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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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  1. iriti

    45 degrees this morning, headed for a rainy 65 here in the Shenandoah valley. A great day for home-made soup and we have some. Made it Wednesday and such things are always better the second time ’round.

    Have a lovely weekend, Meese. Try to get out and enjoy the spring weather.

  2. JanF

    It is 44 degrees here with an expected high of 66 degrees. Partly cloudy, or as I prefer to say, mostly clear.

    Busy day here but the news is like a bright shiny object. I can’t avert my eyes from the Bundy train wreck. A friend told me that after the racist screen was published and after the “those quotes were cherry picked!” folks were embarrassed by Bundy repeating his screed, Fox went quiet on the subject. They can’t talk about the IRS because turns out that the IRS targeted more progressive groups, they can’t talk about the Obamacare failure (some of their viewers are now covered) … so expect wall to wall Benghaziiiii!!

    Reince Priebus declared that he disagrees 100% with the guy who pretty much described what the Republican Party runs on every election cycle. And the Republican congressmen who embraced Bundy are quietly backing away. As I have said before, and will likely have the opportunity to say again, when you lay down with pigs, you can’t choose which pig smells you want to disassociate yourself from.

    This Tweet caught my eye:

    Yup. Its the Republican base.  

  3. DeniseVelez

    turned the heat back on yesterday.  

    Stuff for Democrats to run-on in the upcoming elections:

    Nearly 7 in 10 Americans say health plans should cover birth control

    Among the various provisions of the Affordable Care Act, few are as controversial as the one requiring health insurance providers to include coverage for contraception. A new survey finds that support for this rule is widespread, with 69% of Americans in favor of the mandate.

    Among 2,124 adults surveyed in November 2013, 1,452 agreed that “health plans in the United States should be required to include coverage” for “birth control medications,” according to a research letter published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. An additional 436 respondents (19%) did not agree, 197 (10%) were uncertain and 39 (2%) refused to answer.

    Women, African Americans, Latinos and parents living with children under the age of 18 had higher levels of support for mandatory contraception coverage than people in other demographic groups, the survey found. People who took the survey were not asked about their political or religious views.

    http://www.latimes.com/science…

  5. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, drinking tea. Feeling really sleepy & swollen. Wearing my compression socks, which means long pants & actual shoes despite the fact it’s going to be nearly 90 this afternoon.

    Kick off dinner is tonight, then early bed for an early rise. I think it’s an hour, maybe 90 minutes drive out to the place where the Ride is. Ride out is at 8am. I didn’t put my bike rack on last night.

    Goal for the day: stay awake through dinner. Earworm: Invisible, by my boys

  6. bfitzinAR

    As soon as JanF tells me how, I’m going to update my diary but my system went online at 2:30 yesterday afternoon.  Still crazy here, more-or-less cleaning up after 4 separate sets of visiting something or others (processing requisitions for the various travel charges, etc) but dropping down to a dull roar.  Have a wonderful weekend.  bf

  7. princesspat

    I’m hoping to spend time today sorting fabric….some to keep, some to go to my friends workroom, and lots to be donated. It’s frustrating to just have occasional time for this project, but I’m determined to keep some progress going regardless.  

  9. JanF

    She was in a time warp! 😉

    Here is her comment … in last Friday’s diary:

    Morning, moosekind, 59 F. here in Northern Virginia, with brilliant (2.00 / 2)

    blue skies, going for a high of 65 F. today. We’re going to have rain at the “two o’clock hour,” if that bleached blonde on the news is to be believed. I thought two o’clock was an hour. She also says “the noon hour”–duh. She must have taken the “Never Use One Word When You Can Use Three” 101 in college.

    Back to my morning: gave Miss Pink Cheeks her breakfast, supervised her dressing, delivered her to day care, then came home to drink life-giving coffee made by Dearly Beloved. I’ve had to make coffee for so many years for so many men, starting with my father, that now I make DB do it. He does a fantastic job, both with Morning Coffee and Evening Cappuccinos.

    Off to lunch with two friends I haven’t seen for a while. Meant to work on the Beltane story yesterday but got engrossed in a book on my Kindle (bad me). On Sunday I’ll start reviewing galleys for my forthcoming e-book, Witchfire.  I’ll work on the Beltane story tonight, it’s getting a bit close to the time. This year at Beltane I plan to toast all my apple trees in cider and thank them for putting up with the awful winter we’ve had.

    Portlaw, the Bach concert sounds great. It must be wonderful to live in NYC. There’s a possibility in the wind that my elder son may move back there (the city he loves best in all the world) for work. I’ll miss him and my darling daughter-in-law if he does but at least NYC is within driving and train distance.

    Hope everyone will have a wonderful weekend!

    by: Diana in NoVa @ Fri Apr 25, 2014 at 09:40:42 AM CDT

  10. Diana in NoVa

    As I just said in the April 18 check-in diary, morning is not my best time. Gee, it’s fun to b old!  One gets so befuddled.

    Anyway, it is now the “two o’clock hour”–2:44 p.m., actually–and we are getting the promised rain. I have just returned from a delightful long lunch with two of my Circle sisters–had a lovely salad with pear, prosciutto, and pecans, accompanied by a miniature palmier–so now am ready for some downtime.

    I still hope everyone will have a nice weekend! And perhaps tomorrow I’ll be less confused. 😉

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