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Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF! Don’t forget to let your peeps know where to find you.


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

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Friday Coffee Hour and 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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41 comments

  1. iriti

    59 here in the Shenandoah Valley, headed for a high of 80 today. Summer’s last gasp.

    If ever there was a TGIF, today is it. What a week!  

  2. JanF

    The good part I am not sure of unless it is “good” to still be alive … that works. “Morning” under those circumstances, is inevitable.

    It is 67 degrees in Madison WI on its way aaaaalll the way up to 70 degrees. Bigass storms rumbled through here last night … I was stuck driving in the first one and my body is sore from white knuckle driving.

    Today President Obama takes another step sure to anger his enemies. I suspect at this point he could not care any less. His enemies are awful ugly people and they don’t really deserve any quarter. I have dark thoughts about Republicans this morning.

    A year ago the president told Congress that we needed to do something about climate change. In his acceptance speech at the nominating convention last year, one of his strongest statements was about our earth and the damage we are doing to her. Today his EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, will announce new coal power plant regulations at a speech at the National Press Club.

    If I have time, I will put up the webcast in a diary. It is good to think about our earth as we approach the equinox. It is the quiet time and when we regenerate ourselves from within.

    See you all later!!!

  3. DeniseVelez

    drinking coffee and preparing my notes for school

    Lecturing on “race” today – which is a confusing topic for students.  The only thing that is worse is trying to explain “social class” to US students who all see themselves as part of some fuzzy middle class – but can’t explain what “class” is.

    None know any class theory, or even Weber’s theories of status – sigh – none have ever heard of Weber.

    A few have some vague ideas about the 99% versus the 1%  due to OWS, but when asked who and what are the 1% they don’t get that either

    They can’t define “capitalism” or “socialism” …there are so many times I wonder,  what the hell are we teaching high school students?

    My lecture today is mostly to freshmen since it’s an intro course in women’s studies – how to explain the intersections of race, class and gender if the first two terms are really unclear is an obstacle each semester.

    Okay – I have whined enough 🙂

    Will now drink more coffee and enjoy the next 2 hours before leaving for work.

  4. blue jersey mom

    I am headed to the office to do some lab work. It is going to be sunny and warm in NYC. I just love this time of year. I hope that everyone has a great day and a wonderful weekend.  

  5. anotherdemocrat

    Rain!! WooHoo! Almost makes up for waking up at 4:15. We’ve had an inch already, it is expected to rain more this afternoon, and maybe even overnight. The weather guy said it has cooled off, but putting even a really light rain jacket on felt really hot. But — rain! And Sunday & Monday we’re supposed to have lows in the 60s.

    Other than that, very few thoughts in my head. Even taking 10 mg of melatonin & 700-800 mg of valerian, I still barely slept last night. Oh, and some homeopathic thing, too. Someone, please make my brain shut up at night. I was going to do another diary, but I just can’t make my brain function enough. This check in took me 20 minutes to write, with pauses to close my eyes “for just a minute”.

  6. Portlaw

    it’s a good day for all. Hoping against hope that the news about food stamps was just a bad dream. On a positive note, the news from Iran might be good. Time for coffee.

  7. Portlaw

    it’s a good day for all. Hoping against hope that the news about food stamps was just a bad dream. On a positive note, the news from Iran might be good. Time for coffee.

  8. Diana in NoVa

    Girl, I could get used to this weather!

    Let’s see:  quickly make the beds, tidy up the living room and dining room, head out to the gym, come home and make a huge spice cake, quickly shop for a pineapple for tonight’s dessert and blackberries for Sunday breakfast, take the dog to the vet for his rabies shot at 3:30, then come home and collapse.

    Have been feeling really “up” lately, despite the fact that Monty Beagle has escaped at least once a day and barked his brains out in the woods.  He always comes home after an hour or two, but I often wonder why the neighbors don’t shoot him. We have a huge, fenced backyard for him to play in, but when we open the front door to drag in the groceries or whatever, he slips out like a greased eel and that’s that.

    The Circle Sisters are coming over tomorrow for a Mabon ritual, followed by afternoon tea. Dearly Beloved, my younger son, granddaughter, Monty, and Hudson, my elder son’s chocolate Lab, will have to take themselves off to the dog park for two hours while all this is going on.

    On Sunday Younger Son and I are thinking of making Tarte Tatin and Creme Brulee.  I made raspberry ice cream yesterday and still have cream left over, so we’ve got to do something with it.

  9. JG in MD

    Looks like another gorgeous day. Today is Caring Hands at the seniors group, the give-back-to-the-community committee. My first time for that. Will take the cards I’ve made in my madness to do something with my hands, pictures glued to the fronts of blank folded cards, with envelopes even. Not as awful as they sound, honest.

  10. Otteray Scribe

    Been keeping an eye on the Bayou Corne situation in Assumption Parish, LA. There have not been any major slough-ins for a few days, but that salt dome is about three miles by one mile in size, and the area bored out goes down thousands of feet. The entire salt deposit is about the same size as Mt. Everest. How would you like to live on top of that, especially since the geologists are saying the sidewall of the dome has been fracked and collapsed? That is something entirely new so there is no prior geological model for them to work from in the calculations.

    The last time the top of a salt dome collapsed it was bad, but a sidewall collapse is a whole ‘nother story. The Lake Peigneur salt dome collapsed in 1980, and was caught on film.

  11. bfitzinAR

    back into the 70s for the high (actually 60s right now and the low tonight is predicted in the low 50s).  I’d say Autumn jumped in a couple of days early.  Sweet!  QC last night could have been (and was just last month) considerably worse.  We did pass the vet and vet tech for the Animal Shelter – after spending 15 minutes convincing the Rs not to add an amendment to shut down the spay-neuter voucher program with it.  Yes, we will be bringing the spay-neuter program in house when we have the full-time vet – but approving the hire and having one on board, the backed up stuff cleared, and a new in-house spay-neuter program/procedure in place are two different things.  To make up for it, the Rs refused to approve the unanimously-approved-in-Finance-Committee 4-wheel drive vehicle for the Coroner.  They magnanimously (serious sarcasm) offered a 2-wheel drive instead, which he took knowing it was that or notion.  After getting my food shopping done as early as possible, I’ll be holing up at home this weekend.  Follow the link if you wish to know why.  http://www.bikesbluesandbbq.org/  I’ll check back if I can and y’all have a lovely Friday and a better weekend.  {{{HUGS}}}

  12. princesspat

    After a long consult with my Dr. yesterday we decided that the best medicine for me is the least amount possible…..seems that the side effects from taking Celebrex for the miserable arthritis flare I’ve been experiencing is making everything worse 🙁

    In a way it reaffirms what I know…..sometimes it is best to just cope and leave the meds alone. So I’m going to buy some mums for the back entrance, plant the asters I found as I said goodbye to my favorite garden shop (just closing for the season) try nor to let the mean R’s get me down, and try to enjoy my day.

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