Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: April 17th through April 23rd

April 17, 2016 JanF Community 120

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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51 Comments

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

    It is 50 degrees in Madison WI, on its way up to 77. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

    • We will need the Senate to get the right person for the Supreme Court. End of story.

      I was shaking my head reading about the protesters throwing money at Secretary Clinton’s motorcade yesterday. How about giving that money to downticket Democrats? One thing that someone mentioned the other day is that the #BernieOrBust’ers are unlikely to tip the election. In 2008, the party was split between two good Democrats and Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton mostly voted for Barack Obama. This year, the party is not really split much – the independents have been driving the Sanders nomination. If they stay home in November, or vote for Jill Stein, it will probably not matter much.

      Here is a good article I read by D.R. Tucker over at WaMo titled “Ship of Fools”:

      This is the problem with the “Bernie or Bust” movement. By declaring that they will refuse to vote for a non-Sanders Democratic presidential nominee, these folks are declaring, in essence, that they are not seriously interested in moving the Democratic Party in a more progressive direction.

      Wouldn’t it make more sense for the “Bernie or Bust”-ers to accept a Sanders primary loss with grace, commit themselves to preventing a Republican reactionary from seizing the White House, and then declare that Clinton owes a part of her victory to those who had initially supported Sanders? Wouldn’t they be able to influence Clinton’s actions on education, energy and economics? Wouldn’t they be able to pressure Clinton to govern as an undisputed progressive?

      Harsh as this might be to say, it’s clear that the “Bernie or Bust” movement has officially replaced the Tea Party movement as the most illogical and incoherent force in modern American politics. By proclaiming that Clinton is too dishonest and dirty to deserve support, these folks are saying that the right wing was right all along about Hillary (and Bill). That’s a sensible message?

      I think we have the numbers to win, regardless of whether the GOP nominee is Cruz or Trump. My bigger fear is that our voters may be disenfranchised. We need to make sure that the states we need to win to get to 270 have honest elections. Gosh, that needs the Supreme Court too, doesn’t it?

  3. Expecting severe weather today, maybe flooding, tornadoes not out of the question. Lake Travis is 100% full for the first time in years, so people who live there are moving stuff out of the first floor of their houses.

    I got an early start on the cooking. Making quinoa & vegetables, will have a yogurt, tahini & avocado sauce. I’ll make my baked oatmeal after church. That’s the handiest recipe, I’m so glad I came across it. No bike riding this afternoon. I’ll just clear out the dvr.

    • Another, my personal trainer at the gym has told me he’ll share his baked oatmeal recipe with me. It has EGGS in it, however, so it’s not something I’d willingly cook or eat.

      Eggs and I do not get along.

      • this is really easy: 2 c of milk or substitute (I’ve used soy, almond, hemp), 2 c oatmeal, 3 bags frozen berries (I use cherries & blueberries — still frozen is fine, but thawed is better) 1 c toasted chopped nuts, cinnamon, 2 containers yogurt for extra protein, 1 c of ground flax seed & 1c of juice – I use cherry. put in a 9×12 pan – carefully, it’ll be full. bake at 300 for 50-ish minutes, then let it sit a while. Makes 7-ish servings.

          • I have 5 tupperware things that I fill for weekday breakfast, then I put the rest in the freezer. It’s funny how the same recipe makes different amounts week to week. Sometimes, I have almost a who ‘nother week’s worth……

  4. Good morning, Moosekind! It’s 56 F. here on a glorious morning, going up to 72 F. later—same as yesterday. The trees have really started popping out, it’s heavenly to watch.

    Denise, I hadn’t heard about the earthquake in Ecuador! Will have to check that soonest.

    We just finished watching the Formula I race. Every time we watch a race I wonder how much longer FI can continue. Isn’t the world short of oil?

    Looking forward to Tuesday. GOS is the same hateful place as ever. Haven’t even been over there yet. Dreading it.

    Hope everyone will have a good Sunday!

  5. Good morning, 45 and partly cloudy in Bellingham. I looked for plants yesterday but didn’t find much as the nights are still to chilly. I did find a pre planted “color bowl” but between my cane and Heide’s leash carrying things was to hard so I’ll go back today when Ron can help me. Sometimes getting old gets real old!

    I’m going to sew a set of plaid napkins today. I started the linens for our grandson’s third birthday…..projects age in my sewing room :) Oh well, the table cloths are showing some wear so new napkins will give him another 10 years of birthday fun.

  6. Morning all! Cool and a bit cloudy here in north Florida, really delightful weather for this time of year for us. Hope we can hold onto highs in the 70s for another week before leaping back into the 80’s where we’ll be till November.

    Yes, we have our own Tea Party at this point – and to bolster the notion that we’ll be fine in November, someone posted comparative numbers showing that at this time in 2008, a lower percentage of Clinton voters said they’d vote for Obama than the percentage now of Sanders voters who say they’ll vote for Clinton – and it’s over 75% I believe. But this true believer stuff is still pretty annoying – this whole Papal trip was such a boondoggle what with Bernie taking his entire extended family, spending hundreds of thousands of campaign money only to have to essentially ambush the Pope in a hallway just to shake the man’s hand. Yet the true believers at DKos are still convinced it was a significant event. ugh

    Just saw a poll this morning that shows Hillary ahead only by 10 points in NY- apparently that’s what this poll, YouGov showed last time as well, so no reflection of any movement one way or the other. I’m really hoping for 12-15% win for Hillary, but I’m a bit worried about mischief at the polls from Bernie’s independents who never registered to vote but will show up anyway to clog up the process. Oh well, the NY Democratic Party is a bit more orgnanized and seasoned I think than say in Arizona or elsewhere, so hopefully they can handle it.

    Spent yesterday pulling most of my tax numbers together, so today is filing day for me – I hope I can do it electronically this time, and that the ID thief has not already struck again – keeping fingers crossed. Have a great day everyone!

    • Good luck with your taxes! I hope you can get them out electronically this year – it is so much more convenient! I imagine that having to go the post office tomorrow and doing the certified letter thing will be a zoo.

      By the way, YouGov is an online poll so the margin of error is somewhere close to infinity. :) My prediction is that she will win by between 12-15% and end up with 130 to 150 pledge delegates. She needs 122 to stay on track for the nomination. At this time in 2008, Barack Obama was ahead by only about 20 delegates and it was pretty much over because you can’t make up enough ground after losing every big state from January through March.

  7. Started this Sunday morning at about 60 and sunny, now 70 and cloudy. Rats. Have finished my “lick and a promise – no skip the promise” weekly housecleaning. Considering I’ve got the windows open for the kittehs most of the dust and pollen I just vacuumed up is probably already replaced – but it will take a while for the boyz to shed that much fur again. :) Lemon muffins this week – they really are my favorite. I try not to have them too often so they’ll stay my favorite. heh. Just “bottled” 10 servings so 2 weeks’ lunches worth of chicken veggie pasta soup. I put a little curry in which I can’t taste so I suspect the curry is getting old. Aren’t we all. Also just put a pork sirloin roast in the crock pot with 1/2 c barbeque sauce. I’ll have pulled pork for dinners this week and then make barbeque soup with the stock/broth in about 2 weeks.

    I’m getting a little hesitant about going over to GOS myself. The Rome thing was a cluster for Bernie, which I don’t particularly care except that it shows just how not ready for any international affairs the man is. But it was also a very great disappointment for the Dems-for-Bernie and I’m sorry for them. And unfortunately some of our team is gloating. I understand wanting to rub it in the noses of the AfBs, but AfBs don’t care as they live in a mythological world – just like the TPs – where everything is what they want it to be, you can’t confuse them with facts because they don’t accept facts, and they aren’t really Bernie supporters as much as they are Hillary haters who grabbed onto the most misogynist of the Hillary opponents. What the gloating is doing is making it harder for the Dems-for-Bernie to unify with us for the general. Sigh

    I think I’m going to stay with my “bright the day” wish for everyone – at least until I actually get some bright days again. {{{HUGS}}}

    • Bfitz, wish you and your house were up here this week. Sunny, warm, and 72 F., both days! I’m getting to where, when the sun shines, I think, “This is a great day for solar roof panels!”

      LOL. Keep right on truckin’, girlfriend!

      • Wish you had solar panels. :) – as to truckin’ I think maybe I need a new truck. LOL Thanks {{{Diana in NoVa}}}

  8. Good morning, meese! Monday …

    It is 54 degrees in Madison on its way up to 80. Partly cloudy skies are in the forecast. I got a bit of a sunburn over the weekend from sitting on my deck, soaking up the rays. I guess I am one of the lizard people!

    Two more days of nonsense and then our party can pivot to the general election. I am noticing that the supporters of Senator Sanders are getting meaner on Twitter – yesterday I had to mute a half dozen Tweeters who I can normally ignore but who were barraging my stream with crazy talk. Someone said they got an email from the campaign saying that they didn’t need to win New York to still have a path to the nomination. JHC!! They are worse than climate change deniers buried under a 50 inch blizzard in April.

    The birds are back at Malheur. Funny Tweet:

    See all y’all later!!

    • Good Morning Meese – another beautiful day in the Hudson Valley of NY.
      Not a beautiful day for people in Ecuador as more deaths and injuries are discovered. Am also following events in Brazil – with impeachment proceedings against Dilma.

      On the home front – I’m headed out today to phone bank for Hillary. Tomorrow is the big day here in NY.
      I’ve read this critique, “On Becoming Anti-Bernie” multiple times now. Sums up everything I’ve been feeling. The online hate-fest gets mentioned:

      Sanders actually has spent over $16 million on Revolution Messaging, a company that trains interns to go onto sites and generate trolling posts. The examples on Twitter, Facebook and other social media of sexist memes, the use of the B- and C-words to describe Hillary and women who support her, or who dare suggest Sanders might have a flaw, have been documented, although only partially.

      The toxic smears seem to increase – as we near the end of the primary season. I have to sit on my hands – or walk away from the keyboard at times.

      • I caught that one when it was first Tweeted out yesterday. It is a long piece but it breaks down all the problems of the campaign. Another good piece is this: There Is No Bernie Sanders Movement

        “It *feels true* that Bernie Sanders has sparked a new movement of the left—a flowering of youthful energy that will transform American politics, or at least pull the Democratic Party to the social democratic left where it belongs.

        But it’s not.

        It goes through the long history of progressive candidates from the left. Sanders is just another one, nothing special UNLESS his supporters take it the next level:

        The energy of the Sanders campaign will almost certainly fade away. But if the voters inspired by Sanders can gather their energy and become a part of the Democratic Party, they can win the influence they need to shift its direction in the long-term. And with their youth, they can play the long game, if they choose to.

        So far we are finding a lot of people who don’t register to vote showing up on election day complaining about long lines. Or people who don’t bother to understand that NY is a partisan primary and you have to declare a party. The verdict is out on whether they want a seat at the table or just sulk about the unfairness.

  9. Good morning, all! It’s 46 F. in NoVa this morning, going up to 81 F. later, on a lovely day just meant for collecting solar energy on the roof! Wish we had them, but we will not incur that expense at this stage.

    Denise and Jan, thank you for the links! I am feeling a bit down this morning. If our candidate does not win the nomination and subsequently the presidency, I will never see a woman president before I joss it. She is superbly qualified—who is there, in this country, better qualified than she? And I mean male or female. The only person better qualified is the current POTUS, and ten gets you twenty he’s sick of the whole thing and is living for the day he can go back to private life and write books. The amount of vituperation to which he’s been subjected would have killed the average human being. Same with Secretary Clinton.

    Feeling sad about the devastating loss of life in Japan and Ecuador. The state of the world is horrible, as usual.

    Hope to get a few things done today but, as always, it’s by chance. Will spend a large part of the morning trying to figure out how to resize images in WordPress. Wish me luck!

    • Don’t let the horserace meta get you down. It is about the delegates. Period. :)

    • !

      Now I remember what I was going to do! I was going to send you “How to Resize” notes for WordPress. I have two things I have to finish this morning and then I will send you some screen shots.

  10. There’s flooding all around, schools are on 2 hour delay — but there was no word about my workplace so I came on down. Wasn’t raining, but saw lots of lightning.

    And since I figured out that the song in that car commercial is the Pixies, my brain has been playing it. I almost never hear commercials, if I’m watching live tv, I always mute them, but I somehow heard that one. Also, for some reason, the Beatles Don’t Let Me Down. I truly have no idea where that came from.

      • in town is fine, the rural counties have it worse — and Houston… they are telling everyone to stay home, and there’s footage of a rescue of a guy by a tv reporter all over my twitter feed

  11. if you’re on Twitter and you’re not following Propane Jane, you are truly missing out

    and if you’re not on Twitter, you should join just for her

  12. Big day at SCOTUS today. No, they are not going to give Chief Judge Garland a hearing in the Senate. But the 8 person court will be hearing the U.S. v Texas case, the DAPA/DACA case that has been on hold since the racist Texas district court judge put a stay on the implementation.

    There are a lot of tea leaf readers and one of them thinks that Chief Justice John Roberts will punt this one away on standing, that the states do not have the right to sue the United States government:

    Chief Justice Roberts’s record suggests that he may avoid taking a position on such a divisive and partisan issue, focusing instead on the more technical question of whether the states challenging the Obama administration’s immigration plan have suffered the sort of direct and concrete injury that gives them standing to sue. […]

    Mr. Obama’s plan would allow more than four million unauthorized immigrants who are parents of citizens or lawful permanent residents to apply for a program shielding them from deportation and allowing them to work legally. In the short term, a ruling to dismiss the case on standing grounds would at least temporarily save the plan.

    A tie vote, on the other hand, would leave in place an injunction blocking the plan and probably deny Mr. Obama any chance of resurrecting it. […]

    [Duke University Law Professor Walter Dellinger, who wrote an amicus brief supporting the government’s position] said a rigorous approach to standing was consistent with Chief Justice Roberts’s statement at his confirmation hearings that judges should aspire to be umpires, whose only job is to call balls and strikes.

    “Before any judge begins calling balls and strikes,” Mr. Dellinger said, “he must first make sure the batter at the plate is an actual player and not just a fan who ran on the field.”

    There are also expected to be some opinions and orders this morning at 10am. I will be “watching” SCOTUSblog for those. The hearing begins at 11:30am and is scheduled for 90 minutes. A transcript is expected to be available about an hour after the hearing ends. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) will be in the courtroom:

    @JoaquinCastrotx 15h 15 hours ago
    Tomorrow I’ll be attending oral arguments at the Supreme Court for U.S. v. Texas, a case that could uphold @POTUS’ immigration actions.

    ‏@JoaquinCastrotx 15h 15 hours ago
    I’m looking forward to witnessing this historic event, and I’m hopeful the Justices will confirm DAPA and expanded DACA’s legality.

    • No new cases granted and the opinion was for a criminal law case that I have not been tracking, Welch.

  13. Good morning, 53 and sunny in Bellingham. It’s a busy Monday …..the electrician will be working in the attic replacing the last of the knob and tube wiring and in the basement adding some new plugs so I can move the freezer. When the wiring is fixed new insulation will be installed in the attic. We started this project last fall but life interfered so we were without insulation all winter. Fortunately it was a mild and wet one.

    Yesterday’s sunshine lead me outdoors, so instead of sewing I washed all the patio furniture and added the cushions, brought out the twiggy benches and tables, put up the umbrellas, and raked up another large basket of pine cones. It’s so nice to have our outdoor rooms clean and ready to enjoy again!

  14. 60 at dawn and still there – supposed to get to 66 today but I doubt it – we got .4″ rain since midnight but just sprinkling now. The radar is showing the cell thinning where it would hit us, so probably going to go around Fayetteville (down the two river valleys, the White to the north of us and the Arkansas to the south). Oh well, .4″ means I don’t need to water at least until the weekend considering the temps are supposed to stay below 80. Especially since we’re scheduled for more rain through Wednesday. So waiting for Thursday before any serious sunshine. With the 4K system this time of year ambient light is giving me over 5 KWHs a day (unless it gets so dark the street lights come on) which is just over what I use this time of year, so it’s still good.

    Healing Energy to the people of Ecuador and Japan. Unfortunately the situation is evidence of why government regulation is good. The difference between 40 deaths in Japan and over 240 deaths in Ecuador is building codes. The few thinking Libertarians out there admit my point when I bring it up to them. People die without governmental protection. Thank Goddess “in the real world there’s Hillary Clinton” to quote one of the ads for her. Not that I think she can save the world by herself, thankfully she doesn’t think so either, but together we can make things better – everywhere.

    Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  15. Morning all! Beautiful sunny and cool here this morning in North Florida. I am headed out in a bit to finally teach my last class of the semester – I couldn’t teach on Thursday because my garage door broke and trapped my car inside, and couldn’t get a cab to school in time for class, so I’m making it up today.

    Bummer on my taxes – could not file electronically again, although I don’t think it’s more fraud, I’m not sure so I’m just mailing my return in today. I never bother with the certified mail thing – I just pop it in the mailbox with lots of stamps on it, have never had a problem with it getting there.

    I don’t know if I’ll go back to GOS for a while – even for the “safe space” diaries, now that Lysis has posted a “code of conduct” for his that sound to me like “if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all”. Not a bad rule in general, but for me the Hillary diaries there have been the place to point out hypocrisy and lying from the Sanders campaign and to vent our own frustration at not being able to criticize him at all on the rest of the site without getting flagged into oblivion. I feel like I’m being silenced all over again and I’m not happy about it. So I guess I’ll stick to here and twitter.

    Ok, off to teach, have a great day everyone!

    • I am still staying above the fray on Twitter (no Retweets, but Favoriting) so this is my only place to vent about the primaries. I would probably chafe a bit to have lots of rules placed on me as well – I have never understood the need to go into someone else’s diary to fight. When I was a daily blogger on the GOS, we had a truce of sorts between the frustrati and the people who visited J Town. Once in a while, one of our peeps would drag a pie-fight in but in general it stayed civil. Why can’t the Sanders cultists stay out of the pro-Hillary diaries and vice versa?

      I hope not being able to file your return electronically is not a sign of more fraud. I never mail my return Certified and have not had a problem either but I might make an exception if my IRS account had been hacked in the past. And I will never file electronically because I don’t trust the Internets!! :)

  16. Jan – will try to get my BKos commentary cross posted here – tomorrow – but it may be a bit late – since I have to go vote after school.

    • Great! I will look for it.

      I hope your state does a better job of picking than mine did.

  18. Good morning, meese! Tuesday …

    It is 48 degrees in Madison on its way up to 57. Showers are in the forecast.

    FINALLY, we will see an end to the contested nomination. If Hillary wins New York by 10% or more, Sanders would have to win 70% of the vote in California to catch up. Even the most diehard Sanders supporters would have to consider that delusional.

    It is time to change the tone – so much damage has already been done. From Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, last night:

    I want to let you know about a development that just occurred, because it matters. The tone of this primary matters, and the condition of our party at the end of it will matter as we prepare to face Donald Trump or Ted Cruz this fall.

    Earlier today, the Sanders campaign wrote a letter to the Democratic National Committee, falsely accusing us of violating campaign finance law.

    You won’t be surprised by what happened next: 26 minutes after the letter was sent, his campaign sent a fundraising email attempting to capitalize on the phony charges.

    (Before you read any further, let’s get one thing straight: this accusation is false. They’re questioning our joint fundraising agreement with the DNC, which allows us to support Democrats running up and down the ticket — the same fundraising structure used by President Obama in 2008 and 2012.)

    This latest incident is part of a troubling pattern of behavior — occurring just as Bernie’s mathematical odds of winning the nomination dwindle toward zero — in which Sanders and his team are not just debating us on issues (which we all agree is perfectly fair), but rather attacking Hillary Clinton’s character, integrity, and motivations.

    The fact that they include the Democratic Party in these charges — an organization we want future generations of progressives to trust and support — further confirms that the Sanders campaign has let things get out of hand in its waning days. To wit:

    – Over the weekend, they had protesters outside one of our fundraising events — one whose proceeds went not just to Hillary for America, but to the Democratic National Committee and 32 state Democratic Parties — throwing dollar bills at Hillary’s motorcade, as if they were at, shall we say, an adult entertainment venue. This was just days after someone introducing Bernie at a rally called Hillary a “Democratic whore.”
    – In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2% of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2%, mind you: 0.2%.
    – And of course, Sanders spent several days calling Hillary unqualified for the presidency, based on an entirely false claim that Hillary had said the same about him. She hadn’t (and still hasn’t, even after what he said).

    To be clear, we welcome a debate on the important issues facing Americans, like how to prevent gun violence, encourage tolerance, and do more to level the playing field for Americans who are counting on us.

    But it’s hard to see how anyone — other than Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — benefits from this downward spiral of irresponsible and baseless attacks. Right about now is when we ought to be talking about coming together as a progressive movement, not undermining a generation of voters’ faith in the Democratic Party and in the woman who is almost certain to be its nominee.

    Amen.

    The news from the Supreme Court is not good. The questioning suggests a split-decision which would allow one racist Texas district court judge to decide that 5 million undocumented immigrants should be separated from their families. You can see why who takes the 9th seat on the Supreme Court is so important and why no one NO ONE can sit out the 2016 presidential election. When we get our 9th justice, the DAPA/DACA executive order will be upheld and those families can breathe a sigh of relief.

    See all y’all later!

    • Sadly – the diehards won’t give up. Our NY election is now “voter suppression”
      Meanwhile these folks don’t give a damn about places where real voter suppression is taking place.

      Excited to go vote – had a great time at the call center yesterday – talking to enthusiastic voters

      • They need to give up … they are hurting the party. Last night on Twitter, I had to mute so many people, I was left with play by play for a baseball game involving my MLB team – and that was too painful to read so I shut it down!!

        I am hoping that in RealWorldia, people are not reading about the awfulness spouting from Sanders, his surrogates and his campaign staff.

        On that voter “suppression”, Wonkette:

        Your Facebook friends revealed a new conspiracy to steal the United States presidency this weekend: the New York Board of Elections “recently” changed primary voting hours, cutting tomorrow’s election to a measly six hours. But only upstate, where Bernie Sanders supporters live, and not in New York City and Long Island, which is Hillz Country! […]

        … oh wait, that has been the law since 1909? Why, Hillary Clinton wasn’t even alive in 1909. There is only one explanation, and that is that Hillary Clinton took Barack Obama’s time machine out for a joyride! …

        Maybe she changed New York City’s voting hours when she went back to plant Obama’s certificate of live birth in the Hawaii registrar’s office!

        The varying hours of operating for polling places strike at the heart of one’s voting rights,” state Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Kahn wrote in finding the law unconstitutional in 1982. “A farmer in his pickup truck is entitled to the same opportunity to vote in a primary as a subway commuter.”

        We agree with Justice Kahn! But he was struck down on appeal by the New York Supreme Court. Which Hillary stacked when she murdered everyone on it and put Lanny Davis on there nine times.

        Hillary Clinton’s evil knows no bounds.

        Indeed.

  19. Good morning! Partly cloudy here in NoVa, 50 F. now, going up to 80 F. later. It was so warm yesterday I had to put on shorts! And, miraculously, I was able to fit into them.

    Awaiting the imminent arrival of Miss Pink Cheeks and Babylicious. My son has an 8:30 meeting miles away. It’s cruel to do that to parents. Not only that, it’s an overnight meeting. Grandpa is taking Baby to day care and I’ll take Miss PC to school.

    Still feeling very sad about the awful earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador, and the floods in Houston. Anotherdemocrat, thanks for the weather update from Austin. I must contact Daughter this morning to see how she is. She’s posting on FB, so it can’t be too bad.

    Very excited by the NY primary, and oh, please, Goddess, let her win by at least 10 points and better still, 15 or 20! New Yorkers don’t take kindly to being scolded for their “values,” either by Cruz Missal or St. Bernard! Denise, thanks for phone banking.

    Made great progress on the short story yesterday. Jan, will you have a chance to send screenshots of how to resize images? If Real Life interferes with that, I will try to get a “Happiness Engineer” for this afternoon.

    Wishing a great day for all at the Pond and Beyond!

    • I will have time! Better yet: are the images already uploaded to your site? If they are, I can resize those and take screen shots of the steps I went through so that you are not looking at some theoretical resizing project.

      • Well, the one of the cloak is there. I could upload the cover of “Long, Long Way to Run”—for that I will need a thumbnail, so I can create a “Buy” button for Amazon. Oh, dear, this is all getting so complicated!

        But thanks for your help, appreciate it!

        • Good idea with the cloak. I will get that one resized because I know what it is supposed to look like. I will report back!

  20. Our weather has calmed down. Still maybe some rain, but not like yesterday. Houston really got it — at least 5 dead, thousands of water rescues. It’s supposed to rain more, but not like yesterday.

    Have I mentioned that I’ll be so happy when this primary is over? Ugh. Almost as big a disaster as our weather. I’m tuning out as much about it as I can. Last night I even had to mute Rachel Maddow’s show, I just couldn’t stand the ugliness any more.

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