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Snow flakes and ice flowers

Posted by Mervi on February 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM




Photo from December 12th, 2010 by Monika aus Berlin


Dear friends! At the moment we are embraced by King Winter: We may not be so amused by the cold weather but knowing that our polar bear friends are having a good time playing with the white stuff makes us happy, too! Would you like to join me for a walk in a snowy memory lane?


Memories from the white, bright days


Teddybärenmutti has written another presentation of the members of her big teddy family:


Familie Glückchen



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Reply Leti
10:37 AM on February 10, 2012 
Monika aus Berlin und UMC-Herzlichen Glueckwunsch und alles Gute.
Annemarie-Alles Gute zu deinem Sohns Geburtstag.
Inge-Best wishes to Boris.
Celinne-Thank you very much for caring about animals in Greece. We are having a really cold winter-people and animals suffer. I will keep praying for the animals of this shelter.
Reply Dumba
01:33 AM on February 10, 2012 
GOOD MORNING to EVERYBODY

First your CCC-weather report:
Obviously a thaw has set in during the night. I am afraid, the wonderful winter weather is over now and we will get the ugly part of winter again, wet and chilly, such, old bones will ache! But no reason to complaint. Near to two weeks we had uninteruptedly SUN!

Do you remember the "GorgeousGuy" that was presented at "12:48 PM on February 08, 2012"? In the meantime I got to know that his name is "LYUTIK" - another interesting INUIT (I guess) polar bear name - and that his home is "The Alaska Zoo" :-)
https://p.twimg.com/Aewc_TRCIAA82lM.jpg

ANNEMARIE - As your link didn't open at my computer, I couldn't admire your contribution so far. Any advice?

CELINNE - Thank you for always trying to give direct and/or indirect support to people who care about animals, 'living' in sometimes more than bad living conditions. I cross my fingers at least some CAN and WILL give you/the courageous Greek lady some of the help urgently needed.

BÄRGIT (and ALL/E) - I am happy you show and contribute again more often in the meantime and that we can enjoy your wonderful sense of humour as well as your sense for language/s, e.g. the "Sauerkraut on the highway-matter":
"I bet the drivers who were stuck in the traffic jam were SOME SOUR CROUTS / KRAUTS"!!!!
(Ich wettte, dass die Autofahrer, die in dem Stau steckten, "SAURE KRAUTS" waren!
;-)))))) That was a real good one! As you can imagine I had to laugh a lot.
DEUTSCH: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalgericht
ENGLISH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_dish

SARSAM - I loved your calling your Knubby a "BIG SOFTIE". Hugs to the both of you!
And a friendly honk to dear GANDY, as well as a miaw to each and every of your dear and beautiful cats.

VELVET - What about little princess 'Miss ELLIE'? Would like to see a new photo of her and the two other beauties at your home . . .

ALEX - gibt's auch mal wieder neue Fotos von Mlle POIVRE, z.B. im Tiefschnee oder am warmen Ofen??

INGE KOPENHAGEN (and ALL/e) - Thank you for your information about the polar bears, BORIS and NOEL, and about other animals in ZOO KOPENHAGEN. As I discovered only now, you looked for the links to information/videos of GIRAFFE and TAPIR little ones.
Voilà:

ZOO KOPENHAGEN:
http://www.zoo.dk/ZooTv.aspx

Video vom TAPIR-BABY:
http://zoo.dk/ZooTv.aspx?/013236948471959/tapirfoedsel-i-zoo-7-de
cember

Viedo vom GIRAFFEn-Kind (April 2011):
http://zoo.dk/ZooTv.aspx?/013032002661178/giraffoel-april-2011

Have a good TGIF-day EVERYBODY!
Reply Sarsam
11:48 PM on February 09, 2012 
Thanks Crissi -- A wonderful good night present from you--a curious Knut and a beautifully sweet Tonya. What a pair they could have been.......
Reply curious bear
09:36 PM on February 09, 2012 
Reply crissi
07:01 PM on February 09, 2012 
Die Girls heute im Zoo gesehen von Marion:
http://tinyurl.com/7wmb9ut

Tonya inspiziert den gefrorenen Wasserfall ;)
http://up.picr.de/9497468qij.jpg
heute im Tierpark von Monika beobachtet
Reply crissi
05:52 PM on February 09, 2012 
Hannover-Boy mit Fisch http://tinyurl.com/6mw4gm6

Dumba - falls Du noch wach bist,
um 0.15 kommt auf Bayern"alpha" eine Richter-Doku :)

Nächste Woche am Valentinstag hat ein weiterer Großer Geburtstag:
Schriftsteller, Regisseur und Fernsehmacher Alexander Kluge wird 80!
Reply Ludmila
04:28 PM on February 09, 2012 
Celinne
I am very glad to meet you here. It is very nice how you support the lady from Greece. I am very sad about the people and about animals in Greece
Caren
It is simply bad not to be able to drink coffee
Today we locked Muffin in basement accidentaly. As we came home, she called behind the door. At the week end I have to tidy up the mess.
Mervi
How nice for you to have done the shopping :)
You can relax tomorrow
Sarsam
I am pitty about Gandy. He is feeling bad without his feathers. Minka is writing "Get Well" card for him.
Bärgit
How is RB doing?
Patricia
I am glad to hear that Witje stays at home
Reply Bärgit
03:33 PM on February 09, 2012 
Celinne - I'm deeply grateful for the source this Greek lady is getting all her strength from to cope with it all.

Annemarie - I finally managed to open the pic you sent in. And it was well worth it.
We'll be getting there.
Dahin kommen wir auch noch. Ich werd das bei Gelegenheit aushängen.
Heut lachen wir noch drüber - später gibt's Rushhour-Rollatorrallyes :D
Reply crissi
03:16 PM on February 09, 2012 
Mervi - so sieht sie heute aus: http://tinyurl.com/7w5vnqg
Sie geht sogar wieder auf Tour habe ich gelesen.
Auf "arte" gab es gestern ein Konzert mit ihr.
http://tinyurl.com/7pmec3p
Reply Mervi
03:11 PM on February 09, 2012 
Celinne - Thank you for the information. I'm sure we all do what we can. I'm lifting my hat to people like this who never give up no matter what!

Dumba - Oh my, is Juliette Greco 85 years young? How does she look like these days? Have you seen any recently taken photos?
Reply crissi
02:57 PM on February 09, 2012 
Dumba
natürlich hat auch die FAZ Gerhard Richter gewürdigt
http://tinyurl.com/72eoqs7
Reply Celinne
02:55 PM on February 09, 2012 
Greetings All Kuipians,

I come with big bear hugs for all. I also wanted to say thank you to Ludmila for posting that link to the Greek animal shelter that was flooded out and looted. The young lady who brought it to my attention is Greek herself. She has been rescuing and helping to find good homes for stray cats that have been abandoned or neglected. She has limited money and is not working but she extends herself to help these unfortunate cats. She pays for their vet bills and food and looks around until she finds a suitable home for them, which is very hard because many Greeks cannot afford to take care of animals right now because of their financial circumstances. She refuses to accept money and is a very compassionate and gentle person.
Recently she rescued a dying cat from the streets and took him to the vet, so he could spend his last hours in dignity. She has also rescued a stray tomcat that was being beaten up by other strays and has him living with her, in her small place, until she can get a good home for him. Her neighbours are not favour of her actions so she has to deal with their anger.
She has vouched for the integrity of this shelter and the people who run it. As you are aware, they are taking care of over 130 stray dogs and cats and about 20 puppies and receive no help from the gov't. When their shelter was flooded out and thieves looted the animals' food, the woman who runs the shelter felt overwhelmed and traumatized - and all of us who love and rescue animals know that feeling so well. Please help in any way you can. Even a few Euros will be welcome and the PayPal link via the "Chip in" is secure. If you can't help financially, circulate the information to others and keep sending positive thoughts to these brave people.
Thank you so much for listening, reading and caring.

Bargit - Thank you so much for your understanding and supporting.

Mervi- Thanks for giving a chance to share the plight of this shelter via this forum.

Ludmila and Sarsam and all other Knuipians who have expressed solidarity and shown support - thank you so much.
Reply Dumba
02:55 PM on February 09, 2012 
GEBURTSTAGE - GEBURTSTAGE - GEBURTSTAGE

In diesem Zusammenhang hier noch etwas Frivoles zur Nacht:

"Déshabillez-moi" of Juliette Gréco in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu5-byuHNhc

et voici en Français :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyqIs8xPCd0

Isn't that just wonderfull !? // Ist das nicht einfach wunderbar !?
The day before yesterday was her 85th birthday. //
Vorgestern feierte sie ihren 85.Geburtstag!
Reply crissi
02:45 PM on February 09, 2012 
Sarsam - I could not see it too. :(
Reply Sarsam
02:39 PM on February 09, 2012 
It is not fair -- Annemarie's photo that Mervi and Caren are laughing about is "Forbidden" to me! Forbidden? Must be quite a photo :-)

Patricia -- I love that term "serious farters" -- I second Mervi's question -- how are your serious farters? Also, how is Witje?

Crissi -- the San Diego polar bear looks quite comfortable!!

Dumba -- thank you for the culture information!

Caren -- Gandy is madly growing flight feathers. He is still feeling very vulnerable. A janitor came in last night at work and wanted to say hello to Gandy. Gandy said "Excuse me, I don't know you," hissed and hurried back down the hall and got in his safe place -- his "parlor".......
Reply crissi
02:06 PM on February 09, 2012 
ELEFANTEN IN SAN DIEGO
http://www.sdzsafaripark.org/video/elephant_cam.html

Dumba - for you http://tinyurl.com/77yhlnx :)
Die FR würdigt Richter heute mit einem
4-Seiten Special im Mittelteil
(in der Paperausgabe)
http://tinyurl.com/7kaqf2s
Reply caren
01:56 PM on February 09, 2012 
Good Evening, Dear All!

Mervi - Ludmila - no, fortunately I was not stuck in the traffic jam today. I was on a buisness trip, driving wasn't pure luxury, but at least I am at home save and sound.

Annemarie - Hey, this photo made my evening today. I think I have to print it and fix it at my big column in the office.

Crissi - when I read Marzipan Bethmänner my mouth immediately starts watering.

Ludmila - I really missed my Hercules To Stay, I did not even have the time to buy a Coffee to Go today.
Any news from the Gang?

Teddybärenmutti - I hope you are enjoying Sweden. Are you already on your way back ???

Sarsam - how is Gandy doing?

Knuti-Judi - Shall we say 2012 is the year of the cute cubbies ?

Luisa - I am glad we heard again from Linda.

Paw waves to all of you, hope to come back before I am knocked off from tiredness ....
Reply Dumba
01:44 PM on February 09, 2012 
MERVI - you are welcome! Just jump into the next plane,
a bed will be ready and a bowl of salad leaves ;-) at least you won't have to starve . . . ;-)

- - -

A bit more of CULTURE - Thank you, Crissi for having reminded me:

62th "BERLNALE" - February 9th through 19th, 2012:
http://www.berlinale.de/de/HomePage.html

Berlinale 2012-Poster:
http://tinyurl.com/Berlinale-2012-Poster

collection of photos of BERLINALE bear 2012:
http://tinyurl.com/BERLINALE-Baeren-2012
Reply Mervi
01:26 PM on February 09, 2012 
Hello folks! Today we decided to do our weekend shopping today right after work. The weather forecast is promising (or threatening?) snow tomorrow. Shopping on a Friday afternoon is pure torture and if it really will snow tomorrow the chaos and torture will be total. Well, finally I came here and now I'm just going to relax!

Crissi - Siku in the snow is soooo cute! Have you ever heard that word before? :D

Annemarie - I had a good laugh at the picture you sent and so did my collegues in the office. :D

Sarsam - Thank you for updating us about Jewel. I hope you'll see the cubs, too, soon. - Mr Cold finally decided to leave me and I can't say I miss him!

Bärgit - A warm home and a beautful, faithful dog sounds very cosy.

Patricia - How are your serious farters? :D I send them my best greetings.

Dumba - When I see all the wonderful pictures of the snow powdered zoo I would like to jump into the next airplane to Berlin. Unfortanately the reality always stops my day dreaming....

Caren - I hope you're not stuck in a traffic jam.

Now it's supper time and later maybe I will spend some time with the Mentalist.
Reply Dumba
12:57 PM on February 09, 2012 
MONIKA aus BERLIN

Eigentlich, ja eigentlich - hatte ich vor, Dir gleich heute Morgen eine Mail zu schreiben und moeglichst unauffaellig anzufragen, ob Du heute in den Zoo gehst ;-). Leider hat mich dann mein Compi so lange aufgehalten, bis ich keine Lust mehr hatte, und unangekuendigt bin ich auch nicht mehr gegangen, obwohl heute Morgen alles schoen verschneit war und danach sogar einmal die Sonne schien.

Wie sagt der Franzose so treffend: "Mieux vaut tard que jamais" oder "Tard vaut mieux que jamais" - richtig auswaerts muesste man koennen! . . . Na ja, jedenfalls:
Besser spaet als nie:
HERZLICHEN GLUECKWUNSCH zum Geburtstag, liebe MONIKA!
Bleib gesund, lass Dich nicht aergern, geniesse das Leben, wann immer sich fuer Dich Geniessenswertes bietet! Und gehe weiterhin regelmaessig mit Kamera und gutem Blick in 'UNSEREN' Zoo. Das tut Dir bestimmt ganz besonders gut! :-) Das sage ich jetzt natuerlich voellig ohne Hintergedanken - Blinzel! ;-)

CRISSI - vielen Dank fuer das goldige Video vom Kleinen in TORONTO,
von Euch bereits "CHIMO" genannt - Danke auch an MUNICH-born CHRISTA aus KANADA

- DAVE, your accmpanying story of why you are fond of getting Toronto Polar Bear Little ONE the name CHIMO, about your brothers, you, and your little dog was such a pleasure - THANK YOU.

Das Video von TheStar war wirklich klasse gemacht:
ein hinreissendes, tapsig-ungeschicktes EisbaerenBaby mit so top-passend unterlegter Musik, dass ein richtiger SLAP-STICK daraus wurde, ohne sich ueber das Kleine lustig zu machen wohl bemerkt. Soooo nett!

Fuer die KULTUR-/MALEREI-Interessierten:

On Sunday an interesting art exhibition starts in the CCC.
GERHARD RICHTER in die "Neue Nationalgalerie":
http://tagesschau.de/kultur/richterausstellung104.html

Here is a talk, partially in English, partially in German:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyyhhxZRjDs

BTW: Today is his 80st birthday //
Uebrigens: Heute ist sein 80. Geburtstag.

ALEX - ich habe mich ueber Deinen Beitrag gefreut.
Ausserdem freut es mich, dass es immer noch Menschen gibt,
die am Abend ein Buch zur Hand nehmen!

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