Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Mar. 4th through Mar. 10th

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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. 41 windchill 34 heading for mid-50s. Widget says partly cloudy but it’s beautifully clear and sunny at the moment. The sky is the color of some of the stones Wings uses in his jewelry (which is why if I owned one of those pieces it would go on my altar and not my body – LOL). Got 15.5 KWHs yesterday and the m-t-d is 63.4 with this morning’s driblet. So far so good with this month’s production.

    I was too wrapped up in the 2nd anniversary of Tricia’s passing yesterday to pay much attention to anything in the wider world. Not just the 2 memorial diaries at DK but going back and reading some of those written 2 years ago – and even going way way back to when she was in half-way decent health and reading her diaries. I miss her every day.

    I’ve thought for some years the “instant gratification news cycle” was bad for everybody. These twitter storms that rage all day then turn out to be meh just confirms it as far as I’m concerned. But then I’m not really on twitter for the news cycle anyway. I want just enough to let me know if there’s something I can do so I can go do it – and to see if we’re still working on making the Blue Wave happen because it won’t do it by itself. Otherwise, I’m checking on friends, RTing stuff my friends tweet out, that’s about it.

    Need to check the Villages and twitter then do some offline stuff. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  2. Good morning, 41 and cloudy in Bellingham. Between naps and 4 hr blocks of snoozing time I’m getting enough sleep, but the time between sleep sessions is annoying. Makes me feel slow and grouchy this morning!

    Time to find some coffee and wake up. Take care everyone.

  3. Wednesday Meese
    It’s already snowing here in Saugerties NY –
    here’s the warning from an hour ago

    * WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 8 to 15
    inches, locally up to 20 inches in the Schoharie Valley and
    eastern Catskills are expected.

    * WHERE…The Lake George Saratoga region, the Greater Capital
    Region, Mohawk Valley, eastern Catskills, Schoharie Valley,
    Helderbergs, and mid Hudson Valley in eastern New York.

    Hubby staying home – I’m hibernating.
    Can I haz spring?

    • I woke up to an unexpected snowfall that has accumulated enough to make the roads treacherous. I hope that plows come through before school starts. My daughter does not have a long distance to travel – and she is a good driver – but people get crazy in the snow!

      That is a lot of snow – I hope your power and internet stays up!

      • I’ll have power – no matter what – thanks to back up generator – however I’m sure I’ll lose internet at some point.

  4. Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …

    It is 23 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 27. The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies but right now it is snowing lightly. I am pretty sure this was not in the forecast.

    The resignation of Gary Cohn would not be a big deal in a normal administration – people come and people go. But he was one of the few people there smart enough to understand the implications of policy changes – how things tie together. Of course he was the point man on the awful tax cut bill that represents the biggest shift of wealth in a generation and set up “we must cut Medicare and Social Security” – he is after all a rich guy looking out for rich guys. But he also understood that there are no winners in a trade war. I don’t blame him for not wanting to try to convince an impulsive toddler that there are rules – and maybe he was having little effect as the Angry Apricot plunges deeper into madness. Anyway, the few adults left are leaving and that is bad news for people who would like some stability.

    The Kansas Kris Kobach trial is not going well for him. The trial judge had to admonish his side several times about evidentiary rules. Kobach is defending himself, with the help of other lawyers from his Secretary of State office, and it is obvious that he not a very good attorney. No surprise there – he has only been effective when he can ignore the laws. That case is important for not only Kansas but for Arizona which has the same stayed law about requiring proof of citizenship – a birth certificate – in order to register to vote.

    Time to check the news. See all y’all later!

  5. Back at work. Chilly this morning — wore a sweater, wished I had a thicker one. Awful night’s sleep: tossed & turned & tossed, bedspread on, off, back on…. looked at the clock & I’d been in bed an hour. And that’s how the night went. The primary is over, yay. Not every race I cared about went the way I wanted — 2 races, my friends didn’t make the runoff. One judicial race, my friend outright lost. But most of the races, we have good candidates. The county chair race was super close. (We had a contest for Democratic party chair!) Brain is playing Ultraviolet, which is weird because I was listening to A Sort Of Homecoming in the car. Well, there’s no explaining the iPod in my head.

  6. Good gray Woden’s Day morning, Moosekind! As I look on the gloom outside I can see melting snow or ice on top of my husband’s red pickup truck in the street below. The streets are still wet with rain. As usual, we’ll probably get rain while everyone else is getting snow. The current temp. in NoVa is 34 F., going up to 46 F. later on.

    Things are not going well with the house sale. It appears we have committed the crime (in the eyes of the Homeowners’ Association) by putting up a fence in 2002 (to keep the dogs in), a shed in 2009 (not visible from the street), and a storm door on the front of the house since we moved in 41 years ago. All this, while around the corner a guy has permitted his house to deteriorate into little more than a shack, thereby ruining the property values of the other people on the street. Unless we can plead with them to consider our plight before the 26th so we can tear down the fence, move the shed, and remove the door, we may be staying right here.

    The buyers have their movers lined up, we have ours moved up, nephew taking the day off on the 16th to help us move—it’s all a huge traumatic worry.

    Meanwhile, back at Barky Manor, I need to leave at 4 p.m. today to travel to my son’s house for an overnight with Mr. Toddler, whose parents unfortunately have to be out of town at the same time. Companies have no regard for parents.

    Need to begin my day, so will wish everyone a good, nontraumatic day at the Pond. Jan, hope your daughter gets to school all right. If we had snow here this morning, the schools would have closed yesterday!

      • Dee, HOA=Petty Dictatorship by definition. Although I have to say that the one here seems pretty casual compared to my last one – that one was run by the developer and he was a jackass.

    • Oh, my! What a nightmare, Diana!! I hope that your HOA takes pity on you and I also hope that the new owners losing the shed, storm door and fence does not invalidate the sales contract. You should yell at your real estate agent, by the way, it is their responsibility to dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s to make sure there will be a clean transfer of ownership including HOA convenants. You certainly do not need the added stress – moving is bad enough!

      Good luck!

  7. 28 windchill 20 heading for mid 40s today and overcast. sigh. But yesterday we got 16.6 KWHs – the newest high for day, month, and year – and the m-t-d is 79.3 so we’re doing good thus far. Be back in the 50s tomorrow & 60s Friday. It’s Springtime in NW AR :)

    I’m basically zoning out on the news. I can’t remember from one day to the next what the OMGHOFs have been. Mostly I check, RT as appropriate, and let it go (unless I can do something else – sign something, make an “official” comment, that sort of thing). More concerned, as always, with the “needs” folks at DK and elsewhere. The team who’ve picked up where I was forced to leave off have been doing a really good job this month. There are half a dozen folks I can stop worrying about and that is such a relief. Gives me more energy to worry about other folks. LOL. So. We keep on keepin’ on. Take care of folks as best we can, block as much evil as we can, work on taking back Congress and the statehouses in November as best we can. There is hope.

    Gave blood yesterday. That’s another form of resistance – helping with what you have to give. And I’m a “baby quad” so I really try to do it as often as I can (and can find a drive to give it to). Gonna check around the internets then do some offline stuff. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  8. Good morning, 35 and cloudy in Bellingham. I see a frosty winter sky outside my window, but thankfully no snow.

    I started clipping the ivy growing over the rock wall by our back entrance yesterday and to my surprise a deer just appeared and was quietly watching me, with a look of “that’s my ivy, hands off!” They are no longer afraid of loud voices, so we stared at each other and it eventually wandered away. But I suspect it came back to eat as soon as I went indoors.

    Take care everyone.

  9. Good Thursday – International Women’s Day Meese
    Can’t see how much snow we got yet.
    As soon as sun is up I’ll know – just got a text from school they are opening late due to bad road conditions
    Reminder

  10. Good morning, meeses! Thursday …

    It is 16 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 32. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. Normal highs this time of year are in the mid to upper 40s – our robins came back last week and are very unhappy to find that winter is not over! They are all puffed up trying to stay warm.

    Why do smoke detectors only signal battery low in the middle of the night? Can they not wait until people are awake? I have never had one go off at 4 in the afternoon but this morning one went off at 4am. I was already up but not really excited about the idea of dragging out the ladder (which is of course downstairs) to replace a battery. I think my daughter was able to fall back asleep.

    Today is a day when it will be wise to curate the news or, better yet, block it out. The Stormy Daniels story would normally be the one I would easily toss aside as “who cares?” but for some reason Trump is frantic to keep this story quiet. Why would he care? The god people are fine with him being a serial adulterer and personally gross – is there any one who would say “oh, we must NOW reject the Gropenfuhrer!”? Puh-lease. I suspect it is more Trump’s attorney who is frantically trying to bury it because his role may get him disbarred. Trump will campaign on “I screwed a porn star while my wife was giving birth” and his fans will love it.

    I still haven’t sorted through the Texas primary results – my morning news reading was brief yesterday – but two things caught my eye, three things actually but two positive. One is that some reform minded District Attorneys were elected and the other was that we will likely have two – maybe three – Latinas from Texas in Congress next year! The other thing that caught my eye was that Man Who Is Not A Democrat was calling out the Democratic Party and telling them how to behave towards his selected candidates. He said, with not a bit of self-reflection, to back off primary attacks. Good lord! His primary attacks that ran all the way up to the minute that Hillary Clinton was nominated very likely helped elect Donald Trump. Shut up and go away, destroyer of our democracy. For what it is worth, I think the DCCC should stay out of primaries but so should Their Revolution.

    See all y’all later!

  11. Reading about the storm in the northeast — my friend who was here to give a lecture got stuck here & missed seeing Springsteen on Broadway last night. I hope everyone is ok out there. Meanwhile, we’re having nice weather, with 70s today. We’ll have the usual (for us) see-saw over the next few days — 70s, 80s, 50s….. Austin weather. Here, listen to the magical, intoxicating Book Of Your Heart.

  12. 29 windchill 23 and ice on the bird water this morning. Sunny though so that’s good. Got 16.3 KWHs yesterday and the m-t-d is 95.7 so still on track to reach 400 for the month. Birds and daffodils aren’t happy about re-visiting winter but the birds are definitely surviving with a little extra suet block and the daffs seem to be recovering with the sunshine.

    On days when our focus is being derailed by mad king donald’s personal depravities I mostly ignore twitter. Check on friends/family and that’s about it. Mostly I make sure I RT Aji’s stuff and leave it at that. Right now I’m trying to think of what else I can do to help Franki – she still needs $1500 (checked a few moments ago) to replace her car so she can get to work and get Mikayla to her appointments. I’m happy to see Mikayla looking so well – but not happy to see her because she’s on a gofundme. sigh.

    So. Check the internets then do stuff offline. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  13. Good Thor’s Day morning, Meese! Woke up at 5 a.m. in my son’s house in Arlington today. Pleased to report that both Mr. Toddler AND Hudson Labrador stayed in their own beds all night long. In fact, both behaved so well during the 5 p.m.-to-9 a.m. time I stayed over that a Good Fairy must have been watching over us. Mr. Toddler didn’t have a meltdown because his parents weren’t there—possibly because Mommy Face-timed with us from her hotel in Las Vegas. She took the redeye home and might be there right now.

    It’s half-past ten here at home, with a rapidly clouding over blue sky and a temperature of 36 F. It’s going up to 42 F. today. We’re supposed to get snow showers later on, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

    Think I’ll pass on the news for the rest of the day, I have quite enough Dark Thoughts to keep me occupied just with my personal life. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and Beyond.

    • Makes me weary to think of how busy you are Diana. Hope today’s moving tasks go well.

  14. Good morning, 42 and cloudy outside my window today. The weather widjet says it’s sunny but the sound of thunder and the grey skies I actually see are more convincing.

    Yesterday was a housekeeping day, and today is a desk work day. Despite my good intentions I’ve let the mail stack upon the desk so I’ve got clean up to do before I can actually do the work. Apparently that’s just the way it is with me.

    I want to fill the car with another donation delivery so I hope to work on that today as well.

    Take care everyone.

      • I thought we all needed a palate cleanser – and a reminder that good people will endure. If John Lewis still has hope, who are we to despair?

    • I saw that some places in Vermont had over three feet of snow on Wednesday into Thursday. Yikes!

      • Yup. The snow distribution was really weird – some places that got two feet had neighboring areas with 2 inches.

  15. Good morning, meeses! Friday …

    It is 18 degrees here with an expected daytime high of 36. Sunny skies are in the forecast. We are not going to see the 40s until the middle of next week but at least it will be dry.

    I do not want to diss any attempt to avoid nuclear war but I don’t understand why “meeting with the despot Kim Jong-Un” is okay while working within a framework already set up in order to keep Iran nuclear-free is somehow “dealing with a rogue regime” and cannot be tolerated. I suspect that the meeting will slowly evaporate just like every other headline grabbing initiative by this administration does. Because the main goal is “headline grabbing” not doing anything positive or productive.

    I am laughing bitterly at Wisconsin Republicans who are “very sad” that their president’s trade war will do significant damage to the state’s economy. You knew he was a loose cannon and you lashed the future of the state to him, jerks! I was pleased to see that for the first time in 20 years, Paul Ryan’s seat is not “Safe Republican” but “Leans Republican”. In my opinion, he will retire rather than risk losing.

    Busy day as I try to organize weekend projects. This week has seemed like it was in slow motion, probably because a lot of the projects I have right now can’t be done during the week because they require rebooting the network servers and I have been in a holding pattern.

    See all y’all later!

    • Hope you are right about Ryan.
      In other news – saw a spate of sky is falling articles re TX Primary. They all made it sound like Democrats failed against Republicans – my husband asked me worriedly why Democrats lost – I said “lost what?” He said ” elections in TX” – I said “they were not running against Republicans – it’s a primary” He said – Oh…okay”

      Granted he isn’t paying close attention at 5 AM getting up to get ready to go to work, and he isn’t a politics addict – one in the house is enough – however the spate of news stories dooming us have an impact.

      • It doesn’t help that the focus is on the second place finisher in the berner primary – because of the DCCC’s hamhandedness – rather than the woman who came in first. “Democrats in Disarray” is the pundit touchstone so they will go with it every chance they get. We are very likely to pick up at least two Congressional seats in Texas and we will make Ted Cruz and the RSCC spend a lot of money defending his seat – not such disarray.

  16. I won’t be around much today, we have all day training. Ugh. But at least I’m away from the phones. Nice weather — barely needed a sweater this morning, and tomorrow will be actually hot — 80s. Then Sunday will be in the 50s. Yay for our crazy weather.

  17. Good morning, Meese, and a beautiful Freya’s Day it is, although cold and a bit windy. Current temp. in NoVa is 30 F., going up to 43 F. Hate the thought of dark dawns again when we change over to Un-delight Saving Time.

    Already feel robbed because I woke up at 3 and was unable to get back to sleep. Got up at 5:30. I’ll crash right after lunch. Being old is wonderful except for the lack of sleep.

    The estimator guy is coming in 29 minutes to tell us what it’ll cost to move our furniture. Thankfully, the buyers want to keep a lot of it. We didn’t succeed in selling the little blue loveseat so we’ll have to take it with us. Goddess knows where we’re going to put everything!

    Feel apoplectic at what happened in Asheville, NC, yesterday. With Thing in office it’s reached the point where being alive while black is practically a death sentence! We need to get him out and start eradicating racism in this country. Unfortunately I don’t know how we do that with a considerable segment of the population worshipping a white, blue-eyed, brown-haired deity who, according to them, approves of everything they do.

    Got to run, will stop by later to say hello.

    • I hope our friends in Asheville will continue to protest. So tired of this – and of people who say racism is not a problem in the US

    • I wish you lived closer. My mini-couch needs replacing badly, and my living room walls are blue, so your loveseat would be perfect. Oh well.

    • {{{Diana}}} – I’d suggest your real estate person threaten a law suit. If the HOA was OK with your changes – as in didn’t object to anything in writing – for years until the time of sale they may have lost their legal argument and your real estate person certainly has cause for them doing financial harm by endangering the sale. moar {{{HUGS}}}

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