Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: March 19th

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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 48 degrees in the Desert Southwest with an expected daytime high of 66. Early morning clouds will give way to mostly sunny skies in the afternoon.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!!

  2. Sunday Meese. 25 here in Kingston, going up to 37.

    Puerto Rico

  3. Good morning. Still cold, 38 degrees — ugh. Took my walk at the warmest point in the day yesterday. Got to do the same today, and tomorrow morning I’ll need fleece, hat & gloves to walk before work. I have tea steeping & beans cooking (good cheap dinner for a couple of weeks). Watching the news, and this afternoon the Science channel will have astronomy so yay for that.

    • I’ve often wanted to replicate the solution a woman had to cooking. On Sunday she would cook a huge pot of black beans, then separate the cooled beans into bags and use them through the week. Monday, beans and tortillas. Tuesday black bean soup with sherry and green peppers. Wednesday, bean burritos. Thursday, black bean and corn salad, punctuated by bright diced bits of orange and green sweet bell peppers. It always sounded so easy and delicious to me!

  4. It was 18 when I got up, 26 now, heading for 45 today. One more sunny day before the clouds move in tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday we generated right at 18 KWHs! I haven’t checked the exact date the last time we did that, but it was either very early August or sometime in July. So while our m-t-d of 173.98 isn’t on track even for 300, it certainly gained some yesterday. And hopefully will gain more today.

    Last week was a bit rough. Tuesday marked 2 months since Bobby’s been gone. Diana’s sister died. Yesterday marked a month since Harper/aitchdee’s been gone. (& Jenny of Random Scottish History – not a Moose or Kossack but active on twitter, patreon, mastodon, and several others – her cat died in his sleep with no warning whatsoever yesterday.)

    I’ve finished my Sunday cleaning chores – my hands and back are quite unhappy with me but the Ibuprofen is kicking in and they’re done for another week. So now off to twitter, spoutible, & Dee’s diary on DK. Holding the Good Thoughts. {{{Meeses}}}

  5. Good morning, 46 and mostly cloudy. I hope I made the right decision re waiting the the oral surgeon I want to see re my damn tooth. So far warm salt water, tylenol, and ice packs are keeping me relatively comfortable but it’s certainly not what I want to be doing. Oh well, life does go on regardless.

    If I can stay motivated I’ll be in my sewing room today, and if not I’ll do something else :) Best wishes to all.

  6. Monday Meese. Dare I hope spring is almost here? It’s 25 going up to 53 today – and temps will hit 61 on Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

    Puerto Rico

    In a country where we are told that we have to remain motionless and silent, it is energizing to see Puerto Rico breaking down the gates and getting up. Thank you
    @casapuebloorg
    , thank you.

  7. Good morning. Probably one of the last cold ones, I didn’t really need the big fleece, could have gone with just 2 shirts. But I got my walk done. 9 running segments. Yesterday I cooked & watched astronomy. working in the office today.

  8. Good morning, meeses! Monday – Spring Equinox is at 5:24 pm Eastern Time

    It is 52 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 70. Partly cloudy skies this morning and then clouding up when another front from California makes its way across the area. Snow in the mountains and rain for us over the next few days – the 70s will disappear until the weekend. We are 20 degrees below historical temperatures but I am not going to complain. There was no bonechilling sub-zero weather this winter (only a few days below freezing) and I was spared having to travel on icy or snowy roads.

    I tried to stay away from news this weekend and watched sports and visited with out-of-town guests. My Women’s Hockey Team, the Wisconsin Badgers, won the national championship in an intense 1-0 battle, handing Ohio State their first shutout of the year and taking home the trophy for the 7th time in program history. The exciting part is that they did it with 10 new players, many of them freshmen, so the future looks promising. The news was not as good for basketball as some of the teams I was rooting for lost and I will have to pick some new favorites.

    See all y’all later!

  9. Ok, so I know I’m the only space nerd here but I have to share this. Yesterday I commented on Twitter that I didn’t think we were careful about sterilizing the Mars Mariner and Viking landers because we didn’t know that microbes could survive. One of the scientists from the show wrote me back!!! I’m fangirling so hard.

  10. It was 28 when I got up, 40 now, heading for 55 today. Sunny so far but the widget says clouds will be moving in soon. Yesterday we generated 17.8 KWHs and the m-t-d at 191 is finally on track for 300. We’ll have to get to 339 to beat out last year. We’ve got 12 days – not all of them sunny – left to do it in. We shall see what we shall see.

    Happy Ostara and the lengthening of the light. Holding everybody in The Light, those here and those who’ve sailed to the Western Isles who live always in our hearts. {{{Meeses}}}

  11. Good morning, 45 and cloudy outside my window today. I have a hair cut/color this morning, and nothing planned for this afternoon. Weather and energy allowing I hope to be in the garden. Best wishes to all.

  12. Tuesday Meese. 27 here in Kingston, going up to 59. Am enjoying women’s basketball March Madness – rooting for underdog teams.

    Today is an important day in Puerto Rican History – anniversary of the Ponce Massacre.


    The Ponce Massacre occurs during an activity organized by the Nationalist Party to commemorate the Abolition of Slavery, and protest the imprisonment of Albizu Campo, and other nationalists

    • I was rooting for the underdogs in the tournament also (with a few exceptions, I can’t root for Baylor regardless of the opponent). Sadly, a lot of the 12 through 16 seeds are gone now. It is difficult to beat the 1-4 seeds on their home courts. I have to look at the Sweet 16 bracket and see who will root for now. I feel as though South Carolina will win it all but I would really like to see someone else to mix things up.

        • Ha! It is the one time of year that women’s sports are on an equal footing with men’s sports. The ESPN family of networks are showing every single game on cable and, even though the men’s brackets are reprinted every day in the paper and the women’s are not, the games are covered in print media.

  13. Good morning. It’s raining, so I decided to walk later. Wfh today, so if there’s any news, I’ll get to see it. But this morning, it’s astronomy.

  14. Good morning, Meese. What day is this? What planet is this? I’d be happy with any other planet in the solar system, even the gas giants (I kinda feel like a gas giant myself), if only I could recover.

    That colonoscopy on Friday—I should NEVER have done it. But I didn’t know that at the time, so went ahead. Unfortunately, I probably drank the Suprep solution too quickly on Thursday night, because I then raced to the Throne Room and vomited no fewer than four times. This was to have awful consequences, which I am still feeling.

    Anyway, I completed the rest of the prep the next day, went to the hospital, was visited briefly by the gorgeous but rather offhand surgeon, whom I’d met only once before, and put to sleep. When the nurses woke me up and removed the oxygen mask, my throat was so sore I couldn’t speak or swallow. I cried. The nurses were so kind and caring that I immediately forgave the hospital for being such a massive industrial complex (you can’t IMAGINE the number of buildings it has), and will never speak ill of nurses again. My post-op nurse even fetched a specialist to see me and he said that when I vomited so violently the night before, it brought up bile, and that acid was causing the sore throat and inability to swallow or speak.

    My throat still hurts, although I can now speak in a croak, not understandable on the phone. Saturday I could eat hardly anything. Sunday I was a little better, and so on. It’s the coughing that keeps me awake. I’ve gone through several boxes of Kleenex and lost several pounds all through this.

    Now, I’m debating whether to struggle over to the Medical Center to find out if I can see a doctor. I have other symptoms too, but I won’t bore you with them. Last night my coughing kept me and my poor husband, who was trying to sleep in the living room, awake all night. And this was after I’d taken the maximum of dose of Robitussin PM!

    Sorry to bore you with all this stuff, but I wanted to tell you all that I’m still alive (pinching self to make sure of this), and missing y’all.

    There’s a heap of other stuff going on too, but I won’t inflict that on you right now. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.

    • Oh my goodness! I hope you recover quickly. I have always been grateful that my family history does not include anything that requires a colonoscopy, I have heard so much bad about them. I get the yearly [redacted] tests and am done with it.

    • {{{Diana}}} I’m sorry about what you’re going through and thankful you checked in because I was getting worried. Healing Energy. moar {{{HUGS}}}

    • So sorry for all this misery! I have a friend who got laid off from a job she loved and was good at (they’re keeping a workshop she started going), so I’ve been paying most attention to her. Sensing you good healthy thoughts.

  15. Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …

    It is 55 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 68. Right now it is overcast and we are expecting high winds and rain this afternoon.

    I am not holding my breath that tRump will be arrested much less convicted of any crime EVER; people like him never have to pay for any of their criming. Marj’s Kevin giving the weakest possible “please don’t protest” is not going to stop a single person from protesting or rioting – his refusal to see January 6th as a full-blown breach of the Capitol Building in an effort to overturn the election puts him squarely in the “violence to advance your agenda and retain power is just fine” camp. It is difficult to not hope that he someday gets an intensely personal reminder of what happens when you lay down with pigs and make common cause with insurrectionists.

    I am working my way through some delayed maintenance on my electronic to-do list so I need to get back to that. The reminder pop-up screen with over 200 items is not “notification” it is simply noise – I need to get the list to be both current and focused.

    See all y’all later!

  16. It’s 42 heading for 52, dark, and raining. Yesterday the clouds did move in but more as thick haze than real cloud cover. They cut production of course but not by as much as I was afraid of. We got 14.9 KWHs and the m-t-d at 206 still gained a little. Which it will lose today. The PV system is on which surprises me but that’s all you can say for it.

    I’m not paying any attention to the sagas of twitler – and won’t unless/until we get a conviction. Rich and powerful white men very seldom pay for their crimes. All too often they’re rewarded for them. Until the “colonizer” system itself changes the earth herself, never mind the societies living here, cannot regain balance.

    Life goes on. One day at a time. Sometimes one step at a time. Trying to support those in our communities. Because community is how we survive. And even thrive sometimes. Holding the Good Thoughts. {{{Meeses}}}

  17. Good morning, 46 and raining in my garden today. I want to be outdoors today but I should work at my desk. I’ve made progress cleaning out old files but I’ve got much more to do. I’m reclaiming space as I discard old paperwork and that is rewarding, so today may be the day to free up a drawer and to put things there I actually use. It’s full of cancelled checks now, not a great use of space.

    Best wishes to all.

  18. Wednesday Meese. 32 here in Kingston going up to 61. Snow is now finally all melted so am going out to see what’s starting to grow in the yard today.

    Puerto Rico

    This month marks the 150th anniversary of the abolition of African slavery in Puerto Rico.

    On March 22, 1873, Spain’s parliament passed a law that ended slavery in Puerto Rico. That law ostensibly freed nearly 30,000 enslaved Africans on the island. But it was a freedom that was conditional: Those “free” Afro Puerto Ricans were obligated to continue working for their enslavers for at least three years as a way of compensating the enslavers for their future loss of labor.
    The island’s former enslavers were paid for their loss of “property”—most received financial payments and some, if they were the owners of more than 3 Black people, received land grants as reparations.

  19. Good morning. Got my walk done, it’s back to our normal warm weather. So glad I have these 2 wfh days.

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