alphabet soup is doing me in...... IRS COV CPA VA .. AC ...AGO ... THE LIST IS ENDLESS.. THERE IS A REPORT DUE TO THE IRS BY NOV 15.. AND SINCE 14 COMES JUST BEFORE 15... I SENT IT TO THE CPA YESTERDAY... THIS APPARENTLY IS VISABLE SOMEWHERE LIKE GREAT CHARITIES???? I NEVER DID GET THAT STRAIGHT....
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alphabet soup is doing me in...... IRS COV CPA VA .. AC ...AGO ... THE LIST IS ENDLESS.. THERE IS A REPORT DUE TO THE IRS BY NOV 15.. AND SINCE 14 COMES JUST BEFORE 15... I SENT IT TO THE CPA YESTERDAY... THIS APPARENTLY IS VISABLE SOMEWHERE LIKE GREAT CHARITIES???? I NEVER DID GET THAT STRAIGHT....
AND THERE ARE TRAPS... LIKE.... IF YOU BUY A TRAILER ON NOVEMBER 13TH AND REGISTER IT AS ONE WOULD EXPECT, YOU HAVE TO REG IT AGAIN ... AGAin FOR THE FULL YEAR...17 DAYS LATER.. BECAUSE ALL TRAILER REG EXPIRE ON NOV 30TH. IN MASS
THE ATTNY GEN OFFICE IS MORE FORGIVING... WAY BACK BEFORE THE CHICKEN SHATTING, I FOUND OUT I COULD NOT GET Any town permits until i had done something with the attorny gen office.. which involved my going to BOSTON WITH A WAD OF PAPERS.. ALL 9 WADS EXACT COPIES OF EACH OTHER... AND MY CHECKBOOK......I NEEDED 9 CHECKS FOR $15 EACH AND I FILLED OUT THEIR 9 FORMS WHICH NEEDED MY SIGNATURE IN 3 PLACES .. I REMEMBER I HAD THUMPER WITH ME WHO WAS PERFECTLY BEHAVED TO THE ASTTONISHMENT OF THE STAFF-- WHO ASKED ME TO WALK HIM THRU THEIR OFFRICES AVTER I HAD SIGNED MY NAME IN ?36 PLACES????? NO FINES... JUST KEEP SIGNING....
OURS IS NOT TO QUESTION WHY .....
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NOW FOR THE TRAINING QUESTIONS.. OF WHICH WE HAD A FEW..
point here is "never" does not always apply--- there are exceptions to everthing you can say about training.
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THE ONE TIME WE MIGHT NEED TO TEASE A PUP FORWARD WITH TREATS IS IN THE BEGINNING LEASH TRAINING... TO GET THEIR MIND- OFF THE RESTRAINT OF THE LEASH AND GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO MOVE FORWARD... PROBLEM THERE IS.... IF YOu HAd treats in your opocket, then your pocket smells like treats and you then have to re think that problem... this is true with the other time we use treats .... getting back into their kennel -- a treat at that point really works well... ok... so how do you have a treat ready for that without your pocket smelling like treats.. ?? plan ahead with a handful?
you have to remember smelling things is one of a dog's primary tallents....
it is my contention it is hard for a DOG TO CONCENTRAGTE ON LEARNING ANYTHING IF THE INSTRUCTOR SMELLS LIKE TREATS... I HAVE FORBIDDEN THOSE HANDY DANDY TREAT BAGS -- I HAVE WATCHED THEM BEING USED in other training facilities..AND THE DOGS TOTAl world is focased on that bag....
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for the second time in my traqining career i had to suggest something of which i do not approve -- the gentle leader-- a contraption wihch goes around the nose of a dog... dogs hate them ---- becaues it restricts their most primary resource their nose... a recipients dog figured ashe could lower her head and sniff anytine she wanted to-- thus throwing off the person's balance which the dog was supposed to be helping with..... the other time i suggested it was the high school kid who went to college... in a wheelchair-- and the college kids routinely fed the squirrels making the squirrles run toward kids walking on campus .. this made for horrific wheelchair wild rides , until she used toh gentle leader .. only for a coulpe weeks.. so it does have it's use... but is not a replacement for training. if the recipients could give aq n astounding "knock it off" it probably w2ouldnever be needed..
there is aLSO A PLACE FOR ELECTRIC SHOCK COLLARS... I KNOW OF NO BETTER WAY TO STOP A DOG FROM CHASING A CAR..
SO BEFORE EVERYONE COMES DOWN ON OUR HEADS WITH "I THOUGHT YOU SAID...." YOUR COMMENTS WILL REMIND US TO THINK...BUT WE MAY NOT ANSWER YOUR EVERY QUESTION.
I watched on television how so many people in New York took to seeing songs ---Broadway songs and national anthems etc ---out their windows and I thought now that's an interesting idea .. so I tried to figure out how we could have Christmas carols playing between Thanksgiving and New Years. and I ran into the fact that long ago we had to shut off the radio in the arena camera because we couldn't play copyrighted music over the Explorer network .. that may be the case still but I wondered if we could get permission from somebody to play something the Mormon Tabernacle Choir or the Boston Symphony or something ..I can't believe they would be antsy about copyrights but you never know .. the concept of 1000 people or so that watch us singing Christmas carols over zoom or something there's an idea there
I know there's a group of four people who will henceforth be called the crazy Texans who watch our Mail call every afternoon and they call and are all full of giggles and laughter and define themselves as the crazy Texans from Houston.. they sound wonderful … that's proving once again there's a place for lunatic behavior …especially when the rest of society is just plain nuts .
In high school we had two music directores … this is gonna be tough to remember here but---- Mr zahn was in charge of the instrumental band orchestra etc and I can't remember the guy who was in charge of the choruses .. A NICE GUY…. and we had several choruses and they sang really classical things .. there are two things I remember of his teaching .. one was to be careful about your diction .. with “we WITCH CHEWER a Merry Christmas “ The other was we had one choral group the saying the whole performance of farres Requiem .. in Latin .. and I still remember some of that .. not a lot but some .. A COUPLE OF MY HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS READ THIS…. SO WHO WAS CHORAL DIRECTOR??? (
I don't think SCHOOLS do that sort of thing anymore I never see the high schools advertising concerts where fairly classical music is played .. that went out the window along with physical exercise ..
And I never got to my extension cords yesterday ..