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And a fool I will be--- I am working into a better routine and I'm very happy to report I'll try--- second try with shoes on I did get up off the floor now do I wanna put down no traction on flooring or just try and remember to wear shoes or slippers with sticky bottoms...

Michelle seems to be an unending source of things her mother never used and yesterday it was an easy slip on pair of shoes that somehow I could not figure out how to slip easily into them at which point Janine came along and did it and gave me the shoes she'd have been wearing that were easier to slip into got that?

Yesterday's mail call was very lively with Elizabeth Michelle and Janine and I as we try to figure out how to do today's job in Rockport--first of all there's two places in Rockport that we go to what is a real nursing home and the other is the absolutely huge daycare center we haven't yet figured out which one we had to go to and we may not know that until we actually are on the road that's not unusual either but we're gonna try but the two bunnies and a couple dogs-  not  Penny--  who is not yet when Bunny proofed... I keep threatening places to use an electric charged collar and this might certainly be one of them but so far I've managed without the electric collar... they are not cruel abusive or anything like that they are a tool and extremely effective if used properly... another tool which I mentioned recently and must get set up is a mousetrap said and then covered with a light piece of newspaper so that when they trap is upset that newspaper will fly in the face of The Upsetters..it would dog proof the trash

The bunnies are not the only significant addition to our operation-at least a year ago I bought a platform for the back of my car which fits in the trailer hitch holder  sizzle?   Out.you want to go outside that put that back back back go on wanda out--- that extension on my car it is supposed to hold the weight of a small scooter I don't think I'll bother with that but it certainly is very handy to put my wheelchair up there it also so far has been very good and identifying my car as a handicapped car since I lost the little thing that hangs in my window ***I will now brave the storm and get in the shower well by myself. just after I sett this off hopefully if I fall down someone will notice I shouldn't fall down and I do have that thing around my neck

 

Many thanks to everybody for the sellout we will do the shatting later today maybe mail call

 

d. 3.31

I.                    hsve an odd feeling that this computer is beyond me--  there are too many problems for jsnine and I to solve. So forgive me if I  cut this short and spend the next 8 hours with the ... just hold your horses  type problems--- there are tooooo. Many on the list of “someday’s and soons

I hate to think of all the “I’ll tackle that Monday morning... that Janine has in front of her....meanwhile I really can’t see or hear 100%

 

I cant even see or hear 87% and need the help of mechanical devices—which I do n ot yet own or even been tested for.

 

And furthermore  I am out of oranges !!  and I was out of them yesterday   and had to resort to eating ice cream as a snack- this will never do – I canT even get up off the floor at this weight.  Adda back the 30 pounds and it isa “don’t even try

So nick has it working again it's working again including the dictation part which is wonderful I don't know why or how it quits on me so frequently but it does and he fixes it which is lovely well that's good I'm glad you got somebody who can fix it don't talk to me because you're getting on to you're going you're going on the daily doggie also

that bit of dictation was by the nurse who's here had a physical therapist 1st and now her and she checks the medically sort of stuff and my INR is 1.9 it's supposed to be 122 to three two to three so I'm damn close so I'm not going to worry about that one and the physical therapist was in earlier trying to figure out how I fell well I knew how I fell I had not turned on the brakes I had no slippers on the floor is slippery and I wasn't paying a lot of attention it was also like 11:00 at night and I don't know what I was doing up at that hour they could have a lot to do with it right there.

 

so there's a quick daily doggy it is the end of the month and we are not desperate but it would be very nice to to make sure that our bank balances stay in the positive so if you can please do the $10 bit which hopefully will work very nicely if it doesn't you can always send a check but that it should work on that on the online thing

 

FYI jeanine has started carrying a white board to these nursing homes and daycare centers and then she puts the numbers on there and the chicken and wherever it shifts it becomes the winner of a framed picture from our calendars it's a pretty neat deal so if you can well the henny  penny  road and we're on into April I don't know when we're going to do the actual shatting but I haven't heard from jeanine yet this morning we're a little unorganized

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Ok.. so muxh for  having orthopedic practice sitting around in a circle wiggling my ankles which I'm sure needs to be done but let's look at the reality of life we should have had some crawling practice because in my mind and not in reality if I fell I would just crawl over to the chair and pull myself up ---not true ....I was bad... I had not locked the wheelchair and went to sit down in it and it moved so it really was a very nice fall I didn't get hurt---I just swore and then I spent time trying to get back in my chair for the recliner or anywhere0--this may be boring for you but it should be educational I couldn't just crawl that was a major operation I did get to my chair my my recliner and I could get the top half of me in there and I could get the top of me in there and try and roll click the like the rear end of me but the rear end of me the significant size itself um what's that cooperating I did not try and use the electric part of the chair which might have been interesting um instead I thankfully I had my cell phone with me and thankfully I could figure out how to make a phone call which sometimes I can't do and I called Michelle who it's about 50 feet away in the cabin who was very happy to come in I don't know if she was happy about it but she did come in to grow strong pick me up at the armpit and punch me back in my chair---- it was a learning experience-- Damn it---Had the cell phone's been on the counter or sometimes it I could not have gotten it---I do have that thing around my neck which called the ambulance police and fire department but I'm not sure it could call just the police I think it might but I think they have some obligation not to make the judgment on what's necessary so they would just send everybody...

 

Now that my education has been extended I realize that these orthopedic people at the rehab center should have had me down on my hands and knees== they got a realistic picture of what could happen---and there could happen with not all disastrous because I do have right on the floor with me a good queen size mattress with a couple of great Danes on it so there's plenty of place to continue to nap it would be nice maybe for a few more clean fluffies to be parked in the corner so in the effort to be self-sufficient I must reassess supplies to make sure I have.  That thing around my neck and a few other comfort and convenience things should I have to joined the dogs on the dog bed well people try and figure out how to get me back in my chair.

 

The other thing that's absolutely critical is the pig grippy flooring stuff.  I did locate roll of it in the G10 and carefully pulled it out to the surface of the crap--- it's a brand new role--I highly recommend this stuff we've now used it for years going back to when I was having a few older dogs with slippery floor problems---  and now it's me ---Whoopi

 

The editor of the newspaper seems agreeable to welcome me back after probably six months of not  in a dog story--I did submit an article for the newspaper with the picture of the Bunny rabbit at New England serum for the deaf------ New England serum boy that's a that's a slip from my past New England serum was a pet supply.  -----'m talking about New England home for the deaf---at any rate I should be able to come up with one article a week out of the three daycare centers we usually do live a week and my biggest problem is to now try and write a grant proposal for Mr. Cummings I do hope he can see it to help support us.

 

So if it's a nice day I would be delighted to have friends come and walk   me up and down  but if it's raining and it is we need to have crawling practice in here after we put down the pig grip floor which shouldn't take more than 1 1/2 minutes that stuff is beautiful and I'm perfectly willing to have pictures of me crawling around on it we would be good advertising for them I would think

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When we first moved in here it will pure forest which was very quickly cleared away in about two days by Jeff Masterson’s  big equipment which allowed us to move in a borrowed pickup truck with a camper on the back and my big horse trailer - Tom and I lived in the pickup truck and Janine lived in the front of the horse trailer the pickup truck had extremely limited warm water but still allow a quick shower--Janine had a one minute shower in the evening and Tom had a one minute shower in the morning I did whatever I could anywhere else. but it did allow for Janine to have to run between the two vehicles wrapped in a towel---well she's back to that now because Airstream trailer is  over by thethe G10 and my apartment has lovely hot water in abundance... so she came over here to shower and then ran across the yard in the towel it looked so familiar in 1979 when we built.

There was a brief few days when Tom was on call and wore a beeper there being no cell phone at that time the phone had gotten as far up the driveway as the gate so for a few nights if he had a call he had to run up to the gate in his underwear and deal with patients ---one of the reasons in buying this particular property was that he had to be within 20 minutes of the emergency room which he occasionally covered--- there was no kitchen concept involved in the entire operation--but eating out has never been a problem for me...

So back to current adaptations...  camera person Sam OK has always been very kind to us and sent us 1000 marbles as I was running out.. she did ask that I do a bunch of monkey fists for her so that she can give them away and she would like 80 of them that's a significant number but I should be able to manage although I now have to go buy more hooks from my buckle guy dot com I have now purchased over 3500 tiny snap. hooks from them over the last few years and I'm nearly out—again . unfortunately...... If I could buy 1001 at a time I would get 40% off but unfortunately I buy 101 at a time.   for 25% off--not only is that easy around the budget  but at 87 they hardly would be a prizede part of my estate such as it is.

 

Todays goal is to find someone to take me for a walk.   - I really need to move    use it or loose it is the motto of all orthopedic md’s and if the walk could be around Costco.. it would make  my day---it would also make it possible to pick up a large container of Starbucks coffee..  Duncan is OK but it really doesn't cut the mustard..

 

I now have a super hot water maker tea kettle and by starting my monkey fists in cold water because of the glass marble I can slowly increase the temperature up to boiling by juggling back and forth and back and forth so I could get a bunch of zipper pulls in the mail to Sam.. because she doesn't want them dyed.  Now if I could find my normal pan it would be very simple.. but I’ll  manage.

 

Keep the faith !!

 

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 dammmnit

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I love my electric sign which tells me the day daytime and also whether it's morning or evening just in case I wake up and it's dark it can be confusing ---Janine is back from the Carolinas It is not totally sure of where she's living which is not unusual...   She objects to living in the same building with me even though I have an extra bed she's on a different cycle she goes to bed at 11 and gets up at 8:00 I go to bed at 7 and get up at 4:00..  and even though I promised to be very quiet and not wake her up she opts not to sleep in this new apartment..  and asked nick to go fire up that big trailer---I've forgotten the name but it is a well known RV  trailer Kind of thing.

  She did a fantastic job at turning the old laundry room into a first floor apartment for me.  it's a shame I had to wait for two years to have it be available however we are here.   I have no idea why in the town of western Massachusetts replacing entire kitchens became fashionable and Elizabeth found out about it and got in line very quickly the claim the kitchens that were being replaced I am told she ended up with 14 kitchens in the cell of cellar of her boxford home and I don't doubt it because she keeps coming up with entire kitchens---as she has for this apartment and they are lovely drawers all work and slide and things like that- so when we needed a kitchen for this apartment so you had an extra 1 right handy...

 

Being able to get around the farm on that little go Kart is absolutely wonderful and it gave me a chance to try and find where stuff is ---those things put carefully away in horse trailers or tempting or something the only object that seems to have suffered greatly is my father's old desk and I don't know whether that's going to be something I can reclaim I'm not sure I can find all the pieces but it is a lovely old oak desk..  I did find and get put into my room the old doctor's scale which many people made fun of and rattle on about recalibrating it.  will it very nearly is in balance but to be absolutely perfect needed a little brass ring I had about 1/2 an inch across by balance that on the far end the whole thing is in perfect balance---I must admit the thing you stand on has a bit of rust but the rest of The thing is fine.   now to start moving the stove.  I think the way to do this is to photograph teh “before”. Then take it appart--- and stand in the drivewqy and ask every one to go and carry a piece of stove to the new apartment. Where it can stay for the summer while we try. And figure out what to do...

I am thrilled to see that the “groominhg table “  is still here    ( a 4’ x 3’ heavy duty stainess steel on rollers---- for the odd chance I want to wash all or part of a dane.. it provices a lift !!

 

All of walaces relatives are resurfacing the “laundry building” with normal boards... you can hardly recognize the difference---- eventually I will figure out how to send photographs.. 

Maybeeeeee.

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Ohh boy April here we come --March has never been one of my favorites Weather it's basically cold and mud maybe just maybe I'll get some peas in the ground this year thanks to the jersey girls little scooter and the dynamite vehicle and it's so tidy that I I bought it in the house to charge ---because if I put it in the G10 I can't get over there to get it but I could ride  it right out the door hey go up down the driveway and out of the barn and explore the various storage facilities---I found the bread box which has survived from house to cabin to Harvey 2 G 10th so I bought it in the house only to find it is absolutely packed solid with mostly big spoons these have been acquired over the years from people coming on a Sunday  bringing casseroles now I tell you that's a good idea along with the woman who brings the whipped cream.  The Sunday studio started the simple iron pot over an open fire to which people added things and it worked out very nicely gotta work on that project...

 

I need to have a driver I have a car I have a license but I really prefer not to drive although if  we are pulling any kind of trailer I'm often invited to back it up / I really need to go and have my eyes evaluated I have an amazing collection of glasses from 1.25 to 4.0 and none of them seemed to work too well so I should get some professional advice.  to that I also need toenail repair I never thought that would be necessary but it seems to me.. now that I'm even more deaf and losing more hearing every day one of the goldies warriors camera people suggested that may be the deafness and balance and ears might all be related and why didn't I go when I have my ears cleaned up which I don;treally think they needed but there is a point there--old age ain't simple.   and being deaf is very isolating.  my life in general seems to be pretty controlled by my General practitioner who apparently has some sort of

all powerful ability to require people to do as she says.  like buy me  a wheelchair or an actual fact a shower chair an interesting thing now sitting in my shower waiting for me to brave the storm. as one of my greatest fear in life is cold water shower .   I explained last night mail call that I don't require all that much I just want to be fed and be warm there are few other things made nice but those are the only requirements.

 

Olaf returned from South Carolina And claimed his dog Carl---which meant that I could have lackey o here for some one-on-one time ---that is a nice dog.... I can't even assess what kind of dog penny is because I haven't had time with her and now she's in heat that wipes out another three weeks.

As we clean up and rearrange around here where we've rearranged it's very very good but there are still places that are very.  ... Shall we say cluttered. as I found my chicken transporting device in the back of the barn underneath a donkeys pack saddle...  well the chicken transport has been very handy to use in daycare centers,,, now that I know the back saddle is there I maybe we should get a donkey more dressed up the black saddle and panniers and things like that actually many of the workers at the rehab center we're very dark I don't know where they came from but one of them spend some time explaining how his kids could pack donkeys really well... so I have of course invited him immediately come over here and bring his kids--- experts are where you find them---Like the 12 year old computer geniuses I have to rely on occasionally.

 

And then there's door 25 = it is a one car garage size building that Sheila craney and I nailed together in about four hours it is packed solid with the initial move out of the house and I can't even remember some of the stuff.  or should I say relics---I know there's a beautiful pair of cowboy boots somewhere I'm not sure I can wear them but they're good looking

 

The antique doctor's scale has landed in its proper place just inside the door of  This apartment...

It already made the nasty remark about the 4 lbs I now have gained since coming home and eating far different type calories...

Sam K sent 1000 marbles for me to continue that project and she would like 80 so she can begin to give them out to people it is kind of fun.... so now I have to go get more of the little brass hooks

Her 80 at once but I can probably send her 20 or so to dayand maybe weekly   without dying them

 

here’s sandy with her 2 service dogs....  hell her first needed help. why not

moving on !!

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Dd 3 25  where there's a will there's a way. this fool computer it is so very  demanding ----it makes its own executive decisions for which there is no   recourse....

Yesterday's 100% rain was indeed just that...  but that allowed me to stay inside and think inside thoughts like furniture moving which is not easily done in a wheelchair.  I really have to respect the fact that at any moment I can lose my balance--coupled with the fact that I am increasingly deaf causing one of the golden warriors to say have you tried cleaning your ears?  ---- I suppose they have a point I'll look into that---in the meantime the furniture is moved in preparation for the arrival of the many many pieces that make up the £700 Glenwood cook stove.. which we're going which I'm going to move in here as a useful object of art. Until we can figure out how and where to go through the roof----There is a special piece of pipe which is double walled stainless steel maybe at about 2 foot long which is the section of pipe needed to go through a wooden roof it can be done at least it has been done for years very successfully but that could be before they had a committee to decide if that should be done.    starting hopefully today---I can very easily lift off the Chrome trim the doors are easily lifted off and the entire top working surface just lifts off---  if I set a wagon or wheelbarrow or something at the door we could make serious progress in about an hour.

The problem then becomes the fact that simply running up and down the hill with a wagon is really not in my capabilities at the moment and unfortunately may I never again be that capabile . I must accept the fact the I may never again enjoy the daily exercise of doing the stalls and shoveling manure.... if it's kept up manure maintenance it's not a disagreeable occupation and I must say the barn right now it's in better shape than it ever has been between janine’s remodeling efforts. And nicks tenacity and the brute strength of Wallace and relatives  we are in good shape and with that lovely little scooter I could actually get down the alleyway of the barn to see the magnificent progress being made as soon as the weather clears I want to get in and see exactly what got left if anything in the area of kennels one through 10 I had which was technically the only area leased out  for the training of service dogs—

 

   I have begun to research the replacement of our  instant on  generators--the one most badly needed would be a very small unit for the laundry building and cabin with just enough electricity to run a fan necessary for 2  pellet stoves which would keep heat  coming maybe a light or two—charge phones and run computer in  my area and teh cabin....  it would not need a $20,000 generator—but one about $4000 would keep us warm  and with pellets... pipes not frozen..  They don't tell you in the small print that these pellet stoves must have an electric fan to move the smoke out through the wall because without that fan all the fumes come off into the  buildings-- they also don't tell you that the pellets are made from stripping perfectly good trees.  making it into pellets the ship to Europe---  it is as bad as shipping hay for Arabian horses--  and I can very easily be off and running with my dissertation on growing the salads in California and shipping the produce to the East Coast to be chewed and swallowed and deposited in the Atlantic...

 

I am totally enjoying the concept that less is better And I really would like to reclaim only part of the paraphernalia currently stored in the barn the G tent the storage unit the RV and three horse trailers along with building 25...

I am told spring will eventually spring and we will have decent weather..  I hope many of you who help support goldies farm.with the $10 donation for hay and other things you will plan on coming  here for an active few days participating  in the daily activities of goldy’s farm.