SEPT 25 2016

GREAT CROWD!!!     AND   THAT CAKE !!----- OH THAT I COULD EMAIL THE PHOTO...  BUT SOMEONE MUST BE ABLE TO !! AND WE DID EAT ¼ OF THE SECOND CAKKE... LOBSTERS WERE TERIFFIC AS WAS TEH REST OF THE FOOD TOO...  I HAVE A FEELING ALOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT STAY FOR DINNER... OR THEY GAVE US THE WRONG NUMGER OF LOBSTERS BECAUSE WE HAD DOZENS LEFT...-- WHICH DID NOT GO TO WASTE... I AM TOLD TEH CAMERA ANGLE WAS TERRIFFIC ALL DAY  AND THE ADDITION OF SOUND WAS  A HUGE BONUS SO PEOPLE  REALLY FELT LIKE THEY WERE PART OF TEH PROCEEDINGS. AS FOR TODAY'S SCHEDU;ED EVENTS... NOT THAT I APPROVE OF SCHEDULING ANYTHING..... I AM TOLD THERE WILL BE A DONKEY PARADE MID MORNING SOMETHINE...-- OBJECT BEING TO GO AROUND THE POND WITH DONKEYS  IN PREP FOR BEING ABLE TO MAKE IT AAAROUND TEH "FOREST LOOP"  AS SOON AS WE GET THAT DITCH COVERED..... APPARENTLY MANY PEOPLE WITH  A FEW DOGS  LIKE CHAOS....MADE IT AROUND TEH 1 HOUR LOO0P IN THE FOREST... AND SAID IT WAS "BEAUTIFUL.  CERTAINLY ONE PART OF IT IS THE  REALLY STEEP  GLACIER  BIT... WHERE YO WALK ALONG A RIDGE....  THE TRAIL IS NOT 100% GOLF CART PROOF.... NOT SURE IT EEVER WOULD BE... --- TEH WALK.... MAY NOT ALL BE ON CAMERA, BUT THE EXCITING PART WILL BE ACROSS THE  AREA IN FRONT OF THE T TENT.. BECAUSE SOME OF THESE DONKEYS HAVE NEVER HAD HALTERS OR LEAD ROPES ON......I.E.  WILD...  ONCE TEHY GET THE HANG OF IT  THEY YSYALLY GO ALONG WITH  AT LEAST NOT FIGHTING... BUT FORWARD MOMENTUM IS SOMETIMES QUESTIONABLE...PLEASE REMEMBER... A FRIGHTENED DONKEY STANDS STILL.. A FRIGHTENED HORSE RUNS....-- SO THE USUALL GET BEHIND AND CLAP YOUR HANDS AND SCARE THEM  ONLY MAKES MATTER WORSE..  ESTABLISHING  STATIONS OF THE--- .. SOURCE OF FOOD.... MIGHT HELP...  SO THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING...   THEY SAY THAT WORKS WITH PEOPLE TOO, BUT I HAVE YET TO SEE ANY PEOPLE AS RELIABLE AS DONKEYS... THERE IS A SIDELIGHT HERE---- JANINE HAD A PONY FROM THOSE SLAUGHTER PENS IN TEXAS- WHO WAS THE "DESPARATELY WILD SORT ALTHO IT WAS FAT AND ROUND  WITH TRIMMED FEET ( ALWAYS A CLUE) -  SHE WOULD GET CLOSE AND THE PONY WOULD PANIC AND TRY AND CLIMB THE FENCES.. AT FIRST WE ASSUMED-- JUST WILD... THEN WE THOUGHT MAYBE THEY WERE USING ELEFTRIC STOCK PRODS  TO MOVE THESE ANIMALS AROUND THE PENS... AND THAT PROVED  PROBABLY THE CASE... SO WE WENT THRU-- ( I.E.    JANINE WENT THRU ) A PROCESS OF HALTERING AND HANGING ON AND GROOMING... FINALLY THE PONY WENT BACK TO RELAXING AND WE REFIGURED...  WAS PROBABLY  SOMEONES PET...  JANINE GAVE IT TO SOMEONE AS A LAWN ORNAMENT ( WHAT MOST OF THE EQUINES IN NEW ENGLAND ARE...FAT AND HAPPY)  DONKEYS ARE NOT KNOWN FOR ERRATIC BEHAVIOR-- WHIC MAKES TEHM MUCH SAFER IN GENERAL THAN HORSES.. BUT WITH THE ELEMENT OF  POSSIBLE ELECT4RICITYIN THEIR HISTORY, ONE HAS TO BE PREPARED.  PET PEEVE #965.....    THERE WILL BE NO WRAPPING ANY ROPE  OR LEASH  AROUND ANY HAND OR OTHER BODY PART.. THIS IS A LIFETIME LESSON OF THE DAY... LOOP  LOOP  LOOP  BUT NEVER WRAP AROUND--- EVEN A BIG DOG IS VERY CAPABLE OF  CAUSING A DISASTER-- ITIS ALSO WHY I HAVE  MADE LEAD ROPES FOR THIS PROCESS ONLY 4' LONG AND VERY FAT ROPE... NO WRAPPING...   SO WHILE WE ARE AT IT ...  DOCTORS AND NURASES VERY POETICALLY DRAPE STETHOSCOPES AROUND THEIR NECKS --  AND TRAINERS AROUND HERE DRAPE OUR SHORT ROPES WITH A RING  ( LEASHES)  AROUND THIER NECKS,   BUT ONLY A  STUPID FOOL PUTS TEH   END OF THE ROPE THRU THE RING.... NOOSE STYLE...     MURPHY WAS A PATIENT SOUL... JUST WAITING... 7TH LAW OF MURPHY  -- WHAT CAN HAPPEN , WILL HAPPEN  -- *****-----  THE OTHER VERY EXCITING THING IS PHOENIX HIS DOIN' THE YUPPY   BEHIND ME WITH HER PAW  GETTING HER BREAKFAST ALL BY HERSELF... **** THE BUILDING CREW   WILL BE BACK TODAY... THEY GOT THE CRITICAL FIRST LAYER DOWN.. THE REST SHOULD GO FASTER.... IT IS NOT ALL THAT SIMPLE  AND WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE  JACK PLUS TWO THINKERS DOING THIS...  I AM VERY COMFORTABLE THAT WE WOULD HAVE MADE  A MORE INTERESTNG MESS OF THIS HAD WE STARTED WITHOUT A PRO..  THESE 2 ARE A HUGE LESSON IB INTERNATIONAL POLITICS...  THE ONLY ENGLISH WORD THEY UNDERSTAND IS "CASH"  A WORD  WITH WHICH I AM ALSO  FAMILIAR...... IF WE THROW OUT ALL THE ILLEGAL IMMAGRENTS- FIRSTLY HOW MANY BUSSES WILL THAT TAKE ?  AND WHO WILL MAKE TEH CHINESE CHICKEN  WINGS---  OR ...RUN ALL THE  "BROTHERS DELI" CAFETERIAS... OR   VARIETY STORES... OR ALOT OF  OTHER CASH  BUSINESSES... OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS PREPARING ALOT OF THINKERS...NOT DO--ERS- WHO THEN ALL GO TO  CONGRESS EXCEPT WHEN THEY HAVE TO STAY AT HOME BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT GET A PLUMBER TO  STOP THE WATER FROM OVERFLOWING IN THE UPSTAIRS BATHROOM. ****** GREAT TO SEE SO MANY OF OUR GRADUATES HERE YESTERDAY...MANY WILL BE BACK TODAY... I HOPE MARK CAN GET A PICTURE OF THEM IN  ONE PHOTO...  ( HE HAD HIS DRONE HERE TOO  -- MARK LOVES HIS TOYS..... LUCKILY ...  A HUGE BENEFIT TO SDP) ****  NORTHSHORE ACCAPELLA  GROUP SINGERS WERE TERRIFFIC-- PER USUAL...I WONDERED IF HE NEIGHBORS HEARD THEM TOO THEY WERE INVITED.... I DON'T THINK  ANYONE CAME... THERE WERE ALOT OF PEOPLE I DIDN'T RECOGNISE... BUT THAT ISN' T NEWS... ****** SO TODAY..... NORMAL STUFF-- HANGING AROUND    PLUS...  BUILDERS ARE DUE BACK....... TEH DONKEY WALK...MID MORNING LUNCH .. WITH MARK?   AND LEFT OVERS... THERE WILL BE SOME UNKNOWN ENTERTAINMENT SHORTLY AFTER LUNCH SPIRIT  STICK  MARCH...SOMETIME LATER-- AND BEN AND JERRY ICECREAM  TRUCK (?VAN?) AND MORE HANGING AROUND... WE ARE OFF AND RNNING..