dec 29 2021
cici has turned to motherhood... she has that look... these are my pups... she has decided the room service does have it's advantages--- and at an awkward mid night opinion, she decided to forgive and .... not forget....but chew.... as she wolfed down a whole can of food. one spoonfull at a time...
nature can be most pequiliar.... but when we say "she is having puppies."... that is only about half of what she is having--and to keep her "nest. neat and tidy, she eats everything except the pup..... which strange as it sounds... does have some nutritional value????--- which... when we jump in and quickly dispose of "everythig except the pup...." we are actually depriving her of some stregnth from that "other stuff"--so we do try and keep up her intake... especially cheeze-- for the calcium.
these pups seem to be getting enough to eat--- they eat-- then sleep with very little sound.... today when donna comes in we should weigh them again just to check... but the last belly i felt was round.
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my car---and teh contents of my car...are at the toyota dealer-- i should have emptied it out before leaving it in the hands of strangers-- my day pack of tools is behind teh seat....hopefully semi visable behind teh transfer chair-- and a few other things-- i have been known to loose a bunch of cd's during a motor job.... i would hate to loose that "day pack"
--- loosing things.... aka janine leaning up the arena--- she had quite a pile- and i was told it was colby( grandson) and matt's job to get the stuff out and into the dump trailer..
pvc pipe--- i have been known to cut off a 3 inch piece-- so how can she say any of it is "junk" most specially... she did not recognize the " 5 way" fittings that once were so hard to find. ( preamazon who probably now has them). you need a 5 way to stand up one piece of pvc pipe--- or-- as in my case you waned to make a cavaletti.( horizontal bar 12" high) for teh dogs to jump--- or use 2 posts to make amuch higher jump...... i used to ask them all to jump things.. like3 foot high !! but because i am so into changing my mind about things .... i never glued them together -- so i could just pull them apart and redesign at random---on a farm you need. "stuff"-- like the day... all of a sudden.. i decided to pour concrete for the donkey cafe- when i reqally had not designed teh particulars...... so i stood up short pieces of pvc in straight lines---- which just happened to be around.... so when they poured the concrete i alreqdy had teh "holes" in which to put the iron pipe which holds up the tent. and a few other things--- that required maybe 24 pieces of pvc about 1 foot long
i had all that in the g-tent-- fortunately janine had not manageed to toss it out as pieces of pipe too short to use...
we can construct amazing things around here without a trip to home depot....we have it..... if we can only find it....
speaking of that. ... and pieces of string too short to use......
I have a basket sitting behind me as I type which has 50 or 200 short pieces of rope in it- it has been there since before dogfest because I had intended to set it up as a place for people to practice splicing rope or putting this dub ends on rope which is a very handy thing to know how to do -----and as I've said before it's one of the reasons there is a service dog project -----I know how to splice rope.. I was standing in the barn of a friend with a group of people just hanging around and I noticed that her crossties we're all shredded at the end as they usually are in most barns so I just splice the end so nice neat tidy little wad she was very impressed and many months later was the one to give me a nice big check to get service dog project going... so learning these odd talents is not ever useless-------- so back to my bucket behind me I know that Josh who just won that award for somehow selling a whole bunch of monkey fists that he had made... he has to have the same kind of collection I hope he didn't throw them out because when you make a monkey fist and you finally tightened it all down around the center you end up with a piece of rope that you just cut off.. now his problem is I never taught him how to make the ends on those ropes but every one of those ropes is probably long enough for the type leash that every recipient of a service dog from here users so I hope you didn't throw it out I...
i keep thinking I should call his mother and make sure that they hang on to that and then I should he should come over here and have me teach him how to put the ends on ----so there.
i used to call it oddball information-- where if you accumulate enough of it- someone eventually will be impressed... maybe to your advantqge....
everybody knows how to fry an egg.. so you will not gain my notoriety for being able to do that....
monkey fist making is different....
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PLEASE... GO DO TH E. CHICKEN BRICK THING... THE ONE OVER NEW YEARS IS ALWAYS. A CLOSE CALL.....
ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS.....
