Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: July 30th

July 29, 2023 JanF Community 59

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

    Morning low of 84 degrees in the Desert Southwest with an expected daytime high of 102. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast with a possibility of monsoon rain around mid-day.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Sunday Meese. 62 here in Kingston going up to 79 – and no rain today. Finally a break from the heat and thunderstorms.

    Puerto Rico

  4. Good morning. Got my tea steeping, waiting for the last day of the Tour de France Femmes. Today: church, make breakfast for the week, thaw out some pasta salad for the week. It was good to see everyone at the AIDS Ride party yesterday. I walked around in the park a little afterwards, trying to get in my 30 minutes. Staying inside today.

  5. It’s 81 heading for 97/107 and mostly sunny. Yesterday we generated just under 18 KWHs and the m-t-d at 473.3 is still on track for 500. We’ve got 2 generating days left in July. We’ll see if we can manage to reach 508 and edge out last year.

    Housecleaning done and breakfast eaten. Closed up the house over an hour ago but at least the A/C hasn’t cycled on yet. I don’t know if it’s my tremors or something goofy with my mouse/computer but I’m mostly having to navigate my tabs using the control-tab function. I’m able to click on things within a tab but for some reason clicking on a tab isn’t doing anything. Weird. Oh well. I can still navigate and that’s all that matters. Off to do my boosting chores. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

  6. Good afternoon, Moosekind, sure and it’s a grand immortal day in Ashburn! Glorious blue sky and sunlight, humidity very low, and only 83 F. at 1:23 p.m. It’s more like September than the end of July.

    Little Ethan, born eight years ago today (which in my tradition makes it Lammas Eve), had his birthday party at the swimming pool yesterday with 25 of his closest friends. This morning when we delivered birthday hugs, kisses, and presents, he looked taller, quite tanned (beach holidays and swimming), and somehow more grown-up. He received many Lego sets for his birthday so I should think that will keep him off the streets and out of the pool halls for quite some time to come.

    Feeling rather tired but better today after a Saturday spent snacking and sleeping, not to mention reading murder mysteries. I have lots to do but will get to it after a nap. We saw signs of yesterday’s storm damage as we drove around Arlington. Before visiting Elder Son’s house we had a delicious breakfast, just the two of us, at Virginia Kitchen. Dearly’s 93rd birthday is 2 weeks from today.

    Wishing a nice, peaceful Sunday to all at the Pond.

  7. Good afternoon, 70 and partly cloudy outside my window today. I’ve been very quiet, keeping my legs up and my activity low, so I’m restless but my joints are thanking me and that’s a relief. Time to water the garden plants and do my part for the barbeque dinner RonK is cooking. Best wishes to all.

  8. Good morning. Did a shorter than usual walk, but better than nothing. It is over 80 degrees already, ugh. Anyway, in the office, getting ready for work. It’s the last day for one person, she’s retiring after 48 years, she’s sweet, I’ll miss her (and I wish it was the angry bitter Faux viewer who was retiring but no such luck). And tomorrow our new section manager starts. Have I mentioned lately that I really hate change? Anyway, paid my bills, not it’s time to see what’s going on in the world, before work.

  9. Monday Meese. 57 here, going up to 81. Beautiful almost full moon here last night.
    Will be full tomorrow.
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rican households experience a number of financial hardships:
    • The annual household median income in Puerto Rico was just below $22,000 in 2021.
    • 1.4 million people in Puerto Rico are reported as living below the federal poverty line.
    • Almost 13 percent of Puerto Ricans report that they do not have medical insurance and almost one-in-five reports foregoing medical treatment because of cost.
    • Approximately 10 percent of households that occasionally overdraft their bank accounts may have to pay overdraft fees.
    • Twenty-two percent of households pay credit card late fees.

    “This week marks the tenth anniversary of the last time the US Senate held a public hearing on the status of Puerto Rico, which accentuates how far the priorities are beyond this issue on which here we spend our lives pulling each other by the hair.”


    Today:


    In the municipality of Culebra, a heat index of 124 degrees was reported

    • Ye gods, 124 F.! At Witch Camp many years ago I met a woman who lived in the Dominican Republic. She said the habitual greeting of the inhabitants there was, “Ay, calor!”

      That does not surprise me.

      • The temps are off the charts – what is really surprising are the high temps in the mountains (middle of the island)

  10. Good Monday morning, Moosekind, and ohmygoddess, what a busy day this will be, doing a year’s worth of housework in one day. Moreover, we have rehearsal tonight. The bad news is that one of the male actors has bowed out because he’s in another play and feels he can’t do two of them. (Note to self: From now on, make sure your female characters in plays vastly outnumber the male ones.) The good news? I finished the first draft of another play that has THREE women and ONE man.

    We had an overcast start to the day but now the sun has come out, making everything lovely and making me feel happier. It’s 71 F. in Ashburn right now, going up to 85 F. with low humidity. The storms on Saturday left thousands in our area without power and knocked down so many trees that the authorities are having to close streets. We had violent winds out here but I didn’t see any fallen trees.

    A blessed Lammas to all who celebrate it! I’ve got a loaf of bread rising in the kitchen. No, I didn’t make it from scratch. When one ages, one has less time for that sort of thing.

    My darling daughter drove all the way from The Hills, Texas, to Corpus Christi to visit our dying aunt. She was able to visit for most of the afternoon but says Aunt is not doing well and will not be around for long. I’m going to write a short letter thanking our dear Aunt for being so wonderful, reminding her of how she always took us to the movies on Sunday afternoon, how she alone understood My Dreadful Hair and could always make it look better, and for keeping us in stitches of laughter at family reunions.

    Darling Daughter could not find a hotel in Corpus, so had to drive to Port Aransas to get a room. Poor angel, at least she’ll get a break by going to Massachusetts next week, where it’s considerably cooler than Texas.

    Better get on with my multitude of tasks! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.

  11. It’s 75 going to 96/103 and overcast at the moment. I hope it clears off – the m-t-d is 491.7 and generating more than last year, even if by a hair, is very possible. IF we get sunshine. Yesterday we generated 18.5 and we don’t need quite that much today to do it.

    At some point I may fall over – 3 hours of sleep last night in two 1-1/2 hour chunks on either side of power outage/calling it in/waiting for the repair guys/watching what they did (use a very long telescoping pole to lift the line up on both sides of where it got caught in a tree when the wind-but-no-rain “storm” blew in)/ waiting for the flashing lights to go away plus sinusitis flare. Woo Hoo. I guess I’d best see what/how much I can manage boosting stuff. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

    • Goodness, you have had your share of troubles, my friend! Hope everything goes better for the remainder of the day than it did at the beginning.

      All this housework is starting to give me back trouble. Sniff. A nice cup of tea would not come amiss. Wish I could fax one to you!

      • {{{Diana}}} So far, so good. Be nice to have a cup of tea together, wouldn’t it? I think housework is designed to give back trouble. That’s why men have stuck women with the (usually unpaid) job for centuries. (Although in non-patriarchal societies women do the housework because the house belongs to them.) Healing Energy & moar {{{HUGS}}}

  12. Good morning, 67 and sunny in my garden today. I’ve been wanting to redo the planting at the top of the back steps so today is the day. The cypress tree is overgrown and dying so I’ll just saw it off and dig out the roots but I think I can save the ferns and evergreen huckleberry…..if I can untangle the roots. It’s a small project but one we see everyday as we come and go so I want it to look more interesting than it does now. But the deer seem to think the planting is just for them so I’m limited re what I can plant. I may be able to “hide” a few flowering plants on the back side of the pot where they won’t bother to go. We see that side from the house so it’s worth a try. Best wishes to all.

  14. Good evening, meeses! Still Monday …

    I thought I better check in lest people begin to worry. I was trying to finish projects due on July 31st and I almost got it done. I have about an hour left but I am exhausted and need to take a break.

    Our heat dome lifted and we have been getting rain.

    See all y’all tomorrow!

  15. Good morning, meeses! Tuesday, August 1st – Dee Day and Lammas …

    It is 73 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 99. Sunny skies are in the forecast. If the forecast holds, it will be our first day with a high under 100 for about 6 weeks. We are in full-blown monsoon season now with twice daily showers and thunderstorms coming in over the mountains. Last night there was quite an enjoyable light show with the nearly full moon making brief appearances as the clouds parted and then re-formed into a thunderstorm.

    Happy Birthday, Sis Dee!!

    See all y’all later!

    • Thank you Jan!

    • The website was temporarily unavailable when I published the Lammas post. I hope if you got the Resource Limit error, you came back and refreshed.

  16. Tuesday Meese. Woke up and the heat was on in the house – it’s 57 right now, going up to 76. My friends came over yesterday – mowed and weeded, and they are coming back today to finish. I’m so grateful.

    Puerto Rico

    The ongoing exhibition “Afro-Atlantic Histories,” currently on view at LACMA, provides a good example of how Puerto Rico is overlooked in sweeping exhibitions that purportedly cover the breadth of the continent. The show, which explores the connections between Africa and the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave trade, features not a single Puerto Rican artist.

    This is curious, given the abundance of iconic Puerto Rican artworks centered on Black life — such as Francisco Oller‘s “El Velorio,” from 1893, which depicts a baquiné, a wake held to mark the death of a child in the Afro Boricua tradition. Absent from sections that touched on civil rights were the Young Lords, the militant Puerto Rican civil rights group that emerged in Chicago in the late 1960s and later became prominent in New York (having an important influence on culture there). Also absent: any depiction of Pedro Albizu Campos, the mixed-race Puerto Rican independence leader who materializes regularly in art.

    Since Rodríguez Ortiz’s death in April 2021, at least 153 femicides have been reported on the island, according to data from the civil rights coalition Observatorio de Equidad de Género.
    The number of gender-based violent incidents in Puerto Rico has increased over the past few years, Debora Upegui Hernandez, a social researcher and analyst at the Observatorio de Equidad de Género, told NBC News in Spanish.
    In 2020, 75 femicides were reported in Puerto Rico, according to the coalition. The following year 58 femicides were recorded, and in 2022 the number jumped to 79. So far this year, 37 femicides have been recorded by the coalition.

    • What a nice present to receive from your friends!

      I’m so sick of men murdering the women they impregnate. Why not get themselves sterilized? Or if they must have sex, use a 3-pound can of Crisco?

  17. Good morning. Got my mile in, picked up groceries so I can make dinner for the next couple of weeks. Good thing about wfh, I can do things like cooking or laundry on a weekday. Getting ready for work. Will be weird without Twitter today.

  18. Good Tuesday morning, Meese, and happy Lammas! Happy birthday, Sister Dee, and happy birthday to my lovely, Lammas-born daughter!

    Did not manage to get 1 year’s housework done in 1 day. Yesterday nearly did me in, anyway. Went to rehearsal last night—yippee, we now have a man for the part of retired Navy captain Harvey Hornbeam! Good-looking, he was, and read his part well. We don’t rehearse again until 21 August, thank Goddess.

    They tell me that tonight’s full moon is called the Sturgeon Moon. I’m going to see it if I have to get in my car and drive outta this joint.

    My Circle Sister M. is coming over for a ritual at 3 p.m. We’re having it on the back porch. I baked the loaf yesterday. I don’t know WHAT we’ll use for fire. Yesterday was very windy, but supposedly it won’t be windy today. In fact, it’s a delightful 69 F., only going up to 84 F. if that, with hazy sunshine and low humidity. Apparently, we are to be treated to more haze from Canadian wildfires.

    I have a lot to learn about putting on a theatrical performance. Apparently, you have to do something called “blocking” before you even have the actors stride about the stage declaiming their lines. Also, it appears that captains in the Navy never do dishes in the galley, even when they’re ensigns fresh out of Annapolis. I had wondered about that. Our new captain said his character had begun as an enlisted sailor and been promoted to officer status because he was so good. One of the things the character does is the dinner dishes after being kidnapped.

    Yikes, gotta take a shower, get my hair done, make the bed, tidy up my office some more, sweep and mop the kitchen floor, and so on. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!

  19. Happy Lammas! Also Happy Birthday to Dee.

    It’s 80 going to 98/106 and overcast at the moment. I’ve an errand to do shortly then get the laundry out as soon as I get back. (I’m going to put it in the washer as soon as I finish this post.) We made the “beat 2022” goal by almost a full KWH for July! Yay! (Of course that’s still only 4th from the bottom. heh.) August has only twice gotten above 500 so that’s my “if we get a miracle” goal. Otherwise the best was 455 so that’s my “meet or beat” goal. Last year we got 414 so my “at least” goal is 415.

    Fineena sort of started officially moving yesterday as Harriet went to her new forever home (the person sent photos and texted on how Harriet was settling in which made Fineena feel better). Today the junk haulers come for the 1st round – to remove enough stuff that Fineena has room to sort and pack. They’ll come for the rest once that’s done. The POD is supposed to be delivered/set up Thursday. She can move in at the new place on the 15th and has until the 20th to clear out the old place. (There’s supposed to be a fundraiser at DK for her but I don’t know when.)

    I definitely got better sleep last night but I’m still groggy. Maybe that’s my new normal. Although the jolt of finding that my Patreon had been denied by BofA – after 5 years of monthly payments – did jolt me more or less awake. I hope I’ve got that in train to be fixed. Aji’s already down $300 on her Patreon, she doesn’t need this kind of eff up. Nor do I. I can get the money to Aji and a few others via PayPal or Ko-fi but some of the others I haven’t a clue.

    Anyway, put on laundry, maybe get started at xitter, then out the door. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}

  20. Good morning, 67 and sunny in my garden today. Thanks to my son’s help I did get the tree and most of it’s roots out of the pot it was growing in yesterday, and I was able to keep the fern and evergreen huckleberry. So I’ll rest my legs this morning, then go to the garden shop this afternoon and see what I can find that the deer won’t eat. It’s a gardening challenge. but good to have the struggling tree out of sight.

    Best Birthday Wishes Dee!

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