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  Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Yes, snow at our house. Again. Really, universe? It’s the middle of March already!!  ::takes deep cleansing breath::


  PLEASE Don’t Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Fierces on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The check-in is an open thread and general social hour.

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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23 comments

  1. iriti

    Late afternoon forecast yesterday wad 1-3″. Current forecast: 5-10″.

    I’m supposed to fly to Kentucky this evening. Hopefully we’ll still be able to go but who knows.

    Dear Winter: go away. Now.

  2. JanF

    12 degrees in Madison with an expected high of 35. 48 tomorrow!!

    As long as your destination is snow-free you should be able to take off, iriti. It is landing in the snow that causes the most trouble. If it is still snowing, you can expect to be de-iced multiple times which could make you late.

    One February, we went on vacation to Cancun. We had a connecting flight in Detroit that we missed because our plane had to be de-iced twice in Madison. We had to get on the standby list in Detroit (with dozens of other people) to get on the next flight. They kept changing the departure time of that flight (because it had to go back for de-icing) so we were not sure when we would leave. Not a great way to start a trip. And then we found out that Cancun is not really warm in February. Warmer but not lay-by-the-pool-all-day warm.

    Happy St. Paddy’s Day to those who celebrate. Good for the mayor of Boston and various corporate sponsors to boycott the anti-gay parade:


    In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the parade organizers have the legal right to exclude people, under their First Amendment free speech protections, despite a Massachusetts state law that prohibits employment and public accommodation discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D), Boston’s mayor from 1993 to January of this year, boycotted the parade every year since 1994 over the anti-gay policy.

    [Mayor Marty] Walsh lamented the lack of a deal and the hypocrisy of the parade organizers’ continued anti-LGBT exclusion. “The St. Patrick’s Day parade was born out of the celebration of Evacuation Day, a day set aside to recognize and honor our military and those brave Americans who have banded together for the sake of freedom. And so much of our Irish history has been shaped by the fight against oppression,” he said.

    Exclusion may be free speech but it is no longer getting a free pass.

    Busy Monday here. PLEASE stay out of trouble, all y’alls.

  3. DeniseVelez

    have always been “a little bit Irish”

    Today I’d like all straight NY’ers to be “a little bit gay” – and stay away from the parade.

    16 degrees here.

    Sigh.

     

  4. Portlaw

    St. Patrick’s Day piece in the Times directed to Paul Ryan who is part Irish. Will excerpt relevant parts because of the paywall. It’s about the Great Famine and Ryan’s Irish Amnesia

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03…

    On one side of the Irish Sea was Victorian England, flush with the pomp and prosperity of the world’s mightiest empire. On the other side were skeletal people, dying en masse, the hollow-bellied children scrounging for nettles and blackberries.

    A great debate raged in London: Would it be wrong to feed the starving Irish with free food, thereby setting up a “culture of dependency”?

    The English guy in charge, Lord Trevelyan wrote


    “Dependence on charity,” he declared, “is not to be made an agreeable mode of life.”

    Tum Egan of the Times points out that a million died, one out of eight, and the great immigration to the US began, one that included Ryan’s ancestor. He continues that England was exporting food produced in Ireland. A timely reminder on St. Patrick.s Day.Forgot the booze and parade. This is what matters. Charity comes first.

  5. Diana in NoVa

    Hello, iriti, Jan, Denise, and other meese! Yikes, how about six inches, possibly seven, and flurries still coming down?

    It’s unusual for this area to get any snow at all, but this late in March it’s almost unheard of! My son and daughter-in-law are staying home with Miss Pink Cheeks today, so I get to stay home too. Think I’ll have waffles with apples in cider syrup for breakfast.

    It was a marvelous, although exhausting weekend, involving a house guest from Pennsylvania, my birthday tea for 22 people, and uploading my book yesterday to Smashwords. It’s still undergoing review. Today I have to look at the ePub files. If it hadn’t been for my desktop publisher, who knew what she was doing, I’d never have made it this far.

    Still have to write the final scene of the Ostara story, work on college granddaughter’s story, and think about finishing the novella I started during National Novel Writing Month last November. Whose bright idea was it to hold that contest in November, the busiest month of the year? Not only is one coping with the Thanksgiving dinner but also with Christmas shopping, house cleaning, and cards!  Oh, well, we’ll see how it goes.

    Everyone have a safe, warm day! I’m going downstairs to make breakfast and ponder the mystery of the missing flight 370. I had so hoped the aircraft landed somewhere beyond the reach of radar and that all the passengers and crew were still alive.

  6. anotherdemocrat

    It’s cold this morning – 40s (hey, I was wearing sandals on Saturday, so this feels cold!). I brought a duffel bag full of freshly washed wrappings to roll up before my appointment.

    Happy St Patrick’s Day. I know the story is bullshit, and all the other stuff, but some of my ancestors killed some of my other ancestors over this stuff, so I choose to celebrate the Irish part of my heritage today. Wearing green & my really big Celtic knot earrings.

  7. anotherdemocrat

    one of the “critical” people — the husband of the woman who died at the scene — has been upgraded to “fair”

    One girl (a high schooler) who is still in the hospital, got a visit from her favorite band, who came & seranaded here. And $50,000 has been raised to pay for the expenses of the injured, I’m sure more to follow.

  8. princesspat

    I’m hoping to resolve a plumbing problem today. The spring in our neighbors yard is now draining into a storm drain in our yard. But the (barely legal) drain is plugged so all the water is running down the sidewalk…causing all the neighbors to complain!

    Hope we can all work together to fix it, and that the powers that be will look the other way on the barely legal part. Sometimes a spring just has a mind of its own.

  9. bfitzinAR

    yesterday was wet.  Rain started overnight, morphed through “wintry mix” to snow by noon, snowed relatively steadily although fluctuating in strength through the rest of the day.  And the daffodils liked it!  Silly daffodils.  Dry but chilly today but back in the 60s tomorrow.  It’s definitely Spring.  Oh, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day. 🙂  (The best corned beef and cabbage I ever had was served over rice at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco.  America – where diversity shows up in fascinating ways!)

    It’s Monday so lebenty-hundred emails to deal with – which I just did and decided I’d better check in before I started my work or it would be afternoon before I got here.  Haz a wonderful day in Moosylvania.  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  10. bubbanomics

    got a little earthquakie here in LA, 6.25 am-ish.  4.4 on the richter scale, which puts it at the meh- level.

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