Adams Basin Inn....anyone from Rochester know this place?  Said Rochester, NY.

[O]

O is for: My One and Only:

Sorry, he's involved, he has to be.

[Since we're baring our souls lately, here's my problem. I would dearly love to purchase many of the items from the rfalconcam stores because they're beautiful and raise money for the falcons. But I absolutely CANNOT afford them because I am a retired senior citizen on a limited fixed income. Is it at all possible to come up with cute but less expensive merchandise? I'm thinking of small things such as decals, bumper stickers, magnets, and memo pads. What I'd really love is to be able to buy embroidery patches or transfers to sew or iron on my homemade tote bags, a favorite tee, or a quilt square. As an example, I can only imagine how beautiful logo submission #73-74 would look as a full-size color transfer on a shirt or bag. Also, I collect free graphics to use in my personal emails and would be happy to purchase the right to be able to use the winning logo when I email a friend.I do realize that such items would not bring in tons of money. Still, I doubt that I'm the only one in this group who cannot afford the current merchandise, so perhaps quantity of sales might make up for the affordable price. Just something for the merchandising committee to think about ... Penny Pinching Dot in PA]

Since we're baring our souls lately, here's my problem.  I would dearly love to purchase many of the items from the rfalconcam stores because they're beautiful and raise money for the falcons. But I absolutely CANNOT afford them because I am a retired senior citizen on a limited fixed income. Is it at all possible to come up with cute but less expensive merchandise?  I'm thinking of small things such as decals, bumper stickers, magnets, and memo pads. What I'd really love is to be able to buy embroidery patches or transfers to sew or iron on my homemade tote bags, a favorite tee, or a quilt square. As an example, I can only imagine how beautiful logo submission #73-74 would look as a full-size color transfer on a shirt or bag. Also, I collect free graphics to use in my personal emails and would be happy to purchase the right to be able to use the winning logo when I email a friend.

I do realize that such items would not bring in tons of money. Still, I doubt that I'm the only one in this group who cannot afford the current merchandise, so perhaps quantity of sales might make up for the affordable price.  Just something for the merchandising committee to think about ...

  Penny Pinching Dot in PA

Excellent ideas, Dot! 

Great idea Dot! Sometimes the smaller things are nice and more people would buy them. I like it. 

Blackwater Eagles bringing pine sprigs to the nest.

I'll help Carol. Should be interesting.

[One Partridge in a Pear Tree: $161.99Two Turtle Doves: $100Three French Hens: $150Four Calling Birds: $599.96Five Gold Rings: $649.95Six Geese-a-Laying: $150Seven Swans-a-Swimming: $5,600Eight Maids-a-Milking: $58Nine Ladies Dancing: $6,294.03 (I need a new job)10 Lords-a-Leaping: $4,766.7011 Pipers Piping: $2,356.2012 Drummers Drumming: $2,552.55]

Buyers beware: the Twelve Days of Christmas are getting a little more expensive. The cost of all the items in the holiday classic The Twelve Days of Christmas jumped to $23,439, an increase of $1,974 from last year.

"This year's jump in the PNC CPI can be attributed to rising gold commodity prices, represented by the Five Gold Rings, which went up by 30%, in addition to higher costs for wages and benefits impacting some entertainers," said James Dunigan, managing executive of investments for PNC Wealth Management, which tracks the cost of the goods named in the carol.
The cost of the items jumped despite consumer price inflation of only 1.1%. Of the 12 items, only four were the same price as last year. These are the Partridge in a Pear Tree, the Four Calling Birds, the Six Geese a-Laying and the Eight Maids a-Milking.

The single biggest dollar increase was for the nine ladies dancing, which rose by $820, or 15%.

The full prices were as follows:

One Partridge in a Pear Tree: $161.99
Two Turtle Doves: $100
Three French Hens: $150
Four Calling Birds: $599.96
Five Gold Rings: $649.95
Six Geese-a-Laying: $150
Seven Swans-a-Swimming: $5,600
Eight Maids-a-Milking: $58
Nine Ladies Dancing: $6,294.03 (I need a new job)
10 Lords-a-Leaping: $4,766.70
11 Pipers Piping: $2,356.20
12 Drummers Drumming: $2,552.55

Just thought I'd share!

Pics from this am Nov 29

My view from Broad St. bridge Left:Mercury: Center:Crossroads Building Right:OCSR(Old changing scenes restaurant)
FCT(Frontier Communications Tower is between Mercury and Crossroads
Beauty on NW corner of Crossroads building
Pigeons roosting above sign
Pigeons across river from Blue Cross Arena on the Rundell Library
Close shot on Blue Cross Arena
As you can see there are plenty of meals for birds of prey

[Thought for Today]

Thought for Today

Ted Striker: Surely you must be joking. Dr. Rumack: I never joke. And don't call me Shirley.

One of my all time favorite lines from a movie.

Thank you for all the laughs you gave us.  The world was a funnier place because of you.  You'll be missed Leslie Nielsen.  RIP.   

A great man and funny...love the Airplane movies. RIP Leslie.

The days are shorter now, the temperature is gradually falling, bringing frost and snow for many long weeks to come. Many observers are spending more time watching the birds at their feeders, close-up views that make identification easier and behaviour of the various species is a constant source of interest.

The mild November has kept the rivers ice free, enabling ducks and geese to linger here. Fields of cut corn, free of snow, provide good feeding areas for geese and sandhill cranes and the large flocks of over-wintering wild turkeys.

On Nov. 23, Bruce Di Labio spotted three Ross' geese in a field with some snow geese and hundreds of Canada geese. This bird is an occasional visitor here, a smaller version of the snow goose with a stubby bill.

Rick Harris had a wonderful experience with a huge flock, thousands and thousands of snow geese "filling the sky like pepper" and coming straight down to land at the sewage lagoon and surrounding area east of Chesterville.

Notable migrants passing through last week were considerable flocks of red-throated loons. Di Labio and Tom Hanrahan watched more than 120 of them flying west over the Ottawa River. Two additional flocks of 27 and 12 were seen, a few of them swimming.

An increase in the numbers of these loons coming here has been noted since the early '80s. This report, on Nov. 23, is the latest date for a flight; the previous late date was 33 birds seen on Nov. 14, 1995.

Mark Gawn saw two unusual ducks, male canvasbacks, at Deschenes. They have become quite rare in the last decade. A handsome diving duck, males have a chestnut head and neck, black chests, pale grey backs and white underparts with a black tail. They have long bills and sloping foreheads and a much longer, less rounded head than most ducks.

Christina Lewis saw a few greater scaup and goldeneye, one Barrow's goldeneye and eight red-breasted mergansers. A few common loons, horned grebes and great blue herons were also reported.

Interesting birds seen in Quebec included a red-bellied woodpecker, a gray jay and a rare Townsend's solitaire thrush seen in the Luskville area on the south edge of Gatineau Park. The solitaire is a slim grey thrush with a white eye ring, white feathers at the side of the tail and buffy patches on the wings.

Jamie Manuel noticed a peregrine falcon sitting on a ledge 10 stories up on the Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata. She works in a building next to the hotel and some of her co-workers were also able to look at it through binoculars.

There has been a sharp increase in the numbers of sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks as well as merlins being seen in the city, often hunting for their food at the feeders. In Russell, Susan McRae watched a sharp-shinned hawk having a rather uncomfortable confrontation with a group of blue jays that surrounded it and drove it away. Kathy Atkinson has a merlin that hunts regularly in her garden.

Di Labio reported numbers of Bohemian waxwings -- two flocks, one of about 70 on Carling Avenue and another of 40 in Kanata -- that have arrived or are moving through Ottawa.

He also noted the increase in the numbers of pileated woodpeckers that are now being seen in and around Ottawa. They are impossible to miss for their size, the flaring scarlet crests that both sexes have and the noise they make gouging out huge chunks and slivers of wood that pile up on the ground below the tree.

Chickadees and many other birds love peanut butter which is an excellent food in the winter months. Wilson Hum took some mixed with bird seed with him to one of the local feeders. Chickadees were soon there to enjoy it. One bird took 30 bites and soon came back for more. Woodpeckers are also attracted to peanut butter as well as three male and two female cardinals, some tree sparrows and juncos and two dozen mourning doves.

Judith Gustafsson enjoyed watching a group of 25 goldfinches that were feeding on the seeds in a patch of plants. They flew backwards and forwards to a tree and back down to feed. Males have lost their summer yellow colouring and now resemble the females.


The Ottawa Citizen

["When I was a boy, I saw a falcon swooping, and I was amazed," he said.]

http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_16727388

"When I was a boy, I saw a falcon swooping, and I was amazed," he said. contnued

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O is for OMG, this forum comes to life at night. Sheesh, don't you people sleep?   

Oh My God, Oh My goodness, or Oh My Gosh, a common abbreviation used in SMS and Instant Messaging (WIKI)

I know of one Q   though not technically correct she is a Q(ueen)  

I have one too but it won't count: (Q) TP2T:  

Donna he always counts and always will  

But I already used him for K!!  LOL  I guess Q will do too!  

In my humble opinion, you can fit him in anywhere you possibly can.  I will never tire of remembering Kaver...  

Ei

True Ei so true...he should be on every letter. 

I  your Wookie!

Here is a link to the letter that Lexie's mom, Jennifer, wrote to our church and she also thanks all the voters who helped make this possible.  Thought I would share:

http://bergenumc.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=33208&PID=830238

Guess what's going to be under the tree for Lexie this year!!

How heartwarming Kris. Thank you so much. Oh I would love to be a bulb on her tree Christmas morning, I'd be twinkling. Bless that little girl.

I know of one Q  though not technically correct she is a Q(ueen) 

I have one too but it won't count: (Q) TP2T: 

Donna he always counts and always will 

But I already used him for K!!  LOL  I guess Q will do too!