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  Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was splendid. Mine was…well, interesting is perhaps the best word.


  PLEASE Don’t Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Fierces on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

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

    58 degrees here, headed for a high of 75. Can’t sleep because my foot hurts. I injured the side of my arch in a hiking mishap this weekend and cannot put any weight on it at all. Good news, it’s not broken. Bad news, that doesn’t help.

    Strange: it happened Saturday. Saturday evening, it wasn’t so bad but Sunday morning I couldn’t put weight on it. On the other hand it didn’t hurt a whole lot as long as I didn’t put weight on it. By this point, it has begun to ache constantly.

    The good news is that I have plenty of practice with crutches.

  3. JanF

    45 degrees in Madison WI … expected high of 66 degrees.

    It’s MONDAY!!! Finally it feels like a Monday, probably because I did not work yesterday to try to get ahead of the week’s crisis. I decided to just let the chips fall where they may today and so far no one has called or emailed me with crisis … although that may have more to do with the fact that they are all still sleeping!!

    All I can say is MOAR COFFEE.

    According to a press release, President Obama is going to make some remarks today on the 5th anniversary of the 2008 financial collapse that led to the Great Recession. It is fitting that he will speak on this the day after one of the architects of the policies that led to that collapse, Lawrence “I like women … as long as they know they will never be as smart as men” Summers, took his name out of the running for Fed Chairman. From the release:

    President Barack Obama will “deliver remarks in the Rose Garden on Monday to mark the 5-year anniversary of the financial crisis, discuss the progress we have made to grow the economy and create 7.5 million private sector jobs, and highlight the work we still need to do to strengthen the middle class and those fighting to get into it.”

    The official said Obama would be joined “on-stage and in the audience by people that have benefited from his economic recovery proposals over the last five years including small business owners, construction workers, homeowners, consumers and tax cut recipients.”

  4. Portlaw

    back down to 49,  Since I’ve been back, things haven ‘t been bad, a de Blasio win in the primaries, maybe a deal on Syrian chemical weapons, and a farewell to Summers. Hoping for good news from Colorado. Went last night to a friend’s for dinner and they had a copy of an old Casals recording from 1915-16. Even now, nearly a century later, there is nothing more ravishing. It was transcendent. Hope you all have a transcendent day, in whatever form that might take!

  5. Diana in NoVa

    Since we’ve banned morning TV again, I haven’t kept up to date with weather first thing in the morning. Wish we’d get some rain!

    We had a busy weekend picking apples in the front yard and then the back.  I moaned on Facebook that women in the old days didn’t need to go to the gym–just standing on their feet for hours peeling, quartering, and cutting the bad bits out of apples was all the exercise they needed!  After a marathon session in the kitchen I had enough apple slices to fill three 1-qt freezer bags. When I need applesauce, I’ll thaw one out, mush up the contents in the blender, and voila!

    Tonight I’ll make an apple sponge for dessert for the four others in the house. Today’s my diet day so I’ll just have an apple. Went out to dinner at a friend’s house last night–delicious but too rich–I put on 2 pounds!

    Off to the gym I go this morning. Everyone have a good day!

  6. nchristine

    60’s today.  Relatively mild for the week.  We got RAIN yesterday.  About 1/2 inch though…. need more and might get more this week.

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, drinking tea. Our rain chances have diminished significantly – that storm that’s causing so much trouble in Mexico hit wrong for us as well as them. We were really hoping for rain — the weather guy said Lake Travis is only 30% full. Temps still in the upper 90s, but at least they’re only there & not 100s. Best thoughts to Mecico & Colorado, dealing with too much water, as we keep dealing with way too little.

    No workout tonight – hosting at Mother’s Cafe for Dining for Life. Several friends have said they’re coming.

    earworm: In The End by Snow Patrol

  8. DeniseVelez

    though I don’t pay a lot of attention to a wide swath of popular culture I have to force myself to – to have discussions with my women’s studies students.

    So I spent time this morning reading responses to the winner of the Miss America Pageant, Miss New York Nina Davuluri, who is the first young woman of Indian heritage to be crowned.

    Seems a firestorm broke out of both support and hate as soon as it was announced.

    Miss New York Nina Davuluri crowned Miss America, racial shots fly on Twitter

    http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/0…

    Miss Terrorist?  

    Sigh.

  9. Otteray Scribe

    Son, DiL and new grandson are coming up for a ten day visit in October. Mostly spent the weekend reflecting on what was and will never be again. Lot of time on Google Earth, looking at places we went and houses we lived in.

    Does eeff ever stop in here? Congrats to eeff and all the guys at his shop. I was tickled to see the team he works for win the big Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland. David Ragan, from all accounts, is one of the nicest men you would ever hope to meet. This is a great win, and proves David can truly slay Goliath. Small team takes on and beats the huge, well funded operations like Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress teams. David also won at Talladega in May, which is a truly Big Deal in auto racing.  

  11. Jk2003

    Cloudy and 58 here in Chicagoland.  Kids are eating waffles and yogurt.  We have a play date this morning before my daughter goes to pm kindergarten.  Maybe it will wear my son out and he will nap!  That would be awesome.  Glad to hear about summers dropping out.  He has had his day, time to move along.

    Have a great day all!

  12. emeraldmaiden

    and a little bit of rain passing through.

    Had furnace service out this morning; heat exchanger is cracked, but we knew that already. No CO emission, so still safe to run, but definitely need a new one pretty soon. That will not happen until FIL dies or furnace definitively kicks the bucket.

    Poor Rich had to take his dad to the supermarket for a slo-mo shopping expedition. The man refuses to use a mobility cart, so he shuffles around the store with his walker, in pain. Oh, pride.

    I have a few absolute to-do’s today; watchbands to make & ship, and lots of envelopes to address for my little side job. Really, I’d rather loll about, eating toast and drinking tea, reading a good book. Alas.

  14. princesspat

    I think it’s time to dry out the patio cushions and umbrellas and put the last of summer away. Here’s hoping my pool workout this morning will give me an energy boost.

  15. slksfca

    Yesterday morning started out really ugly but by afternoon the weather was splendid. I spent several hours in Golden Gate Park with a friend, where we checked out an outdoor comedy festival and observed a swing dancing class under the trees, as well as the multitude of rollerskaters and cyclists that take over the park on Sundays.

    I got home and took a well-deserved nap.

    Today is on track to be equally lovely.

    I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

  16. bfitzinAR

    rain this morning, but just enough to damp the dust.  (Anybody heard from the CO folks?)  

    There’s a very lucky fledgling sparrow out there somewhere – Charlie caught him and I thought Charlie’d broken his wing and legs but being very clumsy myself I wasn’t about to try and “put him out of his pain” – I know I’d have just hurt him more without actually killing him.  After an hour he was so still I thought he was gone so dug a hole and put him in it, at which time he looked at me and moved a wing.  I went inside to wait it out – came back an hour later and he’d gotten out of the hole and was under the bird feeder scarfing, but still not flying, moving one wing but not the other.  An hour later and he flew off!  Now me, emotional rollercoaster and all that, I was a wreck, but hopefully the bird learned to check for cats before landing at a bird feeder and will live to a ripe old age in bird years.  Hope everybody had a good weekend and has a better week.  {{{HUGS}}}

  17. jlms qkw

    kids and i went for a post-supper walk, it was surprisingly warm and 2 of the 3 of us over-dressed.  

    yesterday was sun sun sunny and dry, which i think can only help in colorado when our yesterday’s weather gets there.  

    a few clouds today.  and some air pressure changes, per my sinuses.  

  18. JG in MD

    I have a clean bill of cardiovascular health. I did the entire treadmill test without feeling short of breath and my leg didn’t hurt. Maybe because I did all my exercises this morning? I don’t know but it was a major relief. The whole thing was so easy it feels like a miracle.

    I got a different view of myself today.

    The techs and docs were happy to see me, with my good veins and tendency to be upbeat. Turning 69 last week was a jolt, but OMG I am so lucky to be slimmish and in good health and not bad looking when my face is clean and my hair is brushed.

    My heart went out to the obese people and worried people who were going through the tests. I felt humbled and appreciative of my good genes and dumb luck, an attitude adjustment that I hope will show in my thoughts and behavior.

    And the doctor and the male tech were handsome and charming. Altogether a nice morning.

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