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Every time I hit the 19th of the month I think I should be running out and buying a cake and going to the fire department we had to kind of give that up I think they were suspicious why the hell we're pills showing up with cakes random and it really got to be questionable so we had to quit it was fun while it lasted

Someone passed a law a rule somewhere about not taking edibles from strangers so they couldn't have a cake anymore.

Even my own fire department in Ipswich could not take a cake from me on the 19th because someone passed a law that people are not More generous at random so fire departments in general were told not to accept any edibles---- isn't that nice? OK

so on we go with the donkey project I had several comments about a 15 foot long lead rope is the problem with the horse it certainly is if a horse gets 1/2 an inch ahead of you you lose control however these are for jogging with the donkey where the donkey is directly in front of you and you're just running along behind... it's a very peculiar race over many miles where the donkey just jogs straight ahead and you follow generally.. it is also possible that occasionally you are ahead of the donkey and he's jogging behind you at any rate with a mammoth donkey a 15 foot lead rope would be better to give you some distance from the jogging rear end in front of you. our friends from Colorado are here andhave  spent two afternoons now checking out the donkeys that had been prepared ---so to speak--- By Elizabeth and friends to just jog steadily straight ahead it was going to be centered on Meredith farm which would have been very nice but there was a possibility of a parking problem with spectators etcetera so they are going to operate out of here and I don't know what we're going to do with the parking we'll figure it out--- there are three loops 5 miles three mile and one mile and I don't know the exact details but I do know that Janine was out late yesterday afternoon with a leaf blower blowing the trail relatively free of leaves so people would  not get lost out in willowdale state forest -hopefully the three different trails will stay marked for anybody else in the future-.

At the moment Elizabeth is not 100%... I think the expression is “in bed with a bug I hope he's fun” at any rate Janine has to double up feeding at Meredith.. I have to remind Janine that all these hooved animals

that eat hay.. will survive very nicely on just hay and water for a few days so she shouldn't try knocking herself out to give individual grain... they will live on hay and water... We spoil all our animals with these super diets--- Just think if they were turned out in a pasture as they would like to be they would be living a little bits of grass about two inches long and they would thrive....

As for the hay cutting it Meredith I think I heard there would be no second crop this year because of lack of you got it ------water. --- Water comes home to roost..... too much or too little. Water rules the world.

 I did not see the article myself but I'm told there was an article where the exporting of hay to Arabia out of Los Angeles was stopped.. apparently we grow much better hay then they can at least at the moment the water is changing things.. I bet you all laughed when I said I I liked buying this property because of the lake across the street..  but you know way back on my pencil written deed many years ago provision was made for the acre in the back to have access to the water in the pond which is why there is a right of way next to the Partridge vary fence development..  AKA my back driveway

And this morning on the television there was a special on the concept of how much water per person is needed and whether the earth is now producing that clean water.. so people are beginning to pay attention.