JODY WANTS TO GO ON A XXXX RUN FIRST THIG THIS MORNING--- TRailer is all loaded... BRICK ENDS FARM IN HAMILTON...AN INTERESTING COMPOSTING PLACE WHERE YOU MAY DROP OFF YOUR HORSE MANURE for free AND 2 YEARS LATER BUY IT BACK AS PERFECT GROWING MEDIUM....LAST TIME I WAS THER THE PILE WAS AT LEAST TWICE THE HEIGHT OF OUR ARENA... IT GOOGLES-- it is also a lesson in taking useless and turning it into valyable by using what you have available-- in this case brains and time.; it is well run.
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i enjoy trying to get the younger kids here to use their "education " in a practical setting. usually geometry- so many kids see absolutely no reason to study geometry- totally missing out on the logic it is supposed to develope- but even so-- there is a practical use.. especially around here.. i have spent time proving that boards nailed in very lopsided will stabalize a rectangular wall-- or hold up a mailbox...
the other day-- while working on the cafe le donk---- we --- keagan , anotehr volunteer xxxx and i -- were trying to get the posts lined up and even in prep for puttin on some kind of roof to support a tarp. lined up was out of the question since teh concrete guy came before i acttually lined up the holes dug by the corp exec's on their community service day-- these were 15 people with desk jobs- who -- were hysterical.-- bright , intelligent people, totally out of their element... in the fresh air...
eager to help, they lined up as i explained we needed about 24 holes -- 3 lines of 8--- about 6 inches deep --- into which i would put pvc pipe and then pour the concrete floor. a guy said "give me a post hole digger" and a woman said "we need a level" -- i gave the guy one of the many pos hole digging devices we own.. and also handed him a screw driver and soup spoon- which in this case was-- in my opinion the way to go. teh woman and i chuckled at the level and concept of up and down -- i had stretched strings, but those were in the way and got taken down.... as these people sat down on the ground with their soop spoons.-- conversation was lively- and teh concept of "straight line" got lost-- but i figured i would cope somehow-- i was only trying to put up a tent...
teh concrete guy had a pretty good eye-- and straightened up the 24 pieces of pvc pipe as he poured teh concrete.
2 days later we were set to continue using heavier pipe -- due to --- we had to span longer distance because 2 points determine a line-- and there were no 3 of our holes in an kind of straight line..skipping the middle holes, it was necessary to get theswe end posts level-- it was not immediate because all these holes were of different depth.
that is where we were when keagan ,xxxxx,,, and i were putting teh 10 ' long pipe in teh pvc. i measured 4 pipes for teh "ridge" top line..
now you have to pay attention.... they were 107 109 108 116 inches tall... -- i decided teh easiest height to go for was 109-- so keagan put a few handfulls of stone dust back in teh holes so we had 3 at 109 and the 116... which we were going to have to cut.
how much??? - it was a simple 7 inches too tall??? cut off 7 inches- but i thought i would challange the thinking and stuck my tape in teh hole- and said "the hole is 4 inches deep" that confused both keagan and the other guy xxxx- -- i said don't cut it til you can prove to me you are right- and i left. --they spent teh next 1/2 hour trying to figure out how much to cut- when i came back , i could see too much information had clouded ther thinking. they were getting no where- so i told them to forget it- and next time they were here i expected them to be able to explain to me where and why to cut the pipe-- simple 109 inches tall and 4 inches in the hole=113 inches from a 120" pipe... is teh same 7 inches that it was too tall... -
i honestly do not know what i said... these were 2 at least high school graduates- i might have got into my "mental exercise" speech- which i often get into-- keagan has been around here a while and is used to my chalanges to his thinking... what i did not know-- was teh opther guy xxxx-- was offended-- and went home and wrote a terrible letter explaining how awful l rude i had been to him... he was getting the same treatment as keagan-- "why do you want me to cut 4"??... prove it !! that makes no sense !! is teh kind of thing i am sure i said..
keagan was back teh next day-- with his solution-- the other guy sent teh letter... which i will share with teh board.
this could mean another sign on the gate --" hard hats and heads required."
i dunno
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eve and finn....
First the fun news then the not so fun....
On Saturday Eve got to participate in a Ballroom dancing class alongside some of her fashion show friends at Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Brookfield. She did a great job and had a great time! I’m sure we will go again! It was a great workout for her arms and her hips. Finn was quite happy to be a spectator at this event!!
Unfortunately over several days - beginning last week - Eve kept hurting her right arm. I first thought she just tweaked the wrist joint a little. Apparently it first hurt mid week during dance class when she shot her hand up in the air, then she hurt it lifting math books onto her desk, she’s trying to tell me it’s all math’s fault she broke her arm so therefore no more math - she’s a funny one! (apparently it was fine during ballroom dancing but - 🤔) then we came home and outside a bug startled her and that was the last straw, she was in quite a bit of pain. So Sunday we were in the ER for - I don’t know 3-4 hours. Apparently ERs are busy on holiday weekends 🤣. None the less she has 3 small fractures in her lower right arm and she is really out growing the pins in those bones that give them stability and keep them straight. Even still, they did their job and kept them from being big fractures. So we will be sending those xrays to her surgeon and since we will be considering surgery anyway we will get new xrays of her femur and see if he’s ready to fix that as well. Its been almost 2 years without a surgery- that’s the longest she’s ever gone without needing one. She’s a little bored with a still weak leg and now her dominant is out of commission. These are the days I love her tablet! We have 3 days of school left so that will keep her occupied until things become a little more comfortable when she can use her arm more even while immobilized.
