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Week-ending Welcomings from Moosylvania: Thursday, July 17 thru Saturday, July 19

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Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings series provides the moose, new and old, a place to visit and share our words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit.

In lieu of daily check-ins, which went on hiatus, welcomings diaries will be posted at the start of each week (every Sunday morning) and then, if necessary, on Wednesday or Thursday to finish off the week. To find the diaries, just bookmark this link and Voila! (which is moose for “I found everyone!!”).

The format is simple: each day, the first moose to arrive on-line will post a comment welcoming the day and complaining or bragging about their weather. Or mentioning an interesting or thought provoking news item. Or just checking in.

So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?

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  2. JanF

    Follow NN14 from Home

    Thursday, 7/17 – All Times Eastern

       8:00 a.m.: Morning News Dump with Lizz Winstead, Shannyn Moore and Cliff Schecter

       10:00 a.m.: AM TWiB w/ L. Joy Williams

       11:30 a.m.: The Shannyn Moore Show

       1:00 p.m.: Historical Blackness: Movements as Models: What the History of Organizing Can Teach Today’s Organizers

       3:00 p.m.: TWiBPrime w/ Elon James White: Biden Introduction

       3:30 p.m.: Keynote featuring Vice President Joe Biden

       4:30 p.m.: TWiBPrime w/ Elon James White: Biden Reaction

       7:15 p.m.: Opening keynote featuring Rev. William Barber

       9:00 p.m: Laughing Liberally Comedy Show

  3. DeniseVelez

    in about 15 minutes to volunteer at the reception desk.  Am hangin’ with my buddy Shanikka.

    Will log back in later – am not takin’ my laptop over there.

     

  4. Portlaw

    now includes the Convention Center in Detroit! Alas, am out tonight so won’t see the Rev Barber but am sure he will appear on You Tube.

    It’s a wonderful weather day here but have just checked out the news headlines  which are in no way wonderful.

     Coffee, noe,  and will stop by later to see how everybody is.

    Thanks, Jam, for this Part Two of our week long check in. Lots of chatting in the pond!

    Hope it’s a good day for all and for the rest of the suffering world.

  5. anotherdemocrat

    highs only in the low 90s because of the rain – and we might get more rain tomorrow!

    Eating breakfast (some mango thing I got at Whole Paycheck – yes, I know we’re supposed to be boycotting them, but they had a great sale on cherries) & drinking tea. And that’s really all. I haven’t done anything all week. Earworm is Invisible, by U2 of course.

  6. Diana in NoVa

    by the hyphen, even though editors are supposed to hyphenate all winter and make everything one word in the summer.

    It’s 70 delightful degrees F. here in Northern Virginia, going up to a torrid 82 F. today. This is, like, totally unheard of in the summer, to the max. Long may it last–we turned off the a.c. yesterday in the hope of saving money and breathing actual air.

    This is Wading in the Creek morning at Nature Camp. I dressed Miss Pink Cheeks in her bathing suit, provided her with Crocs to wade in, and stashed a beach towel in her backpack. Thank Goddess tomorrow is the last day of camp and I won’t have to curse my way through morning traffic for two weeks!

    Yesterday I finished writing “House of Blue” and today I’m going to tweak it. This weekend I really should work on the Web site but the very thought intimidates me, so it’s going to be stressful.

    Denise, hope you enjoy Netroots Nation! JanF, hope you enjoy the blissful weather and get all your projects under control to your satisfaction. Portlaw, drinking my coffee now, haven’t looked at the news yet–and now I get the feeling I shouldn’t. 🙂 Anotherdemocrat, why are we supposed to boycott Whole Paycheck? I can’t remember. I know why we’re not supposed to shop at Staples. My pocketbook is the entity that boycotts Whole Paycheck. I did go there to buy safe children’s sunscreen, though, a while back.

    Will stop by later as time permits–having lunch with two of my Circle sisters today. Later!

  7. princesspat

    The grand girls will be here soon, and according to their father they are in need of a quiet day which is fine with me.  We’ll be lazy this morning then they can help prepare a bundle of rose hips for my friends at the flower shop. The rose bush is falling off the trellis so I need to prune it but the rose hips are to nice to toss.

    Thanks again for the check in Jan. It’s nice to share moments of our days.

  8. bfitzinAR

    duct-work guys who had some stuff to in the house before they can finish the stuff under the house.  Fay., AR is at 68 right now (which is actually 3 degrees higher than the forecast) and I dug out my (lightest) wool slacks for work today as we’ve also got rain in the forecast, I’ve got QC tonight, and wet wool is considerably less uncomfortable than wet cotton or linen and it is cool enough to wear wool.

    JanF – I like both “option 2” titles.  Hyphens are your friends 🙂 My training in editing (which may or may not be as valid as anybody else’s on this site considering I got from the Houston Independent School District then a “reminder” from the Development dept at Bechtel) says if the words are used as an adjective hyphenate them, if a noun then compound word.

  9. Cali Scribe

    Got to get back to work on the cleaning/packing crap soon; Mr. Scribe went over to rent a small storage space for us to use as a 2-3 month staging area for a lot of the stuff we won’t have time to sort through before the move. Figure I’ll get some more work done between Biden and Barber — that’ll give me a couple of hours or so California time.

    Missing baseball, or rather a baseball-related friend; he’s been Twitter-silent since the All-Star Break started. :/

    Have a good one….

  10. JanF

    58 degrees here in Madison on its way up to 78 degrees. Mostly sunny.

    Can someone stop all the bad news? I may have to take a couple of steps back from it because, really, there is nothing I can do except worry. The world stage right now is filled with people stepping on each others lines. I am pretty sure it does not have to be this way. It is a global pissing contest and the losers are the ordinary people just trying to survive.

    See you later!!

  11. Diana in NoVa

    I’m not sure as to exact temperatures yet.

    Went to look at the new laptop I want yesterday. I didn’t think anything by Apple ever went on sale, but apparently this one is on sale just for today so I’d better get it. It will mean a complete upheaval in all my files as Apple uses different products. Just hope my MS Word files from a Windows machine will be somewhat compatible.

    Spent yesterday being horrified by the latest disasters–another Malaysian airliner lost with all on board? That just makes my stomach feel as if it’s dropping out, and as for the four little children playing soccer on a beach one minute and the next minute blown to perdition–well, I am beyond horrified.

    War, war, war! And religion, religion, religion! Don’t men ever tire of it?

  12. anotherdemocrat

    Quite a storm overnight. Maybe 5 inches of rain! And flooding: flood pictures. The 2 that say “45th street” — I live about 6-ish blocks north of that.

    So, I’m drinking really extra strong tea today. Trying to stick a more energetic song than U2’s “Yahweh” in my head, but that’s what’s there now.

  13. Portlaw

    enjoy it. The news is so dreadful. My eyes keep tearing up and my heart keeps sinking down. Too many images I can’t get out of my mind, And, of course, these stories aren’t over.

  14. princesspat

    I had a sweet day with the grand girls yesterday….preparing and delivering the rose hips, reading a Junie B. Jones book to Ava, helping Emma earn more money for her trip, eating lunch on the patio….an idyllic summer day. Yet my heart was (and remains) heavy with worries re the news of the day.

    Thanks to all for sharing my concerns.

  15. bfitzinAR

    they’re still working on my HVAC ducts so I’m grateful.  Been doing a lot of useless crap today – I can’t actually do anything I need to do because all of it is hung up in one approval chain or another, but I can keep telling people who continually ask which project is hung up in which approval chain which is what I’ve been doing.  Sigh. QC last night could have been worse (and will be again, unfortunately) and the next meeting isn’t until 8/4.  Hope things are going well in Moosylvania and da meeses have a wonderful weekend.  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  16. JanF

    60 degrees in Madison WI with an expected high of 79. Heating up tomorrow and expected to be almost 90 by the beginning of the week.

    Quick scan of the news … why do some news outlets call the Malaysian jet a “crash”? It was blown out of the air by a missile. I see that some are calling it “downed” which makes more sense. Sure, the plane eventually crashed to the ground but that is secondary to the story.

    The president in his statement yesterday:

    Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine.  We also know that this is not the first time a plane has been shot down in eastern Ukraine.  Over the last several weeks, Russian-backed separatists have shot down a Ukrainian transport plane and a Ukrainian helicopter, and they claimed responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet. Moreover, we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from Russia.  This includes arms and training.  It includes heavy weapons, and it includes anti-aircraft weapons.

    He went on to praise the Ukrainian government and call out the Russians for giving the Ukrainian deadenders weapons and support.

    See all y’all later!!

  17. Portlaw

    is grim for many parts of the world, as you all know.

    Will read more and check in later. Hope it’s a good day for all in Mooslyvania.  

  18. JanF

    Aside from the heat (where the average temperature in July is 106 degrees), many people I communicated with expressed concern about pumping money into the economy of a state that regularly practices discrimination. The taxes from Phoenix convention center, Phoenix hotel rooms, and Arizona restaurants go to pay the salaries of the state legislature which passed SB 1070 and SB 1062. Why would you want to do that?? Yes, Gov. Brewer vetoed SB 1062, under pressure, and lots of SB 1070 was stricken down by the courts but those bills reflect the feelings of the Arizona government.

    I heard this morning that the GOS will not be participating in NN15. I am not sure how it survives.

    (p.s. I wasn’t going to weigh in on this because some meese are NNers but after reading about the DK announcement, it seems like a safe topic.)  

  19. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast & watching Up. Interesting segments on the plane, now Barney Frank is making an ass of himself on the Israel/Palestine issue. So I’m flipping over to Le Tour.

    Using my heating pad on my neck. No idea why the muscles just tightened up like that. But after yesterday’s massage, I at least have full range of motion for my head.

    Today: groceries & the county party’s campaign kick off party

  20. Diana in NoVa

    At the pond here the sky is overcast. It’s cool and gray like a November morning. Don’t mind the coolness but a gray sky on Saturday is kind of a downer.

    What is the GOS that won’t be at NN next year? I agree that it seems odd to have it in Arizona, a state that has made many people feel unwelcome. We’ve got the small-town equivalent right here in Virginia, in the form of one rednecked Corey Stewart, who has made sure that anyone with brown skin feels unwelcome in Manassas. There was a radio interview with him the other day, which I promptly turned off. I don’t need to listen to a hate-spate while I’m driving.

    As Portlaw noted, the news is bad. I was trying to look up the name of an organization run almost single-handedly by a woman in Miami, Florida, who helps undocumented immigrants. I thought it was called “American Fraternity” but Auntie Google did not provide a satisfactory answer when questioned. I wanted to donate a little money to this woman, who seems to be providing comfort out of her own pocket.

    Here in Virginia this is the weekend of the Remote Area Medical clinic in coal mining country. Terry McAuliffe, our gov, went there to tell people he wanted to help them get health care. However, some of those interviewed expressed disdain of “Obamacare” and Medicaid, saying they were hard-working people who didn’t want handouts. I suppose they believe whatever Fox Nudes tells them and have no knowledge of countries where health care is considered a right, not a privilege for the fortunate few.

    On the home front, the raspberry canes are not producing. I wonder whether it’s because of the Japanese beetles that are chomping their way through the raspberry thicket. I shake them off when I see them, but we’ve never used poison on our “crops,” and I’m not going to start now. All the same, it bothers me not to be able to go out and pick raspberries for my little girl’s breakfast. In previous years I’ve been able to do that until mid-October.

    Oh, well, I suppose we can console ourselves with the idea that we did have quite a nice strawberry crop this year.

    My heart is still heavy about the downed plane and the seemingly unending conflict between Israel and Gaza. I wonder where the unfortunate residents of Gaza are expected to go? It’s not as if anyone is offering them a home.  

  21. princesspat

    The moist air coming in my window feels just right this morning.

    It appears I have another month of “da boot”.  I had an x ray and exam yesterday, and my toe still has multiple fractures. Due to compromised circulation (thanks BCH) and arthritis (thanks genetic history) healing is slow. So, I have yet another personal growth opportunity. I know the elevated the leg/foot drill and I’ll do the best I can, but smiling while doing so is a challenge!

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