july 27 2023
I HAVE TO GET HAY TODAY --- SOMEHOW...... I have told many tales about how the trash problem in the United states is overwhelming and here you have it on a very real basis.. the transfer station... which was once called a dump.. is only open a few hours every morning before it closes for the day because the trucks hauling the stuff from the transfer station to some landfill in Maine get backed up... so you end up sitting in line until they take another truckload out and the line quickly moves to fill it up again.. so although Janine and Elizabeth managed to get the stuff out of my cellar... I am now on hold until I can get clearance from the dump... but at least it's out of my cellar.
by the way the transfer station charges by the pound---you drive onto the scale --- go dump the stuff and go back onto the scale and they charge you by the pound I will save that slip because there was already someone who was convinced that I would overcharge to remove the stuff... IF I finally do get allowed to dump it I will keep the paperwork in order..
That whole process is now affecting our ability to feed the horses because that's the trailer I use to go get hey.. now I can get the company to deliver the hay to us but it would be an extra $5 a BALE. And where we use 8 baLES a day. That is going to cost us out of pocket $40 a day.. which I will just pay for myself and go on----in the meantime- the lump of stuff to be trashed will sit somewhere til I get THE OK to go with it. IT WAS ON CAMERA FOR A FEW MINUTES--- BUT SOMEHOW THAT CAMERA HAS BEEN SWITCHED TO HIGHLIGHTS OF THE OLD CHICKEN COOP... WHICH I MISS... I LIKED THAT CHICKEN DETAIL....
Nothing is ever simple.. it sounds so simple to have me just move into the guest house and I will do that quite happily but there are some things that are being ignored and left for me to solve because some people just don't understand. first of all ---to try and get my golf cart up to the door is possible by driving up the walkway.. as long as we remove the 300 pound lump of granite sitting at the door .. That means that I can drive up to the door---actually passed the door just to keep the golf cart level---and I will have all of three inches to spare between a post--- the guesthouse.--- and a drop/ cliff... now in this July August September maybe October also I should be able to manage as long as I'm extremely careful because that is only an inch and a half on either side but give me a little bit of ice and I'm going to be in very bad trouble.. the golf cart weighs probably 1000 pounds -- if it starts sliding backwards down the hill there's no way I could bail out I don't like sliding around in a vehicle on the ice.. well I could just stay in the guesthouse until someone gets enough salt and sand on the hill and I guess that's what I will have to do or else get down on my hands and knees and crawl down the hill which I could also do. I will manage believe me.
but the hill is only part of it-I don't mean to get into terribly personal details but there are parts of becoming a little old lady which are rather indelicate----LADIES just don't dare get too far away from toileting facilities--- shall I call them. ----that being said----- only a damn fool or a truly sadistic person would put any kind of barrier between the little old lady and the toilet. Now these barriers could take any shape or form of stone walls to jump over or something as simple as a combination lock, There could be a very Amusing comic strip with a bunch of little old ladies standing on one leg poking numbers into a combination lock----Somewhat similar to the old coin operated toilets I remember of in my youth... A funny little rectangular box much the same size and shape as parking meters--- and for $0.10 you could open the door.. and if you were very nice you held the door open for the next person so they didn't have to spend $0.10... which back then was a considerable amount of money. when cigarettes were $0.20 a pack.\
TO Continue uh this simple movement of me from A to B.. as one ages there are certain required things in addition to canes ,wheelchairs and shower seats --there's a whole plumbing industry related to aging women.. and I am one of them. And I will quite happily manage---- but let me ask very politely... well let me start again---- I don't know how to ask politely what Should be obvious to any responsible human. The more interesting question is “just why is this necessary?”
I spent 85 years so far learning about creative problem solving- I feel up to the challenge.
i am on it...
