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So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?
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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 37 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 71. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Sunday Meese. 38 here, going up to 53 and no rain!
Today’s a big day in this women’s basketball household.
This made me smile:
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{{{Deee}}} I know I’m doing something right when you boost my stuff. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning. Got my tea steeping, enjoying the smell. We got a teensy bit of rain, more coming. People have been saying we get 300 days of sun per year (slight exaggeration, it’s more like 230) why can’t tomorrow be one? Literally any other time we’d be thrilled for rain. Oh well, it’s out of our control. Last night’s music diary was fun, so many songs about stars and planets.
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It’s 65 heading for 70 and another sunny day. Yesterday we generated 19.2 KWHs and the m-t-d is on track for better than last April. How long that will last we shall see.
The widget can’t make up its mind as to whether we’ll have clouds tomorrow but it says the temp will go up to 80. Before we drop down to 60s and rain for a couple of days. I guess I’d better do my errands tomorrow afternoon. When it’s not eclipse dark. Anyway, I’ve done my vacuuming & other Sunday cleaning chores & had best get to my boosting chores. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 49 and light clouds outside my window today. It’s been an unsettling week for me, lots of progress with PT but some hard acceptance re my situation. Basically , very limited time standing , no lifting, and keep all steps supported with a walker or cane. I’m grateful there is a plan and that I can feel progress but it’s surprisingly hard to do. Needless to say my mind keeps going to the garden but I’ve made some progress thinking about how to simplify so I can still grow a few flowers so that’s progress too. I’ve rested the morning away, time to get relatively busy! Best wishes to all.
Glad you have a plan, princesspat!
Happy Eclipse Day Meese. I will be inside with the doggies and not watching.
Glad to see some PR candidates are speaking stateside:
Good morning. Watching astronomy, hoping against hope for some break in the clouds but I’ll enjoy the eclipse no matter what. Just happy that I took the day off and can revel in my nerdiness.
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 46 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 70. Some morning clouds over the mountains will give way to full sunshine then a few sparse clouds this afternoon. We are not in the eclipse path and I am fine with that – I have seen eclipses. Some friends in Vermont are being crushed under the onslaught of first, a nasty Nor’easter dumping snow and ice and now a bajillion tourists clogging the streets. The highways in Vermont are mostly two lane and not designed to handle the influx – it is like leaf peeping on steroids.
I shall ignore the news today and maybe all week. It is more than a little depressing to see the full breadth of how awful tRump is and his plans to be even more awful and realize that there are millions of Americans, and majorities in states that have a lot of electoral votes, who want him to be president. Gak!
I have a lot on my platter this week as I took time off over the Easter weekend and eased slowly into last week. I have two weeks to finish up my April projects so that I can travel near the end of the month without having projects hanging over my head. Nose back to the grindstone!
See all y’all later!
It’s 58 heading for 83 and rather hazy at the moment. Yesterday we generated 21.1 KWHs and the m-t-d at 110 is gaining ground. And hopefully will gain more today, eclipse notwithstanding, as cloudy weather is supposed to move in again tomorrow with the drop in temps.
Well, all the delays on my son’s rewiring his house have unfortunately caught up with why he wanted to do it. The old fuse box fried itself Friday and they’re without electricity until SWEPCO gets around to installing the new “pedestal” to send power to the new breaker box. His hope at the moment is that the repair & maintenance guy really will be able to light a fire under the construction supervisor to move that up in the queue.
We’re deploying troops to the Middle East. At least one tank unit. I wish I thought we were going to be escorting aid convoys to the Palestinians rather than escorting weapons convoys to the Israelis. But I don’t. Our tax dollars. Our name. Our current president.
Well, what I can do is boost stuff. People right here are desperate for food & rent money. So I’d best get to it. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Monday morning, Moosekind. It’s 50 F. here in Ashburn, going up to 71 F. or something. It’s cloudy off and on, but it matters naught to us: we’ll sit inside and view the whole thing comfortably on telly. We never got around to buying eclipse glasses.
I’ve been weepy since yesterday: first of all, besides the birthdays of a grandchild and a niece, it was the 16th anniversary of my late mother’s death. I was rereading the “hospital diary” I kept during her decline and demise. This morning I’m weepy because Dearly is less and less well. He drove himself to the doctor’s office at Kaiser in Ashburn this morning, but will take an Uber to the doctor at Tysons Corner on Friday. He’s cold all the time. He has two naps a day. He has a hard time sleeping at night. He eats less and less.
I do wish this play were over so I didn’t have to leave him alone so much. Tonight I have to conduct a “line” rehearsal with the cast, who will be off book. I hope they won’t hate me if they forget their lines and have to do the whole page over.
Need to take a shower and get cracking on chores. My writers meet this week, so I have a lot to do to get ready.
Wishing a good day to all the Pond.
{{{Diana}}}
Hugs for you Sis. And prayers for strength.
You and Dearly are in our thoughts.
Thank you, ladies! He had a rotten night but ate a cooked breakfast and will have a nap. I just hope he can make up his sleep today.
Your support is very comforting, thank you.
Tuesday Meese. 44 here – going up to an amazing 73. The weather here gets weirder and weirder.
I’m still celebrating coach Dawn Staley. Hubby is celebrating UCONN men’s championship – we’re a happy college basketball household.
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I was glad to see a national championship that was about the players and not about the referees. That will go a long way to healing the damage done by the antics of the LSU coach in last year’s title game. Iowa got their revenge against LSU in the semifinal and South Carolina got their undefeated season and the well deserved accolades for their team’s play. Now, can they change the name of their mascot? ;)
heh – Cocky?
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 46 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 73. Sunny skies are in the forecast. We appear to be heading for a string of normal Spring highs with more 80s and fewer 60s and 70s. Thursday we may get our first 90. I am not too keen on the 90s but I like the lower to mid 80s and we have not had enough of them. We saw our 75% eclipse via paper and pinhole but watched quite a bit of it on the TV. It looked to me like Maine had the best view. It is an amazing thing, to have something so (relatively) small block out the light from something so big.
Interesting dustup in the Republican Party – their desperate presidential candidate flat out lies that he won’t push for a federal ban on abortion, because it is so unpopular, and everyone else in his party says “wait a minute, that is not our plan at all – we are running on the federal ban.” I hope they do, it is definitely not popular and it will help bring out the vote for the pro-choice referendums on the ballot. The Arizona Supreme Court announced it will rule today on whether the 1865 territorial ban on all abortions will be the law or if the 15 week ban with no exceptions after 15 weeks for rape and incest, passed to be available when Roe was repealed, will be the law. The 15 week ban has been in place since an appellate court ruled against the total ban. We are hoping that the less onerous ban is chosen and also hope that we repeal all the bans in November. We have the signatures we need to get on the ballot but are gathering more as a cushion to make sure it is not thrown out if some of the signatures are duplicates or from non-voters. We tried to get something in place in 2022 after Dobbs but came up short on signatures. One Republican State Senator who introduced a bill to make abortion a felony for both the woman and the doctor was complaining that if the referendum gets on the ballot it might bring more Democrats to the polls and they might lose their majority in the legislature. That’s the plan, my dear! A pro-choice referendum will flip the state legislature, elect a Democratic US Senator and re-elect Joe Biden. So much riding on it.
One of my appointments scheduled for today got cancelled and the time was immediately filled by hot projects that inserted themselves into my schedule on a too busy Monday.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Yesterday was fun, even with the clouds. Didn’t really get good pictures, but I have good memories. Neck is sore from bending backwards. On to today — getting ready for wfh. Didn’t go to the gym yesterday, go to go today.
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Good Tuesday morning, Meese! And yet another cloudy day dawns, although in this case it’s light grey clouds stretching across the blueness. At least it’s a bit warmer (57 F.), going up to 71 F., with rain predicted for this evening.
We’re eclipsed out. Watched it on telly, felt bored by the fact that it didn’t get dark here, and so on. My grandchild sent me a pic of it that they’d taken—in Ohio, I think they were in the path of totality.
Yesterday evening I GOT THROUGH IT. I had to lead a line rehearsal. I am so completely clueless about what’s involved in the role of assistant director. We were supposed to practice the bidding scene 5 times, but we only practiced it 4 times. Luckily one of the producers appeared and said the director wanted us downstairs to practice the last song and the bows. Therefore we skipped the end of Act II. Thank Goddess!
This morning I have to get my hair done and order Shakespeare’s birthday cake. Also have to work on the Shakespeare quiz, during which I will ask them to identify quotations from Shakespeare. After that we’ll discuss the state of the anthology (quiescent), possible workshops this summer, and what to write about in May. I invariably find these meetings exciting but draining. Rehearsals are draining as well. When I’m around a lot of people it my energy becomes depleted. Periods of solitude refresh my spirit.
I WISH there would be a cease-fire so those poor people can be fed! Also wish there weren’t so many contradictory messages re the election. One says no one will vote for Biden because food and gas prices are too high and he hasn’t fixed the border (hear that, MAGAts?). The other message is that people are so outraged by Dobbs that they’ll flock to the polls. I hope the second message is correct. I’m ridin’ with Biden all the way to Roevember!
Th-h-hat’s all, folks! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond.
It’s 58 heading for 71 and the sun’s trying to come out. Yesterday we generated 16.2 KWHs so the eclipse did make a difference but not much of one. Clouds cost me more electricity than the eclipse did. The m-t-d at 126 is still gaining even if not as much as Monday’s 21.
I just got peanut butter raisin muffin bread out of the oven and am waiting for my son’s friend/acquaintance the plumber to see if I can finally get hot water back in the kitchen. (I’ll be paying him, he’s not that kind of friend, but I know I can trust him. Not knowing who I can trust is the reason I didn’t call one in before when my son reached the point he wasn’t comfortable with doing anything else plumbing-wise.) We shall see what we shall see.
Meanwhile, time to get to my boosting. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 49 and light clouds outside my windows today. Leaves are emerging on my old maple trees and the fresh green color is so nice to see with the grey cloudy sky in the background. Marcus was here yesterday to finish the pruning and Sue will be here this afternoon for a couple of hours so home and garden tasks are getting done. I was at PT early yesterday morning and have a new set of exercises to do at home so that will be my main focus today. Best wishes to all.
Wednesday Meese. Wanted to share cartoons re abortion/reproductive rights here – help boost
Fantastic ‘toons, Sis!
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This year’s theme is Boricua de Corazón, or Puerto Rican at Heart.
This year’s Parade celebration is dedicated to the municipality of San Germán, Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican communities of Hawaii.
Subcommittee on Insular Affairs examines energy systems of the territories, with the exception of Puerto Rico