lots cookin today-- fence to come down, bentley to go for a second opinion feelie, and --- teh road scraper put ion teh tractor instead of the grass catcher... hole to dig for teh tree stump pounder outside teh shop-- which was "rons world" and is now a mini home depot suply closet- with out organization...
buds world--- what was previously referred to as teh giraffe tent was stripped of #$%^&*() and organized by a great coupple from maine-- all teh good tables were removed to where good tables are sat at... and teh rough blue picnic tables we removed to a more rugged lifestyle. all this enabled the shatting to take place....
we have at least one chicken who seems to have the process down squat.-- she comes out of the crate... makes her choice and turns and goes back in the crate-- i would not have believed it if i had not seen it. i have always wondered about teh bird brain expression... humans can get these things all wrong-- like horse sense...
horse sense is about the last kind of sense i would want to have-- so back to bird brtain...
there is a video around of a chicken playing teh stars spangled banner on a tiny piano at americans got talent???
i think i could do that with any of our chickens---i think teh way it was done is chikens willl peck at most anything moving.. like a laser beam-- all the person had to do was recognize thatt( ifit was true).
this was the secret of my success at animal episodes- very eaqrly in the game i recognized that what these people----- with teh big check books from holywook ----realy wanted was not a dog running across boston common-- they wanted a picture of a dog running across boston common-- and tehy really didn't care how it all happened...
as life with animals in movies went on-- animal rights got involved and would not let anyone use that approval stamp you all have become used to seeing :" no animals were harmed in the production if this movie" -- this is a big deal with movie makers-- and my animal episodes had a 100% aqpproval rate with animal rights.. maybe i shoudl say 99%-- because teh cockroaches i used for "the next karate kid" movie were harmed--- i set fire to the shoe box full of them in the parking lot before i left the set..-- they ahd been drafted for teh performance from a local restaurant - and were doomed anyway.
teh animal inspectors were on set in full force for the _ i forget the movie name-- where a dead dog gets burried deep-- like 6 feet down- i arrived with ellie - who was one of m y origional 8-- great big dog- harlequin--- as steady as tehy come... i had just used her in a hammock commerscial-- and let me tell you to get a dog in a swing hamoch takes a steady dog.....-- the set had dug th e hole--3 sided- with a ramp down-- so down she and i went-- i had her lie down- and arrainged her legs as they wanted-- they got the shot--- and teh director said-- do you suppose we coudl cover her with dirt? i said "lets try" -- it tooke just a few handfulls to get her used to teh
( rock free) dirt they used to cover her... but she stayed nearly motionless-- they had to cut the "take" for teh small adjustments of teh dirt drop--
but the animal rights group said to me then- they were not gong to waste money observing me any more. that was a huge compliment...- and they nearly stuck to it until the clint "make my day" episode with pigeons... but thzat is another story/
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WITH perfect picture of her at the parade with piglet---
The “Pig” and I had a great 4th of July! It was a hot one, so we didn’t do much walking. But he handled the parade like a champ(the fire truck sirens were a little scary) and I think we both looked great, if I do say so myself
