nov 7 2020

 as the twig is bent, so grows the tree... or something like that. from mcdonALDS HAPPY MEALS ---TO CHURCHES --- , TO SPORT5,,  I DON'T MIND ALL OF THAT....  BUT WHEN POLITITIANS TALK OF WHAT THE CHILDREN NEED TO BE TAUGHT (BY CONGRESSIONAL ORDER) ... I STOP RIGHT THERE... MY PROGRESSION IS FAR MORE SIMPLE.. YOU TEACH A KID TO READ... THEN YOU TEACH THEM TO ENJOY READING-- THEN YOU GET OUT OF THE WAY.  ANYBODY SUGGESTING OTHERWISE    HAS FAR RANGE PLANS FOR OUR COUNTRY...  not necessarily good ones.....   OH THE LAWS/RULES I WOULD PASS... 

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HOW ABOUT Having congress sit boy girl boy girl with republicaNS AND DEMOCRATS SITTING ALTERNATELY... HOW WOULD ANY KNOW WHEN TO STAND UP OPR SIT DOWN???? 

 

I COULD GET RIPPING

TO OBSERVE THE VOTE COUNTING  YOU MUST FIRST PASS THRU AIRPORT SECURITY...  I TOO HAV E RELATIVES WHO ARE  CREATIVE PEOPLE, SOME OF WHICH  TOTE GUNS... ...  BUT I WOULD NOT VOLUNTEER TO COUNT BALLOTS IF THEY WERE ALLOWED TO STAND OVER MY HEAD...  WHICH WOULD SLOW DOWN THE NUMBER OF COUNTERS THUS SLOWING  COUNTING RATE. 

 THERE ARE SO MANY CAMERAS, I DARE SAY YOU COULD STUDY THE  AVERAGE  TIME NECESSARTY FOR A REST ROOM BREAK AS COUNTERS COME AND "GO" 

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GETTING AWAY FROM POLITICS... I WOULD HAVE BEGINNING DRIVERS HAVE THE   ---"L" ---   learners PLATE ----WHICH GOT CLIPPED TO A REGULAR PLate inn scotland   mostly for the first 4 months.. but it coudlo also be used for the slower moving--- lost or "elderly"  - i got that from totally enjoying driving that ambulance-- everyone got out of my way-------plus i never lost it in teh mall parking lot.

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why for years has it been more expensive to license an unspayed  female  dog- than it is to reg an unneutered male  .  the "tiucket i just got for a nusance ( barking ) dog also provided a fine for having a female in heat..     that law has to have been  passed by the men who invented the artificial testicles to put in a neutered dog so they wouldn't  be embarassed????? ...

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i never should  have started.....  if a woman is prevented from having an abortion- how about  preventing the man who caused this pregnancy from  causing any more pregnancies????  they would outlaw DNA testing very quickly !!  

i cam get into  trpub;e very quickel;y   

so.... on a LOCAL LEVEL...,.

i can bbarely stand teh excitement...  caprecious is ampidexterous- !!!!!  - she can and is hitting the yuppy puppy treat dispenser with either foot.. she is a thinker... she cojmes in and sits and looks at it for a few minutes, then gets up and whacks it with authority... with either foot too !!!!---  and then sits down and chews up a poo picker...  who am i to critique??  larkey has it figured out too   sit and wait for caprecious to make it work.....  BUT LARKEY KNOWS  HOW TO OPEN  THE DOOR.... THERE IS SOMETHING VERY SYMBOLIC HERE....   

was it kiss me kate???? "   it's he who has the fun and thee the baby" 

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hi there!

I just want to commend the volunteers and trainers at your facility.  I've been watching the cameras on explore.org for several months now as a way to focus on positivity and to provide moments of calm to my kids.  Mostly we've watched sleeping puppies but today we caught some of them in action!

Today we had a great time watching the puppies on the hill.  When it was time for them to head back to the runs there was one particularly rascally puppy that just refused to go in!  We watched, laughing hysterically at his antics, while three different trainers/volunteers worked to convince him to come in.  While it was entertaining for us to watch the puppy adamantly refuse to enter the run, I was so impressed with the patience shown by the staff.  They worked so hard to kindly guide him inside, trying toys and treats.  I watched one trainer just get down and pet and love on him for a few minutes and even then he was not having any of it.  (I've started saying "him" but it could have been a female puppy).  They eventually convinced the puppy to enter one of the runs and the three of us watching here let out a mighty cheer.

So, please pass along our admiration for the work you are doing and for the efforts to kindly and persistently train, even when that little guy/gal was being a stinker!  It was so wonderful to see the positive training and I know those puppies are so loved!

Thank you for the work you are doing!  

Kimberly  B.

NOV 6 2020

 maybe.. just maybe in the next few days i will no longer get  80 emalils every morning regarding one politician or another...

2020 11 06

 

99% of the current problem with the entire world is the fact that every small child---   (make that woman child)---had a kindergarten teacher who said "oh I don't understand arithmetic I didn't like it and or that's for boys to do .."   well apparently there are a lot of boys who didn't pay attention to arithmetic either but there is such a thing as the Bell shaped curve and to have millions of people fall within that Bell shaped curve somewhere is a statement all by itself .

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I remember I really wanted to go to engineering type school /college and I was clearly told by my guidance director that there were all men there ...  Which was probably the reason I wanted to go there in the first place--- As I found men far more attractive then groups of women in sororities studying art at Colby in  maine-  Where I ended up majoring in mathematics because if you can't spell you can barely get a passing grade in anything else ... And just to complete my liberal arts education I had to take two more years of Spanish .. when we got to Colby we were given a test in a foreign language of choice and if we passed it we didn't have to take any foreign language .. well I had two years of Spanish in high school and I took the test and they put me in beginning Spanish in college having totally failed that one .. they then said I had to pass a 500 words spelling test to graduate. Having gone to University of Edinburgh from my third year just to get out of Colby I came back from my senior year and  still had to take that damn 500 words spelling test again .. I think my parents paid the administration just to Get Me Out .. I got my diploma and ran for the gate -.

so much for formal education .. which I never really thought it was .. it just took up years .. The only thing ivalu I remember from Colby is that 4:00 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon means 4:00 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon one minute past four o'clock is just too late---- the train left the station at 4 .

Long live mike rowe

 

When I dictate that Mike row this machine often produces micro phone  which makes me remember we have a CP camera person who is involved with audio stuff .

and I really wish we had a formal study done of how sound is transmitted through the air and how it gets diminished over distance ..

I think there's a simple formula similar to the one this says apples will fall down out of trees which says every time you double the distance from a sound you reduce the volume bye 6 decibels .. that's the simplified version .. is there anyone who has a fancy degree with letters after their name who can write up that situation formally .

the only input I can give you is that  the loudest noise I have found from a barking dog ..  1 foot one foot from their mouth  is 90 decibels ..     we need ammunition  to gather for a  possible court case...  how about a student doing a phd study on that???

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Donna’s walk in cameo appearance for the day as malarkey is dragging out the contesnts of my scrap basket tot he kitchen.,,..... . hello hello I have to clean up because they keep bringing trash out---that's right you know you come in here and talk and you get on this  dictating  thing that's alright

hey butthead get outta here you go on out  don't don't don't don't bother siz  when she's eating .

 

try this go round..

I apparently said  I didn’t like donating dogs to Texas because of the distance....   That went to comments that I didn’t like Texans   which evolved to...  Texas is covered with dog pee????  And I got this email...

 

I wasn't happy when you said you didn't like Texas in the DD the other day but I let it go. Now someone is on the comments is saying that Texas is covered in dog pee. I think, perhaps, my support of this organization is not appreciated and I will find another organization who doesn't cast aspersions on my state.

 

 Just to prove I don’t have any real feelings about Texas  .. try this email thread....

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Hi Carline from Texas!

We love watching you. 

Heather, Sarah, Kai and Ryder

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are you the crazy texans who called during mail call the other day??   That I invited to stay in the guest house?  
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 Carlene,

Yes! This is us. My son, Kai, is the one who found you months ago and watches you often. He invited our friend, Sarah (this is who called you), to join us. You are often the highlight of our day. Expect to hear from us all again. We will also send in money to purchase chicken bricks. You have a great program there. 

 

Thank you,

Heather, Sarah, Kai, and Ryder

(The Crazy Texans)

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n  They sounded delightfully  bizzarre  so I said come visit us and stay in the guest house

n  Bunch of mixed nuts   is what I think I called them... 

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We like those !!!

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ps.. this mommy donkey should be considered dangerous.. she is protecting her new foal...  donkeys who bite do not let go... they hang on and draG PEOPLE AROJND by a thumb or whatever they grab....   .. TAke my word for it,.  the foal is darn cute... but...do not think of getting aNTY WHERES NEAR EITHER...,.

MOTHER  ANIMALS  CAN BE VERY PROTECTIVE... TRY TELLING YOUR JNEIGHBOR HOW TO RAISE HER CHILDREN...

 NOV 5 2020\

ENOUGH ALREADY !! 2020 11 05   That's two nights now of watching the news making monkey fists and thinking about what on earth they are saying ..  though I must NOT   comment on the political content  I certainly can comment on the newsworthy content .. I do watch 3 channels to try and get a good range of bull pOOPY .. and I think that falls into two categories   one is just sound bite nonsense with More volume then logical  content  and the second is so much statistical nonsense that the normal listener Is overwhelmed by statistics which is mathematics which they never understood in the first place . Object being to wash some idea through your head and leave probably two or three words of residue .. TAckling one at a time here we go ... Re: illegal voting.......‘ hundreds of buses went into New Hampshire and had people vote illegally” I did hear that maybe a few years ago but I heard that .. because at that time I thought there's no way in Massachusetts you could get one busload of people  where there was not  one in the group would not call the New York times and sell the story to them for a lot of money .   that would be UN American NOT TO  look for an angle TO make a Buck .. I know  THAT ...   if anyone walked into a bar where I was drinking (which is not likely to happen since I don't drink in bars .)  and said   “hands up for anyone who wants to go to New Hampshire to vote  ILLEGALLY .”. if none of the 80 drunks that got on the bus had the presenCE  to think  ABOUT WHAT WAAS HAPPENING,   , I would hope that the bartender would call his buddy at the Boston globe and say “have I got a story for you ..” it just couldn't happen to put that many people together and have no leaks ..  It is the American way .. thus proving that  news was nonsence....   The second group of news producing people put out numbers and ideas which are meant to wash through your head before you have a chance to think about it much like the bus bit .. these sound better because they use numbers and statistics to sound very logical but let's just think about one ....   “100,000 ballots  were tossed into the system so therefore the numbers are all wrong . “   .....OK ...... 100,000 ballots that I think 200,000 envelopes also we put together with the little X in the proper spot and signature with a #2 pencil ..  just how or where would you produce those 100,000 ballads in the Mail with no one noticing . it would take a lot of people--- I'm sure you've seen rooms full of people opening 2 envelopes unfolding the ballot and placing it in a pile ..  well that had to be done in reverse .. somewhere there would have had to been a bunch of people with number 2 pencils to fold the ballot put it in envelope one feel it put it in the envelope too somehow figured to get a   DATE stamp on it and put it in a box with 999 999  other envelopes .  .. I won't even get into getting these ballots printed but I do know then 100,000 ballots it's certainly going to be a bunch of boxes which is then going to  involve many more boxes of 200,000 envelopes and probably one carton of #2 pencils .. you would then need 10 or 20 folding tables and a place to put them where it's warm and dry like a banquet Hall ------.. my question is   ?? all those people with not one seeing the financial opportunity of disclosing it to the news people???   Things just do not happen in a vacuum.... Take the ups person delivering all those cartons of pencils....  I know the ups man who delivered the 59 boxes of bird cages a few years ago asked me “ what the hell is going on here? “  even without Sophisticated mathematical training most everyone can detect something outside the statistical norm ..  which is what much of the news involves ...     “Yes johnny there is  such a thing  as a bell shaped curve”  and in the complicated system of our voting, the stastical abnormality will be picked up by someone...    Furthermore having a news system which can freely discuss any statistical abnormalities is critical 2 our political system ...   Current problem is that we no longer have active editors who insist on checking the news  facts before it hits the Internet ..  therefore it remains for us  to be  be educated or at least not forced to live at warp speed so we don't have time to think. we should be able to think about these things .    My classical historical Chestnut   is “ the rate of increase in the number of jobs is down ? “    Someone  out there in the advertising world realized that the only thing the radio listener was going to remember was   ---- jobs is down -   when in fact  there were  new JOBS, .... Just  fewer new ones....   AS  they  saY WITH COMPUTER DATA.. GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT.....  IT IS ALSO TRUE WITH OUR HEADS. SO I GET R EALLY WORRIED WHEN POLITITians start talking about educating our kids to  think any certain WAY.; --  IMPORTANT INFORMATION OF TEH DAY JANINE WILL BE BRINGNIG OVER A MOM AND NEW BABY DONKEY...   SHE WILL PUT THEM IN THE CAMERA END OF THE STALL  APPAERENTLY THE  MOM BIT SOMEONE WHO WAS "PLAYING'" WITH HER  NEW BABY.... SO SHE IS NERVOUS... DO NOT GO IN THE STALL WITH HER.. AND FRY PAN FEEDINGS ONLY....  WHEN DONKEYS BITE. THEY OFTEN DO NOT LET GO  ... IT DOES NOT HAPPEN OFTEN... BU T THAT IS  TRUE.....

nov 4 2020

4 cups of caffeen and 16 monkey fists   later, with one to five danes tryihg to sleep in my room......----   i am going back to bed 

nov 3 2020

 while ignoring the voting./ .

i feel terrible..APPARENTLY ON mail call CAMERA I TOLD PAM A BAG OF RUBBER BALLS WHICH WERE VERY NICELY ORDERED BY KATHERINE.. WERE THE WRONG SIZE FOR A PROJECT I HAD GOING which PAM knew about........ AND THE CAMERA PEOPEL ( AND HOPEFULLY NOT KATHERINE) DIDN'T REALIZE I HAVE MORE THAN ONE size needed and will use them within a week...it all has to do with the size of the cord for those monkey fists i make at midnight when i can't sleep... there are 28mm, 30 mm and 32mm balls.... and string/rope size 50 and 60 and 70.. i have them all...AND I DON'T HAVE KATHERINE'S EMAIL TO EXPLAIN.right now i am on a size 60 string and ... about 1/4 inch rope..... making thOSE BALLS wrong at the moment.... so i will grab the other size and use them next time. probably next week . as linda continues to get orders for all sizes. from our doggie bag "gift store" .. furthermoere...... mark ( camera mark) told me he has a relative with extra balls ( bowling ) which he will donate so i can make more of the super size ones with manilla rope... to highest bidder !!! i know the last one i made used 30 feet of rope and weighed 4 pounds. COULD YOU PLEASE FORWARD This TO katherine . OR POST IT...

continuing on with the monkey fists.. i saw linda taking a new photo yesterday which is not on the web yet... that huge white one in that photo is around a "regular" bowling ball and i hate to think how much of that nice cotton rope i used to make it each loop is about 5 feet 9 loops per direction and 3 directions makes it well over 100 feet at 75 cents a foot . i now use that one on my personal swing set.... teh smaller manilla /candlepin 4 pound bowling balls make nice door stops i am told.

the little 1 inch ones make good gifts as zipper pulls or back pack decorations they are around a marble "so when you think you have lost your marbles, you have one left"

from marbles to rubber balls to golf balls to racket balls, to baseballs, to softballs to bowling balls ( candle , duck, and regular) ... all with different size rope.... donna dyes the cotton ones purple, red, or blue...it is quite a production line. making the4m beATs wATching the news at 2am...

with the possible exception of tonight. 11/3/2020 ------- well it would be 11/4/2020 for teh 2am ------i actually was awake last night for dixville knotch midnight vote wiht 5 for biden and then millville with 16 trump and 5 biden...

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i do have one other rope story......more generic.. every 2 inch fist i make means i have about one foot piece left over. rather than throw them out, i save a lump and offer them to anyone learnign to splice. lindsay ( with mega pup myrtle) took the first batch... haley took the second-- and last night haley produced a perfect stub end splice... .. what is interesting is that she even tried it !! she definitely has the explore concept of "never stop learning' .. this is a good thing.. heaven knows everyone has plenty of time on their hands now.. to learn to splice or juggle.. neither one taking any huge investment....

why bother to learn to splice 3 strand rope when you can buy poly rope ands burn the ends???

precisely the point. these new "improvements" have deprived us the opportunity to think and learn..

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A RE-THINKING STORY... i remember ... in scotland.. when calling emergency there, it was 999.. and there was a big flap over 111 on a rotary phone would take less time.. so they invented push button comprimise of 911...

and if you think that is why they invented push button i have a bridge in brooklyn to sell you... but the 111 PART was true.

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the growing pups wnet thru a bunch of usual dilemmas.. i took them each on a car ride withsizzle. 2 at a time.. 7.... three mile trips around the pond... and i didn't hit anything...( staff aROUD HERE SAYS IF I HIT 3 THINGS IN ONE DAY THEY WILL MAKE ME GIVE UP DRIVING...) EVEN THAT HAS IT'S LEGAL COMPLICATIONS......ONE DAY LONG AGO , I RAN INTO THE REGULAR HORSE TRAILER WITH THE HUGE 6 HORSE TRAILER.. NOW WAS THAT 2 ACCIDENTS OR ONE???

I HAVE VERY MANY , NOW VERY FUNNY , STORIES ABOUT ME AND THAT TRACTOR TRAILER SIZE HORSE TRAILER IN BOSTON.. DOING ANIMAL JOBS.. I WOULD OPE NT DOOR AND BYSTAND ERS WOULD EXPECT HUGE HORSES.... I USED IT TO CARRY 100 WHITE RABBITS FOR A JOB WITH PAT PAULSON- - AND A VERY FUNNY JOB WITH 12 BIG WHITE GEESE FOR WATT ENGINEERING... WHERE THEY WANTEED TEH GEESE TO OPEN THEIR MOUTHS... AND I KNEW IF GEESE GOT WARM THEY PANTED LIKE A DOG.. SO WE TURNED ON THE SPOTLIGHTS AND WE AND THE GEESE GOT WARM... BOSTON POLOICE KNEW ME WELL AND WOULD TURN TRAFFIC LIGHTS TO GET ME OUT OF THE WAY... ONCE I GAVE A NEW MEANING TO THE WORD GRIDLOCK.... ALOT OF STORIES....

I WENT A YEAR WITHOUT DRIVING, WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED I OFFICIALLY HAD EPILEPSY.. AS I BEGAN TO TAKE DILANTIN AND WAS SEIZURE FREE, I COUOD DRIVE AGAIN.. IN THE MEANTIME.. I WAS RUNNING A DELIVERY BUSINESS.. AND BECAUSE THEY DID NOT OFFICIALLY TAKE MY LISENCE AWAY, I COULD BE THE SENIOR DRIVER FOR ALL THE 16 YEAR OLD KIDS LEARNING TO DRIVE AND NEEDING HOURS BEHIND THE WHEEL WITH A SENIOR DRIVER WITH THEM. IT WORKED VERY WELL. DAILY AT 3PM, I WAS ON TEH ROAD AGAIN !!

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Hello Carlene,

If anyone were to doubt Riz’s reliability, they wouldn’t after watching her last night. I was visiting my son at his new house last night and because it was dark, Riz was off leash relieving herself about 20 feet from me. We didn’t know the neighbors’ dog was outside off leash also until it came rushing toward us in fight mode. Riz started to run toward the dog, but I said “Ahh Ahh Ahh” and she immediately turned around, ran back to me and calmly stood by my side while we watched the neighbor  wrestle his dog to the ground.  I was so proud of Riz!   heidi  

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Carlene,  I volunteer at the farm each week so give verbal updates about Burton.  Anyway on the occasion of his 8th birthday, he wanted me to send you an update in writing

I am writing to SDP today because I turn 8 on 11/2.  I’m Burton, one of the Muppies (Moxie and Bumpy litter from 11/2/2012).  You probably know some of my famous siblings - Alphy, Boris, Dash, Wendy and Tye who became service dogs.  The others (Onyx and Peter) were fabulous failures and became perfect pets, just like me.  I was adopted at 10 months old and went to live on 12 acres in NH.  After a few mishaps (underground wasps and a porcupine), I became master of my domain.  I love to run, but leave the deer and turkeys alone.  My Human Dad takes me most mornings on a coffee run.  Sometimes to Panera.  Also go to day care where they put me with the shy dogs (picture enclosed).   They like that I get them running and playing.  Maybe I should ask to go for free. Even though I’m now 8 years old I still get in lots of zoomies but also love to sprawl out on the couch or on my bed near the wood stove. I’m a happy guy, but what would really make me happy is to hear from some of my siblings who haven’t checked in for while.  

amy m...

we have alot of amy's 

nov 2 2020

 we have acquired a new interesting sounding camera person    -- who shall remain nameless... a vet... hospitalized.... but lives in one of those wild west  states...  beyoud the hudson river... we have been holding this early morning tryst ( he does not know i am 83)

sounds like he could really use a dog-- and being a veteran, the va would fly him back and forth for training... he offereed to buy a pup to speed up the porcess... .. so i sent him this. 

HELLOW...

.good morning.... 

IT WOULD NOT HELP FOR YOU TO BUY A pup FOR US....

WE MAKE OUR OWN... BY PUTTING A BOY DOG WITH A GIRL D0G AND 63 DAYS LATEr BINGO... PUPPY DOGS !!

AND  I DON'T THINK YOU ARE THINKING  OF HOW MUCH POO PUPPIES PRODUCE  WHICH WE MANAGE  PRETTY EFFICIENGTLY, with 100 volunteers   and a big dumpwwster     BUT WITH ONLY  ONE PUP.. YOU WOULD NOT HAVE THAt ability.-it  WOULD PILE UP IN TH E CORNER PRETTY QUICKLY.... and smell .. 

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texas is not one of our favortie places..   but we do have a dog or two in tenn.... even tho we say "north of th hudson river"  life is so damn strange

we have no "absolutes."  so send us paperwork.. with zero guarentees.... 

now there is a good daily doggie topic   ho0w much poo does it take to have a year old dog weighing 100 pounds??? 

have at it ... they Are born weighting  about a pound..... 

if you wander around our web... there is a woman whio saves everythign in an ?? information?  somethign.   and there is a video of the birth of all our pups.

the way you can help is to get  more people watchign our crazy acres. cameras...  . because explore.org ( our main  donor)  likes to see numbers going up  and tehy are 100% non commercial    "never stop learning" is theri mantra 

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all right.. all you people who tell me my math is aLL WRONG  WHEN I HAVE 3 DOGS IN KENNEL 10 INSTEAD OF 2 .. WORK ON  THIS..

A 3 WEEK OLD PU P WEIGHITNG 5 POUNDS... AND EATING 1 CUP OF DRY FOOD A DAY ( IN 3 MEALS)   PROGRESSES TO 6 CUPS A DAY--49 WEEKS LATER AND WEIGHS 100 POUNDS..  HOW MUCH DRY FOOD WAS THEN MIXED WITH A n equal weight of water.. and processed in ot poo to be pickedu p and put in the dumpster.

physics??? "     matter may neither be created nor destroyed" !!

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that will be  a more reasomnable occupation than to figure out  what the postal department did with  the ballot which a  suburban h ousewife  in penna.. sent In early  a week ago.

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on thAT SAME TOPIC- MY DAUGHTER IN N.C SAID SHE PLANNED TO FILL

H ER GAS TANK, ,REFRIGERATOR, ( AND PROBABLY  KEG)  AND JUIST AND WATCH  TV ON HER HILLTOP  ON NOV 3RD.

 TO THIS LINDA ADDED  A FIST FULL OF CASH   OUT OF THE ATM MACHINE MIGHT NOT  BE A BAD IEDA EITHER.

? ME? I THINK I WILL STAy off the highway.... wear a mask, and wait for eht cov virus to  "vote"  about mask wearing  along about thanksgiving day...  

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WELL I WON'T STAY OFF THE ROADS.... NEXT PUPPY PLAN IS TOTAKE EACH OF THE PUPS OUT FOR A CAR RIDE AROUND HOOD POND.. NOW ALL OF  YOU DO A GOOGLE SEARCH AND FIND HOOD POND..   AND CALCULATE THE MILES..?? MAYBE2 OR 3???  MY  CAR GETS 16 MILES PRE GALLON  WHEN NOT PULLING A TRAILER.. 

AND TELL ME  HOW MUCH GAS WILL I USE IN THE 15 TRIPS?. 

  

AND YOU  BETTER CALCULATE THE FACT THAT I WILL BE RUNNING THE HEATER FULL ON..

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 I HAVE  ALREADY  ORDERED ANOTEHR HAIR DRYER   TO FILL A BIG NEED, TIL THE FIREPLACE GETS FIXED...  A ONE PIECE SNOW SUIT AND A HAIR DRYER IS TEH CHEAPEST WAY OUT OF THE WINTER DULDRUMS.. I KNOW THESE THINGS.

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Dear Carlene,

Seagram continues to be my perfect partner. Last week we went to New York City because I had to have a procedure for my back. Although this is only our second trip to the city in a year, and we have been going out less in general, she was the perfect professional, as expected. She has also been working extra hard to keep me stable since my back has progressively worsened (after a fall 2 ago, when I let go of Seagram to cut flowers - which taught me that I really need to hold onto my stable girl!). 

In the hospital, we could tell that many people were happy to see her, even if their faces were partially covered with masks. We gave out her business cards, which of course refer them to SDP and the Explore cameras. It seemed as though people appreciated the idea of watching puppies on camera even more in these crazy times. 

Speaking of walking, we continue to walk to the beach. On Saturday, we left our house at the same time as our neighbors across the street, who have a 6 month old Boston terrier. We walked together toward the beach, and it was wonderful to catch up with them (albeit distanced & masked). As we walked & talked, their puppy was straining on the leash, excited and wanting to see Seagram. The puppy was pulling so hard that the man had some difficulty controlling her(!) - but all the while, Seagram was polite and professional. I briefly imagined what it would be like if my 120 pound girl pulled at the leash, and am all the more grateful for her impeccable manners. 

amy

Carlene White

www.servicedogproject.org

https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall

CARLENE HAS A DEFICTIVE LEFT PINKY FINGER WHICh CAUSES RAndom caps lock

nov 1 2020

 having the pups n the barn is  lovely ... i think ... i did hear rumors of barking... but  never heard it myself... 

capricious and malarkey    did come in to remove my slippers at 3:00amseeing as i was already awake, it was cute....

 cute could change at 3am  as they grow out of the  cute stage..

2020 11 01

 

I have two pups in the house…   Lynn has one   at home with her… leaving 12 in the barn by design it was 6 twos .. why that means there's three in  Kendall  10 I don't know  .. but I had 4  emails asking me if we could count ..  thank you very much ---    the three rule is much more critical during play time not sleeping time .. Lynn has everybody organized to give out bedtime cookies at 7:00 PM and then early in the morning to get away from the empty tummy vomit problem ..

moving on …

this snow was not a dusting of an inch ----  we have about 6 inches and it still is very cold certainly by my standards .. making me wish we had a fireplace working .. the repair company is coming on November 6th to install a $5000 stainless steel liner becausw we lossed 1/2 inch by 6 inch piece of mortar between These ceramic liners .. which is at least two feet solid rock away from anything burnable but we have to do that or my insurance is no good .. Furthermore the chief of the fire Department suggested but should we have any other kind of fire in the chimney that we be sure to call him he'd be delighted to come and and watch it burn for no charge .   historically in the last 30 years we've probably had at least one chimney fire a year I thought that's how you clean the creosote out because by the time the fire is out equals  same time as it would take for the fire Department to get here .. ( old story…but..)     with the possible exception of the time I put Janine up on the roof with a fire extinguisher in her Victoria's Secret clothing ..  that fire had started in the pine needles next to the window so I did feel the urgency to get Janine up there with the fire extinguisher ..and she did have it out by the time the fire Department arrived in therir 85 pounds of equipment per person .. four guys just stood and watched as  Janine  Slid around in the foam of the fire extinguisher  and I got her off the roof On to the wobbley wooden ladder that usually held up our towels in the bathroom     . they     said “why can't all emergency calls be like this ?   “

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I have threatened to stay in my room and make monkey fists until the temperature gets back to 70 degrees next June .. so I hope a lot of people want monkey fist s..Donna is dying them .. red blue and purple for the nice 2 inch ones   and I guess she could do the one inch ones too ..   The one inch monkey fists R the ones that have the marble in the middle and the saying “these are for when you think you've lost your marbles you have one left “ .. and they are good zipper pulls . 

 

I got some serious money for the two   4  pound ones made of the brown ?manila/sissle?  Rope..   for those I needed a duck pin biowling ball  which I never knew existed til someone sent me those…. Now if anyone has any old battered duck pin balls … or cnadle pin ones…   send them…  I could have a good thing going.. and it will be a long winter of monkey fist making til we thaw out.    

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this being the 1st of November it is two days from the 3rd of November … which should be pretty exciting ..  but today is a “shat up on Sunday”  .. we probably will set up the tables in the arena ---would be my guess --- so that they are visible from that camera .. The usual procedure is to set the tables up about 2:00 o'clock .. and put on the numbered stickers before 3 .. and a t 301     set out three chickens .. to do their thing and pick the winner .. then one of the volunteers we'll toss a purple half boiled egg up in the air and down under the table and the purple number closest to the yolk also becomes a   permanent member of the shadow pod society   and gets a smaller gift from me then the one chosen by the chickens .

 

all the pups are outside looking for someone to come talk to them   they  No darn well that it's really 8:00 o'clock not 7 by their internal  clock..someone should be here at 7:00 o'clock to entertain them both MJ and Dennis should be around so we'll just watch and wait .. 

 

hoping all goes well with Connor and Gretel who are back in New Jersey today .. If Connor take super care of Gretel and talks to her a lot she should become a good friend c  who  helps him a great deal ..  It does take about six months to get in step with each other ..  they both will have good days and bad days but usually about six months things really smooth out ..