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Wednesday Watering Hole: Check In & Hangout for the Herd

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Good morning meese! Happy happy Wednesday!


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

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The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.

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? OK, maybe this:

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23 comments

  1. iriti

    A whopping 7 degrees this morning, headed for a high today of 14. We’re under a wind advisory, wind chill is about -15. We got a little over 6″ of powdery snow yesterday & it’s drifting all over the place.

    Is it Spring yet?

  2. Portlaw

    almost a foot of snow. Have a lot to do and think public transportation will be a nightmare. Hope it’s a good day for all. Also hope those who are ailing are healing!

  3. JanF

    It is 2 degrees here right now on its way up to 10. The windchill is 10 below zero and there is light snow. We are expected to get less than an inch … nothing like the “bombogenesis” that hit the east.

    According to WeatherPrediction.com, “bombogenesis typically occurs between a cold continental air mass and warm ocean waters or between a cold polar air mass and a much warmer air mass.”

    Those air masses mix together to form an “extratropical surface cyclone” – or, as in this case, a “bomb” of a storm.

    Stay warm and safe all y’alls!!

  4. JG in MD

    It’s cold. Really cold. And very snowy. I should clear my car whether I’m going to use it (perish the thought!) or not. Do that while it’s fluffy and scrape the layer of ice underneath before it freezes into a double layer. I should do that.

  5. Diana in NoVa

    snow at Dulles International Airport, which is 10 minutes by road from our house. Yesterday I didn’t go out at all and today I’ll stay in again. Granddaughter’s parents have been off too, so they’re taking her to day care and picking her up. I’m so used to seeing her every day that now I’m suffering from withdrawal!

    GREAT news in Virginia this morning, what with Democrat Jennifer Wexford winning a Virginia Senate seat decisively and our ex-Gov McDonnell being indicted, along with his wife. Have never liked that man at all. He looks like a Ken doll. As for his greedy, grasping wife I expect she’ll end up with a divorce. Her hubby seems to have thrown her under the bus with respect to the charges against the two of them.

    Coming down with a cold, but that won’t stop me from continuing work on my short story, which is going quite well so far. For a period of 8 weeks or so the writing suffered from a drought. Speaking of that, I’m going to do a rain spell for poor old California today.

    Will second Portland’s desire that all the ailing shall enjoy improved health and for everyone to stay safe and warm today!

  6. Diana in NoVa

    People in my family keep talking about moving to Portland, Oregon, so I guess the name is hovering in my subconscious.  ðŸ™‚

  7. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, sneezing my head off. We might get snow tomorrow night. Let me say that again — I live in Austin and we might get snow or sleet tomorrow maybe that’ll finally get the cedar out of the air. Tomorrow’s supposed to be one of those upside-down days, with the warm temp in the morning, then the bottom falls out during the day.

    Leaving early for a doc appointment. This one is all talk. Then we schedule that lovely 50th birthday procedure. Naturally, we have a zillion new applications today. But that’s just too bad, I can only do what I can do.

    I love that diagram! I actually wrote a rant last night about Facebook’s AI being astonishingly stupid with the book suggestions. (FB is connected to Goodreads, so it knows I just finished a Connie Willis & a Christopher Moore, & am currently reading the Bartimaeus trilogy & a theology book by Peter Rollins. It filled my suggestions with VC Andrews the Left Behind books & Joel Osteen. Joel Osteen???? What’s really funny is Rollins writes about how Christianity has commodified God into some_thing_ that will make us feel better. Which seems to be exactly what Osteen sells)

  8. DeniseVelez

    it’s 4 degrees here – got up early to work on my paperwork for first day of school tomorrow and then fell back asleep – wrapped in a quilt.

    My husband didn’t make it home from work yesterday – stuck in NYC by the snow, so I feel asleep in my office  ðŸ™‚

  9. bfitzinAR

    Still clearing up stuff – but now I’m to the stuff I just “set aside” while enrollment etc was going on.  I may get to see my desk before the end of the week! Or at least the accumulated dust bunnies and cat floof (comes from home on my clothes and migrates) that somehow manages to end up under all my stacks of papers.  ðŸ™‚

    Hope everybody’s healing is progressing smoothly and anybody who has to be outside today stays safe.  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  10. princesspat

    If they can find a way to control Ron’s pain without making him to woozy he’ll come home today. Being in the hospital increases the risk of infection but being home with all the stairs increases the risk of falling.

    All the time he spent at the gym preparing for this surgery has really paid off in regards to his stamina and ability to move though. He is in the Joint Replacement Center so he’s getting very good care and 3X a day PT with walks in between. Being fit as possible prior to surgery really helps staying with the program.

    And Twitter is good hospital reading for me…..I’ve got the anxiety, he’s got the pain!

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