to Sue, Nanz & Lori


Lori.......no baby bass yet.

soooooooo wasn't that fun!! BFF calls when he's on the road with all the stuff heading for home. I get our supper all warmed up and now he's piling things in the door. "By the way, he says, when I'm done eating I'm off till Monday cause tomorrow they booked me for lung test". Gee thanks for the warning. So he eats and gets washed and changed and off he goes. It's all well and good cause he's armed me and I'm dangerous.

Up I come with the TV after feeding us and putting away all the groceries....open the box, empty everything out and spread out instructions. Always do the part check first! Oh oh, the part that goes from the stand to the TV is not there! Say it aint so, I dig around the box, check the floor and every other spot and nope! Now I know from my call earlier that they have 2 so I call and get her to check the other one. She takes my name and number and then calls me back.

"I couldn't believe that two of them wouldn't have it but I looked all over then just by a fluke I look 'under' the bottom corner styrofoam and there it is, tucked up inside the styrofoam". You're kidding hang on, I go lift out the pieces and as soon as I pick up the one bottom corner you can feel it's heavy. Voila!!! now how stupid is that??? Dont push it into the top corner where you'd see it, hide it in the bottom one you have no need to get out and then don't say so in the paperwork! duh!

Now I'm off to the races with piece in hand and screws. It wasn't easy by any stretch but TV is affixed to stand and now I put it on the dresser, screw in cable and plug it in. Put batteries in remote and now the remote only works now and then. No idea why but I give up!!! It looks great and sounds great but no idea whats up with the remote issue. Going to look for troubleshooting in the manual. I have a universal remote but darned if I can find the sheet with the codes and what to do on it

yeeeeeeesh!!!


holy gaucamole my {{{{Tx}}}} she isn't bigger is she???

A Little-Known Fact

I'm guessing that by now many people have realized that we have a push on to raise what we can towards the expenses for the coming year while the eagles - and all of us who watch them - are still in residence. After all, we all want to see next year's tiny chicks up close and personal (clicks bigger) -



And we all want to watch them grow into handsome young eagles like the ones we're watching now (also clicks bigger) -



And I'm also guessing that you might think that our biggest single expense for the coming year is the cleaning, maintenance and upgrades for the cams on our three active nests.

But you'd be wrong.

The costs for servers, storage, bandwidth and network supervision is budgeted at $31,500 for the next year, which is almost $10,000 more than the cost for cleaning, maintenance and significant upgrades in equipment at our three active nests.

Now you might ask what we get for that investment. Well, one of the biggies is this forum and website.

We moved to the current forum in late 2009/early 2010 - so we've been here a bit over 2-1/2 years - and there are already almost 400,000 posts!

I could rattle on about the costs for the sort of internet service needed to send the cam signals to WildEarth for streaming while simultaneously allowing us to be logged in to control the pan-tilt-zoom cams we hope to have at all of our nests next year, or the other technical details - but my eyes glaze over just thinking about that - and I'm a techie!

So I'll just say that without all the infrastructure behind www.hancockwildlife.org, we wouldn't have a place to post or share our pictures and videos (almost 40,000 items in the Media Gallery so far, and maybe twice that many pictures attached to various posts) or get to know other people around the world who share our interest in - and love of - wildlife in general, and eagles in particular.

Forum member terrytvgal has a line in her signature that I've always liked - "I came for the eagles, and stayed for the friends I made."



The collage above (which clicks bigger) is a sampling of the friends I've made and people whose posts I enjoy on the forum. 1128 people have posted at least once in the past 2-1/2 years - and if even half of those folks signed up to donate $5/month through CanadaHelps or PayPal - that would cover our monthly expenses for servers, storage, bandwidth and the like. You can click the picture below to see the Five Easy Ways to Donate to HWF, one of which is through monthly donations.



Our thanks to all of you who support our work in various ways - and a special thanks to all of you who make our forum and website such an active, interesting, entertaining and informative place to visit.

(Credits: Thanks to Raining22 for the s'cap of Linux; Cococat9 for the s'cap of Sky, Starlet and Sorrior; AnniesKatz and byline for the pics of Echo and Foxy; and the White Rock archives for the "little chicks" picture; thanks to terrytvgal for the use of her signature quote; thanks to the 69 members whose avatars I used for the collage - and I wish I could have found a way to use them all.)

no I don't waste any time Doreen and Scott, something croaks out she goes and in with the new. Besides, TV is a big part of my life sadly so it really had to be done. I can 'feel' it Scott that its not anywhere near the quality of my poor old fried one. That one was smaller and weighs twice as much. This thing is flimsy! Oh well it works. I have to figure out some fine tuning but I need daylight for that and I need to test the DVD

Doreen I hope you unplugged your stuff!! learn from dumbie me. Stay safe GF I hope the bad storms blow over quickly. I'll be anxious to see you back

thanks much Judy, I've been slacking off....guess I better get a check ready to send I don't even watch these cams anymore but sure do use the site!!


my songs are in, are yours?

To Starr and Pea wb gf

http://www.ournaturezone.com/index.php?topic=939.1260

ENJOY nestmates

Good evening

I hope you don't get the brunt of the brewing storms Doreen.
Today was the first time it was humid around here this year. I don't care for it one bit.
Nice s'caps of the ospreys. Good to see the flying ants have moved along.

Naoma

Good to hear BFF is getting his lung test done so quickly Lori.
Don't ya love how they can "hide" stuff in the styrofoam packaging? I've had that happen too.
Try different batteries in the remote, and make sure you're pointing at the proper spot on the tv. Some are more sensitive than others and need a more direct path.
Google will find your universal remote instructions.

JudyB

Thanks for the Hornby Is. link Judy.

Thursday's eaglet graduation drive

Lori, thanks for the BFF summary. He sure is in our thoughts and prayers. Glad you are feeding him things that are helping him feel better.
Yeah, for the rain still coming down.

Doreen, those poor ospreys with that swarm. Eeek!
Thanks for those s’caps today. That is quite a big fish.
Be careful of those storms. Wouldn’t you know when the rain finally arrived it would be with storms.

Hi Naoma, is that donkey ever going to deliver. Poor thing.

Lori, so great that you already have your TV set up even if the remote is iffy. Amazing that the part you needed was under the bottom styrofoam.
Glad BFF has you all set up for groceries and all. Hope his tests go well.

JudyB, love the collage with our avatars. Did a donation on matching day. Hope to do another donation again in a few weeks. The joy we share on this forum sure deserves our financial support.

Thanks for the link Judy.

Scott, I sneaked a peek at Chilliwack and love the drive. Watch the cow chips!

Thanks Nanc. It was fun.

A Big Day But Not In the Field: July 26, 2012

Oliana