COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, FEBRuARY 1, 2022
Man’s crude behavior is a turn-off at home
seen him do many times, he calls
me a shriveled-up prune.
He also constantly com-
ments about younger women on
TV, in the movies or even on
the local news, and says things
like, “Where’s that juicy young
blonde who was on the news
before?” Or he tells me how
much I resemble an old woman
on TV who looks like she’s 20
years older than I am. He also
never fails to point out young
women who still have their
“baby fat,” which I don’t.
He says he loves me and hugs
and kisses me every day, but
then he acts so creepy I don’t
want him touching me. He is
really starting to disgust and
confuse me. He knows how I
feel about this. Now he’s telling
me I’M crazy because of how I
DEAR ABBY: My
55-year-old husband and I have
been married more than 25
years. Our marriage has been
challenging, but we now have
three adult sons to help succeed
in the world, one of whom has a
chronic severe health condition.
My biggest problem is my
husband won’t stop pointing out
how much he notices I’m aging.
He says I’m going downhill. I
don’t ask for his opinion or open
the discussion. If I’m not “in the
mood” after he has been staring
at his phone for hours, probably
looking at nude women as I’ve
rather than allow an argument
to degenerate into open conflict.
Explain this to both of them, and
the next time you are caught in
the middle, ask the person who
picked the fight to do that — or
leave. And, if things don’t get
better, celebrate with them sepa-
rately as often as possible.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO
MY ASIAN READERS WHO
CELEBRATE THE LUNAR
NEW YEAR: The Year of the
Tiger begins today. Those born
in the Year of the Tiger are
brave, competitive, unpredict-
able and confident. Famous Tiger
Year people are Tom Cruise,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga
and Queen Elizabeth II. I am
wishing a happy, healthy new
year to all who are celebrating
this holiday. — LOVE, ABBY
for themselves and start taking
care of yourself.
DEAR ABBY: I have this
friend I have known since I was
9. She’s a very good friend, but
she doesn’t get along with my
boyfriend. They fight, and when
they do, I’m stuck in the middle.
I have spoken to both of them
many times and asked them to
coexist for my sake. They both
try hard, but we all feel like we
are walking on eggshells —
especially me. How do I handle
being with them for holiday cele-
brations and special occasions at
my apartment? — UNEASY IN
MASSACHUSETTS
DEAR UNEASY: I wish
you had mentioned which one is
causing these “fights.” Mature
individuals opt to “agree to dis-
agree” and change the subject,
feel about his behavior. I don’t
know why he’s acting like this.
It seems like he’s looking for
an excuse to stray. I have been
told before that he has incur-
able narcissism. — FADING IN
WASHINGTON
DEAR FADING: Couples are
supposed to love each other for
who they are, not their appear-
ance. Your husband is emotion-
ally abusive. His hostility is bla-
tant. That he would expect you
to have sex with him with after
hours on his cellphone — and no
foreplay — is incredibly naive.
Could he be deliberately
trying to sabotage your mar-
riage? A marriage and family
therapist might be able to get to
the bottom of this, but if coun-
seling doesn’t help, you may
have to let your adult sons fend
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Fake poop helps evicted owls settle into new neighborhood
they’d stick around. And it
worked.
“They like to be in a
neighborhood, to live near
other owls,” said Colleen
Wisinski, a conservation
biologist at the San Diego
Zoo Wildlife Alliance,
which launched the experi-
ment with the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
The scientists played
recordings of owl calls
before and after the new
arrivals were released at
four locations in Southern
California. Wisinski used
a syringe to squirt around
fake owl poop — in reality,
white paint.
Their results were pub-
lished Thursday, Jan. 27,
in the journal Animal
Conservation.
Burrowing owls are
the rare extroverts of the
raptor world. These long-
legged owls with slightly
cross expressions actually
love company. They nest in
underground burrows with
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Set-
tling into a new home can
be tough for anyone. So sci-
entists have come up with
some tricks to make trans-
planted burrowing owls feel
like they are not alone in
their new digs, playing owl
sounds and scattering fake
poop.
The owls’ grassland
homes are often prime real
estate, and they’ve been
losing ground to develop-
ment in regions like Silicon
Valley and Southern Cali-
fornia. Biologists have tried
moving the owls to pro-
tected grasslands but the
challenge has been getting
the owls to accept their new
homes.
Just dropping off the
owls in prime habitat wasn’t
enough, prior attempts
showed. In a pilot program,
scientists took pains to
create the impression that
owls already lived there so
Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, File
This photo provided by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows a
burrowing owl in a habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in 2014.
many owls nearby.
Such colonies provide
protection from predators,
such as coyotes or hawks,
that may try to snack on
the robin-sized birds. When
one owl sounds an alarm,
the others fly away.
Federal law prohibits the
killing of the birds but their
habitat is not protected.
Typically, they are flushed
from their burrows before
weather
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properties are built.
“If after eviction there’s
nowhere for these guys to
go, it’s basically a death
sentence,” said Lynne
Trulio, an ecologist at San
Jose State University who
has studied burrowing owls
for three decades. She was
not part of the study.
The population of
western burrowing owls —
the subspecies that lives in
Brrr! It got so cold in
Florida, iguanas fell
from trees
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
— A cold snap in Florida
is different than in other
places. No blizzard condi-
tions in the Sunshine State,
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
33/46
Kennewick
29/42
St. Helens
30/36
32/40
Condon
32/41
32/40
A little evening
snow
Cold; a little
p.m. snow
Not as cold
Baker City
12 27 13
Comfort Index™
La Grande
15 28 22
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
8
Comfort Index™
Sun, then clouds Low clouds may
break
32 14
Eugene
1
0
1
32/45
37 21
34 22
38 21
1
0
2
36 22
39 22
36 23
0
3
4
3
0
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 81°
Low: -31°
Wettest: 1.23”
27°
4°
33°
20°
34°
21°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Trace
Month to date
0.38
Normal month to date 0.68
Year to date
0.38
Normal year to date
0.68
Trace
1.24
1.62
1.24
1.62
0.00
3.73
3.18
3.73
3.18
Powers
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
45%
N at 6 to 12 mph
0.4
0.03
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
2% of capacity
27% of capacity
20% of capacity
36% of capacity
21% of capacity
35% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1150 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
15 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
168 cfs
Minam River at Minam
166 cfs
Powder River near Richland
76 cfs
Grants Pass
TUE.
WED.
7:13 a.m.
4:59 p.m.
8:03 a.m.
5:40 p.m.
7:12 a.m.
5:01 p.m.
8:33 a.m.
6:59 p.m.
MOON PHASES
First
Feb 8
Full
Feb 16
Last
Feb 23
New
Mar 2
Burns
Brookings
Juntura
14/30
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
16/25
Frenchglen
Paisley
16/38
18/28
Diamond
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
14/42
16/35
McDermitt
18/29
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Hi/Lo/W
46/40/r
38/30/c
32/16/pc
57/40/pc
30/16/sn
49/34/c
45/30/c
22/11/pc
27/19/c
45/33/c
35/32/c
36/30/c
29/20/c
28/20/sn
21/15/c
36/27/sf
42/17/pc
35/13/pc
Hi/Lo/W
48/37/c
50/28/s
29/14/pc
60/39/pc
37/12/pc
56/32/pc
48/32/pc
27/7/pc
35/17/c
48/31/pc
49/32/c
49/35/c
41/27/c
37/22/pc
35/24/pc
44/31/c
47/16/s
44/15/s
20/30
19/29
Fields
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
THU.
Grand View
Arock
17/27
21/31
26/52
WED.
Boise
15/32
13/39
14/39
Medford
38/57
Ontario
18/34
13/30
29/51
Roseburg
Baker City
Seaside
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Chiloquin
OREGON
Brownsville, Texas, and Juneau, Alaska,
both had temperatures of 32 degrees on
Feb. 1, 1985. On that same day, 2 inches of
snow accumulated in Dallas, Texas.
24/36
33/46
33/51
Huntington
13/23
Brothers
12/37
Roseburg
6/22
18/31
Seneca
25/38
Oakridge
33/49
WEATHER HISTORY
17/28
28/44
Coos Bay
Thermal, Calif.
Antero Reservoir, Colo.
Quillayute, Wash.
High: 57°
Low: 4°
Wettest: 0.42”
23/38
Council
12/27
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
High Sunday
Low Sunday
9/26
22/37
Florence
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Sisters
33/47
21 17
8/25
Baker City
Redmond
36/48
37/47
Halfway
Granite
30/45
Newport
28 14
0
20/32
27/40
33/44
Corvallis
Enterprise
8/21
15/28
Monument
27/37
Idanha
Salem
SAT
30 13
0
0
FRI
Elgin
13/27
La Grande
23/30
Maupin
THU
23/33
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
33/42
Lewiston
20/31
Hood River
24/32
33/44
WED
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
27/36
Vancouver
29/39
TIllamook
TONIGHT
but there are issues as well
when the thermometer
drops.
The low temperatures
near freezing are rare in
Florida, but at first glance
the citrus, strawberry and
tomato crops suffered no
major damage.
As for iguanas, well,
that’s another matter. They
are an invasive species, well
accustomed to the trees of
South Florida. When it gets
cold, below 40 degrees,
they go into a sort of sus-
pended animation mode.
And they fall to the ground.
But they usually wake up
with the sun’s warmth.
It got cold in Florida
this weekend. The
National Weather Service
reported that West Palm
Beach hit 37 degrees Fahr-
enheit, the coldest morning
of the past 12 years. Up the
East Coast in Vero Beach,
the record low was tied at
30 degrees Fahrenheit, set
in 1978.
California — has declined
by one-third since 1965. It
is considered a “species of
special concern.” .
For their experiment,
the scientists transplanted
47 burrowing owls during
2017-2018. Twenty were
outfitted with GPS devices
to track their movements,
and the scientists also
returned to the sites to
check on them.
Most successfully set-
tled into their new homes
and established breeding
colonies. At the Rancho
Jamul Ecological Reserve
in southwestern San Diego
County, there were about 50
owl chicks in 2020.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
31/25/c
42/36/r
26/18/c
52/27/pc
48/39/sh
42/37/r
34/17/pc
37/28/c
32/30/sn
40/37/r
51/35/c
38/25/c
46/34/c
44/36/sh
22/17/c
41/36/c
25/19/sn
33/28/c
Hi/Lo/W
41/29/c
46/34/r
37/17/pc
57/27/s
51/38/pc
46/39/r
33/14/pc
43/29/c
47/28/pc
46/33/c
56/36/s
48/23/s
52/33/pc
50/34/c
29/26/c
47/34/pc
39/22/pc
39/28/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
A little p.m. snow
A little p.m. snow
15
14
28
17
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A little p.m. snow
Cold
22
22
28
15
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Cold
A little p.m. snow
18
6
23
18
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Quite cold
A little p.m. snow
21
15
30
27
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
A bit of p.m. snow
A little p.m. snow
27
13
28
22
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