i have been operating under the idea- if you can't help thousands , help one. all beautiful and lovely... it has now evolved in my head........ if you can't straighten out thousands, straighten out one. ---
any animal can be forced to misbehave if handled badly. including me ! i would be happy to tell you all the details except you probably have your spam filters set to block half the words i would use to describe the situation... so there ! if the pen is mightier than the sword, i will get out my box of pens, and have at it.
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my biggest excitement of the day was/ is --- the chicken table does not have 3" squares ---
they are ... in fact 4"
doesn't sound earth shattering does it... except.... way back 2010 when we started this chicken brick deal
i had a bunch of calculations about number of squares to block off for the number of bricks sold-- back in the days when we sold 142 bricks and drew erase lines on the "board"--- well then we got big -- 2100 sold now is a sell out on which we depend-- and somehow i kept going with the old calculations then and found the armstrong flooring with the squares...totally convinced they were 3" squares... i even wrote to armstrong trying to find 3" squares--- they had none-- told me they never did-- so i started off trying to find another company etc...yesterday a new volunteer proudly produced a sample from home depot- technically 4.25 inches which i quickly told her was too big. she went into the arena and came back telling me they were the same size.
i still have trouble believing it-- fortunately, she too is a math type....
ok theresa.... did we ever have 3" squares?-- didn't we used to write them ourselves?? til we got the flooring???
well now we have to redo the design entirely.. she is going to get a 12' x 12' piece of floor for our next shatting.
proving once again-- once an idea is implanted in my head it is liable to stay there.
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we had 2 delightful bearded men giving out cookies to pups yesterday-the both of them have been sitting around with not enough to do for various reasons - and have luckily found a way to the farm where their beards can be put to use getting pups ready for the real world which contains bearded faced men.
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which brings me back to puppy training.... we must now include "muzzle training" on all our dogs just so that if they should ever find themselves in a situation where.... for instance... a veternarian is in a hurry and wants to muzzle them for whatever reason, if we have trained them to accept it gracefully, then they would not become dangerous flying object, like a drunken 747, terrified, with one dew claw stuck in the muzzle as they try and rip it off.... just as a random example i just happened to dream up.... george would never do that- but some beginners might.
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and the chicken coops-- jeff built the most magnificant saw horses ever gracing this farm--i am sure if we ever need to use them to hold up the tractor, they will work fine... david #1 was here -- and said he would be back on wednesday ( or so) to help out-- he did such a good job on the condo's in the dog dorm... we have a nice big pile of lumber of various sizes and shape so i took a 4 x 8 sheet and laid out there i would put 2x4's for the frame'
see---- jeff is of the "measuring" type--- i am the "nail it together and cut off anything that sticks out."
we need to get this project rolling... i don't know when the chicks might arrive... but we need some creative housing.. on wheels so we can move around the yard/grass... on the internet tractorcoops.com there are some cute ones... "eggplants"
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patrick and gronk are still here - going home tomorrow-- they are doing great - gronk had his physical ay danvers animal hospital yesterday without any excitement at all..-- i hope to have them meet with george sometime before patrick leaves... george has a semi work schedule..
