CARLENE YOU OWE HALEY $24 AND $20 TO JUDY. RIGHT !!!
With running four different raffle boards tomorrow there were details … every time you change anything around here there are things you never thought of .. simply with 2000 numbers for just the chicken chating … we usually put 2000 stickers on the table cloth it's time consuming but people enjoy standing around talking to each other while putting them on and scraping them off but this time because we have 4 I decided that we could use little slips of paper in the Cement mixer .. we just happen to have a nearly new very clean cement mixer which should work fine tossing around all these bits of paper for the four different baffles--- it sounded like such a good idea and it is I had not totally considered how these thousands a little bits of paper got to be little bits of paper ..
So yesterday the end of Mail call 5:30 I sat on my bed with linda's lovely paper cutter and sliced up over 2000 little rectangles with people's name and a number on them .. That took me from 5:30 to 8:30 of doing nothing except cutting little rectangles with a paper cutter .I got the all packed away in the garbage bag there's an awful lot of 'em when I noticed but in the process I lost that extremely sharp tiny razor thing off the paper cutter .. with luck it's in the bag with the little rectangles otherwise it's losted in my sheets and blankets .
Who could possibly guess let the process of training service dogs required spending Time searching for a razor in a bed .
This Best illustrates the problem I have with ADI who insists I have very detailed job descriptions .. it may be simple in other outfits to do this but around here you couldn't possibly describe all the things staff will be required to do …
there's another small detail For you all to think about ----- we did have a barking episode two nights ago which involved the animal control officer giving me a citation .. her proof was listening to the explore camera web .. last night I left the donkey Hill camera an overnight unnoticed because of the location of the microphone the loudest thing on it was the turkeys and .. that is not saying the dogs didn't bark because they certainly can and do sometimes but last night the loudest thing in the barn were the turkeys .
This may throw us back into the study of physics where sound get quieter the further away you get …buy an actual formula double the distance reduces the Loudness by 6 decibels .
That is demonstrated most often by someone saying "speak up we can't hear you in the back of the room .". that is a known physical phenomenon like gravity .. if you stop and listen very carefully you can hear a barking dog at 200 feet but only if your refrigerator is not running to muffle the sound . It certainly would never wake any sleeping baby I ever knew . but if you or annoyed with dogs in the first place that noise will grate on your nerves which makes me wonder why you would buy a house next to a kennel 50 plus great Danes .
A very old story with a very old problem .
We are as ready as we're going to be for our virtual dogfest and I hope everybody will stay 10 feet away from each other .. we will put up the spirit sticks sometimes Saturday morning because I'm worried if they're up overnight some of the paper ones would wilt .. so that activity should start sometime Saturday morning with ongoing interviews with staff and volunteers starting about noon on the donkey camera . I can't tell you when we will bring the puppies down to the puppy Hill camera because it Has to be their schedule not ours . If I had to guess I would say somewhere between 11:30 and 12:30 . but who knows .
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bud got the camera moved tothe condo area... which is much more interestingthat=n the sunroom.... tome, the interesting poart was..... bud said it was not working and there must be something wrong with the cable between the sunroom and condo... i do not know why.... or why i would remember... but for the past?2 years? another cable has been hanging on the clean fluffy rack in the corner of the kitchen... bud changed that out nd it works perfectly...
now walk that back to..."why is that loop oif wire hanging in the kitchen.... put it away" and if that had happened 2 years aga...., i never would have been able to find it t the moment it was needed.... why was it there iht he first place???? remember i went thru a phase of learning to put new ends on cables-- and it was my practice loop... put that in my job description ..., right next to cutting thousands of paper rectangles...
