Weekly Chat, Sunday March 27, 2011

Lily's cubs are now getting out and about and getting quite vocal. Watch  29th March.

Hi TerryM, That certainly sounds a great evening you had ! Thanks for the info on the return of the female osprey, nice to know. I keep looking at the website but do know they don't start until the 1st April. - then another 'webcam to watch...!  I am hoping to go up to Whinlatter on Friday, or possibly Saturday, to see what is going on. Have fun on Sunday !

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Good girl, Alicat – so pleased you ate your tea.  Now each day is a further step forward.  How are your fish babies?

Hi OG they are doing great thanks some of them are nearly as big as the parents,some also only half the size and still got about 15 tiny ones in the nursrey in all i have about 28 babies of verious sizes

Hi folks, just got back from choir practice and a visit to the pub.

Caught up on your news.  Alicat so pleased to hear that you have managed something to eat. Your cat is obviously missing Casper as well, she'll come round in her own time just be patient and then it will be cuddles all round.

Margobird - heart checkup wasn't for me but for OH, sorry if I was confusing.

Alan - what a remarkable closeup of the Decorah eagle.

Just looked in on Lily's den and bonding/practice for motherhood???? by Hope. Lily is out of the den and mouching around outside.

Decorah eagle looks majestic and Norfolk - its feeding time!

so gentle with that enormous beak, memories of EJ feeding.

So much to read, so much to comment on, sorry to those I miss.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OG.
Alicat - I do hope you start to feel a wee bit better soon. It is quite understandable that you are missing Casper.
Dibnlib - My OH is hopeless, will never stop and ask if lost, just drives on and on.
Diane - Glad you saw Adelaide. Lake Eyre is busy with birdlife after the floods up north.
Jay-Me - We have books everywhere. I have a reading addiction. I have been browsing the "Books for Sale" shelves at library (they cull books) and I have a small collection of small paperbacks which will be discarded on my trip.
Annette - I don’t know how old is elderly but I have heard that Old Age is 15 years older than one is. LOL

News this week from Christchurch, New Zealand. Owners in the Central City were allowed back to their businesses for the first time. Some of NZ students here at Uni were saying that their friends in CC were attending classes in tents. School children were sent to other NZ cities to school.

They finished our street’s road resurfacing, except for a small rectangle where someone did not move their car. (Probably it is beyond moving, it’s been there so long.) Today I can hear the noises in the next street - lucky them.

I have finished washing walls and almost all the masking. I have a sore neck & shoulders to prove it! OH has painted the sample of cream - we keep peering at it in different times of day, in different light. We have concluded it will do fine.

Evening all: Another busy day: Got tires on the car, went to Best Buy to get a booster for the wireless router but the guy looked at the model number, etc., of the one I had and said I'd do better to spend the same money on a brand new router with umpity times the speed/power/you name it. So I did. Then was naughty and bought patio umbrella and stand to go with new hammock - roll on summer. We have a brief "hot" spell right now with temps in the low 80s; cooling trend due Thursday.

OG: G/daughter is breast feeding; they told her to cut all dairy products while they do some tests. Am on wound care duty with grandson tomorrow, but he's eligible for home nurse, so if I faint, we'll call her in!

Alicat: Just caught your post that you're feeling a little less upset and able to appreciate you made the right decision given the alternative. And you're eating - that's really good news! Atta girl!

Alan: That Decorah cam is spectacular; wonder what it is (HD you'd think - at least)

AQ: Nice program on Australian pelicans (mostly white and pink ones north of Sydney) tonight. Which route are you taking to the UK this year? If you come via LAX/SF, you should stop in and say hallo.  Funny (not) how Christchurch has fallen off the front page. So they didn't ticket/tow that car blocking the repaving work? Aaack - just hate masking; it's the worst part of any painting job.  But think! The place will be wonderfully light and bright when you're done. Truly, they've done studies showing that people "feel" 15 years younger than their actual age.

Sorry not to respond to every post, but do read them all and enjoy the pix. Take care folks.　

Annette - Unfortunately I'm not going to UK this year, just Germany & Vienna. Our usual route to UK & EU is via Asia or Middle East, eg Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Dubai, etc because it is shorter. Generally people only fly to America if they are visiting there. EDIT I go via Singapore to Frankfurt.
As for the painting (ahem, seems to be stalled), already the room looks so much brighter with the white undercoat rather than the dingy grey that was under the paper.