LISA KOO

Good morning. ☕️ 🍃

*Please forgive the grammatical errors, Chad.

Yes! The cleanest way to cook & heat your house. People throwing gas lines underground because they don't know how to light a wood burning fire pit.

I knew I was back in MN the moment one small piece of luggage tipped over on the tram and four people standing next to me all said "oops" at the same time because that's what you say in Minnesota when you witness something happening to someone else.

This week on my pals Twitter timeline.

The first farmhouse I worked for did not have electricity. Their immediate neighbors were new order Mennonites who also, as you know, do not use electricity. Much of my upbringing was heavily protestant based with Mennonite and Native American influences. We support farmers. I still, and will always, support farmers. I'm a firm believer of being as self sustained as possible. I was a prairie kid. There were three kinds of people in Minnesota back in 70's & 80's - prairie people, townies (AKA lake people), and city ~~sluts~~ people. None of the three liked one another. Townies & prairies especially did not like the city ~~whores~~ people. If you were from Minneapolis you can just stay there, come to the prairie and you might get lost FOREVER. I don't know if it's still that way but just so's you know those little farm sheds out in the middle of nowhere were either outhouses or small kill slaughter barns. Meat hooks on the wall = small kill slaughter barns.

The same politicians who scream "America first!" are the quickest to sell American land to foreign corporations. They're also the quickest to buy products from overseas that Amerca makes right here at home.

Seeing all the closed mills that Minnesota was once famous for (3M, Google it) is not a sign of progress. Gen X really is the last generation America made. Not American-made, though that too, I'm saying Gen X was the last generation America MADE. We were raised on everything that came out of those mills - flour, corn, wheat, barley, etc. We were raised on American made products. Everyone remembers the great ten year debate of Ford vs Chevy. 😏 We have more Coca Cola flowing through our veins than blood. The boys first Harley Davidson were from Wisconsin. I grew up eating Midwest red meat from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota fish, Idaho potatoes, and cheese/dairy from Wisconsin. America raised Gen X. Can't say the same for generations after ours.

EXAMPLE: The new "struggle" for Americans 35 and younger is setting up their cell phone tripods in time to video themselves having a mental meltdown and posting it on Tiktok for likes. America did not make these younger fetus generations, China spoon fed these kids, therefor I think China should pay for all their mental/emotional breakdown medications because Lord knows they cannot survive in the real world without internet or antidepressants. Remove the internet, remove AI, and see how many fetus generations can install a garbage disposal. It's a good thing many of them got rich on social media because once something breaks in their house they're just going to have to buy a new house. No electricians or plumbers among the fetus generation.

AND ANOTHER THING

Preach, Preacher!

Perfect advice, sir.

This is where I took my walk this morning. Thank you field of lovely accommodating tall grass.

My Twitter pal in Iowa posted this just now. Beautiful.

So.

I write my blogs over the course of weeks. A sentence here, a paragraph there. All obvious subjects like the Big Bear Lake bald eagles covered in due time and due course.

Of course we all know our dearest bald eagle Jackie of Big Bear Lake nest cam has unfortunately died. Horrible sad news. It was a terrible day. We all knew it was a possibility that she may not pull through but we hoped. I hoped and prayed along with the rest of her followers.

I'm not going to rearrange my blog since the terrible news of Jackie. The paragraphs will stay as they were. God rest you dear bird. You too are a child of God returned to Him. We humans are selfish to want you just for ourselves.

WRITTEN BEFORE JACKIE DIED

Everyone following the bald eagle nest cam in Beg Bear Lake is heartbroken over of the separation of Jackie and Shadow as Jackie is still recovering four hours away in Ojai. People screaming for the release of Jackie saying if she's going to die let her die in Big Bear Lake where Shadow may or may not see her. He definitely won't see her in Ojai. By the way, Ojai is a very beautiful town. My ex and I used stay-cation there (and Lake Arrowhead, and Big Bear Lake). Folks, I'm right there with you. IF IF IF Jackie cannot be saved let her live the rest of her days in Big Bear, and die, as God and nature intended. IF.

I have a vague understanding that once an eagle has died and been recovered, the remains go to a National Eagle Repository. Certain parts of the eagle goes to Federally recognized Native tribes for ceremony. Cool.

All that said, we must also remember Jackie and Shadow do not feel as humans do. They feel as bald eagles do. We must not humanize bald eagles. We're humans, they're bald eagles. No question Shadow wonders where his mate, his BONDED life mate is, no question, but when mating season comes, Shadow gonna do what bald eagles do, mate, with or without Jackie. Yes, we humanize Jackie & Shadow's love story BUT making sure bald eagles do not go extinct as they almost once did is more important than a bald eagle Romeo & Juliet love story we have invented in our minds because we love romance and these bald eagles give us what we want for ourselves. I hope and pray Jackie makes a full recovery. I'm three winter seasons in, guys, I'm right there with you, but, Shadow continuing to reproduce eagles into the wild (wildlife) is much more important than reuniting a sick Jackie to a healthy Shadow. I hope they are reunited in good health but more importantly I hope to see eaglets in the nest this winter.

BEFORE WE LEARNED OF JACKIE'S DEATH:

Here's some inspiration for us eagle lovers, an unidentified eagle tried to cozy up to Shadow on his branch but he was not having it and flew away.

In the meantime, no question Shadow is still keeping an eye out for his mate Jackie.

I'm invested with all of you. Three winter seasons and four eaglets. Let's hope and pray for winter season four, and let us be thankful to everyone taking care of Jackie. Please do not send them hate or aggro hostile opinions. I know when emotions run high we all think we know more than the professionals - WE DO NOT. Let's be thankful they're here for Jackie. Send words of kindness, encouragement, and thanks. Without them Jackie would have zero chance of recovery.

Moving on.

I'm back in Minnesota for health reasons although the men here may kill me with their bodily waste and flatulence. Let me explain, I'm on the metro, myself and two other passengers both men, the man seated across from me lifts up a buttcheek and passes gas LOUDLY like he's been holding on to it since 1973! It's the metro, I know, but bro, seriously?! 35 years in Los Angeles and NO ONE has ever passed gas like that on a metro I been on. Three days in St. Paul and some white redneck just thinks every public place is his bathroom. Nasty. WHY do men think belching and farting (loudly) in public is funny? My ex-husband used to belch as loud as he could while putting away his usual Saturday 24 case of beer, and Sunday's 24 case of beer. He drank and chain smoked in the house every weekend to "relax" on his days off. He would belch and occasinally pass gas as loud as he could because he thought it was adorable. Now that he has kids I'm sure he smokes around them too. He thought that toxic behavior was adorable just like the metro farter. You men. I currently live with two men and one of them doesn't know how to flush a toilet. HEPATITIS! The bad habits of men is my Biblical Job. Still, I'm grateful to be home. If I'm going to die before I'm 60, I much rather die in Minnesota.

I'm adjusting to being back here. The air here is denser and wet. And while I did grow up here I have spent the past 35+ years in the west coast desert where the air is thin, dry, and motionless more often than not. Some people think thin dry air is good for the lungs and others think cool circular air is better for the lungs. After doing some 2cent Google sluething and going by life experience, I too think cool, hydrated, circular air is better for overall health. HOWEVER, I also agree that wherever you were born and grew up makes you healthy and strong for that region of the world. Once you travel outside of it you weaken your immune system. It's why people get sick when they travel. I totally believe that.

I was born in 1969. I grew up in the 70's and 80's on the Minnesota prairie back when it was still a prairie. Everything in my world was outside. Four sudden and dramatic seasons, outside. I would say 10/90 ratio indoors/outdoors. School, sleep, sometimes eating, we did indoors, the rest of my life outdoors. During school breaks we even slept and ate outside via camping, tents, on lawn chairs, or in a field somewhere. No idea how we're still alive. We survived ticks, gnats, mosquitoes, sleeping in tents in -20⁰, ever woken up to your eyes frozen shut? Good times! God loves all his children especially the wee ones apparently. Seriously, HOW are we still alive?? Then I turned 19 and moved to the west coast where I saw kids in Nevada wearing thick hoodies in 110⁰ heat! Products of our environment, eh?

Anyway, at 57 years of age I'm back in MN to get well enough to die in my childhood home. I have to remind myself to pick up vitamin D. I was here last winter and suffered horrible depression from lack of sun.

Oh dear.

TSA is my new favorite Twitter account.

Oh dear. Are we allowed to eat anything anymore. 😒

Restaurants are still not serving lettuce. I think Taylor Farms should look into a little inside espionage, eh.

HEY GUESS WHAT!

First of all, I thank you for visiting my blog. According to the stats, which I look at maybe twice a year, my blog is doing well in Germany. I don't know why. I'm writing in English but it could be because I'm a protestant, I preach protestantism, more specifically I preach Martin Luther, who was German, and I remind protestants all around the world what seperates us from Catholics is following Martin Luther's good sense Christian Reformation. So maybe that's it. You cannot call yourself a protestant without the Reformation.

Martin Luther = Lutheran = protestantism.

If I were to ever start my own church, minister my own church, I would be (what is commonly known as) a Hellfire and Brimstone minister. Saving and reclaiming lost, stolen, and surrendered souls from Hell. It is a life long devotion not done in five minute increments here and there and only on Sundays. Any church of lost souls require 100% attention every single day.

There are non believers. Those who believe we have no souls but then how do you explains B.B. King and Aretha Franklin, Chad.

There are people who do not believe humans have souls and, whatever, do your thing. I have ZERO interest religiously recruiting people, converting people, or pushing people to believe what I believe. You do you. Whoever or whatever you believe in, that's who or what YOU have to square your transgressions with.

One battle at a time. Pick them wisely. Know what I'm saying.

IN THE MEANTIME

Help me, Lord.

This has to be rage-bait.

How many times do I have to say it, it's pronounced LON/GEVITY not LONG/GEVITY.

Even after I broke it up for y'all months ago you still believe it is pronounced

long-gevity? 😞 It's pronounced LON-GEVITY! This pet peeve is right up there with people saying "aks" instead of "ask". What do English people think when they hear Americans butcher the English language?

I had a stroke, part of my brain died, yet I still remember LON-GEVITY. 😆

THIS is why I need wildlife in my life. Wildlife makes more sense to me than people.

::WRITTEN BEFORE JACKIE DIED::

Dearest Shadow, waiting for his mate to come home. He doesn't know what's happened to her. He doesn't know she is injured, four hours away, with good people trying to rehabilitate her. Perhaps he can guess since he himself has battled other eagles in recent days.

I know I'm not supposed to humanize wildlife but Shadow has to be thinking and feeling something, right. He can't only live on instrinct, can he? He knows his mate is missing.

I hope Jackie goes home soon but according to what is being reported she may not. She's in critical condition they say. Jackie may never come home again. 😞 I'm already devastated.

Daddy-Google says eagles do not mourn loss of a mate. They wait a few days or maybe weeks and then apparently seek another partner. What happens if Jackie comes home to the nest and there's another she-eagle in it? Is there a Jerry Springer throwdown?

Daddy-Google says YES. Oh dear.

#TEAMJACKIE.

I'm so invested in these eagles. I been following them now for three years. This has been the most stressful year. C'mon Jackie girl, get well and go home. If you have to leave the nest at all, leave it with Shadow. 🙏🏻

Shadow, seen here this morning, is still waiting for his bonded mate Jackie to come home.

Another female eagle has been seen sniffing around the nest. Oh Shadow, please wait a little longer. Good people are working hard on your mate to bring her home. 🙏🏻

I'm so emotionally invested. 🥺 Big Bear Lake bald eagles are to 2026 what Shakespeare was to 1500's. We feel because of them.

This morning Shadow was back on his usual roost. You can see his right wing.

Human beings were supposed to be like this, mated for life, being part of wildlife and the landscape, raising our young, creating our homes, but no, now we have crypto coin and SUVS because that makes more sense apparently.

UPDATE JACKIE (injured Big Bear Lake bald eagle):

Oh no. God rest you, darling bird.

How much does Jackie mean to me? I will mourn her for a long time. 💔 For me she truly was half of an American iconic couple. You don't get much more American than bald eagles. I'm heartbroken. HEARTBROKEN.

UPDATE:

As of today, it's been 11 days since Jackie died. Bald eagle Jolene, er, KD1 has been seen with Shadow. (Sigh)

I guess we're calling the new gal hanging out with Shadow "Kaydee" instead of by her tagged name KD1. Still too soon for me. I feel like a teenager all over again having to accept my dad marrying his long time mistress.

I always said working with wildlife is my dream job but really...

I have an interview at the local pet store next week. Yes please, a job with animals and humans who love them. There's a wildlife rehabilitation center not far from me that accepts volunteers. Once I get my life settled I'll apply. I've only been back in Minnesota 16 days and there's still so much to do. My friends here are amazing. I found my old high school crew on Facebook and they're still all together. One of my high school besties and her dude are still married - around 38 years married now. I love that. I totally want to be married again. Why is it every good guy who is still single has a bum guy friend living with him. Like tell your bum friend to get his act together, meet a nice woman, remarry, and live a good life. There is no reason for a man over 50 years of age to still be single unless he's a terrible human being - or dragged down by a bum guy friend.

Gurrrrrl, I could not agree with you more.

Amen!

I'll end this blog talking about what she posted on IG Threads.

FIRST OF ALL, I'm willing to guess she's never served a meal at a homeless shelter, ever. I have. In three different states. Minnesota is the only state where homeless people in shelters really are trying to better themselves. In Los Angeles and Las Vegas, those homeless people don't give a single F about anything. They don't care about food, clean clothes, running water, nothing. They are so twisted with drugs and mental illness they will starve themselves because they refuse to believe they need to eat in order to live. My dad's first wife was likewise so mentally ill (all her life) she refused to believe she was dying of cancer while on her cancer deathbed. She believed cancer was a made up lie by doctors to bill insurance companies. She believed she wasn't dying at all. Days later she died of lung cancer. PERHAPS that's what smoking two packs a day for 50 years does to you - it gives you lung cancer. People will live and die the best way they see fit. Nothing you can do about it. But this woman who posted in an uproar over people caring more for animals, not only am I willing to bet she's never stepped foot in a homeless shelter to volunteer her time, she thinks animals have the same ability to defend themselves as humans do. The number one predator animals have is US humans. Case in point...

This iguana was just living it's life and then some horrible human, most likely a man, came along and thought animal cruelty was a good idea.