Thursday, May 8, 2025

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I think my basic problem at the moment is Janine will be gone for 10 days and I know very well I can't do all the things she's been doing starting with the basic problem of knowing who is who ---one of your camera people did come up with the official name of someone who does not recognize facial expressions or whatever and I certainly have that because I can only think of about 5 women that I could recognize out of a crowd and there should be no significance in being either included or excluded but I would recognize Elizabeth she lives here and. talks funny and Judy who organized things but cannot be trusted with N SE and West after that there is thes maybe I'd recognize them ---Donna who brings me food and ice cream Michelle  who’s  living in the guesthouse---betsy of jewelry and monkey fist fame then the men- I probably would recognize Brian  our large animal veterinarian but after that I would recognize bud  who has been here 14+ years...in his farm outfit but cleaned up in city clothes I'm not so sure ----then all the animals she's leaving  including several brown horses some broke some not broke then there are too Mini.  horses one does stairs and elevators the other one does not and then there's the generic Gray donkey of which we have several very pleasant nice to handle etcetera except for one who's the mean son of a gun--we should cut a chunk out of his main so we don't make the mistake of having some kid try and handle him... and then there's Arthur he may look like Mary but he has a long way to go to try and figure out if people are friendly or not/

 

and then there's the fencing.  there is a whole lot of fencing that was and is now gone and I'm not familiar with it--we once had a perimeter fence at least 5 foot tall Arthur's told me that it's not there anymore and I don't really know where it is and is not... these kind of questions are critical when Janine isn't here to just solve them =------used to be I knew what was going on now I really don't have a clue.   Like is there a 10 days worth of hay in the hay loft ??I don't know    there are so many details Janine just took care of so I no longer am even familiar with the parts of any problem ---like did the gate get left open or was there no gate there in the first place

 

There was just a massive argument in the arena basically involving the mini donkeys and horses and I got there just in time to see all of them run out except for one donkey who laid down and rolled and

way off to the side just peering around the corner  was the one white goat. As I sit here and type they are all tiptoeing back in but that one donkey I'm sure is the mean one has staked his claim over the full full hay bag

 

Time we found a home for that mean donkey he would be perfect guarding a herd of sheep so let's get on that project ---he's tough