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Friday Morning Moose Check-in and Open Thread for the Meesefolk

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  Make sure you let your peeps know where to find you!  

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. Check out donnamarie’s 1/5/2013 Introduction diary for some info on new moose and old moose (and leave your own intro so we know whoose youse are).

The big stuff:

– Comments do not Auto-refresh. Click the refresh/reload on your tab to see new ones.

– To check for replies to your comments, click the “My Comments” link in the right-hand column (or go to “My Moose”). Comments will be listed and a link to Recent Replies will be shown. (Note: Tending comments builds community)

– 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.

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in)

Here is a great link to have open in a tab: Motley Moose Recent Comments

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This is pretty darned easy to remember … the posting rules for a new diary:

Be excellent to each other… or else

From Kysen’s keyboard to your eyes:

Think of our comment threads as dinner table conversations. We start with the assumption that all come to the conversation with good intentions and go from there. If you get upset or angry, get up from the table and step outside for a bit.

For those looking for a second chance to make a first impression, that is very good advice.

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Yesterday’s Daily F Bomb from Floja Roja.

Yesterday’s Pooties from triciawyse.

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Mooselicious Comments – Share Your Finds Here

As you graze in the comment threads and come across a funny, witty, brilliant, thought-provoking, or coffee-spewing comment, please save it off and post it here in the check-in. Include a link, if you can, or at least the commenter’s name so that we can admire them and their wit and wisdom.

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See you in the threads!

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127 comments

  2. melvin

    and my seed shipment (from Johnny’s Selected Seeds) arrived yesterday. I am going with all red this year. Red beans, red celery, red orache, red melons, radicchio, and some white tomatoes. Mostly my garden is in the front yard, so it is a good opportunity to screw with people.

  3. melvin

    Mark Halperin and S E Cupp are sucking on each other and flapping their juicy lips on Morning Ho in a delirious, rabid defense of the NRA.

  5. Kysen

    Just a wet cold mess…but, considering how drivers here manage snow, I’m happy for it. /grin

    I’m also happy that the weekend is so very very close…it is so very very needed.

    I think I’m going to have clam chowder for breakfast.

    Hope everyone has a good mornin’!

  7. trs

    It’s 34&deg in the Shenandoah Valley, with an expected high of 37&deg. Today’s project – replace a leaking main water line to a house. Not fun. Have I mentioned I hate plumbing?  This sums up my mood today

  9. blue jersey mom

    It is 29 degrees here in central NJ–brrrrrrr. Dad and I have finally recovered from the jet lag. If the money comes through, I may get to Ukraine for a week in June. I will be attending a conference and looking at some Neolithic animal bones. Fingers crossed.

  10. dear occupant

    22 bone chilling degrees on Chicago’s lakefront and i’m so ready for my 3 day weekend as always.

    i have a question maybe some of you experienced Mooz diarists can answer. my last diary looked nothing at all when published, as it did in preview. the published page width seemd much narrower than preview, as a result paragrahs and sentences were a mess.

    i’m pretty sensitive to the overall appearance, any hints?

  11. Chris Blask

    and not dripping wet for the first time all week, because it is frozen.

    The Smokey Mountains are living up to their name, it is a lovely shade of foggy out there today.

    Bloody amazing how much the lake came back up.

  13. SheltieMan

    He ate some baby food last night, but gave it all back. More IV fluids today and more trying…

    Our vet compared all the blood work since Sunday and says there’s definitely an infection somewhere…possibly his pancreas. His white cell count is through the roof…Literally too high for them to count. Sigh.  

  14. pittiepat

    weather wheels come off on Sunday. No rain or snow, just cold.  Heading out the door to deal with a long shopping list.

  17. Via Chicago

    Can’t give you the exact numbers, but it’s sunny and chilly out here in Chicago this morning!

    Spent last weekend in NYC with my wife and the highlight was seeing an opera at Lincoln Center. That place is so amazing, I’ve been wanting to go there for years. We saw Puccini’s La Rondine. Not my favorite Puccini opera, but the performances were great.

    It’s a shame opera has become associated with the 1%’er types. (Of which I’m certainly not.) It’s really pop music for the masses. It can be very expensive, but most places – the Met included – have seating options that are cheaper than arena rock concerts.  

    I’m more likely to be found seeing a rock band in a small club, but I get to a two or three operas each year. Once I forgot all my preconceptions and just listened, I was overwhelmed by the beauty. I still only see the more accessible and popular operas, while in the rock music genre I’m just the opposite.

    Anyway, back home and happy to be here.

  19. princesspat

    My old maple trees are in stark relief against the grey sky and horizon…..I love seeing the lichen on the trees in this light.

    David Horsey, from the LA Times…..

    I traveled to Olympia to see Inslee sworn in. After all, how often does a friend become a governor? And what other governor at his swearing-in would have chosen to be introduced by Dennis Hayes, the founder of Earth Day?

    ~snip~

    At the governor’s mansion, two hours after his inaugural address and a few minutes before the basketball game, I reminded Inslee of that feeling he had when he first went to Congress, that sense that an older generation should still be in charge. I asked him how he felt on his first day as governor. His answer was firm: “I am ready now.”

    So much of the time, politics is dismal and disheartening, but, on Wednesday, I was reminded that elections matter. That is how we raise up good men and women like Jay Inslee who consider “daring greatly” to be their life’s mission.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/po…

  20. LeftOverFlowerChild

    And the weather is lovely, already in the lower 50’s headed for the upper 60’s today! My fingers and toes are very happy indeed.

    On the disability news front…The University of Texas at Arlington has given the green light to officially form a women’s wheelchair basketball team. This is great news, not only will the sport be played at UTA, there will be scholarships just like the men’s wheelchair teams. Right now there are only 4 women’s teams, with UTA that number goes to five. So excited for those young ladies!

    And speaking of the Movin’ Mavs…The UTA men’s wheelchair team is pushing toward another championship. The games start today and will be live-streamed from the UTA sports complex. Exciting times ahead!

    Hoping to get all my work related crafting done so I can spend some time doing fun crafting…bobbin lace and time at the spinning wheel on the agenda for the weekend…hopefully anyway!

  21. wordsinthewind

    it was one of those mornings for me but the day has managed to redeem itself. I’m off to visit some friends who don’t like to talk about politcs which should further lighten my mood. Hope everyone has a great afternoon.

  22. JG in MD

    Thank you Jan for guiding me to a landing here!

    Just to catch ev’ybuddy up, I’m JG in MD elsewhere and @AuntJill on Twitter. I don’t know who I am on Facebook except Jill Groce.

    I’m genealogy and cats mostly. My kittehs are Alice and Katie, I’ll post them on a pootie diary.

    I haven’t read the Purple How-To because, well, I’ve sort of reached my limit on “Do this on the computer today.” Sometimes I leap into new realms. I just started going to my friends’ walls on Facebook instead of just my timeline.

    I’m old as dirt and twice as interesting (still not much). Quality over quantity of computer action for me.

    Love to you and yours,

    Aunt Jill

    Katie

    Alice

  23. HappyinVT

    Your windshield and stuff gets ice on it.  And you have to wait until it defrosts.  But Geoffrey (the car) is clean.

  24. SheltieMan

    Could you point one or both of them to this thread?

    His white cell count is through the roof and he may still bleeding into his intestinal tract. We get so little stool from him that we aren’t sure if what we’re getting is old blood or not. He definitely has more going on than we first thought.

    We’re afraid that he might have a pancreatic abscess. The survival rate of surgery for this is only 40% with dogs and that’s not controlling for his advanced age. We can’t completely rule out the possibility that he has pancreatic cancer, either. At 15 years old, there is only so much we can treat him for without making him worse or killing him.

    They’re syringe feeding him Science Diet a/d, which is specifically for ill/recovering dogs at the moment. He hasn’t vomited so far today at the vet’s, which is a good sign. All we can do is keep on what we’re doing for now, at least for the weekend. He’ll spend the morning there tomorrow (they close at noon) getting IVs, and we’ll care for him on Sunday with sub-q fluids and such.

  25. Moozmuse

    two of them? I think the long thread and pics slowed my pc down too much so it took forever to “take”, which made me think it hadn’t worked.

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