july 17 2022
this foolish daily doggy now has 1487 individual regular readers daily....---there are several amazing statistics. The number of readers varies by about 10 people on either side of the 1487. --- Sometimes it takes 48 hours to get to 1487 as people read it a day late.. and about 40% our men who don't usually read these things..
With that in mind there must be somebody out there in crazy acres land who's always wanted to drive a backhoe.... well we certainly have. #1. A backhoe and # 2. the need for somebody to drive it... with a perfect project of churning up the compost pile.. and adding pelletized lime.. we have at least two piles in need of churning... which would involve taking my car to the co-op and picking up 500 pounds of lime at a time. .. then transferring it to the little tractor bucket by dumping some bags in the bucket and trying to sprinkle that over the compost pile and backing up the bigger tractor and with the backhoe attachment just stirring it up adding more lime as looks logical.. there are people who have thought this was great fun---- both men and women.. With power everything ---steering--- brakes --and everything else it doesn't take any great strength to drive these things.... I don't know why the world thinks only men can do this because just twiddling your fingers on that control nob would enable you to pick up a small car if you happen to want to do that.. I dare say. using an electric sewing machine is far more dangerous and I bet statistically more people have been wounded by a sewing machine than by the back hoe, although the difference in the severity of the wound might be significant..
There are only two problems with a backhoe. one is ---who ever designed it must have been very slender because the distance between the seat and all these levers it's a bit of a challenge for somebody my size or shape? thickness?? not impossible but just a challenge.. the other is the seat where you sit to manage the backhoe is outside of the heated and air conditioned cab.. so compost churning at this time of year it is more highly recommended just after breakfast before the sun gets too hot.
to be very specific about volunteers that we need... there's another interesting one in that as these young pups come along they must be introduced to the train travel and noise so that they might accept things like subways in their future life. the way that starts is to have a puppy in the back of your car and go back into the parking lot right next to the train tracks in Beverly and sit there for an hour or so and drink coffee while the trains come and go til the puppy learns that it's not gonna get in the car with them so they might as well just relax ....that's step number one ----- coffee drinking at the Beverly train station..
step number 2 would be to sit on the benches at this Beverly train station with u pup on leash sitting at your feet and hang on for dear life as the trains come and go until they relax at that.. to actually get the dogs on the train must be done first by Lynn. ( I have retired from train training.....). . where she would get them on the train off the platform which is at the level of the door to the Train car.... that is the easy part the part -----I was not ready for(and this is where experience comes from bad experiences--). -trains in New England very often have the steps into and out of. that are made of a mesh sort of iron so that the snow doesn't collect... so when you start out of the train car and you asked the puppy to step down you are asking them to step down onto something they can see through and this could get very complicated ------worst case scenario --- you throw down a towel or your newspaper to cover that visual till they get used to it. It doesn't present a problem getting on the train at Beverly because that loading area is at a level of the train car--- but getting off the train on the way back it's a step down onto that visual and that's a big problem---- but they learn
why Beverly?. there are twice as many trains in Beverly as in Ipswich because at Beverly the tracks split and half the trains go to Rockport and half go to Newburyport...
that stepping onto a surface they can see thru ... could be life shattering as fire escapes are often made of that material...
...thanks to josh, we now have photo proof of a service dane in a submarine, and ,a cockpit of an airplane
Good morning! It took a year and and some explaining by the NH governors council on disabilities, but Josh and Daisy finally explored that submarine museum in Portsmouth, NH.Hoping all is well!Jen, Josh and Daisy--------
I took 2 years of Latin also.....40 years ago. All I remember is that the teacher who was absent for every full moon (a self-proclaimed Lunatic) taught us, "Ubi O Ubi, est mea sub ubi?". Literal translation is , "Where O Where is my underwear?". Well done, Mr. Lunatic. 😂
