Sudokuaholics Anonymous 10

Just in case I have checked numbers correctly, here's a thought for everyone: Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson

(I had to steal/borrow, as I had no thoughts of my own.)

Good Night! Sleep well!

Well mum is still sleeping with her head tucked under her wing, just a bit windy 80' up there.

2.30am eagle time and Mum just turned three eggs.

I'm spending more time at a Barn Owl site. Bonnie and Clyde. It's been so much fun watching the 4 owlets grow, and seeing their individual personalities develop.

Morning all. Another busy day.

Tomorrow is hubby's birthday, but I am making dinner for us and my D and her family tonight. Have to get the groceries, make a cake ....

Up way too early for a Saturday - I think I will try and squeeze a nap in at some point.

Morning all.
Heidi, can you repost the link to the barn owls. I would like to show the boys.
Theresa, wish your hubby a happy birthday for me. I hope he, and you, have a great day.
Julie, enjoy your long summary again. Thank you.

Coffee is brewing. It will be ready in a minute so help yourself to a cup.

I'll be back. Have to walk Harley and then make brekkie for myself. Have Saturday school to teach.

Be back later. Enjoy the coffee. I have a few bottles set up for those who would like to add something

Good Morning, All! Eaglet number 1 has arrived and is a little fluff ball. Mom was off the nest a few minutes ago. There were over 145,000 visitors. Maybe you were there, too?

Have ffuts to do today, but will try to pop in occasionally.

Current time in the midwest is 10:35 a.m. on Saturday, April 2.

Here is a YouTube link of the first Decorah eaglet hatching and the second egg pipping, if you look closely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U_pme0dPhs
The site has crashed at the moment.

YEAH JULIE, you saw the eaglet. Hope the other 2 follow soon. Thank you for doing such great summaries of our posts, sure makes a good reminder of all the posts I meant to comment on.

TAMI, thanks for the coffee, mighty good this morning. Just sweetener and half and half forme thank you. Hope Saturday School is going well for you.

Theresa, happy birthday to Mr T from me. Hope your meal for everyone is a success. Nap today sounds like a good thing. How long fore you hear results of the cat scan??

Heidi, how are the new parakeets doing? Recovered from thier trip yet? Is Buddy still being a good boy and letting you treat him so easily? someone said earlier that animals seem to know when you are helping them. I know my cats have let me do some hurtful things to get them well, and tolerated it very well. Scooter had an abcess on her side as big as palm of my hand, from a small scratch in a cat fight. she let me irrigate that under the skin abscess by forcing peroxide in with a syringe, had to hurt, but I was able to do this without assistance. She just laid there once I told her what I was doing.

Joy tells a funny story about her cat that had a skin condition, scratching and biting till skin was raw and oozing. she had some aloe and oatmeal shampoo for pets, and decided to bath her cat in it. her telling of this was so funny, but I could just see that poor kitty, cornered in the bathtub, spread eagle up against the side wall, while Joy heald it with one hand and dipped warm water, then shampoo over the cat, worked it in gently, rinsed, then held it close wrapped in a towel. Usual post bath attitude was to run , hide and totally ignore Joy for up to a month. This time, she expected the same. she let the cat down, thinking it would be a long time fore it was seen, but no, kitty was rubbing all over her legs, purring, jumping into her lap, it seemed to know this was a good thing. silly kitties!!



Today is a much better day, something up in the sky that is hot and bright and round, could that be the SUN? Must get Al out for a dose of vitamin D. Warmer already today than yesterday, seems a nice day in store for us.

Did I tell you how very nice my outdoors looks? Must have, Julie commented on me having to mow grass, or have it mown. It makes me happy to see everything looking neat and trim, just the way i should do it if I were able. Having the young teen come knock on the door and say, Please, can I mow your grass is such a blessing. He said he was bored. I have a steep bank from the road down to front lawn, he got a goodly part of that cut , fore I had to stop him. I have native orange day Lilies, locally known as "ditch day lilies" cause they naturalize along sides of roadways in the ditch. They look just like some of the grasses, early spring, so he mowed a number down fore I noticed and stopped him. He was so very apologetic, but he did not know.

found something else on that bank. I have had a small

OH NO, I did a JULIE, and did not save the correct part of this post. I saved the Joy story, but somehow that is in the MIDDLE, not the end, bummer.

What is missing is the plum bush story, will get back to it again another time. Hugs with extras,

Good mAen everyone! I have a NEW Mary Kay client! (been so LONG since this has happened!)
She works as a greeter at Wal-Mart and lives VERY close to me! Her name is Helen. We demo'd some tinted moisturizer & she seems happy with it.
Called my folks yesterday (Dad's birthday--74!!). Everyone & evertyhing fine there, always makes me feel better. I've had some weird dreams in the past few weeks on and off.
Going to Dr. on Wednesday. General check-up and ask about allergies, etc.

I missed 3 pages since my last post. I hope everyone is getting along ok. 9
Love & (((HUGS))) to those who need, with extras!!!

I just went to the eagle page and saw it was down. I hope they get it fixed soon. I want to see the eaglet.

It's up now, Tami. I just got to watch mom feed bits of bunny to the eaglet. It was wonderful! That baby sure has a good appetite.

Thanks Heidi, I checked a bit ago and it was still down. I must have just missed it. What is the link for the barn owls?

http://owlcam.webplus.net/page6.html

There's also a Ustream link on the Decorah page for Bonnie and Clyde. The link I posted is for a split screen. You can watch both inside and outside the nest box. And there's a super nice group to chat with. The owls are nocturnal, so the majority don't show up until dusk in Chula Vista, CA.

Good Morning my friends.
Heidi I also got to see mum feeding rabbit to the chick, amazing they can eat so quickly.

Just got to see momma eagle feeding baby eagle. It is soooooo cute.

Just saw Dad pop in for a feed of rabbit then Mum fed the chick again.

Snap Tami! Were you in chat?

I was watching and as Mum went to get up the camera went off air. Bummer!
Good morning everyone. I am on limited diet today and just fluids tomorrow as Tuesday is colonoscopy. Just follow up from the diverticulitis. I do not expect any problems as they did a cat scan in January. My first anesthetic. Hospital staff found it hard to believe I could reach this age without any operations.

Must have just missed that June.
Oh and good morning June, hope the colonoscopy goes well, must organise one for myself soon.

Broni, no, I have not gone on chat there. If I joined that chat room, I don't think I would ever get off of the pooter
Just got another peek at the baby and saw the second egg with the hole in it.

Fact of the day: Today is pillow fight day. Grab a pillow and hit someone you love

Consider yourself hit on the back of the head with a pillow Tami!
Yep Mum had her back to us most of the time, seems feedings are about every hour at the moment.

Morning all,
Julie, funny thing is I almost never read the horoscope and yesterday I did so recognised your inspiration - what are the odds?

Very slow connection here at maccas this morning... hope I get to see the nestcam..

I didn't get to see anything, but I heard them! That was something..

Broni, consider yourself being attacked by the beastie boys. I have raised them well. They will protect their mommy.

Eaglet has just been fed. Too nice a day to stay indoors so that will probably do for now. I do have a big mess in the back yard as the **$%#* cockies are back taking the green grapefruit from the tree.

Smack! Feathers flying....

YEAH, I have internet, YEAH, I have telephone! Both went off suddenly today, no warning. for 2 days been having trouble with our phone line, a roar that was anoying, and got louder the longer I talked. Al phoned in a report about it, and they did a test. Never let us know if there was a problem. so, when hubby called about phones today (nice to have a cell phone for that) it was assumed he was calling in reference to the former complaint. A tech had been dispatched, call them again if we have not seen/heard from him in 30 min.

About 15 min later, he is here, checking line at the pole. Then he comes to door, saying he has lost signal (aware of that here, fellow) and will have to go back up the road a bit to a junction box to try to locate problem. He will phone us if he thinks he has it repaired, but it might be from a strange number, cause his company issued cell phone is not getting signal in this area. He will have to access a customer's line at junction box to phone us. WHAT??? The phone co has cell phones that employees use that will not connect?? I just almost suggested he try the carrier we have hehehe.

Went to grocery again, for milk, dry milk and carnation instant breakfast and bananas. That stuff disappears quickly here. I add a scoop 9f dry milk to each serving of instant breakfast, and a spoon full of oil, to boost the calories and nutrition. Dry milk once was inexpensive, much less than whole milk, not so now!

He also gets a banana a day mixed with his Instant breakfast, to keep his potassium levels up. Once a day, he gets real food, been Mac and cheese based last couple days. that is a high energy high cal base for whatever vegetables . Keeps his tummy accustomed to real food and the digestion there of.

I am so thankful I have this old, antique now, blender that I do. The working mechanism unscrews from the standard blender pitcher thingy, and can be attached to any canning jar, same screw pattern. I have 8 pint jars cleaned to use for his meals, a 2 day supply. Only have to wash the blade and screw base 4 times a day, not the whole pitcher thingy. Used jars go in dishwasher, a few steps saved every day.

OK, I am blabbering on here, just had meds for this back, and they do loosen my tongue hehehe. Four more sleeps till my pain block.

Please, may I be excused from the pillow fight? I do think even a blow from a single feather would be too much today.

Huge Hugs to each and every one of you, with extras if you need them.

Loving hugs to you MizT and Al.
Wack! Zusy. Aargh not the beasties! Not fair Tami, will have to wait until they are not looking. Quick look over there... an Eagle, double wammy smack! hehe!

Afternoon all.
Hugs to you, MizT and to Al. Hope your pain block goes well this week.
June - I can't believe that you've got this far in life without an aenesthetic! You must be a very healthy person.
You're all lucky having seen the eaglet being fed - I just can't get there at the right time, even when Broni posted on FB, 1 minute later it was over! Darnit!!

Gotta go, hubby has promised to take me out and he's ready - I've been waiting for over an hour, isn't that typical? Ciao!!

Looks like we are going to plant some seedlings today...after watching the gardening show!

Good Evening, All!

Well, a few of us have experienced eagle withdrawal when the site has gone down off and on today. One was just as Mama was getting up off the nest. Thank goodness for people who have captured some of the events and posted them on youtube or other sites. There is also a facebook page - Raptor Resource Project - where you can post comments. It has been extremely difficult to get into the chat room at the nest cam site.

Happy Birthday tomorrow to Mr. Theresa! I know you said you would be celebrating today with a family dinner, Theresa! Did you have a yummy cake for him? I hope you found time for a nap at some point! {{{{HUGS}}}} to you and your family, busy lady!

Heidi, I think I'll try the barn owls site when I finish comments here. My guess is that the timing will be just about right.

MIzT, what a great chatty post from you! It seems like things may finally be a bit more normal at your house. I'm sorry the young man accidentally got some of your day lilies. Hopefully they will come back! Great story from Joy about her kitty! Thanks for sharing! Hurray for the sun making an appearance for you! I hope you and Al were able to sit outside for a bit absorbing Vit. D! What a shame that you hadn't saved the full post, MizT! Look forward to reading the rest when it's convenient to share!

Suzanne, hurray for your new Mary Kay client! That's always good news! Hope your allergies are better!