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[obsver446]

Hi, Jewelies! Everything is great, but I haven't been near my computer for the past 2 days. We have been having the most wonderful weather!! Sunny, cooler, gentle breezes, etc. Rues, happy to share it with you. Hooray! AC for Robin!! Sounds like the wise & only thing to do to get a new one. Cal, my dear, please go to the doc. to get that tumor evaluated. I know it's really hard to get those exams (even for a person with 4 kids, like me) , but this is really important. It might not  mean that you have to get surgery right away--maybe when Jim will be more available. If they would do the surgery by laprascope (sp?) recovery time would be a lot shorter. Please don't take a chance when it comes to your life & health.You need to be healthy to take care of your family.  Nora, we got our garden was planted way late because of the weather, so we won't have any tomatoes for a long time. Ra, how are you feeling on that diet? I found that when I cut out soy butter & tortilla chips recently, I feel better. I lost 3 pounds and feel better--more energy. Eaglette, a rat nest? Yikes! I heard on HGtv that those tile roofs in California harbor rats and all kinds of stuff. Has anyone heard of that? Sounds like you had a lot of bees! You'll have fun decorating the room in colors YOU like.  I'm getting so tired of hearing those Wayfair jingles. They must do big business with all those shows, Property Brothers, etc. Jp, keep on keeping on! Always good to hear from you. Hi, everyone!!

[calhound]

hi rues! was in my room feeding the kittens rounding up cats had my tv on pbs and vivious was on! the truth or dare one. now keeping up. it is the one you just saw i think. hya got richard skis for his birthday rose is getting religous. hya said to rose of course i believe in eternity richard and i will be in eternity together then it showed richards face..he looked like them last teo kittens i caught in that live trap! all pitiful back then but not now! they are so happy in my bathroom! so with the pledge junk and pbs off the air last week i am behind you now! i hope the i will get to see hya drunk!

hi obsver! my first kitten i caught out in the barn she loves to sit in my bathroom window the one that faces the east. i call her eastern. eastern kay..i will go to the doctor probably this fall. i am sick of wayfair jingles too! love the commercial for new pixtar movie secret lives of pets! july 8 th i will be going to bargain place for that! looking for dory was good.

[calhound]

hi jp! i switched over to the royals! bottom of the ninth and we are winning! 6-1 the phillies duffy pitching the whole game no walks 7 strikeouts. his first complete game. well so far if he messes up please bring out the machine wade davis!  one out. fouled back and that phillie guy almost fell down swinging at that. ned yost chomping on his gum. he got sorio ready to go not wade davis. hmm. strike two. foul back.  struck him out! two outs just need one more! lets go royals..duffy having a pow wow with savly.. oh shoot ground to left field phille scored. yost coming to the mound goodby duffy.. sorio pitching now. duffy getting a standing ovation. oh i am getting me a bowl of cereal!

[calhound]

hi jp sorio struck him out! we win this game!

[obsver446]

Cal, my favorite on the ads for the secret life of pets is the blue cat. The pixar movies are always outstanding!

[jpalmken]

Lily with the "F" Troop.  Frannie, Frankie and Francis



Hello on this Sunday.  I guess I need to go out and buy some sparklers to celebrate tomorrow.  I will have to wait until some strange pains in the back of both my legs dissipate.  I have decided that aging is painful.  It is a good thing, though, to be around to feel those aging pains.

[calhound]

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Big Harry, Pete, Ted, Tasha - UPDATE July 2, 2016
02 July 2016
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Looking at the photos of ?Big Harry? again today, I noticed a scar I?d missed a couple days ago. It was not Big Harry. Gray fox pup
Gray fox pup
It was positively 11-year-old Pete, son of June. We?re now waiting for Big Harry to show up.

Holly
Holly
I forgot to mention earlier that Shadow seemed hard of hearing when she was here on June 23rd. She was on the scale (254 pounds). As I approached the scale I kept speaking louder and louder as I walked on gravel. She didn?t respond until I was within about 5 feet. Strange for a bear as nervous and wary as Shadow is. She IS 29, though!

Loppy marked 3 trees here today and stomp-walked between them. The picture shows a yearling checking a white pine for scent?presumably bear scent.

Goldfinch
Goldfinch
We got word from a Lily Fan who has one of the local feeding sites that all 3 of Fern?s cubs are males.

At the Bear Center, word that Ted was up visiting Tasha made us hurry to see how it was going. Ted was making friendly sounds. Tasha was pacing at the far side of the pen?but not frantically. We?re getting set to move Tasha down next to Ted on Wednesday. We think she will feel more secure in a pen with trees to climb next to a bear that makes friendly sounds. It took Lucky a couple months to accept Ted?s friendly advances. We?ll see if Tasha accepts him more quickly.

Yearling sniffing
Yearling sniffing
A Lily Fan captured 12 minutes of Ted?s other activities, including splashing the stream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGZ32YpqJY And an intern captured a 2-minute bird?s eye view of him in the stream at https://youtu.be/2CvgBkKD2Sg Holly balanced on the log in the pond.

Among the wildlife here today were a goldfinch, a raccoon, a woodchuck, a pair of adult gray foxes, and this distant look at a gray fox pup through the long lens. We had never seen a pup before. In fact, we never saw any gray foxes around here before April 11, 2007.

Thank you for all you do.

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

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[calhound]

Good morning jewelies! it is 62 here and still raining. My barn is almost half way flooded. rose still manage to move over and stay on the dry ground her wrap is still on her hoof. have extensive work to out there in a bit. I love that video of ted. just strolling down the hill get right on the scale for the food and sit down. He is so beautiful. such a shiny coat and what a sweetheart. dr. rogers makes each new cub be special and they are too.

Hi JP! love the pic of the F troop! Hope you get around today i am sure you will. Yes be happy you are here to bit*&! I am! It is suppose to quit raining around noon. i sure do hope so. my barn can't take much more of this rain. Happy sunday to you too!

Hi Obsver! i love that blue cat! when that dog is pushing the cart and the cat is up high on shelf knocking goodies into the cart. Love the wiener dog standing under the mixer getting its back butt rubbed! i love the pixar movies they are outstanding!!

I got so much too do hi to all you guys!

[calhound]

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/0516DB9B18A?z=7

[jpalmken]

I climbed up to that branch of the Wisteria tree in 4:15 and just sat there enjoying the serenity.

[calhound]

it took me 5:30 to up that tree!

[calhound]

Hi you guys! been a long busy day went to walmart this morning came home worked in the barn had like 10 big buckets of poop and hay. walgreens finally called had scooties medicine went to get it. stopped to get gas and went over to mcdonalds jim was finishing up putting in an ac so i went in and two teenage boys working the front. not my peggy. i told him i wanted two double cheeseburgers with nothing on them too go. they were 2 for 3.00. he rings it up and tells me that will 11.48 i said i dont think so. for two double cheeseburgers right there it says 3.00. he says sorry then tells me it comes to 3.00 even. okay what about the tax oh yeah it is not 3.00 it is like 3.25 geez louiseeee..then i waited and waited every one else had theirs. so the other teenage boy asked me if this was my order he had a whole tray of food. i said nope i only got two double cheeseburgers plain he looks at my receipt and looks on the order he says your order did not go in. he asked the cook for them i told him thank you gave the other one a look. so he gets my order no sack and says do you want a sack for them well yeah be  nice. omg no more mcdonalds except of friday with sister or the drive thru!! anyway got my barn done for now and everyone fed so i downloaded some pictures i had taken.

three weeks ago i took scootie down to petes for his phenobarb test. he got on the scales and scootie weighs 165.4 then i went to walgreens to pick up his phenobarb thru the drive thru. i pull up and tell the lady i am here to pick up scooties medicine and today i even have scootie! she looks in the back seat and say would scootie like a treat well sure scootie would love a treat!! she gave him a little bitty milkbone. it even said milk bone on it. i said hmm scootie weighs 165 thinking she might spring for two of them she says oh my scootie is a big dog!! so we left. i took a picture of scootie notice his gut and a picture of that milk bone. i took it with a piece of kitten chow so you can tell how small it was.

scootie..


milkbone for scootie


Here is the mom cat the day i got her in the live trap..


mom cat with maggie

 Eastern Kay.first one i caught and loved me right then


Buster the gray one and Woodrow..Buster was one of last one i caught in the live trap.


Billie she was the other one i caught with buster in the live trap.


here is boo boo and augie


here is that santa hat that boo boo and calihoula play tug of war with.

[Nora in IA]

Ouch on your gas price JP. 

5:12 on the bear universe.

It was sunny and breezy today and 70's.  It's 58 now and they say 74 for Sunday.  Got a couple good walks in.  The neighbors a couple places down from us had us over for supper and afterward I walked home for Chester.  Going down I didn't have the leash on him and he could see Joe and everyone down there and was getting more and more excited, but he stuck right by my leg, sometimes right and sometimes left, until we got near their property line and he couldn't resist any longer and just ran to them.  They were having fun throwing sticks for him and giving him attention.  He's not spoiled at all. 

Cal per one site:  Hysterectomy -- You can likely go home the next day when surgery is done through the vagina using a laparoscope or after robotic surgery.  It's possible it could even be a day-surgery where you go home the same day.  When a larger surgical cut (incision) in the abdomen is made, you may need to stay in the hospital 1 to 2 days.  Recovery times seem to vary, a lot of which is how the surgery is done.  You sure wouldn't be down like with the rotator cuff.  The longest I saw for heavy lifting was maybe six weeks.

The filter on this furnace is real thick and supposed to last a year.  I guess I won't complain on $20.

Awww JP -- Frannie, Frankie and Francis. 

I like that gray fox pup.  That yearling sniffing is cute.

My gosh on BooBoo Cal!!  He has sure matured since I saw him last.

Guess I better check out the tree everyone is talking about........   4:30

[jpalmken]

Here's Lucky.



I developed a severe pain in my groin area yesterday and went to the Urgent Care Clinic.  They did a scan but couldn't pin down the cause so I got a prescription for Tramadol HCL  It is worse today and the only relief I get is lying down and not moving.  That is impractical and since I feel that any pain is caused by something I may go to the Emergency room of the hospital today/

I greet you all on our nation's birthday with hopes and prayers for all to have a fine 4th.

[calhound]

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Ted, Tasha, Bears, and Birds- UPDATE July 3, 2016
03 July 2016
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A Lily Fan captured a half-minute video of Ted visiting Tasha and getting us excited about the possibility of them becoming friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcdX-se7lA. Tasha didn?t panic. Hairy woodpecker feeding youngShe paced at the far end of her pen, but not frantically. There is hope. I hope Tasha soon will take his kind words seriously and gives him a break like Lucky did back in 2007 when they became play partners for years.

In this 2-minute video, Ted shows that he?s walking a little stiffly but okay. It looked like a grand outing with him checking out the food situation and obviously enjoying the pond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rl9jvuIrE.

Watching the wild bears interact here at WRI is a continuing education and immensely intriguing. Learning their personalities is always a joy. We?re trying to get a weight on the little female who was so popular the other day when we thought mating was about over.

Out the window, a male hairy woodpecker showed a youngster that sunflower seed hearts are an okay food.

Tomorrow starts a 3-day getaway with Donna. We?re headed to Winona for a concert by her favorite violinist, Joshua Bell. Along the way we?ll look for nature along the Mississippi and be back Wednesday night. No update tomorrow, but there will be lots happening at the Bear Center with Tasha on Tuesday and Wednesday. The staff will tell the story. Thinking about it, I can?t wait to get back to see how things are going there.

Thank you for all you do.

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

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