june 16 2017

i realize everything we do is subject to an ad agency's interpretation..... therefore i conclude ....a great percentage of insomniacs must  not be able to sleep because of pain.... because the  2 am advertisements are nearly all about pain... i wrote them down

hang upside down and you will be young again

use this patch and you can garden

.swallow this pill and you can cycle

strap  this thing on your calf and you can jog.

and .. lastly.. i never knew that NOT using this guy's pillow was dangerous to my arm.

i am not sure i want to be young again , unless i can change a few of the  more memorable decisions i made as a teenager...

  it was the threat of  gardening- that got me..  they show you what a beautiful -organized garden you can have if you wear this patch...-- let me tell you -- weaaring that patch will do nothign to beat back the forest-- which  as far as i am concerned is the biggest danger to my gardening  efforts-- ----well mary -- THE DONKEY -- was  clearly a bigger threat.. she ate everything from sunflowers to pea plants--  however  --the forest is every bit as damaging...it creeps in... with tiny little innocuous  "shoots'... one stem 2 leaves  -- they don't look worth the effort of bending over even with the danm patch- so you go  by to pick up the mail ... and when you get back,  the things are 6 foot tall  and wound around teh fence wires with a death grip. 

it started when i  put in the second driveway.... and organized a "chute" along the flat field to hte  usual parking pit..  it is sunny -- so with great effort ( driving my heated and a/c tractor) i trundled "top soil" (aka 3 year old horse pucky..) all the way round and  left a 1 foot wide strip  to plant things that could - with my permission, climb on the flat field fence.... and produce beans.

both  grace and i   tended it-- raked it smooth and poked the peas and beans carefully in the strip  the required 6 inches apart-  we had no reaswon to go down that fence, until they started to repave the driveway ( thank heavens ) -- i was blissfully unaware of the devastation to those beans when i drove out... being on the left side of my car... but when i drove back,  i was on the fence side....and needed a machete   to beat back the vines which had nearly  strangled our  poor beans.  

there in the parking pit was grace-- on hands and knees----- not to be done in-- planitng a ten foot strip with some 8 inch tall store bought  tomtoe l-plants--- next to the fence...  i hated to point out to her the fate of the bean patch-- so i gave her a cocunut yougurt bar  and drove on.

there ae a whol lot of things about mother nature and  dog reproduction...  there are just as many as ways mommy willl tell you  "that patch of earth is mine....  and i prefer vines to beans.... and i don't need any patch to claim teh area"

we had such great hopes for that strip garden.... because the other  threat to any gardening efforts is teh fence fighting  where puppies run back and forth on either side of a fence to see who gets to the end fiest and turns around-- this will effectively wipe out even the one stem 2 leaves put out by the forest to claim the area..

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and the yellow ten ti is nearly up.... it needs some additional design  modification  because th e afternoon sun will wipe out it's basic pupoose...

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FYI....the driveway-- was puty down hot.... and the issue  apparently is... you can't drive on it til it "cools" -- how cool you may ask?

accorcing to megans friend who is state police... under 100 degrees-- state police know these thisgs because they are often a detial around a repaving episode... so they carryy that laser beam long distancce testing device ( kinda fun to play with an not too expensive on ebay..)  i happen to own one---  as they poured the driveway--- the top bit was 110  and the newly poured/rolled at the street was 158 degrees

 by graces tomatoe plant episode yesterday afternoon the upper drive ws golf cart proof  at 88 degrees..

june 15 2017

we nearly have a driveway-- it is beautiful---

when they did the streeet, they grouudn up the old road and it was beutiflly smooth...  when they ground up our driveway , they spent the next 6 hours trying to scrape the rocks and stones into a smooth surface...  they did get down a coat of hot top and rolled,it... but said they would be back today to finish before noon...  whatever that means..

our basic problem was... our drirveway was put down in sections-----  as i seemed to inherit a  hot top guy who " had a few yards extra" which he would spread for $500.  so the drive , yard and alleyway  were all done in  lumps  -- some thiicker than others-- obvioulsy--   put down by wheelbarrow   raked out and rolled... by hand gizmo  ....  but it did last for years...

now... with all the traffic we get in here... we needed a real  road building outfit..  which we had... street to gate for $20k.  had to spend it... the ups guy could not longer deliver because our drive shook all his packages off his shelves...

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anne has done a wonderful job on this  article we are to send to explore today.... i really wish we had a little more direction about what they wanted.. however... minus the direction... we put together something... my problem is... it is possible to write something very accurate and dull to read.. or to put somethign togetehre that is off the wall and fun to read.... anne brings me back from that... to something only slightlyt amusing to read while being factual.....

we did use a lot of the things you all sent... she made me leave out some of the really funny ones...  she is probably right....  but i have them all saved in a folder called "saved chats"

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speaking of amusing  daily doggies,  janine's bout with the green jello lady got good reviews 

she could manage...

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my early morning 6 am serenade ( howl?) with bentley, chaos and mindy   gets good reviews too/  he is funny about it... he sidles up to my left elbow looks me straight in the eye and  asks  "now?"...

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12 pups in the kitchen overnight  is pushing it...." too many rats in a cage and they will fight"  so we are close to splitting them overnight.

kennel 10 does have the used car hawk deterrent overhead....---   the used car  stuff over the nutt housee hill is not as well done... so maybe 4-6 can go down to 10 tonight... they do very well at teh megan marches... which are worth the price of admission --   

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now to my left over roast pork and limas--- heck  that is breakfast or lunch?? i have been up since 3am...

i wish we had 22 hour days,,, it would  work better for me

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Just wanted to share with you how Addie came to the rescue and saved the day! I was driving in a dark, newly opened road when a cop behind me flashed his light and pulled me over. He said I was swerving in and out of the road. I’m not drunk or anything, I was confused because they just opened the road and I wasn’t sure if it was a one or two lane road, not to mention it was dark and raining. He asked if I’m ok, I said yes. Mr. Cop asked for my license and asked where I’m headed. I replied home.  

He then pointed his flashlight to the rear passenger side and saw Miss Addie on a down/stay position. His face immediately lit up and his voice changed. He said “Wow, what a gorgeous dog!” He asked if she’s a Service Dog, I said yes, she is (he must have seen Addie’s red SD vest on the right passenger seat). He looked so amazed :) He asked how old she is, told him she’s a few months shy of 2. He said “wow, what a nice, good dog”. Then he let me go and said “be careful, this road keeps changing everyday since they opened it”. He escorted us until we got to the highway.  

Phew! Even Mr. Cop couldn’t resist a Great Dane’s charm. Addie to the rescue, or I could have gotten a ticket! She’s always there to save the day. I’m just so blessed to have Addie. 

Thanks to you and all of SDP staff and volunteers!

Love and Aloha,

iheart & Addie

Carlene White

ServiceDogProj

june 14 2017

we have a due date of thursday..... for the new explore web stuff..

ANNE HAS DONE WONDERFULY WELL TO WRITE WHAT EACH CAMERA DOES...

 NOW I MUST ADD WHAT ANYONE HAS LEARNED FROM EACH ONE

 with an addendum of stuff  you all learned somewhere along the line...

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in the meantime... janine is out of the hospital and home.. 

not supposed to move much... janine  when told not to move much is not a happy camper..

so she wrote a facebook "educational " thing on how to deal with nurses...

FROM JANINE YESTERDAY

Still in the hospital. But minus my appendix now and on solid foods - 

well what these people call solid. After not eating for 48 hours I was 

super exited to hear "solid food" but they mean jello and clear broth

. WTF...... I woke up from surgery expecting a hot fudge Sunday 

and the nurse brings me GREEN jello.

That was when I learned not to piss off the nurse by asking to go to another floor 

and steal red or orange jello. She was kinda fed up already after I begged for an ice cube

 for 5 hours straight before the surgery although hard to even beg effectively 

when your tongue is so dry it cements itself to the roof of my mouth.

Just so you know when you piss off your nurse, all you will ever get is green jello.

 She will make sure every other patient gets the good jello and feed you last.

 In addition, she controls everything - she walks me to the bathroom and holds the door

 while I Pee. Since the jello incident, she doesn't close the door "in case I fall" - my bladder 

is a bit shy and can't operate under these conditions.

Finally, the other critical piece the nurse controls is the back of this lovey night gown thing. 

You need it untied while you are in bed, or you will sleep uncomfortably on the knot.

 She is the one that ties it when you get up - or not.

 My angry nurse doesn't tie it anymore so I have had a few awkward moments mooning people 

in the hospital. Thankfully her double shift is over and the new nurse closed the door and

 tied it up nicely. 

My big hope is orange jello today.

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i have ordered the rubber ducky repair kit onilne   

JUNE 13 2017

HELP..... I   NEED  EMERGENCY HELP.... I NEED TO WRITE A BLOG FOR EXPLORE-- THEY HAVE A NEW WEB... AND ONE OF THE THINGS THEY WANT   IS WHAT DIFFERENCE EXPLORE MAKES TO SDP...

WHICH I CAN DO

NOW WHAT I WOULD LIKE YOU  TO DO IS TO SEND ME A  LIST OF THE THINGS WATCHING OUR CAMERAS HAS DONE FOR YOU  OR TAUGHT YOU THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED TO KNOW .           

COME ON ,..... I NEED A LONG  REAL...BUT ALSO  FUNNY LIST  --...PLANT GRASS 6 SEEDS TO THE INCH-- WHAT ELSE...I NEED THEM TODAY .. PLEASE EMAIL ME "STUFF"  ANIMALEP@AOL.COM

FOR EXAMPLE......TODAYS LESSON.... IF YOU SEE A HORSE/DONKEY WHO  DOES NOT  REST  WITH FRONT FEET  RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER, GO CHECK THE FOOT STICKING OUT FORWARD COULD BE SORE OR LEG LAME.  I JUST WENT AND LOOKED AT ALL OURS THIS MORNING.. THEY ARE FINE...I ALSO NOTED...  NO FLY PROBLEM YET... I KNOW SOMEONE EMAILED ME SAYING WE SHOULD HAVE THE FLY BOOTS ON...  BUT I DON'T SEE ANY REASON TO YET... JUST YOU WAIT... WHEN THE FLYS HATCH AND ATTACK THERE WILL BE NO  QUESTION... LOWER LEGS CAN GET BLOODY...  AND FLYS SEEM TO PREFER SOME HORSES OVER OTHERS... JUST LIKE FLYS PREFER SOME  PILES OF DOGGIE DOO OVER OTHERS.

SEE NOW THERE IS ANOTHER THING YOU ALL HAVE LEARNED -- AND PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, JUST BECAUSE YOU LEARNED IT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS TRUE AND NEEDS NO FURTHER  THOUGHT...

BEING TOLD SOMETHING  NEVER MEANS  YOU SHOULD STOP THINKING..... I HAD 2 YESTERDAY- 

" GIVE  HIM 10 DAYS OF THIS ANTIBIOTIC" -- OK   SO WE DID THAT AND THE ANIMAL WAS NO BETTER-- THAT MEANS WE NEED TO REVISIT THE PROBLEM AND CHECK TO BE SURE WE ARE USING THE CORRECT ANTIBIOTIC-- AND SOMETIME THE WAY TO TELL IS TO HAVE A CULTURE TEST  WHERE  FOR EXAMPLE.....YOU SNEEZE OVER A PETRI DISH   LACED WITH DIFFERENT PATCHES OF  ANTIBVIOTICS AND  SEE WHICH SAMPLE KILLS THE BUGS IN YOUR SNEEZE..  A  CULTURE AND SENSATIVITY... TEST.. 

THE SECOND.... I MUST WRITE A LETTER... JANINE IS APPARENTLY FINE HAVING BEEN OPERATED ON AT 5:15 LAST NIGHT.... SHOULD BE HOME THIS MORNING.... WITH WANDA.----THERE HAD BEEN NO RUPTURE OF HER APPENDIX.. 

HOWEVER.... SHE WAS TOLD....."THEY" DID NOT KNOW  IF IT WAS RUPTURED  OR NOT...  BECAUSE SHE--- BEING AN ATHLETE,--- HAS VIRTALLY NO BELLY FAT. HOWEVER...I WONDERED ALL DAY LONG.. I WAS VERY WELL BEHAVED AND DID NOT  SAY ANYTHING  AT THE TIME...SHE WAS NOT OPERATED ON ALL DAY BECAUSE "SHE WAS AN ADD ON" -- GRANTED THEY HAD ONLY ONE OPERATING ROOM... AND THEY COULD HAVE HAD 6 OTHER PATIENTS WIHO'S APPENDIX HAD ALREADY RUPTURED... 

 HOWEVER... IF JANINE 'S SURGERY WAS AN ADD ON... THT MEANS THAT THERE MUST HAE BEEN A LIST OF PRESCHEDULED SURGERIES ONTO  WHICH SHE WAS ADDED..I WOULD THINK PRESCHEDULED SURGERIES MEANT THEY WERE NOT SPLIT SECOND EMERGENCIES... WHICH JANINE'S COULD HAVE BEEN... WHERE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A  "NORMAL APENDIX "  OPERATION AND A RUPTURED ONE COULD BE LIFE THREATENING.  SHE WAS HEAVILY MEDICATEED AND DIDN'T KNOW IF SHE WAS ON FOOT OR HORSEBACK...AND THE NURSE KEPT TELLING ME "SHE HAS TO WAIT... SHE IS AN ADD ON..." ...AS WITH THE VA.-- SO I AM TOLD  ..... PERSONELL CAN GET VERY ACCUSTOMED TO EMERGENCIES AND  DISHING OUT PAIN KILLERS CERTAINLY  IS A WAY OF SAYING "WAIT"

 I HELD MY BREATH AND  DID NOT SAY A WORD...... BUT NOW I NEED TO ASK ABOUT THAT  "ADD ON "POLICY  OF THE HOSPITAL ... CERTAINLY FROM WHERE I SIT, THERE IS A LOGIC PROBLEM... OR .. TRIAGE PROTOCOL .. ... MAYBE I AM ALL WET...  I HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO BE MANY TIMES...  I HAVE TO ASK... IF NOT ME... THEN WHO?

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THAT IS ALSO A CASE FOR MORE BELLY FAT-- SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I CAN REALLY PROMOTE...

WELLLLLLL... I REMEMBER  A COMMENT MADE BY A SURGEON FRIEND-- SOMETHING ABOUT  SLIPERY , GREASEY GLOVES WHEN OPERATING ON BELLY FAT...  I HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT  BEFORE...

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MOVING ON....

 HOT WEATHER...I HAVE A STORY  ABOUT HOT WEATHER AND HORSE EVENTS.....I WAS INVOLVED IN  GROTON HOUSE  FARM HORSE TRIALS ( GOOGLE THAT ONE  http://www.grotonhousefarm.com/ ) WHICH IS COMING UP SOON...JUNE 23?  HORSES GALLOPING ALL OVER "THE WINTHROP PLACE"   PUBLIC WELCOME- 

ANYWAY... ONE YEAR IT WAS SOOOOOOO HOT AND WE HAD  HUNDREDS OF HORSES AND RIDERS TO COOL OFF SOMEHOW.. IT WAS DECIDED WE SHOULD GET SOME ICE --- WE HAD EXHAUSTED ALL THE LOCAL MARKETS OF   BAGS FULL....--- I KNEW OF A PLACE TO GET QUANTITIES OF ICE IN GLOUCESTER.. IT IS WHERE THE FISHING BOATS PULL IN AND  THEY  DROP CRUSHED ICE INTO THOSE BOATS AND TRUCKS...

I WENT-- WITH MY NORMAL PICKUP- AND BACKED UNDER THE CHUTE-- I WENT TO THE WINDOW  TO PAY.. AND HE SAID HOW MUCH?... I DID NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT-- I KNEW I HAD A 1 TON PICKUP WITHHEAVY SPRINGS BECAUSE OF THE HORSE TRAILER I USUALLY PULLED-- SO I SAID 1.5 TONS-- HE NEVER EVEN SMILED BUT PULLED A LEVER AND  I GOT 1.5 TONS.

SO YOUR OTHER FACT TO LEARN TODAY IS IF YOU TRY AND PUT 1.5 TONS OF SHREADED ICE IN A PICKUP,  IT WILL BE TOTALLY COVERED AND YOU WILL  HAVE TROUBLE GETTING IN THE DOOR.

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EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD EXPERIENCE.

june 12 2017

short doggie...

janine is in the  hospital on the cape cod..  she had an upset stomach on friday-- ignored it on saturday.. it really got bad sunday when she called me for advice.. she had tried the usual--pepto and all that....apparently it got even worse...so peter took her to the hospital and it is her appendix-   not knowing whether it ruptured yet or not... i called this morning and they can not even tell me how she is...

she just called...  rest of the story...  sunday she and peter went for a 20 mile bike ride on cape cpd..... and she said it got so bad she had to quit...-- granted she is  now "heavily medicated"  this morning  but they will operate on her this morning-- 

we discussed..... what did we miss?  and  one thing would have been logical to do ,,maybe... yet to ask officially.... if and appendix is an infection... tht would mean an elevated temperature  ?? we should have thought of that? 

there is the old wives tale ---  do all the simple things first-- temp should have been one of them.

 she also  said.....she has so little belly fat that they could not tell with the  cat scan whether it had ruptured or not.

if so she has a few more days in the hospital-- according to her( heavily medicated ) self.

life's learning process goes on...and on...

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other lesson of the day... pam let the pups out to eat  breakfast in the front  of the house... off camera..

and they moved their bowels ou ther before comming in...

lesson was --- they came in and dove in the water dish - i wouljd not have thought they would be that thiwsty after dampened dry food.. but they sure were !!  so we need a water supply out there even for the short time before they come back in....

they are konked out now...

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6:37 the  morning serenade with bentley and chaos.... is getting to be a ritual... bentley comes and stnads by my elbow and makes a tiny noise... if i answetr him,, he starts in---  joined by chaos and  finally mindy...

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 the only thing i  can do to help out the janine situation..... is....... guess....do something with  wanda -- currently peter has wanda... and janine said he might take her to his office ( apparently he  has his own room/office)  but it is in burlington ma....-- which is within my range of motion... 

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yesterday was dog bathing day--- started with murphy's spedcial  medicated bath--  and finally  ?10 others???

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now for the rubber ducky report...

 he  is hung out -- you can probably see him with the puppy hill camera when it turns...he apparently suffered a submarine attack  and  has 4 holes all same size- trianglar.  we will be trying out that flex tape they brag about holding a boat together....

 i think we lost his running lights in the battle......

JUNE 11 2017i have to stop reading  my emails before this DD...  i get up with a fairly empty head, (in case you had not noticed)and  rattling on about some universal topic is much easier  before i start to try and respond to the questions in email-- like today's  when do i retire my ( self trained ) great dane

service dog..

I absolutely love what you guys do. When I was looking for a breed of dog for my mobility service dog, it was your program that led me to great danes. Since I didn't live in your required area, we found a private trainer and a breeder return of 2 and a half years old. A year later, Franklin and I couldn't be happier. He's calm and helpful during everything, even my medical emergencies. I can live my life out of bed because of this great dane. 

I tell you this not only because you guys pointed my mom and I towards the right breed, but also because one of your amazing staff talked to us on the phone and assured us of the breed for mobility work. We had had a failed attempt with a different breed that wasn't fit for my specific needs so talking to your staff sealed the deal. i can not ever see my life without a Dane service dog...

staff??  has to be megan or me.

i will continue to declare-- danes are born for this job... just don't wreck them..

let's think of the logic for the moment....  we have a rule around here to try very hard  to use your muscles to control a dane only in an emergency...

try this... you sit on the floor......... you pick up a puppy and put it in your lap  because you want to hold a puppy in your  lap....--- the reason you have to use your muscles is  the puppy doesn't want to be in your lap... or he would be there... so you are starting the negative...".i don't want to do that and they forced me."

it is a tiny start  but goes on to you picking up a dog and   putting it in a crate--   or in our case a kennel...."it's quicker and i was in a hurry" dead wrong.... it take s  some "plan ahead"    you have to make them want to do what you want them to do....

 best example around here--- and it is the result of many tiny footsteps to get there..... watch the dogs after they have been fed....  they can not wait to run back to their kennels, they turn around and a cookie is right in their faces...  if i ever see a trainer ... or handler not have that cookie readty  you will hear me stop the entire operation and have a serious discussion...-- to say "i didn't think" will put that person in charge of poo picking in the flat field.......just think the chaos of trying to get 40 dogs back in their kennels  if they didn't want to go there... --right now.... at the moment.... getting all 12 pups in  or out the door by shaking a cookie container... you must distribute cookies every time- it is the start of greater things to come.

that along with-- ONLY ONE PERSON CALL THE PUPPIES AT A TIME--- THE SECOND PERSON TRYING TO CALL TEH LAST PUPPY IN THE DOOR IS ACTUALLY CALLING THE OTHER 11 BACK OUT THE DOOR...   DEFINITELY SCREWING THEM UP AT A N EARLY AGE.

THEY ARE BORN TRAINED  DON'T WRECK THEM.

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SO BACK TO WHEN TO RETIRE A SERVICE DOG..?  I ASSUME THIS PERSON MEANS WHEN TO HAVE THEM OFF DUTY-- BECAUSE HAVING BEEN A SERVICE DOG FOR  YEARS MEANS THAT DOG IS ATTACHED... AND WILL NOT UNDERSTNAD " RETIREMENT" TO A RETIREMENT HOME... IT SHOULD  IF AT ALL POSSIBLE STAY WITH THE FAMILY- AND JUST NOT BE  WORKING IN HARNESS.

I DID HAVE A THEORY  GET A DANE EVERY 4 YEARS AND IF YOU DO HAVE 3, ONE WILL BE  HAPPY TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH A LOT.

BAILEY'S LAST YEAR ( 13)  WAS A SLEEPY ONE...

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I AM HAPPY TO REPORT I GOT 5 PIECES OF FUGENS FUTON TOGETHER YESTERDAY... I STARTED BY BEING PLEASED WITH LINING UP THE HARDWARE-- 8 1.5" BOLTS  4 3/4 " BOLTS  12  WASHERS AND AN ALLEN WRENCH KIND OF THING---  AS I SAT THERE ALL PLEASED WITH MY PILE OF HARDWARE, I DECIDED I HAD NOT DISCINTERGRATED TO HARDWARE PILING YET... AND GOT TO PUTTING THE HEAVY STEEL MEMBERS OF THIS FUTON TOGETHER...   I DID QUIT AT 5...  AND RESTED...WITH 3  PIECES TO GO.....

IT WAS LOVELY AND COOL IN TEH ICE HOUWS...

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NEXT PROBLEM....

FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS?  WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO OPERATE THE OVEN AND MICROWAVE AT THE SAME TIME.... NOT A BIG THING  IN THE TURN OF THE WHEEL,  BUT 3 WEEKS AGO I FOUND A SHORT HEAVY EXTENSION CORD  IN THE  SHOP... AND TOUGHT IT WOULD BE PERFECT TO GET THAT MICORWAVE PLUGGED INTO A DIFFERENT CIRCUIT..  I GOT IT AS FAR AS MY DESK... WHERE IT SAT  FOR A COUPLE WEEKS.

I FINALLY SAW SOME YOUNG INTERN SITTING ONTHE COUCH WITHIUT TOO MYCH TO DO-- INTERNS CAN BEND AND CRAWL AROUND IN SMALL SPACES... SO I WENT TO REACH FOR THE CORD... AND IT  HAS ESCAPED TO THE WILDERNESS OF THE OVERFLOW ROOM.

WHEN YOU HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT FIND THE FIRST..  YOU HAVE  A SELF PERPETUATING PROBLEM

I THINK WE ARE THERE ( EXCEPT FOR MONEY) 

JUNE 10 2017

ACCOUNTING.... ONE OF  MY LEAST FAVORITE TOPICS.... BOTH MINE AND SERVICE DOG PROJECT---  SDP NOW HAS AN OFFICIAL ( EXPENSIVE) CPA--  THAT LEAVES ME.... ON MY OWN... AND FOR THE  LIFE OF ME .. I DO NOT SEE WHY I SHOULD HAVE TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE IRS IN PORTSMOUTH TO HAVE THEM FIGURE IT OUT...  THE "IT" IS-- I "RENT" TEH FARM TO SDP FOR $1 A YEAR-- THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTANT  GOT UPSET BECAUSE  SHE NOTED  SDP FORGOT TO PAY ME THE OFFICIAL $1--  AND AN ACCOUNTANT I HAVE HAD FOR YEARS DOESN'T WANT TO TOUCH IT AS TOO COMPLICATED BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GET  REALESTATE VALUES BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT TO  DEDUCT AS DONATED RENT....I JUST HAVE NOT GOT ROUND TO PAYING  A REALATOR-- PRETTY SOON THE IRS IS GOING TO GET VERY MAD BECAUSE I AM SO LATE WITH THE PAPERRWORK...   I HAVE ENOUGH VERIFYABLE DEDUCTIOS TO SDP TO MAKE TEH VALUE OF THE REAL ESTATE A MUTE POINT-- BUT I SHOULD GET IT DONE PROPERLY... WHATEVER CRAZY ACRES WOULD SELL FOR ON THE MARKET.... I STARTED WITH 12 ACRES AND NOW HAVE ONE ROOM AND A BATH...  TO JUST TAKE A VERY CONSERVATIVE GUESS  AT THE VALUE WOUDL PUT ME WAY AHEAD...  BUT I DON'T WANT TO SPEND THOUSANDS ON SOME REALATOR'S EVALUATION...  MIND YOU , I AM DELIGHTED WITH MY ONE ROOM AND A BATH--- HISTORICALLY ( UNTIL ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO WHEN THE CAMERAS ARRIVED.. AND THE CP's) ---  I DIVIDED IT THIS WAY.... IF IT WAS NAILED TO  OR ATTACHED PERMANTLY  TO THE PROPERTY, IT WAS MY EXPENSE... IF IT WAS MOVABLE IT WAS SDP'S..   WITH THE COMPLETION ( NEARLY ) OF THE ICE BUILDING  I DON'T SEE HOW WE CAN FIT ANY MORE CONSTRUCTION ON THIS 12 ACRES  ( WELL 11.65 ACRES) **  I CAN REMEMBER.... (HERE WE GO).....  WHEN I WAS ANIMAL EPISODES PROVIDING ANIMALS FOR PHOOGRAPHOIC MEDIA, I DEDUCTED TEH WHOLE  FARM AS "BUSINESS"  WHICH IT  WAS---   WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE BEDROOM ONLY...   WHY NOT THE BATHROOM YOU ASK???.. WELL AT ONE POINT I NEEDED 100  CUTE BABY CHICKENS FOR SOME CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA IN A BOSTON HOTEL----- THE ROUTINE WITH CHICKENS IS/WAS  YOU ORDER THEM-- THEY ARE HATCHED ( BY THE ENTIRE E=INDUSTRY  IT SEEMS )  ON A MONDAY..  THEY ARE SEXED ( BOYS OR GIRLS) ON A TUESDAY AND CRATED FOR SHI[MENT BY 5PM  TUESDAY-- OVERNIGHTED TO THE POST OFFICE-- YOU GET THEM BY WEDNESDAY( CERTAINLY THURSDAY)   THEY DON'T NEED FOOD OR WATER FOR 24/48 HOURS LIVING OFF THAT YOLK PART I GUESS) NEXT PROBLEM----- I NEEDED THEM FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON -- AND THEY HAD TO BE KEPT  WARM--- DARN WARM.. LIKE 90 DEGREES-- DON'T TELL ME ABOUT HEATING LAMPS ETC... I KNEW ALL ABOUT THEM-- BUT STILL, NOT WARM ENOUGH IN DECEMBER IN NEW ENGLAND.... UNLESS YOU KEPT THEM IN THE WARMEST ROOM IN THE HOUSE.... THE BATHROOM.. WHICH IS NOT LARGE... THAT IS NOT THE END OF THE PROBLEM--- IT GETS WORSE.... BABY CHICKENS DOUBLE IN SIZE  EVERY 2 DAYS  -- SO WHAT WAS CUTE BABIES ON MONDAY- WERE BEGINNING TO FLY SHORT DISTANCES BY SATURDAY...  THE ONLY PLACE SAFE TINTHE BATHROOM WAS THE SHOWER STALL....OTHERWISE I WAS ANKLE DEEP IN FUZZY YELLOW CHICKS WHILE I BRUSHED MY TEETH...... THE ANIMAL RIGHTS PEOPLE HAVE DONE SOME WONDERFUL THINGS... LIKE TRYING TO KEEP ANIMALS SAFE IN AIRPLANES...BUT  TO HAVE 2  SPCA PEOPLE COME OUT HERE ON A MONDAY AFTER THE EVENT TO COUNT THESE BABY CHICKS  SEEMED LIKE A WAST OF PERSONELL, BUT LE T ME TELL YOU  I HAD A WONDERFUL CHUCKLE TO WATCH 2 FAIRLY LARGE PEOPLE IN MY  SMALL BATHROOM TRYING TO VERIFY I STILL HAD  100  THAT WAS ON MY ORDER SLP...   THE PICTURE  OF VERY ACTIVE YELLOW FLUFFY THINGS FLYING AROUND THEIR ANKLES STILL MAKES ME LAUGH.... FINALLY THEY QUIT AND THE WOMAN SAID IN A VERY DISGUSTED TONE " I KEEP GETTING 102" **** JUST IN CASE YOU NEED TO KNOW....  WHEN YOU FEED BABY CHICKS YOU NEED TO GET ONE BAG OF MEDICATED "CHICK STARTER"  -- I TTRIED ONCE TO SKIP THE MEDICATED-- AND LOST 1/2 THE CHICKS-- WHEN I SEE CHICKEN FOR SALE IN THE MAKET THAT SAYS ANTIBIOTIC FREE.... I HAVE A SNEAKING SUSPICION THAT THEY MEAN AFTER A COUPLE WEEKS OLD THEY ARE FREE OF MEDS. ***** FUGAN HAS SENT US A BEAUTIFUL FUTON FOR THE ICE HOUSE-- SO PUTTING THAT TOGETHER IS THE CHORE OF THE DAY...- DAVID DOES HAVE TH EHOT WTER HEATER ON THE WALL  NOW IF HE WOULD JUST GET IT HOOKED TO THE WATER....... AT THE MOMENT  WE HAVE 3 "JERRY CANS" TO PROVIDE WATER TO POUR IN THE DRANS TO WASH THRU ANTHING THAT SHOULD BE WASHED THRU... ( FLUIDS ONLY... NO VERY  DIRTY DOG DISHES OR PICKED POO) ***** I AM THINKING... A FAN ON A 2 WHEELED TRUCK ATTACHED TO AN EXTENSION CORD.. ATTACHED TO A GENERATOR.. ON A MOSQUITO TESTING  PROJECT... I NEED SOME NET.