GOT TO LOOK UP LATEST LIST-------- WHICH STATES DO NOT COVER AT LEAST ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH A CAKE ON THE 19TH...
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TEH TUFT'S VOLUNTEERS WERE SUPER ROCK ROLLERS YESTERDAY-- I FIGURE WE MOVED AVOUT 3 TONS OF SLIGHTLY BIG STONES-- ABOUT 1 TO 2 FEET IN DIAMETER... THERE WAS A COLLECTION UP ON DONKEY HILL THAT WAS NOT HOLDING DONKEY HILL IN PLACE SO TUFTS ROLLED TEHM DOWN SO I COULD CARRY THEM IN THE TRACTOR TI THE =NEW DRIVEWAY WHERE THERE IS A BANK IN NEED...THEY WERE GOOD SPORTS AS I SMILED AND CHEERED THEM ON FROM THE A/C COMFORT OF THE TRACTOR CAB...
THERE WAS A SECOND GROUP WHO WENT AROUND AND MEASURED EVERY GATE ON TEH PROPERTY-- BECAUSE VERY FEW OF THEM ARE SUITABLE FOR THE OPENING THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO "GATE" ---- THEY GAVE ME THE LIST AND LOCATION OF 29 GATES- SOME ARE JUST INTENTIONAL GATES AND ARE LEANERS JUST WAITING FOR A CALL TO SERVICE. SO MANY OF THESE ARE PUT IN PLACE-- TOO LARGE --- JUST AWKWARD-- BUT THERE ARE A FEW TO WHICH WE HAVE ADDED A PIECE OF PLYWOOD AS A DOG DEFLECTOR. .. PLUS A FEW WITH THE ODD BEND- THAT NEED TO BE JUMPED ON...
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WE HAVE A GROUP OF 25 BLACKROCK EMPLOYEES ASKING TO COME VOLUNTEER ON JULY 31-- ALWAYS A CHALLANGE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT A LARGE GROUP CAN DO-- I WOULD LOVE TO GIVE THEM THIS GATE LIST- BUT I THINK I MIGHT BE BEYOND ANYONE WHO IS NOT INVOLVED WITH WHO GOES WHERE AND WHY,
.... LIKE GOATS-- WHICH WE NOW HAVE 2 OF.... ONE SKINNEY, ONE EXCEEDINGLY FAT AND/ OR PREGNANT...
CAN BE SEEN ON THE DONKEY CAMERA-- SO FAR WE HAVE DETERMINED THEY WILL SCOOT THRU ANY AVAILABLE OPENING BUT THEN JUST STAND- OR FOLLOW SOMEONE AROUND WITHOUT THE INSTINCT TO HIT THE ROAD-- LIKE MO...
TO THAT COLLECTION OF DONKEYS WAS ADDED A NICE LOOKING RIDING SIZE MULE WHICH APPARENTLY WAS SOMEONE'S PET- AND DOES NOT LIKE BEING BEHIND A FENCE.
THE SWAPPING AROUND OF ALL THAT LIVESTOCK LEFT ME- WITH ONE TOO MANY TRAILERS IN THE YARD. WHICH MEANT WITH RECIPIENTS IN BOTH THE GUEST HOUSE AND TRAINING ROOM THERE WAS ONE OTHER DRIVER PERSON SLEPT SOMEWHERE AS YET UNKNOWN TO ME;-- OUR LAUNDRY BUILDING HAS 2 BIG COUCHES-- HOPEFULLY THAT IS WHERE... BECAUSE BY THE TIME I GOT ROUND TO FIGURING OUT, WHO DROVE THAT TRAILER, THE TRAILER.. WITH TEXAS PLATES WAS GOING DOWN THE DRIVEWAAY. THE TEXAS TRAILER IS ONE JANINE USES TO BRING EQUINES HERE FROM THE SLAUGHTER PENS AND THE DRIVER KNOWS SHE CAN CRASH HERE.. SOMEWHERE... MORE SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT....
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SOUNDS LIKE A LOOSE ARRAINGEMENT- WHICH -IT ALMOST IS.... I AM HAPPY TO LET THEM CRASH-- THEY ARE WELL BEHAVED WORKING PEOPLE..
WHICH BRINGS TO MIND...... WORKING---- THIS IS NOT A PETTING ZOO WHERE YOU COME AND ENJOY THE ANIMALS AND SIT AROUND PETTING THEM -- WITHOUT SO MUCH AS PICKING UP HAY STRING, SWEEPING OR RAKING.
AS I HAVE SAID MANY TIMES THERE ARE DARN FEW PEOPLE WHO CAN NOT HELP SOMEHOW. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THEN ENJOY ! HOWEVER WHEN I COME TO AN ABLE BODIED VISITOR JUST SITTING PATTING TEH DONKEYS OR DOGS FOR AN HOUR- TALKING TO AN EMPLYOEE WHO IS TRYING TO BE POLITE WHILE WORKING - I GET FRUSTRATED IF THEY ARE TOTALLY UNAWARE- THE FLOOR WOULD LOOK BETTER IF THEY SWEPT IT- IR EVEN PICK UP THE HAY STRING THAT MISSED TEH BARREL. SCOOTER KAREN IS A GOOD HELPFUL EXAMPLE-- WHEN SHE IS HERE , I KNOW THERE WILL NOT BE ANY BITS OF PAPER LEFT OVER NUMBERS FROM SHATTING ... OR PLASTIC TYE WRAPS TOSSED IN TEH DRIVEWAY-- SHE PICKS THEM UP AS SHE WANDERS...YESTERDAY I CAME TO SOMEONE DOING NOTHING... SO I MADE A FEW SUGGESTIONS.
