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Saturday All Day Check-in for the Herd: Greetings of the Moosekin

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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

On weekends (and holidays), you may find the check-in thread earlier or later than normal because … it is the weekend! Moosies need their beauty rest:

For those 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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– Finally, the posting rules for a new diary: “Be excellent to each other… or else”

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

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  2. Otteray Scribe

    Now on the second cup of Cajun coffee, but the first one has not kicked in yet.

    70 at the moment with forecast high of 86.  Talked to the kids last night. Son is in St. Louis for a trauma medicine seminar which ended on Thursday. They had hoped to do fun stuff stuff yesterday. Temperature was 103 and forecast for low 100s today. Humidity is also high, driving the heat index up. He said it was literally to hot to get out of the car, especially with grandson who is 10 mos old.

    I worry about the elderly and other vulnerable people who cannot afford air conditioning when the heat index is that high.

    Here’s one way to cool off. Or something.

  3. JanF

    Someone pointed out that yesterday, August 30th, was Molly Ivins birthday and posted a PBS video commemorating her way too short life.

    Accompanying the video was a link to her November 4, 2004 column on the recent election (I refuse to call it “re”-election) of George W. Bush: November 4

    The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.

    If she only knew the stench that been left. I am glad she did not witness that people did indeed elect more, and worse, Republicans to Congress in 2010 and one who is working to be the worst of them all, Ted Cruz of Canada Texas in 2012.

    She did leave us with this excellent advice, as good now as it was in 2004:

    So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country – join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and offer to volunteer, find a politician you like at the local level and start helping him or her to move up.

    Think about how you can lend a hand to the amazing myriad efforts that will promptly break out to help the country recover from what it has done to itself. Now is the time. Don’t mourn, organize.

  4. Otteray Scribe

    I am working on a series of stories/diaries about women I have admired over the years. Most are dead and gone now, but our world is better because they were here. My first one is going to be about one if the most remarkable woman ever, but who few have heard of, Sabrina Jackintell.

    Did I mention that most of these women were aviators?  

  5. emeraldmaiden

    I’ve just gotten up, and have already gotten myself around most of a cup of coffee.

    Dunno what I’m going to do today; I like to keep the weekends relatively free of business, though. We shall see. Maybe I’ll finally get my loom warped, and try to weave some dishtowels.

  6. JG in MD

    Hi ev’ybuddy… I’m sort of in the dumps this morning. I think my local virus came back and bit me again yesterday, I was dizzy and nauseated and tired by evening. I’m hoping today I’ll be healthy again. All power to those fightin’ white blood cells.

    I’ve written some words about a situation I’m in. I don’t want to talk about it on social media. I kind of need some moral support. If anybody is willing to cogitate on it with me and you have my email, would you send me a yoo-hoo? Thanks.

  7. Jk2003

    My day started with the firemen tromping around our back neighbors yard ( the house is under contract but empty) as a branch came down during the storm last night and brought the power line with it.  Could put a damper on my husbands birthday party this afternoon if ComEd is here dealing with that mess.

    I have casted on for a houndstooth scarf in dark grey and yellow/orange this morning.  Kids and hubby are at the store.  

    And college football starts today.  BOOMER SOONER!

    After this round of rain clears it will be mid eighties and less humid (I hope).

    Have a great day all.

  8. slksfca

    None of that clammy grey stuff. I slept in, which felt good. Predicted highs: 67 at the beach, low 70s downtown. Probably crossing town today to hang out in a friend’s garden.

  9. princesspat

    RonK will be back today, and the list of projects I had hoped to get done while he was gone remains untouched. All I’ve done is rest, exercise and tend to my creaky knees.

    I did finish the new Inspector Gamache book, How The Light Gets In. This book brings the mystery that has been developing through all the other books to either a conclusion or a new beginning. I’m hoping for the later because I thoroughly enjoy being transported to Quebec with Armand!

    It’s important to read this series in order, because while each book has a stand alone mystery  the Inspector Gamache story develops with each book.

  10. JG in MD

    I’m going out to lunch with a new friend from the seniors group. She’s smart, funny and cheerful. I had almost forgotten that people like that exist. TTYL.

  11. jlms qkw

    i can’t believe i am taking my kids to this movie that they asked for.  i will make it clear that it is every bit as much of a fantasy as star trek.  even if some of the places are real.  

    i have always tolerated movie violence for my kids.  action flicks are me.  

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