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Chat - Thursday, August 12, 2010
Topic Started: Aug 12 2010, 05:16 AM (629 Views)
jillers
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Aug 12 2010, 11:48 AM
June is in town to visit her family. We are going out to the Registry Theatre tonight where her son works to see Cabaret. Our seats are at tables right at the front instead of the regular seats farther back. I'm nervous about driving and the downtown parking but I'm sure we'll manage. Should I take beanie eagle? :D
Of course Cheryl! :D ^"^
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Naturegal
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Cheryl - Have a wonderful evening with June, Cabaret is very entertainingl and of course take Beanie Eagle, he will love the music :<:: ^"^
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Naturegal
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Finally all cleaned up here from the plumber, everything looks great and it's a good feeling to know that I am all organized and clean in the vanities. :)
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cheryl say hi to june and have a wonderful time - we saw cabaret here in NY - awesome and fun!

LUV the photos - where's my cake hehehe

we have to be at check-in at 5AM so heading to bed in a few and hope to get some shut eye .......

gotta get up early to shower, load, get car to parking and then shuttle back over to LGA! then off to Milwaukee and Madison and onwards.......

if I don't get to pop back - be well and have a great weekend

we'll have laptop with us so hope to check in at the hotel in the evenings.....

night (and bye)
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Artsy Mom
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Posted ImageDeb and Gary

May you have only the gentlest of cabin personnel :P

We'll be awaiting all your fabulous :clk: :clk: :D
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Topa Topa Hikers
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The newest member is klmeps :><: :}^ :ok:
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Lily the Black Bear - Update August 12, 2010 - 7:29 PM CDT

What will Lily do?


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June with ribbons on her radio-collar

Lily and Hope are foraging together in the area where they first separated on May 21.

We got the radio-collar and GPS back on Donna.

The rest of the day was tied up with paperwork, dealing with computer issues, and planning.

One thing planned is a meeting with engineers at 2 PM tomorrow. One is driving up from Minneapolis. The other is here from Indianapolis. They are both members of the team working on the best way to put Den Cams in dens far from electricity and telephone. The plan is to put a Den Cam in Lily's den, which we expect her to share with Hope and a new litter when she gives birth (if she does, and she should) in January. The plan is also to put a Den Cam in the den of June, who should also give birth in January. We could then compare the care given by these two mothers and see how Hope fits into the picture in Lily's den.

Then, come the usual time for family break-up in May-June next spring, we'll see if Lily separates from Hope or allows Hope to stay with her to make up for leaving Hope this year. We know Lily's not thinking in those terms, but it seems fair. If so, will Hope try to share the new cubs' milk when it is nursing time? How will Lily react to that? Will she know it is not fair to the new cubs to give some of the milk to Hope? Or will she be a 'Go along and get along' kind of mom and just make more milk for all? How many cubs will she have this winter? Is she a mother that has smaller litters? Or will she meet the usual average? In a previous study, we found that first litters are typically 2 (13 litters out of 25) and subsequent litters are typically 3 (27 out of 45 litters). For the full data on that see page 53 of Wildlife Monograph No. 97 "Effects of food supply and kinship on social behavior, movements, and population growth of black bears in northeastern Minnesota." Click here for a pdf of the monograph http://www.bearstudy.org/website/images/stories/Publications/Monograph_97.pdf.

However, there is another possibility. One mother that separated from her yearlings during mating season and then took them back later and denned with them did not produce any surviving cubs (or no cubs at all?) that winter. Might Lily not produce cubs? We're guessing she will because mixed age litters have been reported, always with just one older cub. Did those mothers ovulate because one cub did not stimulate enough oxytocin and prolactin to prevent ovulation? Or did those mothers separate from their single cubs and mate like Lily did? Did some of the abandoned cubs survive and rejoin their mothers like Hope did? Many questions, few answers.

We'll all learn whether Lily and Hope denning together in less than 2 months. We'll learn whether Lily will give birth in about 5 months. We'll learn the rest of the story from the den cams and direct observation in the ensuing months.

All of this assumes these bears survive the hunting season - and we believe they will. Hunters begin baiting tomorrow in preparation for the hunt which starts September 1. We noticed extra 4-wheeler traffic in the study area today. Hunting guides will be asking their hunters not to shoot radio-collared bears, backing up our request and the DNR's request to spare radio-collared bears.

Very soon, we will put up signs throughout the study area alerting hunters to the presence of radio-collared bears. We will also tie multiple gawdy ribbons on the radio-collared bears. To see what the ribbons look like, check the MN DNR site at http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/bear/index.html and wait for the slide show to load. Above is a picture of June with ribbons tied to her collar.

Things continue to come together in the Education Outreach project. People are working hard.

Thank you for all you do.

~Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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Topa the wedding pics were fab. :chk:

What a good time and such a beautiful setting for it. Table flower arrangements were gorgeous and the cake looked :Yum: :Yum: DD looks so radiantly happy :D

I was trying to see the brand of IP John had in his hand because I didn't recognize the label. I remember you said you had a special wine tasting party to sample the wines for the wedding dinner and that is another great idea. Did you have a variety of beer too? IMNTK :P
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Yes, We had some micro brews DH loves from Traders Joe's.
DHs favs are Black Toad, Stock Yard, San Miguel Dark and Trader Joes's Dark.
Johns liked Corona and some other beer DH never heard of.
I think we bought 4 beers per guest. :clink:
We also had a signature drink aka champagne balinis and white & red wine.
It was nice we could Buy Our Own liquer saved us a lot of $$$.
DD and John didn't want hard alcohol at the wedding knowing the type of
drinkers their friends can be.

After the wedding was over at 10pm they all went to the clubs on State St. until 2:30 pm.
DD bought a mini wedding dress,when I get a photo of the dress I'll post it.
They got in the clubs without a cover charge because of the bride. :) <3

BOY! They sound like terrible alcoholics but they had a great time
and were very well behaved! :D
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