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[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 75 here was humid when i opened the door to let the dogs out calling for big fat storms and they are here. got the dogs out beforeit hit and in the barn 72 in there 3 raccoonies and 10 babies. it hit while i was in the barn got back in and in here big boom close scared mr kitty off the table while he was eating sweetness still eating griz started barking when the boom hit bark bark bark ra tv has lost the signal.

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- pretty soggy and warm here and calling for some rain all day. Nothing severe though- yay!


obsver- belated Happy Birthday. hope you did fun stuff!!

Well- i finally cancelled my eye appointment for the end of the month. The person who works there is a friend and she said 2 people in her extended family had the virus and have recovered. And yesterday i got to the grocery a few minutes early and talked with another person outside til they opened. She said they've had new cases in that county and so i need to check with the state website if i can remember how to get in there.

Over last weekend Windows did an update on my laptop. No choice as to whether i wanted the update- it just zoomed off. Well- it eliminated some top sites that i didn't have in my favorites and the state site was one of those. But 2 good results of the update- i no longer have to put in my e-mail address and password. That and-- this is the best part- i can write jewelies- and it doesn't automatically change the spelling.  Maybe computers can learn that if the writer writes something a billion, gazillion times it can be right. lol

Have a great day jewelies!

[calhound]

Daily Updates
Bear Food - UPDATE July 15, 2020
15 July 2020
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Juneberries by Mike
Juneberries
by Mike
This picture of juneberries shows what could have been with more rain. It?s on a bush Mike Johnson watered. Elsewhere on his property rainfall was only 53% of normal, and these favorite berries were scarce or worse.

But as I mentioned before, hazelnuts are looking promising. 2-year-old Joy seems to be looking forward to that. She was pulling down hazelnut bushes today as if searching for them. Do bears know the smell of hazelnut bushes even when they don?t have nuts?

Too good to pass up were two pictures that Bear Center intern Allison Garton snapped today. One is of Lucky taking a break. The other is a very different picture of One-eyed Jack.

Lucky relaxing by Allison Garten
Lucky relaxing
by Allison Garten
One-eyed Jack Allison Garten
One-eyed by
Jack Allison Garten
Joy looking at hazelnuts
Joy looking at hazelnuts

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

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 70 here very foggy 72 in the barn 4 raccoonies 10 babies we got pouring down rain yesterday hope bears gets some. those juneberries look really good. fun pictures of lucky and jack and joy is such a pretty bear.

hi lupe well you know i cancelled my cleaning for my teeth just not safe. makes you wonder what is the cause of ykw people will not do as ask i was happy to see on my news that everyone has to wear a mask in walmart! oh griz i hate it too when they do update on my computer very aggravating should be totally up to us our computer our money. my ipad may ask me but i can say no and i do. leave it alone no updates!

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- cal- it is foggy here as well but we only got a half inch of rain. I heard on tv about wal-mart requiring masks and i think best buy too.  My friend who is in my exercise class wears a mask in class. The rec center is the only place i don't wear a mask when i go out.  My friend has serious heart issues and diabetes so i told her to continue wearing her mask.  When i am at the center there have only been 3 or 4 other people there- all staff take their temp when they come in. So i feel safe.

Yesterday evening about 7 PM i saw a doe in the yard fairly close to the house by the flower beds. We were watching her and then a fawn came into the picture- so adorable and little!! Probably the first time the fawn  got to go out to eat. Her mom went into the tall grass and the fawn was so funny- trying to stay with mom but trying to stay on the mowed grass at the same time.  We'll have to look for the pair in the evenings now.

Monarch butterflies flying around yesterday-yay!

On the agenda today it to clean bertha- on sunday i dropped something between the passenger seat and the console and while groping about in there i came up with a pair of socks i didn't know i had. Wonder what else i'll find? Maybe thousands of dollars- lol!

Have a great day jewelies!

[calihoula]

hi lupe fog is gone now its hot but excessive heat warning starting tomorrow at noon heat index friday 105 sat 110 and sun too  i saw lots of places now going to require mask how cool mom and baby! maybe toss some treats out for them! raccoonies will think why you... put out stuff back out! i forgot i saw two monarchs here! i said hi will have to tell my friend lupe up north and little to the east about you! did you find what you drop in bertha? did you find big money too? i saw a bunch of reg butterflies they were on raccoonie poop. oh my swallows out the basement door up in that roof had three babies i put two big rugs under the nest in case one falls out then if so i will put it back in there. i saw them last week i was positioning the fan better to blow on them they were hanging their little heads out then they felt big breeze i said how is that little ones they open their mouth feed me i filled up the big plate i have water in came in. looked out the door here came their mom and dad. my barn sparrows fooling around my little raccoonie that pulls on my pants i was back by pearls gate my work table she came on the table trying to look in my bag gave her a cinnamon bun and pet her back. she kept eating her cinnamon bun. pearl hay where is my cinnamon buns sweets hay mice hay well now another raccoonie hay

[calhound]

Daily Updates
Weather, Bears, and Birds - UPDATE July 16, 2020
16 July 2020
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It was a day of variety. Hard rain left the white pine needles glistening. Then the sky turned blue, and the sun reflected off the backs of hummingbirds.Rusty losing his rust
Rusty losing his rust

Then Rusty came and showed us that he is losing his namesake fur. His new fur is dark enough that he could look black in low light.

Last evening, 9-year-old Oliana (Daughter of Braveheart) stopped by. I haven?t seen her in years but she was immediately the gentle bear I knew well as a yearling. Oliana is the daughter I hoped would show me more about mother/daughter relations back in 2012 after family break-up. When she disappeared for a month or so, I mistakenly put her collar on a lookalike captive-raised bear that apparently was released into the study area for some reason. We soon realized the mistake when sweet Oliana appeared. That?s when we named the lookalike Noliana.

Ruby-throated hummingbird
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Gull
Herring Gull
 

Pine needles after the rain
Pine needles after the rain
9yo Oliana
9 year old Oliana
 

The Black Bear Field Courses are going to be fun and interesting?and small. One course has 6 participants at this time. Three had four, and two have three. Two were cancelled as 50 people had to drop out. A problem for many was that they could not get flights from England, Spain, Australia, and now Brazil. Because of the drought and the resulting lack of juneberries, we are seeing more bears than ever. Will be interesting. Spaces are open.

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

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is 70 here 72 in the barn 2 raccoonies 4 babies im happy it rained for the bears. lot of people cancelled out but with ykw i am not surprised at all. big risk right now. jim got the big bales picked up and sat up by the hay pond. five back past pearl on the other side of her pasture i stayed in with her as jim went by on that big tractor made lots of loud noise i kept her calm brushing her feeding her treats. she did good. good to have that done too will be a hot one today.

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- 65 and foggy again; yesterday was a no ac day- ceiling fans and some windows open.

cal-  i decided to go to the farm store and get cat food yesterday. They had reset the store and i ended up walking past all the horse stuff; i thought to myself- if cal were here i could help her haul all this stuff. lol

After cat food i went to the grocery store- old people's hour. Maybe 2 or 3 other people in the store while i was there.  Our cases went way up yesterday and deaths went way up too. ykw- go away!!

I didn't get my car cleaned yesterday- i'll get on it first thing when i get home from the rec center. Maybe i'll go to the local car wash and vacuum the big stuff. Maybe wash bertha too.  We need to mow today. Tomorrow we have a high heat warning- yuck!  flowers love the warn stuff so i'm good with that.

Have a great day jewelies!

[ruesgram]

Hi Jewelies! We had a visitor in the backyard last night. I'm guessing it was a raccoon. He dug into a couple of my potted plants and washed his hands on the pool steps! What a mess. I'm guessing he came for a drink of water, too. Got everything cleaned up and hoping this was his only visit. He came a couple times during the winter. Crow wants to get a couple security cameras for out back so we can see who is lurking out there while we sleep!

Cal, I'm so happy Walmart and Sams is doing the mask thing! One dr said if everyone wore masks, the virus could be gone in a matter of weeks. Our county has 199 cases now. Really scary. And yet they still say schools must open. Robin's ofc had a scare last week. One employee came to work with body aches! He is a very healthy person that never gets sick. The boss closed the ofc and sent everyone home. The employee went for testing. Apparently there is a test that takes less than 24 hrs for results. The next morning he reported that he was negative. So everyone was called back to work. Robin said for her own peace of mind, she called the health dept to make sure there was such a test that had fast results. They told her yes! Whew! We all had a restless night worrying that she may have been exposed. She has been so careful. Great update pics! Funny that Rusty is losing his rust color! Lol! I have never heard of Juneberries. They look like blueberries to me! Cute pic of One eyed Jack sticking out his tongue and Lucky relaxing. Nice pic of the hummer. I took my hummingbird feeder down. I've only seen 2 females this summer.  I don't know where they are. If you can, take a pic of your baby raccoonies! I'd love to see them!

Lupe, my computer updated yesterday. Makes me so mad, too. Crow said his did it last week. I don't like change! One day this week, I was a couple houses down from Robin's when a doe, a yearling and 2 fawns walked right out into the street, crossed and went on through the neighborhood. Thank goodness everyone was driving slow and able to stop. I don't know if they were headed to the river or to a wooded area not far from there. Crow took the truck through the car wash yesterday. I think it was it's first bath this year! Did you hear that the Rose Bowl parade was cancelled? I just hate ykw.

Have a nice day and stay safe!

[calihoula]

hi rues! yay you got a nice pool for your raccoonie! maybe you got your own babies! put out some of boos food! i will take my camera out to the barn where they are light is out so i think too dark but my one follows me back to pearl i could get her will try that dark corner a flash would likely scare them they would think what the heck put that away! the babies are getting big almost size of moms. better find my camera put in new batteries. maybe i can get a video it is so hot here today awful i hate summer. be worse tomorrow was going to mow dogs yard after i picked up poop well too hot to mow! bad enough picking up poop. crow trying to get raccoonies on camera  that is scary for robin. how to get everyone to wear a mask should be simple but of course is not. ive not seen any hummers this year either so took mine down too. maybe too hot see scout and them.one jack is easy to know poor jack but looks like he does okay. no i did not hear rosebowl gone that crummy ykw!

hi joho! how is joan doing and you?

[johoward]

hi ev1
what a day.  son David had today's visit.  He watched her drink a glass of water.  Later she ate a little pizza and some pulled pork.  She is much better. Thank God and you all for your prayers.
May God Bless all those in need.

[calhound]

black bear people of ely mn said this....No update tonight - all is well. LM

[calhound]

hi jewelies it is a humid 77 here 72 in the barn. extra hot today.  and my sister is mia i have called and called no answer no calling back so going to tell jim in a bit we need to drive clear over there and see what is going on. she is suppose to be at 11 am and her habit is to eat at mcdonalds first get there early so she can smoke 6 cig. go and get back before it is 110 worry about the barn with it so hot. leaving the dogs too. hope when we get over there hope she is okay then jim will let her have it for not calling me back. hope she is not sick with ykw. we will be wearing our mask. hope jim has nothing planned this morning hate to go alone

hi joho! what good news! so happy for you and joan and your family. thank you for posting! god keeping her safe. hope my sister is safe too.

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[lupinelady]

Good morning everyone- a humid 75 here too cal. Geez- i hope your sister is okay. Twll jim that i said he had to go with you.  lol

Well- this is spray season here in farm country. I heard a plane in the distance and told hubby i needed to get out and do my outside stuff before it got closer. That lad to a discussion on when farmers started aerial bug and fungus control. Hubby said they used to do it with helicopters way back- but we've only seen small planes in the last 20 years or so. About 2 hours later i noticed a heavy duty truck go by our house with tanks of liquid on the back. It stopped just about 100 yards south of our house and just sat there. Lots of times people don't realize our road turns into minimum maintenance not far from us and then try to figure out what to do. Well- this truck just sat there and pretty soon  ---- a helicopter flew in over our field and landed on the truck!!!!! I went out to see and sure enough he sucked up some liquid from the truck and took off and sprayed the field across from us. While it was exciting to see i just hate the chemicals being sprayed- my swallows weren't happy either.

Sending positive vibes to all who need them today and every day.

rues- i did hear about the Rose Parade- it is so far out i'm just amazed it got cancelled this early. ykw is here to stay i think. This is a good time to be retired though i miss travelling. I'll be content with our dives in the country for now.

Have a great day jewelies!

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