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| Chat - Friday, May 13, 2011; Fly with the A49 Cruzer's | |
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| Harpo516 | May 13 2011, 12:26 PM Post #16 |
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very very busy today - negotiations - surprise meetings on Mon/Tues I had to prepare for - trying to get final packing done to head out in a little bit for camping trip - whew hope all's well today I'll check in on Sun when I'm back home 
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| Deleted User | May 13 2011, 02:59 PM Post #17 |
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Good afternoon! Jill - Love Wyman Meinzer photography!!!!  Music nice too!Topa - and Everyone - Love all the promos!  Wish I could do that!! Hope it raisesa lot of money for the eagles! Penny - Hope you keep safe from the floods!  So sad about Violets conditionand unconsciousable to shoot an eagle  Polar bears cubs so cuddly! Carole - Hope you can get some enjoyable shopping done! Have a safe pleasanttrip home! Michelle - lovely, dramatic photo!  Smart for the farmer to paint "cow" on hiscow! Deb - Hope the camping trip goes well and you have some fun! 
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| Michele | May 13 2011, 04:19 PM Post #18 |
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Hi Sunny!!! Thank You.....I love great photography, and would give my eye teeth to be as good as the photographers whose pix I post....I'm lousy.....but I do enjoy trying. 
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| Michele | May 13 2011, 04:25 PM Post #19 |
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Deb, slow down....I'm running outta breath just trying to keep up with you....  Have fun over the weekend....this is the trip where you go on your own with the scouts, huh.....I'll be sending you off with lots of good mojo for a successful trip. <Ahem> This was a test to see if this font works in this forum....10-4, over and out.... 
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| Artsy Mom | May 13 2011, 04:26 PM Post #20 |
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 We've been watching the deliberate flooding of farm lands in Greenville Mississippi on the news. What a disaster for some truly lovely homes along the river which are underwater up to their roof tops even though many of them were built on stilts 6-15 ft high to avoid getting flooded We are safe from the high water behind our floodway surrounding the city, but those living 45 minutes West of us are going to go through the same thing when the dikes are deliberately breeched tomorrow morning. It was supposed to be done several days ago but postponed to give those who will be affected a longer time to get their property protected and valuables and animals moved out. The hope is that it will affect the least numbers of people this way...some are wondering why homes 3 miles from the river are going to be flooded to save houses that were built along the river  All I know is that a good part of central NA seems to be under water right now  Manitoba Flood Fight (1:55) Mississippi Flooding (2:35) Edited by Artsy Mom, May 13 2011, 05:14 PM.
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| Michele | May 13 2011, 04:52 PM Post #21 |
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Penny, I saw that too.....many of the homes that are in the path of flood waters are historical homes dating back before the Civil War.....my only hope is that they will restore them after the damage of the flooding.
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| Artsy Mom | May 13 2011, 04:53 PM Post #22 |
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Michele I hope he learns what it is like to be caged like a wild animal as he languishes in an Indonesian jail. That would be sweet justice  Drive home safely Carole and Allan. There has been some severe flooding in Quebec too. Quebec's worst flooding in 20 years (1:55) Edited by Artsy Mom, May 13 2011, 04:59 PM.
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| cdn-cdn | May 13 2011, 05:04 PM Post #23 |
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Hello, everybody. Another busy day here. Only Saturday, Sunday and Monday until I am an empty-nester. Topa, I've just had a chance now to view both JoJo videos. I remember all the excitement about being able to bring Survivor to Santa Cruz. It just showed what a small group of determined people can accomplish. Thanks for the trip down memory lane - another one this week! Both you and JoJo did an awesome job with your ad-libbing. Today at our birdfeeder we had a male rose-breasted grosbeak beside a male indigo bunting. There wasn't enough time to get a picture before the indigo bunting flew off but it was a treat just to see it. We've been watching the news reports about the flooding and the plans to open part of the dikes.
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| cdn-cdn | May 13 2011, 05:22 PM Post #24 |
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Finally had a chance to go back and read Wednesday's chat. Linda, I'm sorry about what is happening with your Dad's health plus his expectations regarding you being there for him. I feel so bad for you seeing the pigeon being hit and the mate waiting for it afterwards. About ten years ago we had a female cardinal fly into our front window and die. Her mate sat in the tree and called out for her all day. It was heartbreaking.  I went out and bought reflective stickers for the window which seem to have worked. I know how you are feeling.Kris, this is an awful situation with your landlord giving you and Ed notice plus the rental agency not giving you any proper support against him. I hope so much that a peaceful, lovely place will find its way to you. There has to be one out there somewhere nearby. 
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| Artsy Mom | May 13 2011, 05:45 PM Post #25 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update May 13, 2011 – 5:23 PM CDT A day of rest?  Jo bear - April 13, 2011 Do bears sometimes just have a day of rest? Or is there so much vegetation coming up that they don’t have to move far to fill up? It’s cooler today, only 45, and windy. Maybe the wind inhibits travel. The new GPS units are giving more data than ever before. Lily and family spent the day in an area only 157 yards in diameter. For June and her 2 cubs it was an area only 163 yards in diameter, and for Jo and her cub it was an area only 91 yards in diameter. We re-collared Juliet today, a notch tighter and put a radio-collar on her yearling Sharon. So both female yearlings are now radio-collared in preparation for the family break-up coming up shortly. We won’t radio-collar the male yearling, A Boy Named Sue. Young males can travel too far. We made an exception and radio-collared Cal last year because he knew us well enough to let us change batteries in his GPS unit, but Boy is not that approachable. As it turned out, Cal was not all that approachable, even for us, outside the study area, and we had to follow him by airplane instead of GPS after his GPS batteries died. We would have liked to radio-track him to his den last fall but he was shot 80 miles away from the study area in early September. We retrieved Braveheart’s radio-collar from her classic cave den today. The well-chewed collar was about 12 feet inside the den and buried under the bedding. We haven’t seen Braveheart yet and don’t know how many cubs she produced.  Jo's cub - April 13, 2011 Today is Jo Day. Lily fans, including the mods, pulled together the story of her life. Thank you! Jo is an unusually sweet, calm bear. That was a surprise because she is the daughter of prickly RC and the granddaughter of wary Shadow. We didn’t get to know her well until she was a yearling on her own. She was quick to learn our voices. But that doesn’t make any difference where she can’t hear us. We found her signal after an absence, and we wanted to change her radio-collar. She was along a powerline within shouting distance from the town of Soudan. We worried that she might get into trouble there. We spotted her a hundred and fifty yards ahead of us. We said, “It’s me, bear.” It was just enough for her to hear a voice. She looked up from her foraging and bolted. Sometime later, we got her signal in a cedar swamp. It was a calm day, and Jo could hear well. We knew she was just ahead of us hidden in the tangle of brush and downed trees. “It’s me, bear,” we repeated, and she emerged and cautiously came. We replaced her radio-collar and tracked her to her den in a culvert under a lightly used woods road. She came out for a handful of nuts and was amazingly calm for as little contact as we’d had with her. We changed her radio-collar for the winter. Last year, she grew and matured. She tried several dens before making her selection. This year, tied down with her cub, she is easier to find in the woods and is getting to know us more and more as we visit her to change the batteries in her GPS unit. We named her Jo after Joanna Usherwood, wife of Bearwalker producer Ted Oakes. Jo is a sweetheart, so we are happy to have Jo bear as her namesake. In fact, when talking about Jo the bear, it is becoming natural to call her Sweet Jo. We feel she will become a bear that ignores us as we walk with her and learn new information we can share. In the news: KSTP-TV Channel 5 Eyewitness News joined Dana Coleman’s first grade class on their field trip to the Minnesota Zoo. It aired this evening at 5 PM and 6:30 PM and will air again at 11 PM. It can be viewed online here. The focus is the students and Dana talking about making the black bear the Minnesota state mammal. It’s a great news piece! Representative Phyllis Kahn called to say her bill mandating that the DNR send letters to all bear hunters in the study area urging them not to shoot radio-collared bears was defeated in the legislature. It was not supported by the DNR or by Representative Denny McNamara and Senator Bill Ingebritsen, chairmen of the Natural Resources committees. Without their support, the bill had little chance. However, as we understand it, the DNR is planning on sending the letters anyway. As shown by the many comments from hunters on the petition, many hunters do not want the radio-collared bears shot. They want to learn, same as we do. Such a hunter spoke out today on the Minneapolis Star Tribune Outdoors blog. A hunter-guide who goes by the name T. R. urged hunters to spare the radio-collared bears in our study. His good words are at Asking Bear Hunters Not to Shoot Research Bears. WCCO-TV will air a news story Monday evening about Lily and family and how important they are for education. The teaser they are running to gain viewers for the news broadcast coming up this Monday focuses on the bounty that people placed on Lily on a Facebook page. That is one of the reasons we need protection for radio-collared bears. A Lily fan discovered an article about the research that has a January 5 date on it, so some of you may already have seen it The Black Bear Whisperer. Sylvia Dolson, Executive Director of the Get Bear Smart Society, sent us the link to the full article on fatal black bear attacks from 1900 through 2009. The article is big in the news across Canada and the US. Author Steve Herrero was kind to send us a personal prepublication copy. It will come out in the Journal of Wildlife Management this month. It is hard to get an exact count on fatal attacks by black bears because of sketchy information in some cases about the species of bear and whether the person was killed or scavenged. Some of the cases require judgment calls about whether to include or not. The numbers of fatal attacks we have compiled over the years nearly matches those of Herrero et al., but we included at least one fatal attack they excluded, and we excluded one they included. Without digging out the records, one of those was in Minnesota. As we recall, a man went fishing along a stream a half century ago and didn’t return. When people found his body a few days later, he had been fed upon by several bears. Had one of them killed him? Hard to say. It was one they included and we hadn’t. In another case, a man climbed a tree to escape a mother and cubs. He fell from the tree and was found dead at the base. Had the mother climbed up and thrown him out? They excluded it, and we included it. Hard to say what is right. In another case, a woman had taken a walk with her estranged husband who had a history of abusing her. She disappeared. When she was found, a bear was eating her. The investigators said there was very little blood at the scene. Were the bears scavenging her or did she die of another cause? We both included it. The link to show support for making the black bear Minnesota’s state mammal is here. Anyone, anywhere, of all ages can sign it if you have an email address. You don’t have to be from Minnesota to sign it. In the Readers Digest contest to win money for Ely, you still have Ely securely in 6th place (in the money) with only 3 days to go. The link to vote 10 times in a row each day through May 16 is at Readers Digest. Thank you for all you are doing. —Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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| KLJinOz | May 13 2011, 06:17 PM Post #26 |
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G'day Peeps!! My beautiful Saturday, late morning. Life is so calm with BBob. I used to wake up thinking 'what am I going to do to entertain myself today?' Now BBob entertains me, Also the gave the kitties a flea combing, only 2 on Tigs, 1 on Leo GOOD. I give them Liver Treats to entice them on the outside table for the combing. Tigs just hates it, growls but loves his treats so will sit there for me. Leo is VERY cooperative. Our outing last night fizzed out, Rachel had to monitor the Formal party and the police were called (someone had thrown a glass outside the window venue onto the public area!) So she couldnt get away to Kristy's party where we were to accompany her. Oh well. Other than that incident, the Formal went well, they had organised a Pole Dancer and a Hula-hoop Dancer for entertainment! This was so portray their 'college' as 'cool' because apparently it is usually perceived as 'up-tight'. I have orchids and BBob added to my collection last week with this. :heart2:  Deb, have a great weekend. thanks for the update about the Bears Penny, I try to follow but can only do so much with everything else going on, including WORK which has picked up greatly. Hope everyone is well and happy |
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| jillers | May 13 2011, 07:32 PM Post #27 |
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| Michele | May 13 2011, 07:41 PM Post #28 |
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Ozzie.....the fleurs from BoB are bea-u-ti-ful.....I'm so glad he brings such joy into your life....enjoy. I don't envy Rachel for having the task she had, though. Nothing to me is worse than having to monitor other's behavior.....and that would be especially difficult if it were her peers. Sounds like she did it with aplomb though....Good for Her!!! It's great that you're sooooo busy with work.....conversely, it's too bad you're soooooo busy with work that you haven't the time to stay and play..... 
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| Michele | May 13 2011, 08:29 PM Post #29 |
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Penny, I can't thank you enough for posting the Lily updates.....aaaaahhhhhh sweet Jo.....I really do appreciate you keeping us up to date on the Black Bears....and believe me, I know the amount of effort it takes to provide not only the story, but the hidden links....Thank You!!! |
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| Michele | May 13 2011, 08:31 PM Post #30 |
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Jill, THAT IS PRICELESS!!! 
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