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Chat - Thursday, January 5th, 2012.; Last day to vote for Dr. Sharpe!
Topic Started: Jan 5 2012, 05:20 AM (1,049 Views)
KLJinOz
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Jan 5 2012, 11:05 AM
Penny - Posted Image For the Canadian Eagles helping out in the USA!
Oh, I just love this graphic (and message!) :)^ :)^

G'day Peeps, my Friday, cool, blustery and spitting occasional rain. Penny, just how do you "enjoy" +3C/37F heading for a high of +7C/45F weather? :8O: :hair: ;)

Will leave a message on the WC site. Maybe the former (disgruntled) OM'er wasnt paid (enough?!)

Sounds like a handful ~Mia & Wynn! Sounds like the healing process is going well too.

You want to see/deal with poor customer service, come to Australia! They have NO idea what that is. Mostly its the store's fault for not training them properly and as for lack of staff, with the economy down and sales down, the dept stores keep staff to bare minimum. Bob was looking shoes at a big store here last week, only ONE staff member to help. It took us well over 15 just to see him and get the right size shoe for Bob to try on. The guy was actually pretty nice, you could tell he was trying.

Bob's youngest son is getting married tomorrow. It has not been a happy planning affair, Bob's EX has caused trouble, the Bride's in-laws are miserly (did not want to contribute at all but embarrassed into providing only 1/3rd the cost, Bob & EX provided the other 2/3rds!) and the Bride & Groom also not considerate to their elderly family guests (by not providing chairs to sit in for a hot afternoon outdoor seaside wedding). I dont want to go either but by not going it causes an even bigger ruckus.... sigh.

Rachel still not feeling better, sleeping a lot. Tiger does seem better, but not 100%. He loves being Babied (and so does Rachel for that matter! rofl )
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<::: All eyes are on US bald eagles as national survey begins

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45888675/ns/te...cience-science/


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Ozzie - DH and I have been involved in some similar wedding plans and it's not pleasant, you really have to keep your mouth zipped up Posted Image and go along with it.

Sorry to hear that Rachel is still not feeling well, hope it clears up soon :X: Glad to hear that Tigsy is feeling a bit better but then again all that love and attention is the best medicine for him.
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Thanks Carole (re Tigsy & Rachel). RE wedding, if I could get out of going, I would!!!

Something of interest for Kris


http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/wonderland-surrealist-adventures-women-artists-mexico-and-united-states
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Lily the Black Bear - Update Thursday, January 5, 2012

Warm day


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When Honey came out for a walk, we said how warm it is today, as if that was an explanation. The temperature at this moment is still 39F, which is 60-70F warmer than we often see on this date (-32 in 2005, -23 in 2009, -25 in 2010, and -9 in 2011). Honey walked down to her den from last year and then came back, walking in the same footsteps, and put Lucky on edge with the tension of her bluster as she was about to enter the den with mixed emotions. Donna Andrews posted a video of Honey’s walk today on YouTube.

But if warm weather was an explanation, why were Lily and Faith snuggled so quietly all day?

The main thing we know is that whatever they are doing, it is not because of us. We haven’t visited Lily and Faith’s den since we installed the Den Cam on December 18, and no one has gone near Lucky and Honey’s den since Donna Andrews noticed Honey was a hundred yards away from the den on December 26 and was looking good (no injuries from the argument 2 days earlier). Donna took that opportunity to check on Lucky who was out in front of the den and also without injuries. It was good to know that the very loud exchange was without harm. None of the bears are getting any food.

A part needed for the Den Cam in Jewel’s den won’t come in until Monday, so we are waiting to see what the team decides to do.

Something we wish we knew more about is bears and the early settlers—like those at Jamestown. They arrived at Jamestown during a multi-year drought that led to many of them starving. A multi-year drought is also devastating to bears, and the Jamestown settlers had brought their farming culture with them, which would put them at odds with the bears in years of scarce wild berries, etc. They also brought their European attitudes toward bears (extirpated from England by 900) and wolves (on the brink of extirpation by the early 1600’s). We wonder if Lily fans know of writings about relations between early settlers and bears. Native Americans of that area had long been hunter-gatherers which put them less at odds with bears than if they had crops for bears to plunder in bad food years. Many Native Americans viewed bears with respect, many were proud to be members of a bear clan, and many referred to bears as brother, grandmother, or other terms of kinship. Native Americans in eastern North America were in the early stages of farming in the early 1600’s. We’re interested in checking the accuracy of these “facts” and learning more about the bear-human relations of those days.

Thank you for all you do.

—Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center[
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Hope you had a pleasant day! Carole - Penny - Cheryl - KLJinOz - ElaiineRuth - Kris - and all!

Carole - Three cheers for red Tail! Pretty Decorah! Sad about another lead poisoning

Penny - Nice that Canadian Eagle is assisting USA

KLJinOZ - Hope you get through the wedding :X: Hope your Rachel feels better soon. Good
luck on her job hunt!

Cheryl - Couldn't the whoopers if necessary,be crated and taken to their migraton destination
for this season where they are supposed to be??????? Yum cupcakes! :Hugs: for Mia!
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Furniture concepts-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHGasFFjQa
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Carole, Penny and Cheryl. Many thanks for your "Petey" vote. Isn't he adorable???
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Two of my sons are recently retired from the Coast Guard. One of them is the one in Fla. who raises the puppies. This piece was sent to me by the other one who recently retired after 30 years. It brought tears to my eyes

The Coast Guard We Once Knew

I liked standing on the bridge wing at sunrise with salt
spray in my face and clean ocean winds whipping in from the four
quarters of the globe - - the cutter beneath me feeling like a living thing
as her engines drove her swiftly through the sea.

I liked the sounds of the Coast Guard - the piercing trill
of the boatswains pipe, the syncopated clangor of the ship's bell
on the quarterdeck, the harsh squawk of the PA system, and the
strong language and laughter of sailors at work.

I liked CG vessels -- nervous darting 255s, plodding buoy
tenders, and light ships, sleek 327s and the steady solid hum of the
twin engines on the HH16E.

I liked the proud names of Coast Guard ships: USS Bayfield,
USS Cavalier, USCGC Taney, USCGC Cosmos, the Wind class
Icebreakers and the USCGC Bibb just to name a few.

I liked the lean angular names of CG "shallow water
cutters" the 82 footers, Pt Hudson, Pt Lookout, Cape Trinity and the Cape
Higgon. Named for locations around the states. I liked liberty call
and the spicy scent of a foreign port.

I even liked the never ending paperwork and all hands
working parties as my ship filled herself with the multitude of supplies,
both mundane and to cut ties to the land and carry out her mission
anywhere on the globe where there was water to float her.

I liked sailors, officers and enlisted men from all parts
of the land, farms of the Midwest, small towns of New England, from the
cities, the mountains and the prairies, from all walks of life. I
trusted and depended on them as they trusted and depended on me - for
professional competence, for comradeship, for strength and courage. In a
word, they were "shipmates"; then and forever.

I liked the surge of adventure in my heart, when the word
was passed: "Now set the special sea and anchor detail - all hands to
mooring stations for leaving port," and I liked the infectious
thrill of sighting home again, with the waving hands of welcome from
family and friends waiting pier side. The work was hard and dangerous;
the going rough at times; the parting from loved ones painful, but
the companionship of robust CG laughter, the "all for one and
one for all" philosophy of the sea was ever present.

I liked the serenity of the sea after a day of hard ship's
work, as flying fish flitted across the wave tops and sunset gave
way to night. I liked the feel of the CG Cutter in darkness - the
masthead and range lights, the red and green navigation lights and stern
light, the pulsating phosphorescence of radar repeaters - they cut
through the dusk and joined with the mirror of stars overhead. And I
liked drifting off to sleep lulled by the myriad noises large and
small that told me that my ship was alive and well, and that my
shipmates on watch would keep me safe.

I liked quiet mid-watches with the aroma of strong coffee
and PBJ sandwiches -- the lifeblood of the CG permeating
everywhere. And I liked hectic watches when the exacting minuet of haze-gray
shapes racing at flank speed kept all hands on a razor edge of
alertness.

I liked the sudden electricity of "General quarters,
general quarters, all hands man your battle stations," followed by the
hurried clamor of running feet on ladders and the resounding thump of
watertight doors as the ship transformed herself in a few brief seconds from
a peaceful workplace to a weapon of war -- ready for anything. And I
liked the sight of space-age equipment manned by youngsters clad in
dungarees and sound-powered phones that their grandfathers would
still recognize.

I liked the traditions of the CG and the men and women who
served so valiantly. These few gave so much in service to their
country. A sailor could find much in the CG: comrades-in-arms, pride
in self and country, mastery of the seaman's trade. An adolescent could
find adulthood.

In years to come, when sailors are home from the sea, they
will still remember with fondness and respect the ocean in all its
moods - the impossible shimmering mirror calm and the storm-tossed
green water surging over the bow. And then there will come again a
faint whiff of stack gas, a faint echo of engine and rudder orders, a
vision of the bright bunting of signal flags snapping at the yardarm, a
refrain of hearty laughter in the wardroom and chief's quarters and
mess decks. Gone ashore for good they will grow wistful about their CG
days, when the seas belonged to them and a new port of call was ever
over the horizon. Remembering this, they will stand taller and say,
"I WAS ONCE A COAST GUARDSMAN."
Anon.
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Jan 5 2012, 08:14 PM
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The URL contained a malformed video ID.
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