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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Good morning. Watching Le Tour. The American boy probably won’t get the mountains jersey back today, bummer. He’s young, there’s always next year. Going to pick up groceries, then no plans for the rest of the day until the music diary tonight.
Good Saturday morning, Meese. It’s 70 F. with low humidity and somewhat cloudy skies in Ashburn today. No possibility of rain, so I’m drying the quilt I just washed outside on the screened porch. It says not to put it in the dryer.
I do wish I didn’t have to go to karate this morning as I’m the class dunce and I didn’t practice this week. I never do practice, our apartment is so crammed with stuff. The two people in the class who are the best attend three classes a week! OMG!
Woke up far too early so will need a nap later. I wish I could have ONE day in which I don’t have to do anything. Today is fineena’s birthday and I’d love to call her up and wish her happy, but my sister-in-law wants to try again for a Zoom meeting. Last night’s didn’t work and tonight’s won’t either, as I can already tell. Received the same error message as last time when I looked at the link.
Well, I’d better get ready for karate. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
It’s 65 heading for 85 and sunny. Yesterday we had clouds for most of the day but the sun came out in the afternoon long enough to generate 7.9 KWHs. The m-t-d is 326.75 – not on track and losing ground but still possible to reach 500 for the month. IF we get enough sunshine.
Other than closing the west windows and curtains when the sun came out yesterday I didn’t close up the house at all. Perfect weather as far as I’m concerned. I don’t know what that mid-summer respite is called but I’m thankful for it! It’s still cool enough that I can have the house open for at least another hour.
Today is Fineena’s birthday. I forgot to put a physical card in the mail so an email will have to do. This time next month she’ll be at her new place and can start to recover from the last several years of living in a trash dump. And hopefully things will be better on ALL fronts for her (prayers up the part-time job comes through). She’ll miss Harriet (younger more active Airedale) but she knows Harriet will be safe with Joker and that’ll be a comfort. Aj’s got so very many health and monetary slams she’s barely hanging on and it’s a wonder she is at all. Earicicle’s almost always in exhaustion mode simply because that’s one of her disabling issues – ANYthing, including cooking dinner or the cleaners coming, uses up all her energy.
I’m enjoying it being cool enough to bake – which I did this morning (gingerbread) – but warm enough my hands don’t ache with cold. Off to twitter and spoutible to start my boosting day. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Saturday …
It is 84 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 104. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast with a pretty good chance of rain after 1pm. We are still under an Excessive Heat Warning but that should end tonight – after that it will just be “Tucson in the Summer – Still Hotter’n Hell”. Last night we saw thunderstorms over the mountains and south of us and very high winds lashed our trees.
So Florida has declared that slaves learned “valuable skills” while being enslaved so slavery worked out very well for them. It is sad for Florida schoolchildren because the chances of them gaining the kind of education that will make them useful anywhere but in Florida is going from slim to none. Goddess help us if DeSantis and his out and proud fascists were to ever gain national power.
In related news, a local Black TV reporter in Milwaukee had the N word shouted at him by fans at a country music festival featuring a “star” with a pro-lynching song telling Black people to “try that in a small town.” The festival, near Kenosha, also featured people waving Confederate Flags. The climate created by Republican political leaders – permission to their followers to hate (and hurt) anyone Not Like Them – is awful. I am not sure how it ends in anything but violence.
Nothing specific planned for today but I hope to catch up on some paperwork. We were going to go up to Mt. Lemmon (elevation 9,100) yesterday but decided to wait until next week. It is generally 20 to 25 degrees cooler up there than in Tucson but that only meant 88 versus 112. That is still too hot to walk around in. We will wait until next week when daytime highs up there will be upper 70s and it will also be less crowded. A two hour drive to be in a hot crowded spaces is not appealing to me.
See all y’all later!