THE ANNOUNCEMENT???
THEY SAID TODQAY...... THEY ALSO SAID MONDAY AND DECEMBER... SO... "ONE FOOT FIRMLY PLANTED IN MID AIR."... WE WAIT FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT..-- I KIND OF KNW HOW THESE THINGS GO .. NOT THAT THIS IS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST, ANY ANNOUNCEMENT IS STILL AFFECTED BY WHAT ELSE IS NEWS.... IN THIS QUEST FOR "ABOVE THE FOLD ON THE FRONT PAGE"..... NEWS DOES GET JUGGLED. IPSWICH LOCAL NEWS MIGHT GIVE US ABOVE THE FOLD... UNLESS SOMETHIGN HAPPENS LIKE TEH TOWN CRUISER GETS STUCK IN THE MUD SOMEWHERE. OTHERIWSE IN THE NATIONAL NEWS IT MIGHT BE AN INTERESTIN G FILLER....
SO WE WAIT....
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TO FURTHIER MY DISCUSSION ON TRAINING ( OF DOGS AND CHILDREN....??)I THINK THE BIG MESSAGE IS
JUST CORRECT---DO NOT NAG. DOGS DO NOT UNDERSTAND BEING PUNISHED FOR SOMETHING 3 MINUTES AFTER IT HAPPENS... SO NAGGING IS REALLY BAD TO THEM... AND PERSONALLY I HATE NAGGING--
AND I NEVER DID GO FOR THE "TIME OUT" THEORY OF CHILD REARING.... IF I SAT MY KIDS IN THE CORNER FOR TIME OUT, I WOULD FORGET WHY THEY WERE THERE-- AND HEAVEN FORBID.... IF THEY WERE THERE..... I AM SURE THEIR MINDS WOULD FLY TO SOME OTHER MORE INTERESTING IDEA THAN WHATEVER BAD THINGS THEY HAD DONE... THAT DOES NOT MEAN BEATING IS LEGIT.... BUT SNAPPING THEM TO ATTENTION IS DEFINITELY ALARMING TO THEM.
WITH DOGS THE SNAP OF CHAIN IS A WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION....--- IT IS BY NO MEANS A PUNISHMENT-- AND A CHAIN WORKS BETTER THAN A SOFT ROPE, BECAUSE THE VERY NOISE OF THE CHAIN IS OFTEN ALL IT TAKES AS A REMINDER. UNFORTUNATELY THOSE GOT CALLED "CHOKE CHAINS" WHEN INDEED TEHY ARE A TRAINING TOOL-- THE LEATHER COLLARS DO FAR MORE CHOKING AS DOG PULL AGAINST THEM .
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AND NOW ONTO MY PROBLEMS WITH INTERNATIONAL BANKING---
POOR NATASHJA HAS NOT BEEN PAID FOR NEAL--- THE BASIC PROBLEM IS --- APPARENTLY SOEM SYSTEM GOT CHANGED SOMEWHERE ABOUT SWIFT CODE NUMBERS-- AND MY BANK IS IN DISAGREEMENT WITH WHAT TWAN AND NATASHJA BOTH SEEM TO THINK.. THIS CHANGE SEEMS TO HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN TIMING NEAL AND THE OTHER PUPS... --- I DID GET SIDETRACKED FOR DOGFEST, BUT I HAVE BEEN OT MY BANK TWICE SINCE 9/20 AND ALL THEY CAN TELL ME IS "LETS TRY THIS" WHICH EVERY TIME THEY TRY AND IT IS WRONG, THEY CHARGE ME $84.... SO I WROTE TO HER TODAY AND SUGGESTED I SEND HER A CHECK FOR MORE THAN I OWE KNOWING THAT THERE ARE EXCHANGE FEES...
2 SECONDS AGO TWAN CALLED FROM NORWAY AND SAID IT TOOK HER 4 MONTHS TO CASH A CHECK FROM A US BANK. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT... PEOPLE BUY THINGS FROM EUROPE ALL THE TIME... ??4 MONTHS TO CASH A CHECK????
I HAVE NOT SUGGESTED TO NATASHA THAT SHE OPEN A PAYPAL ACCOUNT AND I THINK I WILL AT LEAST FOR NEXT TIME...--- BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER WAY TO TRANSFER--- SOMETHING IS REALLY SCREWED UP SOMEWHERE.---- AND THE PAPERS PILE UP ON MY DESK....
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I AM BACK WEARING COWBOY BOOTS- WHICH MAKE ME STAND STRAIGHTER AND SEEM TO BE LESS BACK TROUBLE... STRANGE... BUT I REMEMBER MY MOTHER ALWAYS WORE 2" HEELS-- EVEN HER SLIPPERS-- I FIGURED SHE JUST DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SNEAKERS SO THAT HER ACHILEIS TENDON HAD SHRIVVLED TO THE POINT OF NOT LETTING HER HEEL DOWN.... NOW... BEING IN THE GENETIC BIT WITH DOGS... I AM WONDERING IF SHE HAD SOME SHORT TENDON IN THE FIRST PLACE AND I INHERITED IT. STUFF DOES BREED TRUE.....
MY SISTER FRAN HAS A BIRTHMARK ON THE BACK OF HER KNEE-- AND MY DAUGHTER JANINE HAS THE SAME ONE...
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FOOD.... WHAT A DINNER LAST NIGHT!!! --- CP's IHEART AND CHARLOTTE ARRIANGED FOR A HUGE MEAL FOR 12 OF US WHICH I PICKED UP..... WE ATE.. WE ALWAYS EAT--- WE ARE FAMOUS FOR FOOD-- ALONG WITH SERVICE DOGS....IT WS A JOYFUL RELIEF FROM PIZZA. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MEALS WERE , BUT HTE MASHED POTATOES WERE REAL... YOU SHOLD TAKE A BREAK EVERY ONCE IN while and enjoy a REAL mashed oPTOtoe instead of the pOWDERED RECONSTRUCTED KIND... IMPRESSIVE...
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YESTERDAY'S SPEAKING WAS AT A RETIRED NUNS HOME IN IPSWICH... I HAD NO IDEA WHAT MY TOPIC WAS TO BE--- DOGS, DISABILITIES,OR MANAGING A NON PROFIT--- TURNS OUT ... ENTERTAINMENT WAS THE CALL OF THE DAY... AND I HAD BENTLEY WITH ME.. I SPOKE AND ANSWERED QUESTIONS FOR QAN DHOUR AND HALF--A LONG TIME-- MUST REMEMEBER TO TAKE A BOTTLE OF WATRE NESXT TIME....
JUST GOT THRU IN TIME TO GO PICKE UP A NEW WASHER THA TSOMEONE WAS GETTING RID OF-- ONE OF THOSE THINGS I NEVER WOULD REFUSE... BECASUE GOLDIE ( THE GHOST OF LEFTHAND DRAWER) MIGHT ALREADY KNOW THE WASHER IN THE GUEST HOUSE WILL QUIT NEXT WEEK... VERY STRANGE THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPEN ALL THE TIME AROUND HERE....
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I THINK I WOULD HAVE TO PUT THAT 42K CHECK FROM THE TOWER OF HOPE IN THE SAME "GOLDIE" CATAGORIE.... JUST AS WE ARE FACED WITH 26+ PUPS TO SPAY AND NEUTER, THAT CHECK ARRIVES....
"FATE IS A THING WITHOUT A HEAD
A PUZZLE NEVER UNDERSTOOD
AND MAN PROCEEDS WHERE HE IS LEAD
UNGUARENTEED OF BAD OR GOOD..."
WAS THAT YUL BRYNNER IN SOMETHING??? KISMET???
