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I thank you all for keeping us going...I just requested payment of the goldys ‘henny penny board,, and the hay board which should get us started on the board for next month,, the hay bill has gone up a little bit Mostly because of the size of two of the draft mules We rescued and they just eat a lot I used to figure eight to 10 bales a day and Elizabeth tells me it is now more like 15 bales a day.

 Somewhere along the line I did say I would run expenses by you all so that you know what your money is getting spent on.. and our biggest and outstanding expense of the month was to have everybody's feet done.. that was done by two blacksmiths and took them all day--- blacksmith report we have one mule that Janine bought because it's feet were so bad that it looked like it would have to be put down as soon as they got home with it.. he was actually walking on the top of his coronary band on  those back feet.. But Brian...our trusty vet. started working with those feet and I am happy to report they are almost normal by now... it is an awfully nice mule who must have been in pain for a very long time but now we were celebrating the fact that she almost has the bottom of her foot on the ground... she is everybody's favorite and though I doubt we ever take her actually into a daycare center she certainly is a popular resident when people come to the farm.

 Then another expense of the month was some very nice looking shirts jackets whatever that we will be selling at a very low cost.. mind you it's the postage that will kill you... I've been through all the numbers of selling shirts---and that really is not a very good money making project because the people making money on shirts are the ones that made the shirts to begin with and then put the logos on them or whatever by the time you do all that and they add postage there's not much profit to be left for the organizing organization... So Janine has done these shirts primarily for a bit of advertising and we look so much better when we wear matching shirts on jobs... go places if we all look alike however they are still in the back of my car because it's going to take a while at the post office to get them shuffled off,,

We... Janine and Elizabeth... have ”homed” 2 huge bunnies that will be quite the addition. I have not yet seen them but I've heard stories... apparently they were very large we may need some advice... I seem to remember from 80 years ago to be sure to carry the back end of a rabbit because apparently rabbits are very prone to back trouble. I'm not sure why these two rabbits needed rescuing.. but that doesn't really matter I suppose.. as of last night they're on goalies farm somewhere... Hopefully enjoying a pile of hay... we'll deal with the other problems eventually.

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 Dd 11 5

 

This morning  my favorite my favorite my specific job of the morning thanks to Janine was to pick out the favorite pictures of the calendars and we certainly do have some terrific pictures I think she wants to put out just the favorites in a calendar quicker I don't know what's going on but I picked out the pictures Walter eating off the fridge is certainly one of them me at the fireplace the toboggan with four dogs bill Huber really did a super job with the photography it would be good to pull out a cradle in there we'll see what happens next.

With a great deal of difficulty I visited Jane's pile of iron trash which is waiting for the Iron Man to pick up and I had to pull out so many things I probably reduced it by 50%...   one was an old parlor stove that once was pink and white and now it's pink and iron it's about 8 inch diameter for A1 log up and down or I believe it will take coal we need to do some experimenting out in the wild open

 

Speaking of Fires we have our own local variety ohh forest fire in Middleton there's only the next town over

with a pretty good collection of forestry in between me and them because we are right on willowdale state forest and I believe what's burning at 17% is the Harold Parker state forest.. just to give you all something to worry about.

I know Harold Parker state forest that's where I did the filming of Christ walking on the water except when I handed him the fish they had calculated the extra weight so we have a film of Christ very slowly sinking however we did get it straightened out and we did it properly but I think they kept this sinking film also MIT was in charge of calculating the the weight and the truancy and all that sort of thing but they hadn't calculated there's a large fish that I handed him well I was in the water ...some of these jobs were very strange... I should take that client's tail list of mine and write just a few comments about each job.. generally no job went perfectly but we did get jobs done.. 

 

I would like to do a newspaper article on how Nancy pelosi's husband would have not had any problem with the guy with the hammer if they had a 17 pound  Jack Russell terrier to warn them ahead of  time..

. Still thinking...

 

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Out of my 31,755 days (so far)_there was one night because of an airline schedule that I had to put my dog in a kennel and braved the storm alone it was the only time I've been in the house by myself and let me tell you I did not like it----because of all the things that dog provides  from  companionship to humor to  safety.. all of a sudden I was minus all of it.. right at this moment  I have stopped to wonder why people would want to be lacking  such an animal ..  I am positive that Mister Pelosi would have had plenty of time to call 911 and then sit down and have a cup of coffee before the guy with the hammer got anywhere near his head. I got to wondering why anyone could object to the security the dog provides. heaven knows they pay plenty of money for electronic devices and then have to worry about whether they've turned them on or off because there is no off button on a Jack Russell..  they are on duty 24 hours a day.

 

Granted you might have to spend a few minutes out of your day worrying about another “being”. like do they have water, and did ? I pick that up.?.. but that's a very small price to pay for not getting hit in the head with a hammer. and don't give me the bit about he travels a lot well Jack Russells fit in a carrier under the seat in front of you very nicely.

 

I can't tell you how many people with hammers Wanda has saved me from... because her attention is so acute  that I am sure all of the hammer toting criminals would very quickly decide to go pick on somebody else's house because at 17 lbs she is all noise but she has friends---- our crowd of great Danes which average about 150 lbs each and she knows it's her job to wake them up. consequently I don't have to worry about criminals carrying hammers trying to break in to ransack. goldies farm --  or as someone just pointed out maybe they already have ransacked the place and I didn't notice--- it is a little bit in the process of getting tidied up..

 

So now I must get back to my weekly 400 words with photograph for the Ipswich news.. getting that together is not all that easy so tell me... I need the concept with matching photo and it's that matching photo that throws me all the time but I'm on it right now because I have a good picture of Wanda as security

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time gets awa yfrom me....I did g4t the “board” nearly done

 

biggest news...   penny is now a Yuppy Puppyier.... bud helped with her yesterday without an awful lot of success and then she got up this morning and said did you want me to use my nose or my foot because she can do both and she ate so much so she had to get sick over the whole thing but she is doing it.

 

I know now my grandmothers are such good cooks minus the complications of family they then have a chance to pay attention to cooking maybe but they find out that when you fill the ice box people come and eat out of the ice box that's about where I am right now well actually my ice box is empty but I am onto suvi cooking and I got involved with reading that which is why I'm late with this I was mentally making up the Costco list where if I work very hard I can come up with maybe three type meals

 

pork tenderloin--chicken Stew--in New York sirloin---in a variation of all those ohh bagged and ready to be boiled... When you go through the lahey hospital process of aging you are assigned a social worker who will ask you all sorts of questions like exactly what are you eating for meals and who's getting your meals for you and who's doing the laundry and stuff like that.. I am told that somehow it is possible for either Medicare or Medicaid 2 support a caregiver...  there are details we haven't figured out yet but that does seem to be a fact.  there are parts of my life that are just getting away from me...   mostly of the paperwork variety and the fact that all the trailers need to be re registered in November is a peculiarity of Massachusetts so that has its own bunch of problems nonetheless the which is that serv dog project has just taken one of my trailers which in my world is is eventually going to cause more legal actions to get it back... there is no way then I would have donated a trailer which would carry 14,000 lbs as a necessary piece of equipment to train a dog.

 

speaking of dog training I am delighted with the progress that Bella has made with ziti..  there are some pictures of her working the dog in public and putting the dog through her paces..... and she's had the dog all of what two months now how does that compare to the two years that we so far have in the dogs that are still in my barn.. and the finances  whoo. there are people who are not going to like the numbers produced by 1 little girl trainig 1 little dog..  I reserve any comments regarding a seeing eye dog training...   but the generic balance noise whatever does not take a year or cost $30,000.

Eventually I'd like to have ago add the training involved with the seeing eye dog.... right at the moment I know zero about that

teaching a dog not to duck under an awning blows my mind.   But I am at least thinking about it.

 

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how easy it is to make assumptions that huge black and bluemark on my leg was not due to the fact that I was on blood thinner although that may have contributed the real problem was the puppy landing so that my leg was between her forearm and my recliner and the only reason I know is it just happened again I think the Amish people say we get too soon what the hell I forgot what the Amish say something about we get too soon smart and two days too soon old or something at any rate I now have a second black and blue but at least I know what it is

 

the other complicating factor is I have all kinds of medications provided by the doctor who are ignoring the fact that my record clearly says I'm allergic to penicillin --so on we go.

 

There is a Dunkin' Donuts form of bacon which says something about Maple syrup and that's pretty damn good it's even possible to get just bacon in a little bag..

 

Let's try “we get 2 soon old and too late smart...” Bless the Amish---umm they are the who  also told me that you'll get more work out of an animal or a husband if the leg is half the height in In their opinion basketball players just don't last in the field .. 

 

I was all ready for this to be Monday and was a little shocked to find out I still have a Saturday and a Sunday to go through before I can even tackle some of the problems that have to be done on my blessed phone.. namely a new thing for the” I've fallen and I can't get up routine”.  and does Obamacare actually cope with the idea of paying caregivers... there is some printed material which seems to deal with Medicare. paying a caregiver.. or maybe it's Med X or Medicaid or there is something I have to look into.   It turns out the people who manage that program are the ones where we take our animals and somebody slips $100 bill in my hand..  It would be very nice to have this work out.

and itis nearly hennypenny day... AAAAUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

 

Dd 11 02 slowly but surely we are getting there and I thank all the camera people goalies warriors for all the encouragement... I can't tell you how many “keep on keeping on’s “I get one way or another every day. And there's always one more in addition to...  and today it is the fact that in Massachusetts all trailer registrations expire either on November 1st or November 30th I don't know which but I do know that November is trailer registration day.. If slash when if we ever get to trying to straighten out who owns what the basic problem of trusting a secretary to do your paperwork wasn't my case a very bad idea.. I cannot think of one reason why anyone training service dogs would need a trailer capable of carrying 14,000 lbs---whereas the other charity operating also on crazy acres use that 14,000 lbs daily OK with hay coming in and used hay going out.... there is a logic there that can't be avoided. Which means that the great push of the morning is to get up and get the dump trailer to the dump before the dump closes which is usually around 9:00... because it gets full. They know us well at the dump and I was told once by one of the traffic organizing people that my daughter and I were the only two women he knew they could back up a trailer.. and I think he realized the connection only because of harley's great big spotted head hanging out of the window alright at any rate we're well known there.  I suddenly realized that it's time to start replacing all the things the service dog project says they are going to take. The process of managing animals on a farm is a 24 hour job and every one of those 24 hours may require you to use skills that cannot be described. figures I have doctor's appointment this morning and I can get this on the blog I will rush goodbye

 dd. 11 01

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True story ----absolutely true.

I was in the business of providing animals for commercials and movies and things like that and I had a call for a golden retriever to run down a hallway and stop and bark.. so I found one of those borrowed it from somebody and went on to the location which was at a bar in the lower part of New Hampshire someplace =---not an unusual request.

 

the shot called for the dog to run down a hallway into an open area and then stop and bark. OK

well the it actually was to run down a hallway with a bar on one side and a doorway to the cellar on the other side it was to run down that hallway and run into the open area of the bar and then stop and bark should not be too difficult..... so we started in I had the dog sit and stay and then I went into the open area and called him and he came except he stopped at that door..  whoops... sorry try again line them up roll the cameras run down hall stops at the door and barks. I.  could not get that dog past that doorway..  so as the director was trying to redo the scene the bartender says to me "that's the doorway where.  . we've seen the ghost.".. OK so for whatever reason I could not get that dog to run past that open door this was a nice normal dog didn't have any neurotic hang ups that I knew of there was something about that open door and the bartender said that's where they have seen the ghost..

 

So when someone asks me if I believe in ghosts I really have to Tell that story... because I had a really bad time trying to get the dog to behave in a way that a normal dog would have behaved... and I could see absolutely no reason. until the bartender said “that's the doorway where we've seen the ghost.”.    OK. The dog believes you !!

 

so back to today do we have a job today.??....hallpween????? I'm not sure it was all that formal list making or at least  less than 5 seconds I made the list ohh well that I mean there are three nursing homes right close to each other yeah in Peabody ---

 

My assignment is apparently to take the trailer to the dump..   I don't know what anyone else's schedule is for the day it's nothing there's nothing on the calendar.

OK

p.s.   i am told janine fixed my blog problems