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[calhound]

Bears Emerging, Beaver Out, Fox Posing, and More - UPDATE April 12, 2023

Red fox
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A little more information on 6-year-old Carolyn and her two yearlings that were spotted Easter evening a few minutes after 7 PM. About noon that day, a mother with two yearlings was spotted emerging from a culvert under Highway 169 just a half mile away. And now a second mother with two yearlings has been spotted in the area but not identified yet.

Beaver - first this spring
Beaver - first this spring

Looking from my desk at the beaver lodge last evening at 7:51 PM, the first beaver I’ve seen this year had found ice thin enough to crack through and come up. After a few minutes, it went back down the hole into the water and presumably into the lodge.Flicker
Flicker

A couple nights ago, one of the foxes posed nicely for ID shots showing me the right side of its face, then front on, and the left side. Still trying to figure out if there are two or three foxes and how to identify them.

Today the raven was calm and non-threatening as far as I could tell while two new spring birds added beauty in appearance and song. The flicker didn’t say anything but sat for a nice shot showing the black mustache that says male. High and unseen in a white pine, a male robin sang his song as the sun went down.

Dr. Rogers at Vermillion
Dr. Rogers at Vermillion
It was a good day. Among other things, I had the pleasure of talking about bears to the bear class of 24 students at Ely’s Vermilion Community College.

I’ll be looking for the culvert bear den on the way home now.

Thank you for all you do.

Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center

[calhound]

hi you guys its 54 here 48 rain in iceland 54 in kyiv and i think 55 in the barn. what a nice update today and really nice that raven got some manners. bears out all over hope people driving be looking out for them. slow down and look it is a bear. that flicker bird is something else.

hi neva! yes i did take my horse in to my mom and dads house when i was a kid. i thought of that too. when i saw my mom pulling in the driveway and in the garage i took her out good my tuco did not poop or pee or knock something over good our black lab boris did not come unglued. cats hid. no i believe indy be staying out in the barn 

hi joho good idea of nevas eating a mexican dinner!

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/82055D4DB62B?z=0

gb ukraine gb all animals gb all of us

[johoward]

Neva,  I am Scottish from my dad, and German from my mom.  So I am at a deficit when it comes to Ethnic holidays.  I do live close to Lorain, Ohio though, and they will have a big Cinco Day with  Parades and all. So I may take you up on a dinner date with someone.  How about you?
Had trouble sleeping in today. Got up at 6.  Tried until 7 to go back, but could not.  TV and Internet was out all day and previous night.  I think that through off my system.  I went to bed at 9:30 then at 10.  Now I can't sleep in.  I will stay up tonight until about 1 or 2 and get back on schedule.
Gotta go do puzzle, but I felt obligated to respond to Neva's suggestion.

CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[johoward]

Puppies are eating nicely, but horse is trying to eat the camera in the Donkey barn. FYI

[johoward]

7:23 I am distracted today.
Trying to make plans for a Firemen's pancake breakfast on Sunday.  Out of cash. Looked in wallet for first time in a while.  I have $4. Went to bank to see a car wreck near there, but I left my wallet home and need card for ATM. So I came home to get.  It is in my pocket, but it is so nice I left the garage door up and felt the need to try to get the winter stains off my floor.  This is a new floor and does not sweep clean. So I tried my hard floor Swiffer.  It just rolled up and quit.  Then I decided to try hosing it off.  It is still wet so I am not sure if it looks clean or not.  I am pretty sure I need a real mop and Tide or Spic -n- Span in a bucket.  It is Nature Stone and is not flat.  So has lots of crevasses. Maybe l will get a mop today when I go to the bank.
 Bye for now EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[calihoula]

hi joho i been doing this and that let indy out early at 10:40am it is getting warm i did his fly spray he still dont like it i wormed him put it in little debbie strawberry roll he gobbled it down sweets loves those too put wormer for him but he says no no i know something in there great i was using my cane trying to get it back by his door so i could reach in get it dont want birds or mice in it. what a job. smokie would not start low battery so i put the charger on it waited then it started right up. sitting down getting a drink laughing you got four dollars its not really funny just the way you said it made it funny when i picked up groceries last monday and usually tuesday is my day for that low on dog food cat food i forgot my phone got those candy bars for walmart girls so no way to call say im here in spot five someone in spot one and three so i was going to wait for them to bring mans stuff next to me. then i saw her pulling huge cart of stuff saw my big sack of dry dog food i said tatum i love you she said i told them i dont know why shehas not called that is her car she said she had to look at calendar not tuesday either. then i go to harps go in get my harp stuff pay cash i keep a hundred tucked away got gas too right across the road. im happy my garage floor just cement it is dirty but matches my car gravel roads. i have woke up at 1 am but not stayed up till that late boy dogs be confused big time early bed early up my mom was the same so was boobie

[calhound]

hi you guys its 56 here 47 in iceland 47 in kyiv and 61 in the barn big storms for tomorrow cold front moving in down to 37 tomorrow night yay and i think they said in 40's for sunday another yay my leg and behind my knee so swollen i wrapped it last night this morning i could not believe how much smaller leg and knee was but i will probably screw it up going to walk walmart get some dry dog food i go thru so much feeding raccoonies possums skunk family and putting out more cat food for couple of cats lady across the road from us a vet tech she rescues cats jim told her i got a morris looking cat preg but i saw thru window she is not preg anymore  anyway if i cage her she will fix her find a home but i cant put out a cage would be hard to do that she also puts out cages and food so maybe cat go over there

hi joho hi neva

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/48055D4E82FE?z=0

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us  happy they caught the leak on top secret stuff on ukraine and what was he doing with that stuff i swear

[johoward]

5:11 Not bad for me.
I am preoccupied today.  Can't stop thinking about how random life can be.  Also, I am trying hard to keep a clean house.  Recently a visitor did not answer her phone when I called her the day after her visit.  She then texted me that she could not talk, because she was too busy "cleaning".  I don't really know how to use my Swiffer.  It just keeps falling apart and tipping over.  The pad has no fastener that I can see.  There is a load of lint stuck in the pad backing surface, and I can't get it out.  The reservoir leaks constantly when I get done and hang the Swiffer on my hook.  So I have kept the bottle in a closet for two years.  My floors are sticky to walk on.  Don't know why.  Maybe it is my feet that are sticky.  Hate to think that is true, but when I wear socks I don't stick.  Soooo.
It is very nice out around here this week.  Maybe I will try cleaning later, and go biking this morning instead.  Yes I think I will.  Bye for now GBU and GB Ukraine

[calihoula]

hi joho went in walmart i did good pushed that cart all over no rest stop either two bags of puppy chow each 30 lbs on second shelf just dragged them and across back of my cart order online always says out but it was there and always out of special can cat food melody it too was there. i sprayed indy for flies he was not happy going to let him out he would not come for his halter no halter no out boy i finally took my cane halter went in went to out door he came over i put it on let him out storms tonight cold rainy weekend no flies on him so i hate he did not come for halter hate biting flies on him. i had a swifter once not real fond of it. i like having no company in the house. girls like that too jims sister husband okay they come to see me not if my house is real clean missys house pretty bad but i never went to see her house see her. if your visitor worry about your house just text her no rudeness about state of your house. i bought a box of asian vegetable fried rice man is this stuff but good. my floor in livingroom i run my roomba trigger but have not ran him for awhile floor is dusty.kitchen floor i sweep with a broom every day, my room too. my great grandmother grandma keegan said on dirt in her place it will be here after im gone she like to go for drives in her car see us grandkids drive to our gas station blared her horn she had a really old dodge horn for my dad to out there pump her gas check oil air buy her a coke from coke machine 

[johoward]

It is OK Cal.  I knew my house looked rough and did not like it that way.  Everyone here lives by themselves like I do and knows we have nothing else to do.  Why no dust a little? All I remember of my dear Grandma was that I was not to buy cigarettes with any money she gave me, and that she had a real ice box.  Also she would clean all her floors by soaking newspaper.  Then crumbling it and throwing it all over her floors.  Then she would dampen a broom and sweep up all the wet paper crumbs.  The dust would come with the wet paper, and her floors were clean. My Mom was modern.  She had a Hoover.  I have both upright and cannister Oreck vacuums that Joan bought a while ago.  She also bought a lot of others.  I remember a Dirt Devil or two and a Euro looking little thing.  Most of these smaller ones had no bag in them just a cup to dump.  She gave most of them away.  There might be one tiny one in the walk-in closet.  I have not been through that stuff lately.
I will let you go now CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[calihoula]

ok joho i just do not like someone being mean to you i went to barn feed mice birds maybe jim came in said is it time to bring indy in i said yes he probably will not come to me i sprayed him jim went out indy still not in i went and looked out his barn door indy running from jim i yelled indy he ran right in corral right to me i moved over in he came made me so happy he stills loves me! bad nasty cold weather all weekend no fly spray no going out i liked your grandma floor cleaning story

[neva]

  Buchart Cove ... 28:55   78°  (5:07 pm)  Sunny and windy.  Nice day.

I hope all is well with everyone here.

I got two pieces of mail today.  The first was Jury Duty.  I am 81 and can barely walk.  Maybe I should teach them a lesson and show up.  My second piece of mail was someone wanting to help me Pre-plan my Cremation.  That was the start of my day ... not quite sure which was the better offer.  lol!

Hi  Cal...  I think your Indy is a ma-ma's boy.  It's good that Jim tries to help with him anyway. 
I'm glad to hear that the swelling went down in your leg & knee so much.

Hi Joho...  What a unique way of cleaning a floor, your great-grandmother had.  I don't know why, but I wouldn't expect to work all that well, but I guess it does.  We have just a sponge floor mop and a bucket.  Michelle has a Hoover Floormate that is wonderful.  It is several years old, so I don't know about what they are making now.  We should use it more than we do.

[calhound]

Tasha, Holly, and Bear Center Plans - UPDATE April 14, 2023

Pileated Woodpecker male
This first video is of Holly visiting Tasha on April 10 and includes Tasha in her bunker den putting her paw out through a small hole toward Holly. I wish I could read their minds. See what you think. Last of the snow gone from the beaver lodge
Last of the snow gone
from the beaver lodge
It’s 6:32 minutes and includes captions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3BJu5DVyJs

This 1:52-minute video is of Holly showing land ownership by very actively marking a tree on April 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YlMYZWWvY

Both were caught by Taught by Bears, Thank you, Taught

This 14:37-minute video with Scott and Spencer from today summarizes Bear Center plans for opening, fencing, bear enclosures, nature trails, an interactive website, and interns. It is also about missing Ted. https://www.facebook.com/NorthAmericanBearCenter/videos/1473165533089875

Pine siskin
Pine siskin
At the WRI, the story for tomorrow, if a bear doesn’t trump it, is about big birds in action. Through the morning, it was 40 crows, the raven, three eagles, and a turkey vulture interacting. A little misdeed today was a pileated woodpecker who forgot to comb his red crown feathers. This afternoon on this beautiful, warm (70°F) blue-sky day included the moment when the last snow melted off the beaver lodge.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys it 56 here light rain on an off cold front to come around 6 pm beautiful woodpecker very impressive beaver lodge and pine bird so pretty too. i hope someday tasha and holly be friends and lucky too you bears be nice to each other be happy you have each other.

hi neva oh neva lol jury duty or cremation both are bad. here when you are 70 you no longer have to do jury duty. i am almost there but i cant hear out of one ear and now i too can barely walk so happy they have not bothered me for a few years picked on jim but not me for awhile. jim got awhole 11.00 and had to claim it on our taxes.  i do not drive downtown kc at all. they would have to come get me.i could feel that cyst on the back of knee yesterday morning after taking off that wrap by last night i could not swelled back up so i wrapped it again last night right now i can feel it again and i can bend my knee alot better without all that swelling. so i guess i will get something and wrap it every night maybe at some point it will go away for good. indy is a mamas boy i know jim wants him to love him like that he will after more time jim does not spend the time with him like i do. i have lots of patience. for animals. but jim does help with him indy is happy to see him come in the barn indy is happy to take treats from jim. 

hi joho did you get that dirty floor of yours cleaned up? if it is just dusty couldnt you get just a dust mop no water no nothing just run that over your floor.


gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

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[johoward]

4:33 Hoorah!  Any time under 5 is good for me.
Hi Neva and Cal.  My floors will get clean today.  I have found a nice Swiffer spray and mop thingy that works.  That dust mop looks like my kind of tool Cal.  I use my Orick upright vacuum on all floors.  Then use the Swiffer. 
 Neva, I can't say how well my Gramma Voss's method worked. I was only 5 or 6, and did not care much about the results.  I do cherish the memory though.  I recall a certain , not all bad, odor that went through the house on the floor cleaning days.  Maybe it was ink. Maybe it was Pinesol.  Anyway it blended well with Grampa's pipe smoke.
BTW my Gramma Voss was my mothers mom.  Not my Great Grandma.  I don't have any memories of my Great Grand parents at all.  I wish I did. They did live in this country, but I don't know where.  Unlike my dad's Grand Parents who did not.
My Debbie insisted that I follow her cousin Diane's lead and do all the planning and pay for all the services needed after i depart.  I did.
 If I live a little longer, which I hope to do, she will benefit a lot due to everything being prepaid.  Inflation is taken out of the picture.  Plus, I was allowed to make all the hard decisions.  All she has to do is call the undertaker.  It was a good thing and I am glad it is done.  Just sayin.
Still nice here.  60 degrees at 9:13.  I will go biking soon.  Tomorrow is to bring a big change I hear, but just for a few days.  Then nice again.
I will leave you now to hopefully enjoy your Saturday.
GBU and GB Ukraine