JUNE 30 2015

I AM THRILLED TO FIND THAT  THE ENTIRE CAMERA COMMUNITY HAS COME SO FAR AS TO  NOT CALL ME BECAUSE A MOUSE WAS RUNNING AROUND THE KITCHEN...  CAMERAS 24/7  PICK UP EVERYTHING-- INCLUDING UN ANNOUNCED GUESTS...

ONE REASON WE ARE INCLINED TO HAVE THEM IS ....... IN AN EFFORT TO HAVE KITCHEN COUNTERS   HIGHER THAN THOSE REQUIRED BY MY 4'10" GRANDPARENTS, I TOOK A 2X 6" BOARD AND STOOD IT ON EDGE... COVERED IT WITH A PIECE OF PLYWOOD.. AN DDECIDED I WAS VERY CLEVER TO HAVE HIGHER COUNTERS..  WHAT I WAS NOT SO CLEVER ABOUT IS , I HAD JUST INSTALLED   RODENT CONDOS  WHICH SEVERAL YEARS AGO WERE INHABITED BY GISELLE AND HER FAMILY-- 

GISELLE WAS TEH BREADWINNER-- I HEARD NIGHTLY RUMBLINGS IN THE MILKBONE BOXES   AND  FINALLY SET HER UP  ...FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS  I WATCHED HER  LUG 4 LARGE MILKBONES FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE LIVING ROOM TO THE CONDO...... 

 THEY WERE ACCUSTOMED TO  GOING OUT TO DINNER IN THE FILE CABINETS... GISELLE HERSELF MAKING A MAD DASH HOME ONE DAY RIGHT ACROSS MY LAP.

THIS CAUSED ME TO DRILL THE 2"  HOLE YOU CAN SEE IN THE  6" RISER UNDER THE COFFEE COUNTER SO I COULD SHOVE THE SHOP VAC IN THERE TO CLEAN UP.. AND ENCOURAGE THE FAMILY TO MOVE BACK INTO THE FOREST-- WHICH THEY DID--- FOR ?2 YEARS?   

NOW THEY MAY HAVE SENT GISELLE'S SECOND COUSIN--- MICHAEL THE MOUSE... SCOUTING FOR AN AVAILABLE CONDO  SO THAT NEXT FALL THEY CAN MOVE BACK IN FOR THE WINTER...

NEXT TIME JANINE LEAVES WANDA ( THE JACK RUSSEL)  HERE, WE CAN PUT ON HER  YELLOW  SECURITY GUARD VEST AND LET HER INVESTIGATE, AND DISCOURAGE ANY MIGRATION.

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NEW HORSE -- AN D LINCOLN-- GO T NEW SHOES YESTERDAY-- FRONT SHOES ONLY -- FOR 3 REASONS... CHEAPER..  70%  THEIR WEIGHT IS ON THE FRONT FEET... AND IN CASE THEY KICK AT EACH OTHER.

 "41"   HAS BEEN SUGGESTED FOR A  NAME-- HAVEN'T GOT A BETTER ONE YET...

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THE BABY GGUINNEA HENS MADE IT THRU YETERDAY ... MOSTLY.. APPARENTLY WE HAD A CLOSE CALL WITH ANDREW... WHO NEEDS  HIS CLOCK CLEANED TODAY ON THE TOPIC OF BIRDS... 

  IT IS A CASE WHERE THAT E-COLLAR   WOULD WORK...  AND BE TEH KINDEST IN THE LONG RUN...

SEE JANINE'S BOOK.... ( DOGS DONKEYS AND CIRCUS)--- AS A YOUNG CHILD, I TOLD HER NOT TO TOUCH THE  ELECTRIC  FENCE.. AND SHE DID... AFTER THAT SHE PAID ATTENTION OT INSTRUCTIONS BETTER.

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NOW AB0UT THE ACCOUNTANTS WHO WERE HERE ALL DAY YESTERDAY... IT WAS A CHORE... ESPECIALLY 2014-- WHICH IS WHAT WE ARE PAYING THEM TO DO....  WHEN THE QUICKEN PROGRAM WE USED CHANGES A PAYMENT OF $822  TO A DEPOSIT OF $11,432-- AND  THEN HIDES IT FROM NORMAL PRINTOUTS. .. IT MAKES FOR INCORRECT TOTALS IN ABOUT EVERY CATAGORIE... IT DID TOTALLLY  REARRAINGE "SPLIT" TRANSACTIONS DOZENS OF TIMES IN 2014-- 

 I AM  HAPPY WITH THE BANK TOTALS AND THEN SPLIT THE CATAGORIES TO SUIT THAT NUMBER. AND I DON'T SEE WHY THE IRS- OR ANYONE ELSE ( 501 C 3  DEPT)  WOULD THINK THAT UNREASONABLE.

KEYPUNCHING THE ENTIRE YEAR INTO A DIFFERENT SYSTEM... OR SPREADSHEET.. WOULD TAKE A DAY OR TWO

BU T   HTE BANK STATEMENTS HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT.... SO USE THOSE NUMBERS.

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I  MUST WORK ON AUDRY-- BOTH DONNA AND SMILEY ARE AHEAD OF ME IN WELL BEHAVED WHITE DOG...

I THINK I WON THE LAST SIMILAR CONTEST BETWEEN THE LITTERMATES MORIAH, MEGAN AND MARIA'S DOGS... BAD AS SHE IS , I THINK MORIAH IS THE BEST OF THE 3.

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I HAVE

 HEARD FROM JASPER'S OWNER IN PORTSMOUTH--- HE IS READY WILLING AND ABLE TO  COURT ANY FEMALE  WE PRESENT TO HIM..... LIKE MISCHA... WHO IS DUE IN HEAT SOON.

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 WE ARE GOING TO TRY OPAL  TOO LIVE WITH BETSYS RELATIVES IN WALHAM???? ON THE SAME BASIS AS SCARLOTT... WE NEED HER AVAILABLE FOR PUPPIES-- SHE IS BENTLEYS SISTER... AND I HOPE WE CCAN GET PUPS FROM HER TOO..

THEY WILL BE HERE TODAY IN THE GUEST HOUSE TO TALK WITH OPAL AND SEE HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT IT.

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BRICKS NEARLY SOLD OUT... IGUESS I BETTER CALL THE  GARMENT   COMPANY THAT INSTALLED THE 2 WASCOMATTS IN THE LAUNDRY AND FEED ROOM.  THE MAJORITY OF THE L;AUNDRY IS BEING PRODUCED  IN AND NEAR THE HOUSE...

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TONIGHT RENEE AND LYNN WILL BE LIVE ON EXPLORE...6 PM AFTER MAIL CALL... 

Hi Carlene! I wanted to give you a heads up that we're going to do a live Q&A with Lynne Emerson and Renee LeVerrier tomorrow after mail call, on the Service Dog Project page: http://blog.explore.org/live-chat-with-service-dog-recipients-and-their-danes/

june 29 2015

for those of you coming up and down the driveway, don't look up at the trees... it would make you very nervous...-- the forest has it's own survival plans for trees... and several of ours need to be creamated.   i saw one get executed by a bolt of lightning...and immediately the bark pealed off a  ?80 foot tall tree... spiraled right down to the ground pealing most of the bark.. at any rate i have a tree company coming to give me an estimate to clear back the forest  of dead trees.. there is a good size   "widow maker" -- stuck and prevented from falling. must have a professional because the gravatational forces around where you might think you could cut it.. are very pequiliar....i mean be careful to let someone else do it.  sometimes they fall UP.

 

did i hear somewhere that the indians used to cut a strip around a tree  and leave it standing for a year to dry out - so they would have dry firewood???? i do know if you use a tree to hold up a fence, you have to be careful...  or you have done just that...

i guess that is the  fyi of the day...

well-- the only other tree related story i can think of .. when we first moved in-- i noticed a regular old forest type rat going into the base of the tree in front of  what is now the guest house.....  i figureed i would get that one... and bsacked up my car sticking  a hose from my exhaust  into the hole and let it run.... after a few minutes of waiting... i happened to look up -- there  up 30 feet in the air was the rat.. and teh smoke was coming out of the hole way up there...  i had alot to learn about  wildlife...

mostly it is wild.

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we had a heavy rainfall--i am anxious to see if/how the guinnea chicks survived... last seen a fluffed up mom and dad were sitting next to each other... my guess is the chicks were under her-- probably very dry covered by  their "down comforter".

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carol called (  service dog hawkeye-- in maine)  apparently tufts is doing a bloat study... hawk is fine-- but they wanted information on his family history-- which of course we can give him... it took a while but it was rraining yesterday---  in my master list of dogs i have 260 dogs -- there are very few i do not know about...and am happy to pass on the information...  we have had a few bloats that i know about......maybe 5 or 6 since 1990. 

 the part i found most interesting.... we have not entered all the 2014 and 2015 graduate information,  and we have on the list  donated 99 service dogs plus my sd... bentley...   ... so for real numbers   260 minus  25 kept for breeding  minus 31 still too young...4 on the  list as doa... and we have not cleaned up the 2014 and 2015 donations....gives us a solid 50%---- when last i heard other adi members were in the 20% range.. so we aren't doing badly at all.

as you may have heaard me spout..... i don't approve of the puppy raising done by most of the adi training facilities...  they place a dog with puppy raisers and bring them back at 18 months for training... it may work as far as training goes.... but from the dog's standpoint they bond to their puppy raisers and then get taken away...  that was never more evident to me than pistol-- who just spend a couple weeks with alice and her family-- before she came back  here as a potential breeder-  we then gave her  to jade in an emergency-- worked ok.. but pistol/bristol  was not happy -- or  no longer perfectly behaved... came back here- and one day she ran into her "old friend " alice... and she came apart at the seams.. like chaos welcoming earlene-- only more so...  so i gave her to alice-- and they have been very happy ever since...

i think that from the dog's perspective the puppy raising concept is wrong... and therefore-- the prison concept also... our concept is  pleasent living --- mostly kennel-- some overnights-- but leave the  bonding to the new partner...

they all love megan-- but will turn and go with their partners  when things quiet down.

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in going thru the bloodlines..... i think we can breed jasper to scarlots x bentley daughter misha   hopefully july...

he is in portsmouth with stacy-- and i sent her an email last nigh inquiring on jasper's availability for july...

 in thqt gene pool we would have  for  grand parents---- mr Adams  from canada---- deagle , belgium ----  scarlot, denmark and one gereration further  bobby  ferom hungary.  and only one "inbred " situation where thumper jumped the fence and  bred his daughter giving us   bumpy-- who is bentley's father.

got all that??

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getting close to mariah's 30 days and possiblee  ultrasound...

i hope...

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Each summer I leave Yuma, AZ for my main home in Sandpoint, ID. This year along with the horses and dogs, I returned with 17 of my 18 chickens. One had gone AWOL when the van was leaving. She showed up a few days later and was fed by a neighbor. So this week I returned to AZ to pick up my Toyota truck and I put her in a dog kennel and traveled her back to ID.

 

I don’t see what’s so funny about that but it seems to put a smile on each listener’s face when they think of me traveling home with a chicken.

jennifer

june 28 2015

last night at mail call i ... in a weak moment .. said if the bricks sold out i would buy grace ( and all) a washer for the cellar-- no  easy purchase...we have wascomatts which seem to work nicely-- that brand was recommended by a guy who owns a laundromat- and so far they have been wonderful  so it looks like i will be buying another...-  one thing that impressed me  to start with was they offer a course in how to fix your own.. and for the beating those machines take,  i can not complain---

cleanliness is next to godliness...

 grace ( and all) have better access in our cellar..and our septic should be able to take it...  when we built i remember the inspector saying we had eough  drainage to run a small motel...  how did she know???

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i have tried several american breeders... without too much success...  i have a generic call out for danes who have done agility and have some old relatives..

as i wander the world looking for dane genes...again...  i came to the german  official standards of a dane--- very interesting---  things i have decided to insist on... square males -- slightly longer females...pacing is out---  researved toward strangers-- devoted to owners..

and a few i don't care about  .. curved tail carried above the topline...  it is interesting  

i have contacted several breeders... there is one in czk. who has a bunch lookijng just like chaos and bentley..  what started me is that ... gary--  the veteran who is partnered reciently with  victoria has a daughter going to school in russia-- and will be traveling back and forth occasionally..

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there is a rule  burned  into  the minds of  most akc breeders that , no one breeds any dogs that have not been shown and recieved thier "championship" title..  and i clearly have not...  there is a woman who works at the local feed store who keeps reminding me of that - and calls  sdp dogs  a" piece of junk " because they are not  "titled"....

 they aen't titled... they aren't even registered which makes me even worse.   i totally agree wiht trying to limit the breeding of dogs.. but all the puppy farms that sell pups to  pet stores all have akc registration.   i totally agree with the  akc canine good citizen award.  that concept is a great one...  but $15 to register every dog is alot of money... for what?

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if i had my way,  the town  reg of a dog is not spayed or neutered woudl be $500--- dogs spayed or neutered would be $150 ---  if a spay/neutered and has their cgc title it would cost $10  to register them-- 

and then... any town which passes a leash law must provide a fenced dog park-- after all ,   dog owners pay taxes too...

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 so all of you people out there sending me notices of american breeders,   i would love to find one or two --  but the ones who insist on co- owning  are out... and i do happen to like  breeding   color true-- 

most american breeders brag about european bloodlines-- it becomes a question of what percentage???  one great grnadfather does not cut th emustard..    

i happen to  agree with the german method  of posting a dogs HD rating on the pedigree--- that HD is the hip displasia rating - so you can have some idea of what you are buying into... it is not 100%  but it is better than nothing 

if you look over the pedigrees of dogs in europe you can see  a few time wahen an HD  A is bred to a HD  A and the pup is HD  B ---

you can also see harls  bred to harls -  etc.... interesing...

so google great danes by country... looking for chaos and bentley types...

from the top ... it looks like italy has taller then russian  dogs

 that is what i am doing..

JUNE 27 2015

WE APPAERNTLY HAVE NEWLY HATCHED GUINNEA CHICKS  SOMEWHERE...    I AM NOT SURE HOW THAT HAPPENED..  IT DOES PROVE THAT THE SECOND BIRD IS A  GUIENEA BOY NOT HEN... BUT WE WOULD OFTEN SEE THE HEN OFF HER NEST  OUT EATING -- WHATEVER THEY EAT... 

I KNOW WHEN I TRY AND HATCH EGGS, THE BOOK TELLS ME HOW FUSSY THE  ROTATION AND TEMP REGULATION  ARE SO  I HAVE FULL APPRECIATION OF  ANY BIRD'S ABILITY TO    FLIP EGGS OVER AND KEEP THEM WITHIN 1/2 A DEGREE OF 99 DEGREES.. THEY MUST HAVE AN ADVANCED DEGREE IN  INSULATION-- WHAT DOES SHE COVER THEM WITH WHEN SHE WENT TO LUNCH?    THEY HATCHED... THERE ARE BROKEN SHELLS...  I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE HAS THEM... BUT IF THEY ARE OUT TODAY WE SHOULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO KEEP THE HAWKS AWAY....  WE MIGHT HAVE TO GEET THEM INTO THE "V" PEN  WITH ITS USED CAR DEALER FLAGS ACTING AS HAWK DEFLECTORS.  

I DON'T MIND FEEDING THE HAWKS THE RATS WE CATCH IN  THE TRAPS IN THE BARN ( WHICH THEN END UP TH E    GUEST HOUSE FREEZER WAITING TO BE3 DELIVERED TO GEORGE FOR RE-HAB ING OWLS ETC...)

  

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WE DON'T HAVE HT CAMERA OUT OF THE TREE YET... BUT WE ARE WORKING ON IT...

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COUPLE THINGS NEARLY DONE-- GIRAFFE PEN. .. CHICK  BUS  -- DOG WASHING STATION...

BUT THE GT TABLES ARE  LOVELY--- AND OUR MISTINGT FANS ARE WORKING WELL-- AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT...

 TODAY PROJECT FOR THE CP'S WHO ARE HERE IS TO UPGRADE THE T TENT... I HATE IT WHEN THE COBBLESTONES HAVE WEEDS GROWING BETWEEN THEM..... 

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I AM BACK SEARCHING  THE WEB FOR  ANOTHER CONTACT IN EUROPE FOR  BLOODLINES-- I CERTAINLY WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANY AMERICAN BREEDER WHO HAS  PUPS FROM BLOODLINES OF  AN AGILITY DANE WHO IS 9 OR 10 YEARS OLD.   THE AGILITY PART MIGHT INDICATE  STRUCTURAL  SOUNDNESS -- AND THE AGE WOULD HELP WITHTHE "DANES DON'T LIVE LONG" CONCEPT... IF I COULD FIND 10 MORE BENTLEYS/BAILEYS  WE WOULD BUY THEM IMMEDIATELY.

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HE- BENTLEY- IS LEARNING TO PULL A WHELLCHAIR-- AND HE LOVES IT !!   HE HAS ARRIVED AT THE "I GOT IT" CONCEPT... AND HE IS SOOOO  PLEASED WITH HIMSELF --  WE ROARED AROUND HOME DEPOT YESTERDAY AT 90 MILES PER HOUR.... SCATTERING PEOPLE AS WE FLEW BBUY ..NO BRAKES, THE ONLY WAAY TO STOP IS TO LET GO OF HIM AND PUT MUY FEET DOWN.

 LETTING GO IS HIS SIGN TO STOP PULLILNG AND TURN AROUND TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED.... AND GET A BIG PAT !!!  HE IS PRETTY GOOD AT THE RIGHT /LEFT... BUT HAS NO  EFFECTIVE WHOA... CAREENING TOWARD A PAINT DISPLAY WAS ENTERTAINING FOR EVERYONE....

 WELL NEARLY EVERYONE.... THERE IS ALWAYS  THE 1/2 EMPTY PERSON WHO SCOWLS AT  SOMETHING LIKE THIS...

KIND OF LIKE THE GUY IN THE MENS ROOM WHO WAS SO INTENT ON HIS PROBLEMS THAT HE NEVER RECOGNIZED JANINE AND I SITTING ON TH FLOOR OF THE MENS ROOM SHAVING THE TESTICLES OF  THE SHEEP WE HAD THERE FOR A PHOTO SHOOT-- TRUE STORY---THAT IS IN HER BOOK ( DOGS DONKEYS AND CIRCUS PERF)

I AM DOWN ON COUPLE THINGS AROUND HERE....

#1.   IS FINISHING SOMEONE'S  SENTANCE/ THOUGHT FOR THEM.....

#2.   COMING UP WITH EVERY NEGATIVE THING THEY CAN THINK OF ABOUT ANY TOPIC THAT COMES UP IN CONVERSATION.

IT IS ENDEMIC--

"LET ME TELL YO ABOUT THE NEW HOUSE I AM BUILDING" - GETS - "YOU KNOW LUMBER NOW IS SO BAD IT WILL FALL DOWN"

OR

"I JUST BOUGHT A NEW CAR"    GETS    "  I HEAR THEY MIGHT HAVE TO RECALL THOSE BECAUSE THE WHEELS FALL OFF."

I HAVE TO WATCH IT MYSELF-- IF ANYONE SAYS THE WORD  PRINTER... I GO INTO MY SPEAL ABOUT MY LIFE WITH PRINTERS... NONE OF  WHICH IS  POSITIVE...

MOST OF THE TIME IT IS NOT A PIECE OF INFORMATION  THAT IS NEW TO US... IT SEEMS SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST FOCUS ON  ALLT HE BAD THINGS THEY KNOW ON ANY TO-PIC... 

 THEIR GLASS IS  1/2 EMPTY---  PART.

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PAM FOUND MY PORTFOLIO-- AND IT HAS SOME PICTURES I CAN USE IN THE BLOG...  BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HAVE IT ALL SCANNED TO DIGITAL--- WITHOUT  LOOSING TRACK OF IT ( LIKE SENDING IT TO  SOME FAR AWAY COUNTRY FOR SCANNING... LIKE NEW JERSEY   OR SOME SUCH) ..

IT WOULD MAKE A FUNNY   SLIDESHOW TO HAVE AVAILABLE FOR SPEAKING...

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PRACTICALLY EVRY JOB HAS SOME "DIFFERENT :\" ASPECT TO IT PEOPLE MIGHT FIND AMUSING...

FUNNY NOW.... TERRIFYING AT THE TIME 

june 26 2015
 biggest news is  explore wants to continue with another contract  for 3 +1+1  years..

it is a long complicated bunch of paper - which  to be honest i have not totally read... 

as far as i am concerned the actual contract is ....

 somewhere along the way i said to charlie   "as long as it did not cost me anything"

and he agreed to that-- he has kept his word-- as i have kept mine.... 

it has long been my  philosophy that if you can not take a person's word,

 all the paperwork in the world will only make  a bunch of lawyers rich...

paperwork !!  yuck !!! ------here comes the accreditation  bit... i know they -ADI - are going to fuss over things like the owners  sdp agreeement......  plus   "show dog"  people have   all these "co- owner" deals which  are normal in the akc world...

i have never had a co owner agreement with anyone...  and alot  of dogs ( and a horse or two) have been shared particularly for         breeding  with never a problem...  my line of ---"you give them a happy life, and when it is over, it is over.... " which mostly pertains to any illness etc where you do not string them along...  but it also implies that if i detect that the dog is not happy with you, i have no problem in taking the dog away... as i have done once.. at least..

? horse sharing?  i had a palomino "grant"-- beautiful thing--- which thru  a friend- dida , we ended up sharing with rex trailer who was boston's  cowboy like roy rogers..   there was no nicer man alive than rex... honest as the day is long...  and grant became  his horse   "goldrush III".  and mary went along  on  parades and personal apperaendces as his donkey friend... for years   .

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 explore   did ask me to write a weekly blog for thier web-- or wherever they put it..( i don't understand that either)

for me to keep up with finding amusing /educationbal photos etc    is a bit of a challange. but between camera mark and some of the camera operators, i am doing all right so far... the people and the dogs around here --  there is bound to be one amusing/ wierd  thing happen per week...  if not.....that could have serious  repercussions all round.  i would not like to  live a prepackaged lifestyle and will do all i can to avoid it.

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i am not sure how i got in the giraffe  industry... but here we are...  and the people watchig the puppy hill camera might see the wagon we are reserecting  for display of the small giraffe herd...( thank you 3 is plenty enmough )

---this wagon... just one of those thigs i never threw away will be perfect-- 

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 it  all started with " the bed"-- which is a queen size matress/box springs  on a strange heavy duty wagon on which i  would put 3 dogs for parades.  it was very popular ... paid for my kids college tuition with that bed which now i s beside the t tent.

that  wagon  was made is such a way that  both the front and back wheels turned when you made a corner, so you could drag a bunch of them in a parade and not worry about wiping out the crowd on a corner.-- so i coppied teh design, and built 3 lighter weight ones with bicycle tires  for the donkeys to pull-- in the political year that involved  bush clinton  and perot -- i did  the 3   caricatures  of those men  which now hang in the arena..  

i pulled a 4th smaller wagon with bucket and shovel-- and a smaller sign which said "they are all full of  "IT"  "  that picture is around somewhere....

an interesting sideline... perot's wagon  bent an axle in  the salem parade and we had to pull the pin and leave it behind...  just how symbolic was that? 

so now  one  of those wagons is getting redone for a giraffe carrying device-- the other will be redone as  home for the ever growinbg ginnea chicks..  don't throw thing s away????

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 so that is todays   divrsion-- or one of them--

as that sad/sick  person long ago emailed me " what does  building a giraffe house  have to do with producing servce dogs?  you should go back to training and stop wasting time"  

my answer is  "alot"  

1.  volunteers must be kept amused-- they are very inexpensive help

2.  if  camera people want to provide some  whimsical  amusement and tehy have the money to do that.... wonderful ( as long as they buy  their  chicken bricks so we can meet "real"  expenses)

3.  i must keep my  mind exercised with  creative challanges   so i can find things to write aboptu for explore.. ( good excuse) 

4.  on a good day, i am only good for a 15.2 meter dash before i need to find a sitting down device.... like a golf cart-- so someone else is going to have to do the  training footwork ... under my direction of course..... while i am making a giraffe  wagon...

so there !!

june 25 2015

WHATEVER I ATE BEFORE GOING TO BED, I MUST AVOID IN THE FUTURE... I AM EXHAUSTED FROM DEALING WITH  THE NOTION  THAT MY CAR DID NOT HAVE BRAKES AND NEARLY ROLLED INTO THE FLAT FIELD WHERE THERE WERE 200 OF JANINE'S HORSES...AND I NEEDED TO GET IT ON THE SOUTH EAST EXPRESSWAY-- WITHOUT BRAKES- TO GET TO THE SECOND TOYOTA REPAIR PLACE BECAUSE THE FIRST TOYOTA REPAIR SHOP WAS  TOO BUSY WITH CROWD CONTROL   BECAUSE IT WAS MANAGED BY  A CUTE FOOTBAL GUY WHO  WAS  RECIEVING A TROPHY FOR  CHANGING MORE TIRES THAT  ANY OTHER REPAIR PLACE IN  ENGLAND-- AND THE ENTRANCE TO THE HIGHWAY WAS A HUGE DOWNILL SO I WAS WAITING AT A COFFEE SHOP WITH ANNE AND SUZANNE.... AND THERE WERE NOT ENOUGH CHAIRS.

WHAT WAS IN THAT BEEF STEW...????

IT IS ALSO AMAZING THAT ALOT OF THAT HAS A SMALL BASIS IN FACT--- I ONCE HAD TO DRIVE A PICKUP TRUCK  WITH NO BRAKES AND  ONLY THE  EMERGENCY BRAKE DOWN THE HIGHWAY BEHIND MY HUSBAND'S CAR  TO THE DEALER.. BECAUSE IF YOU COUDL DRIVE IT IN YOU GOT $3000 FOR IT AS TURN IN.. A BUNCH OF HORSES?  IS THE NEW HORSE AND THE 3 GIRAFFE STUFFED ANIMALS WE GOT AT MAILCALL- SECOND DEALER?- THE TOYOTAS PLACE MOVCED DOWN THE STREE TO NEW LOCATION.. THE FOOTBAL GUY? HAS TO BE THE TOM  BRADY DEFLATING SCANDAL - AND THE HUGE DOWNHILL? WS TEH PHOTO OF THE BRIDGE IN JAPAN THAT LOOKED LIKE A ROLLERCOASTER AND MEGAN IS ON HER WAY TO A COASTERE IN OHIO... NOT ENOUGH CHAIRS? IS THE GIRAFFE TENT  TABLES/CHAIRS.

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  my FAVORTITE COMMENT FROM YESTERDAY --  

WARNING - DO NOT DRINK COFFEE  WHILE READING DD  TODAY :-)

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re:  working papers--

from betsy----we need to go to the doctor to have him sign that connor is physically capable of “working” and then go to the “yellow building” in ipswich (depot square) and submit the papers.    seems like  i am getting connor his “green card" 

  CONNOR HAD TO GET  A PHYSICAL EXAM TO GET HIS WORKING PAPERS...they are new to me ..... SO for the past  77 years i needed to get permission to work???

my very first job was n the hospital kitchen loading trays and washing dishes-- before i took on  the much healthier job of teaching swimming indoors at a ywca-- breathing chlorine ...  separating the toes of  miriads of   small children inspecting for athlete's foot .for 8 hours a day

but who's counting... so far so good...

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CATHY FROM NAHANT IS HERE WITH A TREE GUY TO TRY AND GET THE CAMERA OUT OF THE TALL TREE....  COULD BE EXCITING... there will be a slight  interuption....

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he is coming back late this afternooon to get the camera down..with the concept that we replace the one in the v pen...

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now as for our giraffe theme -- which seems to be getting  a life of it's own....

-- along with giraffe colored cups/tablecloths and paperplates,  ali and mimi sent 3     five foot tall stuffed giraffes-- presenting us withthe challange of ... what do we do with 3 giraffes????

i do have some ideas...  that bed is on a wagon-- and i have a second wagon ... as yet unused.... behind the new  GT.. it would make them a fun portable display.

so that may be the start---

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janine said she might be able to come  try out the new horse today..... i need to book her  time in 10 minute intervals like  obama's schedule..

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rushing... 

JUNE 24 2015

 somebody told me ---today is international dryer lint cleaning day-- so i did tyhat... and i felt extremely guilty -- it had plenty of lint. and i threw it out--- remember meaty steve said i should stuff the dryer lint into the toilet paper tube and use it as fire starters. 

apparently it is a good fire starter-- i hear houses being burned down all the time with it. 

annother case of accidental brillannce... like pennacillin.. sorry steve... i figured by next fall when i needed to start fires i would not be able to find it.

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this is a problem around here....we have IT-- can not find IT -so have to buy another IT ... that kind of logic is self perpetuating.... the cause that alerted me? i am a subject of subliminal marketing when it comes to vacuum cleaners... i have a long history-- may be started by mr oreck who gave me a "free" hand vac with the rug one. we have several orecks. and a hoover ( and very few rugs..) ... 

i know we own 2 industrial vac's-- on wheels-- baby carriage size/style.. then i went the road of piping the10 kennels with a built in .. hooked to a shopvac which sat in the arena under teh window.. a failure for several reasons..poorly designed and not enough glue. that didn't stop me from buying several smaller shopvac's--- they look sooo efficient-- i have trouble walking past them in home depot.-- and i think our efficient equipment handlers are piling them up in the training room

 i know tehre is a stainless steel one closeted there... it was sooooo pretty... and i know tthere is the stainless bottom (minus vac) on wheels- out by the dumpster which someone keeps trying to throw away and i keep thinking it would be great for somethng i have not thought of yet.

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apply that behavior to almost anything a round here from grass mowing devices(2 small tractors, 2 walk behind whips , 2 electric whips plus a gass one, and 2 guinea hens) - to paint stirreres to help with the spirit sticks.

 i was at home depot trying to get bentley to pull me slowly-- to the great amusement of the entire staff of home depot... he does have a pretty good "whoa on him" -- i had stopped at the paint counter and saw all thiose matching paint stirrers- i asked for a handfull-- someone with a very large hand gave me a bunch-- so many that they do not all fit in the fun fund jar.... so pam put the rest "away"... perfect example-- i will use the ones in the jar for those people who send pictures and don't have a stick-- and when those are gone, we will not be able to find the next bunch-- now lost forever in the overflow room.... too valuable to be tossed away-- they will be reloacated in the paint stirrere WITNESS protection plan-- safe in an unknown location.

loction ... location ... location RIGHT !! and where is that.???----

 we have need for an unbelievable number of odd things.. my father told me never to throw away hardware ... or matching items... for future use... (think--purina plastic jars that come with the wet food) that concept too is self perpetuating. - there must be a use for thousands of lovely little plastic containers... ?? walter's lousy aim could be one of them...??

along with ?parkinson's law? "clutter will accumulate to fill available space" --- boy do we understand that one... see the GTent.

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Hi Carlene,I just wanted to share a couple pictures with you. Monday Bella had a field trip and was a little nervous taking George on the school bus. I told her I was a chaperone and we would figure it out. So they had us get on the bus first while it was quiet. He walked right up the stairs and then as he got to the first row turned around. (Not sure how he turned himself around in a small bus isle but he did). Bella looked at me a little nervous then she gave George a pat on the head, told him he was a good boy and had him back up all the way down the isle! He did it without even stopping or trying to go forward. When they got to the back of the bus he got lots of love! Pats and hugs galore. She kept a hand on him for the whole ride into Boston and kept reassuring him. Then on the way home, she got on the bus first and told him to follow her and they walked right down the isle to the back of the bus like they have done it all year! He is one amazing dog. We can't thank you enough for the independence and strength he has given Bella. Thank you Rachel. 

PS

...megan is going to ohio- TO RIDE SOME ROLLERCOASTER-- I WILL FIND OUT WHERE AND WHEN IN CASE ANY OF OUR OHIO CP'S WANT TO JOIN HER.

june 23 2015

 yesterday someon suggested we get goats to trim tjhe weeds etc...

i have been that road... goats jump most any fence available around here...

and they do alot of other things.. like run and play  making them targets for danes

our poo pickers wouldnt work for them-- and they are prolific poo producers..

 poo machines really-- every time they flick their tails some round pellets are produced.

it would be possiblel to raise the dogs from birth in a pen with goats-- which they do at the local 

 fox hunt club.  it keeps the foxhounds from being fascinated with  chasing deer  which behave like goats

around here the game would not be worht the candle/

and if we need the trimmingg done ( we are not allowed to cut stuff near  wetlands... but we may pasture animals)

so therte is a guy around here with a herd of sheep which we could rent

  he comes complete with working dogs...

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i am enjoying the kindle again

old habbits are hard to break

i keep licking my finger to turn the pages....

i don't yet know if there is q way to remember/record   pieces... as you might highlight in a normal printed book...

this book  "walden"   is loaded with observations of society... "it is easier to inherit   useless worldly  posessions than it is to get rid of them"

" if someone in paris puts a muskrat on their head,    many americans would rush out to put muskrats on thier heads."

he has alot to say about  fashions, house sizes, and the effect of one generation on the next.  and i have just started it.

aside from the fact that he writes in very long sentances, i am having a good time with it.

**if you have a house, you have dust.... if you live outside you don't have to dust---

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he mentions railroad "boxes"  3x6 feet  as being able to keep out the rainas well as a house...  which reminded me of the  book /broadway show /movie.. "cannery row"  "pipe dream"  and "sweet thursday" ( all the same)  where a  gal sets up light housekeeping in an oil tank ( highly recommended)

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we are supposed to have some heavy rain/wind today....  there goes another bunch of grass seed getting washed into the creek...

i wonder if i could plant crabgrass to begin with-- at least it would be green.

i hope these dead trees i have suddenly become focused on manage to stay up til the tree guy can cut them down.

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donna and i are startting leash training with audry and vivien  -  (with the firgure 8 around their neck and girth)    ..both are doing very  well... the process is one of "explainig"  to them that the rule of teh rope  is an absolute one.... and try and do that with the least possible trauma.   it is best done with their rear end aimed against some wall or corner...  there has to be some pulling backward into the leash  at which point you have to hold your ground.  they must not get away  and you must not try and ease off by walking toward them because they then figure you are chasing them in their misery...  a few tugs ad relax and let them think  til they say  "what the heck  i will try walking forward" and you give them big pattts.. sometimes it takes a while...  after the initial "surrender"  sometimes it is a questionof one or two   5 minute lessons for a few days and they get it.

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yesterdays mailcall -- started with the donkey horn on my golf cart......it is much louder when you are outside...

a fun noise.

and we had a donation from a disney employee with this note...

Any qualified Disney employee (they need
to meet some minimal requirements) can now pursue a matching gift for SDP by
completing an electronic form - SDP is now in the system and pre-qualified. 
Donations made and matching gifts requested NOW - and verified by SDP by June 30
- will be matched by Disney on September 30.  Donations made and matching gifts
requested in time for SDP to verify by September 30 will be matched on December
31.  

Thinking you may want to mention
this news in a DD and/or at Mail Call to help spread the word.  Also wondering
if Tina or Sheila might be able to get the word to anyone who joined the Orlando
gathering a few months ago in case they work for Disney or have
friends/neighbors who do.  The hard part is done - now that you are in the
system its a simple form for anyone who wants to donate and be matched, and/or
volunteer and request a grant. 


THANKS again for all that you - you have inspired me.  A few
college friends and I are still planning SDP as our 2016 reunion destination for
a long weekend of volunteer service.  

Congratulations Carlene!
Thanks
Again,
Ingrid Sander
A lifelong Doberman Pinscher lover

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that could be a wonderful discovery !!!

now that we have  the donated purina food, our biggest expense is payroll--as it stands now ,

 if there are still only  52 weeks in a year - teh payroll and payroll taxes and med ins will be  $250,000 a year

- scares me big time...  the chicken bricks are about 1/2 of it -- so keep them coming !!

never did i ever think i would be dealing with those kind of numbers.  my mind has more of  the $10 frame of reference.

but the dogs we have put out and are coming along with do justify the expense.

they are working wonders !!  

don't thank me,  SDP is  certainly a group effort !

june 22 2015

thanks to those who have explained to me that it is possible to complain to amazon about loading my ipad with books in which i have zero interest...  the  books they are choosing for me is another very upsetting   topic....  books about the tooth fairy  and   steam engines.  what piece of information is stuck somewhere which is causing some computer to decide i should  read about those things. 

miracles of modern tech  are terrifying to me...months ago my daughter looked at some kind of shoes on ebay-- that info is stuck somewhere qnd now i get all kinds of info on wierd shoes... along with trains,..... again  a typo instead of training, and now i get piles of choo choo type train informanton.. and my computer talks to  my phone - which talks to my car- so heaven knows what my car is thinking...  it keeps playing the latin version of  the  Ave Maria-- for about a month now.  i feel so helpless being told to ignore it.  the ave maria is not a substitute for broadway show tunes...

well..... i do have a question  about one concept on trains....

why do train companies spend so much money on prime time ads about coast to coast train lines hauling letuce and new cars-  just who are they trying to reach and why???   also one ad says something about moving produce for 50 cents a mile--  that has to be the brainstorm of some mathmetitian who said " tell me what you want to say and i wll find a way to have the statistics match"

statistics 101-  the first thing you learn... you can nearly lie about anything....the growth rate and the rate of growth are wonderful for teh political writers- one can be up- the other down- depending on which word you want the public to hear.  it is very annoying.

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 back to the dogs...

yewterday we managed to have moriah and opal loose all afternoon without incident...  they keep thier eye on each other -- there is no tru=st between them--- the only thing to distract them is for me to pick up the whiffle bat... then they both look at me.

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bud managed to  install a horn on my golf cart... it is a good one. !!!  i will try and demo it at before mail call...

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i have a couple dogfest things to resolve today per tina's request...

one is teh food-- and i already forgot the other...

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the new tables -- which i think you can see from the puppy hill camera, have one coat of polyurethane-- and will get another when the humidity drops... today  so far  it is like walking thru a pond.. 

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todays big push will be to sresolve the fact that   1.  we need to get the extra camera down out of the tree  and it iw way way up there...  climbing type  way up there...

and  2.  there are about 6 dead  trees threatening  one building or another.. the nutt house being the worst  one--- the gt is another--not to mention theo 3 that would close off the driveway if they came down on their own....

so i called the outfit who took down the big trees from puppy hill which i then had  lumber milled so i could build the t-tent...--  they were huge 90 foot  trees- and as teh  younger man was preping for the fall, i stood with " the old guy" and asked him to mark where the top of the tree would fall- he drew a line in the sand- and was off by about 4 inches... he was goooood.

at the same tiem i hope i can get the dead limbs out of the pine trees while they are here...  the place loo ks so much better when they are cleaned up--  there are some big limbs that could hurt  so it is  not all cosmetic.  you might see some tree activity from the puppy hill camera- especially the dead tree by the girqffe tent  and getting the camera down vrom the "V" pen area..

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new veteran arriving today- bless grace--- she has become the hospitality  guru at sdp...  she has the place ready... and janet's son arrived to install teh new toilet steve requested..   you all needed to know that...

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we added one more kid to the internship summer... he can do saturdays-- which seemed to be a problem for our usual 3.. he has been volunteering for a while for community service..

it is required for national honor society.. and most college applications...

whoever  started that community service program  in the school system  did a great thing...

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on we go..