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[johoward]

4:48  More trains!  More remorse about missing my Amish friends train.  Won't happen again.  They will ask someone else for a ride.
Today I will get Odin from the bus. We will let Duffey and Abby out in the mud.  Then take Odin to his wrestling practice. 
After which, I will take him to dinner or home with Aunt Shannon.  Whichever he wants.  Meanwhile Brian , Debbie and Nick will be at wrestling in Wellington.  Nick did well last week.  He was awarded a gold medal and a special towel saying "Beast of The Week".  It's a wrestling honor.  Nick also got high praise for his scholastic and behavior in class by several teachers.  Including the Principal.
Sounds like your BP is getting better Cal.  I have taken a lot of different meds for mine for years, and it is working.  That is why I'm here, I think.  I am blessed with a good doctor.  I think he has been seeing me for about 40 or 50 years.  Not sure, but a long time.  I hope he stays with me.
OK now second coffee is getting cold.  So I will say CUL EV1 GBU.  God bless the people in that air crash too.

[calhound]

hi joho i did all my chores and did barn chores drove to town to bank took my bp  it was good 117/68 so i hope taking this medicine right now will help me. good i googled that yes more trains they are on more on time and you do not have to drive all over on muddy salty bad roads boys doing good on the wrestling. beast of the week lol was he wrestling girls? cant be a beast to girls  i am so happy your bp meds work for you and you are still here!! whats i do without you?you are blessed to have your doctor that long and like him. next friday not this one i will go see dr buzzard alone i hope it goes okay hope i dont need a body guard again to see MY DOCTOR! just awful on the plane from wichita kansas getting hit by that military helicopter i heard on the news a man was sitting along that river and his wife was on that plane. he said she text him earlier said be landing in 20 minutes he texted her back but said it never said sent he thought something was wrong then. he broke down i cried my eyes out on the way home. senseless.  figure skaters for usa. kids and their coaches and family  said that helicopter was like 200 ft or more up where it should not of been cant questions anyone now. jesus was waiting for them

[calhound]

UPDATE ON MIDAIR COLLISION.
   The passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport.
   The plane, American Eagle Flight No. 5342, a regional jetliner, was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members.
   There were three soldiers aboard the Sikorsky H-60.
   More than thirty bodies recovered so far.
   It is believed no one survived.
   The process underway to identify the deceased.
   We do know several members of the U.S. Figure Skating team were among the passengers.
   In addition, Russian former world figure skating champions and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.
    ***Initial reports were incorrect.
   Their son Maxim was NOT on the plane.
   THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

[calhound]

hi you guys its 41 here raining 32 in longyear 42 and raining in ice. barn is flooded i cannot haul out tons of buckets out of there i cant jim is up he is going out. spring not even here yet jim is aggravated too he just went out the door not even spring i hate spring should still be winter barn floor bone dry we put down pellets yesterday around door and stuff guess we need to put down 100's of pounds of them all around and hope indy does not slide and fall on them. i put down some by him he still has dry places will just have to move over to them. now i guess waiting now for heat of summer and NO RAIN i woke up at 2 am took my bp it was up

hi joho cali at my office door i gotta go

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[johoward]

5:58 Raining all night and still, but just a little.  No flooding.  Warm still at 42 degrees with light rain.
No plans for today.  Nick is done wrestling and will be home from school early to get Odin from the bus.  So I am retired again.
  Will spend more time on the web I guess, and I think I will pay some bills.  Not much else to do.  Of course there is always house keeping which can wait a while.  My glasses too are a concern I may have to address soon, but not yet.  I am not confident they can be corrected.  I cannot even give a good description of what is wrong with them.  I just can't seem to get them working right.
Last night I was struggling for several minutes trying to put on Odin's tiny black wrestling shoes.  I just could not seem to grab the right piece of shoe lace to loosen them up.  I guess I was mumbling about my new glasses, because Odin says, "grampa, why don't you take them off"?  WOW! I did and was done with his shoes in just a few minutes.  He is so smart.
  So maybe that is what I will approach Erin with.  I am better off without them. LOL
Well now I will drift back to the net and the news.  I am hopeful the Israelis can continue to exist, and we all can enjoy some peace for a while.  I mean centuries of killing each other seems like enough to me.  I just don't get it.  Nations at war all the time.  When will they learn that we all will benefit when wars end.
Bye for now EV1.  GBU.

[calhound]

hi you guys its 30 here and extremely foggy 27 in longyear 43 and light rain in ice. i have been working on chores and tax stuff i think we will do fine on taxes

hi joho middle east been at war for as long as i can remember my dad said we should stay out of it that is the way of life for them. i did not understand then and still dont yes learn we all benefit when war ends but some just dont want peace. think different. some just have plain evil in their hearts. i saw the illegals immigrants being loaded up shipped back and one was cussing trump saying he was not going back he was cuffed loading up and he yelled thank you biden thank you obama bro i thought why didnt you get legal way back then? i am sure trump was upset over that remark from him.

hi paulie

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[paulie]

hi paulie! ra told me that too pain will raise bp right now i am afraid to take even a ibprofen cause on these bp meds. you are close to the AT trail !! how cool one of your sons friends walked some of it.  some of it really rugged but see alot of wildlife and beauty. must be in really good shape and young to do that. i would think.  i am happy that knee gel helps you it did not help me my knee is pretty well shot i know this have you talked to a bone doctor about getting it replaced? i have not but when my bp  fixed i will. see if that would even help me and is it outpatient i would really like that do it go home.  yes so far no more migraines but i dont want to go on about it dont want to jinx it! yes joho do not put on shorts and tshirts right now lol paulie that was so funny. getting rain today and tomorrow barn will probably flood jim got lots of pellets and he is always off ford fri sat and sun so he will take care of that i just cant hard to do stuff like that using a cane and indy following me around me i mean breathing down my neck. indy go lay down. oh no mr kitty...

Hi cal, Good ra told you that too about BP. I still haven't emailed her. I need to do that to say Hi.

Yes I've seen Dr about my knee. He's who gives me the gel injections. Yep same here. My knee is bone on bone. I've been putting off replacement but know it's getting near.  Aging sucks. 

Good to no more migraines. Shhhh no jinx.

[paulie]

hi you guys its 41 here raining 32 in longyear 42 and raining in ice. barn is flooded i cannot haul out tons of buckets out of there i cant jim is up he is going out. spring not even here yet jim is aggravated too he just went out the door not even spring i hate spring should still be winter barn floor bone dry we put down pellets yesterday around door and stuff guess we need to put down 100's of pounds of them all around and hope indy does not slide and fall on them. i put down some by him he still has dry places will just have to move over to them. now i guess waiting now for heat of summer and NO RAIN i woke up at 2 am took my bp it was up

cal, Would putting all those pellets around the outside perimeter of the barn or particular side or area where the rain water flows into the barn help keep it from going into barn? Let the pellets soak it up outside. 

Or maybe Jim dig a drainage area outside leading the water away from barn? He's probably tried different already. Sounds frustrating for sure.

I bet your BP was up because you were stressing about rain and water in barn.

[calhound]

hi paulie yes my bp was up cause of stressing over rain and barn flooded. no cant put pellet outside the barn years back we had gutters put on men had to get inside and get up on top those old square bales i have along the one side of the barn back wall where hidey hole is i left all them so raccoons possum insulation there men whining the top hay bales full of raccoonie poop so i had to climb up and remove all it i was in good shape back then so no problem. we put pellet inside back by indy along his big sliding door that we open to let him out in pasture and close it cause lucy is in there. jim put a huge tarp over the sliding door lift tarp and then open slider a big. jim did dig out a huge trench along that side of barn that back side but stopped when it was almost even the back of the barn so all that water just sat there and seeps into the barn on that side that comes in to indy so then i told him he had to finish dig it out by hand so it will run on out and out in the pasture he did but not a big trench cause that is work jim does not like that word. when it get nice i will go out there its got lots of brush but my trusty walker might do it get down on the ground and hand dig it. jim is now talking about using a pump like to drain a pool he said it would not be in with indy cause indy just tear that up he would go right over to it to check it out some of the water just comes up from the ground over on that side and seeps in. okay jim give that a go  it is frustrating   my bp good 117/68 i feel good makes me angry jim had to get dr to treat me  oh aging sucks big time i did lots with knees and everything in my life so happy i got to do that hoping for more maybe it will happen for us paulie    calis foot is very good i still bandage it up cause it is muddy out and i put medicine on it still it still had a little ways to go but she is doing really good and her arthur medicine is doing good for her sometimes i have to tell her to slow down that makes my day my old printer quit i had a new one had it for couple of years  old one using it for 14 years so it was ordeal to get new one ready. forget that wifi when i bought it i got one it was wifi but also you could hook it with usb cable tried wifi went with usb cable bam hooked up ready to go. and this one is so fast slow down printer no dont speed up
 well break over lunch time for cats dogs barn kids

[calhound]

Good Memories - UPDATE February 1, 2025

Deer Notch
It’s always a good feeling to see Notch’s fetching eyes telling me it is time to put out her food—something that makes me respond immediately so she learns that her manner works and she should do it again.

20250201 Fisher
Fisher

For ‘Eyes of the Night’ it’s exciting to see a fisher and prove it with a picture for the record.

Eagle and Ravens
Eagle and Ravens

Yesterday, the eagle twice swooped by grabbing his treat too quickly for me to respond. Today, he flew over, making me think he wanted more, but it was a false alarm. He landed in a tree, was quickly joined by a pair of ravens and just sat there calmly for two hours as it began to snow—and then left even though his food was out and ready.

Siskins in hand
Siskins in hand

But it was the growing flock of siskins that made the day. They were looking for seeds that were being covered with snow. Thinking I’d put some out, I eased the door open and slowly moved into view. Even though some were only a few feet from my feet, they didn’t fly up, even though they’d been flying up whenever a little red squirrel or a blue jay quickly entered their midst. I put some food in my hand, wondering what they’d do. At first they just continued probing into the snow, a flock of nearly three hundred. They were obviously hungry. Then one landed right at my feet, and another landed on my hand for a sunflower seed heart. Others joined in—up to 14 vying for the seeds at a time. I could hardly believe it. They ignored me in their hunger, flying up bill to bill as they competed (as in the picture snapped by ‘Eyes’). All very memorable. They’ve ignored me in the doorway before and individuals have fed from my hand, but today’s action was something special. Even when I quickly moved my hand a couple feet, a siskin held on to stay with the food. An hour later, a sharp-shinned hawk appeared and the flock disappeared for a couple hours as I’ve seen before.

As a side note, the lone female redpoll is not alone. A pair joined the flock for a couple days. We’ll see if they stay.

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

[calhound]

hi you guys i was reading about canada Canada imposes 25% tariffs in trade war with US   Instead of tariffs on Canada President Trump why dont you deal with Putin. Stop that good for nothing but killing war like you promised you would. Biden could not stop it so why dont you keep your promise and stop it.  We have paid and paid at our grocery stores  now it will be worse. 

its 37 here 39 in longyear 27 light snow in ice i love notch and little fisher and all them siskins and sharpie you can beat it. thanks doc and eyes. oh i got to go take my bp medicine

Happy Groundhog day and hope you see your shadow! no rain for 6 weeks snow instead no barn flooding no grass growing.

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[johoward]

5:35 Happy Groundhog day to you too.  I don't see no stinkin' shadow. 30 degrees and very cloudy here.  I am close to Phil too.
Doc has done it again.  What a fine group of images.  Thanks to Eyes Too for holding the camera.
Very great thanks to you for posting the update , dog shame on a plane saying goodbye, and puzzle so sunny.
Not doing nothing today.  Wait niece Susan from Long Lake NY just texted me.  We will meet at Rocky River Nature Center at 3:30.
  Shared shame with Debbie. Very funny dog, "leaving on a jet plane".
Bye now EV1 GBU.

[calihoula]

hi joho i just came in from barn indy got some of him comb out not back end took my bp 116/66 and when i was in the barn radio the farm news said phil saw his shadow 6 more weeks of winter thank you phil! have you ever went and saw phil? yay looks like you are meeting niece susan today. at a nature center too. is this sudden? dog leaving on a jet plane be safe baby.

hi paulie do you live close by phil too have you ever went and saw him?

[calihoula]

3:39 on groundhog

[johoward]

yes very sudden.  She is coming from over night in West Virginia.  On her way from Florida to New York, and will squeeze in a few minutes in Cleveland just to see me.  Debbie will join us.  After visiting with Susan, I will go just a little ways up the parkway to Fairview Hospital.  Here I will see my Goddaughter, Liz, and her two girls.  One, the older, is in the hospital for a stroke she had last week and can't get over yet.  I think she is improving.  She is young, and I think has a good chance of complete recovery.  At least that is what I am prying for for her.  I am not familiar with strokes.
Right now I must leave you and get started getting ready to go.
So bye for now.  Phil has been wrong before.  He is East of me.  It is 181 miles.  A little over two hours says Google.  I could get there I guess, but never really wanted to.  I like to see him on TV.  I also like the movie Groundhog Day.  LOL
Bye now EV1 GBU and God Bless America.  We need it.