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[calihoula]

hi you guys i saw on cnn before i went to the barn eu president meeting right now in kiev with pres zen and when i came in cnn said russia has not made any major process in the east yet we are sending another 800 million in weapons so looks like ukraine been getting those weapons also said 120,000 still trapped in maripol 

[calihoula]

i cant see my hand with peace sign for ukraine on my ipad here but i can on my desktop sorry cant put it on my ipad

[johoward]

We see the hand Cal.  Looks good.
5:55 Pretty fast, but I know pretty late, but been a busy day catching up on things after 19 days away.
Had to clean up good then go to bank.  Then Foot Doctor.  Then barber. Then Drugmart because I had no bread. Then a nice Easter left over lunch.  Then a nap.  Then a call from Betty, class lunch coordinator, to plan a memorial for Joan tomorrow at 11:30 at Olive Garden. Then Debbie needs me, and my car, to help haul a new bed and changing table for Mary's baby. Good she called, because I had her down for tomorrow.
 Then another nice Easter left over dinner with two KFC on the side.  I am now stuffed and will not be up much longer. LOL
It is wonderful to be free to roam and do what I want again. I love it.  Wear my mask everywhere. Especially with no pain. YAY!
I feel hopeful Ukraine can prevail.  GB Ukraine and all of you. Good night

[calhound]

Volunteer Week, WRI’s First Bear, Tasha, and Mink Spot - UPDATE April 20, 2022
Mink Spot on 4-19-22
Mink Spot on 4-19-22
It’s Volunteer Week, and we enjoyed the opportunity to say thank you today in this broadcast Click here to view on Facebook

WRI’s first bear of the year stopped by the scale here this morning at 4:17, triggering this 3-second video. I haven’t heard yet if anyone can recognize him or her from this video. https://youtu.be/320p9-Qfqm8

At the Bear Center yesterday, Tasha was intrigued by a bush, I’m not sure what it is, but she is not licking it like she did the little red maple a few days ago. "Taught" caught yesterday’s action in this 3:47-minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0UArUEQeaw

Today, Ted had a meal that included snow cones as shown in these two 3 to 4-minute videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3DeRpVATo&t=15s by "Pooch Pal" and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ZGCCiV94A by "Taught".

Yesterday at the WRI, the mink let me see that it is the one named Spot who visited a lot in February and March over a year ago. Yesterday, I saw it out the window but it disappeared by the time I got out on the second floor deck with bologna. Thinking the mink had gone, I noisily shoveled away some of the ice. Then, in a hole in a mound of crusted snow just four feet away, the mink appeared. Soon I discovered that he or she has a labyrinth of interconnected burrows under the snow mound that stretches the 40-foot length of the deck with many exits. It felt good to see how calmly the mink came out and walked toward me as I offered bologna. It was definitely one that knows us here. It did not come close enough to take a piece from my hand, though, so I threw small pieces here and there trying to land them in places where it would lift its head and show the pattern of white on the chin and neck. Eventually, it paused and raised its head before coming out of an entrance, finally revealing that it is Spot. I haven’t seen him or her today yet, and it is after 8 PM. I don’t know its habits yet and when to expect it. I’m hoping for more visits.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys its 46 and real foggy.  was so happy to see mink spot! the thought of them getting trapped is as bad as ukraine being trapped. spot just stay close to dr rogers and you will be pretty safe. at least not be trapped.

hi joho! so happy for you! no place like home and the freedom and with no pain. sounds like you got alot done too and ate good.  busy day for you today. nice to have that for joan and at the olive gardens you should eat good there. GBU

God Bless Ukraine

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/89055D4B36E9?z=0

[johoward]

4:29 YAY for me.  57 degrees.   rain stopped so nice  at 3:35 pm  May take a walk later.
Had a nice class lunch.  Saw 10 or 12 old faces looking back at me across the table.  My memories of these folks do not match today's reality, and it is a blessing. In my mind I see only the beauty of our youth.  I was over whelmed to see them all and share Joan's memory with them.  They all seemed pleased to participate.  I invited them all to my home any time.  I hope they do come over. 
When I got home my cousin called to test his phone.  We got to share some olgood old memories too.  It was great.  I also gave him good directions to come see me.  Told him again to use the Tom Tom I gave him last year.  Joan bought this Tom Tom, her first, in Branson MS after getting lost several times on our way there with my brother.  She took a tip from a school bus delivery driver we met while signing into a motel while lost in Kentucky some where.  I used one today to find my class luncheon.  I also used it yesterday to find where Debbie wanted me to pick up baby stuff with her.  It works so well.  Thank you Joan for seeing the value in these little black boxes, and getting them for us all.
Well that is enough for now I think.  All is well and getting better all the time here.  Wishing you all well too.  GBU and GB Ukraine.

[neva]

  Taiwan ...   23:47            92°   (5:05  pm)   getting warm, thankfully there is a breeze.  No rain in sight.

The bees are gone.  Thankfully!  Zoe is so happy to have her backyard back again.  Me too.

Joho, you sound happy and I'm glad to hear that you've had a good day and all is going well.

 Cal ...  That mink is so cute!  💕

[calhound]

hi you guys its 65 here rain did stop awhile ago but see lighting in the skies

Hi joho! sounds like a really fun day for you. you are doing so good. got lots of energy too! 

Hi Neva! oh little mink is very cute can you even imagine that some people wore stuff made from their fur!! no one in my family ever did that no one and got really pissed if they saw someone doing it said something too my grandmother would let them have it so would my mom and great grandmother. yay zoe has her back yard back and bees are elsewhere safe and sound. good for all. i wanted to tell you few years back i read another series by charlaine harris she wrote the true blood books and then hbo did a series on it so good as you know i read her midnight texas series and neva just as good in fact sookie is mention in them and someone came there from true blood. they also had in on tv NBC and that was so great too like almost two different version like true blood the ending of it in the books i reread it over and over just so good.



Midnight Crossroad
Book 1
Available formats: Ebook (1) Paperback (1)
Take a trip to the small Texas town where only outsiders fit in with the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’ paranormal mystery series.

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and the Davy highway. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town.

There’s a pawnshop with three residents. One is seen only at night. There’s a diner, but people stopping there tend not to linger. There’s a newcomer, Manfred Bernardo, who just wants to work hard and blend in. But Manfred has secrets of his own…
 

[calhound]

Day Shift
Book 2
Available formats: Ebook (1) Paperback (1)
DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF MIDNIGHT, TEXAS, THE NBC PRIMETIME TELEVISION SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVELS!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-stoplight town of Midnight, Texas, a place where no one is quite what they seem…
 
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, where the residents like to keep to themselves. When psychic Manfred Bernardo finds himself embroiled in a scandal and hounded by the press after one of his regular clients dies during a reading, he turns to enigmatic, beautiful, and dangerous Olivia Charity for help. Somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight…

[calhound]

Night Shift
Book 3
Available formats: Ebook (1) Paperback (1)
DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF MIDNIGHT, TEXAS, THE NBC PRIMETIME TELEVISION SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVELS!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels comes the third novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day…
 
At Midnight’s local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves—only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. There’s a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place…

[calhound]

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/F1055D5BA0F8?z=0

GB Ukraine and please get those heavy weapons there today so they can save maripol and stop putin

[johoward]

6:33 48° at 9:15.  Gonna be a very nice couple of days here.  I have nothing on my agenda.  So will be going out somewhere to walk a little, and maybe drive to my favorite orchard, Mrs. McDowell's farm, for some apples.  It is a nice ride in the country.  Got up early this morning.  Feel like I need a nap already. So I will see you all later.  GBU and GB Ukraine

[neva]

  Lighthouse ...  26:50             80°  (3:03 pm)  Sunny, a few clouds and very windy.

Good afternoon everybody.  I hope your day is going the way you had hoped it would.

Joho ... you sound happy.  What a nice idea to visit an apple farm.  We have them in Arizona too, but it would require a drive over to the Winslow area, not too far from the New Mexico border.  If there is one closer, I don't know of it.

That seems an interesting set of books, Cal.  It is nice when one can find a set of books that develops a story.  I like vampires too and what I got into was the books of Anne Rice -   'Interview with a Vampire' and several other books related to that storyline.  I really enjoyed all that.  I found her website, and she was offering to send a newsletter and other info to her readers.  I received a large manilla envelop full of interesting things  She also wrote her thoughts of various things related to her writing.  There was an email address and I wrote to her, and exchanged a couple of emails.  I wrote because she had written a sort of religious themed book and I wanted to know if she was done with vampires.  No, she wasn't, but that I should give this other book of hers a chance.  BTW - her son is a writer too now.  She died recently.

[calihoula]

hi neva i have read all anne rice books on the vampire Lestat very good too yes i love vampires weretigers fallen angels witches its all good. i knew she passed away but did not know her son writes! ca and boobie went to new orleans and saw her house boobie read her lestat books too and had one on her just in case and she came out! signed her book! pretty darn cool she said anne rice was very nice. fans of charlaine harris asked if she was doing a book four to midnight she said nbc was not making a season four and although she had three books in mind she was not writing them at this time so hoping more to come.

https://youtu.be/9NH2MvzWbYA

[calhound]

Celebrating Earth Day With Bears! - UPDATE April 22, 2022
Chloe w LincolnThe big excitement of the day was a surprise visit from Chloe, Lincoln, and Charley Brown. They arrived about 6:55 PM and stayed a little over a half hour. I welcomed them with food, of course. There was a little thunder in the background that kept Chloe alert. The yearlings were hungry and focused on food, depending on mom to warn of any danger. I used that yearling trait to finish putting a screw in a radio collar some decades ago. I was putting a collar on a yearling shortly before family breakup. Mom said it was time to leave before I was done, so I tagged along until they lay down to nurse and nap. I slowly tip-toed up to them and put the screw in the collar of the yearling as it slept snuggled to mom. For the bears this evening, the light was too poor to avoid blur unless the bear held still for a second or so. They left headed across a bay of Woods Lake that had some patches of open water. Just after I snapped the picture of the scene, Chloe went through the ice a couple times but it was shallow enough that she easily got back up on the ice.

Chloe w yearlings on thin ice
Chloe & family on thin ice
Charley Brown
Charley Brown
Woodchuck with carrotAt the Bear Center, Holly was active yesterday as "Taught" caught on the 3:47 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSxiEzND2s and on this 1:17 minute one in which Holly makes a quick, unfriendly ground-slap toward Tasha’s rock den just as she starts walking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcLY1AJIA9w.

The favorite food of this woodchuck today was carrots.

It was great to see Chloe, Lincoln, and Charley Brown!

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