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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29385 on: January 19, 2025, 08:52:06 AM »

6:47  Found it hard to maneuver the pieces.
Yay Chiefs.  I am sad for the Lions, but they did not play their best game, and the Commanders did.  I was most impressed with all the people in shirt sleeves.  I am still wondering how that is possible in Detroit in January.
 The browns owners are planning a domed stadium near me.  Maybe this is the reason.  Our fans like our stadium, but maybe the owners are jealous of Detroit.  It could be.
Yes the first dog was not consulted about getting a second dog. LOL
Karen is fine.  She felt we were spending too much time together.  She missed her independent single life style.  So did I.  So we see much less of each other now, and are both more relaxed and content.  No worries Cal.
Second coffee is getting cold.  So I gotta go.  CUL EV1 GBU, and Ukraine.  TYG for the cease fire.

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29386 on: January 19, 2025, 09:14:23 AM »



Posting a little remembrance for our dear Ted for his Birthday January 17th.  I got the news from Lani in a post about the passing of our dear Ted on October 31st 2022 and wanted to repost this again this year. Ted was a gentle giant loved by many.  He enjoyed lounging on the logs & taking dips in the pond as well as people watching... but most of all Ted loved snacking on grapes, strawberries and peanuts.  Ted was a special bear, dear to our hearts and is missed & loved by many.

Thank you so much Lani so much for sharing "Bear" news, photos & updates from Dr. Lynn Rogers and the North American Bear Center.  We appreciate all that you do... 💜



Ted the Bear by PhotoSkunk, on Flickr


World's Largest Black Bear ~ "Ted" by Jeff Wiles, on Flickr

Ted's best buddy Honey as a cub



20121203 Ted Honey & Lucky by Angela Wessel, on Flickr

Ted and Lucky as a cub. photo via Jim Stroner


Honey and Ted fun-101_3201 by spiderxcat, on Flickr


20140607 B Ted & Honey by Angela Wessel, on Flickr


20200628 Ted in his oval tub holding his bowl of watermelon grapes carrots and nuts by Angela Wessel, on Flickr

Meet Ted (1997 - 2022) https://bear.org/our-bears/ted/
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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29387 on: January 19, 2025, 09:42:14 AM »

hi joho its longyear cold this artic air is coming down from there. isnt that amazing all the way from to here. right now in longyear they have 3 months of darkness but they have the northern lights and that really lights up the skies. jim asking me stuff about there. they have more polar bears than people everything brought in How do people in Svalbard get food?
Secondly, with only a few exceptions, the animal species that live here are protected. Thirdly, there are no farms here. This means that we in Svalbard are dependent on “importing” nearly all our food from the Norwegian mainland.  i totally see you and karen  missing your single life. still friends. so monday temp below zero tuesday more below zero but then up to 30 and wed 40 and no snow i saw on my local news way earlier people paid 20.00 to stand outside in our power and light dist watch chiefs on big tv drink. i thought how stupid freezing go home and watch it bad enough going to out to arrowhead but power and light. drinking not helping false thinking you are warm. then later jim said people so stupid pay 20,00 to watch that game outside i knows jim i knows. lease almost up on arrowhead and royal stadium kansas trying to lure chiefs to come there get a dome get a new stadium we hope they say no and upgrade arrowhead. i came in here to log and do warranty on a furnace jim put in yesterday i better get at it. and start tax stuff

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29388 on: January 19, 2025, 11:46:13 AM »

God Bless you Lori for reposting all the favorite Ted pictures that first captivated me years ago.  Especially the Back of the paw grapes shot, and his stretching out on his side beside his bowl. Also, those sweet baby pictures of Ted and Honey too!  There is Lucky too.  Oh my.  Be still my heart.  What wonderful memories.
Thanks Again
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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29389 on: January 20, 2025, 05:34:08 AM »

hi you guys its -1 here -13 windchill. barn could not hold up to 53 it was 43 in the barn i could only turn it down to 50 so its running all the time last bill was 525. for house barn shop but next time but got to have heat oh its -1 in longyear too 34 and sunny in ice at least it is not snowing my feral cat she was waiting by the door for me to come out. i had her food went to the barn indy had pulled up corners of his tarp over his back door i had to fix that feed him birds mice someone was in the last night ate pans of dog food drank bowl of water refill all that. it was kinda cold in there but way better than  outside came back kitty ate all her food went and got back in my papas dog house on front porch i got flannel shirts and hay in there total wind break there too

hi joho what a game ravens and bills i was rooting for ravens but bills okay if we got our game on we can beat them it will be warmer next sunday for the game i forgot to tell you couple mornings ago i went to the barn at 3am little before 3 and i heard all this noise i got in and looked back at indys area and it was a cloud of dust i could not see him but heard him so i went back yelling indy he was running around and bucking dust thick all over. boy what is going on running and bucking boy i got your treat wait what he came right on to his gate. covered in thick dust.

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29390 on: January 20, 2025, 09:06:01 AM »

I guess about 6 minutes.  I love those cattle.  Some few farms around here raise them.  Not many.
Darn Lost my time again for fooling around too long with extra coffee and talking on the phone with my Amish friend Samuel.  It was important though.  I am to get him and his one sister at the train station and take them to his uncles house.  We needed to finalize times.  It will be get them at 4:48 am on Wednesday the 22th.
Also, been spending a lot of time on GSB and Brownsville cams.  Taking shots and sending them to Debbie and to Mary.  I like to do that.  I am hoping they will log in someday and I won't have to.
Cal, sounds like you are doing good for keeping everyone warm.  Not hot, but warm.  That mule needs a release of pent up energy. LOL
Bye for now.  I can't keep up with football.  I thought Buffalo was done, and last night I heard they are playing again.  I am sure the Browns are done.  So I tend to not pay attention as much as if they were still in the hunt.  Go Chiefs!!!
 Bundle up. Now it is all the way up to 5 degrees outside.  Driveway was plowed in the night.  So moving the Caddy out has paid off already.  I will not have to shovel.
Bundle up EV1 GBU, Israel, Ukraine, and all the hostages.  3 women for 2000 terrorists wow!!!

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29391 on: January 20, 2025, 12:38:10 PM »

hi joho my keyboard on my ipad real tiny over there had to google how to fix that its 11 here now i fed everyone again took my staple gun out to the barn went back to indys door and stapled down his tarp here and there he breathing on the back of my neck indy go lay down oh that is for the dogs i gave him more hay i put hay up front kinda seal up places in hay tunnels loosely. i could feel it getting warmer sun out on roof and temp up to 46 went up 3 degrees got it on 50 so hoping it reaches 50 shuts off for a bit even colder tonight -8 not wind chill yes mule needed to release pent up energy other day it was nicer but still tons of snow in his pasture and its slick icy spots i thought nope he will go running bucking tooting fall he can run in the barn run in a circle kick out yes the brownies are done for now commanders will play eagles taylor swifts mom and dad wearing chiefs gear but not her. yay driveway plowed! ty caddy for leaving! i know 3 women for that many but those three released! hard to put a price on that i came in saw trump on tv his youngest son barron with melania so tall polite he shook hands with biden and harris seems like a nice kid
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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29392 on: January 20, 2025, 03:31:12 PM »

joho i went out to the barn went in said its warm in here again looked at thermostat 50 went back to indy furnace shut off so at 51 i did my barn stuff furnace kicked back on im going to get food plates for my cats in my bedroom already did other cats get my food plate calis chicken with her arthur med and go to my room. lay down sleep
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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29393 on: January 21, 2025, 04:59:08 AM »

hi you guys its -8 here barn said lo no temp raccoonies came last night cause pans over all food gone water was frozen but they got a hole it the bowls it 10 in longyear 31 and sunny in ice

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29394 on: January 21, 2025, 06:14:41 AM »

5:05   Says 2 Degrees now.  Not much snow though.  Driveway did get plowed yesterday. So I can go if I want to.  I don't. LOL
Need to be ready to get Nick and Odin around.  I think they will go to Debbie's for the day.  Their schools are closed for the cold.  I need to rehearse getting Samuel from the train tomorrow morning at 4:48 in Elyria.  I will have a dry run this morning, and get gas at Sam's too.
God Bless America. PLEASE!!!
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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29395 on: January 21, 2025, 09:07:20 AM »

Life Below Zero - UPDATE January 19, 2025

Notch
Notch, the tamest deer here, knows how to start a day demonstrating her trust. I drove in, saw her in the middle of the yard. She showed she knew what she had trained me to do. As I was getting out of the truck, she walked to her usual feeding spot at the front corner of the cabin and calmly watched as I parked, walked to the front deck and in the door. I did what I was supposed to. I went upstairs, got a scoop of raw peanuts without shells, carried it to the edge of the upper deck and saw her standing calmly as I towered over her some 10 feet above her. She didn’t flinch when I poured the peanuts down and she began eating. I went downstairs with my camera to get pictures of her face on her level. I braced the lens against the living room picture window ten feet from her as she just kept eating. I made strange noises to get her to look at the camera, but when she lifted her head she was looking other directions. Finally, when I was being quiet, she gave me the look in the picture, showing her big round eyes that probably give a big field of vision as a prey animal. Thank you, Notch. I’ll do the same for you every time.

Bald eagle
Bald eagle

Another wake-up situation a couple days ago was the eagle swooping by with the beef fat stuck too tight to the spot to be successful. So instead of heading across the lake loaded with high calorie fat and being mobbed by ravens that would land near him in the big white pine where he eats it, he landed nearby for a picture. When he flew off and landed across the lake where he could see what I was doing, I quickly microwaved a pile of beef fat that he could eat easily if he came back before it froze to the spot. While I was back working, he flew off.

American goldfinch female fluffed
American goldfinch female fluffed

 Chickadee with seed
Chickadee with seed
 Blue jay w beef fat
Blue jay with beef fat
 

 Goldfinch male
Goldfinch male
 Pine siskin
Pine siskin
Not as spectacular, but a story of their own is how little half-ounce birds like chickadees, goldfinches, and pine siskins survive temperatures far below zero (26 below this morning). I asked Google how they do it, and Google said they eat twenty times their normal calories. That would explain why the cold days of late brought a flock of over a hundred goldfinches and pine siskins to compete with red squirrels, and 3-ounce blue jays. etc. When flocks of 8-18 blue jays come to fill up on sunflower seed hearts and sometimes throatfuls of beef fat, blue jays dominate. Their main competitors are red squirrels. The little birds just keep their distance. When the blue jays move on and the squirrels give the little birds an opening, a dozen chickadees and nuthatches dash in to carry away seeds to peck apart.

The picture shows a portion of the big flock at one of the feeding sites focusing on sunflower seed hearts while a chickadee and a downy woodpecker peck away at the pile of frozen beef fat. The high calorie pile is so popular with woodpeckers that it has one woodpecker or another pecking at it nearly all day. In the picture a little one-ounce male downy was able to slip in between visits by hairy woodpeckers twice his size, concentrating on the fat so diligently that the goldfinches and pine siskins can feel safe keeping a 6-8 inch distance and go about their work.

Flock
Flock

I like the picture of the half-ounce female goldfinch resting in fresh snow puffing up her feathers, appearing far bigger than her actual weight of less than a half ounce.

Thank you for all you do as we all find ways to survive the cold that is covering many states at this time.

Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29396 on: January 22, 2025, 03:22:01 AM »

Good morning.  Got up at 3:30.  Coffee and cereal on board.  It took 20 minutes for me to get to the train station.  So I will take a few minutes here to start my day as usual with you all.  Temps are cold.  Minus 7 is showing right now at 4:07.  I am praying that my car will start and run ok.  I think I will go try it to make sure.  Then let it run to really warm up, and to top off the charge in the battery.  I will do that before I sign off so that you know the status.
Car is warming.  So I will say GBU EV1 and head out for the day.  I will CUL.

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29397 on: January 22, 2025, 05:08:04 AM »

hi you guys its 19 here 50 in the barn 23 cloudy in longyear35 and snowing in ice

hi joho! ty for starting your car and coming back and telling that! today our temp so much better than yesterday and barn furnace is doing good. it just could not handle that -8 jim said it was -10 here on his truck and -21 windchill. poor birds and tims animals being outside. it still was 36 when barn said lo i have a thermo in the barn also minus 7 so cold please be careful i know you got your phone on you and all charged up have a good day and remember be careful post back here when you get back have a fun day i have to to pick up groceries in an hour got my phone in my purse. the other day i put some bird seed in my outside feeder that my papa made long ago. i also put in a suet cake i can see it from my bathroom window i was looking out watching it and all the little birds back on dogs chainlink fence i saw a new bird in the box pecking on the suet. i thought is that a woodpecker it was a yellow belly sapsucker woodpecker beautiful but a selfish bird when a little bird tried to get in there pecked at it a bunch tried to rush it for food he was fast spinning around get away you get away you but some birds got behind it and grabbed a bite then came the jays but they too ran from yellow. hard to keep up with so many birds dumping food in feeders on an off all day long. poor birds in that cold they really puff out so today better getting more bird seed and suet cakes. i saw on my local news earlier they found joe burrows stolen stuff taken from his home.Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow's home was burglarized in early December, and new developments since have popped up.

According to court records , four men were arrested in connection to the robbery on Jan. 10 outside of a hotel in Fairborn, Ohio..Four Chilean nationals arrested in connection to Joe Burrow home burglary

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29398 on: January 22, 2025, 05:03:33 PM »

5:27 Finally got to do the puzzle.  Been up since 3:30 doing Amish travel projects.  It has been a hoot IO tells you. LOL First it was so cold I was afraid to turn engine off.  Plus it was so cold that when I tried to idle with the heater on the engine temp went way down.  Usually it goes up at idle, but not this morning.  It went way down.  I could not run the heater on high because it would cool the engine too much. Very unusual.
  Plus the train was an hour late, and I used a lot of gas just keeping it running for an hour..  They asked me to help out for three more days.  I said I would.  It will be less stressful though, because I have learned how to track the trains progress.  This will let me stay home until the train gets closer to Elyria.  I still have to get up early in case the train is on time.
Now I will look in on the animal cams and think about cooking something.
CUL EV1 GBU

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Re: Jewel and her cubs
« Reply #29399 on: January 23, 2025, 05:33:30 AM »

hi you guys its 26 here but real windy north wind feels pretty cold 11 in longyear 40 rain snow windy in ice 50 in the barn. once temp above zero barn does pretty good even with this wind stapling indys tarp over his back door helps he cant figure out how to undo those staples.  im sure he will.

hi joho that is scary thought of getting low on gas in that cold.i always leave my car running when i pick up groceries at walmart i dont have to wait an hour more like10 min when it was 8 below tuesday i did not order groceries waited till wed. are you picking up more people to take to samuels uncle house? then take them all back to the train station?  i bet you was ready to go to bed well eat then go to bed. nice of you do that.

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