mar 14 2022
in winter i get up at night
and dress by yellow candlelight
in summer quite the other way
i have to go to bed by day.
to heck with birds still chirping in trees... reminding me to change the batteries in my noisemakers..
it is dark... i am up... all oranged and coffee'ed
darn daylight.....i had it all arainged pups would have breakfast in the "mail call room" then go outside for the pause that refreshed and back for a nap/// then be ready to go to the fiargrounds at 9..
clock says 7 pups say 6 so fairgrounds willl be pups 9 and clock 10
i remember in britain -- somethign about "daft" time--- and teh scots in the hills had "double daft " time now you ry and read a train schedule with all that ... and to them it was normal.
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yesterday a small select group lectured me on repairing things before they totally collapsed.. they seemed totally oblivious to things like money and help. and got i n a swivit because we have not swept off the roofs . i know a couple things about roofs... if a roof does not leak and you go waltzing around on it, it will then leak like a sieve.....in lynnfield we had an upstairs porch added to the house.. which unfortunetly pitched toward the house meaaaaning a puddle acumulated right at the house which then leaked .
it started with a scrapbasket catching the "overnight" drip -- then a trash can--- then 2 trash cans with a preplanted siphon nose between so i could fill both trash cans from one drip. and get a full night's sleep.... i coul.d not go to 3 trash cans and still get past all this to the kitchen... so i drilled a 3/8 inch hole in the floor and shoved a kitchen funnel in the hole-- worked well til i sold it "as is where is' and let them fix it. i don't know if they ever did the husband was the creative type and they just might still have it there --- while he built a plane in teh barn and flew it somewhere impressive----i can't remembr ?ireland???
i sold it without a real estate agent- some guy " who shall remain nameless " a real character came up to me one day and said i will give you $xxx for that property,,,one of my neighbors had just exploded at me because the kids walking thru his property liked to throw bits of food into his perfect garden on their way to the school bus.....and of course i had a bunch od=f dogs who would go get it.. high schoool kids loved to watch. the neighbor literally chased me up the road with a rake -- so i decided to take mr nameless's offer- and i left lynnfield in a rocking chair in the back of a pick up--- to live in a temp house somehow arrainged by the cashmans ( as in #12 wayne cashman of bruins fame) til we could move into the pick up camper....r parked by where the laundry building is,,, while 3 guys from iowa built the small house- all our belongings were stored in the back of the horse trailer while janine lived in the front and we lived in the back of a borrowed pickup..
the funny part was... tom had a "beeper" and the phone was a temp one at the gate.. - so ooo many nights he wouldl have to run up to the gate to tell someone to take 2 asprins and call him int he morning.
then the little house aka guest meeting house got built-- the furnature went in the kitchen side and kids with friends went upstaies
no mkae that "up ladder"
instacart????? delivery within an hour from local stores?????
