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Thursday Morning Herd Check-in

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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.

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.

The important stuff to get you started:

– Comments do not Auto-refresh. Click the refresh/reload on your tab to see new ones. Only click Post once for comments. When a diary’s comment threads grow, the page takes longer to refresh and the comment may not display right away.

– To check for replies to your comments, click the “My Comments” link in the right-hand column (or go to “My Moose”). Comments will be listed and a link to Recent Replies will be shown. (Note: Tending comments builds community)

– Ratings: Fierce means Thumbs Up, Fail means Thumbs Down, Meh means one of three things: I am unFailing you but I can’t Fierce you, I am unFiercing after a mistaken Fierce, … or Meh. Just Meh. (p.s. Ratings don’t bestow mojo, online behaviour does).

– The Recommended list has a prominent place on the Front Page because it reflects the interests of the Moose. When people drive-by, we want them to see what we are talking about: news, politics, science, history, personal stories, culture. The list is based on number of recs and days on the list. Per Kysen: “The best way to control Rec List content is to ONLY rec diaries you WANT to see ON the list.”

– 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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18 comments

  2. Diana in NoVa

    so they allege. We’re still damp and gray this morning after yesterday’s torrential rains. So much for toasting my apple trees in cider at Beltane! Perhaps I’ll get a chance to do it later.

    My son is taking Miss Pink Cheeks to day care today, so I’m having a rare weekday morning at home.

    Think I might actually go to the gym this morning. It’s only been about three months since I last set foot in it.

    Off now to look up a recipe for oatcakes for the Cakes and Ale portion of our ritual tomorrow. Have already dried the woodruff, will put it in the bowl of nonalcoholic white wine to steep overnight for the May Bowl. I love woodruff. Organic strawberries are on sale today at Harris Teeter, so will stop by there and get some of those for the May Bowl too.

    Hope everyone will have a good day today and will stay dry. 🙂

  3. DeniseVelez

    workers are marching and protesting in NYC – and we have an adjunct faculty demo on campus today – but it’s raining.

    Have to go put buckets out to collect first rain of May – something my grandmother always did

  5. anotherdemocrat

    cool this morning, mid-70s by the afternoon — though we would trade it for rain, the drought update was very depressing

    Eating breakfast, did bills. Glad to be at work where it will be noisy & we will be busy & I won’t have to think about those girls in Nigeria. The whole time we lived in the Middle East (from when I was 10 on), I was told I was especially a target for being snatched away because I’m a blonde. All Western women had to be cautious & stay in groups, ect, but I was told to be extra alert & cautious because people wanted to grab me — and what’s happened to those girls is what I was told could easily happen to me. The worst that did happen to me was continual aggressive sexual harrassment. But that update on what has happened just has me really freaked out.

    Ok, must play some happy poppy music in my head now, or I’ll have to leave work because I just want to scream.

  6. Diana in NoVa

    Perhaps I’ll get to toast my apple trees in cider after all.  The streets are drying too.

    Still cannot believe the amount of rain we had yesterday.

  7. bfitzinAR

    and maybe back to 70s tomorrow.  Happy May Day (is that an oxymoron considering that May Day is a distress signal?) to Moosylvania!  Can’t seem to get caught up here – every time I think I’m getting close, something changes and I’m having to redo stuff I thought I was finished with.  Sigh.  Irises are starting to bloom which is nice since the daffs are gone and the peonies haven’t opened up yet.  We could still use some more showers, but the May flowers are lovely.  

  10. HappyinVT

    it will likely be gone.  ðŸ™‚

    Supposed to get to the mid-60s so I wish I could be out in the yard.

    Got my mockorange bushes yesterday and while they are small they are blooming!  I have four of them to get in the ground and hope to do that tomorrow, thought for a brief moment it was Friday, and that it would have to wait until Sunday.

    (The sun is still out, btw.)  ðŸ™‚

  11. rb137

    Remember that video I wrote about last month or so? Well, you fellow moosen kept it front and center and supported it — and here it is!

    If you don’t remember the diary, have a look here:

    http://www.motleymoose.com/sho…

    Thanks so much. I’ll post something substantive about the project later — I was just so excited that I had to share the video today.  ðŸ™‚

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