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  Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely.


  PLEASE Don’t Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Fierces on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The 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?

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21 comments

  1. iriti

    After a stretch of 4 gloriously warm days, winter has decided to play the bully here. The dreaded ‘S’ word has even crept into the forecast for Tuesday evening & Wednesday morning. I do NOT approve this message.

    Otherwise, just another manic Monday. Hope it’s a good one for everyone.

  2. JanF

    9 degrees in Madison this morning, expected high of 20. Polar vortex returning tomorrow and we will go below zero again. Brrrrrr!!!

    It is indeed Monday. Which means that I better get some work done before my clients discover that the things I promised them on Friday to have done by Monday … aren’t.

    See you all later!  

  3. DeniseVelez

    today – though it looks like flurries

    Heading off to school – in about an hour and a half

    yawn…would love to go back to bed  

  4. Portlaw

    the thirties today with deadlines looming. Sigh. Am going to a baby shower later in the day and have to see if I have any wrapping paper that doesn’t look like Christmas. Bought the present some time ago but I do have to wrap it! The baby will be the grandchild of a friend of mine, who lives here and in France, and the present is really for her and her husband.  I got a pile of books, board and chapter, in French so she can read to the child for some years to come and the baby can learn about her (my friend’s) background. It was her idea. I included a Goodnight Moon in French (Bonsoir Lune!). Not sure how the daughter in law or the baby will like them but we shall see! Now coffee, news, and stuff. Hope it’s a good healthy day for all Meese.

  5. JG in MD

    Nice day here, I’m off to the National Archives to copy documents.

    Looks like the change in my meds isn’t going very well. My irritability is ratcheting up into road rage. Every bump in the road is a life-threatening emergency. My IQ seems to have dropped along with my boiling point. And my blood pressure is up.

    My facebook posts reflect all this. Probably shouldn’t have made my madness public, but I can’t gather my thoughts without writing them out. I wouldn’t have realized how bad it was getting otherwise.

    Good thing the Archives chores are just a matter of holding the camera steady. Calm is the order of the day.

  6. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast & drinking tea. A particularly awful night’s sleep – 4 hours 15 minutes. It’s cooler than I thought it would be (I had originally planned capris & sandals), so I am wearing the compression socks. I predict today will feel like a really long day.

    So today & tomorrow we’ll have highs of 70 or so, Wednesday will be maybe as high as 50, then back to the 80s for the weekend. This is really insane weather.

    Earworm: still Ordinary Love by my babies.

  7. princesspat

    The city is officially “snowed in” with 12-14 inches of snow in the higher neighborhoods. We live on a hill so we’ll stay put until the official “wait for rain” snow removal policy has some success.

    I have a very old Camilla by the back entrance that I had shaped to grow as a tree so it’s lower branches form a beautiful pattern outside the kitchen windows and the leaf (and full of buds) canopy shades a 2nd story bedroom window. We shook the snow off several times yesterday, but this morning it is bent so low it is touching the back stairs. I hope it recovers 🙁

    The rain should start later today and given the amount of snow I know to take precautions for water in the basement. Our house is 100 yrs old this year so I guess a few cracks in the old foundation concrete are to be expected.

  9. Diana in NoVa

    birdsong. However, as iriti says, the winds today will usher in some more “polar vortex” weather and we might see snow flurries Wednesday morning.

    Aren’t we all ready for spring?  I keep hearing birds who seem to sing more and more cheerfully.

    Had a nice, restful weekend, although “Downton Abbey” was so packed with action my head’s still spinning. That and “Call the Midwife” are the only TV programs I watch without once looking at the book in my lap.

    Made some progress on the Ostara story yesterday. Arranged with my desktop publisher to resurrect an old, unpublished novel and offer it as a “historical.” Yes, 1991 does seem like a long, long time ago now. The pace of change has been so profound and so rapid that 1991 seems like the late Cretinous. Or do I mean Cretaceous?

    BTW, if anyone has 20-year-olds in their lives, please question them and ask which social media they use. I can’t keep up:  is it Instagram (bought by FB), Snapchat (again, I seem to think, bought by FB), Tumblr, or what? I can’t keep up! Or is it WhatsApp? Who’d have thought we’d live to see the day when Facebook was considered the “Old People’s” social medium? And here I felt so clued in, for a while…

    Have a good day, all, and stay warm!

  10. bfitzinAR

    but the temps/ranges will be going down over the course of the week (next Monday is currently forecast to be 30/9) – not Spring yet!  Something goofy with my yahoo mail – it won’t delete some emails.  I can’t find a rhyme or reason – some of them are surveys, some are political or other fund-raisers, some of them are commercial sites like Vermont Country Store or Real Goods – and yet it will delete others in the same categories.  I don’t like to ask the University IT for help with the yahoo site but it’s on the University hardware so if there’s a breech they’d better know about it.  Sigh.

    Anyway, welcome to the last week of February.  Good health and/or healing to all in Moosylvania.  {{{HUGS}}} bf

  11. princesspat

    Berkeley Breathed: Opus alive and well, ‘dreaming of a more hopeful tomorrow’

    Sunday’s comic ran in newspapers and showed Steve Dallas smiling wistfully as he looked down into the pages of a book that couldn’t be seen by the readers. Online, the last strip revealed it to be “Goodnight Moon,” the beloved bedtime story written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd; in Breathed’s panel the book’s nurturing rabbit sits in her rocker with Opus curled asleep in the baby bunny’s bed. The final words are “Goodnight Opus / And goodnight air / Goodnight noises everywhere.”

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