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[Puff]

Lani  You made me smile re story of the teriyaki sauce having been used to mark its past.  Had a similar occasion in December with my niece Michelle who stopped by while I was in the midst of the cookies.   She looked at my "reference" and asked what's that.  Only a lot of years and a lot of cookies and a lot of memories.  It's now held together, the pieces that is, by a large rubber band. 

My first mother-in-law gifted me mine in about 1968.   Betty Crocker Cooky Cookbook - in a binder.  She had a bound edition from years waaaaaaay back.  (Did you notice the spelling - not a mistake that's the way it was named and still is.)  Fun part is Michelle - and her husband - have a more recent one they use that she says is like a paperback book.   But ya' know what?   I think she has her eye of rescuing my edition as I pass away.  Poor book fell apart from usage and the stuffing of additional found favorite cookie recipes.  Nice to have and open each Christmas.  :'(

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[clynndunn]

Good Morning Beakers!



Phyl, love the pictures of the North nest, the Mama Goose and Newman in the eerie fog... And the even eerier sound of the loons in the 365. Is there an egg on the Philippine Eagles nest or are we waiting patiently? Love the good night picture from last night!

oldguy, wow on that video of the octopus tornado! I would be skedaddling off in the opposite direction! Can't imagine sitting there filming it! The one of the tornado knocking the train off its tracks - WOW again!  Thanks for Leslie's video!

Lani, thanks for the Bear Update, everything is looking great... but I miss Ted... Looking forward to your teriyaki recipe, homemade is always better! Sweet sheep...

E4E, glad to hear the Retirement party was a hit! Yes, the picture of Bella with her hand on her hip! She is quite the sassy girl, in a good way, always into something! I am sure she was singing in the picture and that she knew all the words to the song!

karen, here is a picture of Talon and the perm. I wish there was a way to make the hair curl without a perm!


baz, your hand will be better soon! Wow, you have your tennis watching all figured out! Good for you and the walking. I need to get going on mine, got to order that cat stroller!

Wild Heart Ranch - Lumpy went to summer camp at Greg’s today! He is so happy! He can tell when it’s spring outside and he gets rambunctious. He will be back home in the fall.💚


DNN only - Diana Lambertson  · DN 17 and DN 18 Be still my heart!


Tornado hit a cemetery close to Des Moines. Oakwood Cemetery in Pleasant Hill, IA.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8049345045093426&set=pcb.449176014139164

[Puff]

Watching the train/tornado story I wasn't sure that the train was either hit directly or blown over.  It really did get a beating at any rate.   What I also wondered about was the cute little house setting all alone in the path of the funnel.  Noone and nothing else in the area.  Hope it made it thru.

The 8 am  local news just had the weather person say our rain is over for the day.  Whatta y'all think?

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[LisaG1967]

Good Morning Beakers


Sitting at the dealership waiting for Jeff's car.  I feel like I might be here a while. 

Phyl - Thanks for the 365 last evening, and for the pics this morning.  We are having the same weather again. 

E4E - Sounds like a nice retirement celebration you attended.

oldguy - Wow, the train footage of the tornado.

Lani - Love the good night pic of the lambs, and thanks for the link to the Bear Center. 

tsk - Pretty morning greeting.

clynn - Talon looks adorable getting his perm. 

Puff - Morning 

[camperstig]

some bounce
Laundry day...
BBL

[tsk34]

Just emptied the rain gauge - in the last 36 hours, we've had 2" of rain in my backyard. 

PUFF   Some good cookbook memories.  I've given away all but two - My church cookbook from eons ago and my Better Homes and Gardens.  Oops I also have my crockpot recipe book and my recipe box which holds only those recipes that Tim also likes  LOL

CLYNN  Beautiful coffee bean heart...and those delicate flowers in the rain.   Talon such a good sport having his picture taken during the perm.  LOL  Did Dad or Mom take him?  Never think of cemeteries being hit by tornadoes...

LISA  Beautiful colors in your AM pic.

Off to get my much needed haircut!!!

[karengramke]

Clynn, I worked with a Guy ho had a  Head of curly hair, like Talon!  I asked him if it  was  natural or a perm .H e looked great, had  great  sense of humor and was successful.  He said his hair was wavy  as a   Kid  nd  he  spent  a lot of time trying to make  it  straight !   He had pictures and it looked like a pompadour!   He said that after a move and a new barber, life changed!   The barber asked if he liked his hair to which he  replied, no!  The barber said he would cut it the way it should be and hence forth he had curls!  A great look!

Lani, thanks for  the explanation of the bears!
Funny about cookbooks!  I have one that  is a little worse for ware but others almost unused!  Quite a collection!   I also have recipes in my mother and aunts handwriting and almost never use anything other than the things I find on line!
Temps going to 84 today!   Glad there are no tornadoes in this area now.  Scary stuff!
Lisa, those are beautiful colors this am!

[Lani]

Royal Albatross cam

Ranger Sharyn Broni posted
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)

Weigh day has come a day early again this week. We will back to Tuesday weigh day next week.
Top Flat chick is 97 days old and weighs 7.9 kg at 12.35 today. Last week’s weight was 7.4kg.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/nat...

Top Flat Track chick is 89 days old and weighs 7.6 kg at 12.35 today. Last week’s weight was 6.2 kg.
All four parents are around but sometimes they need to take a longer foraging trip to feed themselves as well as their fast-growing chick.
In case you haven’t seen it, here is our What to Expect video for May/June.

What To Expect On The Royal Albatross Cam: May–June | Adult Feathers And Sex Characteristics video link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9ijwgtvq2k&t=5s

Without DNA testing it would only be around this early part of the winter that the sex of all the chicks would be accurately determined. The males are heavier now, although a large female could be bigger than a small male.
Chicks are starting to wander a bit more from their nests now with distances up to 50m being possible. They are likely to return to their nests as this is where their parents will return to feed them.
Exploring the area may help the toroa find the place they were raised when they return as adolescents in 5 years’ time.

Yesterday was Family time for chick TFT. Both parents come to check in for feedings. 



Good morning Beakers! Be safe and take care! 
Morning Ezee, Eburg, Weasel, Jilltosa, Kb, Tsk, Lisa, Karen, Oldguy, Puff, Eaglesrock, Emyrauld, Lilbro, Blschue, Lori, Clynn, Eagles, Tig, Baz, Phyl, Peep, Jaspurr, Pink, BL, Bggolden, T40, ssrl, Maxie, Nrstooge, Omasawyer, Paulie, jicaji, LB, and All!

Karen, I thought the bear links could better explain their research. Enjoy your day.

{{{Tig}}}

Tsk, enjoy your haircut.

Lisa, quiet time, I hope it isn't too long of a wait.

Clynn, beautiful morning pics..... cute pic of Talon in curlers, he's a good sport.  ... awww, love the pic of the DN eaglets and their talons!  ... Lumpy! 

Puff, I have the Betty Crocker Cooky Cookbook too! My MIL gave that to me my first Christmas with Mike's family.

Phyl, The call of the Loon one of the classic Brandenburgs video..... thanks for nests updates... the gorgeous pic of the African Fish Eagle, solemn pic of Newman, Philippine Eagles, DN eaglets 

[Puff]

Lots of  haircuts going around tsk .  What a lovely bunch we are.  My big surprise was the color clynn  .  For years for many reasons it made sense to support Clairol to get the color I just needed to have.  Laugh was on me.  Again, for a couple iffy reasons I let it go.  I ended up the exact shade I tried so hard to match - I matched my dad's - naturally.   Laugh's on me.  Big Guy above must have laughed real hard.  He knew what to do. 

karengramke  Likewise in the recipe in their own writing.  (First coming to mind is my dear sil gone above:  rice pudding and a sloppy joe recipe.)  So many more like that and like you that I cherish, too.

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[eburgbirdwtchr]

clynn--as to Talon's do.
I think he won't need the perm to get the curl when he has to pay for it out of his wages. 

[tsk34]

OLDGUY   Just watched Lesley's fascinating video of her beloved chickadees.  A real labor of love.  Thanks for posting.

LANI   The royal babies are really putting on the weight now.

EBURGH   LOL  but for now, Mom and Dad can pay  LOL

[baziunc]

BAZI   Thanks for the update on your hand.  Good progress!!!  Will it be a PT or an OT?

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TSK, it will be OT. I considered cancelling that appt today because I have made leaps and bounds progress as of today! I can now pick up a coffee cup full of coffee using my index finger and thumb - it hurts, but I can do it.Yay!! Also, I can bend my index finger lots more today, in a grasping/gripping "make a fist" type motion - not all the way, but so much better. Can bend the broken middle finger almost halfway down to my palm now, too, but not curling it much! It hurts, but I can do it!    I decided to keep the appt. The instruction and exercises will be good to get, along with setting expectations. My middle finger has peeled twice now, LOL, from having been covered by that heavy duty splint, that was akin to a soft cast, but not one. It's still very swollen, but not nearly as red/discolored, but the shape of the middle joint area is pretty ugly  .

[clynndunn]

tsk, Lesley makes wonderful videos, the Chickadee video is so good, and I love her voice!  We can watch all of her old videos again since she has retired...

Sophie somehow got onto the roof, climbing the deck screen up to where it meets the house! She has done this several times and we had to get her down! We could hear her walking in the gutter or on top of it or something (we have gutter guards). But SOMEHOW she managed to get out onto the actual roof over the garage! I have the guy who fixed the deck roof coming over to do some more cat proofing. Because if she can get out, a squirrel could get in!

eburg, the price of a perm these days is outrageous, and I get one every three months! I told my stylist that I need to have a punch card so I could get a free one every 5 years or so...She just laughed...

Puff, I gave up on coloring my hair when I retired. Ed was gray before he was 30! Hey, I get my hair cut tomorrow morning! And Kelsey gets hers cut tomorrow afternoon!

Lani, thanks for the Royal Alby updates! I want to hug one of those big fluffy babies!

baz, have you watching tennis today?  Watch out for that swollen angry middle finger! Glad to hear they are getting better!




The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, located in Maryland, USA.
It is here that hundreds of ships were sunk, 230 alone by the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation, with more than 100 of the vessels being wooden steamships, part of a fleet built to cross the Atlantic during World War I. 
Because they were built of wood, most of these ships were already obsolete by the end of the war, and the U.S. Navy did not want them due to high storage costs.  They were sold to the Western Marine & Salvage Company and moved to the Potomac River in Virginia, and eventually towed to Mallows Bay in 1925. The company went bankrupt and the ships were burned where they lay, only their hulls remain.
Remnants of those ships and many others, some dating back to the late 1700s, also lie there, including an early 1900s four-masted schooner, and many other vessels from the 19th and early 20th centuries.  Article and photos Deirdre Lynn •


 

[baziunc]

Happy Day, Beakers! 


I watched my boyfriend win his 3rd round match at the Madrid Open today.    Yay!  It was a nailbiter finish.

I walked 32 minutes today.


Prayers for those in the path of the severe weather and the tornado outbreaks of the last several days across a number of states.

Sadly, at least 5 dead in tornadoes outbreak, with at least 100 injured. Searches are still in progress in a number of areas. Numbers may change.
Here are some of the details from different towns of deaths and injuries and damage:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/overnight-tornadoes-storms-leave-heavy-destruction-nebraska-iowa-rcna149658

[karengramke]

Baz, I do not know hoe much movement you should be putting on the broken finger!  Thought that when you reported on the condition!  Would hate for you to rebreak it!   Be interesting to see. What ot has to say!

eburgbirdwatcher!lolol! reminds me hoe much  tooth paste, laundry detergent , bath  soap, etc cost when I was in college and had to restock!   What a shpock!   My mother thought it was funny!
Oh my Clynn!  How did you get Sophie Off of the roof!?