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[calihoula]

YAY! i am so happy you are home jp! i know you will follows dr orders! enjoy your lunch get your meds go home rest watch tv! thank you jps doctors and god!

[lupinelady]

Yay jp- you are home! ty for your post.

[johoward]

JP Ditto everything everyone said.  Also a big HOORAH!

[johoward]

hi again ev1.  got home from the fair.  joan was full so i forced myself to eat her italian sausage sandwich.  LOL Then i put on TV.  The Browns are playing the champs, and are winning 5 to 0.  YAY!  What a nice surprise.  Go Browns.

[calhound]

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Spanky Healing, Yellowstone Grizzlies - UPDATE August 23, 2018
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Spanky?s wound is healing. He wants to lick it but can?t reach it on his right rear hip. Spanky
Spanky
The wound is granulating (a stage of healing) and is no longer so bloody. The flap of skin is drying up as the veterinarian said it would. Lorie Kennedy snapped a picture of him sleeping at the base of a white pine. Another picture of him is climbing on a platform at a feeding station. Notice his look. He has physical problems we are still trying to identify. If he takes more than three hazelnuts in his mouth, he ends up dropping the excess unlike other bears. Spanky sleeping - by L. Kennedy
Sleeping - by L. Kennedy
He had only restricted use of his tongue. He can?t extend it more than about an inch and a half beyond his teeth, unlike other bears that can extend their tongues 4-6 inches to touch food and draw it into their mouths. I suspect that tongue problems are what make him drop food from his mouth. Other bears can dexterously use their tongues to manipulate food in their mouths. The neighborhood is watching him, trying to detail his limitations and feeling a bit protective of this special needs bear. Spanky is now 3 years old and is the son of the oldest black bear ever known to give birth (Shadow at age 28). Any thoughts are welcome.Spanky on platform
Spanky on platform

On another note, an opinion piece by Ted Kerasote in the New York Times about the proposed grizzly bear hunt in the Yellowstone Spanky's wound
 Wound healing
Ecosystem is well written and is backed up by strong scientific data by top biologists. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/environment/grizzly-bear-hunt-wyoming.html.

Thank you for all you do.

Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center

[calhound]

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/6616CBA514F?z=21

[jpalmken]

Freddie, another Shadow clan male bear.



Hi to all.

So great, after not sleeping too well in the hospital, to enjoy my own bed.  I did not want to get out of it and I will probably wind up there again, soon.

I want to thank all of you for the good wishes. 

I must catch up on the post reading to find out what is going on with the gang, especially cal's feet.

[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- 4:44 for jp's circles-lol cal- ty jp for the teddy with wings,freddie and the weekend wish- so glad you are home. Have a little breakfast and then head back to bed!
Raining here this AM. Woke me at 4 with the thunder and has been raining with lightening ever since. Tank still wanted out to eat his meal on the back porch with the other 2 cats.

cal- how are your toes?  will be thinking of jim this afternoon- you're picking him up-right? Are you okay to drive?


Just opened the back door to check on tank and he zoomed in-lol. Poor  spanky but at least he has humans looking out for him-I take comfort in that. Not much going on here.

Have a great day jewelies!

[calihoula]

hi jp!  thank you for the good morning its better now with you back the pic of freddie and a happy friday! i bet you was happy to sleep in your bed little league from hi won over ny showing their coach emotional about hurricane lane and they won to give them hope he was crying one of his league kid patted him on the back. if penny steps on my toes one more time.

hi lupe well my toes not so swollen black and blue yes sore yes dogs not helping that. if these two puppies dont knock it off tearing up every thing jumping up being very unruly they will find themselves out in the barn in sweets stall!  jim ride just now got here he is going to work do his paperwork go to the hospital. i drove yesterday i will be fine. i hear chewing. jim hugged me said if i dont wake up its been great. oh jim you will wake up come home yell at these puppies. tomorrow we are going to get that big rubber horse matt. i will put down some more flooring jim says need to replace all the floors but not now. try to fix it tomorrow when i go get jim will try to set something on top of that rug over the hole. maybe boo boo. jim said did you see that hole well jim who do you think cleaned up that big fat mess. my knees really hurting me. everything needs repaired on me. lol tanked zoomed in! he is so funny! but lupe so good you getting rain. we got some more but weatherman said not really helping foundations on homes and building trees everything so thirsty drinking it up. well cant blame them back to 100 tomorrow and sunday but i think after that maybe cooler.

[calihoula]

4:13 on jps circles!

[jpalmken]

I thought the circles were going to put me back in hospital but I  lucked out and got them in 6:45.

[Nora in IA]

Circles -- 4:31

Good luck to Jim with his knee Cal!

[ruesgram]

Cal, I think Spanky's wound still looks awful. Glad he has people looking after him. I don't think he looks like a healthy 3 year old. Poor bear. I didn't read about the bear hunt either. Oh my gosh, what a thing for Jim to say... if he didn't wake up! I'm sorta superstitious about stuff like that! Hope his surgery went well! The hotel and brewery would be the perfect spot for some people! But not for me because I don't like beer! Lol! Forgot to tell you the other day that I did see Mallory Square that time! I don't know why it didn't show up the time before. I like your Clark sandals!  Heard that today is Harry Potter's 20th anniversary!

Jp, glad you are home! I know how good your own bed feels after you get home from the hospital! Those hospital beds suck! There is no place like home!

Lupe, don't you just love to sleep when it is raining? I love to hear the rain hitting the bedroom windows and then roll over and go back to sleep! My grandma had an old silver tin roof on her house. We always hoped it would rain when we stayed there because the bedrooms were upstairs and we loved to hear the rain beating on the tin roof!

Hi Jo, Nora and Willi!

Have a nice evening!

[calihoula]

hi you guys what a day. i was doing chores i went to the barn refill raccoons food pans took my coffee can in pearls area to get water saw mr snake by my work table got the water saw mice water bowl empty i went over past mr snake filled it mouse took off in his direction i said dont go that way stepped back and mr snake with mouses rear end in his mouth i grabbed that mouse by its shoulders told that snake let go then i poured that whole can of water in his face he let go just like that. put that poor scared mouse in my can covered it sat it up front. went back told mr snake would like you to leave he was coiled up by my rake and buckets he looked at me sticking out his tongue at me i yelled no afraid of you he slid back away from me. i got that mouse brought it in put it in a plastic cage with food water and a tube deal with bedding for a room. it finally calmed down happy in there. went back out to do pearl my phone rang it was jim he said they called wanted him there early getting ready to take him in! nurse got on the phone kinda hateful to told me i had to come now so i would be there so dr could talk to me when he was done. augie was crying in my room i knew he had to use the bathroom i told her look i got animals to take care of old dog needs to go puppies outback not leaving them outside in this heat she said the dr i said i dont care she said how long till you leave thirty forty min she said okay. so hurried and got augie out in puppies in pearl sweets hay could not find directions found them trying to hurry my toes hurting today finally got on the road jims truck hard to see over his steering wheel so finally got close tons of traffic construction took this turn like jim said went all the way down no surgical center fancy apt went back the other way scared and lost did not have their number jim called me on his phone huge buildings every where i pulled into like a shopping center deal an older man was in the parking lot i told him i am lost scared did he know where the sur. center was yes he did he had surgery there he turned said see that big brown building across the road yes it is the building next to it. thank you i drove there but it was the only building so i parked got out and that man had drove over said to me sorry he realized not another building but the one i was at. he wanted to be sure i got there okay. thank you got in sur center right there to rhe left got in took back jim done awake in bed. he told me wrong sorry  that nurse she tells me jim can eat jim says lady i am right here she days oh you wont remember our conversation jim yes i will dr comes over shakes my hand said dr something talking to jim not me jim. told jim yes big tear and some arthritis in there all fixed went very well. nurse telling me petty stuff jim said i am right here. the dr said he could go so nurse get the iv out. so she got a wheel chair i was using my cane and following it was a big wideeeee wheelchair!! me and sister could fit in it! i got the truck jim got in went home. he used my cane to get in he is walking now with no cane said it feels better than before. he was mad at that nurse being pushy he told her look we had it all worked out it got changed to earlier she has to take of the animals he said to me the dr hardly even talked to you. i know. his office in excelsior hospital i will have him look at my left knee later on i told jim anymore surgery its excelsior or liberty you do it there again your family is finally going to help his sister and her husband live by there. so i had all my chores to do when we finally got home i am pooped. jim did very good happy with his knee.

hi jp lol you survived those circles!

hi nora! he did good!

hi rues! wow harry potter twenty years! that flew by! happy to finally be done get those sandals off rest my foot it is sore. i dont think spanky looks healthy either. i saw on the world news next season 14 last for bbt   pearl sweets has a metal roof rain is loud on it!

[johoward]

cal you, joan, jp, and now Jim all on the mend.  GOOD  Doctors and their minions are miracle workers, but sometimes very hard to put up with.
Now FYI your Royals are beating my Indians 3 to 0. Only the first inning though.  I think I will go see football for a while. Come back to baseball later.
Too much Fair yesterday.  Lost my glasses.  Had to retrace my steps a long way.  Finally got them from Lost and Found lady.  I was very happy and very tired.  Went to watch horse show.  Could not stay for the end.
Came home watched a little football.  Went to bed, and did not get up until 2PM.  This was a wasted day.  Except when I took Joan's purse to Penny's where she was shopping with our newly widowed neighbor lady.
Now bottom of second still 3 to 0.  See you all tomorrow.  Good Night