SEPT 30 2016

NEVER THROW ANYTHING OUT !!! AND IF YOU ARE PART OF AN EMENSE ORGANIZATION LIKE GENERAL N MOTORS   OR DISNEY, KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR  ANYTHING.. LIKE AN EXTRA CAR... OR HOTEL SUPPLIES..

I AM TOLD TONIGHTS MAIL CALL WILL BE ONE OF THOSE UNUSUAL ONES.

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FYI... I DO LIKE THIS DD TO OFFER SOME WORD OF WISDOM EVEN THO AT 5AM  WISDOM IS  SOMETIMES  IN SHORT SUPPLY...

TODAY... JUDY'S HUSBAND  TOLD US WHAT WEATHER "THING" ON THE  INTERNET HE WATCHES..DOESN'T SOUND LIKE MUCH... EXCEPT HE IS A PILOT- AND PROBABLY KNOWS ONE WEATHER CHANNEL FROM ANOTHER...  ( HOPEFULLY--- WELL---- SINCE HE HAS BEEN A PILOT FOR A LONG TIME, HE MUST BE GOOD AT IT.) HE WATCHES  http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx?location&weather=hdRadarSmoothPaletteA    AND AT THE BOTTOM THERE IS A LITTLE SLIDER WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO MOVE THE GREEN AND YELLOW GLOB TO TELL YOU WHEN THE RAINS WILL BE HERE...

IN TODAY'S CASE 5:03 AND 54 SECONDS..PM   IT SHOULD START RAINING AT CCRAZY ACRES....

WITH HIM IT IS TAKE OFF AND LANDING... WITH ME IT IS ARRIVAL OF UPS AND THE HAY TRUCK.

THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN GET THE BUILDING UP BY 5:03.54 SO I AM LEFT DESIGNATING  YET ANOTHER OVERFLOW AREA.... HOWEVER... GIRAFFE TENT HERE WE COME....

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THE BUILDING....

I DID EMAIL THE OMNI BLOCK INFORMATION   SITE    -- AND INADVERTANLY  GOT  AN OFFICER OF TEH COMPANY ON THE LINE.... HE DID SAY THEY DIDN'T  INTEND THERI PRODUCT TO BE A DO IT YOURSELF PRODUCT.....    I PROMISED NOT TO DIVULGE HIS  NAME--- BUT HE DID MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTTS I FOUND INTERESTING..HE DID MAKE SOME SUGGESTON ABOUT READING THE DIRECTIONS - WHICH THE COMPANY DID PROVIDE ONLINE.

I WILL PASS THAT INFORMATION ON TO BUD-- AS HE IS OUR  "READER OF MANUALS AND DIRECTIONS"    I TRIED - BUT THE PRINT IS TOO SMALL  AND THERE IS THE SHORT TERM MEMORY BIT ABOUT FORGETTING THE FIRST PART OF TEH SENTENCE BEFORE I GET TO THE END....AND MY EYESIGHT NOT CO- OPERATIVE  SO IT IS BUDS.... HE IS BETTER AT IT ANYWAY...

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I KNOW I SEEMS  EARLY... BUT A FIRE IN THE FIREPLACE IS WONDERFUL--( DUMMY.. WHERE ELSE???   .. A FIRRE OUT OF THE FIREPLACE WOULD NOT BE SO WONDERFUL )

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NOW... THE OBJECT OF EATING IS TO AQUIRE FUEL FOR YOUR BODY...  IF THE NEXT MEAL BECOMES A DESTINATION IT BECOMES TIRING, REQUIRES FINDING  MATCHING SOX AND YOU CAN GET  BORED... THERE IS SOMEONE -- WHO SHALL  REMAIN NAMELESS---   MR.X.....WHO IS ABOUT TO ARRIVE IN THE GUEST HOU SE.... AND ALREADY I AM GETTING KIDDED ABOUT  OFFERING TO TAKE HIM OUT TO BREAKFAST--  LIKE LAST TIME.....

SINCE MY OBJECT  WAS TO EAT SOMETHING TO GET US  THRU TO LUNCH,  LAST TIME I TOOK HIM TO  MCDONALDS...  WHERE A SINGLE SCRAMBLED EGG IS GOOD,  BUT DOES LOOK A BIT FORLORN ON A PLATE ALL ALONE...  SO THE NEXT BREAKFAST I DID BETTER.. AND TOOK HIM TO A REALLY GOOD TRUCK STOP....  AN ENTIRELY NEW EXPERIENCE  THAN  WHAT HE IS ACCUSTOMED TO...AT ANY AGE...NEW EXPERIENCES ARE GOOD... 

.. I AM ALL FOR IT.

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NO CUT AND PASTE....

BUT YESTERDAY'S SNAIL MAIL WENT WELL I THOUGHT... I DID SIPHON PURPLE WATER OUT OF ONE BOTTLE AND INTO  A STRING OF 3  WHICH THEN ALL EVENED OUT AT THE SAME LEVEL.... IN TEH 20 MINUTE TIME FRAME.

THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY TO  DESIGN 2 PER  WEEK

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SATURDAY-- APPARENTLY 5 +2 GUYS WILL PUT TOGETHER THE BUILDING  BLOCKS.....

SUNDAY IS SHATTING SUNDAY ( I HOPE WE SELL OUT ...)

AND SUNDAY 10:30  JANINE IS HAVING A DONKEY APPRECIATION  TEA PARTY ON THE PATIO WHIHC  IS NOT BUILT YET... WITH DONKEYS ONLY SLIGHTLY WILD...

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SEPT 29 2016

TINA WANTS TO KNOW WHEN WE WILL HAVE DOGFEST NEXT YEAR...  

LORDY,  I HAVE NOT GOT BACK MY REQUIRED SLEEEP YET FROM LAST YEARS....-( BUT THIS SEEMED LIKE A GOOD WEEKEND TO DO IT..)  GO AHEAD AND FORM A COMMITTEE  AND GIVE ME A REPORT....

PLUS THE FACT THAT GOLDIE IS WAAAAAAAAAY AHEAD OF ME..

 SHE FOUND THAT  EX TRAINER FROM NEADS FOR US IN GTHE WRONG STORE EPISODE.. LAURNE-- SHOWED UP YESTERDAY  AND  I THINK WE CAN WORK HRE IN FOR ONE DAY AND AN OVERNIGHT OR TWO TO GET HER INTRODUCED AND GOING...   SHE HAS NEVER GOT HER LICENSE TO DRIVE  SO SHE WOULD  EITHER NEED HER MOTHER TO DRIVE ... OR LINE UP WITH LINDA ETC.. WHO COME THRU SAUGUS/ ROUTE 1..

THEN THERE IS  LYNNE FARLEY...  RETIRED FROM 30+ YEARS OF TEACHING GRADE SCHOOL-- JUST WHEN I AM TRYING TO GET THE SNAIL MAIL IDEA   GOING...  TUESDAY AND THURSDAY AT 1:00  TO ACCOMMODATE THE CALIF KIDS HOURS EARLIER.

.. .. SO THIS LYNNE PERSON-- GOLDIE HAD ARRAIGNED FOR HER TO MEET WITH JUDY AND ME.  AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE--  TURNS OUT ...NEWLY RETIRED AND  FLOATING  AROUND LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO...   WITH 30 YERS OF KIDS BEHIND HER... WE OUGHT OT BE ABLE TO PUT TOGETEHR SOMETHING,-- ADD A FEW OTHER  RETIRED TEACHER   CONSULTANTS ... LIKE NHTEAACH  AND DEB- OF MEATCUTTER FAME.

DAWN'S KIDS HAE GIVEN ME SOME QUESTIONS TO ANSWER--- TIL I BEGIN TO GET SNAIL MAIL.

I CAN GET OUT MY TYVEK SUIT AND PLAY WITH STRANGE THINGS....

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 REPORT ON THE INDIAN FOOD EPISODE--- THAT MUTTER PANEER WAS DARN GOOD...  BOIL IN BAG STUFF  --- I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT IF I COULD REMEMBER THE NAME,,,  K XXXXX SOMETHING???

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ALSO RECOMMENDATIONS-- MY PILLOW IS NICE.... IT IS CERTAILY DIFFERENT-- BUT I LIKE IT.

FOR THOSE OF YOU IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD... THERE IS A TV AD FOR "MY PILLOWS" THAT RUNS CONSTANTLY--  THE  PILLOWS ARE MADE IN  MINNESOOOOOOOTA.

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DID I ALSO RUN BY YOU THE AD FOR CAR INSURANCE WHERE THEY TELL YOU THEY PAY FULL PRICE OF THE VEHICLE  PLUS   DEPRECIATION !!!!    SOUNDED TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE-- AN D IT IS NOT LYING... BUT THAT DEPRECIATION IS A NEGATIVE NUMBER  SO BY ADDING IT, YOU ARE SUBTRACTING...

THAT IS AS BAD AS  "THE RATE OF INCREASE IS  DOWN  " -- ONLY FOR THE MATH INCLINED.....

BLESS MADISON AVENUE-- STUDY THE SHORTCOMINGS AND HIT  'EM WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECT IT..

OR... WHY WE SHOULD PUSH MORE  LOGIC STUDIES IN EDUCATION... ( UNLESS OF COURSE I HAVE ALL THAT WRONG?????)  COULD BE--- SOMETIME S YOU CAN NOT BE SURE OF AN ARGUEMENT UNTIL YOU HAVE ARGUED IT.   ASK OBAMA--CONGRESS VETO'D SOMETHNG WITHOUT ARGUEING IT---- OR READING IT...

WE HAVE OTHR PROJECT S COOKING   ON  WHICH I NEED TO GET REPORTS--- THE SILENT AUCTION VERSION OF THE CHICKEN BRICK BIT...   I NEED IT  SOON..

AND JUDY AND I  WONDERED ABOUT A LOOP FOR THE LAHEY CLINIC VIDEOS---PUPS INTERMIXWE WITH LAHEY ADS.

WHICH COULD BE THE SAME THING WITH TOYOTA WHICH HAVE A LOVELY BORING SCREEN RUNNING IN THEIR WAITIN G ROOM.. 

GEORGE USED TO RUN  A LOOP IN HIS WAINING ROOM TIL EVERYON E GOT TOO TIRED OF THE SAME ONLD

  BUT THE CONCEPT IS GOOD....

I AM ASHAMED I HAVE  NOT BEEN ABLE TO PULL ALL THAT  TOGETHER  SOONER...

  AND   MARK AND HIS GREAT PHOTO'S IS A HUGE PART OF IT... ALONG WITH EXPLORE....

AND TEH DONKEY WALKING....  ETC.....

AND CALENDAR...

HEAVEN HELP ME...

sept 28 2016

if  we don't develope more farmers we are not going to have enough strawberrys  or whipped cream for next year's dogfest...  we have alot of colleges in the north east-- and i just glanced thru harvard's curriculium and did not see one course on  the plowing of dirt-- but all kinds on the bending of minds ------ political science and legal  maneurvers.   

it has bothered mme for years that all the buuilding  around me/ boston... did not have to do with the production of anything  except paperwork.

.man can not live by  bread alone-- but it sure works better than a wad of papers.... especially with a drink of water... which along with trash is another favorite topic of mine....

now it is about the great lakes...  if we can pump oil across continents,  why can we not  drain some woater off those big lakes to water the strawberry growing  areas of california.

if we don't have those fields of food to process what would we do with all the people who pick the produce?

probably have to build some kind of wall to keep them out of our fields...

and having drained the great lakes to be able to water the green golf courses in las vegas,--- Niagara Falls would have to be renamed Niagara Trickle.

 i must congradulate  the genius that sold teh general public on the "paperless society" -- wata crock !!  if we outlawed the ability of the computer to skip lines  we could redesign printers to print and cut off..... to produce correctly sized pages and save gazillions of trees.  would someone please invent that for us????

such problems as  i have to worry about.....

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the person i met in the wrong store is coming here today---   we went thru a wrong phone number  for few hours.. finally spending 95 cents for one of those people finders... and then getting devlin to go to her address in saugus(devlin is saugus too..) which she did...  it must have been a shock to have the new person be introduced to 98 pound devlin who introduced herself - correctly- as one of our trainers...  devlin had wiht her, her dane "xxxxx" -- who out wweighs devlin...  "xxxxx"( i forget names) is very well trained... which is my criterier for deciding who is a trainer , and who is not.

anyone can hang up a sign that says trainer...  show me someone with a well trained dog-- or kid---  don't kid yourself... it really is about the same thing. .... except dogs are usually nicer about it.

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Hi Carlene-

They say it takes a village...

Well... thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make the weekend at Dog Fest such a wonderful time. It’s impossible to begin to name the highlights because the highlights never stopped.

But it is the overwhelming feeling of knowing that Ava came from a most loving village, the SDP Village. From my first day at SDP, it was easy to see how Carlene, the trainers, and the volunteers helped make SDP what it is. Eventually, I started to realize the importance of Explore.org and the CP’s, and other recipients. But it was being with everyone together that made it real. It was hearing stories from people who had loved and/or worked with Ava and other dogs as young pups. It was seeing and talking with other recipients and their dogs. It was seeing Ava’s siblings and Scarlot. It was watching Ava’s tail wag when she saw old friends, both, human and canine. It was the CP’s who were always right there with a fluffy, to grab a plate, or to lend a hand with whatever was needed. And it was the hugs and smiles that will always stay with me.... cindy

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it was painful to have lost bailey, and more painful to realize that at 79 i doubt i will be able to develope another dog's training to her level... but i will try..... and i need help with the rules i have set in place.

thank you all for keeping your eye on my pup... i make rules around here that have a purpose--  some of you may not understand why i make these rules...  sometimes maybe i don't know either...however in the meantime,  when i ask people not to play with my pup so her attention can focus on me and my training until i get her better trained, i find it terribly disrespectful  to get up in the morning and  find pictures and  "carlene will never know" in the comments...  there are 50 other dogs around here.... all i ask is to leave my pup  alone...  enough said.

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SEPT 27 2016

RAN OUT HT E DOOR THIS MORNING TO WELCOME THE RAIN WITH THE PUPPY RIGHT BEHIND ME.  SHE STOPPED AND SAID  " I BETTER GET OUT OF HERE ---SOMEBODY'S PUTTING  ALOT OF  THIS WET STUFF ALL OVER THE GROUND--AND  EVERYBODY GETS ALL EXCITED WHEN I PUT  ONE LITTLE PUDDLE IN  THE HOUSE.."

SHE  SAID THAT..

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 GOLDIE-- OUR "GHOST OF THE LEFTHAND DRAWER"----WAS AT  IT AGAIN...  AND THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HER MESSING WITH MY MIND.... GREAT STRANGENESS.

....1. WE WERE SHORT HANDED YESTERDAY WITHOUT RYAN, STEVE,BOBBY AND MEGANS SISTER HAD A BABY WHICH COMPLICATED HER WORK DAY....

...2 LORI SCHARY  SENT ME 2 MESSAGES ABOTU FINDING INDIAN FOOD( MUTTER PPANNEER TYPE)  IN "BIG LOT" STORES PER THE INTERNET...

...3. WE HAD PLENTY OF CP'S STILL HERE FROM DOGFEST- AND JUDY DIDN'T HAVE A SPECIFIC CHORE.

...4.  I WANTED TO GET OUT OF HERE  --- SO DID BENTLEY...AND DECIDED  LOOKING FOR INDIAN FOOD WAS AS GOOD A GOAL AS ANY SO  ASKED JUDY TO DRIVE...

THIS IS GOING SOMEWHERE SO HANG ON.

...5.  I KNEW WERE A BIG LOT STORE WAS- WE PARKED THERE AND I GRABBED A BIG LOT SHOPPING CART..I LET  BENTLEY FOLLOW ALONG AND WENT INTO THE STORE.

...6.   IF THEY HAD ANY CURRY IT WAS WELL HIDDEN AMID PILES OF PLASTIC JUNK-- ALL FOR $1

...7.  JUDY WENT TO FIND THE MANAGER TO ASK-- AND BEFORE SHE FOUND ME AGAIN , I HAD RUN INTO THE SAME  MGR AND ASKED ABOUT INDIAN FOOD...

...8.  HE ASKE WHAT ON EARTH MADE 2 DIFFERENGT PEOPLE ASK HIM ABOJUT  INDIAN FOOD.. WHICH HE NEVER HAD IN THAT  DOLLAR STORE.

...9. WHEN I SAID THE INTERNET  TOLD US   THAT  BIG LOTS IN DANVERS HAD KHOURRI PRODUCTS ---HE LAUGHED AND SAID -- "THAT IS BIG LOTS NEXT DOOR".

HANG ON...

...10. I WENT TO CHECK OUT MY COMBS AND MIRROR FOR $2 AND THE WOMAN IN THE NEXT LINE SAID  TO HER COMPANION " LOOK AT THAT GREAT DANE,   I LOVE DANES   ---I WISH NEADS HAD USED THOSE"

I HEARD NEADS... AND I WAS OFF AND RUNNING....-- TURNS OUT SHE SAID SHE  IS AN UNEMPLOYED DOG TRAINER FROM NEADS--- LIVES IN SAUGUS ( DEVLIN= SAUGUS)

WHY I  SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE WRONG STORE AT THE CHECK OUT WITH HER  WHILE I WAS BEING STREESSED ABOUT  DOGS NOT HAVING ENOUGH TIME OUT BECAUSE OF TOO MANY  TRAINERS /HELP GONE ALL AT ONCE.... HAS TO BE GOLDIE....

I GAVE HER MY NUMBER  -- AND SHE HAS CALLED-- I WILL TRY AND GET HER TO COME HERE SOON...SHE CERTAINLY LOOKED PERFECT...

  REMEMBERING THAT NEADS WAS STARTED AND ORGANIZED BY SHEILA O'BRIEN - WHO INSPECTED US FOR OUR ACCREDITATION WITH HER LONG RED FINGERNAILS AND MASSIVE KNOWEDGE ABOUT BUSINESS, NOT DOGS....

 I QUICKLY TOLD HER---- SHEILA MAY HAVE DEMANDED WE HAVE JOB DESCRIPTIONS AROUND HERE FOR ACCREDITATION, . "BUT IF THE TRUCK GETS STUCK IN THE MUD,, YOU GET IN THERE AND PUSH"

WITH GOLDIE MAKING THE DECISION TO LAND US IN THE SAME .... WRONG STORE...  AT THE SAME  TIME.. HOW COULD I EVEN THINK OF QUESTIONING HER QUALIFIACTIONS..?

ACTUALLY I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR WHY SHE LANDED THERE ...

 SO THAT IS THE BIGGEST EXCITEMENT--

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THAT AND STUDYING THE ACTUAL PAYROLL NUMBERS -- WE HAVE A VERY HEALTHY PAYROLL  AND ARE STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP..  I GET WORRIED ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOT  QUITE ½ SOLD OUT OF CHICKEN BRICK DONATIONS -- AND SHATTING SUNDAY IS  5 DAYS AWAY !!

EVERY BODY GOT DISTRACTED BY DOGFEST-...

 PLEASE ... DON;T FORGET.... I AM NOT ALLOWED THE LUXURY OF  TAKING A DAY OFF FROM PAYING THE PAYROLL.

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LAST NIGHT  WITH SO MANY CP DOG FSTERS LEFT ... WE WENT THRU WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE/LEAST FAVORTITE EPISODE..

HIGH ON THE LIST WAS 

** GARY'S NATIVE AMERICAN ( WHICH BELIEVE ME I HAVE HEARD THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT "INDIAN"  BUT NATIVE AMERICAN---) 

**JANINE'S DONKEY MARCH...

**OF COUSE ... THE FOOD....

THEY DIDN'T COME UP WITH LEAST FAVORITE...  

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TODAY AT 1:00 I  WILL START THE SNAIL MAIL CALL-- WHICH FOR A START WILL HAVE NOT MAIL TO READ-- BUT   DAWN... I AM COUNTING ON YOUR KIDS TO GET  ME GOING...

AND AM LINING UP NUTTY PROFESSOR THINGS TO DO.  IT JUST OCCURED TO ME TO FRY 2 EGGS AND EAT THEM TO PROVE   BROWN OR WHITE EGGS TASTE THE SAME.    THAT COULD BE FUN...

DO NOT EXPECT MY PROFESSORIAL LECTURES TO BE TERRIBLY SCIENTIFIC...  BUT RTHER-- MAYBE STOP AND THINK TYPE THINGS....

 I SHOULD BE ABLE TO EAT 2 FRIED EGGS WITHOUT TOO MUCH TROUBLE...

LEVERS AND SIPHONS ARE 2 OF MY FAVORITES TO EXPLOIT...

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HEALTH REPORTS

MYA REPORT--- TOO MUCH WATER DRINKING AN DPEEING... SHE DOES HAVE A KIDNEY INFECTION... GEORTGE HAS PUT HER ON  A SPECIFIC ANTIBIOTIC AND WE NEED A SAMPLE IN A WEEK...

WALTER IS ON 3 LEGS FOR UNKNOWN REASON.... WOKE UP THAT WAY...

MY PUP'S POOPS ARE PERFECT-- SHE GAVE US A SAMPLE IN HERE BECAUSE IT IS RAINING .

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RUNNING ---DR APT...  9:30 AND 11 AM  SO I WILL BE GONE ALL MORNING...

SEPT 26 2016

WE HAVE HAD SOOOO MANY KIND WORDS ABOUT DOGFEST....  IT WAS DIFFERENT-- AS WE ALWAYS STRIVE TO BE...-- MIND BOGGLING???? WITHOUT A DOUBT..... I DID NOT SEE ONE PERSON WITH A COMPLAINT !!!!  HIGHLIGHTS WERE  TEH  BIZZARRE SPIRIT STICK PARADE... PEOPLE HAD SENT IN PICTURES OR WHATEVER - ATTACHED TO A PAINT STIRRER WHICH WE DISPLAYED AND THEN HAD A MARCH ,100 PEOPLE   HOLDING EACH  OF TEH 200+ TO THE CAMERA BEFOREE PUTTING THEM IN THE FIRE, THUSLY  CASTING THEIR SPIRITS TO THE WINDS OF  CRAZY ACRES... /NUTS???  YUP.... TO THE REAL INDIAN POW WOW - IN FULL HEADRESS WE  DANCED TO THE BEAT OF THE DRUMS AND SAW A MARRIAGE CEREMONY BETWEEN WALTER AND NOEL-- GARY ( OF ACTUAL INDIAN HERITAGE) -WAS  THE CHIEF -- HE TOLD OF MANY OF THE INDIAN RITUALS-- ALL SEEMED VERY LOGICAL  CONCENTRATING ON HARMONY WITH THE EARTH... THE WILD CONFUSION OF TEH DONKEY EPISODE.. WAS AN UNEXPECTED DELIGHT.  ..JANINE BROUGHT HER 3 OVER AND ADDED THEM TO OUR BUNCH- SO WE HAD SEVERAL LOOK ALIKES-- PROBLEM THEN BECAME  WHICH BABY WHENT WITH WHICH  MOMMY-- NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN GET WRONG WITH OUT  BIG PROBLEMS.  AND WE HAD IT WRONG FOR ABOUT 5 LONG MINUTES.  JANINE HAD PLANNED THAT TH E BUNCH WOULD BE CONTROLLED BY  THESE FRYING PANS WE USE TO GIVE THEM TREATGS AND SNACKS... AND IT WOULD HAVE ... IF THE MOMMY'S HAD THEIR CORRECT BABY-- THE BABIES BEGAN TO PARTY AND RUN AROUND WITH DISTRAUGHT MOTHERS DRAGGING SOMEONE AROUND-- WITH HORSES IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DISASTER.. WITH DONKEYS IT WAS LESS INCLINED TO BE A PROBLEM--- BUT IT WAS UNCONTROLLED AND FUNNY. MANY PEOPLE HAD NEVER EVEN TOUCHED A DONKEY BEFORE AND HAD BEEN GIVEN THESE PURPLE FRYING PANS  WITHOUT MANY INSTRUCTIONS AS TO WHAT  TO DO WITH THEM... THE ENTIRE PICTURE WAS DELIGHTFUL. ********** LORD KNOWS  THE FOOD EXCEEDED EVERYONE'S EXPEXTATIONS...  FOR CONTENT AND QUANTITY.. WE HAD FOOD !!  THERE ARE THINGS WE LEARN EVERY DOGFEST--- AND THIS WAS NO DIFFERENT...  SOMEHOW WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE SURE TO INVITE SANDY..... IF SHE IS NOT AN  ITALIAN WOMAN-  SHE ACTS LIKE A REAL ONE.... BECAUSE OF THEIR INSTINCT TO KEEP EACH TABLE AND PLATE FULL OF GREAT  FOOD AT ALL TIMES...  I EVEN SAW GEORGE (DVM.. GEORGE)GO BACK FOR MORE OF HER MEATBALLS  WHICH WERE GRANDMA'S RECIPIE... ALL THAT WAS ON TOP OF THE LOBSTER CLAMBAKE WITH TRAYS OF SALAD  AND CORN ON THE COB. AND THAT CAKE.... THERE IS ALOT I MISSED OUT ON THE DETAILS.... I NEVER FOUND OUT WHO SENT THAT  MAMOUTH EDITTABLE ARRAINGEMENT  WHICH GOT STRIPPED PRETTY FAST. BEST PART IS EVERYONE DID EVERYTHING-- THE "PURPLE SHIRTS" RAN THE DEAL- CHECKING WITH ME ONLY FOR EXECUTIVE DECISIONS... LIKE "SHALL WE SET THE CAKE ON THAT TABLE?"    2 BIG SPIRIT STICK DISPLAY "UNITS" GOT MADE AND PUT TO USE...  NOW STRIPPED, THEY LOOK NAKED.. EXCEPT  --- IF WE LEAN THEM UP AGAINST THE LAUNDRY BUILDING THEY WOULD BE PERFECT CLOTHES HANGING DEVICES....FOR AIRING INSTEAD OF WASHING  NOT REALLY DIRTY FLUFFIES. *******  I REALLY JUST WANDERED AROUND ON THE GOLF CART WITH  THE PUPPY ( WHO HAS NO OFFICIAL NAME YET EXCEPT PHOENIX) ***** ONE BAD DETAIL WAS  GRACE ENDED UP SITTING WITH THE PUPPIES WHEN WE DID THE VOLUNTEERS PHOTO... SO---- MARK.. CAN YOU STRIP HER IN  SOMEHOW... I FEEL BADLY ABOUT THAT... SHE IS SUCH A BACKBONE OF THE ENTIRE   SDP-- THE WORST ONE TO OVERLOOK... ******  THE BUILDING GOT GOING  UP 4 COURSES OF BLOCKS..2 GUYS AND JACK... PLUS SEVERALL VOLUNTEERS- THEY NEVER EXPECTED A LOBSTER DINNER WITH THE JOB....17 HOURS IN 2 DAYS-- PLANNED SAME FOR NEXT WEEKEND... GOT TO HAVE A  FYI  -- MORTAR MIX AND CONCRETE ARE MUCH DIFFERENT-- THE MORTAR MIX DOES NOT HAVE THE  HURRY UP FACTOR LIKE CONCRETE--I WATCHED AS THEY MIXED THAT IIN THE WHEELBARROW- I EXECTED THEM TO HAVE TO HURRY BEFORE IT SET.. NOT SO WITH MORTAR MIX... IFT WAS MUCH MORE CASUAL -- NO RUSH... 2 GUYS -- GOOD WORKERS....  BACK NEXT WEEKEND. ******** MARK GOT SOME  WONDERFUL PHOTO OPS-- WHICH HE WILL SORT THRU EVENTUALLY-- IT TAKES A WHILE-- I BET HE AS 10,000 PICTURES TO GO THRU... BETWEEN CAMERA AND DRONE CAMERA... HE IS ORGANIZED---   DETALS  LIKE ----TO MANAGE TO HAVE THE DRONE 'S BATTERIES FULLY CHARGED F RO THE EVENT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZRE ME.  AND EARLY SANDY IS A BIG HELP TOO... SHE HAS THAT SAME MIND.... DON'T FORGET HE COOKED HAMBERGERS TOO AT SOME POINT. AND FOUND APPROPRIATE MUSINC-- WHIHC IF YOU LISENED TO THE  WORDS OF HIS DOG MUSIC, INVOLVED SNIFFING REARS AND STEPPING IN WHAT DOGS LEAVE BEHIND....-- WHERE DOES HE FIND THIS STUFF????? ********* EVERYONE STOPPED BY TO THANK ME--  WHICH WAS CERRTAINLY VERY NICE-- BUT  I THINK ALL KNEW-- THIS WAS AN EPISODE  MADE POSSIBLE ONLY BECAUSE OF THE DONATIONS TO THE CHICKENBRICKS... WHICH IS  MADE POSSIBLE BY EXPLORE.ORG... DOG BLESS YOU  AND CHARLIE OUT THERE IN CALIFORNIA.... ---- SEVERAL MADE REFERENCE TOTHE "SDP FAMILY"  OF CP'S.. WHICH IT CERTAINLY RESEMBLES... (WITHOUT ANY FAMILY SQUABBLES ) ONE SAID "DID I EVER THINK......? "   NO... HOW COULD I EVER KNOW THAT THIS EXPLORE.ORG  ORGANIZATION WOULD  ENCOURAGE SO MUCH PARTICIPATION WITHOUT ANY COMMERCIALISM...   SELLING ONLY  THE EXPERIENCE OF  EDUCATON AND ENTERTAINMENT MINUS THE ADVERTIZEMENTS ABOUT  BLOCKED DRAINS AND BUG KILLERS.  MANY PEOPLE ASKED HOW I GOT INVOLVED WITH  DOG BLESS YOU  AND EXPLORE.ORG... I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW.   .... AND  ...  I HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO ASK.

SEPT 25 2016

GREAT CROWD!!!     AND   THAT CAKE !!----- OH THAT I COULD EMAIL THE PHOTO...  BUT SOMEONE MUST BE ABLE TO !! AND WE DID EAT ¼ OF THE SECOND CAKKE... LOBSTERS WERE TERIFFIC AS WAS TEH REST OF THE FOOD TOO...  I HAVE A FEELING ALOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT STAY FOR DINNER... OR THEY GAVE US THE WRONG NUMGER OF LOBSTERS BECAUSE WE HAD DOZENS LEFT...-- WHICH DID NOT GO TO WASTE... I AM TOLD TEH CAMERA ANGLE WAS TERRIFFIC ALL DAY  AND THE ADDITION OF SOUND WAS  A HUGE BONUS SO PEOPLE  REALLY FELT LIKE THEY WERE PART OF TEH PROCEEDINGS. AS FOR TODAY'S SCHEDU;ED EVENTS... NOT THAT I APPROVE OF SCHEDULING ANYTHING..... I AM TOLD THERE WILL BE A DONKEY PARADE MID MORNING SOMETHINE...-- OBJECT BEING TO GO AROUND THE POND WITH DONKEYS  IN PREP FOR BEING ABLE TO MAKE IT AAAROUND TEH "FOREST LOOP"  AS SOON AS WE GET THAT DITCH COVERED..... APPARENTLY MANY PEOPLE WITH  A FEW DOGS  LIKE CHAOS....MADE IT AROUND TEH 1 HOUR LOO0P IN THE FOREST... AND SAID IT WAS "BEAUTIFUL.  CERTAINLY ONE PART OF IT IS THE  REALLY STEEP  GLACIER  BIT... WHERE YO WALK ALONG A RIDGE....  THE TRAIL IS NOT 100% GOLF CART PROOF.... NOT SURE IT EEVER WOULD BE... --- TEH WALK.... MAY NOT ALL BE ON CAMERA, BUT THE EXCITING PART WILL BE ACROSS THE  AREA IN FRONT OF THE T TENT.. BECAUSE SOME OF THESE DONKEYS HAVE NEVER HAD HALTERS OR LEAD ROPES ON......I.E.  WILD...  ONCE TEHY GET THE HANG OF IT  THEY YSYALLY GO ALONG WITH  AT LEAST NOT FIGHTING... BUT FORWARD MOMENTUM IS SOMETIMES QUESTIONABLE...PLEASE REMEMBER... A FRIGHTENED DONKEY STANDS STILL.. A FRIGHTENED HORSE RUNS....-- SO THE USUALL GET BEHIND AND CLAP YOUR HANDS AND SCARE THEM  ONLY MAKES MATTER WORSE..  ESTABLISHING  STATIONS OF THE--- .. SOURCE OF FOOD.... MIGHT HELP...  SO THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING...   THEY SAY THAT WORKS WITH PEOPLE TOO, BUT I HAVE YET TO SEE ANY PEOPLE AS RELIABLE AS DONKEYS... THERE IS A SIDELIGHT HERE---- JANINE HAD A PONY FROM THOSE SLAUGHTER PENS IN TEXAS- WHO WAS THE "DESPARATELY WILD SORT ALTHO IT WAS FAT AND ROUND  WITH TRIMMED FEET ( ALWAYS A CLUE) -  SHE WOULD GET CLOSE AND THE PONY WOULD PANIC AND TRY AND CLIMB THE FENCES.. AT FIRST WE ASSUMED-- JUST WILD... THEN WE THOUGHT MAYBE THEY WERE USING ELEFTRIC STOCK PRODS  TO MOVE THESE ANIMALS AROUND THE PENS... AND THAT PROVED  PROBABLY THE CASE... SO WE WENT THRU-- ( I.E.    JANINE WENT THRU ) A PROCESS OF HALTERING AND HANGING ON AND GROOMING... FINALLY THE PONY WENT BACK TO RELAXING AND WE REFIGURED...  WAS PROBABLY  SOMEONES PET...  JANINE GAVE IT TO SOMEONE AS A LAWN ORNAMENT ( WHAT MOST OF THE EQUINES IN NEW ENGLAND ARE...FAT AND HAPPY)  DONKEYS ARE NOT KNOWN FOR ERRATIC BEHAVIOR-- WHIC MAKES TEHM MUCH SAFER IN GENERAL THAN HORSES.. BUT WITH THE ELEMENT OF  POSSIBLE ELECT4RICITYIN THEIR HISTORY, ONE HAS TO BE PREPARED.  PET PEEVE #965.....    THERE WILL BE NO WRAPPING ANY ROPE  OR LEASH  AROUND ANY HAND OR OTHER BODY PART.. THIS IS A LIFETIME LESSON OF THE DAY... LOOP  LOOP  LOOP  BUT NEVER WRAP AROUND--- EVEN A BIG DOG IS VERY CAPABLE OF  CAUSING A DISASTER-- ITIS ALSO WHY I HAVE  MADE LEAD ROPES FOR THIS PROCESS ONLY 4' LONG AND VERY FAT ROPE... NO WRAPPING...   SO WHILE WE ARE AT IT ...  DOCTORS AND NURASES VERY POETICALLY DRAPE STETHOSCOPES AROUND THEIR NECKS --  AND TRAINERS AROUND HERE DRAPE OUR SHORT ROPES WITH A RING  ( LEASHES)  AROUND THIER NECKS,   BUT ONLY A  STUPID FOOL PUTS TEH   END OF THE ROPE THRU THE RING.... NOOSE STYLE...     MURPHY WAS A PATIENT SOUL... JUST WAITING... 7TH LAW OF MURPHY  -- WHAT CAN HAPPEN , WILL HAPPEN  -- *****-----  THE OTHER VERY EXCITING THING IS PHOENIX HIS DOIN' THE YUPPY   BEHIND ME WITH HER PAW  GETTING HER BREAKFAST ALL BY HERSELF... **** THE BUILDING CREW   WILL BE BACK TODAY... THEY GOT THE CRITICAL FIRST LAYER DOWN.. THE REST SHOULD GO FASTER.... IT IS NOT ALL THAT SIMPLE  AND WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE  JACK PLUS TWO THINKERS DOING THIS...  I AM VERY COMFORTABLE THAT WE WOULD HAVE MADE  A MORE INTERESTNG MESS OF THIS HAD WE STARTED WITHOUT A PRO..  THESE 2 ARE A HUGE LESSON IB INTERNATIONAL POLITICS...  THE ONLY ENGLISH WORD THEY UNDERSTAND IS "CASH"  A WORD  WITH WHICH I AM ALSO  FAMILIAR...... IF WE THROW OUT ALL THE ILLEGAL IMMAGRENTS- FIRSTLY HOW MANY BUSSES WILL THAT TAKE ?  AND WHO WILL MAKE TEH CHINESE CHICKEN  WINGS---  OR ...RUN ALL THE  "BROTHERS DELI" CAFETERIAS... OR   VARIETY STORES... OR ALOT OF  OTHER CASH  BUSINESSES... OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IS PREPARING ALOT OF THINKERS...NOT DO--ERS- WHO THEN ALL GO TO  CONGRESS EXCEPT WHEN THEY HAVE TO STAY AT HOME BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT GET A PLUMBER TO  STOP THE WATER FROM OVERFLOWING IN THE UPSTAIRS BATHROOM. ****** GREAT TO SEE SO MANY OF OUR GRADUATES HERE YESTERDAY...MANY WILL BE BACK TODAY... I HOPE MARK CAN GET A PICTURE OF THEM IN  ONE PHOTO...  ( HE HAD HIS DRONE HERE TOO  -- MARK LOVES HIS TOYS..... LUCKILY ...  A HUGE BENEFIT TO SDP) ****  NORTHSHORE ACCAPELLA  GROUP SINGERS WERE TERRIFFIC-- PER USUAL...I WONDERED IF HE NEIGHBORS HEARD THEM TOO THEY WERE INVITED.... I DON'T THINK  ANYONE CAME... THERE WERE ALOT OF PEOPLE I DIDN'T RECOGNISE... BUT THAT ISN' T NEWS... ****** SO TODAY..... NORMAL STUFF-- HANGING AROUND    PLUS...  BUILDERS ARE DUE BACK....... TEH DONKEY WALK...MID MORNING LUNCH .. WITH MARK?   AND LEFT OVERS... THERE WILL BE SOME UNKNOWN ENTERTAINMENT SHORTLY AFTER LUNCH SPIRIT  STICK  MARCH...SOMETIME LATER-- AND BEN AND JERRY ICECREAM  TRUCK (?VAN?) AND MORE HANGING AROUND... WE ARE OFF AND RNNING..

SEPT 24 2016

DOGFESTERIERS WELCOME ABOARD !!!  NICE CROWD YESTERDAY-

 WE ARE AS READY AS WE EVER WILL BE...-- IT IS WONDERFUL THT EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS TTHE GENERAL  ON-GOINGS AND JUST TAKES UP A CAUSE..   JERI AND STEVE TOOK ON FIRST THE PATH--- THEN THE SPIRIT STICKS ---  AS I SAW THE SAW COME OUT AND A  COMPARISON STUDY MADE OF SAW WIDTH AND PAINT STURRER WIDTH- ANOTEHR GREAT DINNER WAS COOKED AND APPEARED...DOGS GOT SHUFFLED..POO GOT PICKED.. (AND PHOTOGRAPHED) THUS ILLUSTRATING THE FINEST POO PICKING SYSTEM IN THE UNIVERSE( OF WHICH I AM EXCEEDING LY PROUD) 

MANY  PITCHING IN FILLLING THE BUILDING BLOCKS WITH STYROFOAM INSERTS. AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE RIGHT AND  LEFT  HAND CORNER PIECES...WE DID SEEM TO BE MINUS THE SQUARE BLOCK ½ ONES SO  THEY APPEARED FROM GEORGETOWN.   THE ONLY THINGS NOT IN OUR "BUILDING KIT" NOW ARE WHAT THEY CALL LENTILS-- WHICH I THOUGHT EWERE SOME KIND OF BEAN- BUT APPARENT LY AN ANGLE IRON ?LINTIL?   TO GO OVER THE DOORS.. THAT BEING THE CASE... WE HAVE A BIT OF TIME TO GET THAT HIGH UP--

WELL---- IN THE BACK WE WILL NEED THEM OVER THE DOGGIE DOORS WHIHC WILL BE ABOUT 36"-  I PLAN TO PUT ONE ROUND OF BLOCK  WHICH THE DOG CAN EASIY STEP OVER-- KEEPS OUT SOME SNOW...

A GREAT DANE WILL SQUEEZE THRU A GERMAN SHEPHARD SIZE DOOR BECAUSE THE BODIES AREN'T THAT MUCH DIFFERENT-- IT IS THOSE LEGS...WHICH FOLD UP. --  UNLESS IT IS  A VERY PREGNANT FEMALE-- ( IF IT WAS A PREGNANT MALE WE WOULD PUT HIM ON DISPLAY AND BE VERY WEALTHY)  

JACK WAS SEEN HERE YESTERDAY-- THINKING AHEAD OF TIME....AND HE DID NOT SEEM PANIC'D   SO WE WILL GO AT IT.

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NICE CROWD YESTERDAY-

ALSO WITHOUT TRUCKS COMING AND GOING ... WE CAN HAVE DOGS LOOSE;;;; AND DO A PUPPY MARCH DOWN TO THE NEW BUILDING AREA-- WHICH SHOULD BE ON CAMERA...-- WE MIGHT EVEN BE ABLE TO HAVE TH EAUTHORS TAKE A NAP IN WHAT WAS MY GRANDSON'S PEN  RIGHT OUTSIDE TEH T TENT... ( JANINE INSISTEDI KEEP HIM AWAY FROM ALL THESE DOGS WHEN HE  WAS JUST LEARNING TO WALK.... NOW HE IS LEARNING TO DRIVE... BUT THE PEN STILL EXISTS..)

SHOULD BE A FUN DAY..

FOR HELP WE HAAVE  3 STEVE'S  ( MINUS STEVE #1 --- DARN) --PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO SHOW UP AND  TAKE CARE OF PUPS--

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TUMBLER IS 100% IMPROVED FROM THE SICK SAD MESS SHE WAS - GEORGE WILL BE HERE THIS AFTERNOON - MAYBE HE CAN FIGURE OUT WHY 2 FEMALES IN A MONTH HAD  THE DEADLY UTERINE INFECTION.'

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BIT OF EXCITEMENT YESTERDAY -- I WATED TO GET OUR VOLUNTEERS USED TO GOING IN  " THE OTHER DRIVEWAY"' AT #45 BOXFORD RD.... SO I ASKEDTANNER TO MAKE A SIGN... HE SURE DID... FROM A PIECE OF CARDBOARD FROM TEH PALLLETS  4' SQUARE=---- AND  SPRAY PAINTED SDP  #45  ON IT--  THE NIEGHBOR WHO DOESN'T WANT US USING THAT DRIVEWAY CALLED THE POLICE  AND SPENT THE NEXT 2 HOURS TAKING A VIDEO OF ALL THE CARS... ABOUT 15 OR THEM--- USING  THAT DRIVEWAY.--I NEVER SAW ANY POLICE--  BUT WHE THA PARKING GOT FILLED I TOOK DOWN TEH SIGN....  WHICH I MUST PUT UP AGAIN TODAY... EARLY... LIKE NOW... BEFORE 7AM...

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I NEED TO GO TRY AND BE SURE THE CONCRETE GUYS HAVE  WHAAT THEY NEED TO GET  GOING... LIKE LONG EXTENSION CORDS FOR THE MIXER UPPERS...

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STAY TUNED.. WE ARE OFF AND RUNNING...

SEPT 23 2016

PEOPLE ARE ARRIVING---WE MAY HAVE TO AHVE TONIGHTS MAIL CALL OUTSIDE-- THERE ARE ALOT OF PEOPLE HERE....  WE HAVE THI SYSTEM OF ANYONE AT THE AIRPORT CALLS HERE WHEN THEY GET ON THE PEABODY SHUTTLE...  THIS SAVES KEEPING A LIST OF WHO ARRIVES WHEN... WHICH WE COULD NEVER KEEP STRAIGHT... **** TUMBLER--- MASSIVE INFECTION-- EMERGENCY SURGERY REMOVING ALL HER REPRO PIECES... WHY I DO NOT KNOW..  I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE  AND SHE IS THE SECOND THIS MONTH?? MORIAH  WSS THE SAAME THING-- UTERINE INFECTION  NOT CURED BY ANTIBIOTICS FOR 14 DAYS...  VERY STRANGE---  THEY ARE NOT  CLOSELY RELATED EITHER-  NOT SURE WHY THAT WOULD MATTER... JUST A QUESTION... ****  WE HAVE FOOD...GREAT MEAL LAST NIGHT- PEOPLE BALANCING PLATES  ALL OVER..  A TABLE  WAS LONG AGO ELIMINATED AS JUST A HORIZONTAL PLANE TO FILL WITH  THE PROVERBIAL STUFF.  ******* WE HAVE A COUPLE DOGS READY TO GO AFTER DOG FEST-- MEGAN SAID SO ... ACTUALLY SHE TOLD ME NOT TO PUT BENTLY OUT ON THE BACK DECK BECAUSE SHE DID NOT WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCE OF HIM POKING HOLES  IN HER PERFECT DOG.. ********** MY PUPPY--- IN 3 DAYS-- CAN USE TEH YUPPY PUPPY ALL BY HERSELF---IT CAN BE DONE-- JUST A LITTLE CONCENTRATION ON A TRAINERS PART...  I FIND IT ANNOYING THAT  ALL THE PUPS CAN'T DO THAT... WE HAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE AROUND HERE....  EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A DOG TRAINER.. WELLL THERE YOU ARE --- HAVE AT IT---- YOU CAN NOT DO IT IF YOUR ATTENTION IS DIVIDED  BECAUSE EVERY WRONG MOVE "UNTRAINS" THE DOG. ******** YET ANOTHER PHONE CALL ABOUT WATER USAGE....  DOG WASHING IS OUT--- MUD? LET IT DRY AND BRUSH IT..  ************* I WONDER IF ALL THE ARGUING IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1000 BC IS ACTUALLY DUE TO WATER--WE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO BLAME IT ON OIL... BUT  YOU CAN'T DRINK THAT STUFF. THE REASON I WONDER...  IPSWICH CALLED AGAIN...THERE IS A PICTURE IN THE BOSTON PAPERS ABOUT A  GROUP WHO SET UP A BBQ PICNIC IN THE BED OF THE NOW EXTINCT IPSWICH RIVER... THE LACK OF WATER HAS NO EQUAL- HOWEVER.. WE HOPE IT WILL BE RESOLVED IN MAYBE SEVERAL YEARS... IN THE MEANTIME....JANINE LIVES ON THE IPSWICH RIVER... AND HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH HER NEIGHBORS COMPLAINING ABOUT HER FENCE BEING 94 FEET INSTEAD OF THE REQUIRED 100 FOOT BUFFER ZONE AROUND THE RIVER...  GO TAKE SOME PHOTO'S NOW.. **************** FACT IS-   WE MUST CUT DOWN... AND WE CAN...I CAN NOT ACCEPT THE LOCAL "OH THEY WIOLL HOOK US UP TO  BOSTON'S WATER SUPPLY  AND EVERYTHING WILL BE AS BEFORE" NOT NECESSARILY . I HEARD QUABAN IS DOWN 30 FEET-- AND MANUFACTURING WATER HAS NOT BEEN PERFECTED YET AND SINCE WE HAVE MASSIVELY CONTAMINGATED EVERYTHING AROUND US... WE ARE IN DEEP DO-DO..  WHAT IF WE WERE LIMITED TO 10 MINUTES OF RUNNING WATER TWICE A DAY?    THAT COULD HAPPEN-- BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE NO WATER-- YOU HAVE NO WATER. HISTORICALLY , I KNEW THIS AS MY BUYING THIS PROPERTY WAS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE BIG LAKE ACROSS THE STREEET ( WHICH IS DOWN 3 FEET..) WE MAY AS WELL PRACTICE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO HAVE WATER ONLY  A FEW MINUTES A DAY...  SINCE IT COULD COME TO THAT...  TEH REASON WE CAN,  IS WE HAVE TO STOP WITH THE NEGATIVE ABOUT WHAT WE CAN NOT DO....HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I BLOWN THAT HORN ABOUT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH SDP...  STOP WITH THE "NOT'S" THE SONG "LATCH ON TO THE AFFIRMATIVE- ELIMINATE THE NEGATIVES"  I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE NEXT LINE ABOUT  "DON'T MESS WITH MISTER IN BETWEEN"  BUT WE CAN SKIP THAT PART.. WE HAVE A $1000 A MONTH WATER BILL   AND WE DO HAVE A VERY EXPENSIVE DEEP WELL  THAT PRODUCES  WATER  THAT IS SAFE TO DRINK- BUT IS BROWN AND HAS  SO MUCH METAL IN IT , YOU COULD ALSO MINE IT.   A HOSE HOOKS TO IT  IN THE FLAT FIELD...  FIRSTLY------I HAVE HEARD- BY THEM AS SOUND LIKE THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT...   THAT THE DRYER REMOVES AS MUCH ACTUAL DIRT AS THE WASHER....  WELL LETS HAVE AT THAT ONE...-- HERE WE ARE  SHAKING AND HANGING CLOTHESLINES-- WHILE FORGETTING WE HAVE ARTIFICIAL CLOTHES LINES IN OUR DRYERS...-- GRANTED IF THERE IS  A MASSIVE MESS- WE CAN EITHER DUNK IT IN TH E CREEK OR THROW IT OUT..  BUT FOR 98% OF OUR LAUNDRY IS JUS A VAGUE  ODOR... WHICH WE WILL NOW TRY AND REMOVE MINUS WATER..  AND JUST BECAUSE WE THINKG FABREEZE SMELLS NICE--- I AM NOT CONVINCED THE DOGS THINK IT IS WONDERFUL... SO LETS NOT GO THAT ROAD...AND I AM GOING TO THROW MY SHEETS IN THE DRYER AND SEE HOW THT GOES.. SECONDLY... BY SWITCHING A CIRCUIT BREAKER IN THE CELLAR WE CAN PRODUCE MANY GALLONS UNDER PRETTY GOOD PRESSURE--- HISTORICALLY I HAVE RUN THAT PUMP IN AUGUST FOR 3 DAYS TO WATER THE FLAT FIELD...- NOW I AM THINKING  RUN THAT HOSE OVER TO THE KENNELS AND  RUN IT FOR A FEW MINUTES  TO SCRUB THE OUTSIDE KENNELS A T LEAST.. THIRDLY--- TWENTY YEARS AGO I HAD A FRIEND WHO'S MOTHER LIVED IN A  HOUSE IN HAMILTON ( A  HIGH RENT DISTRICT )    WITH OUT RUNNING WATER  -- I WAS  QUIETLY  HORRIFIED, BUT THEY HAD EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL...  SHE HAD WATER DELIVERED FOR DRINKING AND COOKING... AND EVERY DAY HER SON WOULD FILL 3 OF THOSE WHITE 3 GALLON .BUCKETS WE USE FOR SCOOPING -- WIHT WATER AND LEAVE THEM NEXT TO THE TOILET FOR FLUSHING.   BATHING AS DONE AT THE " MAIN HOUSE"   NO PROBLEMS....THE SYSTEM WORKED- WE MAY BE COMING TO THAT.. ************** Good morning.. sorry it's been a while... Rogue is doing wonderful! She is quite the communicator! She is always ready to help. It makes her happy when she is working.  We all love you lots! We will stop by during dogfish on saturday. Just to say hello to all the wonderful supportive cps.  As I look back to 2003 when we met I can't believe how much sdp has grown and it makes me proud that you have help so many people and improved their lives as you did mine.  Sdp is truly a blessing and gift to the people you help and have donated dogs to.  Thank you so much. I am looking forward to this saturday. John will be with me and my 4 kids and of course rogue! ♡ Melissa and Rogue! 🐕 ************ I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR  THIS NEXT ONE... HE FORGOT TO MENTION ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PICKED THE POOP, FOLDED THE LAUNDRY AND  WLKED AROUND SHOPPING CENTERS IN THE RAIN TO TRAIN.. ALL I DID WAS TO DRINK COFFEE... ******* Hi Carlene It's been a year all ready since you gave me my lifesaver. My life has gotten so much better. I can never thank you and every one involved at SDP enough.  You are a very special person, you have made such a huge impact on my life. I wish more people thought like you. The world would be a much better place. Thank you again! Jack

SEPT 22 2016

DOG FEST IS BEGINNING TO FESTER-----  AMONG THE CP'S GATHERING....... JERI AND STEVE ARE HERE---  FOR YOU NEW PEOPLE.. THEY ARE THE AMAZING COUPLE WHO READ THE DIRECTIONS AND PUT UP THE G-TENT WITHOUT ONE ARGUEMENT      I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE IN MY LIFE.--SO I ASKED STEVE IF HE KNEW ANYTHING BOUT CONCRETE BLOCKS.. AND HE SAID "I BET I WILL BY SATURDAY"... GOOD ATTITIUDE..

CONCRETE IS BENG POURED ON FRIDAY-- I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE  A SMALL SQUARE SET UP SO MAYBE THEY CAN POUR US A DOGFEST SQUARE FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN THIER NAMES IN...

BUILDLING IS BEING DELIVERED TODAY   WITH ALOT OF PIECES... PLAN IS OT MOVE TEH PALLETS FROM PURINA AROUND THE BUILDING AND  MOVE TEH BLOCKS TO THAT AREA 

SO WE CAN  USE THE HELP WE HAVE  TO DO WHAT THEY ARE BEST AT... LUG AND CARRY FOR  THE ONES WHO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING .

I WISH I HAD A  VIDEO OF THE SET UP THEY NEED... I THINK A PIECE OF PLYWOOD ON SAWHORSES IS NEEDED-- NOT SURE EXACTLY WHERE.

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SDP IS MAKING 2 HUGE STRIDES FORWARD-- HOPEFULLY THE BUILDING IS ONE OF THEM..

THE SECOND IS THE CONNECTION TO THE BAY STATE TRAIL, BY CUTTING  THRU THE UNDERBRUSH FROM OUR GATE IN "A", IT IS AN INTERESTING WALK TO MEET UP WITH IT IN WILLOWDALE STATE FOREST.. AND LOOP AROUND OUR PROPERTY IN ABOUT A 45 MINUTE STROLL.  UPHILL AND DOWN.... THERE IS ONE POINT WHERE TH E TRAIL IS ABOUT 12 FEET WIDE AND THERE IS A 100 FOOT DROP ON EITHER SIDE..GLACIER TYPE --- WLLOWDALE IS FULL OF THOSE LONG WINDING RIDGES.....

Most eskers are argued to have formed within ice-walled tunnels by streams which flowed within and under glaciers. They tended to form around the time of the glacial maximum when the glacier was slow and sluggish. After the retaining ice walls melted away, stream deposits remained as long winding ridges.

TH BAY STATE TRAIL GOES FROM CAPE ANN TO CAPE COD - IT IS WELL DEFINED...

IF WE CAN GET /KEEP THE TRAIL OPEN  EVENTUALLY  JANINE  HAS IN MIND HAVING DONKEY WALKS AROUND THAT PATH...- TO DO THAT WE WOULD EITHER HAVE TO GET THE TRACTOR IN TO COVER ONE VERY SMALL V DITCH.. WHICH INSTEAD OF THE BRIDGE OTHERS ARE TRYING TO BUILD THERE, JUST PLAIN COVER A PIPE--- AND WE HAVE ONE IN THE V PEN AS A PUPPY TOY...

I KNOW THE  "POWERS" THAT BE WILL COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RED FLAGS WSE HAVE IN TEH WOODS RIGHT NOW...  BUT AS SOON AS WE GET THE TRAIL DEFINED WE CAN MODIFY THOSE..  THT DITCH WOULD ALSO BE A GREAT GE PROJECT  BUNCH A OF GUYS WITH SHOVELS  AND WE WOULD NOT NEED THE TRACTOR.

BESDIES YOU WOULD GET THE DONKEYS OVER A PLYWOOD BRIDGE ONLY WITH A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFICULTY... AND A HORSE WOULD BE DANGEROUS...

'MAYBE THAT SHOLDU BE THE PRIORITY OF THE DAY... MAYBE A SQUIRT OF PAINT ON THE GROUND MIGHT BE BETTER AT THE MOMENT --- THOSE RED FLAGS ARE BOUND TO BE OFFENSIVE...

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LOTS OF DAILY DOGGIES ARE INFLUENCED BY MY SUBCONSCIOUS RETENTION OF WHAT WAS ON THE TV WHEN I FELL ASLEEP...I WOKE UP THIS MORNING THINKING WE HAVE SOME OF TEH BEST TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.. TO HAVE LOCATED THE NY BOMB GUY IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS IS AMAZING... I AM SURE CONSTANT RETRAINING IS A REQUIREMENT.

NOW HOW ABOUT TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC...

I CAN REMEMBER... HERE WE GO AGAIN.... AS A TINY   REDHEADED KID OF 8 OR 10 --  MY MOTHER WHO WAS LOOMING LARGE OVER ME-POUNDED INTO MY HEAD... IF A POLICEMAN TELLS YOU TO  STOP AND  STAND STILL  YOU DO  EXACTLY THAT-THAT  IS YOUR HIGHEST PRIORITY.   BOY DO I REMEMBER THAT LECTURE-- AND  I MENTIONED IT TO JANINIE  THE OTHR DAY - SHE SAID I GAVE THEM THE SAME FRIGHTENING LECTURE-- WHICH SHE HAS GIVEN TO HER SON COLBY.  

MY MOTHER WAS WRONG ABOUT ALOT OF THINGS- LIKE PIANO PLAYING AND SPELLING... BUT THAT LECTURE HAD A REAL TONE TO IT- THE FACT THAT I PASSED IT DOWN 2 MORE GENERATIONS GIVES IT CREDENCE.  SHOULD THIS NOT BE MENTIONED IN SCHOOLS?  YOU DO EXACTLY WHAT THE POLICE TELL YOU TO DO FOR TEH INSTANT-- AND ARGUE ABOUT THE FACTS LATER.

 NOW....  ABOUT GENERAL IQ AND MOTIVATION....

WHICH DO YOU THINK IS THE  MORE RELIABLE GROUP,   THE LAW ENFORCEMENT  GROUP OR A BUNCH  18 TO 25 YEAR OLDS WHO HAVE HAD A FEW BEERS?

I FORGET WHO SAID " NO LAW EVER GOT CHANGED BY TURNING OVER A POLICE CRUIZER"

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I BET YOU 'D GET NATIONAL ATTENTION IF YOU GOT 5 PEOPLE WEARING SANDWICH BOARDS..OUT ON THE HIGHWAY...... WITH AN OPINION...IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE... REMEMBER THE  

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IS HE LONESOME

OR JUST BLIND

THE GUY WHO DRIVES

SO CLOSE BEHIND

BURMA SHAVE

THE SAFEST RULE

NO IF'S OR BUT'S 

IS DRIVE LIKE EVERYONE

ELSE IS NUTS.

BURMA SHAVE.

WE READ THOSE SIGNS  ----WE EVEN LOOKED FORWARD TO FINDING THAT CLEVERNESS  BY THE ROAD...

 NOW....IN SPITE OF TEH FACT THAT TH E DESIGNER OF THESE BILLBOARDS MAKE HIGH SALARIES, THERE IS NOTHING CLEVER ABOUT  A HUGE SIGN THAT SAYS  "DRINK COKE"

HOW DRAB....HAVE WE TAUGHT  OUR FUTURE GENERATION TO NOT HAVE ANY CREATIVITY.?...(GOOGLE THAT TED LECTURE KEN ROBERTSON )

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WATER...  WE HAD ANOTHER CALL FROM TEH TOWN... NOT ONLY IS OUTSIDE WATER BANNED... BUT PLEASE RESTRICT INDOOR USE.  WITH THE CALIFORNIA JINGLE "IF IT'S YELLOW, LEAVE  IT MELLOW, IF IT'S BROWN , FLUSH IT DOWN" 

OK...I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD BE  SHAKE AND AIR... INSTEAD OF WASH ALL OUR FLUFFIES... IT WILL LOOK WIERD... BUT  THERE IS ALOT WE DO NOT NEED TO WASH...

ESPECIALLY IF WE HANG STUFF INTHE NICE SUNNY BREEZES ( WITHOUT ANY RAIN) 

 CLOTHESLINE INSTALATION WILL BE A PROJECT OF THE DAY.... AND   LOCATION OF TEH CLOTHESPIN COLLECTION   IF WE HANG THIS STRAIGHT DOWN  THEY WILL IMPPROVE.

FENCES ARE OK... BUT THE DOGS PULL STUFF IN THE KENNELS  SO WE NEED CLOTHESLINES ALONG THE FENCES....OUTSIDE....

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 FROM  TWAN

"CHECK THE FACTS BEFORE YOU CRITICISE 'FOREIGN' INFORMATION OR DIFFERENT WAYS OF DOING THINGS ABROAD".

OUCH !!!

SOMEHOW TWAN THOUGHT I WAS CRITICAL  OF FOREIGN WAY OF DOING THNIGS..

LORD KNOWS I WOULD BE THE LAST ONE IN THE WORLD TO SAY TEH AKC WAS DOING THINGS  BETTER THAN THE REST OF THE  WORLD !!  

I NEVER MEANT THE CONVERSATION ABOUT FOREIGN PASSPORTS TO BE OFFENSIVE... JUST INSTRUCTIONAL . TRYING  TO  GIVE DD READERS THE BENEFIT OF MY ERROR.

SEPT 21 2016

I HAD AN EMAIL WORTH DISCUSSING

"MY FRIEND JUST BOUGHT A DOG , AND THE BREEDER TOLD HER NOT TO AHVE ANY LEPTO VACCINE. AND HER VET RECOMMENDS IT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?"

MY  SIMPLE ANSWER IS..PROBABLY ....LIE....

 DID THE BREEDER GO TO VET SCHOOL?  MAYBE THEY DID...  OTHERWISE......

YOU PAID FOR THE DOG, IT IS YOUR DOG, DO WHAT YOU WANT AND LIE IF NECESSARY  .

SO MANY PEOPLE WHO BUY A DOG, THINK THE BREEDER IS SOME GREAT WIZARD.

YOU HAVE ALL BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE... YOU KNOW, IT DOES NOT TAKE  MUCH TO PRODUCE PUPPIES... YOU PUT A BOY DOG WITH A GIRL DOG AND 63 DAYS LATER MOTHER NATURE WILL DO AS SHE PLEASES  -- SHE  WILL OR WILL NOT GIVE YOU PUPS AND THERER IS NOT A DARN THING ON YOUR PART THAT WILL CHANGE THAT... HAVING PUPS IN GENERAL DOES NOT PROVE A THING.... EXCEPT YOU GET A TITLE ..."BREEDER" 

LEPTO MAY BE A REGIONAL THING-- BUT IN THIS DAY AND AGE ZIKA  GOT FROM  BRAZIL   TO MIAMI WITHOUT TOO MUCH TROUBLE. I AM NOT SURE WHAT REGIONAL MEANS...

NOW IF THE BREEDER HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, YOU MIGHT ASSUME THEY HAVE MADE ENOUGH MISTAKES TO HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE( WHICH COMES FROM BAD EXPERIENCES)  BUT IN THE GREAT TURN OF THE WHEEL, I CERTAINLY  WOULD THINK HEAVILY ON THE VET'S OPINION.

WHEN GEORGE (DVM) GIVES ME HIS OPINION ABOUT MEDICINE, I FIND HE IS INCLINED TO BE RIGHT.. (WHEN HE GIVE ME TRAINING ADVICE I MUST ADMIT... I LAUGH..)

THAT CONCEPT IS WHY I FOUND GOV CUOMO'S COMMENT SO FUNNY THE OTHER DAY " I KNOW WHAT I DONT KNOW"  WHICH I SUPPOSE IS TH E SIGN OF AN EDUCATED PERSON.

VACINES HAVE BECOME AN EASY OUT FOR UNKNOWN MEDICAL CONDITIONS

HOWEVER... I  PERSONALLY GOT THE  PNEUMONIA VACCINE-- AND MY KIDS GOT A BUNCH OF SHOTS...

I KNOW OF ONE BREEDER WHO BLAMES HIP DYSPLASIA ON VACCINES

WHICH I DOUBT.... BUT PROVES A POINT...

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THE WAY IT GOES.....

FROM WHAT GEORGE TELLWS ME.... I THINK..... BOY AM  I GOING TO HEAR IT IF I AM WRONG.....IF THE MOTHER DOG HAS BEEN VACCINATED, SHE WIOL PASS ON  PROTECTING  XXXXXXX IN THE FIRST 24 HOURS  MILK...  COLOSTRUM.. THOSE ANTIBIDIES WILL WORK FOR A WHILE--- BUT WE ARE NOT TOTALYY SURE WHEN THEY QUIT...  COULD BE IN A SHORT  6 DAYS- SO WE SHOOT THEN JUST IN CASE-- BUT IF MOMMY'S PROTECTION IS STILL IN EFFECT, THE 6 DAY SHOT MIGHT  NOT PRODUCE THE PROPER ANTIBODY RESPONSE-- SO WE SHOOT AGAIN AT 12 WEEKS-- WHICH PROBALBY WORKS-- BUT TO BE CERTAIN WE SHOOT AT 16 WEEKS  WHICH THEY SEEM TO BE PRETTY SURE WORKS... FOR A YEAR.

I ONLY THINK THAT IS RIGHT....  6    12   16

I CAN TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW IS RIGHT-----FOR ALL YOU IMPORTING PUPS FROM EUROPE...... THAT PASSPORT YOU GET WITHG A PUP FROM EUROPE- ALL WRITTEN IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE... SHOWS THE SHOTS GIVEN USUALLY THE 6 AND 12 WEEK  WITH A DATE...BUT-- AND THIS IS CRITICAL-- THE THIRD DATE THERE IS NOT THE THIRD SHOT.... IT IS THE DATE YOU SHOULD GIVE THE THIRD SHOT.  AS I SAID... EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD EXPERIENCE. 

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WE ARE ALL HOPING FOR CEMENT TODAY-- APPARENTLY A BIG PRODUCTION  FOR WHAT IS A BIG AREA   I WAS TOLD  "3 TRUCKS FULL"  SO THAT COULD BE FUN...  AND I AM TOLD THE AREA IS CLEANED UP WITH THE STONE DUST. I ACTUALLY DID NOT SEE IT CLEANED UP AST NIGHT....

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YUPPY TRAINING - ALMOST HAS IT.  I HAVE THINGS TO   DO...LIKE DRINK COFFEE WITH JUDY...

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SEPT 20 2016

"BOB"  BORDERING ON THE BIZARRE -- AKA AS OF NOW  " BOB" MAYBE IT IS THE  FACT THAT SDP HAS TAUGHT MANY PEOPLE TO DO  THINGS OUT OF TH E BOX...  I AM DELIGHTED TO GET SO MANY FUNNY STORIES ABOUT  RANDOM ACTS WHICH TOTALLY SURPRISE  SOME PEOPLE WHO COULD STAND A SMILE.  MY BIGGEST CHUCKLE CAUSED BY BOB... IS  THERE IS A GROUP OF 5  OR 6  JOLLY  CP  GRANDMOTHERS WHO - AFTER PRESENTING THE FIREMEN WITH CAKES ON THE 19TH. FOR A FEW MONTHS...... NOW  SET UP TO GO THERE   AS A GROUP AND COOK A MEAL  FOR THEM --- LIKE YOUR GRANDMA MADE.   THEY MET AND PLANED  TEH MEAL - AND TRUELY MASHED THE POTATOES !!  I CAN SEE IT NOW.... **** LAST KNOWN COUNT WAS 38 STATES THAT GOT AT EAST ONE CAKE ON THE 19TH... ***** I REALLY GOT AN EDUCATION IN EDINBURGH SCOTLAND- THE GROUP OF MATH /PHYSICS TYPE HAD NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED THINKING --IN --ANY BOX  TO BEGIN WITH... AND THE SCOTS  - AS A GROUP -- ARE BRILLIANT... IN MY OPINION.. LET US CONSIDER.. "THINGS ARE A LITTLE SLOW AROUND HERE THIS CENTURY,.. WE NEED TO DESIGN A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO COME HERE AND  HAPPILY SPEND MONEY IN SOME HEALTHY FASHION.    THE  BUSINESS OF HAVING PEOPLE SIT ON THE BANKS OF THE  LOCH NESS  WAITING FOR A FICTITIOUS  PREHISTORIC NELLIE TO APPEAR IS A SOLID MONEY MAKER, BUT WE NEED SOMETHING SLIGHTLY MORE ACTIVE WITHOUT BEING EXHAUSTING. WHY NOT GO OFF IN YON HILLS AND   SINK A 4" CAN IN THE GROUND, THEN BACK OFF ¼ A MILE AND WHACK  A  2"  BALL WITH A BAT AND SEE IF YOU CAN GET IT IN THAT CAN... IF WE SET UP ENOUGH OF THESE -- SAY 18 OR 20-- IT WOULD TAKE ALL AFTERNOON AND THESE PEOPLE COULD THEN COME IN AND ENJOY SOME OF OUR SPLENDID WHISKEY.  IF IT CATCHES ON , OUR ST ANDREWS COULD BECOME  A POPULAR DESTINATION SECOND ONLY TO ST PETERS IN ROME.  IT MIGHT EVEN ATTRACT SOME RANDOM MILLIONAIRE TO COME SPEMD MONEY HERE TOO."    ONLY IN SCOTLAND- WHERE THE WHISKEY IS PLENTIFUL AND  MENS UNDERWEAR IS IN SHORT SUPPLY. *********** MOVING ON..... THE MORNING WEATHER REPORTS......I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO RE-DEFINE "GOOD WEATHER" ---   THERE IS VISUAL PROOF THAT  THE GENERAL AMERICAN PUBLIC'S MINDS HAVE BEEN TWISTED BEYOND COMPREHENSION...  "GOOD WEATHER" IN THE NORTH EAST IS CLEARLY  A GULLY WASHER FOR ABOUT  A WEEK OR ALL THESE BIG CITIES WILL BE TRYING DESPARATELY TO CLEAN UP  THE WATER OUT OF THEIR NEIGHBORING RIVERS.... GOOD LUCK WITH THE HUDSON !!  I HEAR IT IS SO SOLID WITH TRASH, THAT YOU COULD LAND A PLANE ON IT. .  I 'M TOLD BOSTON'S CHARLES IS  ALMOST SWIMMABLE... OK.... BUT ?DRINKABLE?    AND THERE IS ANOTHER MATTER....  I HAVE BEEN A RELATIVE ADULT FOR 50 YEARS OR SO... AND I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY MASSIVE REPLACEMENT OF UNDERGROUND WATER PIPES ANYWHERE IN THE USA  EXCEPT FLINT-- WHICH IS ALOT YOUNGER TOWN THAN HERE....   BOSTON AND NEW YORK ARE OLD TOWNS....OVER 50 YEARS AGO ...LEAD WAS POPULAR-   IT IS NOW THOUGHT TO BE A CAUSE OF  REDUCED MENTAL CAPABILITIES... THIS COULD EXPLAIN THE CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. ********** JUST A FEW SAMPLES OF THE CAKE DELIVERY PROJECT.. ******* I wanted to give you an update on my cake delivering. I have been delivering cakes to my neighborhood fire station since the beginning and have loved every minute of it. Yesterday I was a day ahead of myself and delivered the cake, thinking it was the 19th. One of the firemen was filling in at this particular location so he had never heard about it. He was thrilled since today is his birthday. Had I delivered the cake today, he would not have been on shift.   Thanks so much for what you do - not only raising the dogs and donating them to people in need, but also for being willing to share all of this with the world and inspiring others to do kind things. You have touched so so many people around the world. Blessings, Denise  from Dallas ********* Hi ---We haven’t met, but I’ve been a follower of Service Dog Project since the cameras went live. I don’t drive do to vision issues, so I can’t commit to delivering a cake on the 19th of each month, as I never know when I might have a driver available. A couple of months ago, right after the horrible shooting of the Police officers in Dallas, Carlene posted, I believe in the DD, about a gift of candy for Police Officers. It hit a cord with me, and since I’ve been making up “thank you bags” for area police, and fire departments, and expanded to all first responders ... when and wherever I hear a lift in spirits might be appreciated, not necessarily on the 19th of the month. I thought you might like to see another project directly inspired  by the love of SDP. Thank you and all of those who make SDP such a huge success, and make a difference in so many lives, often in ways no one will ever know. Sincerely,  Cindy Anschutz ************ CINDY  THOSE BAGS ARE PRICELESS.... WHERE DO YOU LIVE... AND CAN WE  --  CP'S--- FIND MORE RIDES FOR YOU SOMEHOW? *********** I got 2 Fire stations here in Pawleys Island, SCarolina today with printouts from your Daily Doggy this morning!  What a neat idea!  I shall endeavor every month as best I can. ***** CARLENE - MY APPRECIATION CAKE WAS DELIVERED AND MUST SAY "WELL RECEIVED".  IT LOOKED LIKE THEY WANTED TO DIG INTO IT IMMEDIATELY, BUT ONE SAID, "NO, WE WILL HAVE THIS FOR DESSERT".  IT IS A GOOD THING YOU MENTIONED THE 19TH IN THE DD THIS MORNING.....I FORGOT, BUT IMMEDIATELY MY FEET HIT THE FLOOR AND OFF I WAS TO THE KITCHEN.......YES, WHILE STILL IN MY JP'S I WHIPPED UP A MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE.  GETTING DRESSED COULD WAIT, I WAS ON A MISSION WITH A MORE IMPORTANT THING - LIKE BAKING.  ILA   MO

SEPT 19 2016

it is the 19TH..   CAKE DAY...GET THOSE CAKES TO YOUR  LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS...  LAST I KNEW WE WERE COVERING  AT LEAST ONE FIRE DEPART MENT  IN 38 STATES .. I AM ATTACHING THE 'FLYER IN CASE YOU ARE NEW AT THIS ( ASSUMING I CAN ATTACH) 

HERE IS THE VERBIAGE IN CASE IT DOES NOT WORK... YOU COULD PRINT THIS...

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Why the 19th? Why Cake? Why Not?

Origin

Back in 1957 at the University of Edinburgh, a young Scottish man named Bill Black decreed the 19th of the Month as the day to celebrate people with birthdays, anniversaries or milestones in that month. A young lassie on foreign exchange at the time, Carlene White, thought the 19th of the Month idea made a lot of sense.

Fast forward to today. Her days in Scotland may be long ago, but Carlene White, founder of Service Dog Project (SDP), continues to celebrate the 19th of the Month with a cake for her staff and volunteers. Now, the idea of the 19th of the Month cake has expanded to include the recognition and appreciation of First Responders.

Random Acts of Kindness – Worldwide

The local SDP fan who delivered your cake is part of a small worldwide army who follow the daily progress of SDP Great Dane service dogs thanks to the six explore.org cameras on the SDP farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

This SDP/explore.org community is extremely loyal and generous, and supports SDP in so many ways, including random acts of kindness - like delivering cakes to First Responders. How great is that? Time for cake!

In appreciation from SDP, Happy 19th of the Month!

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The Service Dog Project, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charity, located on a 12-acre farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Service Dog Project is part of the explore.org online portal, with streaming real time video of the birth, growth and training of Great Danes on the SDP Farm. View SDP at explore.org, search Great Danes. 

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ACTUALLY I/WE   HAVE  DIVERSIFIED... I NOW CARRY LIFE SAVERS IN MY CAR , AND PASS HEM OUT THE WINDOW TO POLICE STANDING AROUNDD ON CONSTRUCTION SITES - OR ANYWHERE ELSE..-- THEY SMILE AND LAUGH -- TAKES ME 5 SECONDS-- DOESN'T SEEM LIKE MUCH  TO DO ...TO OFFER THEM A SYMBOLIC LIFE SAVER- WHICH IS ALSO GOOD CANDY... AND MAKES THEM SMILE...

IT HAS TO BE A TOUGH JOB... ESPECIALLY WATCHING THE POLICE RUSH INTO NEW YORK TO TRY AND SEE IF THERE IS ANOTHER BOMB?????  WHICH THEY DID FIND....  SEEMS LIKE A THANK YOU  IS IN ORDER...

AT A BREAKING NEWS SEGMENT....I GOT A WORD OF WISDOM  FROM GOV CUOMO  " WHAT I DO KNOW IS THERE IS MUCH WE DON'T KNOW." 

WELL THAT DOESN'T STOP AN AWFUL LOT OF POLITITIANS FROM TALKING...

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THE OTHER THING I SUSPECT IS THAT  THE CUOMO FAMILY HAS A GENETIC TRAIT OF CURVED SPINE... BECAUSE BOTH  GOV AND NEWS ANCHOR CUOMO ( ON EARLY CNN)  WHEN THEY ARE RELAXED,, THEIR HEADS ARE TIPPED TO THE  RIGHT... AND THE HEAD TIP IS NOT CAUSD BY  HAIR FALLING IN THERI VISION AS WITH  MANY OF THE FEMALE NEWS CASTERS ( AND MICHELLE OBAMA)

YOU CAN TELL HOW I AM GETTING TIRED OF THE NEWS....MY MIND WANDERS....

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 HOPE TO CONTACT MY LAWYER TODAY.. ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A CHARITY  STATUS MAKING ME TAX FREE   TO INCLUDE THE REAL ESTATE TAXES...  HAS TO BE FILED BY OCT 1-- THANKS TO SOME CP'S REASEARCH...

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MASTERSON WILL BE BACK TO COVER ALL THOSE PIPES ( I DO HAVE PHOTO'S..) AND WE HOPE TO POUR FLOOR TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY.

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I HAVE TO CALL FOR THE OMNI BLOCKES TO BE DELIVERED 3 DAYS  IN ADVANCE.. SO BU THE TIME THE CONCRETE TRUCKS ARE OUT OF  HERE, WE CAN GET THE CONCRETE BLOCKS DELIVERED.. ? THURSDAY?

THEY WILL BRING ALL TEH  REBAR/MORTAR AND  OTHER "STUFF" 

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AND FRIDAY  I HAVE LOCATED GLOVES FOR EVERYONE TO SCHLEP BLOCKS INTO POSITION FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE "2 GUYS FROM LYNN"  SAT AM.....  WHO KNOW WHAT  TO DO NEXT ( WITH JACK'S HELP).

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WE HAVE SOME DOGFESTERS ARRIVING WHO ARE KNOWN FOR THIER MASSIVE PHYSICAL HELP..

  THIS DOGFEST WILL BE NO DIFFERENT... AS WE ORGANIZE THE BUILDING...

 THOSE WHO ARE NOT PHYSICALLY CAPABLE  OF LUGGING BLOCKS,CAN CERTAINLY CARRY WATER/ DRINKS/FOOD  TO THOSE WORKING.. 

WE WILL CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE THE "I CAN"  SO FAMOUS AT SDP...

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WE HAVE 2 MORTAR MIXERS ( ELECTRIC)  ONE NEW ... ONE "PROVEN" 20 YEARS AGO..

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IT SOUNDS SO SIMPLE... TIL YOU GET TO DOORS AND CORNERS....

THERE WILL BE A LEARNING CURVE...  I A LOOKING FORWARD TO  NOT BEING SURE OF HOW TO GO AROUND A CORNER...  IT HAS TO WORK SOMEHOW-- I BETTER START ON A BACK CORNER..:)

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I STILL FEEL LIKE DOGFEST WILL BE IN A COUPLE WEEKS...NOT TRUE... IT REALLY STARTS DAY AFTER TOMORROW...

PEOPLE COME HERE TO EXPERIENCE REAL SDP LIVING.... WELL... THAT WILL CERTAINLY HAPPEN.. ESXPECIALLY SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN WE HAVE A $250 STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE BONANZA...

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IT IS ALL GOING TO HINGE ON GETTING ORGANIZED ON FRIDAY...

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AND SO IT GOES

SEPT 18 2016

YOU ALL PROBABLY ALL KNOW IT IS SUNDAY- AND SO DO I,---  DUE TO THE 2   GREAT DAILY CLOCKS I HAVE ON  MY WALLS....

 BECAUSE TAKING CARE OF ANIMALS ON A FARM IS A 7 DAYS A WEEK, I CAN GET VERY CONFUSED ABOUT THIS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THING-  IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER EXCEPT IN MY BEDROOM WHERE I CHECK THE  DAY CLOCK TO SEE WHICH LITTLE BOX OF PILLS I NEED TO TAKE- OTHER THAN THAT..IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER.. THE DOGS COULD  NOT CARE LESS WHAT DAY-- 

I AM GLAD SOMEONE REDESIGNED THIS  THE MOON THING WITH THE 30.3333  DAY CYCLE--- SO WE DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER  30 DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE DAYS.

30 DAYS HATH  SEPTEMBER  IS ENOUGH OF A STRAIN IN TEH MEMORY DEPARTMENT...

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 I HAVE HAD MANY RESPONSES TO THE TAXATION BIT OF YESTGERDAY-- MOST  HAVE LOOKED UP SOME LAW ABOUT  TAX AND CHARITY STATUS AND REAL ESTATE-- THERE IS SOME 61-A SOMEWHERE WITH A 957 SOMETHING ELSE..  AND  MY LAWYER WILL BE IN THE OFFICE TOMORROW...   REAL ESTATE TAX FREE STATUS WOULD BE A VERY INTERESTING THING... FROM WHAT I READ  --- WELL--- KEEPING IN MIND THAT I DON'T READ WELL...I AM NOT SURE WHAT I READ...

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MOSTLY MY READING PROBLEMS ARE RELATED TO THE AGING  SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS--  BY THE TIME I GET TO THE END OF A LINE OF PRINT, I HAVE NOT ONLY  FORGOTTEN WHAT THE FIRST PART SAID  BUT I DON'T KNOW WHICH LINE OF THE PRINT IS NEXT...

MAKES READING DIRECTIONS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE  ....  LET ALONE LAW STUFF...

I CAN TELL YOU WHEN I FIRST NOTICED THIS REDING  PROBLEM--( I ONLY TELL YOU THIS BECAUSE IT WAS SO SUBTLE THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW)---- WHEN I WAS  YOUNGER ... LIKE 50... I COULD RATTLE  OFF LONG STRINGS OF THINGS LIKE PHONE NUMBERS WIT GREAT ACCURACY...

AND THEN....  ONE DAY........ I NEEDED TO COUNT A BIG PILE OF $1 BILLS-  I GOT TO 10 NICELY... AND CONTINUED 1 TO 9 AND SAID 20   1 TO 9 AND SAID 30... 1 TO 9 ...  AND  OH DANM WAS THE LAST 20 OR 30?START AGAIN.... THAT VERY SHORT TERM MEMORY  WAS GONE.... NEVER TO RETURN...

MY SON IN LAW  POINTED OUT TO ME-- I WOULD FIGURE  OUT A WAY TO DO SOMETHING  AND THEN HE SAID I WOULD NEVER DO IT--- RIGHT-- THAT WAS BECAUSE I HAD FORGOTEN WHAT  I FIGURED OUT THE FIRST TIME.   DOESN'T MATTER IF THE PROCESS WAS PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD LOGIC   ---   BUT GET CREATIVE AND YOU CAN NOT ... NECESSARILY ... COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION ALL THE TIME.

 NOT FINISHING PROJECTS CAN BE  ANNOYING, UNTIL  YOU CAN'T REMEMBER YOU STARTED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

WHICH IS WHY... OLD PEOPLE ... LIKE ME... TELL THE SAME STORIES OVER AND OVER-- 

LET ME BE THE FIRST TO WARN YOU... GETTING OLD WILL TAKE ALL THE CREATIVITY YOU CAN MUSTER...  HEARING ...SEEING... MOVING.... ARE NOT NORMAL  THINGS ANYMORE.

HOWEVER EATING WHIPPED CREAM AND SPAGETTI..IS STILL NOT A PROBLEM.

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SPEAKING OF EATING--- ONE OF THE GUYS WHO WORKED HERE THIS WEEK ASKED IF HE COUOD BRING HIS FAMILY TO TH EOPEN HOUSE-- SUNDAY..  I SAID  " SURE.  ESPECIALLY IF YOU BROUGHT SOMETHING INTERESTING TO EAT..."   SEEING AS HE WAS AFRICAN AMERICAN  WE GOT INTO THE  TOPIC OF  FOOD..... ...PERSONALLY I WAS THINKING  THINGS LIKE FRIED CHICKEN--  AND HE MENTIONED GREENS  AND THINGS.. 

NOW IF I COULD ONLY FIND A PERSON TO BRING SOME INDIAN  MUTEER PANEER, SAMOSA  OR ONION NAAN...  WE COULD ROUND OUT OUR DIET   OF CARROT CAKE..AND BROWNIES.... WHICH IS DARN GOOD !!   I DON'T THINK YOU CAN COOK INDIAN FOOD  UNLESS YOU WERE BORN IN INDIA.

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MEMORY... I AM GOING  TO TRY A" SNAIL MAIL CALL "AT 1PM ON TUESDAY AND THURSDAY-- FOR SCHOOL KIDS TO SEND MAIL AND ADULTS ASK QUESTONS IN THE COMMENT-- THE USUAL DEAL... EXCEPT IT WILL BE WITHIN SCHOOL HOURS. THIS WILL MEAN I WIL L NEED TO  BE REMINDID  AND WEAR A WATCH-- AND I MST HAVE 3 ALL HARDY  WATER/SHOCK PROOF WATCHES...  MAYBE FIND AMUSING SCIENCE PROJECTS AT THAT TIME... THE NUTTY PROFESSOR STUFF... I LIKE THE TITLE...

IF IT GOES WELL MAYBE SOMEONE WILL TAPE AND STORE IT  SO TEACHERS CAN USE IT IN A TIMELY FASHON...? STARTING UP  I WON'T HAVE ANY KIDS MAIL TO READ-- SO I  CAN  READ TEH JUNK MAIL AND COMMENT ON IT....

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SOME DOG FEST 2016 DETAILS

PARKING-- IN THE PARKING PIT-- UNLESS YOU ARE UNLOADING STUFF...  UNLOAD AND GO AWAY... IF YOU ARE HANDICAPPED, TANNER WILL BE RUNNING THE SHUTTLE BUS FROM 7 TO 9 OUT OF THE PIT... OR IF , LIKE KAREN, YOUR CAR IS NOT MADE FOR THAT RAMP, YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO PARK ALONG THE DRIVEWAY.  AND BLOW YOUR  HORN TIL  SOMEONE COMES AN D GETS YOU.

 ALL PURPLE SHIRTS SHOULD BE THE ONES TO USE THAT NEW DRIVEWAY AT #45  AND PACK YOURSELVES IN SOMEHOW.

TRY AND GET ALL THE CARS IN EITHER LOT-- AND IF IT GETS BAD....PARK BEHIND SOMEONE.  YOU THINK WILL BE HERE ALL DAY.

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PROJECT THAT WILL BE ON GOING IS THE BUILDING...JACK FOUND 2 GUYS WHO  WERE PUTTING UP A  CONCRETE BLOCK SCHOOL IN LYNN-- AND TEHY WILL BE  PILING UP BLOCKS... HOPEFULLY.. AND SINCE THESE WILL NEED STUFFING WITH  THE INSULATION, THAT WILL BE SOMETHING YOU CAN  PARTICIPATE IN DOING FOR A FEW MINUTES HERE AND THERE...  TEACH EACH OTHER HOW...  JACK WILL BE BASICALLY IN CHARGE... 

THERE WILL PROBABLY BE A NEED TO MOVE BLOCKS  ETC...TO WHERE THEY CAN REACH THEM--  AND IF EVERYONE SHUFFLES A FEW, WE WILL MAKE IT !! 

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AS FOR HAVING A SCHEDULE... WE WILL PUT THE WHITE BOARD WHERE THE  MAIL CALL CAMERA CAN SEE IT ( OR MAYBE PUPPY HILL CAM)  WE WILL TRY AND KEEP YOU ALL INFORMED...

THE SPIRIT STICKS WILL BE DISPLAYED SOMEWHERE--- IF THE WEATHER IS BAD... MAYBE INT HE ARENA???  I DUNNO

DON'T I REMEMBRR RUNNING OUT IN MY JAMMIES TO RESCUE THESPIRIT STICKS  IN AN UNEXPECTED RAINSTORM LAST YEAR???? .... ON CAMERA  !!!!

IT WILL BE A DIFFERNT DOGFEST..  THAT IS FOR SURE.

GOAL OF THE DAY SATURDAY IS TO MAKE IT THRU TO THE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE AT 5:00 AND  ON SUNDAY... TO TH E BEN AND GERRY.S ICECREAM  AFTER THE SPIRIT PARADE... AT 5??

WHERE ANYTHING HAPPENS CAN DEPEND ON THE WEATHER... BUT WE HAVE ENOUGH "UNDERCOVER" TO MANAGE WHATEVER..

SEPT 17,2016

MY PUPPY DAWG   IS DOING VERY WELL IF NOW EVERYONE WILL LEAVE HER ALONE  -- THAT IS THE PROBLEM.. WELL ----ONE OF THEM... THEY GET TOO MUCH ATTENTION FROM EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE  SO THEY LOOK FOR THE HAPPY DISTRACTION... THIS IS WHY YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAT A  WORKING SERVICE DOG -- NOT ONLY IS IT DISTRACTING AT THE MOMENT, BUT THEN THE DOG BEGINS TO THINK EVERYONE IN THE CHECKOUT LINE IS JUST WAITING TO PAT THEM .... WHICH IS USUALLY TRUE.. THAT IS WHY... INTERACTION WITH STRANGERS-- OR ANYONE ELSE WHILE IN HARNESS IS FROWNED ON... AS FOR THE WISE GUY WHO GETS TOLD  "NO PLEASE DON'T PAT" AND COMES BACK WITH THE NEGATIVE.... "WHY ... DOES HE BITE?"-- I HAVE STARTED ANSWERING   "NO, HE SPITS"  WHICH CAUSES THE CORRECT REACTION...  WHATEVER WORKS. PROBLEM IS--- EVERY PERSON WHO IS TRYING TO BE CHEERFUL AND CLEVER..... SAYS "HAVE YOU GOT A SADDLE FOR THAT HORSE?"  DOES NOT REALIZE WE HAVE ALL HEARD THAT A GAZILLION TIMES. I DON'T GIVE THEM THE SPIT ROUTINE--- THEY ARE CHEERFUL AT LEAST.... IT IS THE GUY WHO TAKES THE NEGATIVE ROAD OF " YOUR DOG MUST  BITE"  THAT GETS MY  DANDER UP. ******* DANDER---  I HAVE ALOT OF DANDER TO GET UP....   THE BUILDING INSPECTOR SAID THE DOG BUILDING IS NOT A HOUSE SO IT HAS TO BE COMMERCIAL...  AND WAS SO INSISTANT THAT HE  PLAIN LEFT AND COULD NOT TELL ME WHY... IN TH E MIDDLE OF THIS FARM. WE HAVE ONE DOG HOUSE CONSIDERED COMMERCIAL...  AND SINCE IT IS  LABELED  COMMERCIAL, THAT IS WHY I/WE.... MUST SPEND $19,000 ON A PLUMBING SYSTEM WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN DONE FOR UNDER $200- IT IS NOT THE CRANNEY COMPQNY FAULT-- THEY DID WHAT THEY WERE TOLD TO DO BY... THE SYSTEM... WHAT WORRIES ME  IS WHY COMMERCIAL?  ARE THEY ABOUT TO SAY THE WHOLE PLACE IS COMMEERCIAL SO THEY CAN RAISE MY TAXES AND TRY AND  FORCE ME TO SELL TO A DEVELOPER??? THEYY'RE GONNA HAVE  TROUBLE WITH THAT...... BUT THE CONCEPT HAS HAPPENED FAR TOO OFTEN.  I HAVE BEEN THIS ROAD BEFORE.... FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.... I WAS LUCKY TO BE BORN INTO A FARM FAMILY--AND THOSE  FARM  FIELDS GREW INTO WHAT IS NOW  DEAD CENTER OF  NEW ROCHELLE N.Y.     PURE LUCK-- I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CHOOSING MY PARENTS... IT IS ...NEXT TO CHAPPAQUA -WHERE THE CLINTONS LIVE  --OUR FAMILY LOST  ONE FIELD AFTER ANOTHER DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT BEGAN TO BE TAXED AS COMMERCIAL PROPERTY- THE ONLY REASON SDP EXISTS IS  THE LAST PIECE ... ¾ AN ACRE.... - LITERALLY DEAD CENTER-  WAS SAVED BY MCDONALDS- RESTAURANT-- AND THAT RENT IS WHAT STARTED SDP.  (AND LOOKS LIKE IT WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR  THE ^%&*()_*&^%$  PLUMBING.)  HOW SO  McDs?? ---  TEH  PROPERTY   HAD BEEN A GAS STATION --  SINCE 1917- WHEN THEY  USED TO POUR USED OIL DOWN THE STORM DRAIN-- NOW THEY HAVE TO HIRE A COMPANY WHICH PICKS IT UP.. AND THEN THEY POUR IT DOWN THE STORM DRAIN... HOWEVER...IT SMACKED OF "CONTAMINATION" TROUBLE--- AND McD'S WAS TERRIFFIC- AND THEY WANTED A LEASE..  THEY OFFERED TO PAY THE TAXES UNTIL THEY COULD GET THE RESTAURANT OPEN-- AND TAKE THOSE TAXES OUT OF FUTURE RENT...  OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE LOST THE PROPERTY.. SINCE MY SISTERS AND I COULD NEVER HAVE AFFORDED THE TAXES OF $70,000 PER YEAR..... THE OILY MESS TOOK 2 YEARS OF SUPERFUND ETC.  McD'S HUNG IN THERE AND DEALT WITH ALL THOSE  "AGENCIES"  ETC. PART OF THE DEAL WAS THAT Mcd's  WAS TO PROVIDE ALL THE "BOG"  CARDS  MY SISTER FRAN AND I  COULD USE...  THOSE ARE "BE OUR GUEST" CARDS... AND  MY SISTER FRAN AND I LIVED ON McD'S FOOD FOR 2 YEARS.  I WAS THE ONE TO MAKE THAT DEAL  WITH THOSE BOG CARDS... THERE WAS NO REALATOR INVOLVED... I JUST CALLED THEM UP AND ASKED IF THEY WANTED TO HAVE A NEW RESTAURANT.  IF I EVER RUN OUT OF DUMB LUCK WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE. IF ANYONE NOW COULD FIND AN "IN" WITH McD's  AND GET THEM TO "MATCH" WHAT I PUT IN, I WOULD BE BEYOND THRILLED....IT IS A BIGGIE== GOOGLE ......720 NORTH AVE NEW ROCHELLE NY. JUST TO TIE IN ONE MORE FACT FOR ALL THE CAMERA PEOPLE-- THAT CAGE DOOR WE HAVE DIVIDING THE PUPPY AREA CAME FROM THAT PROPERTY-- THERE WAS A SMALL BANK THERE TOO... AND WHEN THEY TORE IT DOWN, THAT  VAULT DOOR WAS THE ONLY MOMENTO I COULD PICK UP AND STUFF IN MY SUV- WHICH IS WHY IT NOW DIVIDES CHAOS FROM THE PUPS... AND TEH FUNNY CHAIN OVER MY HEAD  AT TIS DESK....IS TEH  SURVEYORS CHAIN WHICH LAID OUT AN AWFUL LOT OF THAT NORTH AVENUE AREA... END OF STORY ************ WELL ALMOST--- A NUMBER OF CP'S HAVE SUGGESTED, IF  OUR DOG HOUSE BUILDING IS COMMERCIAL - THEN I SHOULD OPEN A STARBUCKS AND SAVE EVERYONE ALOT OF TIME.  I WILL GET TO THE PERMIT FOR AN  OUTHOUSE  WITH A LIQUOR LICENSE YET.... ************ CONTINUING WITH MY DUMB LUCK.... I REALLY WANTED A NEW HARNESS FOR  BENTLEY ONE THAT WAS COMFORTABLE FOR HIM- THAT HE COULD PULL A WHEELCHAIR EASILY AND STILL HAVE THE HANDLE.  SO WITH TINA'S HELP -- AND A CHINESE MAN --MR MOON, I DESIGNED WHAT I LIKED-- AND WITH GREAT CONVENIENCE ---( GREAT CONVENIENCE- BOY TO THEY HAVE THIS ORDER BUSINESS DOWN PAT)  HE IS NOW READY TO SHIP THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF HARNESSES ..... 300... GOT ANY IDEA WHAT  300 HARNESSES LOOK LIKE ALL PACKAGED UP FOR SHIPMENT???  11 BBBIIIGGG BOXES...... I DO NOT HONESTLY KNOWE WHERE WE WILL PUT ALL THESE-- BUT THEY ARE ON HTE WAY... THEY ARE DESIGNED TO HOLD THE POO PICKERS AND CREDIT CARDS.... THIS IS A CARLENE PROJECT ( EXPENSE) NOT  OUT OF SDP'S FINANCES.. IF I SELL ENOUGH TO BREAK EVEN, I WILL THEN GET HIM TO MAKE THE WEB HARNESS ALOT OF PEOPLE USE-- AND HAVE A DOUBLE BUCKLE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO PUT ON THE DOGS.. PREVIOULSY CALLED PLANET DOG HARNESS... BUT THEY REFUSED TO PUT N THE DOUBLE BUCKEL... *********** SO THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING. CONCRETE POUR MAY HAPPEN WEDNESDAY-- AND IF ANYONE  COMING TO DOGFEST WRITES  THEIR NAME  IN THE SOFT CONCRETE  THEY WILL BE  DENIED ICE CREAM.