Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: June 2nd through June 8th

June 1, 2019 JanF Community 97

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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41 Comments

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

    Morning low of 50 degrees in Madison WI with an expected daytime high of 68. Sunny skies are in the forecast.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Good Sunday Meese.

    Thunderstorms in the forecast here – and I’m gonna be in our Pride parade. Gotta whip out a big umbrella.

    I’m still upset about how easily mr. man-bun was able to jump onto the stage with Kamala Harris

    Puerto Rico

    • A guy who is a perfect caricature of a bernie-bro – in looks and by his complete disrespect for women and people of color – is a metaphor for the 2016 election. In 2020, his ilk had better be widely mocked and marginalized. I was pretty angry to see the WHITE MALE pundits saying that it was a good thing no one from security slammed him to the ground and made a scene. Yes, white male pundits, sitting on your couch out of harms way, let’s not hurt man-bun neckbearder jumping on a stage with a PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. Actually they should have slammed him to the ground to make a point about the seriousness of security.

      • Why wasn’t he arrested??? I can’t even…. What kind of message does it send, not only that he wasn’t body slammed by security, but no charges were pressed???

  3. It’s a traveling day. Once basket is up and we’ve both had breakfast we leave for St. Louis and the Scott Joplin House. After that event we head for Fayetteville and expect to be at my house sometime around 10 pm. I hope my cats will “talk” to me – & haven’t destroyed anything much in retaliation for me being gone. Yesterday was a nice sunny day both here and at home. The PV system generated 20.96 KWHs which is a good start to the month and sets up the grid nicely. Unfortunately the forecast is for rain until next Sunday but that is life and we will hope for the best.

    The festival was mostly enjoyable. The music was definitely great. And watching these folks play was fascinating. But then I’ve always been fascinated watching musicians at work. And of course the nice long visit with basket has been wonderful. It’ll be nice to get home though. Home is just home.

    I haven’t been online much at all – but I’m betting whatever evil went down, there was evil going down. And that it would distress me and depress me but not surprise me. The answer is win elections. Always the same answer right now. All the monsters needing fighting off and none of them can be fought off if we don’t win elections. When we have to tools and weapons to do it with, then we can turn to the incredibly important work of dealing with climate change as well as stopping the various kinds of life-threatening oppression/suppression going on in our country and around the world. But not until then.

    So. Tour the internets & deal with a couple of emails. Breakfast. Pack the computer (everything else is packed) and head out. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  4. Got in a good workout yesterday, and attended a friend’s re-election announcement. He’s the Tax Assessor, and in Texas the Voter Registration office is housed there. He’s gotten Travis County up to something like 98% of eligible people registered. Now, I’m watching the MSNBC morning show, got beans on the stove, I’ll make tea this afternoon.

      • Black beans. I have a big tub of them, so there’s very little money spent to have dinner for next week. Just a bag of collard greens, a can of ro-tel tomatoes, and a couple of avocados. My brother says he can’t eat them, they give him indigestion, but I’ve eaten them forever, so I’m fine.

        • Black beans are the best! Black bean burritos, black bean and green pepper soup with sherry, black bean and corn salad, black beans and rice. Yum, yum.

  6. Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s kind of “blah” sunny—blue sky overlaid with white, weak sunlight, and too much breeze. There may be thunderstorms this afternoon: then again, there may not. Currently the temp. in Ashburn is 73 F., going up to 83 F.

    I’ve already been out this morning because I woke up to the horrifying discovery that there were no Eggo whole-wheat waffles in the freezer! This is Sunday morning. Therefore there must be toasted waffles, vegan margarine, blackberry jam, and blackberries for breakfast. Of course Dearly Beloved has the standard Full English, or at least as close to it as one can get to it in this country, which lacks proper bacon and proper sausages. I ran out to the store two miles away to buy waffles and English muffins, among other things.

    Denise has a diary celebrating Pride Month up on dk. It blew me away! To my teeth-spitting fury, I can’t post a comment at the end of it. Anyway, I do urge you all to go over and read it. I don’t know what’s the matter with dk lately, there have been all sorts of glitches. I need to get a few diaries posted before I get bojo’d.

    Hoping for a quiet day, and also hoping to get a few things done. Anything I get done gets done in the morning. After lunch it’s all downhill.

    Wishing a peaceful Sunday to all at the Pond!

  7. Good morning, 60 and sunny in Bellingham. My “day of rest” happened yesterday so I’m headed back out to finish pruning the salal. I’m down to final cuts so I hope I can do what the plants need without creating an unattractive clear cut.

    I’m going to try to keep tRump angst under control today. He’s only in my garden if I let him be! Best wishes to all.

  8. Good evening meese. We got to St. Louis much later than anticipated because of some unexpected but very welcome detours, so left around 5 pm, just in time to get stalled for 45 minutes on I-44 west due to a very serious multi-car accident that involved helicopters, multiple wreckers, ambulances, state troopers, rude and entitled vehicles (including semis) trying to cut into our lane and a very insightful (if repeatedly diverging onto multiple topics) conversation with our beloved darling bfitz about multiple topics.

    Denise, bfitz asked me to send you some photos in Twitter DM of a memorial to the Black soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War and were buried in Columbia, MO. She thought it would be something you might be interested in seeing.

    We’re hoping to get home around 1 am and promptly go to bed.

    • OMG, basket, hope you’re enjoying a sound sleep! It’s 7:30 EDT, so it must be 6:30 a.m. where you and bfitz are. Don’t get up for at least three hours!

  9. Good morning, meeses! Monday …

    It is 46 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 68. The forecast calls for sunny skies with cloudy periods.

    I guess tRump is in England this morning embarrassing America again. I am going to avert my eyes and hope that the Brits realize that a minority of Americans voted for him – we just have too many stupid people who don’t understand the electoral college and the two-party system – and that we are working our butts off to make him a one-term president. Goddess help us if we don’t.

    See all y’all later!

  10. Monday Meese

    53 going up to 66 here in NYS.
    Hubby’s birthday today – will be baking him a cake.

    Watching a bunch of so-called “progressives” defend Mr Man Bun is really pissing me off.

    Puerto Rico

    • I haven’t seen anyone defending Brogressive Dude, and I’m so glad. It’s depressing enough that he got away with his stunt (should have been arrested), but to see people defending that jerk….

  11. We did not get rained out at the Pride Parade yesterday

    Denise Oliver-Velez was the grand marshal for the parade.

    “I’ve lived up here for about 20 years, and I’ve seen a major change in the area here in Ulster County, in terms of awareness and acceptance, and it’s a good thing to see,” said Oliver-Velez, contributing editor at Daily Kos and a former SUNY New Paltz professor. She previously worked with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords Party.

    • See, Dee, borrowing our highly inaccurate weather persons was the right thing to do! So glad to know it didn’t rain on your parade. Where is the picture of you, though?

      • Lots of people took pics of me – I guess I should have asked them to send – I don’t do the selfie thing :)

  12. Good Moon Day morning, Moosekind! More weak sunlight and quite cool today: the current temp. in Ashburn is 53 F., going up to 71 F. After that thunderstorm with rain at dinner time yesterday, the weather really cooled down.

    I do wish one’s first thought on waking weren’t, “What fresh hell is going to happen TODAY?” Remember when we could just go about our daily business, secure in the knowledge that we had a dignified, intellectual president who was doing his best despite the hatefulness of the Congress? Now we simply wonder what horrifying incident or encroachment on our freedom is going to happen next.

    Have a dermatologist appointment this morning. That’s one of the good things about living here—one can get an appointment quickly! All I have to do is walk through a couple of buildings to get there. With Kaiser Permanente one had to wait six months.

    Have a bunch of little chores to do today, including watching at least an hour of the marketing course. Two or three hours of it would be better, since everyone else is on Module 4 and I haven’t even started Module 1!

    Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and to our unfortunate British cousins across the Big Damp.

  13. Hot, sticky morning — 77 degrees at 6am, but we’re supposed to get rain later in the week, so there’ll be one cool day then hot & even more humid. Can’t believe it’s June already. Here, have some music from Hozier — To Noise Making (Sing).

  14. It’s 66 heading for mid 80s and overcast at the moment. Yesterday apparently it cleared off and we got 21.6 KWHs so the m-t-d is 42.6 – we’re on our way. We got in at 1:20 last night/this morning. basket went to bed immediately and is still asleep. He did all the driving. I visited with the cats for a bit (and dealt with a litterbox issue I wasn’t going to be able to sleep if I didn’t) and didn’t get to bed until 2 am but of course was up at the usual time. Kitty alarm clocks see to that. 😁😁😁 I’m a bit slow moving – probably will be for a couple of days. My son, bless him, is a wonderful “cat dad” – but he didn’t sweep anything over the 5 days I was gone. There’s cat fluff, spilled kibble, shredded cardboard, and litterbox sawdust everywhere. It’s gonna take me a while to clean this up. I’m gonna have to do it in stages.

    Anyway I don’t know a whole lot about what’s going on – after checkin yesterday I was totally offline. I’ll go read Dee’s diary in a bit and do my twitter boosting this morning in between bouts of sweeping up stuff. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  15. Good morning, 56 partly sunny and breezy in Bellingham. I’m just waking up and trying to decide if coffee will help or if I need to go back to sleep.

    Hmmm……dozed off mid comment. Time for coffee! As always, my best wishes to all.

  16. Evening fellow Meeses. It’s a clear sky and the sun gonna set in another hour and a half. Temp. is currently 65 degrees. Another semester has ended. I took last week off and loafed around. I had to replace the pipe for the water for the washing machine which set me back $1200. On the other hand, we can wash our clothes. We have hard water and the water kept backing up in the pipe and overflowing at the top. Spent today at work discarding books. Covered in dust. Going home and taking a shower.

  17. Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …

    It is 55 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 75. Rain and thunderstorms are in the forecast.

    Mayo Pete is going after the “butthurt that Al Franken was ‘forced’ to resign” crowd. Sigh. The problem with the “butthurt that Al Frank was ‘forced’ to resign” crowd (as opposed to the “sad that Al Franken’s past behaviour meant we lost a powerful voice in the Senate” crowd which I am a member of) is that the Venn diagram between the butthurt circle and the white male privilege circle has a ginormous overlap. Add that to the “yes, it will be an uphill battle running in 2020 as a non-woman” comment from yesterday, he is clearly setting himself up as the poor downtrodden white male, unfairly treated in a #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter world. Go away.

    I am trying to avert my eyes from the Trump family grossness in London. They look like the Clampetts visiting Buckingham Palace and the narcissistic dotard is still walking in front of the Queen. He is too pigheaded – or too stupid – to learn the handful of rules of basic protocol. The palace will need to be fumigated and then smudged with an acre of sage after they leave.

    I am trying to stay ahead of June projects so I shouldn’t dawdle.

    See all y’all later!

    • That tux. I can’t understand how anyone let him walk around in…. that tux. Unless everyone around him is trying to show that there’s something wrong with him. I thought Melania used to be a model? Doesn’t she know how clothes are supposed to look? Yes, I know there are more important things, but just really – he can’t even get a good tailor?

  18. Tuesday Meese

    50 degrees here in Saugerties – going up to 70.

    Survived a not-funny comedy of errors yesterday for husband’s birthday. He stayed home from work – took his car into the mechanic. I went to the mall to buy fixings for the cake he asked me to bake and other groceries. When I finished shopping – my car wouldn’t start – but the battery was not dead. When I went to the store – I left my cell phone at home.

    Borrowed the phone of a nice store employee to call home. No answer – hubby had his phone turned off. Tried to call a cab (we have no public transportation) Cab company said they could pick me up in 2 hours (meanwhile my groceries were baking in the car)

    Store employee then downloaded the Lyft app to his phone for me. Lyft came right away – and the Lyft driver was a young woman who has picked me up before – a graduate of my school – working on her Masters.

    She helped me transfer the groceries – took me home and took my husband back to the mall, where he couldn’t start my car either. Then took him to the mechanic where his car was -he got his car and went back to try again to start mine. No luck. His mechanic said he would tow my car. My neighbor – who is a mechanic – went to the mall and started my car – by putting it in neutral. I now have my car. Baked the cake and we were so tired we didn’t eat it. end of adventure.

    News. Enjoyed the interviews with Karine Jean-Pierre

    With Maddow:

    • This:

      They look like the Clampetts visiting Buckingham Palace and the narcissistic dotard is still walking in front of the Queen. He is too pigheaded – or too stupid – to learn the handful of rules of basic protocol. The palace will need to be fumigated and then smudged with an acre of sage after they leave.

      Dear Goddess! First Ivanka wears a maxipad on her head instead of a hat, then Thing looks as if he’s been dressed by Colonel Sanders, then Ivanka dresses like a milkmaid for the state banquet. Tiffany, in that too-tight garish red dress, looks preggers. Is she? Anyway, it did not suit her at all.

      And why is the entire criminal enterprise having a vacation at OUR expense? The suite rented by and for the crime family costs 22,000 pounds a night! That’s about $35,000 in American!

      • The Moose is really skittish today! No trouble getting in but comments are ending up in the wrong place.

        Dee, that really was a catalogue of horrors yesterday with the cars and the phones! Thank Goddess for nice people like the store employee and the Lyft driver. It’s nice to know there are still decent people in the world.

        Hope you and Hubby will have recovered sufficiently to eat the cake tonight.

      • Now I have to go look for pictures! I never used to pay attention to this sort of thing, but ever since Michelle showed us what casual elegance looks like, it’s hard not to notice the contrast.

    • I’m not a huge Move On fan, but I could easily become a Karine Jean-Pierre fangirl. Hearing her on Rachel last night was the highlight of my day. (It sounds like it might have been yours too after your “adventures” too.)

    • Woof! definitely an adventure yesterday. Which are always uncomfortable even when they aren’t scary. Hope the cake tastes as good today as it would have yesterday.

      I think our folks, since they don’t have solid security, should start carrying pepper spray. And using it.

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  20. Good morning meese. It’s 63 and cloudy in Fayetteville, AR with a high of 84. Storms and rain are in the forecast until Friday but hopefully won’t affect electricity generation too much. Had a pleasant surprise last night when going to bed to find Murf on the bed. He stayed there for most of the night and was purring, before getting up off the bed. I think he appreciated the warmth. 😁

    Today will involve driving to KY/TN, and it’s going to be a long drive. I fly back home tomorrow afternoon, I can’t believe that this vacation is almost over!

    • {{{basket}}} – Murf on your bed was interesting and pleasant. He was waiting outside my door with the other 4 at (kitteh) breakfast time. Drive safely. I’m gonna miss having you here. {{{HUGS}}}

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