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[calhound]

Hi jewelies it is -1 here. 51 in the barn but that furnace was running whole time i out there but did shut off as i was heading out the door. sweets right up jumping up looking for a cookie no cookie poop still runny looking but better.  it is cold.
Hi JP! Happy valentines day to you!
Hi Nora! love your valentine esp like the red fire hydrant!

Hi Rues! we got a couple of pizzas yesterday afternoon i have over half left on mine jim ate all his.  He was going to get me a diamond bracelet but i said i got my bangle with little bitty diamonds in it and have to duct tape so i will not lose it. i dont go anywhere for jewelry you know the barn. 

Hi Lupe how did it go yesterday how cold it is there?

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- very cold here...-11- brrr. Yesterday went fine. Hubby and I decided it would be better to drive into wellman and take 22 and route 1 to the city. A bit longer but more well travelled roads and less likely to have drifts across the road. Hubby had to take 4-wheel drive to sil's house to get her- drifts by her house. Then we headed out. The road in to town was a nightmare- a sheet of ice- the last hill to the stop sign on 22 is notoriously icy and yesterday was no different. I came up behind 2 grain hauling semi's at the top of the hill. They came to a complete stop- put of 4 way flashers and crept down. I followed and we made it safely down. It was a sheet of ice. Luckily the roads were much better for the rest of the journey. Appointments went fine- we actually were a bit early and we were taken right away, No doubt they had some cancellations. We had lunch on the way home- stop at the grocery- and visited our sil (not the one in the memory care place.) Got home around 3.

Today we have to leave at 7 for oncology doctor appointment at 8 then over to the infusion center if all is well. Today will be a long one- just one drug but they give it slow so 8- 10 hours. Hubby gets his tooth pulled at 9:30 and may stop in on his way home depending on how he feels.

nora- thanks for the valentine- I noticed the fire hydrant too.
cal- that video was funny and glad sweets is better

Have a great day jewelies!

[Nora in IA]

Cute horse valentine Cal!!  Glad Sweets is doing better, I've been thinking about him!

That sounds like a long day for you guys Lupe.  I know our neighbor gal gets chemo/immunotherapy at Mayo and some days are really long.  John lets me know when she's going to have a day like that and I let there lab out for them.

The fire hydrant -- Chester is a male dog, he HAS to have a fire hydrant. 

When we went to bed late it was -17 and felt like -33.  At least now at noon it's 0 and feels like -18.  Guess we're supposed to get up to +8 and that is supposed to be our low tonight before it warms up a bit more tomorrow.

[ra]

Hi Jewelies!  Got my new laptop up and going... finally.  I paid a computer store to move all my stuff over, picked it up yesterday, and have spent the past 5 1/2 hours doing what i thought I had paid them to do.  So frustrating.  I don't know what most of the stuff means, so i'm having a hard time.  I want to disable the touchpad, since I have a mouse.  I even uninstalled the driver and it still works!!  I don't know what to do next.  Took me over an hour to install my printer to this.  Needless to say, I'm not in a good mood!

Just wanted to say "Happy Valentine's Day" to everyone...  Have a good day, Jewelies!

[calihoula]

hi nora chester! jim said when he went at 5 to start up his truck the truck showed -10 and rabbits were out front so i threw out food for them girls and boo boo barking like crazy earlier a coyotee over in other half of pearls pasture. by tims and our fence no sign of tims two big dogs. it went on down into our hay field. stay out of tims coyotee he will shoot you.

hi lupe! hope you guys are okay hope hubby did okay. when we go to town big hill then back down and stop sign we hate when someone gets almost to top but hit the brakes slids back down. everyone else suppose to move fast. jim be yelling all kinds of stuff like crow stuff then im in a mood so i join in. 

hi ra! oh ra i know that is so agravating sure seems like the person who got paid should know how to do that i hate new improve stuff. i updated my ipad and wish i had not cant undo it either so have to live with it i want a laptop too with a wireless printer and wireless mouse im sure im asking for too much.

[ruesgram]

Jewelies,

[ruesgram]

Hope everyone is having a nice Valentine's day! We just ate our frozen Red Baron pizza! No busy restaurants for us  tonight! Lol!

Cal, I loved your video of the dog and goat! So cute! Wow, how cool that Jim wanted to get you a diamond bracelet! Crow suggested last week that we not get each other anything, no card or candy, etc.  I agreed.  But secretly,  I did get him a card just in case he got me one. But he stuck to the plan and didn't get me one! The rat. Lol! I put the card away and maybe use it next year! I just googled when Victoria would be back on. Says they are taking a break and may be back later this year or sometime in 2021! That didn't make me happy! Lol, at you, Jim and Crow yelling at people!

Ra, hope you are in a better mood now! Glad you are getting your laptop working. Without Crow I don't know what I'd do with a new laptop. The iPad seems so much easier. But then I don't do all the things on the iPad as I do on my laptop. You would think that the computer store would install everything that needed to be done. Are the grands coming by for Valentine's Day?

Lupe, brrr, it is cold there! I was complaining this morning when it was 20! Only got to 34 this afternoon.   And finally quit raining. A lack of snow has become the normal around here. Which doesn't bother me at all! The last few years we have had so much rain in Jan and Feb that our basement has gotten water in it. So far this year, knock on wood, that hasn't happened ...yet! Hoping your hubby's mouth feels ok! And that everything went well today. Be careful out there!

Nora, love Chester's greeting! He is such a pretty boy!

Have a nice evening!

[calhound]

Daily Updates
Cubs, Streak?s Turn, Field Courses- UPDATE February 14, 2020
15 February 2020
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Cubs: Lily Fans want to know. Or at least one does. I got a question today: How many of Shadow?s descendents should have cubs this year. Deer 
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Answer: counting only the ones we saw with cubs a year ago, the answer would be 10 are due in 2020. They are RC (21 years old), Colleen (17), Bow (14), Jewel (11), Vanna (, Vonnie (5), Mikah (6), Sadie (6), Ember (7), and Pixie (5). On top of that, there are all the young females who are coming of age who might be having their first litters. We?ll see who we see. Looking forward to it.

Deer looked nice on this sunny day. As I watched, a mink came bouncing up the hill from the lake and ducked in her hole in the snow at the bottom of the stairs. I watched to see who would emerge. But a deer was standing only a foot and a half away from the hole as I saw part of a head watching for clear sailing to stop up for some bologna. The head disappeared. Back to work. Then Streak appeared out the window. That meant grabbing bologna out of the little refrigerator near my desk as I wondered where Banjo had disappeared to and if any minks really live here for if the hole in the snow was their home away from home.Mink streak
Mink streak
 Streak took the bologna from my hand and started toward her hideaway to the right on the second floor deck and then decided to streak past to the left and down the steps to her hole as a deer watched the action.

Then I heard from Judy Thon that two people had to cancel out of the 2nd Black Bear Field Study Course, reducing the class to 6. If we overfill the courses to 9, that means three spaces are open in the July 12 to 15 class (Just before the LilyPad Picnic) and 2 spaces are open in the July 2 to 6 class?each has room for a couple. Click here for more info.

At the Bear Center, many exhibit changes are happening as we continue to make things new and better before we open in a couple months.

Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 29 here feels so warm after yesterday morning. 52 in the barn. love the update pictures. i hope that little frig stocked with bologna

Hi JP! funny to be so cold here and saw it was like 78 at  key west! saw on the world news all the birds that heading to mexico.

hi rues! very pretty valentine and we had pizza hut pizza thursday. so funny crow said no cards and he meant it rat lol. well there is always next year. when is he getting his teeth pulled? just them four and a partial? i am so disappointed no queen for who knows when!! they were showing last season thought the new season would follow yes very sad about that i just hope they show the new season now i can record it

hi lupe hope everything went okay yesterday

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- yesterday couldn't have gone better. Hubby's tooth was easy for the oral surgeon to get  out. He stopped at Menard's on the way home. Only had to change the gauze packing -little bleeding.

Sil had no reaction to the first infusion which we were warned may take all day. Instead they kept increasing the flow and she was finished by 2PM. Her doctor visited multiple times in the morning to see how we were doing. Then they gave her the 3 chemo drugs- 1 at a time.  Nurses were great and though we were there for 10 hours it went fast. Sil and I have no trouble finding stuff to talk about. lol  So - left at 6:45 AM and got home at 6:45 PM. When I walked in hubby met me and said You must be exhausted! Well that was true but all I did was sit. Went to the hospital cafeteria for a burger at noon- they delivered meals to the people getting infusions- but the rest of the time I was in the room with sil. The facility has 4 or 5 private rooms then a kind of open area for more people.  Sil was very glad to get the first treatment out of the way and so was I.

I slept 10 straight hours last night. Windy but warm this morning- yay. Bertha is salt encrusted from the last 2 days. May get to wash her today. Up to 35.

time for breakfast- have a great day jewelies!

[calihoula]

hi lupe! so happy to read everything went well yesterday i remember sitting with my boobie sil for hers it was like 7 hours. she got dizzy next day fell in her kitchen fractured her lower leg wore a brace deal after that one us stayed with her till ca got home from work.  sounded like your body said girl we be sleeping if i sat like that i would have such a time getting up. yay hubbys tooth!

[calhound]

black bear people of ely mn said this....No update tonight, family is in town. LR

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 26 here 52 in the barn. niece nicole sent me this i thought it was so good



Michael Postma
My final thoughts on SB LIV.
First the stuff that really doesn?t matter. The half time is not football. Never was. I personally haven?t been overly entertained by one since Prince played Purple Rain in the rain in SB XLI. Anyone pretending to be overly offended probably hasn?t watched a SB half time in 20 years. I really couldn?t care less. I see more offensive stuff in the broadcast booth.
Now the things that are near and dear to my heart. I don?t think it?s a stretch to say that the Chiefs healed a lot of damage done to the NFL in the past few years. The nation fell in love with a team, a QB, and a coach.  They came together to cheer for a team that captured the hearts of America.
The Super Bowl was ringing with the Tomahawk Chop, which the First Nations have endorsed. A game attended historically by fans of a game more than a team rallied behind a midwest hero.
No longer was the focus on kneelers, black panthers, and protests. It was on a 24 year old prodigy that everyone loved to see smile. A bi-racial young man that knelt to pray and stood to honor. A young man that builds homes for veterans in his spare time instead of making rap videos and avoiding jail time.
(I?m over caring about Colin Kaepernick. It?s over. Let?s move on. It was his right to protest something. My personal thoughts were that doing so in his place of business was uncalled for but I?m not his employer.  I only know that if I protested on the clock on Monday I likely would unemployed on Tuesday.)
They pulled for a safety that had been kicked off his college team, been arrested for drugs, and watched his best friend get killed. Tyrann Mathew grew up this year and became a leader of men with the guidance of Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. He has found new life in the midwest and we welcome him with open arms.
They pulled for a coach that won more games than anyone without a trophy, not even the one with their founder?s name on it. They brought the Lamar Hunt trophy back to it?s place of birth.  Andy Reid has paid his dues and was rewarded with football infamy.
We had commercials about patriotism and unity instead of a half-time of black panthers and raised fists.
People who walked away from the NFL because of divisiveness are back and KC fans rewarded them with a celebration that didn?t include riots, burning cars, and ?fans? using a world championship as an excuse to loot and destroy their home town. 
I?m proud of my teams and I?m proud to be from the Midwest Heartland. We set the bar.
It was fun. Let?s do it again next year boys.
EDIT: A lot of people have asked me if these are my original words. They are. This is actually a text that I sent to my adult son stationed in Miami with the US Army. We were discussing what, if any, impact this Chiefs team would have on the NFL as a whole and how history would view them.  I will always believe that this team is special team and Patrick Mahomes is a special player and an even more special person.

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