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Noodle has had a rough morning .  He does not understand why people haven't figured out that when there are puppies in the house every up has a down----and regardless of where you put things---UP-----gravity with the help of puppies will make them go “down”----and in this morning's case he really didn't mean to pick up a wire along with his mashed water bottle... but that caused the tripod usually holding the camera to go down big time.... Not only that but the one camera became two pieces of Camera. And then it didn't move at all so noodle ran for my feet... and just laid there staring at the two pieces of camera lying so quietly on the floor..

” . I thought it must have died it didn't move.... And to make matters worse carlene has started telling me “down”--- and making me lie with my tummy on the floor...  until she says “noodle come” which is what I'm supposed to get up and run and see if she has any cookies.    it is very confusing..   there seems to be no point in  tummy “down”  and tummy “up”..  But the ways of humans are very strange..    I did have a lovely run around at a place she calls Meredith----with lockie and sizzle I found out there are birds to chase even if you never catch them---

I had trouble keeping up with lockie but I tried my best with my 4 little legs.. . Then we all rode around in the car while they tied An old piece of chain link fence to the back of our car.. so we could drive around in the places they keep the horses.. Until we rode into a place where there was a lot of water... Carlene’s car does not swim well.  So we had to get Mr. Meredith to come along with his great big odd  looking yellow vehicle...  To pull us backwards out of the mud... after which we drove around all the pastures while we dragged that chain link behind us--to spread out the “clumppies “and make the pastures all pretty again......

Then we went to a really strange place where they keep bunches of  people in funny chairs with wheels. .   I love going to those places because the people in those funny chairs have a frying pan where  they put treats. Fun .. but reallllly weird..... Mine is not to reason why”

 

Back to reality--  eventually we will get goldies farm equine rescue network, the veterans project, and a few other projects all in order and be able to set up some kind of budget---    the hay bill is a constant---  there is no variation---if you have a bunch of equines you must have hay--  and thankfully our camera crowd is taking care of that very nicely because we do use 70 to 100  bales  a week depending on the size of the bales ----that is a constant—however...    the variables like veterinary visits, fly covers, and  blacksmiths  are covered by the henny penny contributions---- and I am happy to give you a specific list of expenses   AS LONG AS YOU DON’T INSIST ON ACCOUNTING TYPE ACCURACY....

We have an official accountant to prepare our paperwork for the IRS pretty much on a yearly basis which is exceedingly expensive,,,   if I run this stuff off in a spreadsheet I really don't want to bother worry about the balance is being off by a $1.02.. BUT IT CERTAINLY WOULD GIVE YOU SOME IDEA—LIKE--- THESE PLACES ARE THRILLED WITH OUR DONKEY AND HORSE---THAT WAS DEPENDENT ON MY SPENDING ? $1040 GETTING THE TRAILER   UPDATED AND PAPERWORK DONE...  PLUS THE ENTIRE FARM SHOWS A  NEGLECT FROM A COUPLE YEARS OF IGNORING “STUFF”.

HOW SIGNIFICANT? YOU MAY ASK???  WE HIRED A 40 YARD DUMPSTER WHICH WE FILLED IN ABOUT 3 DAYS. – I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE BILL IS FOR THAT – BUT I KNOW “TRASH” DEMANDS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF OUR BUDGET---  THAT IS JUST ONE...

??H.R.PAPERWORK???? .... AND IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO HUMAN RESOURCES TYPE STUFF,  OSHA WOULD NEVR APPROVE MY  HOURS- MORE LIKE 14 HOUR DAYS  7 DAYS A WEEK....AND WHEN PUPS WERE BEING BORN IT WAS 24 HOUR DAYS... DID I GO ANYWHERE????  REFRESH MY MEMORY... 

   I THINK.... WHEN YOU TALK OF HOURS AND  VACATIONS...... I THINK I HAVE TAKEN 3 DAYS OFF IN THE PAST 22 YEARS... I WENT TO SEE SANDY ONE WEEKEND ... I DON’T REMEMBER ANY OTHER “TIME OFF”  EVEN IF I AM ALSO A VOLUNTEER

P.S. DON’T BOTHER  WITH THE PITY PART--- YOU WOULD HAVE TO DRAG ME SCREAMING TO GET ME ON A CRUISE SHIP- AND AN AIRPLANE IS NOT MUCH BETTER..... THO SANDY AND I DID HAVE FUN !!

 

at the moment.. we are flying by the seat of our pants--- AND MY THANKS TO ALL WHO KEEP US “KEEPING ON” AS YOU SO OFTEN PUT IT...

AND MANY THANKS TO CLOUD FOR ILLIUSTRATING OUR SENIOR HOME VISITS

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Today (Saturday....27... I am going to rigg this dd to send it to me first swo maybe I can figure out why it is not going where I tell it to go note... aol will not sent  to the size list we are—so I work with constant contact. Which sors for duplicates and tells me who reads i5 and when..( for \ a small fee)- and they have been great for years.. as you kow....—but they can be screwed around with like any internet dealings...so I have asked them to be on alert today---

 I send it to 3 locations

 

 First a small group6  of tqandom cp’s  ( and ME).  GET IT FIRST—WHICH ALSO GIVES ME A PLACE TO COPY AND PASTEFROM I I NED ITTHNE THE CC LIWT OF ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE ( WHER 55% READ IT DAILY AND 1 UNSUBSCRIBES AND ADDS  1 NEW ADDRTESS)--- MY ADDRESSIS IN THERRE TOO.. SO I SHOUOD RECEIVE 2 COPIES RIGHT AWAY

 

 THEN  I COPY AND PASTE TO THE “BLOG” WHICH IS APPARENTLY OFF OUR WEB??   I DUUNNO. BUT 150 OR SO PEOPLE READ IT THERE DAILY TOO.. I HAVE NOT SO FAR CHECKED THE BLOG TO BE SURE IT GETS TEHRE.. WHICH I WILL NOW DO..

 

COUPLE THAT WITH THE INTERNET  WIRE GETTING RUN OVER BY DOZENS OF CARS  WHICH DO NOT PARK IN THE PARKING LOT..  I HAVE ASKED THEM TO PARK IN TH E PARKING L;OT—OR ALONG THE DRIVEWAY BEFORE THE GATE.. IT DOES NOT SEEM TO MATTER....AMAZON USPS, FEDEX AND UPC ALL NOW TURN HERE IN FRONT OF MY CABIN SO THEY DON’T CROSS THE WIRE..THSNKD TO THEM...

 

OUR NEIGHBOR “DEB” WITH  TEENAGE DAUGHTER HAS DONE A COUPLE  JOBS WITH US SO FAR—AND IS ENJOYING IT...—THEY GET HER OUT OF SCHOOL TO “PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL. SEFVICES” WHERE SHE IS “THE KID WITH THE FRYING PAN !!.” I AM TRYING YO INCLUDE HER IN A VARIETY O F PLACES’’’ SOME VERY “HIGH END” QND THEN THE REST “NORMAL”.  IT IS CERTAINLY EDUCATIONALL FOR HER—AND SUCH A HUGE HELP TO RESIDENTS AND STAFF OF THESE PLACES... MAYBE....... I JUST THOUGHT.. SHE COULD MAKE IT A SCHOOL PROJECT TO WRITE TO MR CUMMINGS AND SEE IF HE \]WOULD  DO SOMETHING...   IF SHE COULD GET A SMALL  GRANT FROM HIM WE COULD HIRE HER FOR THE SUMMER. AND EVERYONE WOULD BENEFIT !!*****/* D3BBIE... THAT WAS JUST A NEWW IDEA—MAYBE A GRANT COULD BE AA SCHOOL PROJEDCT---  I BET HE DOESN’T GET MANY FROM KIDS  AND IT MIGHT JUST BE HER SUMMER JOB????****-WE HAVE A TEEN HERE WHO JUST GOT HER DRIVERS LICENSE..... I WOULD BE HAPPY TO GIVE THEM TRAILER MANAGEMENT LESSONS !!

 

AND I COULD WRITE IT UP IN THE NEWSPAPER.......BINGO!!!

SO FAR SO GOOD... NOW FOR CONSTANT CONTACT .

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lets see if i can get this DD out before the creek overflows.i know one thing... someone.... ?goldy? dkes not want meeven lookng around amazon...--- it is a fake warning.. and just have to turn off and on-- but i may not go "shopping" 

janine took over mail call last night  and it looked like they were "on the road" with wanda.. so she may be home today. there are many projects awaiting her......  judy and carlie did the chelsea job with donk and horse,,, with great success even if it was miles away..i am learning to "let them go" with the equine bunch.

 i still want to go   til noodle gets a little better trained.  he is almost ready for the canine good citizen test.... i had said ?2 weeks for pasta?? pasta-- being a dane.. was easier for me-- this guy has a more independent streek ?had no spoon feeding?

i am thrilled with the poo pad project.... currently he gets up when i do--- 3 or 4 ish. and i tell him to get out the door quickly-- which he does... he now goes away from the door ( progress) to pee.. then turns back to the door.. for breakfast-- after which he poo's dead center on the pad ! you remember my goal is to have a pee pad in the ? hotel?  bathroom so i don't have to get up and out at 2am....so far so good...  the vet-- being negative said. what happens if he will only go on the pad?   i will simply carry a 4 inch square as a marker !!

.sorry i missed a day or two...j give up too easily when it comes to this #$$%^^&* computer..

i have a new challange... betsy's basket for her shop--janet sent me a video on makeing  a "rope basket" which would be perfect for he shop with my zipperpulls...

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it is working-- at the moment... 

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dd4 23 computer  problems we are having serious problem with the traffic over the wire-- we are working on it...

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This may turn out to be a rough day,  I told you about the gallon of white pennies that I have compliments of some old boyfriend of Janine and I did some research online and found out that there are very few of those white pennies that are worth $250,000 each and it implied that one of the differences was that some of these were magnetic and some were not and the non magnetic ones a word 250,000 OK..  I will do a lot of things for 1/4 of $1,000,000 and sitting in my chair with a magnet checking out a gallon worth of pennies is certainly one of them..

except the magnet was dirty it was out of my workshop about 18 inches long and used for picking up nails at work sites.  so I decided I needed to wash off this magnet before I could sit so comfortably in my chair with it.

hands up for anyone who sees the problem coming but I went to wash it in the kitchen sink so I would have a nice tidy project going not realizing the kitchen sink is stainless steel so once I place the magnet in the kitchen sink I couldn't get it out that's a big magnet..

 

 so while I was struggling with the bag that in the kitchen sink nick came through the door looking for towels Emptied my supply of towels into his is brand new manure bucket he said that the donkey was about to have a baby and that he'd been told to go get the towels all right--so before he left with the towels he put my computer screen on the camera that would allow me to watch what was going on and I saw him arrive in the stall with the donkey who was just eating hay and he decided to give her more hay which was logical check the water which he did and then he decided to take some of the hay outside for the four donkeys or so on the other side of the door so he gathered up the hay and went out through the door and very slowly the door wedged opened and end came a goat's head.. it's also pretty well known that wherever a goat can put its head it will put its whole body and get loose at any rate so one goat came in cute little white thing and sure enough second cute little white goat came in and then nick came back in slightly flustered trying to get the goats out ohh the pregnant Mama stole.... goats are usually very nice benign animals without too much trouble but was it they do and they love to do it is if you push their head around they will stand up on their hind legs and come crashing down with their head and hit you in your closest spot which is sometimes your knees and that could be devastating it's fun to them pushing each other's head around is what they do for entertainment.. so that left nick with two goats and the pregnant Mama and to try to get them sorted out it was very difficult and clearly not one of his marketable skills... He finally got them sorted out and came back to the cabin where we called Elizabeth his wife who was visiting Janine..  and their advice was to keep watching on the Internet camera and if it looked like she was going to have a baby he was to come get me and take me down and put me in the stall to supervise whatever happened/

 

which brings us to the next problem I only have one shoe I don't know what noodles has done with the other we've looked for it for about a day now and I don't have it so although I stayed in my street clothing to be carried down to this pregnant donkeys stall I was going to only have one shoe . Nick said that didn't matter he was  interested only in what was in my head and not on my feet /

 

To get the magnet out of the sink was going to require some serious muscle which of course is Wallace.. who I'm sure would be happy to help in any way he can.

 

now is there anyone out there in camera land who would like to try and write the job descriptions for any of the people involved in this baby magnet  goay shoe episode..  because at one point assistant dog international said I MUST  write a job description for everybody  on the fatm...   and that's when I just completely lost it. this is a farm. I cannot tell from one minute to the next well anybody would be required to do.

 

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Dd 4 21. Food

I get all sorts of early morning brainstorms at 2:00 in the morning and I really am enthusiastic by about 4:00 with some idea or another So that by the time I get up I've exhausted myself and don't get to carry it forth today's brainstorm I've tried very hard to start early I've heard rumors Gwen is coming up from the Carolinas.  Gwen is noted for being super organized and accomplishes a great deal ----last time she was here she tackled the problem of food which is a good topic but I think we need to address it more scientifically..  I ended up with an awful lot of macaroni and cheese which I rarely eat..  so I propose that she write a book how I fed my 86 year old mother... and it really would have to start with sit her down and figure out what she wants to eat in the first place......macaroni and cheese goes just so far.. and I become painfully aware that the slippery factor is a big one..  putting it mildly I don't swallow quite as easily as I once did and very nearly bought the farm the other night over a piece of meat.  With gwen's organization I think she could put out a very entertaining and useful book.  Gwen is super good at that kind of thing..... if she manages figure out how to display our finances at the same time that would be very useful also...  it's all very straight in my head and janine's head but accounting type people do like to have plot plans or whatever you call them.

 

Succotash--   Lima beans and corn---  I do like that so this morning I'm going to try and cook up and bag a bunch of that and see how I make out..  A big problem in the food department is that quantities of things are not figured in half cup sizes which is about the size of what I eat so somehow prepackaging that's got to be part of this deal and I do like those seal a meal plastic that bags.

 

so often at 4:00 in the afternoon I wish that I had started one of those suvee steaks which I could then eat at supper time but I never managed to get it started appropriately..  except today in the sink there is the SUV cooker with a beautiful piece of prime New York sirloin...  last time I cooked that I used 134° and it was good but a little too done so this time I'm doing 130..  This being Sunday there is no mail call so you won't get to see how I make out and by tomorrow I probably will have forgotten.  unless somebody asks me...

I do know that the 4 inch plastic cups with instant Idaho mashed potatoes are wonderful I think someone sent us those and I will be trying to find more of them.. with a hunk of butter or a spoon of sour cream they are elegant.

 

Moving on... with one other perfect “find”.   That young man who has been raking our driveway is doing a super job---so I asked around... he is related to Wallace ( the ex-bullrider) who works training horses in the area,... Wallace is wonderful---( and super strong). He came in the cabin to say hello and I asked if  he would plan to roll up my ( urine soaked) rug so I could get it cleaned... with that he picked up my 400 pound desk and got the rug out and rolled—not a problem...with that concept in let us not lose track of the young man raking.... every farm needs access to at least one  lift and carry type person.  If it ain’t rugs, it is hay that needs lifting...

 

On todays menuis ---- no trips.. no judy --- so we have the day off. ( we being lachey sizzle and noodle)

as for a name the foal--- i like to wait til we have a live whealthy foal on the ground before we start the naminmg game....

 

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So yesterday it was Hunts rehab we've been there about two weeks ago with the donkey and pony--- very popular so this day it was the two dogs with noodle for the exciting thing to talk about and he was exciting he was terrific it -----the operation works like this ---JUDY DRIVING....we pull up in front of the place as close as we can get to the door and I get out with my Walker and two dogs ---many times lockie on leash  and sizzle  following and we go on in and I have them lie down in the lobby and I sit on my Walker which has a seat attached -or proceed to the “gathering room”.----- Judy goes and parks the car and comes in with that sack full of paraphernalia that we need for this operation from poop pickers to treats to frying pans all of that stuff and she had noodles on a leash well I went all the way in and sat down and it was quite a while before Judy got there so I rambled on a little bit for the few people that had already gotten there and finally Judy arrives with the great flurry now there's a name for a dog any rate she comes in and immediately starts in with her rambling which is hysterical” good morning everybody how we feeling this morning and everybody have their coffee this morning and isn't that a pretty shirt. that's a nice color and are those new sneakers that you got she goes on and on and on and it is amusing to me but I've heard it before so after 10 minutes of this something else takes over,,

 

now I've been up since about two. AM. .. probably had a cup of coffee by three found something to eat by about four written the daily doggy hopefully sometimes written something check my emails and the weather and the henny penny sales at any rate I generally by 7:00 in the morning I have had what my body thinks is lunch and I'm really ready for a little nap which would ordinarily be somebody's early morning nap.   but I'm out dressed in the car and at hunts nursing home but that didn't stop it from being my nap time so I began to nod off amid a circle of about 20 people many of them younger than I who are at various stages of also nodding off...  now the problem there becomes larkey..  is his attitude if I'm working you're working and he came up to me apparently put his head under my chin and gave a quick upward snap nearly broke my neck but I woke me up big time and it was pretty funny Judy saw it exactly what was going on she could hardly stop laughing I don't think everybody noticed but larkey sure did... he's like that though------- I should not be sleeping while sitting in a chair or someplace and he is very quick to say so now I did not train him to do that but that's basically him alerting me to the fact that something is happening that he does not understand and would I please wake up and take care of it...  So with effort  I stayed awake for the remaining 30 minutes and made it home to take a proper nap in my chair.  

 

I don't know and it frightens me to wonder how many of these people we see are  not normally napping but are basically in a medically induced sleep as I was a couple months ago when the medication I was given for my itching skin was far too relaxing..    I have stopped taking that medication and it took me almost a week before I could once again do a #4 sudoku puzzle..   so these little pills that you swallow so willingly can easily affect more than you intend them to affect. 

And then you drive?....  OR VOTE??????