NOV 30 2019

SAVED BY A CP !  IF YOU ARE A NEW COMER, I BET YOU NEVER WONDERED WHY TEH HOUSE CAMERA ON TEH PUPPIES  IS ALWAYS TILTED TO CATCH THE CORNER OF THE COUNTER-- THAT IS BECAUSE I AM  TIRED OF LOSING PRESSURE COOKERS.... AND CROCKPOTS..  I BUY ONE WITH EVERY INTENTION OF COOKING (WELL BUTTON PUSHING A CONATINER OF FOOD INTO A STEW)  AND I HAVE LOST 5 OF TEHM IN THE PAST YEAR.

THEY SAY IT IS MARK OF INSANITY WHEN SOMEONE REPEATS THE SAME THIGN OVER AND OVER..WELL... LET ME CHIME IN ON THAT ONE...  COULD BE IT IS JUST A PERSON WHO'S SHORT TERM MEMORY IS SEVERELY COMP[ROMISED AND THEY JUST DON'T REMEMBER  DOING IT THE FIRST THREE TIMES.

WELL THIS TIME.... I SAID THE #$%^&* POT WAS TO BE LEFRT ON THE COUNTER WITHIN SIGHT OF THE CAMERA PEOPLE- AND I MENTIONED I WISH FOLKS WOULD KEEP THERI EYE ON IT--LAST NIGHT I GOT AN EMERGENCE EMAIL  "THE POT IS GONE"   TEH HUNT WAS ON-- AND IT WAS FOUND AND PUT BACK IN IT'S PLACE OF HONOR/.  CAMERA PEOPLE DON'T MISSS A THING ! THANK HEAVENS.

JUST IN TIME TOO---STUFF LANDS IN THAT OVERFLOW ROOM- AND WHEN IT OVERFLOWS,  THE STUFF ENDS UP AT SALVATION ARMY-- WHERE I OFTEN BUY THINGS....

SOMETIMES OUR EFFICIENCY IS OVERWHELMING...  THE REST OF THE TIME, WE ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON PEOPLE'S  FOLLOWING THE RULES

IF IT IS FULL, EMPTY IT

IF IT IS EMPTY, FILL IT.

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NEXYT PROBLEM.

IT STARTED WITH  "SOME SNOW"  AND THAT WAS ENOUGHT FOR EVERYONE AROUIND HERE TO  WORRY ABOUT THE SNOW/ICE PROBLEM- AND I DIDN'T PAY ALOT OF ATTENTION, THIS IS NEW ENGLAND - YOU HAVE TO EXPECT SNOW ICE..

 THEN TEHY SAID 6 INCHES.. STILL - IT IS EARLY AND I DIDN'T THINK 6" WOULD BE A PROBLEM- WE COULD WADDLE THRU 6" WITHOUT MAJOR UPROARAND IT WOULD MELT...... THEN NOON YESTERDAY FLIGHTS GOT CANCELED AND THEY STARTED WITH THE 12" SNOW-- SO I GOT THE NEXT FIREMAN UP THE DRIVEWAY  TO PUT MY PLOW ON MY CAR... ( IT JUST SLIPS IN A TRAILER HITCH KIND OF THING ON THE FRONT END)  AND I TOOK IT OUT FOR A DRIVE -- JUST OT HAVE EVERY ONE GIVE ME THE " WAVE---ANOTHER IDIOT....  IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR-- THEY PREDICT SNOW FLURRIES AND EVERYONE  QUICKLY PUTS ON THERI NEW PLOWS AND DRIVES AROUND" .... OK... I AM NEARLY GUILTY THERE... THEN THIS MORNING THEY ARE SAYYING

 1 OR 2 FEET..  FOR ALL YOU FLORIDIANS, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 1 OR 2 FEET IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE HERE "ON THE FARM" 

TEH ANIMALS NEED CARE AND WE MUST GET THE  DRIVEWAY OPEN TO THE STREET TO GET HELP IN...

I KNOW NEW ENGLAND-- AND I KNOW MANY PEOPLE WITH SNOW PLOWS- IT IS USUALLY NOT TOO DIFFICULT TO HAVE SOMEONE COME AND STRAIGHTEN OUT  THE PARKING BY THE BARN,  BUT THERE IS  ALOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE "DOING CORNERS"   WHICH IS TEH BREAD AND BUTTER OF TEH NEW SNOW PLOW INDUSTRY. AFTER THE BIG PLOWS ROAR THRU ON THEIR WAY TO KEEPING THEE HIGHWAY OPEN.  PILES OF SNOW TRIANGLES ARE AT MOST EVERY CORNER... THER YOU WILL FIND TEH SMALLER PICKUPS AND TRACTOR LOADERS SHOVING THAT AROUND... UNDER CONTRACT-- YOU WILL NOT FIND THEM DOING "LITTLE JOBS" LIKE OURS... -- WITH MY REMOTE STARTER, COMFORTABLE  HEATED CAR, I DON'T MIND  PUSHING ENOUGH AROUND SO PEOPLE CAN GET IN... NAMELY THE MEN WHO WILL HELP BY USEING \THE REST OF THE EQUIPMENT WE HAVE--- NAMELY 2 TRACTOREE WITH BUCKETS, ONE WITH A SAND SPREADER, SNOW BLOWER AND A BUNCH OF SHOVELS...  THE KENNELS HAVE TO BE DONE BY HAND...

TH E BEST THING WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR A BIG STORM.. IS OUR ACCEPTANCE  OF TEH FACT - WE ARE GONG TO GET BIG STORMS-- SO GET AS READY AS YOU CAN...  AS WE GET FURTHER INTO WINTER AND IT REALL Y PILES UP, IT IS FUN TO HAVE  A FEW PEOPLE STAY OVERNIGHT

YOU CAN ONLY GET READY--- I MAY ORDER A TRUCKLOAD OF SAND TOBE COVERED..  THE WORST KIND I CAN REMEMBER IS TEH FOOT OF SNOW WITH AN ICY CRUST ON TOP  WHICH REALLY HURTS DOGS AND DONKEY'S  LEGS AS THEY BREAK THRU-- THAT IS WHEN AL L WE CAND O IS HAVE THME RUN INTHE ARENA- WHILE WE DRIVE TRACTORES AROUND THE FIELDS TO BREAK UP TJHE ICY CRUST.

WINTER IS COMING-- WE HAVE FIREWOOD  AND GENMERATORS  -- WE WILL MAKE  IT . YOU WANT PROBLEMS?   HOW ABOUT 8 PALLETS OF DRY DOG FOOD AT TEH BOTTOM OF THE DRIVEWAY BECAUSE TEH TRUCK CAN NOT GET IN BECAUSE OF TEH PLOWED U[P PILES OF SNOW... 

THERE WILL BE  PROBLEMS.  IT IS NEW ENGLAND... 

JUDY'S HUSBAND IS PROBABLY THE BEST FORCASTER- HE IS A PILOT-- HE THINKS ALONG TEH COAST IT SHOULD NOT BE TOO BAD..  SO HOW FAR IS "IN"? 

*****

MAIL CALL QUESTION ABOUT TALKEETNA DID NOT SEEM TO BE ANSWERED IN COMMENTS. I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH TALKEETNA IN THEIR SCREEN NAMES. WE HAVE BEEN TO TALKEETNA, ALASKA TWICE AND IT IS A DELIGHTFUL SMALL TOWN.  QUIRKY, INDEPENDENT PEOPLE. SPENT A FEW NIGHTS, HAD A FEW BEERS WITH THE LOCALS AND THOROUGHLY ENJOYED OURSELVES. SADLY, IT IS ON THE CRUISE SHIP LIST OF TOURS TO TAKE SO THE TOWN HAS LOTS OF THOSE "TYPE" OF PEOPLE IN THE SUMMER MONTHS. WE WERE THERE IN EARLY SEPTEMBER BOTH TIMES SO MISSED THE MAJORITY OF THE CRUISE SHIP PEOPLE MUCH TO OUR DELIGHT! IF YOU REMEMBER THE TV SHOW NORTHERN EXPOSURE, THE SHOW WAS "MODELED" AFTER TALKEETNA. PRIMARY PLACE FOR PEOPLE WHO GO TO CLIMB DENALI - FORMERLY MOUNT MCKINLEY - TO EMBARK FROM AND BEST PLACE TO HIRE A FLIGHTSEEING TOUR OF THE ALASKAN RANGE.

THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION OF TALKEETNA IS

[towl-KEET-nuh]

SHOE FAIRY

NOV 29 2019

BLACK FRIDAY-- THAT DAY WHEN EVERYONE IN THE STATES... EATS A BREAKFAST OF TURKEY, STUFFING, HAM, AND APPLE PIE... AND THEN JOINS TEH HUDDLE MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE BECAUSE TEHY ARE SQUISHED WITH ALL TEH REST OF THE  HUDDLING MASSES YEARNING TO BUY DISCOUNTED ITEMS AT THE MALL... I NEVER DID THAT. 

ROUTE 95-- MAIN ROAD FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA--- WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WAS SOLID  TRAFFIC- AND I FIGURED IT WAS VERY POETIC HOW TEHY WERE ALL GOING "UP TO THE COUNTRY" FOR THANKSGIVING DAY--- NORMAN ROCKWELL STYLE HOMECOMING .

I DUNNO WHAT HAPPENED BUT WHEN I PICKED UP OUR DINNER  AT NOON thursday AND DROVE ON RT 95, , THE TRAFFIC COMING BACK FROM "UP COUNTRY" WAS SOLID--THERE ARE SOOO MANY PEOPLE -- MAYBE MAINE WAS FULL? 

**

 IN THE DOG DEPARTMENT.....I DID HAVE ONE BRILLIANT IDEA YESTERDAY- WE WENT TO WATCH JANINE "TAKE OFF"  WITH THE MYOPIA HUNT-- A VERY FORMAL AFFAIR- ALWAYS SHOCKING TO ME THAT THE SOMETIMES  JANINE/HORSE  EPISODE CAN BE ANYTHING BUT FORMAL-I REMEMBER HER COLLEGE DAYS WHEN SHE WAS HAPPY TO MAKE $20 BY BRAIDING HORSES FOR OTHERS TO RIDE IN THAT HUNT.... NOW THAT SHE IS A YELLOW COLLARED  MEMBER, MAYBE SHE CAN ARRAINGE FOR SERVICEDOG PROJECT  TO "USE" THE MYOPIA HOUNDS TO ACCLIMATE OUR DOGS TO  GROUPS OF DOGS.

THESE HOUNDS-- MAYBE 30 OF THEM  WERE PERFECTLY BEHAVED-- ALL LOOSE OF COURSE-- FOLLOWING THE GUY ON A HORSE WHO WAS IN CHARGE.- THERE  ARE DETAILS I FIND AMAZING-- LIKE - NO FIGHTS-- AND ALL QUIETLY STANDING AROUND THAT ONE HORSE UNTIL TOLD TO RUN AND BARK-- WHICH THEY THEN DID !

TO THE UNINITIATED-- IT IS  CALLED FOX HUNTING -- BUT AS TEHE HOUNDS RACE THRU THE WOODS THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE SCENT OF A ROTTEN DIRTY SMELLY RAG SOMEONE DRAGGED AROUND  on horseback 2 HOURS EARLIER...  THAT IS HOW THEY STAY  ON A SPECIFIC  PATH/TRAIL- 

ANOTHER WIERD--- THE HOUNDS ARE RAISED WITH  GOATS-- I MEAN IN THE SAME PEN WITH GOATS SO THEY ARE NOT FASCINATED WITH MAYBE CHASING  THINGS LIKE DEER....

WE HAVE A DOG OR TWO WHICH MIGHT BENIFIT FROM SOME OF THOSE CONCEPTS...

\  I AM TIRED OF SITIING AT PET STORES WAITING FOR DOGS TO ARRIVE SO I CAN EXPLAIN TO OURS THEY MUST IGNORE OTHER DOGS.  MAYBE I CAN , IN ONE HOUR At myopia, do what it takes me days to do at pet stores.

couple other details l  --- there were a few horses with a red ribbon  in theri tails...  don't ride/walk  behind them.... those kick.

it was a photo op for sure... hounds-- followed by  red coats( men ) and yellow collared jackets ( women)  a bunch of perfectly turned out riders-- then.. the " hill toppers"  those who's abilties- or the horse's abilties are not up to jumping all the fences-   they follow but go around teh jumps.-- kids on ponies  etc.. all perfectly "turned out" .

THEY DO IT "RIGHT"   BUT IT IS NOT WITHOUT DANGER.... 

TO ADD TO THE RIDE-- THERE IS ALSO A TRADITION OF "THE STIRRUP CUP" WHICH IS  A WEE BIT OF WINE OR OTHER DRINK OFFERED TO RIDERS ABOUT TO GO ON A JOURNEY-- WHICH AT THIS HUNT IS EVERY PROPERTY/ ESTATE  THEY GO THRU OFFERS THEM A DRINK... OR SOMETHING.  THAT CAN ADD TO THE  WHOLE PICTURE...

WE HAVE OFTEN STOOD AROUND AND LISTENED FOR THE SOUND  OF THE AMBULANCE  WAY OFF IN THE WOODS.

*****

goldie is at it again..

***

Carlene,

I drove up here to spend TG in Talkeetna, AK, about 150 miles north of Anchorage. It is a very small town, 1 Main Street 2 blocks long, dirt.  I am in a cabin way off the road that is cozy and warm and no TV or internet but WiFi;. I am having TG dinner in town  at the Roadhouse family style. Winter wonderland here. 

Carol 

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now  I REMEMBERED......who is teh person in 2017 who send us some collars and her camera name was TALKEETNA--  that is too strange a word to have any other expliantion than a connection to that town.

AND CAROL NEVER SENT US COLLARS... SO.......IN A TOWN IN ALASKA-- WITH A POPULATION OF 84 PEOPLE --- 2 OF THEM JUST MIGHT BE  SDP CAMERA PEOPLE AND UNKNOWN TO EACH OTHER?????

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NOW FOR GOLDIE 2

 A CAMERA PERSON--- I DO NOT KNOW FROM WHERE... HAS A SON IN TEXAS WHO  MIGHT BE ABLE TO HLEP WITH MY COMPUTER PROBLEMS--- -- I TALKED TO HIM ON THE PHONE- AND HE SAID HE KNEW OF A GUY IN MASSACHEUTTES 

 WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP... ED WHITE--

TURNS OUT ED WHITE LIVES 1/2 MILE FROM ME AND ONCE HELPED ME WITH SOME ANIMAL COMMERDCIALS VERY LONG AGO.

nov 28 2019 
i dunno what happened... shuda posted thei morningb.

i had a very wise aunt mildred who often said  "blessed be nothing" -- which can go 6 ways to sunday.  She was a retired school teacher( of  kids WHo were deaf)  lived in an appartment in nyc- smallest i have ever seen- and she would visit us for thanksgiving- and the "NOTHING"  she often blessed was the  fact that she had no belongings that had to be kept dry, insured,maintained and protected from being stolen. her luggage was minimal... even at 12 years old i recognized she traveled light ! 

she also did the needlepoint which hangs in our guest house

You are welcome here

be at your ease

get up in the morning 

go to bed when you please

happy to share with you 

such as we've got

 the leaks in the roof

 the soup in the pot

**

WE HAVE A CP WHO HAS DRIVEN  INTO THE SNOW -- ALONE --FOR THANKSGIVING- AND IS HOLED UP IN A WONDERFUL LOOKING CABIN SOMEWHERE IN ALASKA...-- NO TV - CABIN HAS TEH "BARE NECESSITIES"  SHE SENT PICTURES--- NEAT -- TIDY-- NO FRILLS-- ( AND INDOOR PLUMBING)- AND SHE IS HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME.

IF THAT IS NOT  THE SAME AS MY AUNT MILDRED ENJOYING "NOTHING" I MISS MY GUESS.

*****

which also makes me compare all the people standing in line with  all kinds of luggage- when aunt mildred managed to spend a week with us--and was certainly all properly clean and tidy  --- her  entire luggage would easily fit in today's overhead storage.

she did not seem to be at all controlled by  what the rest of the world thought, and would constantly bring reality into the conversation- i distinctly remember asking her about  why she had no shampoo and  hair conditioner- and she quickly said- "there is nothing wrong with soap." 

i have no idea why--- or what was medically wrong with her, but  she  could not drink newburgh's town water unless it was boilled-- newb urgh did have teh florinated water as part of a tooth decay study-- that may have been the reason-  whatever-  we always had a bottle of water in the fridge which had been boiled for her.

***

i also had another aunt who taught in nyc-- aunt mabel.. she was an exceedingly bright -- bonafied nut-- she taught "the bad boys( i.e arrested) "  in "the city"   - there are lots of funny stories about aunt mabel  but that is anotehr DD

****

so back to sharing  the soup in the pot - i hope  this t'day dinner bit goes well-- we have 2 complete  turkey dinners for about 30 --put out by a local restaurant----  to which was added a ham dinner for 12 from tennasee - with no idea who, if anyone , is coming. so we are ready..    and we do have that walk in freezer for any extras.. i do not do turkey soup. ( of course i don't cook much of anything anymore--- i am blessed with people who arrive with food to share)

 and share we do !!

*****

Hope all is well my girl  and I are so busy preparing for the holiday to enjoy 😁 we have been doing very well. Getting out as usual staying busy enjoying life after I was extremely ill. I can say this my girl she is amazing beyond she wouldn’t let anyone walk me she had to she’s the best she knows she has me as I know as well. I told them as I was catching my breath she’s got me to relax. She caught countless falls cause I was so week and my MS was in full gear. I had respiratory distress caused from bronchitis die to my immune system being so low. We where in the hospital for 8 days and she  would only leave my side to take a potty break and zoomie run. She would sometimes even fight that cause she didn’t want to leave me. Our bond is so tight. 

We are now back to the normal and enjoying life. She’s doing fabulous as well as me. 

Thank you for training the most beautiful loving dogs. I’m truly blessed and can never thank you enough.

nov 27 2019

with difficulty i have set an extra laptop to the explore cam with the fish-- goldfish type...i am told it will calm my nerves...  not sure you can go to th e bank with that one.... but it is interesting.

***

my insomnia question----we hear a great deal about egypt and the piling all those rocks into pyramids--- there is an equally astounding collection of rocks in south america/mexico  about which we hear very little...    then THERE IS ALSO   teh  knight templars who ARE SAID TO HAVE  laNDED OM NOVASCOTIA AND MADE STRANGE MARKS ON ROCKS SO THAT  PEOPLE COULD NOW MAKE A LIVING  WANDERING AROUN D WITH A CAMERA CREW WONDEERING WHAT AND WHERRE THE MARKS ARE???  THEY MADE GREAZT STATEMENTS ABOUT HOW THESE PEOPLE MOVED DOWN TEH EAST COAST-- ALL ON TV LAST NIGHT 

THAT MEANS THEY WOULD HAVE PASSED BY MASSACHUSETTS   LOOKING FOR TEH  "X" MARK ON ROCKS. NOW IT WOLD NOT OCCURR OT ME TO SEARCH FOR "X" ON ROCKS EVEN IN THIS 12 ACRES  LET ALONE THE WHOLE EASRT COAST...

ALL THESE TV RENDITIONS OF THE LANDING  SHOW ONLY BOY TEMPLARS-- AND UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE I MISSED  THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE POPULATING THE EAST COAST WITHOUT GIRL TEMPLARS.

I THINK  THE TV ALSO SHOWED ONE ON A HORSE-- WHICH CONTRADICTS ANYTHING I LEARNED IN SCHOOL-- WHICH GRANTED MY SCHOOLING HAD IT'S FAULTS. BUT A HORSE?? -- ON ONE OF THOSE LITTLE BOATS???  I KNOW HORSES, AND THAT WOULD NOT TURN OUT WELL. 

MY REAL QUESTON IS HOW DID 2 INDIVIDUAL SOCIETIES GET GOING  WITH HUMANS  WITH SO MUCH WATER BETWEEN THE SOCIETIES----- THE AFRICA EUROPE BUNCH AS OPPOSED TO HTE SOUTH / NORTH AMERICAN   GROUP 

- DID THAT HAPPEN WHEN THE WORLD WAS SMALLER AND TEH CONTINENT OF AFRICA FIT TOGETHER WITH SOUTH AMERICA LIKE PIECES OF A PUZZLE?  AND WAT WAS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR WHICH MADE EACH ONE START PILING ROCKS ON TOP OF ROCKS.

 THAT WAS MY BIG CONCERN  AT 1AM....IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHIGN I ATE...

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as for curing pups or children... or old ladies  with diet change.....

Ha! The diet thing definitely doesn’t end with dogs and hip dysplasia! 

I have definitely heard my share of -- feed Eve this.... does she get enough calcium ? Vit D? Oh did you know you can get a collagen supplement? You should really see my holistic doctor I’m sure he can heal her. And finally .... come to our healing prayer service and pray for a miracle!

I’m even a Christian  and I take offense to that! God allowed her to be made this way I don’t think you a  stranger get to bestow healing on her with prayer! Besides we like her just fine the way she is and more Importantly SHE doesn’t think she needs to be healed. She’s just fine with her imperfect body.... she has her bff Finn after all! She wouldn’t have Finn if she didn’t have crappy bones! Literally she says it all the time!

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YOU GO FOR IT GIRL !!

nov 26 2019

dog food is a religion to some-  perfectly well meaning people will suddenly believe some very convincing person --- 

 who has found the perfect food for dogs-- this person  often  has the distribution rights to some wierd combination of ingredients.- or just bouight stock in the company...  and just finished a course in how to    market "guilt and fear"

 

i have 1000's of stories about feeding dogs- here's a few

long ago-- before advertising took such hold- i stayed away from the advertyised and bought the "farmer 's friend"  type dog food.

 50 pound bags-- tipped it into a wash tub in the door of the barn  free feed... the dogs ate it..

 so did the  cats, chickens, rooster,  rats  and raccoons- and everyone was fine.- 

except for the pig who tended to eat to much so we had to put it up on a table.

 general health was the issue the exact shine on teh coat was not my main concern.

i had a dane or two then--  and one of my heathiest dogs-- a ridgeback dane cross--- perfect health for 15 years

'never even had his teeth cleaned - went 20 miles per day  following janine on  her pony. 

 that stuff had everything in it... corn wheAT CHICKEN  FEATHERS - LORD KNOWS...  BUT EVERYONE ATE IT.  

I NEVER KEPT TRACK OF WHAT THEIR STOOLS WERE LIKE- THAT CAME LATER IN MY DOG EXPERIENCE...

IT WAS A VERY RESPECTABLE company - WHICH DID HAVE "  HIGHER END"  LABELS- 

I FIGURED IF THEY WERE WILING TO PUT THIER NAME ON IT IT MUST BE RESPECTABLE..  SO  WE FED IT

***

then i became friendly with a dane breeder who sold a specific dog food made in  new york-

it was  a granuloar substance that smeiled like rotting fish to which she added a bushell of veggies which she boiled daily

  i saw it happen-- she had  dozens of people convinved that their dogs would not get hip displasia if they fed only this ground up fish mixture.

and they believed her! to the point of b uying a puppy from her-- then moving to california- and

 paying her not only a huge price for the food.. but the postage to ship 50 pounds to california was no small matter. 

and if the pup got dysplasia she would ask what they fed the dog  when they ran out of her fish stuff.. and that would be the reason THEY GOT DYSPLASIA..

 she had guilt and fear down pat--

it might be noted her sales pitch fell on my deaf ears.

 meanwhile my dogs were eating teh farmers friendly food--- which was i am sure mixed with  THE BROWN RICE LOOKING rat poopies at the bottom..

and everyone was healthy.-- ok so i wormed them couple times a year... 

 we lived a little loose- so i wormed my kids and me every so oftern too.

*

POINT HERE BEING--- 

IF A PUPPY--- JUST FOR AN EXAMPLE---AT TEH AGE OF 3 WEEKS, 

GETS A BROKEN TOE- FOR WHATEVER REASON...

THAT PUPPY WILL THEN NOT USE THAT LEG TEH SAME AS THE OTHER LEG-- 

AND THUS THERE WILL BE ENTIRELY DIFFERNT MUCSLE DEVELPOPEMENTT- 

AND  IF BAD ENOUGH and the toe not set properly, , THE BONE GROWTH  WILL NOT BEHAVE NORMALLY-

DOWN TEH ROAD-- TEHRE IS NO AMMOUNT OF FEEDING THAT WILL CORRECT THAT PROBLEM.

 

LET ME PHRASE IT MORE UNDERSTANDABLY--- IF a change of diet would cure  any bone growth  problems

 PLEASE GET THE DETAILS IMMEDIATELY TO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL SO THEY STOP TRYING TO FIX

MALFORMED BONES WITH SURGERY...

I CAN GIvE YOU A list of kids across the country who need

 to be told about this fantasic new bone  treatment- 

of a "big mac a day to keep the surgeon away."

makes about as much sense.

nov 25 2019

there are 3 sizes of stonyfield yogurt drinks-. this is  hardly earth shattering news...  smallest- child size has only 3 swallows of fluid--- perfect for pill popping--- the other 2  are  larger-( obviously - if that is the smallest) in my obcession for not throwing out like items -- this amounts to strange collections... as i strip off teh label and line up these very white containers i realized they would be  a perfect chess set  if filled with some sand and cleverly decorated.. well i have the sand-- but  i am minus teh clever part-- so if there is anyone out there-- it would be an interesting chess set.. and i am beginning to have a few chess sets.. if only.....

 they are plastic---

that awful indispensable product that is clogging our oceans... i get a kick out of --"medicare will be out of money by 2033-- "  ---hey wake up guys--- we will be out of  breathable air and drinkable water 2 years before that

  at night i watch engineering disasters-- being at night , i may not have the details correct--- but.. in the mining of something-- humans created a huge cavern underground 300 feet floor to cieling-- for a very long way-- then someon up there on the surface  of the earth  miscalculated a drilling near a lake-- and teh entire lake and nearby river made a huge whirlpool and filled  that cavern with a great deal of  confusion.

tehre is... a building in london whre teh reflection off the windows melts  teh plastic of  any car  parked in one spot.

boston has it's own "glass building--? the prudental tower? wher when the tall thin building sways, it loosened 500 pound  panes of glass- so they all had to be redone..  to  huge gyroscopes on teh 34th floor to stop  some otehr  building from swaying- as it seems every city in t he world struggles to have the highest/ tallest/ most unusual.....  

you get to dubai with it's snow covered ski slopes inside a building ... built on the sand

someone had something to say about  "he who builds his  house on sand better have a plan "B" 

***

this computer is going wierder and wierder and i fear some day it will bite the ghost and i will have to find another way to write this so hang  in

i better line up  a computer "plan B"

nov 24 2019

what do snakes and chopin's polinaise have in common? my mother struggled to have us at least  regognise classical music-- and i bet she was instramental in getting some concerts to the newburgh high school--  to which we were then strongly encouraged to go-  those were the days of  actual choral music by   the schools- and visiting groups...

there is a huge gap in my connection to music until  something , i think was called MTV .  which i never could find the music -part of it...  but i  --- as animal episodes---had a request-- for an mtv show-- of snakes--- 100 black snakes.  

it was my phase of putting kids thru college-- and i was new englands expert on animals in movies etc--- like teh story of the class validictorian being the only  student... i was all there was in new england film  animals.

i don't know where i found  hundreds of black  looking snakes- i know WHO i got them from .. her name was "cat"  and she had loooong red fingernails before glued on fingernalis was in vogue... she and i went to the studio with 2 pillow cases of squimery black snakes-- up on the second floor in boston-- to find the studio was ready.... with a table set with tablecloth and gleaming silverware and  cut glass stemware-- we were to drop the snakes onto the table-- all at once..   piece of cake??? not so fast---- then how do we collect all these squirmy snakes and get them out of there- because the studio did not want ot be inundated with snakes...

thankfully i had seen a mythbusters show where they yanked teh tablecloth from under a banquet setting by covering the  tablecloth with a clear plastic sheet---  so i duct taped clear plastic under the tablecloth , leti t hang down tehn had everyone in the studio hold it up and out-- so we dropped the snakes from   about 6" and they cover teh tablesetting and fell into the plastic sheets- which we tehn gathered up-- cashed teh check and went  home.

it has always made me wonder what that had to do with music-

 mine is not to reason why.....

actuaally i did 2 other MTV  snake jobs  with her... -- she had  'em   -- one called for a huge snake- no way could she and i pick up the thing ? 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER ONE OF THOSE YELLOW AND WHITE YOU OFTEN SEE IN ZOOS...-- she said she could just call a few of her friends to come get it in a carrying bag and then carry it for us. 

now....  I HAVE SOME GOOD FRIENDS...   BU T LET ME TELL YOU , I CAN NOT THINK OF ONE OF THEM I COULD CALL TO ASK  HELP GET A  300 POUND SNAKE IN A BAG .

THE OTHER JOB WAS FOR A TINY CALIFORNIA SNAKE-- VERY COLORFUL-- THAT WE HAD TO MAKE CRAWL IN AND OUT THE ORIFICES OF A HUMAN SKULL.

SO WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN MUSIC TASTES.

now all i ever hear about  that is real music is broadway shows or handels messiah at christmas. i think the music teacher is a thing of the past. maybe they can't find music teachers with electronic degrees. 

NOV 23 2019

donkeys are really quite superior animals--- the fact that i have had so many for so long and done such alarming things with them and not had any major disasters is to the credit of the donkeys. ,... not me.

someone sent me donkey facts and here are a few  with which i agree...

***donkeys are not stubborn but they can be reluctant to do anything that might be unsafe- they consider situations before decideing what to do.

***donkeys have been used as working animals  for at least 5000 years and are still a lifeline for families worldwide,

*** donkeys can be a calming influence on other animals ( including humans) 

***donkeys have an incredible digestive system that utilizes 95% of what they eat.

*** teh donkeys bray can be carried 60 miles in the desert - ( i don't know about 60 miles, but it sure can go to the gas station across teh lake.)

***donkeys are very clever and have a keen sense of curiosity ( and in mary's case- a sense of humor)

***healthy donkeys can live well into thier 50"s 

***if  raised and handled like a dog they can behave like a dog.

i/we as a family have done some amazing things with donkeys- to say i put my kids thru college with my donks is not too far off the mark. the kennel area in the barn from kennel 3 to 8 was once teh doneky stall-- wherer some 20-30 donkeys would pile in and quietly hang out.

it kind of started when many of my friends and assoiciates were into driving horses 1,,2  or 4 horses in competitions -some even flew their horses and equipment to europe to compete in driving  -- olympic style-- big time 

and tehy did perfect presentations. matching horses,   black aprons, top hats,, the whole 9 yards. --  and then there was me.  i finally got 4 going int he same direction- and  went to a local  fair/exhibit sort of thing-- where all tehse other drivers carefully   unloaded horses with matching blankets and leg wraps, ... i was not to be out done-- i had  someone make me 4 blue jean blankets with  the kerchief out a pocket on the hip-- and matching leg wraps.. i just opened th edoor of the trailer and these matching donkeys spilled out and stood around waiting to be told what to do.-- totally unlike the high strung horses...  ther is a painting over my desk of that episode with 4.

4 became 8 donks   - with harness made by world famous  sam friedman of toronto -- i kid you not... the leather was superior to  coach leather-- the  vehicle was the one used in sdp christmas shot years ago  a red "bennington vehicle" -  THE KIND which prince phillip once  drove.. IN BLUE. 

We no longer went to fairs, but got paid very well to do parades-- add antlers and we were in the big business of christmas and santa's 8 tiny reindeer.... many  many many funny stories... but th e most remarkable was getting santa into the 4th floor ball room of teh weston hotel in boston./  huge party for some corporate children... the harness for 8 donks had 6000 parts - while we harnessed them in the food holding area, with the red and white strawberry shortcakes....  teh Santa drank annesette -  i never met a saNTA THAT WAS SOBER ( UNTIL FRANK AT SDP) 

WE DROVE THE 8 INTO THE BALLROOM AND UNLOADED SANTA - THEN CAME THE REAL PROBLEM- WE HAD ANOTHER "JOB" 30 MINUTES LATER  AT THE TOP OF THE PRUDENTIAL TOWER- 2 BLOCKS AWAY..THEY WERE TO BE LOSE IN THE BAR.....NOT IN HARNESS. I HAD KIDS STRIP THE HARNESS OFF THE DONKS  GOING DOWN IN THE ELEVATOR- AND JANINE AND I RAN THE  8 DONKEYS- TOTALLY LOSE IN TRAFFIC  ,  INTO THE WAITING FREIGHT ELEVATOR AT THE PRU-- AND SHE MADE IT... I WENT BACK TO GET THE TRAILER. I THINK WE MADE $4500+$600 FOR  THAT EPISODE.

**  BEING A WOMAN, DRIVING THAT HUGE MOVING VAN SIZE  TRAILER IN BOSTON HAS IT'S OWN BUNCH OF VERY FUNNY STORIES...LATER----

NOV 22 2019
 TOILET SEAT  BOLTS --  I S THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD WHO WOULD BE ALL EXCEITED ABOUT GETTING  TOILET  SEAT BOLTS IN THE MAIL??  APPARENTLY ----A CP FROM NOVASCOTIA -- SHAWNA--VISITED HERE LAST CHRISTMAS.  SHE STAYED IN THE UPSTAIR BEDROOMS, AND.... SHALL WE SAY  "IN A PINCH" .....JERRYRIGGED  THE TOILET SEAT BOLTS WITH ZIP TYES.... .. KNOWING CRAZY ACRES, SHE THOUGHT MAYBE THEY WERE STILL THERE ( THEY WERE) SO SHE SENT   SOME IN A BIG BOX WITH  "OTHER TREATS FOIR THE VOLUNTEERS." -LIKE WALKERS  SCOTISH SHORTBREAD--

NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL ... LOOKING OUT FOR SDP-- AND PAYING IT FORWARD !!

BECAUSE BUD WAS HERE WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY HAVE BEEN INSTALLED SO YOU CAN ENJOY THE PAUSE THAT REFRESSHES WHEN YOU ARE HERE NEXT  CHRISTMAS.

SO MANY TIMES A CP WILL BE OUT IN THE REAL WORLD OR  SEE SOMETHING ON CAMERA  THEY NOTICED WAS MISSING- OR NEEDED ..  LIKE DUCT TAPE..   I HESITATE TO MENTION  ANYTHING EVER SINCE TEH  59 BIRD HOUSE EPISODE-    IF YOU VISIT HERE, YOU WILL NOTICE SOME ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR BIRD HOUSES AROUND THE FARM...  THAT ALL CAME FROM  SOME MAIL CALL  CONVERSATION ABOUT BIRDS EATING BUGS AND MAYBE IF I HAD A BIRD HOUSE THEY WOULD LIVE  IN THAT INSTEAD OF THE BARN. AND I GOT 59 IN ONE DAY   TEHRE WERE A COUPLE SO SPECTACULAR THAT THEY ARE HANGING AROUND  IN THE HOUSE CAUSING PEOPLE TO PAUSE AT LEAST FOR A MOMENT...  THE PURPLE HAT CERAMIC  ONE IS RIGHT OUSIDE THE T TENT- BUT THEY ARE ALL OVER.

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ALONG THAT VEIN........ THERE ARE HATS.... creatiive hats....  

THIS STARTED WHEN SOMEONE OFFERED TO BUY A CHICKEN BRICK A DAY IF I WORE THE HAT at 5pm mail call  FOR TEH MONTH -- TURNS OUT 2 OTHER5 PEOPLE JOINED HER/HIM-  resultitn in a lovely $900 donation  for  teh month--  and now... i wear teh november hat of "peanuts"  varitey--  and i already have 3 hats in the overflow room in prep for the wearing of teh hat in december.- so maybe in december i shoujld vary teh hats and not wear the same one fror the month.   camera mark is a ccollector of hats- so all used hats will have a  permanent home after mail call-- ,  i will  plan to wear each for a day or two...depending on the number of hats i get--  i do not expect all these to be store bought-- all i ask is that they actually be wearable.... and that i can see while wearing tehm. .. OH....  each hat SHOULD  have a 10 cent donation.. which i will put in the water jug.  

30 days hath september  but december has 31

have at it. 

NOV 21 2019

SECOND NURSING HOME is   "EXPLORE.ORG "  OPERATIONAL-- LEFT THERE WITH A NICE GOLDFISH SCENE-- THEY HAVE A REaal  AQUARIUM WITH 2 DULL FISH--  MANY COMMENTS ABOUT IMPROVEMENT./  LOTTSA BUGS TO WORK OUT.... BUT IT DOES WORK.KEEPING STATS... THERE WERE 55 PEOPLE THERE  AND 11 WERE VETERANS.

I CAN SEE MAYBE A JAN FIRST "FULL TILT"  not going to make dec first-- i just heard that is almost next week... 

TODAY I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT MY HOTSPOT WHICH SHOuLD ENABLE ME TO DEMO EXPLORE.ORG TO DIRECTORS-- WITHOUT ALL THE FIREWALL AND PASSWORD PROBLEMS.  THEY JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT... AND WHEN THEY FIND OUT THEY CAN HAVE EPOEOPLE TALK TO ALEXA AND GET AN ANSWER  THEY ARE THRILLED FOR THEIR "CLIENTS" 

FROM MY PAST LIFE.... I DO HAVE A BRIEFCASE.. MAYBE I CAN GET TEH ENTIRE DEMO IN THATG CASE 

WITH CHARGED BATTERIES-- TODAYS GOAL... 

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thanksgiving---   doesn't make any difference to the animals-- they still need water food and removal of teh "used food"----  there are 2 places here that provice teh entier dinner ---the function  restaurant-- and whole foods... maybe we couod expiriment with whole foods.  i never know how many will show-- we need  the usual staff and volunteers- so if anyone would like to volunteer and have  a turkey diinner, might be  good to let me know so i can order enough turkeys.  last year a bunch o f my relatives showed-- we had 2 turkeys and 5 big RV's   fun crowd...  they are all going to ? arlington va this year..   i stay put.

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i can-- and will fly--- but not without a very good  reason...fr:  donald swann..."if God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railways. "  and why do it...-- on the worst travel days of teh year-? made worst by everyone believing  there is no place like home for the holidays--  so what's teh matter with  the 3rd thursday in may.... or my old favorite --labor day-- when you went back home to go  to school. lABOR DAY HARDLY EXISTS ANYMORE WITH SCHOOL STARTING IN AUGUST SOMETIME. 

my favorite thanksgiving story......

camera mike-- took several vials of "puppy breath"   from here to sprinkle over his thanksgiving table so teh family didn't get in an arguenemt about anything.  we should have a  T'day special on those---  2 for $8

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CAKE FROM SOUTEAST TO NORTH WEST......

Fire Department cake delivery in the Florida Keys— Big Pine Key Fire Rescue

Station 13

Gave them a calendar.

J

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Hello Carlene  -

You don’t hear from me very often because my life is pretty dull.  But today (Tuesday the 19th) I went to Costco and bought a luscious chocolate cake and took it to Firehouse #16, in the west part of Tacoma, Washington.   As you can imagine, they were delighted.

I left one of the print-outs from your websites, so they would know where the idea came from.

Thanks for getting this going.

LIZ

nov 20 2019

 please let me clear up one thing---no---   i am definitely not a  man hater..  i love men... sometimes not always the one society thinks would be proper... but i sure haTE THEM IN THE WORK PLace--  remember, i am of the age where... as a 15 year old i was carefully taught to iron a mans white shirt-- because " someday i would have to"-- that was well before i put the stove out on the street with a free sign  to eliminate the concept of kitchen and cooking. now with door dash  delivery the production of food is even simpler.

 i thought this was an interesting  life story email i got re  stubborn and strong

Thanks, Carlene. By the way, I thought your discussion of "negative nest" in yesterday's DD was dead on. It baffles me how people can be so...stupid.

I also related to your "only" discussion. I am 70 years old, and a retired attorney. I started practicing law (in Alaska, where I moved from Denver, where I went to law school, in 1975; grew up in the midwest - Ohio; went to undergraduate school in Minn and at Cambridge U in England, so I enjoyed reading elsewhere about your studies abroad). I was raised by a father who was a teenager during the Great Depression, his father went bankrupt because he owned a grocery store and let people have food for free, and then died of a heart attack when Dad was 18. His mother was a school teacher and raised he and his sister, who became an RN. Dad joined the  Marine Corps, but was never able to attend college for financial reasons. My mother was an RN who did not work outside our home after she married Dad, and my sister and I were born. 11 months apart! (so I relate to Terrie and Millie because we were then growing up inseparable, and we are still best friends even though we live thousands of miles apart and have very different life styles). Dad and Mom raised my sister and I to believe we could be whatever we wanted to be (as long as we went to college; my sister briefly flirted with becoming a flight attendant, which at least at that time did not require a college degree, and my parents put the kibosh on that idea). He thought us to hunt,m fish, ski (we lived in the country, surrounded by farms). Our relationship somewhat frayed during my college years as I became a bleacher radical, protesting against the Vietnam War, and Dad was a diehard Republican as well as a former Marine. We could not even make it out of the Cleveland Airport parking lot without starting to argue about something political, as my mother shook her head.

Anyway, I was living in The Last Frontier, where there were a surprising number o female attorneys, but the male attorneys were not enlightened. Neither were the judges. They would enter the courtroom and address the attending counsel as "gentlemen". We raised enough of a ruckus to end that conduct. We were not treated as equals in law firms though I did attain partnership in record time. Clients were not always comfortable with their attorneys being women and often rudely disdained us in our presence. I was able to blow them off with the support of my partners, fortunately. When I became General Counsel at a large electric utility, I was completely ignorant about electricity and engineering. I was surrounded by engineers - electrical, mechanical, civil. They think differently than normal people. We had to learn to appreciate one another's value to projects. One of the chief engineers was from Germany, having grown up in what was East Germany, and she became and still is a close friend. She is 80. She and my teeth ground whenever we were referred to as "lady engineer" or "woman lawyer." We refused to join organizations that were so titled. We were, respectively, an engineer, or an attorney. Forget the labels. We were and are both stubborn and strong minded. Our opinions were often discounted as most of the other management employees were men. And we had opinions about things which were not necessarily in our areas of expertise but nonetheless felt we were entitled to express our point of view. 

Have a great day. I love what you do. I read and watched videos about SDP on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter tonight and into the wee hours  ( I have a circadium sleep disorder so my sleep schedule is completely screwed up, even given the four hour time difference between Alaska and Massachusetts) and was brought to tears as I frequently have been with the stories about your clients/recipients, as well as with laughter over some of the faces of those dogs, and their ridiculously funny behavior!

Best wishes for the day,

Carol 

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george ( teh dvm.... not the dog)  is due here  mid morning to give an opinion on gabby and ?in heat? neither bentley or walter are thrilled to have her visit  -- which you realize they would not be  intensely  fascinated until about day 8 or 9  but they should be at least curious early in the heat cycle.

she had  the disney pups aug first.. so it is abnormally early.

nov 19 2019

CAKE DAY !! WE ARE CAKING  AT LEAST ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN 49 STATES SO GET OUT THERE.....

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I NEARLY HAD TO STOP A POLICEMAN AND ASK HIM TO HOOK UP MY SEAT BELT...100 YEARS AGO  I WAS LEADING SOME HORSE SOMEWHER -- IT REARED AND I HUNG ON --SO MY RIGHT SHOULDER NEARLY WENT WITH IT.-- I AM TOLD ONCE YOU HAEV DISLOCATED A SHOULDER, YOU ARE MORE INCLINED TO DO IT AGAIN.-- AND --IT HAS THRU THE YEARS--SOMETHING ABOUT GETTING STRETCHED....NOW AT THIS AGE EVERYTHING SEEMS STRETCHED  BUT TO DISLOCATE IT WHILE SITTING IN THE CAR TALKING TO LYNN???  ?   OLD AGE IS NOT FOR THE MEEK.....

 I NEVER SAW TEH NEED TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM TO HAVE A DOCTOR POP IT Baack in place- I HAD MY OWN "IN HOUSE" PHYSICIAN... AND AS PAINFUL AS IT WAS  IN EITHER THE EMERGENCY ROOM OR THE BACK YARD--  TEH BACK YARD SAVED TIME...  I DO REMEMBER HIM SAYING THE FASTER WE SNAP IT BACK TEH EASIER-- AS  HE PUT  HIS FOOT IN MY ARMPIT    -- EVEN NOW IN TEH CAR....  - IT GOT ITSELF  BACK WHERE IT BELONGS.... WELL ---  IT WAS PROBABLY ONLY A PARTIAL----

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LYNN WAS HERE TO DELIVER GABBY-- WHO IS -- SHE THINKS-- IN HEAT-- GABBY JUST HAD TEH DISNEY LITTER   AUG 1ST... BUT AS GEORGE SAYS-- IF NATURE SAYS IT IS OK TO HAVE ANOTHER-- THEN IT IS... WE HAVE HAD MOTHERS WHO HAVE HAD 3- 4 AND EVEN 5 LITTERS-- .-- WELL ---LET ME TELL YOU THE DETAILS-- JUST FOR YOUR EDUCATION.....LYNN HAS  WATSON ( STUD DOG) AND WATSON HAS BEEN FASCINATED WITH GABBYS REAR- AND THERE HAS BEEN  A " DRIP/ DISCHARGE OF  RED SOMETHING" 

IT IS VERY EARLY FOR HER TO BE IN HEAT- BUT SOMETIMES TEH  MALES ARE CONFUSED BY A URINARY TRACT INFECTION- AND WHEN ASKED IF IT IS HEAT OR A UTI-- TEH MALES OPT FOR THE HEAT WITH HOPES...SO... FIRSTLY WE WILL SEE WHAT BENTLEY HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE NEW VISITOR INT TEH HONEYMOON HILL KENNELS- AND IF BENTLEY IS INTERESTED,   I  WILL ASK GEORGE(DVM GEORGE) TO HAV A LOOK AT HER AND SEE IF THERE IS ANY REASON HE CAN SEE NOT TO BREED HER-- SO IF MOMMY NATURE, BENTLEY AND GEORGE ALL AGREE, MAYBE WE CAN START ANOTHER LITTER-??TIGGER?? OR GET OUT THE AMOXICILLIN   ---

 

 SPEAKING OF DOCTORS... IT IS BETTER NOW.... BUT...... FOR YEARS  WOMEN HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF NOT POSSESSING ANY LOGICAL ABILITIES --  AT THIS MOMENT--- I AM NOT WILLING TO ARGUE THAT ONE -- WHAT I WILL ARGUE IS ...  FROM TEH EXTENSIVE RESEARCH I HAVE DONE IN THE PAST 14 HOURS, I REALIZE THAT WE WOMEN DO HAVE AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE ARGUENMENT---  MEN ARE EXTREMELY BAD "LOOKERS".....  HOW MANY TIMES... "IT IS RIGHT THERE ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER-- IT IS THE ONLY THING THERE"  AND TYPICALLY, TEH MAN/ HUSBAND/ WHATEVER.... CAN'T FIND IT. -- SOME.... MANY... OF THE NOTABLE MALE PROFESSIONS HAVE BEEN TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON A FEMALE TO KEEP THE DETAILS STRAIGHT.. FROM DOCTORS WITH FEMALE NURSES, EXECS WITH SECRETARIES..  TO POPES WITH NUNS. AND MOSTLY THE ONLY REASON IS MALES ARE BIGGER AND LOUDER????

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OK -- SO ANOTHER LECTURE  - I Am really mad at this one

GREATEST DOG IN THE WORLD-- GEORGE--- PERFECT DOG... and i got this 

GOOD MORNING,

SO TODAY WE WERE AT THE BURLINGTON MALL AND WE WENT IN THE ELEVATOR 2 TIMES. BOTH TIMES GEORGE SHOOK AND COWERED. HE TRIED TO GET LOW TO THE GROUND WITHOUT LAYING DOWN.  I AM HOPING THIS ISNT A TREND SINCE HE HAS SEEMED FINE ON ELEVATORS UNTIL TODAY.  Rachael

the  only reason i will rip into this  is that rachael ( bellas mom) is a very bright woman-- but to have soo quickly decided there was something wrong with george blows my mind--  and it happens soooooo often   ---dog has problem with elevator--- if there is something we don't understand, we leap at the first human response forgetting that maybe--- just maybe  the dog is right..   there is something wrong but the wrong is with teh elevator ... not the dog.

a dog has so many more acute senses that tehy might be detectiong something yu can not hear/see/smell.

and of all things-- an elevatorr---

 after bentley and i got KNOCKED OUT ,  electrocuted by that kone elevator..

 and bella AND GEORGE GOT LOCKED BETWEEN FLOORS ON AN ELEVATOR IN SCHOOL--  WITH A  "DID NOT PASS INSPECTION"   STICKER-- 

AND YOU DARE TO DOUBT THE DOG??????--

FOR NEW PEOPLE--- ALL I ASKED OF KONE WAS TO REPLACE BENTLEY AS STUD/SERVICE DOG- WHICH WOULD HAVE COST A PRETTY PENNY-- BUT THE  RESPONSE OF "JUST GO BUY ANOTHER DOG"---  HAD A SPECIAL RING TO IT. 

ALONG WITH   "YOU ARE 79-- THEY WILL JUST  OUT LAST YOU WITH LEGAL NONSENSE"   A LOST CAUSE. 

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The deed on our first house read, my husband’s name and “ET UX” (Latin for and chattel).  I am not a cow, not chattel, not a non-person!  I made my point to the Greek attorney and insisted that I would not sign the document until “ET UX” was removed and my name added.

Young women don’t seem to know how much has legally changed since the 1970s, yet how few men’s opinions have changed since then.AARGH.

Honey 

nov 18 2019
NEGATIVE NEST---  I  THINK  I  JUST COINED THAT PHRASE- AND IT IS A DESCRIPTIVE ONE -  DIDN'T SOMEONE WRITE A CHILDRENS NOVEL ABOUT THE SKY IS FALLING????  EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE  SINCE WE HAVE HAD CAMERAS  INSTALLED IN 2012 AND BEGAN TO BUILD  SDP AS A  VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF INTERESTING PEOPLE.....- SOMEONE WILL GET A NEGATIVE IDEA--- AND A COUPLE PEOPLE WILL RUN WITH IT.... BUILDING A NEGATIVE NEST

TEH CREATIVITY OF SOME OF THESE PEOPLE IS INCREDIBLE- BELLA AND GEORGE-- WHAT A GREAT STORY----- DID I NOT GET    "WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT ALL THE KIDS YOU ARE NOT HELPING?"  TEH ONLY ANSWER   "NOTHING"  BY DEFINITION--    THAT CAN GET SOMONE OFF ON A NEGATIVE " SDP ONLY HELPS ONE PERSON AT A TIME" NEXT THING YOU GET A NEST OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST BEEN WAITING TO BUILD A NEGATIVE NEST OF LIKE  MINDS...

WELL LETS UNLOAD TEH "ONLY"  ---SDP DOES HELP ONE PERSON AT A TIME..that #$%^&*word "only"  has a history in my life-- and the life of most women my age...  only a woman-- i know alot of stories on that one.

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I CAN REMEMBER----( HERE WE GO---THIS WILL BE A LONG-- touchy---  ONE--) SITTING WITH SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW, A PRIVATE PILOT,   IN A RESTAURANT BOOTH- WE GOT TO TALKING ABOUT  FLYING  WITH OR AGAINST TEH WIND.- START WITH -- I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT-- WHICH NEVER STOPPED ME FROM ARGUING- HE PROBABLY QUITE RIGHTLY SAID YOU GO FASTER WITH PREVAILING WINDS.. ME... WITH ZERO FLYING KNOWLEDGE-- SAID "THAT  LIGHT AIRCRAFT   AROUND TEH WORLD FLIGHT WENT FROM EAST TO WEST"  WHICH STArrted a very loud arguement- because with all his knowledge-- which was considerable-- all i had to say was "they went my way"====== the volume of the "discussion " was so intense  that the man inthe next booth stood up and said  " what are you ? two aeronautical engineeers??" and my brother in law said "SHE'S ONLY A DOG TRAINER "-- it took me 25 years to say "just you wait a minute-- SKIP THAT "ONLY"  PART....   i am a  dog trainer -- a very good dog trainer"   AND BUOYED UP BY GEROGE BUSH SENIOR'S "IF YOU CAN'T HELP THOUSANDS, HELP ONE" - AND SDP WAS OFF AND RUNNING. 

DANM WORD "ONLY"  -

NEXT TIME I HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE ABOTU  I WILL DISCUSS MY LIFE WITH  BUILDING INSPECTORS. AND HIS "YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE, YOU ARE ONLY A WOMAN"   NOTE TEH PLURAL INSPECTOR****S*****

P.S.. MY AERONAutical arguement went on the fact that  teh plane had to  have  a certain speed under it'as wings to stay up-- and gong with the wind would mean it had to use it's engines all the time?????  think pigeons  against teh wind...!!! 

i am sure someont of you will have input on that one...

NOV 17 2019

I HATE TO TELL TEH ADVERTISING PEOPLE, BUT I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND 78% OF TEH ADS ON TV-- I AM SUPPOSED TO BUY SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF , OR PAY FOR A SERVICE I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED... HIGHEST ON TEH    RIDICU-LIST   IS  SECURITY SERVICES--- THE LAST ONE THAT CALLED GAVE ME THE SPEIL ABOUT  HOW HAVING A DOG WAS NOT ENOUGH, SO I SAID IF HE COULD GET UP TEH DRIVEEWAY WITHOUT MY KNOWING IT, I WOULD TALK TO HIM- I HAD FUN WITH THAT BEFORE I SAID "OH About 50 great danes"   he never showed...

however- yesterday i learned about 4G and 5G services--- and how tehy related to our road show project.. after many suggestions from our  "CP research group"   it was suggested i look into a hotspot... which is not the gooey messsy open summer sore on a dog... but  sort of a telephone like device into which you can plug your computer and have it function just about anywhere  without anyone's firewalls and passwords... so to demo explore.org in these places , all i need is my laptop, an xxxx cord from hottspot to computer and then if they have a smart tv  an hdmi  from my laptop to their  big screen computer..

there is no way i could- at the moment waltz into a adult day care directors office and have to clear passwords and the like-- especially with my hands which are known to hit 3 different buttons at oondce-- as you all know from my typing...

sooooooooooo since charlie was so generous, i went ahead and ordered a verizon hotspot-- for $600 which can be connected with wire--( or  BE wireless--WHICH I DO NOT PLAN TO LET IT DO) to my laptop which can then be connected to  teh many "smart tv' we have run into in the 100 places judy and i have been to.  then make notE  of the details,, make model .. etc.. and get janine to figure out how best to set them up. 

we need a real data file of detiails before we try and get someone to sponsor  whatever is needed.. these places all have internet somhow.... with passwords and  firewalls... 

fool me once shame on you  fool me twice shame on me... i ain't buying that "WHOOPIE WIRELESS " concept anymore-- those "THEY" people  have it all planned-- LIKE TEH HP PRINTERS WHO GIVE AWAY COMPUTER PRINTERS AND THEN CHARGE $634 FOR TEH INK CARTERIDGES./  IT ISN'T PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE BUT THE  PLANNED DISASSOCIATION  WHERE IF TEH REMOTE GETS MORE THAN 6 INCHES FROM IT'S REMOTABLE DEVICE,, IT IS JUSTY PLAIN GONE-- TO BE FOUND AND PLACED IN THE BIN OF  57 DISSOCIATED REMOTES-- WAITING FOR SOME ONE WITH ENOUGH TIME TO SIT AND TRY THEM-- MAKING CAREFUL NOTE THAT REMOTE #32 RAISES THE GARAGE DOOR AND REMOTE #15 LOWERS  THE TOP OF TEH BED.

JOYCE IS A TECH SAVY TYPE AND SHOWED ME HER PHONE  WHICH COULD LIST ALL THE REMOTE SIGNALOS SHE GOT STANDING HEERE BY MY DESK... I DIDN'T KNJOW  YOU COULD DO THAT...   SHE COULD SEE... THIS ONE IS YOUR PRINTER, THAt one is your computer, and , then gate opener... etc..  i didn't know a cell phone could be asked to do that... i think it was "available signals" somehow... 

withthaT I CAN ALSO DEMO THE  "OK GOOGLE"   BUTTON WHICH CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTION AND IS FUN TO PLAY WITH IN THESE GROUPS..."HOW FAST CAN A BAT FLY" WAS MY FAVORITE...

IF WE CAN SOLVE THIS-- IT SHOUDL IMPROVE THE DAILY LIFE OF  MANY VERY BORED ADULTS BEHIND LOCKED DOORS...

SO BACK TO MY FYI OF TEH DAY..... 4G AND 5G

HAS TO DO WITH HOW MUCH  STUFF IS TRANSMITTED HOW FAST??? AND  IN BUYING TEH 5G MODEL HOT SPOT -- WHICH .."WILL WORK WITH 4G UNTIL 5G IS AVAILABLE INN YOUR AREA,"...   I FOUND THAT THEY JUST DID 5G IN ST LOUIS--- BUT BOSTON IS ON THERI "NEXT" LIST...   SO I GAMBLED.

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From Pockets trainer Kaleigh

My beautiful friend Pockets. She is the first donkey I’ve ever trained to do tricks, and I’m happy to say that she is excelling! I’ve been working with her on things like bowing, saying yes and no, side stepping, the Spanish walk, and pedestal training and have moved on to teaching her to lay down, fetch, and pick things up on command. She has been teaching me the importance of creativity, baby steps, and a new level of patience. I guess I’m doing something right since she comes running every time I call her over to start a session! I love learning from her and watching our progress together

NOV 16 2019

i think we need to re-do our generic response to visiting here..we welcome our  shatupon supporters any day 7 am to 7pm-- 365 ( or 366)  it is just on sunday that we are a bit more organized  to sit around and talk... otherwise--- you takes us as you finds us.... and might even be asked to  lift or push as we deal with our mental blocks. 

 if you are a "camera person", you know what you are getting into when you come here... if you have watched all teh cameras on our web, you know laundry needs folding, poo needs picking, doggie dishes need washing, fences  need mending...and computers need a severe talking to.  this is not a spa---and certainly if any of you need a soft sofa to lay your head as you pass  thru or around boston, we can manage that --- just ask linda if tehre is an available sofa....-- but let me warn you--- we are up working at 7am-- and expect that of anyone on property..

that was the  strict rule  when my children brought  college friends here- ah..   those were the days of leaning  slightly inebriated kids up against a tree at 7am.

we had a caboose-- done up like an appartment ( of sorts)  and i had not yet forbidden teh use of alchohol on the property-- so late at night i would hear  "wooo wooo wooo" as they supported themselves with teh overhead rails- pure subway style.   oh i could tell you some tales there-- except all those kids are now grownups in inpressive jobs in the "business" community.  

i haD an ocassionto be in an elevator with one of them- and aLL I HAD TO SAY WAS "I REMEMBER.." AND THE BLOOD DRAINED FROM HIS/HER  FACE.... WITH AN "OH NO"  I WENT NO FURTHER-- BUT IT WAS WORTH IT ! 

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YOU CAN BUY CABOOSES- AT LEAST YOU COULD--- IN ERIE PENNA--- THERE WERE HUNDREDS ALL LINED IU ( AS THEY WOULD BE ON RAILS )  I SPENT ONE DAY GOING IN AND OUT OF THOSE DESERTED RELICS-- NO TWO AR E QUITE THE SAME- AND ALL ARE VERY CONDUCIVE TO SLEEPING QUARTERS FOR A COUPLE PEOPLE- IT COST $2500 DELIVERED TO THE NEAREST CON RAIL YARD - WHICH WAS JUST NORTH OF BOSTON.. THE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CABOOSES IS-- THEY EASILY COME APART-- IF YOU HAVE A CRANE HANDY-- WHICH FOR $2000 I DID-   THAT GAVE ME  LIVING QUARTERS FOR 6 PEOPLE FOR $4500--  IT WAS A BARGAIN---

TEHRE ARE COMPANIES WHO DO THIS STUFF---ALL I HAD TO DO WAS PAY THEM AND THEY LIFTED THE BODY PART ONTO A TRUCK-- THAT LEFT TEH 2 SETS OF WHEELS TO BE LIFTED ON A SECOND TRUCK-- THERE IS ONLY A STRAIGHT PIN THAT HOLDS THE BODY ON TEH WHEELS-- NOT EVEN A COTTER PIN TO SECURE IT--  JUST TEHE WEIGHT---

BEING A COMPANY THT IS USED TO THIS STUFF, TEHY GOT THE PERMITS TO DRIVE THIS TO MY HOUSE AT 4AM-- HAVING DEALT WITH OVERHEAD WIRES/ BRIDGES, POLICE  AND THE LIKE

I HAD ALREEADY LOCATED 2 RAILS AND PUT THEM IN THE STONEDUST -- ALMOST PARALELL- LET ME TELL YOU THOSE TOO ARE HEAVY-- IT WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO MULES- AS I HAD A WORK MULE HERE WHO VERY PATIENTLY MOVED THOSE RAILS INTO PLACE.

IT SAT FOR YEARS WHRER THE  T TENT NOW IS.- I FOUND OUT THAT SPOT IS THE NICEST SPOT ON TH EPROPERTY FOR GENTEL BREEZES IN THE SUMMER-- SO WHEN TEH CABOOSE WENT ( I THINK I HAD TO GIVE IT AWAY)   I CUT DOWN A TREE. HAD IT SLICED INTO BOARDS, NAILED THEM TOGETHRE- AND HERE WE ARE.

I CARRIED A  BIG SCREWDRIVER IN MY CAR FOR A YEAR  TO AQQUIRE TEH NECESSARY COBBLESTONES FOR THE FLOOR FROM  FRONT STREET NEWBURGH, NEW YORK TO HAVERHILL AND   CHELSEA MASS.

WHEN THE FLOORBOARDS OF MY OLD CAR FINALLY GAVE WAY, I DID HAVE TO BUY A FEW-- BUT I DID WELL;

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SOOOO.. BACK TO THE GARAGE DOOR--- I HAD LOTS OF COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

problem is if someone tres to open the garaage door and tteh man door is not 100% closed you wreck both.. i could see that happening herer where even unplugging the elect just would get screwed up

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TODAY , RE: THESE ADULT DAY CARE CENTEFRRS...... I NEED HELP WITH UNDERSTANDING THE HOOKING UP A SMART TV TO A LAPTOP-- OR SOME DEVICE  TO GET THEESE BLACK SCREENS  TO CARRY THE EXPLORE.ORG CAMERAS...

RICHARD #287 SUGGESTED A HOT SPOT- ABOUT WHICH I KNOW NOTHING--- 

CAN SOMEONE SEND ME SUGGESTIONS?  LARGEST PROBLEM HERE IS MOST OF THSE SMART TV'S HAV LOST THE REMOTE... AND - AT LEAST ON MY SMART TV-- THERE ARE BUTTONS LOWER RIGHT

IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THIS COMMUNITY WHO CAN HELP.

P.S.  WE HAVE ALOT OF RICHARDS-- INCLUDING SIR RICHARD, THE NEW STUD DOG FROM CZECH

nov 15 2019

time to mix teh 2 german pups with some of the sdp last litter-  like maybe on puppy hill -- like after 9:00 when megan gets here...  just in case we get a battle going...  

my options are  to start with 2... one of each-- millie and jimminey and tehn terrie and stitch  -- if that goers well tehn all 4 under supervision...-- then get  millie and tarrie introduced to the in out ( probably take devlin  who's slight build migh not get stuck in gthe inout door.)

i did finally find someone who would tackl e our garage door problem-- we really need a "man door"   which 3 companies refused to install-- finally one said "if any would do it, it was danvers garage door company.... they are nuts"   soundsed like my kind of person.. so mr danvers did come here and after standing around for a bit- suggested a 36" door and a 5 foot typical garage door ... for large items...  sounds like a perfect solution... a 5' garage door wii get the smaller tractor in to carry/ lift larfge and heavy which does land there somertimes... like the commercial washer.

now for dog's winter coats-- natural and store bought-

" he's a dog and does not eneed a coat"-- is perfect logic for some dogs- but horrible for others...  the worst i know is teh newly rescued greyhound-- with a very fine natural "coat" and no fat --  i have been known to give some of our odd size coats to any shivering greyonnd i see--- lordy-- even a trash bag to cut the wind would help them-   the great danes are not too far behind...  tehir hair coat is by no means thick--  tehre is no  "undercoat" like teh german shephards, or corgi's have..  so if you need a coat, they wilol too if you are gong to be out in the wind  for more than a few minutes.  and literally a garbage bag  artistically cut  with a piece of duct tape is a huge help-- best to practice that in the house and explain to t hem that it is just a "jacket?

 those whte kitchen trash bags do work-- .  i maybe wilol demo sometime at mail call.  it should go round without duct tape getting involved with the boy/girl/ nursing mother obsticales.

there are some vey  small dogs without much hair either-- probably grocery bag size...

as for teh donkeys--all ours not only grow a heavy winter coat-  and fat----   but they have a way of standing rear end up to a tree in such a way that teh tree cuts the draft.  so if you don't see them trying to get out of teh wind, then it is not bad enough for them to care...-- there ae some big heaby trees in that pasture-- as long as they don't strip teh bark off them...

and then there is .... water.... i.e. in new england... ice... -- once we get organized it is fine...  i have been all sorts of frost free water supply---electric melting- strange concepts.. an i think the safest- most organized is to have a bunch of buckets all teh same shape-- when you water off at 5pm  top off 4 or 5 with a bit of warjm water---which givesw teh donks a chance to get a drink before it freezes-- which it will.. so in the morning  you take all the buckerts out of the barn-- line them up ... then you take one of teh matching buckets with 1/2 full of hot water and dunk each bucket for 4 seconds-- and  immediately tip out the block of ice-- which cleans all teh  non ice contents of teh buckets too-- in our situation- it does help to have a stocik tank for dipping to refil... but you must have a dipping bucket which  hung  and  never set on the ground.

and the very best way is to get someone else to do all that..

.-- nearly every year  teh watereers go thru a bunch of ways to deal with ice-- and eventually  they come back to dunk'n'tip;

nov 14 2019

GOLDIE  --- our Ghost Of the Lefthand Drawer-  is at it again.  quickly.... for newcommers

**  fact #1...out of the clear blue my top left drawer had a horrid stench-- of unknown origin..  was there for 2-3 ? weeks  in spite of dawn, lysol, chlorox, all teh way to annisett liquor.  

** fact #2  just when i had given up.... just as quickly as it came-- it was gone for no immediate reason.

** fact #3- things appear around here- dozens- most noteably - one day at amil call...  i got the idea of having frying pans so people did not hand feed the donkeys and i talked about it- within  10 minutes  i opened a package with 2 purple fry pans.  i would have to consult the cmaera people to remember some of the many others... except....

last week-- - while looking over some german bloodlines -before i bought the 2 pups- out of the clear blue- i got worried about cleaning fluids-   -- and how one never mixes chlorox and amonia and lives to tell about it. i ripped and tore into that product-- with labels-- ok it was useful in veternarian situations  but i was worried about who might combine it wilt any other-- did all our volunteers have "proper instructions about the use of xxxx" i was clearly quite neurotic about it for at least an hour. 

  today... in the news-- in andover--all of 4 miles away- a man died from mixing cleaning fluids  for the floor in a restaurant  

OK GOLDIE-- I GOT THE MESSAGE... SO  I WILL TODAY... LOCATE TEH VARIOUS PRODUCTS And put warning labels on them--  we do use cholrox -- and that is  one that  causes death when mixed...  so this "new" product  may well be harmless when used properly,    what happens when a volunteer gets creative and tries to be helpful-- so Goldie-- i am on itl;.

100 years ago someone decided teh rats were a problem in the barn...and brought in some rat poizon not realizing that a dead or dying rat is a chew toy for a dog...-- clean healthy grain fed rats are  a fact of life in neartly every barn- especially as we get into winter when they move in from the 1000 acre forest behind us.   we do have a video of an owl catching one for it's dinner... in teh goat stall-

if they get too prolific  we do result in using  snap traps--  tehn quickly putting them in the freezer so we can becoem  teh FROZEN RODENT DELIVERY COMPANY--- for teh  raptor rehabilitators in the area.

So be careful what you defrost out of our freezers. 

nov 13 2019

A HAIRDRYER !  A HAIR DRYER --- MY KINGDOM FOR A HAIRDRYER !  A BLAZING FIRE MAY BE VERY POETIC- BUT WHEN JACK  (FROST)   BREZZES IN THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR SHOVING A HAIRDRYER DOWN TEH FRONT OF YOUR  JACKET/SWEATER AND GET YOUR CORE    ATMOSPHERE UP TO 72 DEGREES WITHOUT HEATING A WHOLE ROOM. 

WANT  TO CLIMB INTO A NICE TOASTY BED?  CAREFUL USE OF A HAIRDRYEER WILL FIX THAT... OF COURSE - SOME CONSIDERATION  SHOULOD BVE GIVEN FOR BURINING TH  HOUSE DOWN.... BUT IF YOU DON'T YOUR BED WILL BE WARM/ 

THIS CONSEPT OF  INDIVIDUAL ATMOSPHERE  HAS NEARLY BEEN WIPED OUT BY THE HOMES BUILT AROUND HERE... 5 BEDROOS -- 2.5 BATHROOMS  IS A VERY COMFORTABLE HOME FOR 2 RETIRED PEOPLE--  OH... BUT THEY HAVE THE ROOM IF TEH GRANDCHILDREN COME TO VISIT OVER CHRISTMAS... 

IN THE MEANTIME-----WHAT THEY SOPEND ON HEAT AND AIRCONDITIONING WOULD PUT THOS E GRAND KIDS THRU COLLEGE.

 I HAVE MADE A FEW RECORDS IN MY LIFE--- ( CURRENTLY TEH 48 HOUR FUNDREAISER !! FOR WHICH I THANK YOU ALL) --  MAYBE CONSOLIDATED LIVING-- WOULD BE ANOTHER---

IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE-- I HAD A HOUSE BURN TO THE GROUND ONE NEW YEARS EVE.  I MANAGED TO GET A VERY INEXPENSIVE HOUSE TRAILER DELIVERED VERY PROMPTLY-- AND IN THAT -- FOR  MANY MANY MONTHS LIVED--ONE BED RIDDEN HUSBAND ( BACK SURGERY)-- 2 SMALL CHILDREN WITH ELECTRIC CARS-  A LOVELY BASSETT HOUND  "POLLY" WITH HER 12 PUPS- THE RESULT OF A  QUICK TRYST WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD BLACK LAB-   THE KITCHEN TABLE  HAD TO BE MOVED  INTO TH EMIDDLE TO PROVIDE A U TURN FOR THE ELECTRIC CARS- THE OTHER END OF THE  LINE WAS A 3 POINT TURN  in and OUT OF THE BATHROOM.  THE BARN HAD 14 HORSES WHO NEEDED to be watered with truckloads of water... and i ran a magazine delivery business "teh Want Advertiser"   every tuesday.THE WORST PROBLEM WE HAD WAS THAT  A BUNCH OF PEOPLE CAME TO HAVE A OPARTY AND WENT  TO  PARTY WITH MY HUSBAND WHO WAS IN TEH BACK "MASTER BEDROOM"  AND THE FRONT OF THE TRAILER CAME OFF THE GROUND.  we did survive  

FINALLY SPRING CAME AND POLLY WITH HER 12 BLACK BASSEETT HOUNDS WERE FREE TO ROAM.. LIKE A HERD OF TURTLES -- I THINK WE KEPT MOST OF THEM.

 so i have had practice  for my current consolidation of one room and a bath....  with private hair dryer--  the summer version is a small fan and a water spraying device for personal airconditioning;  evaporation being a cooling process. i know i am  extreme.y fortunate to have that---- proving once again that warm and dry  is really all that is necessary.

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 board of directore meeting went very well-- all theway thru to the purple ice cream  for camera mark and i  for desert--  tehy did some talkig about  board things, like  by laws  and arguedd about who seconded what and why-- 

 i have to admit   this board is 180 degrees from the various "boards" that have fulfilled teh requirement over the past 15 years...  in teh past it was any 6 people who wanted a meal at tehe country club- who could sign their names to the fact that they had been there.  this board does have some " substance"  for which i am grateful. 

it is nice on ocassion  to have them behind me for opinions--- which they are happy to share... they do have opinions-- which for th e most part i am obliged to honor.  i am aware of situatios where boards have "removed"  teh president- and i wold hate to have them stuff me in my one room. 

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we did discuss some of teh things that we can accomplish with the new funding-- i mentioned the garagee door- and thy quickly worried that mentioning it in the dialy doggie would encourage our camera people to starrt send ing garage doors-- like sox, or bird cages..  it could get awkward..

but we would survive !! actually... there are 2 doors we should repalce...  but i never said that.

nov 12 2019

pups --- millie and teri--- are doing fine--  love those  names for the pups landing on veterans day... that is the last time i will evr buy 4 month old  dane pups from europe !!  bud and i are getting too old to stuff them in hte door---  i was not prepared for the  wiggle  weight as related to my car d0oor.  we had to have judy already inteh back to keep teh collapsed kennel on it's side...  luckily the pups were already leash trained.. but heafty is the word.

now that pam has slept  overnight on the floor  with them.. they think she is pretty special too.  we will get them to kennel 10 as soon as we can---  not sure about today

they will have to be trained to go thruthe in/out door-- which will have to be someoen smaller than me on their hands and knees for a bitl;  to get them used to the door flap to get in out of thecold.

that id maybe today's project--- that would be on camera... puppy hill or indoor puppy room camera.

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 if i was desiging teh us custons process....   i would buy anotehr rubberr date stamp -- and maybe a card table with chair-- and have a government "stamper"  at the  cargo side of teh airport where stuff lands that needs a stamp-- because even after you pay teh ?landing?  $80 fee-- must be money order or computer--- not by cash or check- you then have to go elsewhere to get this stamp/ with date.  

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we have our own bermuda triangle--- COVERED IN OUR BRAND OF   BLACK ICE WHICH  IS YELLOW.-

of all teh possible things aroung=d here on which  to possibly spend our $200,000 new source of money.... about the  last thing anyone would guess is... a garage door.-- BECAUSE________we need a people door before soneone gets hurt.

(you all say you like to have all the details)  here goes..... 

 if you try and walk/drive or crawl  up the walk to our front door--- which is in teh back of the house....  there is a 20 foot section where the hot top is at a very slightly tilted angle--  from wet leaves to black ice- not only do people fall, but golf carts  tractors to my toyota can get going sideways-- thank heavens teh vehicles are stopped  by a tree which shows many scars.----  for people  i have strung lovely cotton rope-but it is not a real solution.

it can be avoided  by walking under our  doggie deck-- where our doggies do doggie things- and teh space between the floor boards allows most of those doggie things to drip below..which in the winter gives us "black ice"... THAT'S yellow.  

or you can go thru "the garage"  -- ancient overhead elect door which never worked well 30 years ago.  we need a people door there WHERE YOU CAN WIND YOU WAY PAST THINGS LIKE A CARRIAGE JANINE BOUGHT AFTER TOO MUCH TO DRINK AT A COCKTAIL PARTY- MEGANS WALL OVEN -   2NEW CARTONS OF  TOILETS,  4  NEW TIRES THAT DO NOT FIT ANY VEHICLE WE OWN-- NORMAL THINGS

HAVING A PEOPLE DOOR WOULD MEAN STAFF COULD GET TO WORK ON MUCH SAFER FOOTING than having to navigate that bermuda triangle..   EVEN IF THEY HAVE  TO SLITHER PAST THE  handy LAUNDRY CHUTE WHICH TAKES UP HALF TEH  STAIRS TO THE FIRST FLOOR...

- MAYBE SOME OF YOU CAmera people  CAN help research this??? I NEED AN ELECTRIC DOOR ITH A PEOPLE DOOR IN IT-- AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS POSSIBLE...

teh people door would be used 273 timesd a day-- the full door -- maybe once every saint swithens day.

if you can find a 4 foot door ---  let me know...... if  i can get teh carriage out , i  might never need a full door.  

please don't start sending me doors until we get the detials dowm pat.... i remember teh fun project of  59 bird houses everyojne so  generously  sent./.