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”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 41 degrees in the Desert Southwest with an expected daytime high of 64. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good Sunday morning Meese. Snow expected here in Kingston later today.
Guyana/ Venezuela
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Wow it’s cold. When I went to bed, it was in the 70s, now it’s 42. I have to bundle my plants together this afternoon as it will be near freezing in the morning. Made my tea, love the smell as it steeps. The music diary went well, and we have hosts for it up to February. Now to get more hosts for Bookchat.
BMS posted:
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s raining quite heavily outside. To me the sound of rain falling is like music, so I opened the door to the porch. Even at 55 F., though, it’s a little too chilly to have the door open for long. The woods are shrouded in grey mist, the sky is white-grey as well, and I just love it. Perhaps the rain today will make a dent in our 11-inch rainfall deficit for the year to date. Four-letter-word has been mentioned for tomorrow morning—Sister Dee, hope you won’t be afflicted too much by it—but it will be a wintry mix. The rain is ushering in a cold front.
Oh, bummer. I wanted to work on my Christmas newsletter yesterday but WORD won’t let me retrieve the document in any way. Now, I keep a record all year long, month by month, of the family’s doings. I can’t possibly reconstruct it from memory, although I may be able to retrieve some of it by examining family texts. What a crashing bore! It’s not on One Drive, nor in Retrieve Documents, or anywhere that I can find. I’ll never trust word again. In 2024 I’ll store the newsletter under two different names.
Enough about that. Bfitz, I received your Christmas card, for which thanks bigly!
Like Jan, I am trying to stay away from the political news.
Don’t know whether I’ll do any laundry or not. It’s important, but not as important as my Yule newsletter, which saves me untold fees in postage. It also keeps friends and family up to date with everything that’s happened.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} I’m so glad you received it. moar {{{HUGS}}}
It was 27, windchill 20, and sunny when I started my Sunday household chores. It’s gotten up to 32 now heading for mid 40s. But still, thankfully, sunny. Yesterday we generated 6.4 KWHs and the m-t-d at 47 gained another smidge.
Anyway, the chores are done – hands and back protesting of course – I’m eating my oatmeal and have a cat on my lap. Time to start my boosting day. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Monday Meese. Keeping an eye on the weather here – fingers crossed the snow will miss us today – I have to leave here at 8:30 to go to treatment- and am giving myself extra time to get there by 10.
Puerto Rico
The government of Puerto Rico is going to pay millions to some law firm, probably American, to tell it what Puerto Rican economists could tell it about a proposal—a fair tax on multinational companies—that the PIP and others have made a thousand years ago.
{{{Dee}}} Healing Energy – both for the treatment & for the weather while you’re out in it – & moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning! Really cold, by Austin standards but I still did my mile. In the office, I forgot my allergy med and cedar is, well it doesn’t have to be high to make anyone miserable. Anyway, Monday.
{{{anotherdemocrat}}} can you get your allergy meds at lunch time? Breathing really is important. Healing Energy & moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! Two weeks from today is Christmas, and yrs truly has not wrapped presents for her youngest grandchild, or sent the Japanese grandchild an Amazon gift card, or sent out the newsletter.
Yesterday I wrestled and cursed, giving myself a headache and backache in the process. Finally I just did the whole newsletter on the Mac. Thank Goddess I have two laptops, both of which print to the printer! I only have to print out four copies of the newsletter physically—that’s for people who don’t have computers. The rest will go by email. Must finish today, but I still have to create a separate document and cram all the photos into it.
Guess what, we had rain all yesterday, sometimes heavy, sometimes not, with a few intermissions. During the night the cold front came in and changed the rain to snow! We woke up to a dusting of four-letter word, which we have not seen in years. The snow has melted off the grass now, but it’s still showing in the woods across the way. That old saying, “Goddess willin’ and the creek don’t git up” was ineffectual yesterday. The creek did git up, and the sun is now shining on the water.
40 F. now, going up to 46 F. Groan! I have so much to do. I was exhausted yesterday, so did not do any exercise. My morning weigh-in before breakfast was depressing, but that’s what I get for making scalloped potatoes with ham for dinner and baked fruit with custard.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
{{{Diana}}} Just got your card in the mail. Thank you. That’s so lovely. moar {{{HUGS}}}
Glad it arrived despite the machinations of DeJoyBoy! What a scumbucket he is. Why is he still in that job?
It’s 31 heading for 58 and sunny. At least at the moment. Yesterday we generated 6.3 KWHs and the m-t-d at 53.3 gained another smidge.
Things just keep getting worse out in the world. I am OK and likely to stay that way. So for me it’s kind of like being on the shore watching a refugee boat being bombed apart & not being able to stop the bombing or save the drowning. Not good. But I do what I can do and what I can do is boost things. So I’d best get to it. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
That is a powerful image, bfitz, and you said it very well.
Sigh. Men. It’s men who like to start wars.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 44 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 68. The weather widget says “partly cloudy” but I don’t even see a wisp of cloud. The morning sky was perfectly clear and the stars were bright over the mountains.
A quick scan of the news suggests that America is insane and the media is feeding the frenzy. AI generated videos are “just parody” when they are produced in support of right-wing talking points and should not be criticized? We are doomed to be ruled by the voting choices of the stupidest most gullible people in the world. I need to figure out a way to block out all news for 10 months.
I have some projects that I need to work on today and some errands to run.
See all y’all later!
We’re getting a new moon tonight, girlfriend, so let’s think about Her.
Good morning. Only one wfh day this week, we have a training day tomorrow and I have to be on site. So I’m enjoying my astronomy shows. Anyway, hi.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 50 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 68. Partly cloudy skies are in the forecast. The stars are a little fuzzy this morning. I have not been able to see the moon for the past few days as she was heading to new. This morning she is at 0.3% illumination, officially New at 4:32pm MST. Sounds like a good time to start projects!
Texas showed their ass – there are no real health exceptions to their abortion ban. I hope that Mrs. Jesse Barrett “women just need to drop off their newborns at one of those boxes” is proud of herself. She pooh poohed the health of the mother in her strict adherence to the rigidity of her religion and political party. Instead, she will be Bloody Amy linked forever in history with Bloody Sam Alito as murderers. I hope that Kate Cox has a successful fetal tissue removal and can become a mother again as is her wish. Bloody Amy wanted her dead and/or barren.
SCOTUS will get to decide the age old question again: if the president does it, is it a crime? Last time they ruled that a president was not a monarch. This time with a solid Republican majority and three members given their lifetime grift by the president in question, it is extremely unlikely that they will do so again. Good for Jack Smith to find out now instead of wasting resources on a tRump trial and giving him fund-raising fodder. Sad for our republic.
I am going to sit for an online training session from Microsoft to learn more about cloud services. This will test if I have the capacity to sit for 2 hours and watch a presentation delivered online. I won’t say “still” have the capacity, as I am not sure I have ever had it, but the online part of it is new. I will give it a whirl. I need to get a few things finished before I can break.
See all y’all later!
I put my remark about the new moon in the wrong place! Shows you how out of touch I am this morning.
It was 29 when I got up, already 37, and heading for 62 today. Sunny so far but the widget says partly cloudy. I don’t care how many clouds there are in the sky as long as they aren’t in between the sun and my solar panels. heh. Yesterday we generated 6.1 KWHs and the m-t-d at 59.4 gained another smidge.
I’m a bit creaky and moving slowly this morning. Oh well. Nothing in the world I need to do except deal with cats and boost stuff. I’ve done the former and cats are now napping. So off to do the latter. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! It’s a delightfully sunny 32 F. in Ashburn as I write. Traces of yesterday’s snow “dusting” linger still in the deep woods, and the sun is shining on the water of the still-swollen creek. The high will be about 50 F.
Thank Goddess for this Mac, it’s saving my Christmas newsletter. I was busy all day yesterday and will be today. Yesterday evening I experienced a severe attack of vertigo, with the room spinning round and round until I thought I’d go mad. I haven’t experienced this since April 2014. My doctor then said it would stay for a while, then disappear as quickly as it had come. I Googled it, and the answer was it has something to do with the inner ear. Harrumph.
Well, I made some people very happy yesterday by agreeing to take the role of Assistant Director for the Drama Club’s upcoming production of “Oklahoma!” It’s ironic that I’m going to help with a musical about a state I hate. Left there 58 years ago, never been back since and never will. I ordered Green Grow the Lilacs, the stage play on which the musical is based, started reading it, and set it aside in disgust. It’s all in dialect! The author said she wrote the play as a vehicle for the songs she grew up with. Trust me, they are nothing like the songs that have made the musical famous. Rogers and Hammerstein were outright geniuses in their fields.
Enough whining from me this morniing. Oh, I saw the (heartstoppingly handsome) young man who interviewed me about one of my novels, and asked him when the interview would appear on in-house TV. He said his interview of me about Saving the World through Sex would appear in January. It would be nice if the interview boosted sales.
That’s all from me this morning, Meese. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Good morning, 42 and light clouds outside my window today. I seem to be both absent and forgetful lately so my apologies. Apparently my early start to the Christmas season was enough for me and now I’m slow walking my way through the rest of December. But I’ve got to get some things in the mail this week so I’d best get busy. As always my best wishes to all.
Tuesday Meese. Forgot to post. Duh.
Puerto Rico
“Populares” (nickname for Popular Democratic Party members) who say that Puerto Rico is not a colony ask the United States to disqualify a candidate in an election in Puerto Rico
Wednesday Meese. 32 going up to 42 here in Kingston
Puerto Rico
Vieques – The development of a “short route” between Vieques and the main island – an idea that has been discussed since the Navy left the area two decades ago but never became a reality – is back on the government’s table, the Puerto Rico Integrated Transportation Authority (PRITA) estimates that the construction of a new terminal on Isla Nena, in the Mosquito Bay area, could be completed between mid and late 2025.
“She did everything that survivors are socially asked to do. Despite all that, the system failed her and her life was taken away,” said Coraly León, president of the National Network of Gender Violence Shelters.
Karla Rodriguez Ares, 35, was murdered last weekend with her partner, Luis Lebrón Cuevas. Both bodies shot were found in the room of the woman’s residence in the Jaguas neighborhood of Gurabo
Good morning. Downtown for a training day. Got here early, so I added a 4th lap, 1.25 mi. Annoying to be in the office for an extra day, but most of the sessions look tolerable.
It’s 33 heading for 59 and sunny at the moment. The widget says clouds will move in later. OK – as long as they don’t move in between the sun and my PV panels, that’s fine. Yesterday we generated 6.6 KWHs and the m-t-d at 66 gained another smidge.
I’ve got to go out today – milk – so I’m going to look in at Great Clips & see who’s there – and how many people – because my hair needs cutting & the family gathering is Sunday. We shall see what we shall see. Meanwhile, time to start boosting. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}