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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 57 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 87. Sunny skies are in the forecast. High winds and dust storms predicted for later in the evening
Have a great day, all y’alls – and Happy Cinco de Mayo!!
Happy Sunday Meese. sigh – another rainy day here. I actually got some work done on the yard and patio yesterday. Won’t be able to do much this week – looks like rain almost everyday.
Puerto Rico
Sorry about the rain. Sis!
Good morning. Had a good workout yesterday, got my tea steeping now – love my blend with notes of chocolate and caramel. Today: big celebration at my church for the UM denomination finally getting rid of anti-LGBTQ language in our governing rules. We’ve been working for this for so long. I’m wearing a rainbow skirt and my rainbow-y “y’all means all” t-shirt.
{{{anotherdemocrat}}} Yay! for UM finally getting your point – Y’all really does mean all. Moar {{{HUGS}}}
BMS posted
It’s 66 heading for 69 and overcast. The lights are on. So’s the PV system, barely. Supposedly more rain on the way. We got .6″ yesterday evening as I was signing off the computer in a 15-minute downpour complete with booming thunder, noisy hail, and hiding cats. We also managed to generate 13.5 KWHs bringing the m-t-d to 52.59 – barely on track for 400.
I didn’t hear from Fineena yesterday. I’ll try to reach her tonight if she doesn’t call today. My friend came over, bringing frozen yogurt from Braum’s to share, and we had a nice visit. I expect I’ll see my son this afternoon, as usual. And hope he has better news. My Sunday cleaning chores are done, with the usual complaints from hands and back. So I’d best be about my boosting chores. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 43 and raining. I’ll set the table and bake chocolate cupcakes with ganache topping soon and then my part of dinner will be nearly done. It’s fun to be together but I’m ready to close the kitchen for a few weeks. I’m getting better at doing things while seated but it’s an adjustment. Best wishes to all.
Good Sunday afternoon, Moosekind! It’s 58 F. and I think it’s finished raining, so that’s good. It will remain cloudy, though.
Well, we finished our run! Yesterday evening I popped my head into the Green Room and said, “Has anyone come in to say ‘May the Fourth be with you?’ Some shook their heads but started smiling. We managed to have a respectable audience for a Saturday night (144 seats sold out of 220). Some shows were sold out, so we did all right. I really enjoyed it, once I got over my initial snit.
Today I need to write my essay for the Writers’ Group. I will also have several essays to read and comment on. Gad, I feel tired already!
Wishing a nice, peaceful Sunday to all at the Pond.
{{{Diana}}} It’ll take some time to wind down from doing the show. Get some rest. Healing Energy & Moar {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning. Got my walk done, will walk/run tomorrow. Trying to keep up with the Giro d’Italia (bike race before Le Tour), but it’s not on anywhere in the US, so just Twitter updates. Anyway, in-office Monday. Sigh.
Good Monday Meese. Looks like rain here maybe – but sun tomorrow.
Some toons:
Puerto Rico
“A new study commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce shows that 32 % of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States is willing to return to Puerto Rico if certain conditions are met, the two leading ones are: quality of life will improve and job opportunities, which translates into data what experience already taught Puerto Ricans here and there.
The reasons for leaving are not a secret, and the changes the diaspora demands to return are feasible, said Ramón Pérez Blanco, president of the Chamber of Commerce.
”Puerto Ricans left because they had to leave, not because they wanted to leave -unlike other diasporas-, in search of employment opportunities, professional growth, education, health… what we have been saying the government must address”, he described in an interview with El Nuevo Día.
According to the survey, in addition to a better quality of life and job opportunities, at least one in five included other conditions for returning, mainly related to economic and health reasons, as well as housing.”
Besides its marquee-crowding title, “Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members,” and being described as a drag fantasmagoria, Mara Vélez “Meléndez’s play is a nod to history.
Its protagonist, a trans woman named Lolita, is inspired by Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, who 70 years ago led an attack on the U.S. Capitol advocating independence for her nation, which had become an American commonwealth. She was convicted and imprisoned for 25 years after the assault in which five members of Congress were wounded.”
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! Just put on a load of laundry, then I need to get ready to go out for a pedi. Today is overcast again but it won’t rain until 5, or so they say. The high today will be 77 F., but right now it’s 64 F.
Still need to work on my essay and print out the essays from my writers. This Thursday four of them will be absent, so we might be finished in record time.
Still thinking of things to do to liven up the Cast Party. Not much other news, except that I’m bloody tired of the newsy-floozies and doozies predicting a Thing win in November.
Wishing a nice, quiet day to all at the Pond.
Congratulations on finishing your play! Do you think you will do another one? :::runs and hides:::
Heh, Jan! I was asked to direct one in the fall, but I said “No,” very clearly.
When actors are interviewed by the media, they all seem to want to direct. Not I! I’d rather write a play than direct it!
It’s 61 heading for 81 and supposed to be sunny today. It isn’t at the moment but at least it’s not dark enough to need the lights on. Yesterday we generated 4.8 KWHs and the m-t-d at 57.2 is not on track and losing ground.
Fineena called last night. She wants out of the place she’s in even if it means going back to the apartment – and she knows perfectly well isn’t safe for her to live alone. She’s in a lot of pain, is having enough anxiety & depression that she knows they aren’t giving her those meds (the nurses are telling her that she just can’t tell what she’s getting because the pills are all mixed together when they bring them), she can’t walk very well and they’re not only not “found” her a walker they keep moving her cane out of her reach, and they only just yesterday after a whole lot of asking every person who walked in the door got her an inhaler (she’d been without one since she’d been moved from the hospital). All very valid reasons for wanting to leave that place. Today they are supposed to transport her to her oncologist’s office for a meeting and hopefully she will get her diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment options. She’s supposed to anyway. She plans to ask the oncologist for a “recommendation” for a different rehab place while she’s there. We shall see what we shall see.
My son hopes to get his electricity back by end of day – it’s been over 4 weeks now – SWEPCO brought out and installed the underground wiring pedestal Friday but didn’t put the meter back in. That’s a different department. He has to call and request that next. Ahem. But his electrical guy will be there today to hook up the new wiring to the new breaker panel that will get power from the pedestal – as soon as the meter is reinstalled. He’s installed an emergency shutoff switch between the meter and the breaker box so any future electrical work in the house won’t require waiting on SWEPCO to come out and remove the meter to keep from frying whoever is doing the electrical work then waiting on SWEPCO to come back out & replace it so he actually has power again.
I haven’t heard anything from anybody else so hopefully that’s good. Or at least not bad. Off to start by boosting day. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 50 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 79. Sunny skies are in the forecast. This morning I saw the very thinnest moon (3.5% illumination) rising over the mountains in the pre-dawn light. Tomorrow evening she will be new and I have plans for this waxing moon as I gather energy for starting new projects and finishing old ones that have been dogging me.
I am going to redouble my efforts to avoid the news! An electorate that is seriously considering “re-electing” tRump deserves none of my attention. Tied in the polls? JHC on a popsicle stick, people are ignorant.
I am making a dent in my to-do stack which accumulated a lot of scraps of paper and notes before my trip and even more since I returned. I need a good list of achievable goals and then to apply myself to it. One big thing on my list today is to contact a medical provider who I got a bill from. It appears that the place where I got my annual checkup imaging scans done passed off the radiology reading to a medical group who is not in my PPO network. I won’t pay it – that is pure negligence on their part and they can eat the cost. There are dozens of radiology groups here, there was no reason to choose one that is not in my network. Harumph!
See all y’all later!
Stick to those resolutions, Jan! The medical profession gets away with everything.
Folks, Fineena needs whatever prayers or Healing Energy of whatever kind you happen to send. It’s stage 4 liver cancer. She said her oncologist is not totally without hope. He’s going to check out a few possible treatments and get back with her in 2 weeks. She’s still in the Health & Rehab center in Matthews, NC and will be for a while at least. The doctor is adamant that she not go home. That’s where things stand right now.
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I am sending healing white light, if not for a cure, at least for an absence of pain,
Tuesday Meese. Looks like I’ll be able to get out in the garden later – we have a brief break in the rain for the week.
Puerto Rico
Adopt a pothole
Weekly VP roundup posted
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 51 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 86. Sunny skies are in the forecast. This string of perfect spring days appears to extend through the next week.
Does anyone else find it hilarious that Ole Miss, after seeing a racist frat boy do racisms at a Black woman speaker at a rally, decry it as “this is not us!”? It is exactly them! You can’t literally whitewash a century and a half of racism by reluctantly removing the Confederate flag from your state flag and then saying “there, fixed it”! This is the flagship university of a state that wants to move the state capitol out of Jackson because there is too much poverty there and too many needy people who want things like clean water and it is embarrasing to them. Good lord.
I read an article last week that pointed out that the 10/7 attack on Israel was very successful for Hamas.
Yes, Jewish people have been oppressed and murdered for centuries. But that does not and never will give them carte blanche to murder innocent civilians for “security” – that the United States helps them in that cause is a blemish on our nation’s soul.
I made great headway on my to-do stack yesterday and need to finish organizing my notes for project work. I am going to try to take a break for a walk in the park later this morning – the cactus are blooming and the birds are active. In about a month, it will be too hot for late morning walks.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. Got my walk done, it is really muggy out already. Watching local news until astronomy comes on. I see Netanyahu is just determined to make things even worse.
Good Tuesday morning, Meese. It’s a gray, gloomy day, 68 F. already, and our high will be about 77 F. We may get some sunshine this afternoon.
I have an appointment for nails at 11, but before that I want to go to the eyebrow people. Also have to order some Mother’s Day flowers for a friend of my late mother. This lady is 102 years old! I have to look up the Italian for “Happy Mother’s Day.”
I must, must get to the gym today. After this week I’ll have time to do waist exercises too, so I’ll fit the dress I want to wear for the summer solstice ritual. I need to talk to B. about the ritual. While “Oklahoma!” was going on, she didn’t want to discuss it and I don’t blame her—she was so busy hunting down the props.
Finished my essay and sent it to the group. It looks as if only three people will be absent, with luck. One man is bringing caramel popcorn! Will our teeth get stuck together? I’m bringing exotic tarts. We’ll be celebrating a birthday.
This gloomy weather seems fitting for the news Bfitz and I received from Fineena last night. I’m keeping her in mind as I go about my day.
Wishing a good, peaceful day to all at the Pond. May Goddess look after the Gazans.
It’s 71 heading for 80 and the clouds are moving off. I might be able to do laundry today. Yesterday we generated 11.7 KWHs. The m-t-d at 69 is not on track and still losing ground – but at least not at much ground.
I told you about Fineena. Haven’t heard from my son. One of Wings’s pieces of equipment died yesterday adding to the mountain of things Aji’s got to find money for. Everybody else is truckin’ along. I hope. Laundry and going to get milk are my other-than-boosting plans for the day. So I’d best get to the boosting part while I wait for the grass to dry & the laundry to get ready to hang out. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}