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[ruesgram]

Willi when you find that place let us all know! I'm sure we would all love to live there! Lol!

Cal, Robin's furnace/ac unit is at least 30yrs old.  The furnace is in the basement and it looks bad because her 3 male Weimaraners would pee on it! It's rusty and  just plain nasty looking but it works. My sister has a big window ac that she doesn't use so if need be we can put that in Robin's dining room or living room window for the time being. She called me when she got to Chicago and she didn't ask about the ac so I didn't tell her the bad news. Didn't want to ruin her weekend. The more Crow and I discuss it, the more we are going to encourage her to replace the whole thing. We may have to help her out with it financially. She gets everything when we die anyway so might as well help her out now. We had our heating/ ac installed in August 1979 a few weeks before Robin was born! So far we have had no problem with it at all. Knock on wood! Lol! You got that right, people are very lucky to have you and Jim!  Jim's dresses! How funny is that! Lol!

Ra, how sad about the twins. That has been my greatest fear about our pool...a drowning. Every once in awhile we think about filling our pool in with dirt. Just can't take your eyes off little ones for one minute. I feel so sorry for the family.

[jpalmken]

Aster.  I haven't heard her mentioned in the updates for quite a while



HI, Jewelies.  We have the last full weekend of June so I hope it is a good one.

I am hanging in there this morning, sort of a middle of the road one.  I hope all have pleasant weather and a peaceful day.

[calhound]

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Spanky, Tasha, Others - UPDATE June 24, 2016
24 June 2016
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With the mating season winding down, more bears are coming in. A young male, maybe 3 or 4 years old, that visited today apparently had enough testosterone to enter the fray Geneva
Geneva
and incur some scars this year. He didn?t turn his head enough for a picture that shows it, but the left side of his head has many scars that his shedding face is revealing. I can?t say for sure who he is, but the notch in his left ear, a split in his right ear, a white dot on the bridge of his nose, and an overall dark face might give the team some clues if they aren?t all fresh. His face has shed up to the crown of his head where there are longer hairs between his ears.

Tasha
Tasha
Tasha, from Kentucky has shed more. Her picture from today shows brown hair being shed and new black hair on her head and legs.

When yearling Tasha sees food and wants it immediately, she loudly bawls in a lower voice than 3-year-old Holly does.

Young Male
Young Male
Last night the assistant bookkeeper, here for her monthly bout of work, got little sleep. Bears kept coming through the night while she tried to record their weights and identities. Shadow, Braveheart, Lily, and Bow were among them in addition to several males. At 4 AM, she had to sleep no matter what was going on. It?s been the same for some of the participants in the Black Bear Field Courses over the years and probably in the courses that start in a little over 3 weeks.

Little Spanky waited until there was less competition to show. We hadn?t seen him here before with his very light muzzle that extends up between his eyes with brown continuing up and around each eye. He has the cautious and uncertain personality of his 29-year-old mother Shadow.

Spanky (Shadow's male yearling)   Spanky 
Spanky (Shadow's yearling)
A special delight was seeing Braveheart?s 108-pound yearling Geneva this evening. She trusted people here in this safe place (heart rate about 100) but was disturbed by the shrill calls of loons from the lakes on both side of us. When she rose up to focus on those sounds, she was too close for the lens I had. All I could get was part of her face, but it shows her ears forward and the intensity of her eyes. I would have thought loon calls were old hat for her. What a sweet bear.

Female Evening Grosbeak   Male Evening Grosbeak
Evening grosbeak (female - left) (male - right)
Heading home with five bears present as more are coming in now at 9:33 PM.

Thank you for all you do.

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

[obsver446]

What a mixture of emotions reading the posts. One one hand, laughing out loud at missy's comment knowing if your pants are down when the sun shines on your backside , (when out house was being built, had to avert my eyes a LOT)  and on the other hand, all the sad news going on in W Virginia.  Seems like everyone everywhere is dealing with either too much rain or too little rain. Other tragic things, too.  Like the 23rd paslm," yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death". My eastern daughter arrived back home safely from her flight from western Canada. Seems like a miracle. So relieved. Hi to you all!! 

[ruesgram]

Good morning Jewelies! It 's going to be a hot one today. Been watching the news from Charleston. They have reporters on scene all around the state covering the flooding. One of the rivers was 14 foot above flood level. No wonder everything was washed away. They are saying there may be even more deaths. Here in my part of the state we are going about our everyday lives and just a county south of us is all that devastation.

Cal, Hyacinth is on right now! She gave Richard skis for his birthday! Rose wonders about the after life and Violet wants a divorce. I never get tired of watching that silly show! Thank Jim for saying he wishes he could replace Robin's ac! That really means a lot to me. Just love you guys to pieces. Great pics in the update! I wish someone would tell us something about Aster.

Obsver, it's so sad about all the things that are happening all over the country from the forest fires, flooding, droughts, tornadoes.   Glad your daughter had a safe trip home! Was that trip work related or a pleasure trip? Robin sent me a pic of herself in Wrigley Field yesterday!

Jp, thank you for the pic of Aster. I hope she is still alive. Can't believe next weekend will be July.

Bbl!

[williwaw]

Cal when I leave the house with straight hair and come home with curly hair I know it is humid. We don't get really high temps usually.Thanks goodness

Sorry, all who are having too much weather

[obsver446]

Sorry, cal, should have given YOU the credit for the sunshine remark! It had us both laughing, and it sounds like something you'd say!! If anyone could get those kittens tamed, it would be you. Rues, eastern was on a trip for pleasure. For fun, she is taking part in a program to get classified as a master spinner. There are 6 levels of difficulty, and she is ready to start level 4. She spins fleeces into yarn, and the week-long conference was to instruct techniques on the project requirements for the levels. When she completes her projects for each level, she has to send them to Canada to be judged in order to go to the next level. We heat & cool our house with a geothermal system. We got it in 1993, and now he says the compressor is living on borrowed time. Yikes!  bbl, you guys 

[Nora in IA]

85 and feels like 93 with a dew point of 75, they can keep this stuff.  Did get a bit of a walk in. 

Rues, sometimes local news isn't worth a dang.  Hard to believe they didn't have that much bad news on.  Sad about little Edward that was found, but at least the did find him for the family's sake.    So sad for that gal's cousin losing so much and then the bridge besides!  Where does a person even start with that much loss.

That's funny about Jim's zipper.  I hate when that happens, it's like mention it or not!     As long as nothing was hanging out.............  As to BB, I don't know if groggy or dopey would be the right word, but he seemed really uncoordinated on it for two weeks.  That happened any time the phenobarbital was changed even a minor bit too though, so didn't act different adding the potassium bromide other than having less seizures.  You sent your humidity up here, shame on you!!

Awww RA that's sad about those twins and the swimming pool.  People try to watch little kids, but they are so darned quick and I'm sure with other people around it was easy to not watch them every second.  The people that have the pool must be beside themselves too.

Hi Willi, I'll take your 60 degrees humid or not!!!!  "Is there any place where there is 20" of rain, no earthquakes, tornados or hurricanes, never over 70 or under 40??"  I wish.

Hi JP!

Spanky's a cutie.  Is that a tick down from the eye on Geneva?  I look at Tasha and just want to brush her! 

Take care all!!!

[dlongkc]

Hi Jewelies! 

This weather is disgusting!! I went to the Farmer's Market with my daughter this morning at 7:00 and it was already horribly humid and hot out there. I forgot to tell you guys what Jason and Lara got me besides the car! About 3 weeks ago they were at a garage sale and it was an older man who was selling his dead wife's things. So there was this little scooter thing and they bought it. My hip is really bad now and very hard for me to walk very far. It looks kind of like this one, but a little older. It's the same brand as in this picture. Anyway, it folds all up and fits in my trunk. (I can't get it out, but my daughter can).



So I was riding it around the market this morning. My favorite Mennonites were there with the cinnamon, pecan, sour cream coffee cake for sale so I got a couple of those. They freeze very well. And I got some green beans and fingerling potatoes and some green onions and some low-acid tomatoes. That's the orangey colored ones. And I got some fresh lettuce and mixed salad greens. I was completely worn out when I got home. It's just too hot! And my flowers look awful!

I have been thinking that I might just stop watching any news at all for awhile. I get so grumpy and sad, depending on the story. The damage and lives lost in West Virginia is horrible! They were interviewing a lady on The Weather Channel yesterday; she was in shock I think, she just kept saying the flooding never happens where she lives. Her neighborhood looked like a bomb had gone off.

Sometimes when the workmen come here they are showing off the butt-crack area! LOL, I just want to throw a towel over them!! 

Here are the Atlanta Zoo twins. They are going to be 3 years old in about a month! Time sure flies. And their mom may be pregnant again.



These are of Bei Bei; the first one is from Tuesday and the other one is from today. He is such a cutie!





This is the beach at Kasmu in Estonia. I got this shot last Sunday evening, but it was actually 1:30 in the morning (Monday) in Kasmu. It is the most peaceful thing to listen to; bird sounds and the wave sounds.



I need to go; if I sit here very long then I can't get up!    I wish I could take all of Cal's little kitty family. But Mama Cat sure came to the right place to have her babies, didn't she? Cal's heart is HUGE!

Hi to JP, Cal, Rues, Obsver, Ra, Willi, Deb, Pat, Chippy, Blschue, Eaglette, Johoward and all who visit here. Have a good day and I hope you all have better weather than we are having.

[ruesgram]

Dlong, nice scooter! You really do have the best kids! I see a lot of folks riding around town on their scooters. Some of them scare me when they cross the big intersection at Walmart! Someone could very easily run them over!  I like all the goodies you got at the Farmers Market! Our local farm stand just finished up with strawberries and now the sweet corn and half runner beans are abundant! Thanks for all your nice pics!

Cal, all that paperwork is at Robin's but I know that the guy said the condenser was shot and wouldn't come on and he could no longer get the part for it because it used freon or something like that. He did say he would check around and see if he could find a used one. But it's still a 30 yr old unit. Crow says she needs a heating and cooling unit that is reliable and efficient. I still haven't told her.   Yay, you reunited another kitty with the momma! And you found another one! Momma kitty came to the right barn! You must have a welcome sign somewhere on your property! Lol! Our temps are supposed to cool off a little next week, too. I hope so! Did you catch Hyacinth?

Nora, our local tv station gets all the newly graduated journalism and media students from area colleges. They usually just stay here till a bigger and better tv station hires them.  I know they are new at the job and learning the ropes but gosh can they aggravate me! But this station is the only way for us to hear any local news.

Obsver, I saw that geothermal system on This Old House before! Sounds interesting! I think my sock weaving sister and your spinner daughter would get along great! My sis orders yarn from all over the world and the states! She has a small spinning wheel herself and has spun some yarn but she enjoys cranking out socks! I have a sock drawer full of beautiful socks she has made for me!

[obsver446]

Sounds like everyone has this awful humidity. I'd like to wring the humidity out of the air and pour it on my flowers. They were doing so well with all the rain we got in the spring, but now, a different story. I can't remember if my daughter's project is called master spinner or master knitter. I'm going to have to ask her. Dlong, glad you have that scooter. Sounds like a good deal!  Cal, Mr. o doesn't read Nora Roberts. He reads a lot of nonfiction and an occasional mystery.  When I noticed that one of my 2nd grader's zippers was open, I'd whisper so that nobody would notice, "x y z"  That meant check your zipper. Hey, ra! Have you finished the book yet?  Rues, they would have a lot in common. My daughter has ordered yarn from all over the world, too. She gets some pretty good deals.

[jpalmken]

A Close-up of Lily.



Another no energy day.  Maybe my system is saving the energy so it can explode with celebration on the coming July 4th.

This is the last June Sunday and I  hope everyone has a good one.

[calhound]

Good morning jewelies! it is 78 and humid already humidity is 83% but the weather man has said another humid and hot day today but cooler temp and lower humidity is coming! can not get here fast enough for me.

Hi JP! thanks for lily and her close up! royals got creamed again last night 13-5 at home. can't win on the road we sure as heck need to win at home. hope your marlins did better than that. sorry you got no energy. good you don't have to be out in this weather. it would drain what energy you do have. i don't like the firework shooting on the fourth. dogs don't like it. i will run my fans cause if i have not caught them kittens hoping they don't hear them at night. did not catch one last night.

I got alot to do hi to all you guys!

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[obsver446]

Cal, I read the 1st Harry Potter book and saw all the movies. I have all the books, though. If I see a movie, I tend to not read the book. As I get older, I'll forget about the details in the movie, so the books will be all fresh when I read them. lol   Another hot day here, too. Sounds like you are doing all anyone possible could to keep the furry family comfortable. Hi, everyone!!!