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Wednesday Watering Hole: Check In & Hangout for the Herd

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Good morning, Moosekind.  


  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.

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

    When I went to bed last night the weather app on my phone was predicting a high of 82 for today. 7 hours later, the forecast is for 76. How much can change in 7 hours?

    Anyway it’s 63 right this minute.

    Today y (hopefully final) follow up with the surgeon on my shoulder. If you are in or near Winchester, VA and decide to tear your rotator cuff (protip: don’t) Dr. Larsen is your go to. Trust me.

  2. JanF

    It is 44 degrees in Madison with an expected high of 60. Summer was here briefly over the weekend and then … poof … gone. I expect that it will return but I will not place any bets on it. 🙂

    Still busy … I don’t see much of a blogging break for a while although there is a good news good government story that is begging to be blogged. We. Shall. See.

    I did have a chuckle this morning scanning the news. This headline “The Totally Misleading Way The GOP Plans To Attack Obamacare Next” is certainly not breaking news. Misleading is really all that the GOP has when it comes to the Affordable Care Act. The program is working, lots of people are getting needed health care, the insurance companies are pleased. But the Republican Party desperately needs to run on repeal because there is simply nothing left. They can’t run on their jobs programs, they have none. They can’t run on any of the issues that Americans care about, immigration reform, gun safety, climate change, because the radicals (read “primary goers”) in their party have scared them.

    If we can just motivate people to get out and vote we can win. Maybe we finally have an issue that will get Democratic voters to understand that we have to vote every two years, not just every four years. I hope the GOP overplays their hand and wakes up the electorate to the devastating consequences of Republicans retaining their majorities and statehouses in blue and purple states.

    We can’t go backwards and losses in November in Senate races and House races and governors races will do just that.

    Have a great day, all y’alls!

  3. JG in MD

    It’s Spring and Mr. G.D. Mockingbird is back outside my bedroom window. He wakes me two hours early. Then the cats see I’m awake and start their diabolical “Get up and feed us! Get up and feed us!” routine.

    Katie: I will puncture you with just one claw in your scalp. Not the whole weapon, that would be inhumane. What? You dare to slap me away? I will return.

    Alice whines in my face and then balances her 17 lbs on my shoulder and upper arm as I lie on my side. I throw her off, turn over, and receive another small puncture wound.

  4. Portlaw

    Manhattan.

    The news from Turkey is dreadful.

    Hope the news from your corners of Moosesylvania is good and the ailing are healing.  

    Now coffee and the newspaper and then……..the day.

  5. anotherdemocrat

    Bummed about yesterday. Here’s what Mary Ann wrote: http://www.rmnblog.org/2014/05… The upshot is that she has to go back to a board that denied her once, but the atmosphere is changing, so I still have hope.

    It is cold here. In Texas. In May. I wore a sweater this morning — and shoes with socks. And we got more rain last night. Sadly, there is no more rain in the 2 week outlook. And they think we might be in the same weather pattern that was in the drought we had in the ’50s.

    Must play happy music in my head. Michael Franti, here I come.

  6. princesspat

    I did find my way to the garden shop yesterday so I’m making my plans….nice to wake up with flowers in mind! We will take care of our grand girl this afternoon too so it will be a busy but fun day.

  7. bfitzinAR

    Well, I’ve been saying this is a 30-year-ago normal and 30 years ago the rule was “don’t put out your tomato plants until the 1st of June”.  After having gotten used to the “new normal” however, this just feels wrong.  🙂

    I am still uplifted from yesterday – only got over to the Courthouse between 10 and noon, but I got to marry 3 same-sex couples.  (Since we feared a stay, most folks who could get there and get married had already done so, but I still got to participate in the most righteous thing happening right now!)

    Anyway, work has been beckoning most of the morning and here it is again.  Gotta go.  {{{HUGS}}} to Moosylvanians 🙂

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