Happy Birthday to Chicago Bear

Judy · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: Happy Birthday to Chicago Bear

Here you are, CB, snapshots of a koala, taken in Adelaide last summer during the hot weather...

Sorry if they're too big for anyone's monitor - let me know if it's a problem and I'll resize them.

He's cute, isn't he?
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gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Yes he's adorable! Poor thing looks hot, slurpin' up the cool water. Are those beautiful children yours?

Rainey · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:07 am Post subject:

How cool! We have koalas at the LA zoo but I've never seen them do anything but sit in the trees kinda stoned out on eucalyptus in their indoor red-light enclosure. You have to be a very good observer because they sit so still they're hard to see in the foliage. More natural, perhaps but that guy looks like he's having fun!

Who are the kinder?
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Judy · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:47 am Post subject:

This was actually from an email that was sent to me earlier in the year, I think it was doing the email circuit, but there was a bit of local media discussion about it and it turns out that the photos were taken in my suburb! The captions on the photos were 'Hot in Adelaide #1 & #2'.

So I don't actually know who the kids are, but they could be neighbours that we haven't met yet.

Several other friends have had fairly close encounters with these little guys, including my parents and their neighbours who hav both had one visit their backyards. And all these places are very suburban, all within 20 minutes drive of the centre of the city.

Rainey, koalas usually don't do a lot. I'm not sure but I think it's something to do with the eucalypt leaves they eat, they do kinda get stoned on 'em, and then they are nocturnal as well. I remember taking Tom to a wildlife park when he was little and we were with a guy who hunts. He spotted a koala right up in a tree that I would have never seen.

Our local freeway has pieces of heavy-duty plastic mesh at regular intervals along the concrete divider in the middle of the road. When I first moved here I couldn't work out what they were for till my mum enlightened me - they're to help koalas cross the street!

And even though I called them 'koala bears' in CB's Greece thread, they're not bears at all. They're marsupials.
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clotilde · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

A happy, if belated, birthday to my birthday twin! Smile

Clotilde.

Judy · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:28 am Post subject:

A very Happy Birthday to you also, Clotilde.
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madameshawshank · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:44 am Post subject:

Chicago Bear...hope the candles were bright...'n that the day was more than wondrous...happy 'n joy-filled year I wish you....

ditto to the gal name Clotilde..
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Chicago Bear · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 240 Location: Chicago

I completely missed this thread until today! Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, and I loved the koala pictures. Since Clotilde and I have the same birthday, next year we've decided to have a joint birthday party at some convenient location in the US, and all are invited. It will be BYOB.
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swan · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject:

BYOB= Bring Your Own Bear?!

Chicago Bear · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 240 Location: Chicago

Very very good swan!!
What I really meant, was Bring Yaks or Bison
(this could get silly)
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swan · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:

Bite Your Own Butt?! (or can't I say that here?!)

Happy B-day anyway, CB.

Lady Amalthea · Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 136 Location: New York City

Happy B-day, CB. And thanks, Judy, for those Koala pics!
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champ · Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 24 Location: Island of Ireland

I'm hijacking this thread and calling it Happy Birthday to Me! I'm - shhush... 6-0 today! Actually it's been like Christmas here, got so many prezzies from my husband and son, including a laptop as I am spending too much time here on my husband's computer. I still think I am 30-something .... apart from the aches and pains, but at least I am still here! Our celebration will be tomorrow night, out for a meal.
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Judy · Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject:

Champ, a very, very happy birthday to you from Australia.

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madameshawshank · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:16 am Post subject:

ok champ! you 60 going on 30something birthday gal Wink

....big deep breath and blow!....time for the making of such a scrumptious wish...[/img]
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