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[calhound]

hi you guys its 42 here foggy said big thunderstorm coming around 2 pm so barn will probably flood again what the heck its january big snow not rain should be it. good fox is not limping now and docs kitty caught on night cam hope bob ate what i am sure doc put out for it. fox too shoot my cat in here just sneezed and snot all over me.  penny got bit by electric fence yesterday i saw her close to it yelled penny and she yelled out but brownie still will not go out in the yard she went to the bathroom last night all over my room. cali was so close to it but did not hit it about ready to turn it off but dont want penny out loose.

hi neva wow rainbow picture is so beautiful!! i slept thru new years eve woke up at 2 am i think of past year losses and they were huge last year so hoping for a better year yes. i will have to google giant potato how do you grow one that big? donate it make food for needy. tims mare has the little donkey they are buddies yes lot of horses have a donkey indy has sweets. but he does love his friends he gets out and thinks what a beautiful day in beautiful day in the neighborhood problem is back in he comes back in but then back and forth not eating good not pooping good i did not let him out yesterday either and he much better this morning knocked it off ate all his food pooped all over today big rains so in today too. jim wanted to let him out but its up to me and jim does not take care of him all day long i do.

Hi joho well it was ugly but chiefs won.

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

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[johoward]

6:46 Eyes all watery. Unusually warm again and heavy fog.  I love foggy mornings.  I love to walk in the fog.  Not so good for driving.  It is 46 at 8:16 am.
Yay Chiefs, and yay Browns!  Wish I could have seen these game, but sandman took over and I slept through the whole game.  I saw the beginning of the Browns game with Chubb doing great, but the next thing I saw was a recap show.  I had to Google the score so I knew who won when I went to Debbie's with Boss.  What a good visit I had with Boss.  He can come over any time.  He was very glad to get home and see Debbie though.
Was a nice New Years day even though I slept through most of it.
Neva your pic is beautiful.  The view out the window is very different than around here.  We might see a rainbow, but we will not see palm trees and huge desert plants as are showing in the pic.

[calihoula]

im so excited the new indiana jones movie be out june 30th! harrison ford is still just so handsome his horse awesome!

https://youtu.be/ZfVYgWYaHmE

[neva]

  Banana Inflorescence ... 27:47    48°  (11:22 am)   Rainy this morning, and still heavily cloudy.  Nice day, but chilly.

I hope all is well with everyone.  So far, so good around here... in my house anyway.  Aw, I can hear it's raining again,⛈️⛈️

In my brother's house, not so good. I found out yesterday that my brother is in the hospital, as of a couple of days ago.  He is the one with cancer.  My sister-in-law didn't call me, my daughter up in Wyoming called me.  So, I spoke to SIL, Debbie and she thinks he will come home today.  He was trying to get to the bathroom in the middle of the night and fell, hitting his head.  I am going over there Weds afternoon to visit with him.  He was the guy that about three years ago, was lifting weights at the gym four days a week.  Now he is so vulnerable looking, skin and bones.  It's sad, but I won't let on what I am thinking.  I'll just keep praying.

Cal, something interesting about Harrison Ford --->   He is a Master Carpenter, and when he showed up in Hollywood, before the acting started to pan out for him, he worked on projects for some of the actors and musicians out there,  For instance, creating a music recording studio (I forget who for),

Joho ...  Glad you and Boss had such a great visit.  Glad also you like the picture Michelle took.  She is slowly getting into photography.  That camera on her cellphone is a good one, and it is amazing how much you can do with a good cell phone camera.  She has a couple of other cameras too.

[calihoula]

hi neva im praying for your brother too i saw on tv something about advance in lung cancer i thought of boobie my dad hate cancer like we hate pooooooptin. i saw earlier on weather channel it was 45 for you i hear thunder here. hope that siamese gets here eats food on sidewalk before rain. wow neva that is so interesting about harrison ford! master carpenter man of many talents flies his plane rides horses motorcycles carpenter! gb your family

[calhound]

We Lost a Friend - UPDATE January 2, 2023

Ray Thielbar
Ray Thielbar was with me nearly from the beginning in creating the North American Bear Center, on the board, eventually vice-chairman, and then working to beautify the Bear Center with his beautifully carved signs as seen here.

One of Rays signs
One of Ray's signs

He was known to the community in so many ways. He had a rich bass voice we loved hearing in his barbershop quartet and gospel quartet. Shortly after arriving in Ely in the early 1990’s, he brought all the Ely churches together by creating the annual Thanksgathering event held each year around Thanksgiving in Ely Baptist Church with choirs from the various churches taking their turns. Each year for over two decades, this gathering was the biggest church event of the year. The music and congregational singing was spectacular, highlighted by his quartet.

We were close friends who shared a love for bears and nature.

Now, with his death at 86 on December 28, the outpouring of comments by people who will miss him is a reflection of who he was.

He and his wife Rose wrote a book “Rooted in Rocky Soil,” about their lives together (available on Amazon), which won honorable mention in the Northeastern Minnesota book awards in 2019.

I am thankful for his life and all that he and his wife Rose did for bears.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys its 55 here 33 snowing in iceland 43 in kviv and 55 in the barn

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

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[johoward]

7:07 Good morning EV1.
Debbie's been sick with chest and head stuffiness for over a month.  Yesterday she called to say that her son Brian is also similarly sick, and wants to test for covid.  I took three test kits to her last evening.  She tested negative.  This made me feel better.  It is odd times for us all.  To be glad your daughter is sick is just wrong.  It is what covid had brought us to. 
I did not hear from Brian yet.  Praying he is not contagious for his two boy's sake.
Boss was glad to see me as usual, he blocked my path again as I was trying to leave.  He acts so human sometimes.  I wish he could talk.  Debbie has told me on many occasions that he is a mind reader.  I am starting to see why she thinks this.  I sure love him.
Now I will leave you all for a while to have a good day I hope.  CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine.

[calhound]

hi you guys its 30 here 28 and snowing in iceland 47 in kviv and 51 in the barn

hi joho i am sorry debbie not feeling good and hope brian gets better too. i know covid just hangs in there. i got to go to walmart get cat food and stuff and did not order online last night slept so now i have to walk that whole store  very hard for me to go and takes so long no harps just try to do walmart and i am not wearing a mask cause it just makes it so hard to breath. going in a bit i hope that bill player recovers. 

hi neva jim found a different company that is coming tomorrow to get a check and get fencing stuff and start to put up indys new fence have an area close to the barn and house. i told jim we can wait on it let him still have whole pasture till we get our tax refund back in a couple of months but i guess we are going forward. keep him safe and close. it will be easier to get him in for both of us. he comes to me in the gator but jim then has to walk him all the way back but jim can walk and we will still open his new gate and let him run the whole pasture too.  sanders shoots his gun at times and indy running that back fence that is not horse fence. how is your brother?

gb ukraine and gb all animals and gb all of us

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[johoward]

6:29 Good morning ya'll.  Warm and wet this morning.  Not my favorite, but bearable.  Coffee, cereal, and morning pills on board.  Paper saved from yesterday has been read.  It is odd reading stories saying something is happening today, then looking at the date and seeing yesterdays date.  Hard to get used to.  However, comics and Dear Abby fix on board.  Paper in recycle bag.  All animal cams looked at. Jewel chats all read.  I am finally ready for the day. LOL
SOOOO! CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine.

[calihoula]

hi joho  you got already for the day!

hi neva fence guys came caleb head one very nice young had four other guys i took him up there in gator showed him where fence will go jim took him too i told him five foot horse fence he said he called it deer fence i said no horse fence small squares horses like to paw the fence get hoof stuck in bigger square but small squares paw and slide he said got it his card said black sheep something i asked why black sheep he said cause he was middle kid not the favorite like oldest or youngest i said oh like a spare he smiled yes and the other four guys are middle kids too. so they are coming friday and said be done in one day. suppose to snow friday night. indy has been in all week storms mud cold today real cold he goes out again he will wth. im watching mollie b polka party watching people dance and they are good outfits look so good lot pretty old and dancing away my grandmother loved to polka i have no dancing skills my cousin johnny did and him and granny really danced it up. mollie b polka said in feb be at apache junction az do you know where that is?

[calhound]

Holly Shedding Her Foot Pads? Plus the Bobcat - UPDATE January 4, 2023

Bobcat with turkey back
The video is too dark for most people to guess what is going on, but I believe "Taught" caught Holly removing her foot pads. It’s January. The time is right. And Holly was persistent in what I thought was licking and biting the foot pad that she kept turning toward her mouth. You can tell me if this is wishful thinking or if you are guessing the same thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Grv_84Dps. In my paper on that I said I didn’t know if bears did that in southern states with much briefer denning periods. Even though Holly came from Arkansas, she has northern Minnesota genes from the bears that were shipped there from here back in the 1960’s. So the mystery of what happens in southern states continues. Here’s what I wrote back in 1974 with a picture of a partially shed foot pad. Rogers, L. L. 1974. Shedding of foot pads by black bears during denning. J. Mamm. 55(3):672-674. Click on the title to see the whole 3-page paper.

Then came the most exciting sight out the window of this 4th of January—the bobcat. He could see me at my desk a few feet away and was looking at me. He watched as I aimed the camera and turned off the inside lights to get rid of reflections in the window. That made it harder for him to see me. He looked thoughtful for a few seconds and then calmly walked down the steps and under the front deck. Twenty minutes later, he was back (6:20 PM). He looked at me a lot, then turned his attention to every other direction, letting me turn off the lights without him noticing. He looked frequently up where I had a Christmas turkey back with some meat on it. After a couple minutes, he leaped up, came forward with his eyes on me, and then lifted the turkey back, leaped down, and was gone. I’d been hoping I’d see him outside my window at my level, and he came though.

Thank you bobcat.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys its 29 here full moon out 28 in iceland 38 in kviv and 51 in the barn docs kitty is pretty much now his kitty i hope that cat will be okay with turkey bones.i know it not like a dog eat it whole.  holly is one busy bee bear. always something with that girl    Damar Hamlin is showing signs of improvement i saw on the world news earlier had him on 100% on ventilator now it is at 50%

gb ukraine i read some russians all mad want revenge on urkraine for killing those soldiers in that ammo building hay an ammo building with soldiers that bomb ukraine schools hospital maternity wards  take out power etc and lets not forget the self center idiot who did the invading in the first place! gb all animals and gb all of us

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[johoward]

8:07 Wild cats don't mind the cold.
 Cool and dry this morning.  35 degrees, partly cloudy.
 My Granddaughter Shannon and a lot of her dog owner friends are praying that the ground will please either dry out or freeze so the dogs feet will stay a little cleaner.  I too am tired of the mud.  Especially when Boss has to go.  He likes to scat with his giant claws.  What a mess.
Doc sure has a way with wildlife, and his camera.  We are blessed to know him.  I wish everyone did.
Thanks to you all for being here. 
GBU and GB Ukraine

[calihoula]

Ukraine for Russian Orthodox Christmas
Ukraine indicated it wouldn’t support such a move, and has long viewed suggestions of a truce as favoring Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine for Russian Orthodox Christmas this weekend and called on Kyiv to do the same, a move that Ukraine appeared to swiftly reject.
Putin instructed his defense minister to institute the cease-fire “along the entire line of contact between the parties in Ukraine” starting at midday local time (4 a.m. ET) Friday, the Kremlin said in a statement posted on Telegram on Thursday. The proposed Christmas truce would last until midnight local time (4 p.m. ET) Saturday.
Kyiv indicated its forces wouldn’t observe the cease-fire and has long viewed suggestions of a truce as efforts to buy time for Moscow.
“First. Ukraine doesn’t attack foreign territory and doesn’t kill civilians. As [Russia] does. Ukraine destroys only members of the occupation army on its territory...” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter after Putin’s announcement. “Second. [Russia] must leave the occupied territories — only then will it have a “temporary truce.” Keep hypocrisy to yourself," he added.