regardless of what the camera people pointed out.... it was
not only the women who were shoveling.. greg and paul were doing massive snow
removal- like putting diesel in the tractor-- and shoveling it out when stuck...
so they were working..it just didn't look like that....
having been 30 years in the film industry.... cameras do lie... most significant demo of that is one of the
mythbusters doing the rubic cube in record time.
start with a new cube in order-- screw it up and run the
film backwards..
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everybody worked-- thank heavens---- service dog project is
very dependent on different people for different things that i can no longer do
myself. that concept terrifies me.. so you people with our dogs-- time to
thank the shoveler division--------- .we are dependent on ,many
divisions.....
just like the camera people sending towels and cardboard--
people showed up with shovels-- to bail us out when the street plow could not
do it .
it was a bit like the expression "give enough monkeys enough
typewriters and one will type the complete works of Shakespeare.."
enough people with enough shovels and we had what seemed
impossible.... a path to the kennel and around the pastures so the dogs can get
out.. thank heavens.
after that -- somebody named steven came back with his truck--
the one that had got stuck the night before-- and in daylight with a tiny path
to start , he has cleaned up the parking lot... then paul and greg "cleaned up
the corners"
during the storm the people making a fortune were th e owners
of trucks with plows... after a storm it is the people with front loaders who
earn a fortune--- doing hydrants and corners...
so paul and greg were our " corner crew" things like the
chicken coop etc..
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lesson of the day--
a dog with an injured stitched up foot will leave it alone if
you fill a kong with interesting stuff... not just dog food pellets.. good stuff
!!
vanilla-s foot --- golf ball size lump- from george
Biopsy is benign
called calcinosis circuscripta. Seen mostly in
young large breed dogs
( i bet george can pronounce that too-- isn't an education
wonderful)
after th e removal of a weird lump had 4 inches of
stitches-- which maria and i with our best vet knowledge decided it needed
air--
it was not passing the "smell test" and left off all the
bandages...--
after a dunk in diluted betadine and left open....it is
better this morning..
at least it smells better.
letting her walk around in the snow is not a bad way to clean
it either... we decided...
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paul came to the rescue- catching up on the things he does
that no one else even notices til disaster strikes-- like no firewood up by the
house...
chaos was beside herself to be with earlene for the shoveling
group-- she then fell into bed and slept all afternoon .. when earlene said good
bye, she kind of looked at me and said "now what do i do?"
earlene will be back tonight
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which reminds me.... time has come to get olives's area
ready- and she should come here very soon...
bless the wish list..... i put several of those x-pen things
on amazon and we have had a few arrive... if you look carefully you will see
a few of them in use to steer pups right out the doggie door in the kennel--
then we need them in the house to keep the house dogs in a defined area next
we need to keep olive secure in what she must feeil is a secure area without
supervision by luna or noel..... then we ad th eshelving to keep the pups in
their defined area..
we have a lot of dogs in different stages-- so we need to
deal with them in as normal a manner as is possible.
we had "new" volunteers yesterday who could not believe the
gracious living accomodations of the new deagle house...." i could easily live
there"
---- right ! that is what i had in mind...
actually i am a fan of "tiny houses" ---- that is worth a
google- there are some amazing tiny houses...- smaller than the deagle house-
tho often taller..
neil sent me a collection of those clever things- best
was-- use a staple remover to get things on a key ring.. i have suffered with
that problem for years...
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today schedule--- there is none
we are in recovery mode....
