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Wednesday Watering Hole: Check In & Hangout for the Herd

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Good morning, Moosekind.


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

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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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21 comments

  1. iriti

    With snow due tonight. How much? 0 – 22″ as far as I can tell. No, seriously. There are 4 models I’ve been following. One shows the whole stirm going East of us. One show us getting absolutely hammered. The other two show the worst of it East of us but us still in the ‘pretty darn bad’ zone. Apparently this is a shifty and poorly behaved storm.

    Does seem to be unanimous though that Atlanta & points nearby are doomed.

    On the plus side, I get my stitches out today!

    Happy Wednesday, Meeses!!

  2. Diana in NoVa

    Currently it’s 15 degrees F. here in Northern Virginia and although it’s still dark outside I can see that the top of my husband’s pickup truck in the street below is white with frost.

    I’m up after another terrible, sleepless night. Have to go to my son’s house at 7:30 to dress and feed Miss Pink Cheeks and get her off to day care–she certainly won’t be going there tomorrow. Then my niece and great-nephew are coming over for coffee.

    “They” say we could get 10 inches of snow. In Washington, DC, you never know!  We’ve made certain preparations, including getting gas for the generator.

    Yesterday afternoon I was in the nail salon and therefore forced to watch CNN on the wall screen as I can’t read when the technician is doing my nails. “Ice storm will DESTROY the South!” screamed one headline. It’ll probably cause a lot of distress and some structural damage, but…destroy the whole South?

    Oh, well, tomorrow when we’re snowed in we can take our coffee here and commiserate with each other. 🙂

  3. JanF

    It is a balmy 4 degrees here with an expected high of 21. We will get a dusting of snow, less than an inch. The long range forecast shows above freezing (36!!) for the first time since what-seems-like-forever next Monday. The City of Madison sent out alerts that people should run a pencil thin stream of water from their taps because the laterals are freezing. Lake Mendota has 24 inches of ice, normal winter is about 12 inches. It has been very cold here for a very long time.

    I have a stack of must-do work sitting next to my computer and I think I finally have my distractions corralled (I put them in one big stack off to the side with a sticky note saying “LATER!!” on top of it). Sometimes my clients don’t pay promptly but they never pay when I don’t send them a bill so that needs to get done now.

    See all y’alls later!!  

  4. anotherdemocrat

    One more cold morning, then it is supposed to warm up. Today, they are saying that the low Sunday morning will be 52. So, I’m going to get a sweater at Goodwill that I don’t like so I can take it off along the course & not worry about it. People go along the course after the race & pick up disgarded clothing and if it doesn’t have a “return to” note attached, donate it to the shelters. I’ll need a sweater to begin with, but definitely not the whole way.

    Today: leave early for eye doc, and it is supposed to be sunny & 50-something, so maybe a walk. And potatoes for dinner.

  5. DeniseVelez

    We are now under a “Winter Storm Warning” for Thursday and Friday and I have to go to school both days.

  6. bfitzinAR

    stay safe (and warm if possible) to those in the storm’s path.  (“destroy the whole south” my eye – it’s February.  You want problems, get an April hard freeze like we had in 2006 – that took out the fruit crops from eastern OK/TX to the Atlantic Coast!)  QC meeting last night only ran an hour but I’ll be glad when my stint is done.  One JP asks the same question over and over and over again – the fact he gets the same answer every time does not stop him from asking it at the next meeting.  One JP tells the same fictitious story about how much he pays his employees or how we should cut the millage and “give that money back to the tax payers” at every meeting.  I’m just tired of it.  Anyway, {{{HUGS}}} to all in Mooseland and happy healing to those who need it.

  7. princesspat

    Last night became a series of long naps, and I just woke up from the last one.

    I’ve forgotten Valentines should be in the mail though, so my cards to the family will be late this year. Oh well, they will understand.

    I tripped over Ron’s camera case yesterday, and smiled as the familiar “put this thing where it belongs” words left my mouth. He’s well enough to annoy me…..progress!

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