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Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF!


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

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Friday Coffee Hour and check-in is an open thread and general social hour.

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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23 comments

  1. iriti

    61 degrees in the middle of the night, headed to 71 this afternoon. In the 80’s by Sunday.

    Two hikes planned this weekend with 2 different hiking clubs. Feeling almost back to normal  

  2. DeniseVelez

    here in the Catskills

    Was browsing Black History facts for the day


    Nat King Cole, world-renowned singer, was attacked by a mob of white supremacists while performing on stage in Birmingham, AL, on this date in 1956.

    http://www.yenoba.com/

    decided I’d listen to some NKC this morning


  3. JanF

    It is 42 degrees here on its way up to 65. My office window is open so that I can hear the early morning critters and I slept with the window open last night. Spring is arriving in fits and starts. I believe that next week we will have snow again but it will be the kind that melts quickly, not the kind that lands in December and melts in March.

    Kathleen Sebelius deserves our thanks for allowing herself to be the punching bag for the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. It is no more her fault that the website sucked than it was President Obama’s but she took the heat. My guess is that she wanted to leave after the first term (it is very common because of the burnout) but stayed on to oversee the rollout. I would have quit months ago … after telling Darrell Issa and his band of idjits in the House to take their subpoenas and stick them where the sun don’t shine. THAT is why I am not suited for any public office but I can be grateful to those who serve us.

    I will be back later when I can turn on my speakers and listen to the president speak on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Fifty years!! He was born before the act was passed and into a family which could not have formed in many states in our country (Loving v Virginia). And now he is president. When we look back on his presidency and are saddened by how his agenda was interrupted by the racism fueled by the Republican Party in 2010 to regain power, we will probably realize that it had to happen that way. The racism has to come out from under its rocks so that we can see it and then smash it once and for all. The young people see it and they will not forget which party embraces it and which party rejects it.

  4. JG in MD

    I was in college in 1964. I remember the hope and courage of the Civil Rights era. How is it possible that the evil has taken hold again? I know, history tells us it will, but we thought that near-universal education and unprecedented prosperity would…. oh, the hell with it. I weep.

  5. Portlaw

    mid sixties, with a few showers to brighten things up. Saw a fabulous exhibit last night at the National Museum of the American Indian. The artist was Robert Davidson (Haida) and the exhibit came here via the Seattle Art Museum. He spoke and I was transfixed. He used his art to reignite, recreate, reanimate Haida culture and in so doing became one of the world;s best abstract painters. And then I saw his paintings and was blown away.

    Have to read about POTUS in Austin and Sibelius but am running very late. Will stop by later to catch up. Have a healthy day, Meeses.

  6. anotherdemocrat

    Nice morning, heading to the 80s this afternoon. But we’re in a drought, so I wish this weekend’s rain was already starting. Though, rain & feet wrapped in ace bandages is not a good combination, so maybe not.

    Going to a party for my friend with brain cancer on Saturday afternoon. Got to think of a positive message to write on a card. Something not treacly, that’ll sound like me. And I’ve got to remember to buy some hummus to take.

  7. princesspat

    Yesterday my sons arranged time with their work to take Ryan to lunch and then to a favorite beach for the afternoon….so nice to see them having fun together.

    I slept the afternoon away and (finally!) woke up feeling better. We’ll celebrate Ryan’s 13th birthday tomorrow…..milestone BD’s seem to come alarmingly fast lately!  

  8. bfitzinAR

    with a possible overnight frost Monday (Winter’s last shot before heading south of the equator).  Well, the department is suffering from another eruption of toxicity – I have no idea when/whether we’re going to hit critical mass and the whole thing go up like Mt. St. Helens but let’s just say I’m nervy.  My target retirement date is October 2015 (and that’s 2 years prior to full Social Security retirement age for my group)but the way things are going around here I’m not sure I’ll make it.  Talk about TCCIF!  Day 5 of priority registration and that’s hotting up, too.  Everybody have a great day, a wonderful weekend, and I’ll check back if I can.  {{{HUGS}}} to Moosylvania.

  9. Diana in NoVa

    here in Northern Virginia, with 66 F. our current reading. Rain expected tonight but tomorrow is supposed to be clear. I do hope so, because we’ve got to clean up the screened porch and the garden before Easter.

    Have been diary-tending over at the other place. No one seems to want to contribute a diary to “Books That Changed My Life” any more. Discouraging, but I keep in mind the fact that most people are working for a living and simply do not have an hour or two to focus on doing a diary.

    On the other hand–the writing marathon is tomorrow! I’m about to take the plunge on the Beltane story and start writing, even if the first scene turns out to be a dud later. Sometimes you just have to go ahead and start. Also have to start thinking about my Shakespeare blog as his birthday is week after next.

    This morning my son told me I might get to take care of Princess Pink Cheeks for the whole summer! She now has a cousin living round the corner, so we four can do all sorts of things. I’m excited, as this is her last summer of freedom for the next 20-odd years–13 years of public school, 4 years of college, and 4 years of advanced training.

    Everyone have a wonderful weekend!

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