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If you are new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

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– Ratings: Fierce means Thumbs Up, Fail means Thumbs Down, Meh means one of three things: I am unFailing you but I can’t Fierce you, I am unFiercing after a mistaken Fierce, or Meh. Just Meh.

– Ratings don’t bestow mojo, online behaviour does.

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– When creating a new diary, remember to choose the Draft option (near the bottom) while you are working on it. Choose the Public option when you want to publish it. (h/t Khloe)

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All the News Fit to Share: Midweek Edition


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  3. DeniseVelez

    from the dogs and cats (with a card) handed to me by the hubby 🙂

    Tis 24 here in Saugerties, going up to 45 – have papers to finish grading before heading off to school.

    Happy Valentine’s Day y’all.

  5. blue jersey mom

    I am off to work in a bit. I have a long day ahead of me, but Monday is a holiday. The uni is closed!!!

  7. iriti

    32 degrees here, heading for 50. Heat wave!!!

    Happy Valentine’s Day. Trs got me dark chocolate covered almonds because he luvs me! I would like to go on the record here and announce that I am a very spoiled woman.

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  8. jsfox

    A pleasant 13 degrees here.

    About to head into the kitchen to start the day’s baking.

    Heart shaped brownies drizzled with ganache

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    And then some honey wheat sunflower bread.

    May cupid be nice to you today 🙂

  9. Jk2003

    Happy valentines day to all.  My kids just said it to each other and hugged.  That is what I live for man.

    It is 33 going to near 40 today in st chuck.  But weatherbug says it is going to be blustery so I guess after ballet and the store we will have to come home and watch Winnie the Pooh. ( it makes me cry every time).

    Have a great day.

  11. mapamp

    It’s 28 out right now in Pittsburgh, but going to head up to 40. This is the day before it may snow tomorrow.

    I’m relaxing and doing a bunch of nothing today, as I had a medical procedure done yesterday that requires me to stay put. Not an easy thing, but I’m trying hard to enforce my laziness for the day!

  12. wordsinthewind

    our plans for installing a window yesterday were postponed when the wind got up well before noon. Today is looking a lot more likely. Hope everyone has a happy Valentine’s day.  

  13. nchristine

    Dad and I are hitting the new Die Hard movie this afternoon.  It’s ‘our’ thing – we like many of the same movies.  I buy the tickets, he buys the tub of popcorn and soda.  We’ll catch up on small stuff and enjoy the movie.  We like to watch the previews as well.

    Some family politics may bubble up in the near future…. my sister and her husband are having a house built about an hour north of here.  She’s ‘hinted’ at dad moving into the new house with them and the 3 girls (sis’s adopted daughters).  Dad wants to know what she really wants.  His idea is a live in nanny for the girls.  Me – that and gain access to control of dad’s finances and/or some of the property – yes, I do think she’s that materialistic – get dad to help pay for the new house and such.

  14. dear occupant

    looks like we’ve alraedy reached our high, 37.

    i’m off to build a big bouquet for my wife.

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    happy Valentines Day everyone!

  15. zenor

    Precedents?Nat’l Cute Cat Hour Day? Internat’l Put Your Pit Who Pat Your Pet Day? Swell. I mean that.

    I fell asleep in this bed; which happened before.

    ok. pencil me in, whatever you’re doing. I’ll get out of it later.

  19. LeftOverFlowerChild

    My favorite Valentine gave me a new pink rose bush this morning and since I can’t eat sweet stuff, a gift certificate for yarn…Oh hello Webs, here I come! (But candy is better said no yarn addict ever!)

    Lovely day weather wise, 70’s and clear. Little lace crown experiment to try today, not sure how it will go, but it may be another ren faire seller, always a good thing. So Happy Valentine’s Day! or Happy Thursday! :o)

  20. cassandracarolina

    Heading to NC tomorrow for a few days to celebrate my birthday, which has always been way too close to Valentine’s Day. It’s like having a late December birthday. Mr. Carolina and I just exchange cards with lots of handwritten personal stuff, then spend our “gift money” on travel and outfitting our Casa Carolina. Hope all you Moosies are being shown the love you so clearly deserve 😉  

  21. slksfca

    …and the sun hasn’t even peeped over the top of Mt. Sutro yet. Peering out the back door, I see blue skies with just a gossamer layer of white mist over the Golden Gate. A good day to run the neighborhood errands I put of yesterday. And I can wear shorts, which matters because it’s laundry day and my long pants need washed. 🙂

  23. BlueStateRedhead

    Sat. 2/16/ night c 6:00 pm EST, over at the Orange, I am diarist for SN@TO, Saturday Night at the Opera. The occasion is the live simulcast shown worldwide in movie theaters so commenters from all over the planet can all have seen the same exact production in their time zone.

    Believe it or not, you don’t need to know anything about this opera or any to be may date. If you have thought about:

    Vegas in 1960s

    Sinatra Rat Pack

    Moral standards and celebrity seduction of young women in 60s

    Vintage 1960s cars

    The capacity of a dying woman to sing her last words from the drunk of a car..

    It’s a triple header BF* or BHD

    1. The Opera is Verdi’s Rigoletto,a permanent fixture of the repertoire sung by lots of famous singers. so how does this particular one stand up against the 10 gazillion benchmark recordings… You many know the most famous of its arias: La donne e mobile–Women are fickle….

    2. A new NY MET production is set in 1960s Vegas. Although it’s being called the Rat Pack Rigoletto, the court is that of a casino owner. It is not the first modern day production — it was famously once set in 1950s NYC Little Italy in the court of a Mafioso. So what will opera buffs want to know about this particular resetting–I have yet to read a single word of the reviews

    3. A really big deal for me is that this is my first opera review,and I am novice at opera reviewing and thinking about opera in general.

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