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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Sunday, July 20

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Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings diary series gives 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 have gone on hiatus, Welcomings diaries will be posted at the start of each week (every Sunday morning) and then, if necessary due to a large number of comments, on Wednesday or Thursday to end 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 new day and complaining (or bragging!) about their weather. Or mentioning an interesting or thought provoking news item. Or simply checking in.

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

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  2. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, watching Up and the Tour. There is heavy rain at the finish, so that’ll be interesting.

    Today I’m cooking, cleaning out the fridge & moving some clothes around. My half marathon training starts in a few weeks & I want to put my workout clothes in a better place. And I really should start with at least little half hour walks so I won’t be in laughable condition when that starts.  

  4. Diana in NoVa

    a pale blue sky. Temp and humidity still low enough to have the windows open and the fans on.

    Had a relaxing Saturday. Amused myself by comparing my finished story (“House of Blue”) with the “talking-to-myself” notes I made before I knew anything about the characters and the plot. It always amazes me to see a whole story come from a blank white screen!

    The Connector Guy is not coming until 28 July. I’m too intimidated by technology to try setting up the new laptop by myself. My elder son loves the transition from a big heavy HP laptop to the MacBook Air. He says he needs only two tools to get all his work done, the MacBook and his smartphone.

    We’re still thinking about how to accommodate Baby Brother when I start looking after him in two weeks. Right now the plan is to clear out Hubby’s ground floor office, which used to be a living room, and put the crib and other paraphernalia there. Don’t know how much sleep the poor little tyke will get if we follow through on this–the ground floor is where we do our “living,” eating, and cooking.

    As you can see, I’m taking a break from bad news. There will be plenty more tomorrow. Sometimes I just have to think about something else.

    Portlaw, glad you’re getting to see your wonderful city! My DIL is up there right now celebrating a friend’s birthday. Jan, our heat is coming back too–we’ll have to turn on the a.c. either this evening or tomorrow. Another, hope you enjoy your walk and sorry to hear it’s devilishly hot in Austin. Understand that in Dallas yesterday the high was 78 F.–unheard of for July!

    A good Sunday to all in Moosylvania–see you later!

  5. princesspat

    I’ve quickly scanned the news of the day and decided to take a mental vacation so this article about Orcas Island has me remembering our summer vacations at the old farmhouse we rented on Doe Bay. We hope to go to one of the San Juan Islands for a week or two in September.

    Farm to table: Where to eat local on Orcas Island

    On this rural Washington island, the distance from farm to market to table can sometimes be measured in yards. Long an artists’ haven, Orcas now has a tightly woven fabric of passionate food folks, including restaurateurs who’ve retired to the farm, farmers who’ve opened a restaurant, chefs breeding rare pigs, and artisans bent on preserving the island’s heritage.

  6. Portlaw

    rise and shine? Heading for the eighties here. As for the news….unbearable.  Will check in later. Hope it’s a day day for the world and your corner of it.

  7. Diana in NoVa

    We turned the a.c. back on. My son will be bringing Miss Pink Cheeks over to spend the day. I think we’ll do a scientific experiment and then LOTS of housework.

    Overcast days depress me. I don’t mind rain at all, but a day when it just looks gray is so uninspiring. Hope to get some tidying and writing done, however. And I agree with Portlaw, the killing in Gaza has got to stop!  

  8. DeniseVelez

    mixed reviews.  

    Was very happy to see folks f-2-f I haven’t seen in 2 years.

    Was elated to see Rev. Barber.

    Pissed off to see the piss-poor turnout for Rev. Barber.

    Embroiled now in the raging debate over the next venue for NN – which I will not be attending since it is in Phoenix AZ where I would have to carry a passport/birth certificate.

    I salute AZ organizers – but will continue to boycott AZ till they take certain laws off the books.

  9. anotherdemocrat

    after our break last week, where we had a couple of days when it was barely 90, we’re back to 100s, sigh

    Eating breakfast – this week it’s yogurt with granola & cherries, drinking tea.

    Very loud earworm of If There’s A Rocket Tie Me To It – “I break, you don’t, I was always set to self destruct though”. Love that song.

    Neck is still stiff. I take 2 muscle relaxers before bed, and nothing. Sigh.

    I’m going to a City Council fundraiser after work. He’s on the current council & he does the AIDS Ride, so deciding who to support in this race was easy.  Also, I made up little slips to hand out about the Walk (& I know he won’t mind). Just have to get through today with this painful neck.  

  10. bfitzinAR

    Ductwork finished in time for the heat to come back – I have working A/C (kicked on around 4 pm yesterday).  Now that I’ve gotten through the 200+ emails I had waiting for me this morning, I thought I’d check in before starting to enter the Spring 2015 class schedule.  Hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good week to look forward to.  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  11. princesspat

    I have an easy day today….the PT pool, some time in the garden, and some time with the ongoing desk mess. I’ve got to slow my life way down, keep the worries of the world at a distance, and do what ever I can to ease the arthritis flare up that’s making every joint in my body hurt. If my immune system can calm down maybe my foot will heal….that’s my hope anyway.

  13. JanF

    72 degrees here already on it’s way up to 90. A front will be moving through to cool things down into the more comfortable upper 70s. I cannot imagine living where it is normal for it to be 90 and 100 degrees. I would wilt!!

    How lovely! An new NYC high-rise apartment building with a “poor door”:

    “No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations,” David Von Spreckelsen, senior vice president at Toll Brothers, said. “So now you have politicians talking about that, saying how horrible those back doors are. I think it’s unfair to expect very high-income homeowners who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low-income renters, who are very fortunate to live in a new building in a great neighborhood.”

    Does he have any clue what he sounds like? It is not enough that the riches have the river view but they can’t even share the doorway with people who are less wealthy than them? Are they afraid poorness will rub off? I wish it would; maybe they, and those who protect their sensitivities, would gain a better understanding of how it is to live in America outside the bubble of wealth.

    See all y’alls later!!

  14. DeniseVelez

    I may not be cross-posting Tuesday’s Chile here today – will decide after I finish the writing – depends on what flows – don’t want to bring Dkos vs NN meta over here, and my fingers are trending meta atm.

    May just do something else if I have time.  We shall see.

    I have a local Democrats meeting tonight – thankfully someone is coming to pick me up to take me to the meeting – it is tedious to depend on others but my lack of ability to drive in the dark keeps me from attending.  

  15. anotherdemocrat

    back to 100s, but it is July, so that’s pretty normal

    Eating breakfast, drinking tea. Same earworm as yesterday. Trying to turn the volume down, because it is really loud. I suppose that’s my fault because in the morning, I drive to work with the windows open & the music loud.

    I was pleased at the fundraiser last night, I knew very few people there. Didn’t make for super-comfortable, but it means there are new people getting involved

  16. Diana in NoVa

    Wouldn’t mind the overcast if it were to actually rain. However, stuck inside I shall continue the noble work of scrubbing down the kitchen shelves, lining them with shelf liner, and arranging things neatly. Goal: to have absolutely nothing on the countertops.

    When I took Princess Pink Cheeks home yesterday I gave Baby Brother his bottle, which he could hardly wait to consume! He likes to jerk his head around a lot. “Very strong,” his mother commented. “Kung Fu Baby!” In two weeks he’ll be over here and I’ll be holding him all day except when he’s asleep.

    In other news–not much. Desolate over the forest fires out West. Was surprised that Washington state is in such a bad way–I’d always thought that Washington was a bit cool and rainy. Not so?

    Need to get tons of address labels typed as pretty soon I won’t have WordPerfect. It’s the only program in which I know how to do labels. So many things to attend to that sometimes I just want to get away from it all.

    Hope everyone in Mooseland will have a good day!

  17. bfitzinAR

    heat index in the 100s today and the rest of the week.  Instead of walking home, I’ll either walk in or take a long “coffee break” mid morning for a walk (or skip it altogether and feel grungy – walking helps my insides work right).  Oh well, it’s July.  It’s not like I expected anything else.  (But I certainly enjoyed the respite last week!)  Started entering Spring classes yesterday.  Got interrupted.  Will try again today once I finish up the projected that interrupted me.  Joyous Tuesday to Moosylvania.  {{{HUGS}}}

  18. princesspat

    The grand girls will be here this afternoon so we’ll stir up some summer fun. Fortunately Boulevard Park has shade, grass, and a great beach and it’s just down the hill so it’s easy for me and the girls have lots to do.

  19. JanF

    The front moved through and cooled us down and the expected high is 76.

    Travel day for me so I will be offline.

    The big news is that the news media felt compelled to loudly report the End of Obamacare with the DC Circuit’s (3 judge panel, split) ruling against tax credits … and begrudgingly report the 4th Circuit’s unanimous ruling upholding the same tax credits under the Chevron doctrine: “it is not the job of judges who are confronted with an ambiguous statute to read their preferred outcome into the law. Rather, the Supreme Court has ordered federal judges to defer to an agency’s reading of a law – in this case, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – so long as ‘the agency’s answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute.’ ” . So 4 judges uphold and 2 strike down. The DC ruling will go to the full court which is weighted 7-4 Democrats to Republicans (thank you, Harry Reid!!) and then probably on to the Supreme Court. Unless John Roberts really and truly believes what he said about the mandate in 2012 and then they will not grant certiori. Or better yet, we get Congress back and fix the ambiguity that the typo caused in the statute.

    4.7 million people in red states will lose their health insurance subsidies if the Halbig ruling stands. Campaign issue? I sure hope so.

    See all y’alls later in the day!

  20. Portlaw

    city. Am about to dive into the news. Can’t help but wonder how, if I read it with dismay, how Obama must feel when he hears what’s happening first thing in the morning! First, though, coffee and Jan’s new diary.Hope it’s a good day for all.

  21. Diana in NoVa

    Possible thunderstorms this afternoon and tomorrow. Wednesday morning is “coffee with my niece morning,” so I’ll take Miss Pink Cheeks with me to see her cousin, who goes by the name of Mr. B.

    Some of my relatives are planning a family reunion in Texas for the end of October, either in Austin or San Antonio. Right now it’s leaning toward San Antonio–haven’t been there in 30 years, so it would be nice to see the River Walk again.

    In other news, the big cleanup continues. Office, kitchen, family room, and hubby’s office. In two weeks I’ll be taking care of my grandson, who will be 8 weeks old on Friday.

    Hope everyone will have a good day!

  23. anotherdemocrat

    Jim Rigby

    1 hr ·

    “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”

    – Ann Richards

  24. DeniseVelez

    very muggy here in the mountains.

    Had an interesting meeting with my local Democrats lat night – having to do with 3 Democrats running for a primary slot for Family Court Judge – we had to pick one to endorse.

    Spent much of yesterday in slicing and dicing Netroots Nation – first in shanikka’s great critique of the half-empty room for Rev. Barber, and my discussion in BKos of the water crisis featured session of local activists which was virtually ignored.

    Hmmm – real activism and most folks from the Professional Left don’t show up.

     

  25. bfitzinAR

    summer is a comin’ in whether we like or not.  Work is incredibly frustrating right now.  The Corporate Model is taking over with a vengeance (and vengeance is what I’d like to see returned to them) – we now have extra steps and extra approval for everything, procedures that are impossible, workarounds that are “unacceptable”, and a budget that first subtracted out all “extra funding” (like grants) before they “calculated” our base budget.  (Can’t use a federal grant to hire a teacher for a lower division class?  Tough shit.  We’re subtracting the grant funds from your budget anyway.  Teaching’s done by elves anyway.  Oh, and we’re shutting down all the University print functions except the University Press and terminating 16 people over the next 2 years but we’re reducing the budget for those 16 people now because brownies handle that.)  I don’t know where the money is going but if I did, the media would have it this afternoon! OK – can’t say rant over, but it’s on hiatus for a minute or two – hope everyone in Moosylvania has a less infuriating day!  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  26. princesspat

    The rain will help the fire fighters but it brings additional danger from flash floods.

    The weather service’s flood watch was issued as forecasts called for widespread thunderstorms Wednesday spreading across Central Washington.

    The storms are expected to produce a band of moderate to heavy rainfall over the east slopes of the Northern Cascades.

    It takes as little as 10 minutes, the weather service advisory noted, for heavy rain to trigger a flash flood on a slope that has become unstable because fire burned away its vegetation.

    http://seattletimes.com/html/l…

    The rain smells fresh and feels relaxing to me. Makes me very aware of how fortunate I am to have a retreat from the worries of the world.

  27. anotherdemocrat

    My air conditioner people are having a contest – $25,000 to become an expert in something – anything. So, you can’t win if you don’t try, right?

    Tell us what type of expert you’d like to become and why, and how you’d use the $25,000 to accomplish your dream. You can simply type your story right into the site, or upload videos, powerpoints, jpegs and more. Be creative. Be Original. Have fun!.

    So…… a weight loss expert? Or a non-whippet thin person who does triathons & half marathons anyway? (& what would you call that?) And yeah, I could become a campaign expert, but what I really want help with is self-improvement.

    http://www.serviceexperts.com/…

    I have till Sept. 30. Help, please. And I’ve never made a video. I like words better, but I may have to learn.

  28. JanF

    (will not quite yet, dawn is still a few minutes away … but Thursday has arrived)

    54 deliciously cool degrees in Madison, expected high of 77 degrees and sunny.

    It is getting more and more difficult to read what GOP politicians say as they turn themselves into pretzels to pander to their base. This morning I read a story about some remarks by Sen. Marco Rubio worrying that he will be accused of being a bigot after saying this:

    “traditional marriage has such an extraordinary record of success at raising children” and must be perpetuated to the exclusion of same-sex unions. … “Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay, it is pro-traditional marriage,”

    Let’s get in the way-back machine … actually not that far back … and look at what his ideological forebearers (Rep. Seaborn Roddenbery of Georgia) thought about the intermarriage of the races:

       Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government. It is subversive of social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery of white women to black beasts will bring this nation a conflict as fatal as ever reddened the soil of Virginia or crimsoned the mountain paths of Pennsylvania.

    … Let us uproot and exterminate now this debasing, ultra-demoralizing, un-American and inhuman leprosy

    – Congressional Record, 62d. Congr., 3d. Sess., December 11, 1912, pp. 502-503

    No bigotry there either!! And it is all about tradition!!! (p.s. they are still fighting to bring back the anti-miscegenation laws on white supremacist web sites … may the Republican party continue to be on the wrong side of history and be increasingly marginalized until their bloviating is found only on a few hate sites on the Internet).

    See all y’alls later!

  29. DeniseVelez

    and more rain coming.

    My electricity and cable keep going on and off yesterday during thunderstorms (thank Goddess for our generators)

  30. anotherdemocrat

    we’re getting some rain, so it is “cooler” but sooooo humid

    Stayed home today. I looked at my leave report yesterday & noticed I lost 8 hours in June just because I didn’t take it, so I’m dumping some off today. Eating breakfast & watching Le Tour. Got a doc appointment about my neck/shoulder, so I will leave the house today.

  31. bfitzinAR

    heading for mid-80s.  Sucker literally blew through – like a series of small focused microbursts – snapped the trunk of a neighbors larger pine tree but just barely brought down a few dead branches in the trees right next to it.  Fortunately the tree didn’t hit anything, didn’t even block the street although it fell into the street.  City workers cut it up and piled it back on the owner’s property in fairly short order.  (You know, those lazy, worthless public employees who are stealing TP tax dollars right out of their pockets.  And no, my neighbor isn’t a TP nutjob – but a guy down the street it.)  No rain though which we could use.

    I got the Spring classes in and am now waiting for changes/corrections.  Still have 6 HR things hung up in the approval chain, at least one of which will have a 2nd approval chain to go through once it makes it through the 1st.  Sigh.  You don’t know how I wish I could put RWNJ legislators (local, state, and fed) in the Starship Enterprise holodeck so they could play out their fantasies without causing problems for the rest of us!  {{{HUGS}}}

  32. Diana in NoVa

    not violently. I like a cool day occasionally.

    Yesterday was quite busy as the Internet in my son’s house crashed. He and the whole family came over to our house. Younger son has been given permission to telecommute for 8 weeks (which ends at Friday COB), but he would love to go on telecommuting. It’s a sight better than losing 3 hours a day in real commuting through heavy traffic.

    So anyway, Younger Son worked, DIL tended the baby, and Miss Pink Cheeks played. After lunch everyone except Younger Son had a nap, after which we all got up and had tea. It was fun having them here.

    This morning’s business–do errands before lunch, including wrapping daughter-in-Austin’s birthday presents. Her birthday is at Lammas, how Witchy is that? She’s Witch-friendly but not a member of the Craft herself.

    Still continuing with the getting-ready-for-the-big-change aspect of our lives. Hope everyone in Moosylvania will have a good day!

  33. Diana in NoVa

    and makes a loaf that everyone pulls apart and eats during the “Cakes and Ale” portion of the Lammas ritual.

    Here are the directions for making it:

    http://paganwiccan.about.com/o…

    I made this  a year or two ago (time flies by and I can’t remember). Luckily Harris Teeter still sells frozen bread loaves that you thaw and shape as you wish, so I didn’t have to go through the hassle of raising the dough. I used to make my own bread when I had a gas stove with a pilot light; with my electric stove, just can’t get satisfactory results.

    I love Lammas, it is one of my favorite sabbats!

  34. princesspat

    I officially slept in this morning! Ron and the grand girls were very quiet, but Ava was checking on me 🙂

    We’ll have an indoor day today thanks to the rain.  

  35. JanF

    Long week … nearly over.

    It is 61 degrees in Madison with an expected high of 75. Some storms expected, they appear to be about an hour out. They will bring in a one day heat wave and then we will be back in the low-to-mid 70s where we belong. 🙂

    I haven’t had time to scan the news but I was on my Twitter stream last night and caught some of the early reviews of Paul Ryan’s Contract On The Poors. I was first struck by the notion that sending pots of money to the states to “take care of their own people” is somehow the solution. Hello? Paul Ryan? Nineteen states have told their poors to “die and die quickly” with their rejection of free federal money to help them purchase health care. It. Doesn’t. Work. Someone needs to send the Republican Party to an intervention: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Trickle down doesn’t work. Block grants to states don’t work. State voting standards don’t work. State protection of civil rights doesn’t work.

    I will probably have more to say about the New Paul Ryan later. To me, he is the face of the Republican Party that is the most dangerous … not the Koch Brothers or Ted Cruz or Rand Paul. Paul Ryan with his snake-oil salesman charm telling people in his phony earnest and sincere voice that poor people just need to stop being lazy and get a job. The jobs that don’t exist because his congressional cohorts spent their 4 years in power passing repeals of health care 50 times and never once passing a job creation bill.

    See you all later!

  37. Portlaw

    to 83.I skimmed the breaking news on The Guardian website and winced. Time to get started. Hope it’s a good day for all. will check in later.

  38. anotherdemocrat

    heat index today expected to be 105, sigh

    Squeeeeeeee: Firefly’s Whole Cast Will Reunite for Firefly Online. So, I’m going to have to learn about this online game thing.

    Eating breakfast, drinking tea. Completely distracted by the Firefly news. Neck still stiff. Sigh.

    But I got a $50 Walk donation in the mail yesterday, so that’s cool.

    Didn’t walk before work, but I have sneakers so maybe at lunch.

  39. Diana in NoVa

    and sunny, going up to 83 F. or so this afternoon. We’re having another splash party for Miss Pink Cheeks and Mr. B. at 3 p.m.

    Taking a break from diary-tending over at the Other Place. Woke up this morning with a Little Misery that  necessitates a visit to the doctor this morning. I was trying not to bother him with my little miseries, but alas–it seems that when one reaches a certain age, the Good Body is like a machine that’s breaking down. (Speaking of breakdowns, I killed the garbage disposal with a peach pit yesterday.)

    Cannot hear with the left ear, so I will read Rev. Barber’s transcript later today. Thanks, JanF, for providing the link and access to TrueBlueMajority’s transcript!

    Haven’t checked the news yet. The family reunion will be in San Antonio at the end of October, which is right before the election, so I may not be able to see my granddaughter, who is in SA working on Leticia Van de Putte’s campaign. Wouldn’t it be great to see Texas turn blue?

    Will check in later–have a good Friday, all!

  40. princesspat

    I enjoyed my two days with the grand girls this week. When I see the world through their eyes it’s a nice place to be! I’s Emma’s birthday weekend and Ava’s is just a month away so they are full of anticipation.

  41. bfitzinAR

    Soloing at work today which makes it even less likely I’ll be able to spend much time in Moosylvania than usual.  Got the Spring on-campus classes entered yesterday and just fired off the requests for online and off-campus classes to that department.  Waiting on lots of stuff to make its way through superfluous approvals before I can do the next step which will then have to make its way through superfluous approvals before I can continue.  Have bunches of little niggly things to take up the time while I wait.  Part of the Powers That Be’s plan to show how incompetent public employees are is to combine little niggly things that aren’t really our department’s stuff with extra steps and superfluous approval chains.  So far – eff them – we’ve managed to be competent and efficient anyway.  (So now they’re lowering pay scales so only desperate but unqualified people are all they get applying.)  But it’s also why people who’d planned to stay until 70 for the more comfortable retirement are leaving as soon as they hit Medicare age – opening those slots for the desperate but unqualified people to apply for at reduced wage.  I hate Rethugs.  If I were omnipotent they would be on that holodeck somewhere and caring people who can logic from A to B would be making the rules.  {{{HUGS}}}

  42. JanF

    It is 65 degrees here in Madison and expected to get to 85. We had few rainshowers yesterday but today’s storms are passing well south of us. The window in my office is open so that I can enjoy the cool breezes before I have to close everything and put on the air conditioning. 🙁

    I think I found out what is wrong with the Republican Congress: they live in a cocoon!! This story out of Florida would be funny if it weren’t so sad:

    During a congressional hearing Thursday, Foreign Policy reports, a member of Congress mistakenly assumed that two senior U.S. government officials were actually representing India.

    The Congressman, Rep. Curt Clawson, told the officials “I love your country” and offered to do “anything… to make the relationship with India better.” The officials, Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar, are both U.S. citizens who work for the Obama administration.

    The congressman is the replacement for the Florida Republican busted for cocaine and runs an auto parts business. And obviously has no Indian people in his district and has never seen Gov. Piyush “Bobby” Jindal (R-LA) on TV. Or maybe he thinks Jindal is  a foreigner just trying to drum up business for outsourcing helpdesk jobs?

    I want to amend the constitution to change the qualifications for United States Congress to include an IQ over 50 (sorry Louie Gohmert!!) … and a forced visit out of the candidate’s district to see what the rest of America looks like. Sheesh.

    See all y’alls later. I am going to guess that the president will talk about economic patriotism this week and mention “inversion”. Not the kind that causes smog to get stuck in Salt Lake City but the kind where American companies “merge” with foreign companies and “move” their corporate headquarters to that other country: simply to avoid paying U.S. taxes. At least one billionaire thinks that is not a very nice thing to do to those of us left paying for the infrastructure that the U.S. “branches” of that company are still using. So if the president doesn’t talk about it, I might have to.

  43. Portlaw

    is going up to 81 and I am going out into the harbor to look at stuff. The news almost seems tranquil today after the rough week we have had. Hope it’s a good day for all.

  44. Diana in NoVa

    ‘umid, and ‘orrible. Going downstairs to enjoy some cantaloupe I bought at the Farmers’ Market and eat an English muffin.

    My affliction turned out to be “swimmer’s ear,” a mystery as I haven’t been in a swimming pool for 30 years. On with the thrice-daily antibiotic ear drops!

    Quiet day planned, with dinner at our son’s house in Arlington tonight. M’daughter-in-law’s parents are in town from Long Island, so it will be great to see them again.

    Hope all meese will have a good day!

  45. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, watching Up & Le Tour. Many different stories on Up tis morning – Gaza, the mid-terms, Libya, Cuomo….. And Le Tour has the individual time trial – where an American rider might, if has the ride of his life, move onto the podium.

    Today: major grocery shopping because I get 10% off, so I pre-scouted around the store last night, to remember what all I might need. And the group I’ll train for the half-marathon with has a party, so I’ll stop by for a few minutes. I have to get better at socializing.

  46. DeniseVelez

    got up and was in a great mood – weather nice.  

    Was supposed to go to NYC today for a special ceremony – street naming – but have no puppy sitter so I have time to just mess around.

    Two of our free range hens just showed up with about 20 chicks between them.  

  47. princesspat

    I’m re-potting and replacing house plants today as mine have all developed the “take care of me” look. I can’t do much to change the world but I can have healthy plants!

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