Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: November 28th

November 27, 2021 JanF Community 82

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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28 Comments

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

    Morning low of 28 degrees in Madison WI with an expected daytime high of 34. The forecast calls for sunny skies with occasional clouds.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Sunday Meese. It’s snowing here in Kingston NY and 28 degrees – going up to 38.
    Happy Hanukkah!

  3. Puerto Rico

  5. Good morning, all! I went to a movie last night — Sing 2, really liked it. Bono was good as the reclusive lion former rock star. Lots of good music, of course the ending was touching but my favorite scene used the Coldplay song Sky Full of Stars. I kept my mask on, sipped my water occasionally; was glad there was a seat between me & the people nearest me. Eating breakfast, watching the news, going to church later — contemplating double masking for that. Tea is made, waiting while it steeps & gets cool enough to put in the pitcher. Later I need to make next week’s breakfast & cook spinach & mushrooms to have on hand to add to lunch & dinner.

  6. It’s 37 heading for 58. Sunny and at least windless at the moment so multiple cat-mess-related trips outside weren’t too bad. (Hands are cold, of course.) Yesterday we generated 6.67 KWHs and the 162 m-t-d is on track for 180.

    Lisa’s still recovering from her father’s latest gaslighting phone call. She gets an anxiety spike just thinking about something as simple for folks who don’t have her disabling conditions as calling her doctor. sigh. Jill was just shoved back into her soap opera life. Her husband is in Roswell, knows exactly where she is, and proved it by coming by to drop of his dog before going to the hospital – and collapsing in her arms (would have been on top of her if her nurses aid training hadn’t ‘kicked in’). She called 9-1-1 but when the ambulance got there she had to turn his unconscious body over to show them where his port is because the EMTs were afraid to. (Yes, her back hurts.) ER “expedited” him, did all the scans and tests, said yes, he’s dying of cancer – and it’s spread to liver, kidneys, and back – and he’s got a UTI. Then released him. To go back to the motel he’s staying in. Told Jill, because she’s still his wife, to get him an O2 monitor and be sure he eats at least 3K calories a day.

    I’m so glad I lead a boring life. Doing Sunday housecleaning chores and about to visit Dee’s diary for musical accompaniment. 😁 & set up for the day at twitter. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  7. Oh, crud! I just turned my head and lost a whole post! Well, it was nothing important.

    Good Sunday morning, Moosekind. The temp. is 48 F., going up to 56 F., so can’t complain. I’m pottering about, doing little chores. My phone is dying (it’s quite old), and I’ve just discovered that the Geek has COMPLETELY messed up my photo files! OMG.

    Wishing a good Sunday to all.

  8. Good morning, 54 and raining in Bellingham. The rain seems endless, our garden is soggy, and parts of the county are under flood watch again. Neighbors across the street have their Christmas lights shinning, so I think I’ll do my part to counter the gloom and add colored lights to our front porch today. Best wishes to all.

    • Last night the weather person on the local news said that Bellingham and Seattle had received MASSIVE amounts of rain!

      Dear Goddess. Please send it our way, we’re 5 inches under for the year.

  9. Morning, meeses. Monday …

    It is 25 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 41. My phone weather widget says snow but everything else says cloudy. Since I have to travel this morning, I hope the phone widget is an outlier.

    Incredibly sad news as a longtime blogging friend Floja Roja passed away yesterday from an aggressive form of breast cancer that just kept coming back. She collaborated with me on the DK JTown series with her brilliant F Bomb comment posts and took over daily posting when I retired that series. Here is her last Morning F Bomb (which I dusted off my DK password to comment on): The Morning F Bomb – March 7, 2014. She is one of the first online friends I met in real life (at NN12). Rest in power, Paula. And fk cancer.

    See all y’all later.

  10. Monday Meese. 28 going up to 40 at some point here in Kingston – light snow predicted.

    Puerto Rico

  11. Good Monday morning, Moosekind. Dear Gaia and the entire Celtic, Nordic, Egyptian, and Roman pantheons, my computer is behaving badly this morning! It’s enough to drive a person to make another pot of coffee. I won’t do it, however.

    It’s 39 F. in Ashburn at the moment, with blue skies and lots of white clouds. Our high will be 47 F. As if to make up for Her absence the rest of the year, the Moon is showing herself to me every day in the early morning darkness. Today I was treated to the sight of a silver quarter-moon in the black velvet sky.

    Find myself very beset with first-world problems this morning, but I must dress and take The Boy out for a walk. Perhaps that will tire him out enough so he doesn’t notice that we’re out running errands at Target and Michael’s while he snores on the sofa with the TV on.

    However, my problems are nothing compared to those of other people.

    The good news is that I finished one story (it’s in review by the subjects at the moment), have nearly completed December’s writing assignment for the Blue Ridge Writers’ Group, and have decided that Chapter 9 needs too much work for me to submit it to that writing contest.

    Wonder what I’m going to look like next week when I lead the discussion for the writers. On Friday I’m having a root canal in the FRONT of my mouth and something called “tooth splitting.” Will I look like Frankenstein? At any rate, I’m facing a dismal few days of yogurt shakes in lieu of actual food.. (Cheering up) Perhaps I’ll lose weight! The dentist may recommend that awful drug—Oxycontin—for pain but I won’t take more than two tablets, well spaced. With my addictive nature, it’s too dangerous. I still have 28 of the 30 pills she prescribed years ago.

    That’s enough from me, Moosekind. Of the horrible trick AOL is pulling on my email, of my dying phone, of the distinctly dead Cappu machine, I shall say but little. Wishing a good, quiet Moon day to all at the Pond.

  12. It’s 39 heading for 64 and sunny this last Monday in November. Yesterday we generated 6.27 KWHs and the 168.4 m-t-d is still on track for 180.

    Cancer sucks. That’s all. It just sucks. And our health “care” system sucks almost as badly.

    The folks on my “list” are hanging on. Some making it, barely, with the help of friends and kindly strangers. Some not really making it but still here. Also with the help of friends and kindly strangers. Holding the Good Thoughts for all.

    Thanks to the decongestant nasal spray I got decent sleep last night. Hands are cold but functioning. Not sure I’ll get to the co-op today. Son may need the car. But I’ll get there some day this week. Meanwhile, off to twitter. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  13. Good morning, 52 and cloudy, but it’s not raining at this moment. The county is flooded again, streets in town are closed, landslides are making I-5 dangerous, etc. But our basement is dry and we are warm and comfortable, so feeling deep gratitude. We’ll go to lunch together today to note our 54th wedding anniversary. A quiet lunch at a favorite restaurant overlooking Bellingham Bay is just enough for us this year.

    Best wishes to all.

  14. Wifi problems at work today. Took forever for my desktop to boot up, and opening all the things we use…. And my phone refused to bring up the browser. But I’m here. Hello.

  15. Tuesday Meese. 21 going up to 38 here in Kingston NY and snow flurries expected.

    Am elated to celebrate that Barbados is no longer a British crown colony.

    Birthday

  16. Puerto Rico

  17. So glad to work from home today. Lovely weather — up to the 70s this afternoon. Nothing much going on here. Have a great day, y’all!

  18. It’s 47 going to 71 and sunny. A pleasant if not very wintery way to end the month. We generated right at 6 KWHs yesterday and the 174.49 m-t-d is still on track for 180. We shall see what we shall see.

    It’s St. Andrew’s Day so I think a little more than usual of my younger son. Not that it’s his birthday, that’s in February, but if we were practicing RCs it would be his saint’s day. I am very thankful that although he has had health issues, he also has very good insurance and a decent salary so he can not only get those health issues treated timely and appropriately he’s also not being forced into poverty in the process. Unlike every single person on my “need’s help list”. (& thank goddess/es that Fineena’s tumor – now removed – though malignant was encapsulated so it didn’t spread before they could get it out. Also thank goddess/es that she now has Medicare so she can get these things dealt with.)

    Can the society that caused anthropogenic climate change stop it? Not if we don’t stop what caused it. Not if we don’t pay attention to the ways and wisdom of Indigenous peoples we blew off as “uncivilized” and ignorant. Not if we don’t get rid of that very white Xtian cultist faith that says god made us separate and different, that we aren’t a part of this world so destroying it won’t hurt us. Is there hope? Yes. But not a lot.

    Off to twitter and my twitter chores. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

    • Thank you for reminding me of St. Andrew’s Day, dear bfitz! It’s important to me in a way I can’t really speak about publicly, but it’s also little Karl’s six-month anniversary—he’ll be 8 years old on May 30.

      I’m glad about your son, very happy about fineena’s health, and I hope you get your sunlight today!

  19. Good Tuesday morning, Meese. At a few minutes before 10 a.m. the sky is quite gray and uglisch, the temperature 39 F. The temperature is going up to 52 F. Snow flurries and rain have been forecast, but naturally have failed to materialize so far.

    We did get a snow flurry that lasted 3 minutes yesterday as we were coming out of Target. That was a big surprise. Gone are the days when it snowed here. I’m glad our boys grew up in a time when they could go skiing and sledding.

    But enough of this meteorological chitchat. We must go to Costco today. I must finish filling out that Goddess-forsaken, very intrusive medical form and email it back to the Rheumatological Group. Ugh, what a name. I’d better also give a gentle nudge to the next-door neighbors: the story I wrote about them is due, like, tomorrow, but so far there has been no sign of life.

    Arising far too early this morning (5 a.m.), I finally got up some mojo and made the Morning After Cranberry Sauce Muffins I didn’t get around to making last Friday. I’m still deeply puzzled by the objects in the night sky. They’re stationary but bright. Could it be Jupiter and Venus, lined up with each other? Who knows?

    We bought a new coffee machine, the instructions for which Dearly is studying. We may have cappuccinos this very afternoon.

    Dreading tomorrow, when the Supremes will most likely overturn Roe v. Wade. The stupid gubernator-elect has made promises he can’t fulfill, such as interfering with the magnet school admissions process. This is what happens when people stupidly elect a complete outsider who knows ZERO about how things work.

    Oh, well, I’m working myself into a rage, so I will now wish everyone at the Pond a nice, quiet day. A la prochaine, Meese!

  20. Good Morning, 50 and raining, so it’s wet and gloomy outside, but we remain warm and dry so I need to just cope. I’m feeling deep concern for all impacted by the flooding. I didn’t get the lights on the porch tree so I’ll try again today, with the hope shinning lights on the gloom will help. Best wishes to all.

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