difficult time driving at night and when it is raining and then raining in sheets it is much worse. Please! Play a tiny violin for me. :)

    I am going to look at the news later and catch up on what everyone is doing first and then maybe post some news links in the weekly address. I was listening to some news on my drive and was surprised to hear that Anne Meara was 85! I think when your only connection to someone is video of their performances, you don’t think of them as ever getting older than your memory of them. I am trying to remember what I saw her on, some sitcom back in the 70s or 80s when I still watched TV perhaps.

    See all y’all later!!

  12. Good morning, Meese! It’s a beautiful morning here in NoVa, 63 F. right now, going up to 88 F. today. We may have only one guest for dinner tonight as DIL tires easily nowadays. Two months and one week before little Rashid makes his appearance!

    We’ve made progress on cleaning up the porch and patio for the summer but much remains to be done. As to the news–the bad weather reaches from Corpus Christi through Austin and up to Austin and Dallas. I have relatives all over Texas, so hope they’re all right.

    Have not written anything, forgot my great-niece’s birthday on May 23rd, and got bitten by insects yesterday when I was out planting the zucchini. I may not have time to pay attention to the news today although I did hear about the shocking verdict in Cleveland and the subsequent protests. There is no justice for black people in this country. It’s an outrage.

    Hope all Moosekind will have a good day and bfitz, glad you were able to get at least enough cherries for jam.

    • Good morning, Diana!

      I did have a chance to read a few things about the Cleveland verdict yesterday. If you read it carefully, essentially they are saying that there were so many gunshots by so many people that they could not determine with certainty that the officer charged fired the fatal shots. I guess when you are shot 137 or so times that does make it hard to pin the blame on one person.

      But that officer is guilty of something. I am not sure what the term for it is but “cop rage” covers most of it. So many times the news suggests gross overreactions to crimes or suspected crimes, possibly a “what the heck do they think they are doing … don’t they know I’m the LAW??”. It was evident in Darren Wilson … it was evident in the shooting in the back of the man fleeing the traffic stop … it was evident in the mistreatment of Freddie Gray. Certain cops are bullies and many of them need anger management classes: or to find a different line of work. Anger has no place in policing. We can devise an easy test for new police recruits that would weed out those who have power issues pretty quickly. If it is too difficult to fire them, let’s work on not hiring them in the first place.

  13. aagrrhhh. Just typed a long comment and then lost it. It was brilliant but I will have to wait to remember it. Hope it’s a good day for all. Will check in later.

    • I hate when that happens!! Do you know what you did? Usually WordPress is good at comment posting. It even has a Duplicate Comment feature that won’t let you fumble finger a double post; test it out … if you click Post Comment again without waiting for the site to finish “waiting for motleymoose.net”, it comes back and says “It looks like you already said that!”. Ha! It is good that it only checks in the recent list because I often say the same thing twice. :)

  14. All the new here is of the flooding. Many, many homes destroyed – washed right off their foundations, one bridge washed out, they know of one death, but there are 2 families missing in Wimberly — the home one family was staying in was washed away. The Red Cross is holding a special volunteer session because they need so many to deal with all the shelters that they’ve had to open. Good thing school is winding down, because a lot of the school gyms in Hays & Blanco counties are full of cots. And it is supposed to rain all week.

    I’m sitting on my couch, eating & watching the news. Later: groceries & cooking. I have a huge packet of tortillas, so lunch is still gonna be hummus. I bought a container of it, and since I couldn’t find any with spinach, I’m just gonna stir fry some spinach & stir it in.

  15. It is going to rain here and is muggy. Hope everyone got some rest this weekend.

    • I turned off my alarm clock and slept until nearly 6am. Unheard of for me! I don’t know that I caught up on my rest but it feels good to have the whole day ahead of me without any client phone calls and emails. I still have to work but I can take my time.

      • Good morning….the front page looks very colorful and inviting with the new banner and the small photos. You’ve been creative and busy!

        • fogiv sent us some new banners to try! I love the woods!!

          On the new images with the posts, I found out that a post could have a “featured image” which will show in the excerpt — the display option used by both the Featured Posts and the list of recent posts three-across below the “Editors’ Choice” list. It shows a thumbnail with the words and dresses things up. By choosing excerpt, by the way, authors who forget to put “More” into their posts will not have overruns on the front page. :) That will give an editor time to fix the post before it is promoted.

          • I’m glad you like the woods. I had been toying with a background of purplish fur prior. Trust me: the forest looks better. Heh. We’ll get the size issue sorted out ASAP.

            Again Jan, you and Happy are freakin’ miracle workers AFAIC. Great job with the move. As soon as that wad of cash comes in from my rich Nigerian uncle, I’m going to make sure y’all are rewarded. :)

          • I thought I was the only one with a rich Nigerian uncle!

            Thanks again for doing the design work, fogiv. The new Moose looks very modern.

            Before I make another change for the header resizing, I want to make sure that I have tested it with other browsers. The theme is supposed to change the graphics to resize with the screen (going seamlessly from mobile to wide screen to tablet) so I don’t want us to resize based on my Firefox browser alone.

          • srsly, it’s the LEAST I could do. it’s absolutely lovely to ‘see’ you again Denise. I was just bragging about knowing you a few days ago! Somebody on the book of Faces had posted one of those list thingies: WOMEN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT or some such. It had most of the folks you’d expect: Davis, Walker, Bethune, etc., but omitted a certain member of the Young Lords & Panthers who I ADORE.

            obsly, I went ahead and fixed that for them. :)

  16. Good morning, 51 and cloudy in Bellingham today. My quiet house is nap inducing….I’m dozing off again so I’ll be back when I’m more awake and have something more interesting to share than yawns and zzzzzz’s!

  17. Hello Moose!

    It’s in the 60s here, nicely overcast. Supposed to get hotter next week, but I enjoy the cool. Happy to see the Moose get a new home!

  19. quite the thunderstorm

    I bought 2 basils at the grocery store, re-potted them and the mint & basil that needed re-potting them. Now they & a couple of my aloe veras are getting watered by the Goddess. I moved a couple of aloe veras back, they had more than enough. There’s tornado sirens going off in Round Rock, the town about 20 minutes north of here, and the local 24 hour news channel is also looking at poor, soaked Blanco county that has another dark, dark red patch of rain on the radar. They’re trying to figure out about hail. They’re telling people in the north area to go ahead & take tornado precautions. This is a few miles away from me & headed further north & east. There’s just really, really heavy rain in my area.

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