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Chat - Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Topic Started: Dec 14 2011, 05:18 AM (672 Views)
Naturegal
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Ozzie - My Mom never made tuna casserole when we were growing up so now it is a treat. They say "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" but DH happens to like quiche which I put in the same category as tuna casserole and he loves that too.

I remember it well when I used to race, the next day I felt like I was hit by a bus, so achy.

Love Mexican food but very few good ones here so can't wait to go to Florida where we eat lots of it. Our favourite is a Mom & Pop place where they do all the cooking. The food is fantastic, very inexpensive, and they take reservations as they are always busy with the locals, not the snowbirds like us.

Beautiful photo of the duck <3
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This was major headlines in our news DownUnder. I wonder what can be done to divert these creatures... paint the parking lots?

thousands-of-birds-make-fatal-crash-landing-in-walmart-car-park


http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/thousands-of-birds-make-fatal-crash-landing-in-walmart-car-park-20111215-1ovgw.html
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IT'S VERY LATE. 11PM HERE SO JUST POPPING IN!

PENNY - I COPIED OUT THE SNOWY OWL INFO AND GAVE IT TO THE HEAD
NATURALIST AT MCR.

JILL - GLAD THE CALF WAS REUNITED WITH IT'S MOTHER COW. ENJOYED THE
BOB HOPE ONE

KLJINOZ - GLAD YOU GOT SOME SELF-SHOPPING IN TOO! :D I WAS IN SEDONA
ONE TIME, SO PRETTY. THAT IS A PRETTY DUCK/BIRD COLORING! SO SAD ABOUT
THE GRIEBS. WE HAVE AN OCCASIONAL GRIEB SHOW UP AT MCR AND ITS
SPECIAL FOR THE BIRDERS.

KRIS - THAT ROOK SURE LOOKS AT HOME!

TOPA - OH! MY! THAT ARMADILLO LIZZARD LOOKS PREHISTORIC.

KARENSC - I UNDERSTAND YOUR BEING COLD! I HAVE THE PROBLEM BEING
TOO HOT. LIVED HERE FOR 12 YRS. THERMOSTAT DOESN'T WORK. SO IN THE
MIDDLE OF WINTER HAVE TO HAVE WINDOW AND SCREEN DOOR OPEN. NOT
ONLY ME BUT OTHERS IN NEAR APTS ALSO. REPORTED MANY TIMES, YET
THEY CAME IN AND CAUKED ALL THE WINDOWS, PUT STRIPPING AROUND OUR
DOORS, AND PUT HARD COVERINGS OVER THE AIR CONDITIONERS TO
CONSERVE HEAT rofl rofl rofl
HOPE YOUR DH GETS THE HELP HE NEEDS. THATS GOT TO BE TIRING FOR
YOU BOTH!

CAROLE - NICE POEM , FEEL SO SAD FOR THE WAY CUBBY WAS TREATED!
HOPE THEY CAN LET THE RED TAIL GO FREE!

CHERYL - HOPE THE WHOOPERS CAN MAKE IT! :X:

DEB - YOU MUST BE SOOOOOO BUSY. HOPE THE TRANSITION GOES SMOOTHLY
AND THAT YOUR NEW BOSSES ARE REASONABLE! :candle:

HOPE IT WAS A SMOOTH DAY FOR ALL OF YOU
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Baby Seal found in NZ home: rofl
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/baby-seal-house-couch_n_1146980.html?ncid=webmail3

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Lily the Black Bear - Update December 14, 2011

Jonathan Fields says it all!


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When we feel like we are always struggling to introduce a new paradigm of research and a better understanding of black bears, we constantly run into a morass of subjective opinion. People are slow to give up their long-held beliefs about this demonized animal, especially those whose reputations and livelihoods depend on adherence to the old beliefs. We have kept open minds about bear behavior for all these decades, trying to understand how bears think. We don’t know it all of course, which is why we keep on, but we couldn’t do what we do, and couldn’t do it for so many years, if we were that wrong.

We tried to find the words to say it is important to keep an open mind and follow the data, not old fear-based beliefs. Then we saw how Jonathan Fields says it. We wish we could write like him. For now, here’s a link to his thoughts about creative research.

With all the resistance to new ideas, and all the bears that are killed because of the old ideas, we think education is the place to put our efforts in addition to research. Education can mean that encounters with bears have good outcomes for people and bears with fewer bears shot unnecessarily. Education can mean that people will allow bears to walk through their yards without feeling like they have to shoot the ‘menace’ unnecessarily. Education can mean that people realize all that bears are and rally against keeping them in small cages to extract bile fluid and rally against cruel training for dancing or being subjected to bear-baiting (being attacked by packs of dogs for sport).

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We think education can get the biggest bang for the buck locally and worldwide. We hope the Education Outreach program that teachers are developing can reach a lot of young people. The book the group put together entitled North American Bear Center Education Outreach Program is mind-blowing (see pictures). It is about 200 pages of teaching ideas, service learning ideas, interdisciplinary ideas (using bears to teach science, language arts, math, and art), and about 165 pages of lesson plans and resources.

Along that line, but a distant second to the Education Outreach book, we think the Bear Tales book that dozens of you contributed to will be a good bedtime story book. The stories are short, interesting, and are about real people and real bears—not stories exaggerated to make bears appear one way or another. It is edited and ready to publish somehow. We’re looking for the best way to publish it at this point.

Lucky and Honey are settling in and sleeping peacefully with no sounds of tension. We guess Honey knew what she was doing after all.

Northern Lights Wildlife Society needs a boost to get back into second place. It’s one vote a day for today, tomorrow, and the next day to get them back into second at The Aviva Community Fund.

Thank you for all you do.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center
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I have not gotten lost - just super busy ....... got thru last week with boss who is in FL now with his feet up, enjoying the sun..... he called monday to rub it in :( oh well

Then this week has been run run doing the phone thing with all our phones - some are kind of done - others not in place until monday but gotta meet with our guy to remove equipment first thing Friday morning

Movers came today and away we went ......oh but I had to spend a day out there to clean up the area that I moved into ....... ok back to the move- they arrived on time - quickly loaded up and away we all went. Unloaded and I then spent a bunch of time trying to unpack (will re-arrange next week when I have more time) Got my computer hooked back up and it was working - woo hoo.

boxes off to storage then back to old office then back to new office then home ......

may not go in tomorrow am - ES and I will be attending the David Letterman Show taping tomorrow afternoon - supposed to be aired Friday night :) so I'll be in the City!

but tonight I thought I better get on address changing online - oh my gosh - it took forever as I had to do one for every faction of our office (and that's like 12)

I'm sooooo tired - thinking about all of ya - oh and trying to get ready for upstate camping trip with our scouts!

I'm sooooo ready to go away for a few days ...... but my new bosses are wonderful - great fun - as a matter of fact - I arrived this AM and there was a beautiful plate in the middle of my desk full of candy and cookies that the wife had made (I'm now workin for 2 attorneys - husband and wife)! and they are mighty tastie - the cookies!

ok off to bed ..... give me the strength to make it thru the rest of the week so I can go camping :**:

and then next week really gets going - couple days then off to OH to see my kiddos and grandkiddos! <3
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Kris we had freezing :rn: today so it was scraping the windsheild and using the defroster on both front and rear windows. Lots of people sliding around because they were going too fast for the coditions. Still, we can't complain...all our normal bad snow storms have happened further south in the US and we have just a little snow cover left on the grassy areas because our temps have been way above normal. Ski hill operators are having fits because it's even too warm to make the man made stuff and their busiest season is over the holidays  :wacko:

Ozzie that story about the grebes was just <:3 :'(
I had heard about that baby seal finding it's way inside to a sofa :D

No tuna at our house Carole :P DH isn't eating fish and I have issues because of the the way tuna are caught :angry: I do remember it was pretty good comfort food though :Yum:

That whole thing about Japan stockpiling blue fin tuna is just seasick ening :hair:

The Native Americans were so right about treating Mother Earth with respect.
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