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Tuesday Morning Moose Check-in and Open Thread for Meeses

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  Make sure you let your peeps know where to find you!  

If you are 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. Check out donnamarie’s 1/5/2013 Introduction diary for some info on new moose and old moose (and leave your own intro so we know whoose yoose are).

The big stuff:

– Comments do not Auto-refresh. Click the refresh/reload on your tab to see new ones.

– 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.

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in)

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This is pretty darned easy to remember … the posting rules for a new diary:

Be excellent to each other… or else

From Kysen’s keyboard to your eyes:

Think of our comment threads as dinner table conversations. We start with the assumption that all come to the conversation with good intentions and go from there. If you get upset or angry, get up from the table and step outside for a bit.

For those looking for a second chance to make a first impression, that is very good advice.

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Yesterday’s Daily F Bomb (don’t forget to hover over the photos).

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Mooselicious Comments – Share Your Finds Here

As you graze in the comment threads and come across a funny, witty, brilliant, thought-provoking, or coffee-spewing comment, please save it off and post it here in the check-in. Include a link, if you can, or at least the commenter’s name so that we can admire them and their wit and wisdom.

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See you in the threads!

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99 comments

  4. blue jersey mom

    Dad and I took Son 3 back to college yesterday. His spring semester starts today. This is his final year. He will graduate in December.

  5. dear occupant

    19 here on the lakefront, clear and sunny is the promise.

    stayed up all night writing, now i’m off to take a quick nap before heading off to work. see y’all later.

  6. Khloe

    13 degrees with a wind chill of 3. At least we are on the better side of zero. I’m guessing that I will be hiding inside most of today.

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  7. DeniseVelez

    in the house

    thought I’d share a Charlie Parker bebop classic “Moose the mooche”

    and Ben Sidran’s version with vocals

  8. trs

    Currently 36 here, with an expected high of 37 and a chance of precipitation. The eldest pootie, Lydia, is driving me crazy – she’s howling to be let into the bedroom, and I won’t let her in because she’ll eat all of Gaffer’s food. Lydia is no longer allowed in our room without supervision.

    Today’s project – get through the day. At least it’s not Monday…

  9. nannyboz

    early for this weather but I’m loving it.  Sitting with Pootie Racer in my lap enjoying my first cup of coffee.

  10. Chris Blask

    Which was founded in 1783 and is the only town in the US named after Martha Washington (nee Dandridge).

    The town was saved from inundation by Elanor Roosevelt when Douglas Lake was created to provide power for the Manhattan Project. The townsfolks petitioned her, she bent her husnand’s ear, and $1M was allocated to build a dike to keep the water back.

    In 1792 there was sufficient settlement for William Blount, Governor of the Territory South of the Ohio River, to carve out a new county named Jefferson in honor of the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson.

    During the Civil War, like my great^2 grandfather John Gay in Florida (possibly because his grandmother was Creek Indian?), Dandridge was for the Union.  

  11. Portlaw

    a 36 degree New York. The forsythia are in bloom in Central Park so they are as confused by this weather as I am.

  12. Jk2003

    Teens and clear going up to upper twenties and clear here in Saint Charles Illinois.  Beautiful, actually.  Not much wind.  Can get out with the kids and look at all the ice on the trees.  Later today we are going to watch my nephew wrestle.  Laundry day postponed due to lack of detergent. Will reschedule for tomorrow.

  13. iriti

    36 and maybe drizzling, maybe not, depending on what instant you check. Gonna heat up in a big way this afternoon: today’s high 37.

    Since I lost the weight, I am too cold-natured for this winter stuff.

    Jan’s “tip jar” LOL reminded me of this one:

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  14. pittiepat

    Columbia, partly cloudy with a forecast high of 31.  It was 16 yesterday morning when I decided to tackle the ice on the car.  It was about 1/8 inch thick over the entire vehicle and it took 50 minutes with the defroster, ice scraper and de-icer to the get windows clear enough to drive.  Of course, the wipers were frozen solid.  Does anyone have a suggestion to avert that?  Would heavy cardboard between the wipers and windshield work?

  15. SheltieMan

    He ate his “med bread” last night, but refused food. He also doesn’t like his liquid antinausea medicine. Like a scene from “Marley & Me,” I got a face full of it last night when he tongued the syringe as Nancy squirted it in his mouth…

    He has gone back for more IV fluids today.

  16. melvin

    in what I laughingly refer to as my garden.

    I seem to be the only non sick person around, for now.

    Today’s mission is to get a message to a woman living in this town, whom I do not know and do not have an address or last name for. Her friends in South Africa managed to get it to me for transmission and here it is stuck. I have her pinned in about a four block area. If necessary it will be a house-to-house investigation.

    With foul weather and illness, I have been watching a ton of movies. Anyone interested in a semi regular Les Mooserablés film diary series?

  18. Nurse Kelley

    Warming trend starts tomorrow – and not a moment too soon. I had to take a pootie to the vet yesterday when it was -10° and snowing hard. He was not amused. My battery wasn’t dead, thank goodness, but my tires were frozen. Felt like I was driving on square tires for the first ten miles.

  19. raina

    before I head out the door for my re-scheduled doctor’s appointment. I remembered to fast this time. And I’m hungry!!!

    Later…

  20. wordsinthewind

    here in far west Texas. I made some ice ornaments and hung them on the porch this morning, if it’s going to be this cold might as well do something with it. They should hang around until late tomorrow.  

  21. remembrance

    wind at 5 mph with 70% humidity in San Jose. We had a frost warning in effect for this morning so I’ll a need a few extra minutes to warm up the car and defrost the windows. I grew up in very cold Pittsburgh and remember well freezing my toes and fingers while waiting for the school bus that was always late.

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    I’m going now – hoping to return with all digits in tact. Have a great day!

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