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Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Remember to let your peeps know where you are!

This week’s shot of the week: Great Blue Heron in an evergreen tree. I’ve taken lots of pics of Great Blues, but this is both the oddest and my favorite.

Great blue heron in a tree

The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.

It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:

Always remember the Moose Golden (Purple?) Rule:

Be kind to each other… or else.

What could be simpler than that, right?

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  1. iriti

    Headed for a high of around 63.

    Got bug-bit filling in the trench we dug for electrical out at the shop and am having the weirdest reaction to the bites – red puffy areas one to two inches in diameter swelling up around each bite. Never have done this before.

    Happy Monday all! Hope it’s a great week.

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  2. DeniseVelez

    which I won’t object to since the April flowers need watering.

    Sleepy – back from a great trip “downstate” to NYC for a meetup and going to see Ann, starring Holland Taylor.

    The one woman show is a tour de force.  

    I’ve always been a fan of Richards, but the show got me to go back and look over more of her history.

    Not only did we get to see the show – got to sit in a talk back session after the show and got a personal tour back stage hosted by one Albany area Kossaks son who is working  on the production.

    If you get to NYC before Sept. 1st when the show is scheduled to close, try to see it.

  3. blue jersey mom

    It is 52 degrees and raining here in central NJ. I can’t complain. The weather was lovely for the memorial service that I attended yesterday. It was a tree-planting in memory of one of our Valley Forge crew members who passed last year.

  4. JanF

    I love that photo of the Great Blue Heron. I am pretty sure that I have never seen one in a tree before. We get Great Blues in the area but at our pond we mainly get the Green Herons, which are smaller.

    53 degrees here, expected high of 71 degrees but with storms. 81 degrees tomorrow, 61 on Wednesday (May Day!!) and then 47 on Thursday (Winter Returns!!).

  5. Melanie in IA

    sideswiped with a storm north of Des Moines.

    Currently 52, heading into 70s. Nice.

    I finished 22 of the 24 churndash blocks yesterday. Then I vacuumed so I could lay it all out on the floor. And it’s bad. Just doesn’t work for me. So I will do something different, which of course will require different fabric than I have in my stash.

    Today while the boys are golfing, I’ll head to a quilt shop or two in Amana and South Amana. I have another project I’ll need to shop for, also.

    Everyone stay fierce, and have a great day!

  6. michelewln

    Rain for most of the week. Pixie keeps sitting on the back of the couch watching and waiting for the lake to form in the parking lot. Unless of course she is scattering her toys all over the house for Mom to step on. The Princess likes to keep busy unless it is nap time then she takes over the bed and the Community Quilt.

    We were talking about dreams over the weekend. This picture is called River of Dreams.

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  7. nchristine

    so I didn’t sleep well.  I’ve turned on the ac so it won’t get too warm up there today.  But, I’ll be switching back to heat Wednesday.  High today/tomorrow close to 80, high Thursday, 55.

    I need more sleep!!!  Quiet weekend – rain this week… maybe my plan to boycott mowing until May may have worked better than thought – it may be too wet to mow on the 4th.

  8. anotherdemocrat

    Foggy & 67. No rain, dammit, and none in the forecast. &**&%$&. Mid-80s today & tomorrow, 70s by Friday.

    I’m at work, eating an apple, listening to someone trying to call in sick. Silly person, I’m the only person who’s ever here this early. You can’t call in to me, I’m not a supervisor.

    Swim stuff is in the trunk. I swear (once again), I’m going after work.

    So today: had granola & coconut milk, apple now, snack will be grains & blueberries & an orange. Lunch: hummus, pita, almonds, and yogurt with cocoa nibs, snack another apple & cheese & crackers. Then swimming then dinner of an Amy’s meal.

    A healthy day to start what I hope is a healthy week.

  9. Jk2003

    The sun is out, going up to mid seventies today, maybe storms later.  Spent yesterday pulling down terrible wallpaper and sanding walls.  Hubby spent it mowing the lawn, cleaning out gutters and talking to tree guys about how much it will cost to remove two dead trees (one is an ash that has the emerald ash borer disease and the other is just plain ugly).  

    This morning we are going to the park and later I will begin painting.  

    The kids are settling in well and are currently devouring oatmeal with a bit of local honey stirred in.  

    Have a great day.

  10. wordsinthewind

    and still, won’t last but it’s sure nice. The pup is growing up every day and making good progress on her house training. We are of the encouragement not punishment school of thought and my tolerance for cleaning up poop helps. It’s easy for me to believe this is temporary and neccessary, never had a dog yet that couldn’t learn. She’s still actually too young to have full control, it is our job to notice for her that she needs to find her place. She’s already getting pretty good at the wee part, I suspect our neighbor mistreated her over the poop so first of all we needed to restore her confidence. Glad I got her before that sob did any more damage, I’ve already told him he was an animal abuser and did not deserve to have another. If he brought one home I would take action, since I got the county inspector on him immediately about encroaching on our property he understands I don’t make idle threats.  

  11. bfitzinAR

    Not sure how many folks here know I took in an abandoned kitteh last Fall who was trying to live under a sedum bush in my back yard and eat birdseed (not birds, birdseed) – but I may have found him a forever home!  A young man at my bank was looking for a loving friend of the feline persuasion and they’ve been trying each other out since Saturday morning.  I haven’t gotten a call to come pick up Reggie so I think maybe they like each other! 🙂

    On the not so good news side, since I’m on the County Personnel Committee, I’m also on the Grievance Committee and we’ve got a grievance hearing Friday evening (I don’t even get paid for this as grievance hearings aren’t considered official Quorum Court meetings) – it’s a toxic mess and I hope the Sheriff’s office doesn’t do investigations of crimes the way they did the investigation on this.  “He said-she said” and the majority wins, leading witnesses, “reminding” them of the issues before taping the interviews.  It’s just a mess.  Hope you guys have a good day – and hoping JanF is doing a nice Beltane diary this week.  Y’all take care, bf

  13. slksfca

    It’s already pretty warm here (high 50s) and we’re expecting 70s at the beach, warmer downtown. Absolutely cloudless morning here.

    Happy Monday to all!

  15. princesspat

    It’s 50&deg, cloudy, raining and sunny…a typical spring day in Bellingham.

    I had a mini vacation this weekend, reading four of Louise Penny’s books. Being in Quebec with Inspector Gamache was lovely 🙂 One more book to go then I have to wait (impatiently) until August for the next one.  

  16. slksfca

    I’ve found a friend to join me for today’s walk in the Botanical Garden. It’s actually going to be tee-shirt and shorts weather, which is extra nice.

    And afterwards we’re going to the pub across from the park for a restorative cocktail or two. Looking forward to some mild hilarity. 🙂

  17. anotherdemocrat

    I had sudden-onset laryngitis. No, seriously, I could barely talk at all. The last 2 people I talked to before lunch – naturally they called between 11:30-11:45 – I was just about shouting at. (getting a person set up takes about 10 minutes of talking, even if the person doesn’t ask a single question) I feel fine, my throat doesn’t even hurt, it just feels strained. I was singing to the radio on the way in to work & felt fine, just lost my voice during the day.

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