aug 7 2023
Bud got a tiny laceration on his thumb--- maybe ¼ inch long---- so when he needed to use the rest room this “thumbprint door lock” would not let him in the building... he had to ask one of the puppy sitters to come use their thumb and open the door. Now when does all this technology go just too far. ?
In the 40 years I have lived here we have never locked up anything—the 2 keys that get nailed beside the front door were there for a very long time-- .. they may still be there - we could never tell if the house had been ransacked or not. Actually it was Ann Getchell who put me to the wise when we first moved in....
I thought it would be fun to have a large mailbox that was uniquely painted to sort of establish the fact we had arrived.. Anne took one look at it and said it was a mistake... because it will just attract attention and somebody will come along and smash it whereas if you have a normal dull looking every day mailbox they won't touch it... and she was absolutely right... as life went on in the early days of living here my children grew up into their own homes and families and particularly Gwen was adept at removing anything that would attract attention or might be considered valuable... I cannot remember the last time I wore any jewelry... although I did have one dinner ring with diamonds and a gold coin made into a lapel pin that probably had some value to them ---Gwen raided my jewelry box and got those things out of here so that no one would break in and steal them... and when you look around those house there's not really anything worth the effort of breaking in and stealing... this is a good thing---- I like that--- I don't like to have to lock up things and I've always had enough dogs who were very capable of announcing the arrival of anybody with crowbar or cookies.. so to have locked doors in the laundry building and the ICU building is exceedingly strange. there is apparently some hypp law where are you are to keep people's personnel files under lock and key---but that can be easily done in a locking file cabinet which doesn't have to involve the restroom.
Y ears ago when I was accepting applicants I made a point of telling them not to give me anything that I should keep under lock and key because I didn't have the capability of locking things at that point. that simplified matters a great deal and if anybody wants to rummage through my files to see what I've paid for the phone bill, or for the electric bill ---why you go right ahead.
the amount of paper that really would qualify for being locked up over the course of 20 years would hardly fill one milk crate---- practically everything else gets published somewhere anyway or at least ought to be published. with this 990 form from the IRS in order to be a charity.
This is closely connected to yesterdays sterling silver discussion--- Elizabeth—of direct Scottish ancestry, said her mother had party flatware and daily flatware... just like my family.. but when she had it all in her house she just used it all- and probably lost a few spoons in the trash, but life was simpler...
As for farm news.... Elizabeth has moved the 32 chickens up to the ‘used car lot” right outside my bedroom window—it is the "used car lot" because of the red white and blue overhead streamers which will hopefully deflect hawks...- a bit of a mystery... she bought 25 female chicks—they sent 27- and when we went to gather them up to move them it was 32—and 3 were boy chickens.
12:00 AM START REPORT, ALL QUIET
12:01 BIRD ALARM CALLS
1:22 – 1:24 CAMERA OFFLINE
1:55 BIRD ALARM CALLS
4:11 ROOSTER CROWING
4:21 – 6:00 ROOSTER CROWING
4:24 SOMETHING BANGED INTO GATE OR FENCE
4:55 ONE DOG OUTSIDE KENNEL 8, QUIET
5:02 FIRST BIRDS CHIRPING
5:03 ONE DOG OUTSIDE KENNEL 5, QUIET
5:04 ONE DOG OUTSIDE KENNEL 4, QUIET
5:10 – 5:10 ONE DOG IN OTHER KENNELS, SPORADIC BARKS
5:10 – 5:10 ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS, SPORADIC BARKING
5:29 ONE DOG BRIELFY OUTSIDE KENNEL 5, QUIET
5:30 – 5:31 ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS OCCASIONAL BARKS
5:30 – 5:33 ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS, SOFTLY HOWLING
5:32 ONE DOG BRIEFLY OUTSIDE KENNEL 5, SEVERAL SOFT BARKS
5:35 – 5:36 ONE DOG THEN MULTIPLE DOGSIN OTHER KENNELS, BARKING THEN HOWLING
5:36 – 5: 38 MULTIPLE DOGS INSIDE KENNELS, HOWLING
5:38 ONE DOG BRIEFLY OUTSIDE KENNEL 4, QUIET THEN FREQUENT BARKING
5:38 ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS, SPORADIC BARKING
5:38 – 5:39 THAN ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS AND OTHER KENNELS, SPORADIC/FREQUENT BARKING
5:48 – 5:48 ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS, OCCASIONAL/FREQUENT BARKING
5:50 ONE DOG BRIEFLY OUTSIDE KENNEL 10, QUIET
5:52 – 5:55 ONE DOG IN OTHER KENNELS, SPORADIC BARKING
5:52 – 5: 55 ONE DOG THEN JOINED BY ANOTHER INSIDE KENNELS, FREQUENT/SPORADIC BARKING
5:52 ONE DOG BRIEFLY OUTSIDE KENNEL 8, SEVERAL BARKS
5:52 ONE DOG BRIEFLY OUTSIDE KENNEL 5, QUIET
5:53 – 5:55 ONE DOG INSIDE KENNELS, SOFTLY HOWLING
5:55 – 5:58 ANOTHER DOG INSIDE KENNELS, FREQUENT BARKING
5:56 ONE DOG BRIEFLY OUTSIDE KENNEL 8, SPORADIC BARKING
6:00 END REPORT, QUIET AT THIS MOMENT
