Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Mar. 5th through Mar. 11th

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?

NOTE: The comments page will now split off after 20 or so left margin comments with the most recent comments on the current page. To see the older comments, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the link.

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  • First page of this week’s comments are here.

  • Second page of this week’s comments are here.

23 Comments

  1. 40 at dawn and heading for 55 this sunny day. Got some hail and a little rain last night (out in the county got high winds and lots of hail but it wasn’t bad in town) and beautiful clear sunshine so far this morning. The daylength and sun strength are increasing so quickly that the 13 KWHs I got yesterday is an “only” – LOL – month to date is 121 KWHs with over 2/3 the month to go. (Not bad although less than 1/3 of the total of March 2016 – will need a bunch more 17 kwh-days to catch up.)

    I am lucky that I am relatively healthy. I haven’t had health insurance for most of my life – couldn’t afford it even when it was offered and it mostly wasn’t offered – but I also haven’t had much in the way of problems that insurance would have covered anyway (and of those that would have been covered I’d never have made the deductible). When I have had insurance – like now – I am one of the healthy people “subsidizing” sick people. Good. I infinitely prefer to be healthy and helping folks who aren’t to not being healthy and trying to pay my own way. Share the wealth and share the risk is good for the community – and it is demanded of me by my Spiritual tradition. “ObamaCare” was progress. “TrumpCare” is evil. “Today I set before you a blessing and a curse, therefore choose…”

    Gotta get to work. Could only stay this long because basket, bless him, put my community needs etc link in the DK Village diary for me. Bright the day and wind to thy wings, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  2. Hi, bfitz (waving), and thanks, basket!

    Just returned an interview with the mother who wants to hire me to watch her children after school 2 or 3 days a month. When I came out hail was falling and now it’s desultory snow flakes. The temperature has dropped rapidly. It’s been too warm for the snow to stick, however.

    Bfitz, we can only hope the Senate will be a firewall against Trumpcare. Doesn’t the university help out its pensioners? My husband worked for the county for 22 years and gets help with his insurance every month. He also has Medicare, as do I. Just hope we can keep what we’ve got.

    Glad you’re getting more kilowatts!

    • {{{Diana}}} I only got healthcare when the ACA penalty became greater than my premium (which coincided with my promotion and raise) so I haven’t been in the program long enough to get the post-retirement health benefit. But I’ll figure out something.

  3. Good morning, 47 and partly sunny in Bellingham. I made some progress with my flower/sewing project yesterday….two simple table runners are cut and serged and ready to sew. I think I will machine quilt one of them, just because. It’s easy to do and provides relief from worrying about tRump stupidly ruining the world as I know it.

    Time to get my Friday underway……take care everyone.

  4. Good morning, meese! Saturday …

    It is 12 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 27. The forecast calls for sunny skies this morning, clouding up late this afternoon.

    I did a quick scan of the news and it looks like it has calmed down a bit (after saying that, I will probably open Twitter and find out that a nuke has been launched!) Forty-six US Attorneys were fired but for people saying this is unprecedented, it wasn’t. USAs are political appointees and serve at the pleasure of the president. Bill Clinton fired 89, Ronald Reagan fired 88. Barack Obama did not wholesale fire them all because his intention was to clean up the mess that George W. Bush had left the Justice Department in and de-politicize it – competence and integrity took precedence over politics. It should come as no shock that a Republican administration would want to return to the days when a USA would take orders from the White House and go after political enemies – it is what they do. So it is not unprecedented, just freaking sad that the work done by Eric Holder is being unwound.

    In other news, a Canadian judge was forced to resign after a furor over his instructing a young woman to “keep her knees together” to avoid being raped. I guess I am glad there is a furor over such remarks but it is discouraging that there are still people in positions of power who not only feel that way but verbalize it. :(

    Off to check Twitter. Then I will check in with Nancy Pelosi to read about what Democrats have been up to this week and pull together my Fighting Back post.

    See all y’all later!

  5. Good morning Meese – a miserable 13 degrees here in Saugerties on a Saturday.
    That is not the wind chill – it is much much colder.

    This has me pretty upset

    Preet Bharara has been amazing here in NY – he goes after both Democrats and Republicans – which is as it should be

    • The stories I have been reading suggest that it is payback at Chuck Schumer for not being a willing dupe of the shitgibbon-in-chief. That would not surprise me … tRump is a petty tyrant.

  6. Good morning, Moosekind! Fair on this Saturday, with a blue sky veiled by white haze. Temp. in Northern Virginia is 24 F., going up to 36 F. Very glad Miss Pink Cheeks and I aren’t selling Girl Scout cookies this morning. She has Tae Kwon Do at 9 and a birthday party at 1 p.m., so her day is full anyway.

    It’s going to stay cold, so today will be a crockpot chicken soup day and I’ll make a gingerbread for tea. Lots to do, as usual! Have been pleased with the progress in writing Chapter 6 of Saving the World Through Sex. Would like to work on it some more this weekend.

    Just started reading my Kindle copy of Never Caught, and it’s fascinating! Hope to avoid thinking too much about politics today, although I’ll check Twitter later. Have done as Jan recommended and started following certain people and news orgs. Can’t quite bring myself to follow Paulie-Poo, though.

    Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and Beyond!

    • I don’t follow Republican politicians – I won’t be part of inflating their FOLLOW totals. If they say anything I should know about, they are usually quoted into my timeline by the people I do follow – and usually with some interesting commentary.

      I noticed you did not change your display name on Twitter yet. You can change it from your name, you know. It is as simple profile adjustment, more easily done from a browser than from an App.

  7. Today we honor our biannual tradition: The Bemoaning of the Clock Tamperers. Daylight Saving Time will begin tonight and we will lose an hour of sleep and set ourselves up for heart attacks, depression, and Being Late to Things.

    For my part, I will just say – I hate that they mess with the clocks!!

    • Considering what an anti-science dork pvl45 is – you folks on twitter could tweet to him that if he really wants to P.O. the science community, he’d get rid of DST. He might even fall for it and do us all a favor. heh

      • I would never Tweet or reTweet tRump. Life is too short to have to deal with what would happen to my mentions!

  8. anotherdemocrat, does this help you or hurt you? I know you mentioned Rep. Doggett in the past.

    Some of Texas’ 36 congressional districts violate either the U.S. Constitution or the federal Voting Rights Act, a panel of federal judges ruled Friday.

    In a long-delayed ruling, the judges ruled 2-1 that the Texas Legislature must redraw the political maps it most recently used for the 2016 elections.

    Specifically, they pointed to Congressional District 23, which stretches from San Antonio to El Paso, takes in most of the Texas-Mexico border and is represented by Republican Will Hurd of Helotes; Congressional District 27, represented by Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi; and Congressional District 35, a Central Texas district represented by Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin.

    • There’s an orange diary about it, where I commented that I’m afraid they’ll find a way to screw Lloyd Doggett when they re-re-draw the districts. Maybe take him out of Austin entirely.

      Best case is they realize every time they try to hurt him, they make him more popular here. But they’re troglodytes, so…..

  9. Gonna be 37 and drizzly all day – be lucky if I get 2 KWHs today, but I got almost 18 yesterday so I’m OK

    No Village diary showed up on DK so I just did one. Got to write my Street Prophets – just can’t think today. But I’d best get over there to work on it. Back when I can. Bright the day and wind to thy wings, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  10. Was lovely to sleep in. Thinking of reasons to leave the house today. Must go to the library & pick up Glass Universe, about the women at the Harvard Observatory. And I should ride my bike some. My brain has moved to the REM section of it’s playlist — and it isn’t even songs I’ve heard recently. This morning, it’s I Believe. Stipe is not mumbling on this one, but it won’t do you any good, the lyrics are nonsense. (I believe in coyotes, in time as an abstract….)

  11. Good evening/morning, Meeses. I’m flying back in about 9 hours and landing at San Francisco at the wonderful time of 9:25 am on Sunday. Hooray for time zones! This holiday was all too short in some ways but also just right in others.

    {{{Meeses}}}

    • {{{basket}}} – I thought you were already in the sky. Math in my head is hard. LOL. Good to have a “just right” vacation. Safe travels. (and hydrate.) moar {{{HUGS}}}

  12. Good morning, 43 and cloudy in Bellingham. I’m amazed to see so many plants budding in the garden, makes me want to start digging in the dirt. It’s to early to plant anything but we have lots of winter clean up to do.

    I’m going to do my best to avoid reality today and keep my focus on music, gardening and sewing. The tRump turmoil has been exhausting this week.

    • Music, gardening, and sewing are all Life-Affirming – the R administration is the opposite. You are focusing on the good stuff. That’s part of The Resistance, too, ya know. {{{princesspat}}}

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