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COFFEE BREAK 8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD Daughter senses mom is hurt by her relationship with dad N EWS OF THE W EIRD Nobody knows why there are pigeons in cowboy hats roaming Las Vegas DEAR ABBY: I am a 49-year-old woman whose enough mailing labels to far outlast me! mother tries to make me feel guilty for having a good I have now decided that any charity that sends me relationship with my father. I have an excellent rela- merchandise or any other “freebie” will be taken off tionship with her, but lately it feels strained because my donation list. I hate to write bona fi de charities she gets mad if Dad and I do things together or even off my list, but it has become ridiculous. just talk on the phone. My goal is not to hurt her, but -- WASTEFUL IN I refuse not to have a relationship with my dad just to WASHINGTON appease her. Have you ever heard of a mother being DEAR WASTEFUL: You are not the only person jealous of her daughter’s relationship with her father? to complain about this. I receive many letters from -- CONFLICTED IN NEW equally frustrated readers about it. JERSEY Before donating to any charity, go DEAR DEAR CONFLICTED: Yes, online and check out charitynaviga- ABBY I have. But you say you have tor.org. If you do, it will give you an excellent relationship with insight into where your money your mother, and this behavior is goes -- including how much of their recent. Do you call and interact individually with her revenue is spent on salaries and “overhead.” Just the way you do with your father? If not, it might help because you receive notepads, mailing labels and to give her more attention than you have. calendars does NOT mean you are obligated to send Is her relationship with your father the same as it money. Please remember that. always has been? If it isn’t, because you and your father have extended, private phone conversations DEAR ABBY: I have shared a friendship for 40 on a regular basis, she may fear you have supplanted years with a woman who is known for having a quick her in his affections. However, if this isn’t the case, temper. Although I have been on the receiving end and she demonstrates other personality changes, her of her anger many times, we manage to maintain our physician should be notifi ed so she can be evaluated. relationship. She lives across the country now and, unfortunately, DEAR ABBY: I have been trying to deal with this suffers from a major debilitating illness. She lives with a on my own for a long time. I have been “crushing” man she argues with often, in his small apartment. They on a man of my faith for a couple of years, and it struggle financially, and she recently confided that when never seems to subside. We are both married to they argue, she dunks his toothbrush in the toilet to get others, seemingly happily. I like his wife very much, even. Obviously, it is without his knowledge. and I would never want to hurt her. I have never met him, but he is very nice to me I think he is a wonderful human being, and he has when I call. I want to tell him what my friend has said as much to me. We would never entertain the been doing. I feel he needs to know the health risks idea of an affair. From my standpoint, I don’t know he’s facing when he brushes his teeth. what to do. Do you have any suggestions? I try to Of course, if I do, I know I’ll incur her wrath give my own husband lots of love. once again as she’ll know I ratted her out. And he -- TORN BETWEEN TWO IN MONTANA will undoubtedly evict her from the apartment. She DEAR TORN: Do nothing about this crush. doesn’t have the fi nances to get her own place, and Continue giving your husband lots of love, attention the eviction may result in her becoming homeless. and appreciation. Crushes are normal. Sometimes they I’m struggling with which is worse: his health risk or serve as reminders that we are still alive. As long as they her homelessness. remain “unfertilized romances,” they harm no one. You So far, I have kept my mouth shut, but each day I have a mutual admiration society because you both know he is brushing his teeth with bacteria. Should I deserve it and have nothing to feel guilty about. continue to remain silent? -- YUCK FACTOR IN THE DESERT DEAR ABBY: Is there any way to stop charities from sending all of this “free stuff”? When I donate DEAR YUCK FACTOR: While dipping to charity, I intend for my contribution to be used his toothbrush in the toilet may not kill him, it to help someone in need. Instead, I am subjected to could make him sick. Tell him what has been all kinds of things in my mailbox. I have received going on. If your friendship with the woman money, postage stamps, greeting cards, notepads and ends, so be it. weather FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 By Josephine Harvey The Huffi ngton Post For reasons unknown, somebody is putting cowboy hats on pigeons in Las Vegas. Over the past week, there have been multiple reports of Las Vegas birds sport- ing various colored cowboy headwear, raising many, many questions. Who is doing this? How? Why? Are the pigeons OK? Pigeon rescue and advoca- cy group Lofty Hopes, whose slogan is, “A Pigeon Positive Movement,” is working to fi nd some answers. Mariah Hillman, who runs Lofty Hopes, told Huff- Post that after several days of searching, on Tuesday they fi nally tracked down the pigeon in the red hat, which they’ve named Cluck Norris. Coo-Lamity Jane, who wears a pink hat, is still out roaming the wild west. There’s also reportedly a brown-hatted pigeon on the loose. The birds went viral last week after a video, shot by local resident Bobby Lee, was picked up by local media. Others also reported see- ing the well-dressed birds out and about. Some social media users noted that the National Finals Rodeo hap- pened to be in town, but the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association had “nothing to do with the pigeons wear- ing cowboy hats,” ProRodeo Photo contributed by the Huffi ngton Post Pigeons wearing hats have been seen walking the streets of Las Vegas. Sports News editor Scott Kaniewski told The New York Times. Lofty Hopes operates in the Las Vegas area and works to help injured wild and domestic pigeons, as well as other birds and animals. Hillman said that although she fi rst thought the birds’ attire was cute, she quickly developed con- cerns for the safety of the cowboy pigeons when she realized the hats appeared to be permanently secured. Now that the hats have been on for at least fi ve days, Hillman believes the hats have been stuck on with something more industrial than just “eyelash glue,” she said. “We could wait until they molt it off, wait until he loses his feathers when it gets warm out,” she sug- gested. “Oil neutralizes glue, Astoria Longview 38/47 Kennewick 39/45 St. Helens 40/46 MON TUE Thickening clouds Considerable clouds Cloudy Partly sunny Mostly cloudy Baker City 35/43 Comfort Index™ La Grande Portland Condon 34/43 39/47 38/46 2 26 35 22 Comfort Index™ 3 Eugene 4 3 0 38/46 37 24 36 25 35 25 1 2 0 33 20 3 3 3 3 ALMANAC WED. EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Wednesday Low Wednesday High: 90° Low: -30° Wettest: 1.48” 43° 30° 42° 37° 44° 37° PRECIPITATION (inches) Wednesday Trace Month to date 0.04 Normal month to date 0.35 Year to date 7.39 Normal year to date 9.50 0.01 0.12 0.67 13.84 15.53 0.04 0.27 1.18 26.70 21.85 HAY INFORMATION SATURDAY Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration 55% WSW at 3 to 6 mph 2.3 0.03 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Thursday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 22% of capacity 37% of capacity 65% of capacity 20% of capacity 34% of capacity 69% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Wednesday) Grande Ronde at Troy Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder Burnt River near Unity Umatilla River near Gibbon Minam River at Minam Powder River near Richland Grants Pass OREGON Brookings Crater Lake Brookings 833 cfs 4 cfs 14 cfs 87 cfs 89 cfs 31 cfs A mass of arctic air settled into Florida on Dec. 13, 1962. 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Unfortu- nately, as people keep feed- ing the fashionable bird, he’s been diffi cult to capture as he’s “not interested in food,” Hillman said. She said she’s been get- ting reports of the birds from the area between the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and McCarran Inter- national Airport. On capture, the birds will need to spend some time at the rescue while they work out how to de-cowboy them they may need to hang out at Lofty Hopes until they City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla SAT. SUN. 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