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[calihoula]

hi joho sounds like a fun day with debbie. goats are fun and not true they eat anything. its very cold here wind blowing hard from north it did spit snow earlier i am going to mow indys little pasture but not today his grass getting tall mow it while he is in his barn nice and warm in there. Maybe cat did not want out today at all. two raccoonies been in the barn all day. sleeping eating getting a drink sleeping. that is cool about post office i will check it out. happy earth day to you too

[neva]

  Treeline ... 31:51    86° (3:57 pm)  Bright sunny and windy. 

Hi everyone, I hope that all is well.   I'm okay.  I tried to post yesterday and somehow, it wouldn't post, again.  You didn't miss much.  lol!

Hi Cal ...    No, the place where I grew up became a Parking Lot about two weeks after the last time I saw it, in 1980.(lived there age 4-13) in Worcester, Massachusetts.  My parents were going for a visit that summer, and I had promised my grandmother that I would come back to see her, and it is a good thing that I did because she passed in the beginning of '81.

Hi Joho ...    It sounds like you and Debbie had a good day together.  That mail service of yours sounds interesting.  Most of the mail boxes here are on posts, implanted down by the curb, in front of the house.  Ours is up by the front door of our house because I asked permission to keep it there, because of health reasons.  At first it was asthma, now it is mobility issues.  In August I am going to be evaluated for the possibility of having Parkinson's.  My doctor thinks so.  I am doing okay thus far.

My daughter is still seeing snow and not much in the way of Spring up in Cheyenne, Wy.  It is her birthday today - she's my oldest and is 61 today.  She became a grandmother about 6 months ago and LOVES it! 

[johoward]

Happy Birthday to Neva's girl.  My Debbie is 60 and has three grands already.  The youngest one, Bash, who is in Naples Florida right now is only 11 months.  May 13th will be his 1 yr birthday.  This past week he had a day at the beach, and his first ice cream.  He loved it.
Cal, that postal thing worked very well today.  Neva I tried to get mail to my door when I could not walk.  Put up a box on the door, got a prescription, turned it in at the post office, and everything.  Worked for one day.  Then we got a new mailman or something, and it never worked again.
Good Night EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine.

[calhound]

Waiting for Bears - UPDATE April 22, 2023

White-throated sparrow
With 8-10 inches of new snow to melt, I’m missing the bears. I know of six being seen some 2½ miles away but none right around here. Here it’s foxes and raccoons, plus red squirrels and birds. With the birds it’s exciting to get first-of-the-year views, like the white-throated sparrow that was visible for only a moment but long enough to let me see its white throat and pretty face.

Turkey vultures
Turkey vultures

Then there was the hour when five turkey vultures gathered outside my window to sit looking at me. But not one to get carried away with ominous thoughts, I figured it once again was because 51 gregarious crows covered the yard like there might be food. I also wondered if the attractant might be the 17.5 pounds of beef fat that was on the second floor deck for whoever wanted it. But the vultures eventually took wing without joining anyone for lunch.

 Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco
 Crows
Crows
Dark-eyed juncos are still here in number, making me wonder if so many are hanging around this area because of the late spring from here north. Ducks and loons are stacked up to the south waiting for lakes to open around here and northward, although I don’t know how they would know. Many mysteries.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys its 28 here 47 raining in iceland 64 in kyiv and 51 in the barn. i love the update! love those crows and that junco and little sparrow and those turkey vultures!! guess they did not want anything doc threw out good he did not throw himself out there. 

hi neva! happy birthday to your oldest! i always look to see what her weather is on the weather channel. its good you saw your grandmother my moms best friend juanita i talked to her after i lost mom and she wanted me to come see her she had stuff of my moms she wanted me to have and wanted to see me and although it was a drive over to kansas i meant too and i waited too long she passed away. boobie always had her mail box right next to her front door jeanne too. i dont see that happening here. i have to drive down to get mine. if something coming to the front door i have to remember to open the driveway gate.  i was reading about sweden and nato and read this would that not be great if erdogan lost

The top foreign policy aide to Turkish presidential challenger Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has told Newsweek he is hopeful that a new Turkish parliament will approve Sweden's delayed accession to NATO before alliance members meet for their next summit this summer—if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan loses next month's election.

Ünal Çeviköz told Newsweek that the six-party opposition bloc, which is headed by long-time Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kılıçdaroğlu, is "optimistic" on Sweden's proposed accession, which has been stuck in limbo for several months amid heated disputes between Stockholm and Erdogan.

Kılıçdaroğlu is running slightly ahead of Erdogan in public opinion polls ahead of the May 14 election, raising the possibility that the latter's 20 years in power might soon come to an end.

Kılıçdaroğlu has said he plans to revitalize Turkish relations with NATO allies and European Union partners which have suffered under Erdogan, who critics say has increasingly turned to authoritarianism tinged by Islamist populism to retain power

hi joho 

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/05055D505687

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

[johoward]

6:23 Cold out this morning. 
Second coffee getting cold and paper been waiting since yesterday.  So thanks for listening and HAGD.
 So nice to see Tasha out having fun.  I think she is talking to Lucky through the hole in the wall.
 CUL EV1, GBU, and GB Ukraine

[johoward]

Hey Holly is at the creek, and cam is following,

[calhound]

Holly, Red Fox, and Raccoons - UPDATE April 23, 2023

American Tree Sparrow
A couple days ago, "Pooch Pal" caught this 1-minute video of Holly demonstrating how it is to have rear claws that can be used as climbing spikes as she confidently climbed down. She was always hanging on with her forepaws, too, though, in case her climbing spikes slipped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToYYhu44kXs

 Red fox eating pork with eyes closed
Red fox eating pork with eyes closed
 Red fox eating pork
Red fox eating pork
At the WRI, it is nice to start each day seeing Lorie and Judy’s reports of what the video cameras caught overnight of visits by the red foxes, raccoons, and (not recently) the gray fox and Bob Cat. Last night, "Eyes" saw the limpy (not badly, though) red fox briefly but long enough for him to show he was enjoying the pork cubes we put out. In one picture, he has his eyes closed like he is lost in the luxury of boneless, tasty fresh pork. In another picture his mouth is wide open with the pork visible as he vigorously chews it.

Three raccoons took over for most of the night—size big, mid-size, and smallest. The biggest is the one pulling meat and skin off a drumstick. The other is the mid-sized one. We don’t know the relationship among the three—maybe a mother and two half-grown young that are on their own.

 Raccoon biggest
Raccoon biggest
 Raccoon mid-size
Raccoon mid-size
The American tree sparrow with its rusty crown stripe and dot on the middle of the chest, says sunflower seed hearts are enough to draw him or her back over and over until it is time to continue north.

Maybe Lorie and Judy will catch a bear on the video one of these days. Maybe it will be a bear we know. Crossing our fingers.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys its 33 here 46 and raining in iceland 63 in kyiv and rain 51 in the barn. nice to see little fox and raccoonies and little bird on update. holly not taking any chances all claws out. i dont blame her. i keep a live mouse trap sitting on my four wheeler and little can of water in front of it. it is a metal trap has two ways in. it lives inside my 4 wheeler which i dont like cause chews on wires. so this morning i saw it in the trap i closed the lid all the way put it in a sack and took it out with my bucket of food and cookies . when i tried to pull it out it was crying and i saw hits little back foot caught in the metal part of where go in and out. i was trying to comfort it and i was able to rip the top of that deal up and freed it. thank you god. saw it was using that foot just fine.  i threw that one away put out a newer one. hope that was it though. once a mouse chewed thru one of our 4 wheeler wire and when i started it up poof smoke ruin it. 

hi joho hi neva duane my old school friend got covid he said feels like he has the flu i said well you made it all this time and he said no he had before dec of 2019 and never had he been so sick. this is the one who needs to have the gov tell him everything about ukraine maybe putin has a side.

gb ukraine gb all animals and gb all of us

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/E2055D539EFC

[johoward]

8:07  Yes Help!
What a morning. Monday Rain and snow even.  Only 36 degrees.  I would like to road trip to Amish, but can't get anyone to leave their snuggy home.  Debbie says she has to go the dentist instead of Amish.  I said WHAT?  The dentist is more fun than me?  She denied that is true, but she is going to the dentist.  She is the second woman to tell me they had to go to the dentist instead of Amish. LOL  I am starting to think it is me. LOL
Well when the mod closed chat last night they said someone might PTZ the cam if Holley came out.  Later I caught her coming out and the cam followed her to the creek and lost her.  Was just a glimpse, but was satisfying to see her getting around. She looked great.  So did Tasha while she was out playing and redecorating.  I love her vertical ramp parts creation.  Pretty clever.
So anyway there is still a little hope for a road trip.  Debbie is off the list, but one other is still a possible if she ever wakes up.
It is official.  No company today.  Oh well nothing new.
CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[neva]

  Scales ... 26:19    89°  (5:45 pm)   Sunny and windy.  A nice day.

Hi Cal ...  As always, I love Dr. Rogers photography.  Aren't the red foxes especially beautiful?  It was good of you to save the little mouse.

Hi Joho ...  My father-in-law was from Ohio and he loved traveling through Amish areas.  I do believe that he did think that part of his family background was Amish, or something like that.  His mother was Irish, but father's side was Welsh and German.

Yesterday my youngest brother came over for a visit.  It has been quite a while.  He's an RN. and twelve years younger than I am.  He has 6 Harley-Davidsons Motorcycles, and came roaring up into the front yard on the newest one.  It was great seeing him.  Before he got to my house, he went to see Doug, my other brother (6+ years younger).  We have not done a good job of keeping in touch at all.  Anyway, for all of us, it made our day.

Reach  out to someone, a friend, that you haven't done so in a long while.

[calhound]

Bird Action - UPDATE April 24, 2023

Crow
Bird action started with the arrival of a pair of herring gulls. The big male was an experienced catcher of bologna tossed to him like a Frisbie. His mate, though, is known for dodging tossed bologna but racing to the spot it falls. They were standing with their heads together. Herring gull with bologna
Herring gull with bologna
I tossed a piece to see if she might for once try to catch it because she was the closer of the two. Nope. When he quickly moved to catch it, she whirled and leaped into flight. The picture is of the instant he caught it and was about to fly after her with the bologna in his beak (or swallowed).

Next, the male pileated woodpecker with the fully red crest (with all the feathers in place this time) landed outside a window where he stayed long enough for me to get there with the camera. A good ID shot in good light on this light overcast 40-degree (F) day.Pileated Woodpecker male
Pileated Woodpecker male

Then, out the window from my desk, a crow dared (or was hungry enough) to keep eating suet as I clicked from inside only 10 or so feet away.

Lastly, a fox sparrow sat long enough for a good look at this beautiful large sparrow that passes through on its way to its breeding ground hundreds of miles north. The fox sparrows that come through here are members of the Red group of the four Fox Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
subspecies groups of fox sparrows that live from coast to coast across central Canada and Alaska and down into our western mountain ranges. They differ from the others in that they have a bright rufous tail, rufous spots on the underside, and rufous cheek patches set on a mostly gray head that make them unmistakable. He sat long enough for a good look.

Now it’s time to put out the meat for the fox/raccoon show—and maybe a bear.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys its 45 here and i love the bird update that crow wow wee what a face. all of them they so appreciate the food doc.

hi neva i tell you reading your post put a huge smile on my face. i can just see your brother riding up on his harley. love it. now i would of really smiled had i read you got on the back on it went for a short ride. and he saw other brother too only got the one life if you can share it.  i felt great relief that little mouse did not hurt its foot. i was trying to keep calm keep it calm. i like the plastic traps better but have to check those every hour or two at the most. the metal long ones i put in water bedding food so can hole up in it thru the night in the garage. i put a new out there by my four wheeler and saw someone been in there ate on a cookie went back inside of my 4 wheeler. so maybe i will catch it and it will not have a foot caught when i let it out. first time that happened. i will let it take its time coming out next time and maybe just stay back and you too indy.

hi joho! i hope to mow today got to pick up groceries in minute i need to go to the dentist and need to see my tooth implant dr too i would pick that over the amish too. is there any action at the turkey vulture cam in marshall mo?

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[johoward]

5:46  Only 31 degrees out.  Cold for almost May in Ohio. TV keeps losing voice and freezing up.  Very annoying.  Service man put in new cable box, to stop this, but it is still happening.  I guess I will try to call them later.  It is so hard to get through that I would rather keep the trouble and not call.
Well coffee getting cold so I gotta go.  CUL EV1 GBU and GB Ukraine

[johoward]

Tasha on the Mound Cam now.  Hunting snow fleas I think.