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I now have so many pajamas that  I have to be careful to make sure I don't wear the same colors for mail call somebody will criticize me for not bathing ----they've criticized me for everything else- there is "stuff " that "they" dont realize.....like.....  I wonder if anyone has mentioned the fact that as of January 2023 I was still actively supporting the shat upon society with the $500 gift to the winners---out of my pocket....that was not a deductible to me and I very shortly thereafter did quit---  that was after a solid 10 years of  check for $500 to the winners every month..   it was supposed to be eventually refunded to me when I retired, because by then I had----- thanks  to the  cp's and  memsaic's help----"fun-raised"  over $2,000,000 for service dog project in addition to any donations and advances I had given them.. we'll see how that works out.  I have all the exact payments if anybody is curious just let me know.

 

Wandering around back through history... aka  my old checkbooks--  I did find some amazing things... Notably those golf carts are wonderful except when they breakdown they are expensive especially when the repair guy lives in Rhode Island and charges you to pick him up... Then there is the small tractor--basically grass cutting tractor -- sand spreading and things like that... service dog project did write the check for it for 21,000.....   but if you look carefully you see that the day before I wrote a check to service dog project for $10,000  so just be very careful about including all the details... and don't forget the  maintenance(one bill was $3870) --- In in any fancy decision making ---

Those tractors and  golf carts never would have survived without Bud.   I shudder to think Of the money bud has saved us with his fanatical manual reading habit...

 

 so I took a picture of him---- well actually his tool bag I guess you'd call it  is well worn... I've often made jokes about hiring a Carpenter who has one of those leather things you put your hammer in and it's brand new..  well buds is not brand new he tells me he got it Back in 1975---  and furthermore his slip jointed pliers we're part of the original leather tool pouch

I don't know anybody in the world who could manage to hold on to one pair of pliers for 50 years... not me !!

the deep grass around here probably holds at least fourteen dozen fence mending pliers...  as i'd  go out to fix the fence drop it in the grass and forget about it only to find it four years later and a rusty lump. oh..  I will eventually be able to post his picture as soon as some 12 year old will show me how to get it off my phone and on to my computer.

 

Now if Judy and I can figure out something to do we really ought to go and have the oil changed in my car--  that forerunner does Yeoman service lugging trailers spreading hay sliding around on the snow and ice and it really doesn't have the motor that the Sequoia had---- so there are times when it has struggled a little and the least I can do is give it a drink of oil ---so I think I will try and do that today if we can figure out a way to kill time.... bill said he would help Get Me Out quickly...  my usual oil change means sitting with a puppy in their waiting room for at least 2 hours...  ah well.... they do have a coffee machine....

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This blood thinning is not simple----

All this medical stuff is not really terribly interesting to the general public but it may be for a future reference it might be critical you never know I've been id on the injectable since they decided I needed to have my blood thinner to cope with these clots or whatever now for some reason they want to swap me over to a pill---well the whole hospital has A1 little group all on a first name basis who manage the pills and shots and the relationship between them and this lab tests which has to be done two or three times a week to start with anyway so at the moment I'm still on the shots and tonight I'm to start with pills... and I will be starting with green ones--- I have to be very specific that I always get the green ones which apparently are 2 1/2 milligrams of something else ----she must have said 10 times be sure you always have a green pill OK--- and you always have to take it within about an hour every day I will be at 6:00 and 7:00 PM.. So if I do that correctly for the next two days that means that Friday between 11:00am and 11:30 my blood would be the right consistency or whatever for them to run whatever tests they need to run----- In which case they will make any adjustments they need to.... right then and then I would be OK to make it to Monday morning at 9:00 or something.. it is most specific... It's also the kind of thing you don't want to make a mistake on because the pill I'll be taking is warfarin.. this is what is used to kill rats.. so there you are.

 

the two doctors involved in the cardiology end both admitted there was nothing wrong with my medical condition that would prevent me from driving... which if I have to have my blood test at two or three times a week that may be nice to be able to drive and have it done without having to find a ride every two days..  thankfully I think Medicare covers the whole thing..  I didn't hear some Horror Story about some experimental drug they wanted to use that was like $7000 a month but I didn't hear anymore about that so I may not have been approved for that.

 

Our 12 inch snowstorm turned out to be less than an eighth of an inch... in most cases you can't really see it at all... but not too far away in Connecticut they had 13 1/2 inches we literally had nothing..... But because of the 12 inch prediction I'm now well stocked with food and I just totally enjoyed a wonderful piece of New York sirloin for breakfast done in the SUVie... To an  absolutely perfect medium rare-- so with a quick shift since to the outside it looked like a normal piece of steak and was terrific.

 

Since I was up at 1:00 AM I put together the maneuver wagon.... on the floor in front of the heater... a perfect workplace--- that means that between Meredith and here I've now done 5 wheelbarrows and two or three of these big wagons they're really hold quite a bit like 6 bales of hay...

 

Now that I've been given permission to drive by at least the medical community the first thing that happened this morning was Elizabeth took my car so she could take two dogs to run over at Meredith and come back and swap dogs and deliver medication

so we're all organized now I have one fan and the accompanying Mr. To put together this morning compliments of Sam

 

So we are organized.

 

FYI--because we send out so many emails in one group ---about 2000. I have to send it out as a business which gets checked for spam and other things constant contact the checks were duplicates and things of that sort... but every once in a while they cancel out somebody by mistake or whatever and yesterday for some reason they weren't sending out anything which is why it was very late....  so sometimes it's not all me although I have to admit if I'm doing anything peculiar after about 4:00 AM... like putting together a wheelbarrow or something... I am inclined to think only of breakfasts and then an after morning nap before I remember the daily doggie....

 

It's when I sit around in the middle of the night and not do very much then I get strange ideas to write about in the daily doggy... but today my concern is to remember the pills have to be green... ETC

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emails ar not being sent????????

Lorraine????  We now name winter s snow storms????  With great authority they said starting 4am,,,,, I got up  5am. to look---aint nutting yet..  however every school system around here has already called off school... I won't tempt fate by saying they always overestimate but looking at the radar floating toward us ,   if that's correct,   then it's going to snow for quite a while and heavily and looks like probably five or six hours worth till lunchtime and although I'm sure I would have no trouble getting out to go to the doctor's office at 9:00 I might not get back in---  gone are the days that I could just walk up the driveway----can't do that anymore so I think I'd better stay inside and watch it and I doubt very much that Judy makes it for the same reason she might not get home..  if I had my plow on I might have some fun with it but that's not been allowed I think probably I'm glad of that somebody has ordered a dump truck full of sand which is carefully covered up that will be good if we get to ice ---and it was dumped right next to the thing that will spread it which is next to the tractor that would spread it if the spreader were attached.  – otherwise it is buckets and shovels by any able bodied human... not fun...  the spreader is very efficient. – four grains of sand  every square inch.. or thereabouts--- it does fling it around centrifugally about 20 feet wide so it is very efficient... sometimes the town of topsfield guy ( Richard a guy from the local coffee shop who felt sorry for me sliding out for coffee at one point ) will come in and turn around and leave- while sanding the entire place with the town’s  combination of sand and ?salt...

 

We are pelleted--- 7 bags full ! so far I am ready--- I should also include a long extension cord to the “training room apartment” ... because the guest house is the only place without an instant on. Generator—and I did find out—pellets are great but when the fan/( electricity) goes out   the smoke all comes in the room.... where in the wonderful wood stove smoke rises and does not need to be pushed out thru a wall making the pellets “electrically dependent....”  I am told they have a battery run assist for that purpose....  which I , currently,  do not have—hence the extension cord..                   

 

Now for the injectable report--- “grab any handful of fat and you can inject there” was the MD’s suggestion ( when I complained that my tummy was full of purple lumps so I was running out of shootable room....) --- so I quite happily shot my thigh—and it was simple... I don’t know if it was a one time occurance.  But—it did sting there a bit—where the tummy shot was painless... I certainly have a lot of shootable fatty places...

Made more by the wonderful ice cream from meletharb’s in wakefield--- I am  an expert on a few things and iceceeram is one of them...== it and the corresponding open dish of hand whipped cream topping is worth getting of the 95  highway (at main street Lynnfield—east  to the lights and it is at that intersection). Even judy agreed as we over indulged hastily adding places to inject if needed...

 

I am impressed with lahey’s computerized system ,,....?” epic”--- handed to  me as I left the cardiologists office was a piece of paper telling me where I had just been... where I was due to go to next( the lab---What time and where online  my lab results should be  on file at www whatever—just a few hours later... ) and an appointments  for the next week (hemotology in Peabody the next day...). with an after visit summary—of vital stats and comments.......

Amazing... gone are the days------- I remember the days of tom having to run to the medical records  department  at 2am to dictate some patient reports so he would be allowed to admit a patient to the hospital--- who might be waiting in the emergency room “for a bed”. When in actual fact he was waiting for tom’s records to be updated to “close to current.”---there are soooo many behind the scenes stories--- worst of which was tom would often be the surgical assist for a surgeon... who drank????? 

Now  techonology enables the surgeon to  be 1000’s of miles via satellite....away as long as some rat does not chew some wire 16 feet from the patient.

 

Sooo snow will start at 4am?   Ok.... it is 6:25am  and by my open door report—not one flake has fallen....

Weather forcasting?  Who was that president who said “ I’m from Missouri”. Meaning  “prove it”----TRUMAN??

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Gotta love it----60 degrees today and 8 inches of snow tomorrow???  And they won’t let me put on my plow....  I like plowing....—I usually just push everything to the right and go for the street—then come back up the hill at ½ plow and try for a car width going straight for the barn—looping bac leaves enough room to park a few before someone come in and does a proper job of the whole thing...

All it takes is money---- because when a storm is predicted all ther heavy duty are ready and lined up... but it is “the corners” who compete for the plow vehicles which would deal with us..  and the commercial places outbid us so we end up waiting for a long time—there is real money to be made “ doing corners” and cleanupin parking lots...

 

I had a lot of reaction to the numbering of houses w/r/t the distance from the post office....i can not believe how many people were just confused !!!—so while I am at it... what about those little green numbers  like 72.4 on the highway.... I am told those are the distance from where that highway entered the state on the southern/eastern  end.... and the bridges are labeled in the same sequence – so the police know  “trash on highway 65.2.” or c”ar hit bridge 14.6” —now that mass has labeled the exits in the same numbering system – we are really entering the modern world  with signs like exit 76.4 and under that is a sign “old exit  53A.” 

 

Having spent yesterday pulling the  poo picking procedure around meridith;;; I wished I had a 6’ piee of chain link to drag behind...  oh I know thee is an official drag for that purpose...  and I own one—somewhere... but a piece of chain link works sooooooo much better---- ater the big clups are picked- the chain link dragsmooths outhte rest and the hoofprints etc...

 

So to look at that process from the top down...... some scientific principle somewere teLLs me   “matter may neither be created nor destroyed” or something like that..... if I buy 80 bales of hay weekly—and they are 45 pounds each.  That is 3600 pounds of hay... to be ground up( by the horses)and mixed with water ( as they digest it) which probably doubles It’s weight producing 7200 pounds of poo--- which on the ground goes back ( evaporation) to the original 3600 pounds --- until it rains ( back to the 7200 #) – the sum of all that is somewhere between2 and 4 tons of “material” gets added to meridith weekly--- NOW—WITH THEIR 120 ACRES

IT HARDLY SHOWS-AS HE HAD COMPOSTED AND SPREAD SO HIS FIELDS ARE BEAUTIFUL... NOW ON GOLDYS MEAGRE 11.65 ACRES THE SAME PROCESS  MEANS THE MANURE PILE AND COMPOSTING IS LIKE A CANCER  ON THE  HORIZON....NOW MINUS OUR BIG 14,000# TRAILER—(IT WAS REMOVED BY SDP--- LORD KNOWS WHY THEY NEEDED THAT TO TRAIN DOGS, BUT IT IS GONE.)  WE ARR LOADING OUR SMALL 12,000# AND TRUNDLEING IT BACK AND FORTH  TO MERIDITH...   WE ARE LUCKY HE LETS US DUMP THERE—AND THAT IS ONLY BECAUSE WE ARE VERY PARTICULAR ABOUT WHAT ENDS UP IN OUR PILE....

MERIDITH IS 4 MIELS AWAY—THE NEXT FREE DUMPING IS  BEXXXXXXXXXX AT 10 MILES WHERE YOU  DUMP FREE AND BUY IT BACK AT ABOUT  $138 A TRAILERFULL AS COMPOSTED TOP SOIL.

 

I AM TOD THEY ARE READY FOR MY SKILLS....  TRAILER PULLING AND  BACKING

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short doggie

i am on emergency call for helping at meridith this morn... critical is driving slowly around the paddockspulling the wheelbarrow----while eliz and carlie shovel the clumps...so i am under pressure. critical work....

a quick fui----- i found out alot of people ( eliz and carlie) don't know... when the street numbers for houses go from 333 to the next house 1801 it means you have crossed a line between towns. -- because houses are numbered form the post office outwards...-- and if you are really observant there will be a very slight bump in the road--- as the asphault doesn't match town to town...

 how is that for a hurried Daily doggie???

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I forgot to warn the dogs ahead of time that Judy was coming but they sure noticed when she got here ----I like to try and use her name when she is before she gets here so that they can figure out what's going to happen or at least they can try other than that ----we're all set to go this morning to avita which is over by Costco and Home Depot ----I might go because I have an errand to run at Costco maybe ...

 

Judy is details details---- she noticed someone left message the life alert needed batteries----the note has been ther for ?10 days?   so we tested it and  It was not working at all--- furthermore my emergency alert phone number was  SENT TO MEGAN... and paul???? And I can’t even remember which paul?? Maybe earlene’s paul???  To be replaced by Elizabeth – across the driveway.... and judy and my 2 daughters in the carloinas????? Well sometimes Janine....

 

Along with depositing the accumulation of checks... there was an accumulation of $90 in cash for the fun fund....—so dressing up the donkey for visits is looking better and better....  we have the promising looking poop bag... yet to be tested..... but might also work on  the goats.  There are quite a few pack saddles in the various catalogues--- I would want to have the absolute original design... with the wooden  “X”    of course for educational purposes...  but I must admit the biowhatever leather replacement .. is so easy to care for...  have a look at the real ones and then find one suitable for  34” MINI DONKEY—THEN LET ME KNOW SO I CAN GO LOOK AT IT...  THE BROWN LEATHER IS ALSO TRATIONAL.......  MUST HAVE BREECHING ( AROUND THE RUMP)

                    

Some d.f. says Sunday will be 60 degrees.... where are the climate people now?? I  love this 60 degrees warmer than usual//. But I don’t think I am going to like 60 warmer than usual in July !!  get those water spraying bottles out now !!  and maybe look into “misters”.  Which is the only way I know we could improve the barn/stable in that awful heat...   the misters minus the fan are very cheap way out.... so plan to attach you own fan and save 100’s...

 

ROLLING ALONG---

BY THE WAY CARLIE AND I SAW 48 PEOPLE AT THE 2 HOMES YESTERDAY...  SO WE ARE AT IT !!