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 62. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Happy Sunday Meese, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day. 44 here in Kingston and raining, going up
to 53.
Puerto Rico:
Victoria Ciudadana holds an assembly ahead of the general elections in November
Good morning. Stormy night last night – we got a whole half inch of rain. Lots of thunder and lightning. Watching local news, goodbye SXSW, I hardly noticed you. Tea is steeping, windows open because this nice cool weather is rare. Got a very green outfit to wear to church.
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It’s 50 heading for 59 and trying to become sunny. I hope it makes it. Yesterday we generated 16 KWHs and the m-t-d at 211.6 is back on track for 400 with a wee bit o’ padding against the next cloudy day.
We’re having a minor revisit of winter – tonight & tomorrow night the lows will be in the upper 20s and tomorrow’s high is in the low 40s. Other than that, lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s. Definitely Spring. I may or may not have company today. I’d best “clear my desk” – get the 1st round of boosting done – as quickly as I can. Just in case. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good afternoon, 41 and sunny outside my windows today. RonK has been for a walk and is now cooking corned beef dinner. I’m going to play around with some tulips and twigs….just using what I can find growing around the level patio so I won’t stress my legs on stairs or slopes. I’ve got a stack of stuff to go to the garage and a few things I need brought down to the garden but that will wait for my son to do. Best wishes to all.
Good morning. Made it to 2 ½ rounds of 6 minutes running, with probably 3 minutes between rounds. Ugh. The Texas immigration bill is before SCOTUS today. The same people who struck down the Colorado election law because we can’t have each state having standards for the ballot will say it’s perfectly fine for each state to have different immigration laws.
Good Monday morning, Moosekind. It’s a loathsome 41 F. in Ashburn, with cloudy skies and lots of wind. Ugh. Winter is returning all week. Our high will hover around 50 F. until Friday. Meanwhile, at the Tidal Basin, the cherry blossom trees are in full bloom—two weeks early. It’s a beautiful sight but the traffic is insane, so we’ll just look at them on TV.
Had such an intense end of the week that yesterday I couldn’t do anything but sleep, do laundry, and eat. Thursday, of course, was the writers’ group meeting. Friday morning we did errands. Miss Nora came over Friday night while I was in rehearsal. I had to drag her out of bed Saturday morning to get her nails done, then we ran to the store to get pizza and fruit salad for lunch. Saturday afternoon was the regular Drama Club meeting, which was a presentation followed by a reader play. I was in the reader play in the role of Wanda, the relaxed one. It was a 10-minute play about widows who had been grieving for 5 years but were now ready to have conversations with men. It was very well received.
Feeling gloomy this morning because Thing will never, ever be punished. He’s more likely to die of a heart attack or be assassinated rather than stand trial. I simply can’t believe how he and his crime family are getting away with these things. If an ordinary citizen had done what he’s done, he’d have been clapped into jail a long time ago. People keep saying, “Oh, it’s coming, it’s coming, he’ll get what’s due him,” but they’ve been saying that for years.
Hope today I’ll find time for the treadmill. I’m certainly not walking outside in this horrid wind. WIshing a good day to all at the Pond!
It’s 31 heading for 47 and sunny. Minor revisit of winter. The rest of the week will be in the 60s. Yesterday we generated 18.3 KWHs, highest since last August, and the m-t-d at 229.8 is still on track and adding cushion.
Yesterday I had a lovely visit with my friend in the morning. Also a lovely visit with my son in the afternoon. While he was here he fixed the top “door” to the cat carrier so it will open. Not that I will try to put a cat in the carrier that way, but I understand it helps the vet techs to be able to get a cat out that way. Now we just have to hope/pray/channel/light candles that I am able to get Bobbie into the carrier Thursday morning for his vet visit & overdue rabies shot. I will have 1 chance & 1 only to pick him up and scruff him tight enough that he can’t fight his way out of my hold. If I miss, he won’t let me pick him up again for weeks. But that’s Thursday. Today I just need to get to my usual boosting. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Monday Meese. Cold here again – was 30. Sigh.
Puerto Rico
First Lady Jill Biden shares with military personnel in Puerto Rico
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 53 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 72. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. We are heading north to the Phoenix area for a day trip and hope it is a bit warmer there – it often is because it is a lower elevation.
The news is still discouraging but the good news is that tomorrow is Ostara and more of the goddess’ light is always welcome.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, meese! Tuesday, the Spring Equinox …
It is 46 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 70. Sunny skies are in the forecast. The stars are visible over the mountains!
Heads were exploding over the pure Schadenfreude felt when tRump’s legal team announced that they couldn’t find any chumps to guarantee his bond for the fine levied for defrauding his investors, insurance companies and the State of New York. Gosh, what would make them think he was might not be a good risk?!? Dare we hope that justice will be served and chickens, from a lifetime of grift and crime, will come home to roost?
I have a busy day ahead, having set aside my to-do list for a couple of days for day trips to Phoenix.
See all y’all later!
Tuesday Meese! Ostara blessings
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Slept in, will log off work early since I don’t have a lot of applications and go to the gym or maybe walk/run outside. Meanwhile, astronomy and work. SCOTUS put off the decision on the Texas immigration bill. Maybe they’re having trouble figuring out how to justify it.
FYI – Linda has posted her weekly VP Harris diary at Kos.
Will go and bookmark it, Sis. Kathleen Parker’s column in the WaPo the other day showed her racism BIG TIME. I’ve always loathed Parker. Pundies keep proposing Gretchen Whitmer (a woman is all right if she’s white?) or Nikki (Nikki’s a Rethuglican) for Veep on the Biden ticket—ANYONE BUT KAMALA, who is excellently qualified, brilliant, BLACK, and beautiful.
Makes my stomach roil. I’m ridin’ with Biden-Harris, and I don’t care who knows it.
Happy Ostara! It’s 43 heading for 67 and sunny again today. Yesterday we did another highest single day since last August – 19.67 KWHs. The m-t-d at 249.5 is still on track and added a bit more padding against the next cloudy day.
This is going to be an “out” week. I’ve got to go get milk today – I’d hoped it could wait until tomorrow but it can’t. Tomorrow is Social Security payday so I go to the bank for cash. Then Thursday I’m taking a cat to the vet. Hopefully it will be Bobbie since his rabies shot was due on the 1st and we didn’t notice until I took Cloud in and we were looking at the records. But if I don’t manage to scruff him properly to get him in the carrier & he takes up residence in the guest bed box springs, I’ll take in one of the twins rather than be charged for a “no-show”. Need to get the first round of boosting done now. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Tuesday, sunny, howling-wind morning, Meese! I was as cross as two sticks when I woke up and realized today was another blowy day. (First-world problem.) However, Jan’s Ostara post cheered me up.
Right now in Ashburn it’s 39 F. and windy, reaching 52 F. and windy at 4 p.m. And the cherry trees are at peak bloom! I hope the wind doesn’t blow all the blossoms off. I remember as a child in Tokyo watching the blossoms drift down the street like pink snow.
Yesterday evening I had some fun. After attending the Wig and Makeup meeting a few days ago, I couldn’t stop thinking about wigs. So last night I put on the auburn, straight-haired wig I’d ordered from Amazon and strolled into the theatre for rehearsal. “My name is Natasha,” I said in as throaty a voice as I could manage, “Diana can’t be here tonight so she sent me instead.” OMG, I fooled the Director! She was quite put out at the thought that her assistant director had skipped the meeting, but then one of the producers revealed Natasha’s true identity.
It was funny, with the guys in the cast eyeing me speculatively and the women completely astounded. “It completely changes your appearance,” said one of the women players. Yes, it did: from short white curls to straight, neck-length auburn is quite a change. When our “Oklahoma!” t-shirts arrive on April 1, I’ll wear the wig and a fetching blue beret again as I stroll through the restaurants to advertise the show. We’re all supposed to advertise it.
Not much other news, except that we need rain, which we won’t get until Friday evening. As there’s no rehearsal tonight, I need to spend time setting up donations to my pet charities, which are Doctors Without Borders, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and of course, World Central Kitchen.
Wishing a wonderful day to everyone at the Pond, and to everyone who hopes Defeated Former Guy won’t be on the ticket.
Wednesday Meese. 34 here in Kingston, going up to 49 with rain. Another day I can’t do any garden prep. :(
Puerto Rico
Good morning. Didn’t get in a workout yesterday, but I got all the applications done that are going to get done (why do some people apply for a service then just never ever respond to messages?), so I’ll log off at lunch and stay off. Not going to worry about the huge security risk tfg presents.
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind. It’s 50 F. in Ashburn with kinda sunny skies, and white clouds slowly making their way across the blueness. There’s fire danger from the winds (not very bad right now, but we’ve had so much rain the ground is quite squishy. We may avoid fires because of this, and anyway, we’re in an urban area.
Saint Bernard of No Accomplishments is talking about a 32-hour work week, as a couple of other civilized countries enjoy. Did you know that in Denmark work ends at 4 p.m. so parents can pick up their kids from day care, and then go home and enjoy some family time? Americans work far more hours than people in France or the U.K. My Montreal friend freaked out when he read Layoffs, a novel I wrote years ago. They never work all-nighters, three ayemmers, or even ten o’clockers in Montreal. But Americans! Can’t count the number of times I’ve walked through a company door at 8:30 one morning and emerged at 7:30 the next morning.
But enough of that boring subject. No real news except that I must call the one surviving uncle from my mother’s side, who is 90 years old today. I won’t be going to Texas on the 19th of April. We have a major rehearsal that day and anyway, I can’t leave Dearly Beloved. He brought me early morning tea, which I drank with much enjoyment.
So SICK of The Pustule who still dominates the news every, every day. Hillary was advised to go home and shut up after she lost, but oh, no, not good-for-clicks, dementia-addled Orange Face!
That’s enough politics. Hoping everyone at the Pond will have a good day!