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[calihoula]

hi lupe! great idea on pool for kids! i was thinking of doing that in the barn but my mice they lean over the edge fall in but got the brick and rock in the pans.  raccoonies can still get in those ..my flatter metal pans i could fill it with water only two inches deep but they got ac. so happy you now have  ac in your house! that would give me a headache no ac i dont drink water but i bet that did too. cows lost their lives for meat so if price is up ....penny and brownie got dumped here be two years june 13 th not tomorrow but next saturday. they were about 4 months old then so girls two and a half. seems we had them longer alot longer!  they had a toad backed up against side of house on the deck this morning it was hopping up i screamed at leave that toad alone get in this house now! they ran in almost knocked me over. toad is okay. i got a i dont know some kind of bush growing on the deck against the plyboard we put all around it. it has sharp thorns, i trimmed it up some getting really big but left it toad has gone in there before girls leave it alone there.  is your bleedin heart still doing okay?

[lupinelady]

cal- bleeding heart is done blooming now- plant looks great-  and.... Duke is here!!!!! His mom called a bit ago and they decided to do a little drive- need to get out of town. She was going to pick him up later today but I talked her into leaving him overnight.    Yay!! He is such a good boy. Will have to be careful when I take him out in the morning- put him on leash and keep him close. Don't know what the racoonies will think of him. He really smelled around when he got here. Checked out the well and dirt piles- so funny. Such a good day!!

[calihoula]

hi lupe! oh boy duke is there! he has to check out all the new stuff yes keep the boy away from raccoonies! momma be protective of her babies.  duke to stay overnight too he doesnt have to wear a mask does he?  i took smokie down to end of driveway put more trash bags out went to jim shop driveway smokie radio goes off what oh no smokie trying to die again got him off the road he died had to walk all the way back up good i had my cane called jim he said must be that battery cable i dont know use to drive it for years with that battery light on when jim changed the voltage regulator problems. light still came on but battery was being drained die on me so jim said cable was loose on battery it was he said he fixed that and the light stayed off last two days but not right cant even drive it to get the mail then i took my newer car down there to lock up smokie and thought well i will try to start it it started i zoomed back up the driveway called jim he said he called john to come jump start me well call him back i got to walk all the way down there again get my newer car. so hot i got a headache starting here. jims friend shane knows a mechanic by him in cameron guantees his work smokie be going there on the flat bed trailer. what are you and duke doing tonight oh you got your ac going just in time!

[ra]

Hi Jewelies!  Yup... still hot here...

rues... Where are you??  Hope everything is okay.

cal... Smokey doesn't usually give you much trouble, does it?  Hope they figure out what's going on.    Are you in line for the tail end of the hurricane this time?  We might get some rain on the edge of it.  I'm having trouble with my two naughty kits... they keep wanting to scratch the furniture in the living room, even though there are four... yes, four... scratching posts in here!!

lupine... What a nice surprise to have your house guest back for a visit!  Yes... good idea to keep him away from the raccoons... mama might not like him much.

Have a good evening, Jewelies!  Hi and peace to all!

[calhound]

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Another Chapter on Fern - UPDATE June 5, 2020
05 June 2020
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Fern, born to Jewel on January 19, 2012, had a full litter of Clover, Clyde, and Cletus (1 female, 2 males) in 2016. All survived through family break-up at about 1.5 year of age.Ferns cub
Ferns cub

Then Fern skipped a year when cubs were expected in 2018 and had a single male cub Carlin in 2019 that was seen with her on May 26, near the beginning of mating season, but did not survive. There was no cub with Fern when she was seen a month later, after the mating season, on June 29 of 2019. There is no way to know the cause of death, but when a single cub is lost during the mating seasonFern
Fern
 I suspect it was like the Lily and Hope story?that one cub cannot suckle enough to prevent ovulation, leaving the mother with conflicting drives to both mother and mate with mating taking precedence for long enough that the cub often dies (unlike Hope).

Now in 2020, she has another single cub. The picture of Fern calling the cub down is at a birch tree, which is a little unusual. Cubs much prefer to climb trees with strong, rough bark, like in the pictures of the cub from another day in a white pine.

This brown cub that is still of unknown sex makes us think that Rusty, a brown adult male was busy last year?as he is again this year. This brown male has been seen in several places in a 5 mile diameter area. Pixie?s cubs are brown, too. And Donna lives in that circle. Ferns cub
Ferns cub
However, I might be jumping the gun a bit in calling them brown because some cubs that start out dark brown molt into black or almost black fur by September.

We?ll see how this single cub does through the remainder of this mating season, but I suspect that if Fern kept it this long that it will make it. Always guessing and then learning.

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

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 70 here 72 in the barn 5 raccoonies and 4 babies. babies get right in the dog food pan eating away. well update sad in reading hope that one makes it hard to be a bear.

hi ra! well you know i drove smokie for years with that battery light on always worried but drove all over since jim and shane put that new volage in it nothing but trouble. so i think need a new person to look at it i cant even go get the mail now in it and if i end up having to put him down i would at least like to know why right now i feel all i can do is sit in him start it up and listen to the radio not move it. so hot right now not wanting to mess with it. just hot hate this weather at least it did not rain again last night. but now i have to mow all over again and its hot. i dont know about the hurricane i sure hope not not really watching much of the news i did see awhile ago mn is up 81% on ykw cases i am not surprised by that all them rioters protesters most no mask not social distancing not social at all with rioters screaming to the top of their lungs i feel like ykw is here to stay until a vaccine is here. my niece jeanne still off probably she said till august. she is ready to go back to work and hates to shop for groceries with this. i believe baseball not coming back and thats okay sure do hope football can come back. i guess you might need to cover up your furniture with heavy blanket i do cause of boo boo no cats in there but in my room they have done stuff but not like brownie and penny had. just got a tick off me the barn need to frontline myself. i sure do miss winter alot.

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- cooler out this morn and partly cloudy. The dog shame gave me a giggle- Duke kind of blends in to his pillow too. We've been up for a couple hours and he is sound asleep. I'll need to wake him so we can go outside to mess around in the flower beds. My schedule was messed up last night and I didn't get food out and the racoonies were mad. Dug up mulch and spread it around; dug up a brick by the back porch- yeesh! Knocked over a potted pansy. Another mess to clean up.

A farmer neighbor stopped to borrow a wrench from hubby yesterday and we had a short conversation about ykw. He has a 98 year old dad who he has only seen through the window. So hard on him. I also talked to my sil who is in the memory care unit of our local nursing home. She said she wished we could go out to our favorite places. I said me too but for now she is in the safest place for her and her husband. I hate to admit it but when they were shutting stuff down in March I thought it was overkill. Boy- was I wrong.

I found out that to sign up for classes at our rec center/Y we have to go on line. Well--- I tried and really- must I create stress from this?  I'm just going to go in. Our spin class which is in a really small room will be in the gym so we can social distance. don't know if we'll have senior strength next week. Will call in to see.

ra- I think cal and I are both in the path of that tropical storm- Tuesday night for us. I got more grass seed to sow and i'm going to wait until after Tuesday. I planted some a bit ago and we got hard rain and washed it into clumps. Looks funny! lol

Have a great day jewelies!

[calihoula]

hi lupe! was checking to see how it is going with duke and raccoonies. raccoonies not happy root all over looking for that food. they probably could not believe you forgot it. well give you a workout fixing stuff back up. in lawrence ks college town protester tested positive for ykw others are suppose to get tested. so sorry that mans dad cant see anyone and at 98 so many selfish people not thinking of others. really need a vaccine but then how many will take it. yesterday jim did not shut his bedroom door in his closet big deal of bounty papertowels like ten or twelve couple gone boo boo carried that whole sack into the livingroom and had fun tearing up rolls of paper towels i was in the barn came in and paper towels everywhere. awhile ago jim was in his room but went down to his shop i think anyway he has two cases of price choppers bottle water in his room. boo boo lifted a bottle and chewing it up i heard him went to look he got on his couch with it busted it    oh no we are in that tropical storm path well shoot better get out and start mowing 

[ruesgram]

Hi Jewelies! I never thought in my whole life that we would own a riding lawn mower but Crow bought one Thursday! Just in time for our mow day! He woke me up at 7:30 to ask if I wanted to go to Home Depot with him. I asked what for? That's when he told me he was buying a riding lawnmower! He has been having a hard time mowing this summer. He thinks it's his hip. It hurts so bad that he almost falls down. So he researched and found that Troy built had a small 30 inch mower that was made for smaller yards. First he had to go rent a uHaul trailer and then pick up the mower. I didn't go with him. He was ready to go and didn't want to wait on me to get dressed and get Boo outside to potty. He came home a happy camper with a shiny new red mower. He studied the instruction booklet and then practiced riding it back and forth in the garage. Finally he felt confident and went to the grass. I laughed so hard when he took off down the side the yard. He looked like a bronco rider! His head was jerking back! It was hysterical! He got the yard mowed and it looked pretty good. He said he had so much fun! Later in the day  he took the uHaul trailer back to the rental store. While  he was sitting in traffic a kid behind him bumped into the back of the trailer! Only damage was to the kid's front Ohio license plate!

Ca, glad that Griz had a good vet visit. I don't know how we can ever get Boo back to the vet. Neither of us can pick him up to get him into the truck or the car. And he can't help himself either. He hasn't been able to jump in a long time. Sucks getting old for people and dogs.  Scary stuff having a snake bite you! Glad he wasn't poisonous!  The last snake I saw was at the cemetery a few years ago. My older sis is deathly afraid of snakes and when she saw the snake she froze! We got her out there fast! Sad to read about single cubs having such a hard time living.  :'(

Ra, yay, you finally have a working fridge! I never knew about using your washer when the power was out! Good info! Glad your daughter had a spare fridge! I hope I don't jinx this by saying Robin's fridge is probably next to go! She brought it with her from California when she moved back home. That was in 2002!  It's hot here today. Robin and Tasha are in the pool. Crow and I are inside in the air conditioning! I'll try and post a pic of creeping Charlie when I'm on my laptop. Unless Lupe beats me to it! Lol! Cool that your grand's boyfriend was on the news. I haven't watched a launch since the Challenger.

Lupe, what a joy for you to have Duke! Nice that his mom let him spend the night! We used to get so excited when Wilson got to stay with us! Now he never leaves! Lol! It was 7 years ago June 3rd when I found him stuck behind Robin's trash can!

Jo, wish I lived close enough that we could ride together. My bike is back up on the hook in the garage. Hope Joan is having a nice day. It's very hot here today. We had a cool down earlier in the week. Even had a record low 39 one early morning. Then Thursday we got over 3 inches of rain. Did you get rain that day? Looked like it was coming from your direction. We had a record rainfall for May...8.5 inches!

Have a nice day! Stay safe!

[calihoula]

hi rues! yay crow has a rider too! the dogs yard is so bumpy and all the holes they dug knocks me around get some bruises say ive been bronco riding! now crow will be like your neighbor always mowing! mine is a 42 inch cut jims is bigger pull behind mower. but we gots lots to mow i mowed today jim mowed early this morning. are you going ride it? do cool little one for little yards i could only mow using a rider jim too. happy for crow. red rider crow! hard getting griz in the car he put his front feet in it i lifted him on up but the back took me and missy grunting grizzie grunting. in my room so cool extra window ac on. dogs taking a nap. getting ready to go do pearl be done for the day. that kid that bumped crow from ohio it wasnt joho was it? we got that stretcher for dogs it has big wheels on the back if another big dog falls cant walk we can roll them on this pick up front and get them in back of my suv. its under jims bed hope it rots but if needed we got it and can get them help. dr lehr office has sent vet techs and young vets here before so that was better. his place only ones to do that. wow it was 39 there wish it was here! do you watch million dollar listing la on bravo? i love that show showing reruns yesterday i was wondering when the season starts its june 16 th! still waiting for our queen..

[calhound]

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Questions and a New Couple - UPDATE June 6, 2020
06 June 2020
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Questions are coming in about Lily, Jewel, and Fern

Question: Is Lily still alive?
Here?s a video of Lily and her four yearlings? last sighting together on Wednesday evening May 13, 2020 from 7:53 PM to 8:35 PM https://video.nest.com/clip/9ad650d861774e2a90026c43d1da825f.mp4 They saw a couple of the yearlings alone on Sunday, May 17 and reported that ?family break-up has probably happened.? All the yearlings have distinctive blazes. WLily and her cubs
Lily and her cubs
e and the community will be keeping an eye out for Lily and her yearlings Marie, Kaiya, Dell, and Leroy. People are keeping records of these and other beloved bears in this community that has shown special caring about bears for over 50 years. It is an amazing story of peaceful coexistence. I don?t know of a more bear-friendly community. An example of that caring is the exquisite welcome set up for Lily and her yearlings as shown in the video. Lily is now 13 years old despite a major effort to gun her down in 2013 as shown in the BBC TV worldwide documentary ?Lily, a Bear with a Bounty? or the US version ?Lily, a Bear?s Life.? That effort was despite a judge?s order on July 28, 2013 for the DNR to discourage hunters from killing radio-collared bears. The effort resulted in 3 of our 8 remaining radio-collared bears being shot. We are glad Lily is still alive today

Question: Has anyone seen Jewel?
Jewel and four cubs
Jewel and four cubs
Yes! And her four cubs. Here?s a picture that someone from the community sent in two days ago. It is a profile picture of Jewel that shows the distinctive rounded bridge of her nose. The cub on the right is photobombing the camera with its tongue. This is the best view I?ve seen of the cubs. They look so much alike that it has been hard for anyone to determine the sex of each, so they are still unnamed. They have mostly been high in trees.

Question: What could have happened to Fern?s cub of last year?
I suspect that it was something like happened between Lily and Hope, but many such questions have gone unanswered without radio collars and den cams to provide answers. What we saw in 2010 and 2011 with Lily, Hope, Faith, and Jason was an amazing time of answering questions that we and other researchers could only speculate about before that. When a cub disappears, it isalways possible that a predator got it, of course, and we have documented that, but I believe that is uncommon based oTasha and Lucky
Tasha and Lucky
n the numbers. As we continue to document Shadow?s clan, we have seen that in litters of one, only 5 of 8 cubs survived their first year despite the mother having to keep track of only the one cub. In 7 litters of four, all 28 cubs survived their first year.

A new couple seems to be Lucky and Tasha. Tasha went from being terrified of Lucky to being bitten by him and now spending time by his pen and going nose to nose with him as shown in this picture and 12-minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAcLdptd_ac

Lucky still has his play partner Holly as shown in these short videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3aWIJWUNJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8xpwi8GdM

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

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 71 here 72 in the barn 5 raccoonies 4 babies. babies eating together in one big pan. one was trying to be stingy i told it knock it off be happy to have food. it was went back to eating. big ones cookie cookie. pearl cookie sweets cookie pearl getting where like the treats better than her grain. i love seeing jewel and her kids in the update today!! seeing lily too we all remember that time that DNR trying to kill lily dr rogers took off them radio collars we all begged him too. oh nuts griz is barking and barking and jim trying to sleep. i got to hurry it up here.  looks like lucky is the lucky with the girls.

hi lupe! did duke go home yesterday? i know he had lots of fun i was happy to see the full moon earlier it lit up my sidewalk for me to the barn. did you say tennis be back in sept? now that sport can come back players are six feet apart and be fine with no fans suppose to be quiet anyway not like football could you see all the fans acting like it was football at a match.





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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- 62 and breezy here so I turned off the ac and opened a few windows. I need to go out and finish weeding in the barn garden and water a few new plantings. Duke went home in late afternoon-  I thanked his mom for letting us keep him overnight. It was nice to have him here- he is such a good boy. He is slowing down though- getting old- maybe 15? In the morning he slept for 4 hours in a row on his pillow and I wanted to go outside. In the past whenever I got up he did too. Yesterday he slept though my getting up several times. I finally picked him up (he really, really doesn't like to be picked up) and carried him outside.  Even then he stayed on the porch and sidewalk. Grass was wet.

While I was out yesterday 3 different groups of people- neighbors- walked by. One woman commented on the gardens and she noticed the flowers in the ditches. So nice to see people appreciating even the ditch!!! lol

So good to see jewel and her cubs. I really love the people of Ely!!!

rues- I can't believe crow rode his mower in the garage. Based on my abilities I would have totally demolished the building. When I got my ztr I needed an acre to practice in!

I may post a couple pictures if I can remember how!
Have a great day jewelies!

[lupinelady]

Well- I think I did this right- maybe. The one with the lens cap is the creeping Charlie and the other is my poppies!

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[ra]

Hi Jewelies!   Another hot one here.  Don't know when I'll be able to mow, it's just too hot during the day and grass is too wet in the morning.  Maybe I need  a horse...

lupine... Yes, I have a LOT of creeping charlie!  Thanks for showing me what it is.  Your poppies are beautiful!  I see you have a lot of grass to cut, like cal.

cal... Love seeing all the bear moms having 4 cubs.  Not too long ago, we all thought how unusual it was for them to have 4, but now it seems to happen quite a lot.  I wonder why...  I don't think I've ever watched anything on bravo, so I've never seen your show Million Dollar listing.  Sounds something like House Hunters, only Mansion Hunters.   

Hi to all and hope everyone has a nice Sunday!