may 31,2017

i can't really say i quit-- it is against my religion to quit most any struggle.... but the overnight battle with the "body pillow" has caused me to "rethink" the concept of sleeping with a great wad of stuff taking up a great percentage of the bed...  i realize i am skating on thin ice.... but  those ads about a woman looking so comfortable wrapped around anything resembling a  pillow are fake... i know how those phooto's are made --- that woman is paid well to look comfortable.... it has nothing to do with reality... -- remember i  provided animals for photo shoots for catalogs for  years,... 87.3% were fake somehow..... i can not remember one picture of a dog in a "coat" where the coat was not slit up the back and taped to the dog with duct tape... -- the dog coat makers-- especially the ones where a cute little rain hat was part of it... never made provision for a dog's neck.

duct tape was a greqat part of many ads.....i remember....oh lordy this was a terrifying photo shoot... (i don't think i old this story did i?) about the bank commercial which wanted 9 sheep lying in a row at sunrise on a hill in  lincoln mass.--  sunrise is a terrifying word for me... photographically it lasts about 15  minutes, no extra time to fool around....  or you have to try again the next day. ---as i drove down 128 at 3am with 10 sheep in my horse trailer, i still had not figured out how to make this happen... i did have with me a handful of tranquilizer shots-- i had never used them before-- and knew full well that to tranquilize 10 sheep  with hopes that the are only slightly less active , could easily mean 10 sheep sound asleep on their sides looking very dead- which was not what the art director wanted...---- my friend "goldie" ( ghost of the lefthand drawer) must  have been with me that day -- as i drove alont i remembered in my photo shoot kit of misc crap  there was a roll of duct tape.....  i knew that if you forced sheep into an awkward position, they quit and just stayed wherever--( like for shearing on thier butts)  -- so i just took them out one at a time and duct tape thier front legs  doubled back   into the position they would normally  be in to lie down -- they had so much fuzzy wool padding on  their legs it  was totally perfect...  they would try and stand up, maybe twice.. and then just lie there- where  we could just pick them up and plunk  them wherever the art director wanted and they were perfect...-- the duct tape easily pealed off when i put them back in the trailer -- job done/...  ( check cashed) 

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puppies -- yesterday megan ran them around the fireplace and got brave and tried to run them aound the house-- which almost worked.... b ut the last bit required 6 volunteers to corralle them   there were many questiosn asked  ... like ---" do you still have 6"  i am missing 3 - is that 12 yet???  is one  under the porchj?? are you sure?

things like that... having lifted a few  up the doorstep into thehouse... boy are they round...

maybe too round  as most have "audible stools"  -- and you all have been told the worst kind of loose stool is "audible"-- as any physisist can tell you , you can not compress fluids, but you can compress gas which can then be a sourc e of energy to fire bullets or other material at great range...

leaving them outside after eating  so they can dispense with the   eventual food processing, is a good idea.... especially since it is raining to  move all the movements  on into the "A" field. wonderful how nature plans all these things...

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natue plans...  yesterday laura and kelly took to use the "shedding blades" on  mo.... at first mo did not understand  but with a frying pan of sweet feed, she stood motionliess while they scraped away  maybe 1/2 of the  hair that  had kept mo warm all winter..  this made a huge pile of blond horsehair- which the birds will rush  in to claim for their nesets-- even after we had a full plastic bag for the dumpster. the perfedt shedding blade is simpl a " saw blaade"  bent un "u" shape. 

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i think  i see why i  lke donkeys and mules... whenmo arrived, if you touched her rear legs she would cowkick sideways with  accuracy to injure... now after a month of respectble handling kelly and laura were crawling around her back feet without a care in the world...  unless stung by a bee-- she was 100% steady as a rock... pockets on the other hand  was thrilled withthe oats she earned by getting on the box and eating out of the tractor bucket... and being a youngster she  cavorted  around bucking and kickig at nothing in particular-- safe as long as you did  not get  in her way....

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MORNING CARLENE, ITS BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE TUMBLER AND MYSELF STARTED OUR JOURNEY TO TENNESSEE. IT TOOK 19 HOURS WHICH TUMBLER SLEPT 18 Of THEM. COULDN'T ASKED FOR A BETTER PASSENGER. WHEN SHE WOULD WAKE UP AND STIR, WE WOULD STOP, WALK AROUND, TIGHTEN OUT SKATES ( MY UNCLE TOM CAME UP WITH THAT ONE!!!! )AND OFF AGAIN WE WOULD GO. STOPPED IN HARRISON VIRGINIA FOR THE NIGHT AND SUSAN H MEET US WITH LUKE. TUMBLER IS SMALL COMPARED TO LONG LEGGED LUKIE. WE HAD A NICE DINNER AND VISIT. I APPRECIATED HER TAKING THE TIME TO COME. TUMBLER IS ADJUSTING VERY WELL. EVERYDAY BRINGS NEW ADVENTURES. WE ARE GETTING INTO ROUTINE WHICH HAS HELPED HER ADJUST. THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE AT THIS MOMENT IS LIGHTENING BUGS. THEY COME OUT AT DUSK AND YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE COMING TO CARRY HER AWAY. I AM GUESSING LIGHTENING BUGS AREN'T IN BOSTON SO I TRY TO GET THAT LAST PEE PEE IN BEFORE THE MONSTERS COME OUT. SHE HAS TREMENDOUS MANNERS AND A MILLION DOLLAR PERSONALITY. THE LEASH YOU MADE ME WORKS PERFECT. YOUR PERCENTAGE OF DANES THAT MAKE IT AS SERVICE DOGS IS ABOVE AVERAGE SO NOT MANY FABULOUS FAILURES. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO PROVIDE HER A FOREVER HOME. WE LOVE HER SO MUCH. I HONESTLY CANT NOT IMAGINE THE LOVE THESE RECIPIENTS HAVE FOR THE SERVICE DOGS THEY ARE RECEIVING THAT ARE COMPLETELY CHANGING THEIR LIVES. HONESTLY OVERWHELMED WHEN I THINK OF IT.  

HUGS TO EVERYONE 

KARI AND TENNESSEE TUMBLER 

PS ENJOYED ANOTHER YR AT CRAZY ACRES. LOVE SEEING OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES. EVERYBODY IS ONE BIG FAMILY. HELPFUL HAVING LIST PAM MADE DAILY FOR CHORES. LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR.

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i see no reason why the kids  interning here for the summer should not memorize "    IF-- BY RUDYARD KIPPLING   https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/   when i was a kid,we  got $10 for memorizing it...  i bet my sister fran can still say most of it too..... inflation being what it is.    i will   offer $100 to any intern who.. on august 15th can stand and recite it.. maybe it will  contruibute to improving theri minds...

here it is.... go for it.

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If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream- -and not make dreams your master; 

If you can think- -and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on! '

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings- -nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And- -which is more- -you'll be a Man, my son! 

Rudyard Kipling

MAY 30 2017

WHEN TOO MUCH HAPPENS , I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING...  I NEVER THOUGHT TRAINING DOGS WOULD INVOLVE SO MUCH WRITING......   BETWEEN NAPPING AND WRITING... I DIDN'T GET ENOUGHT DONE YESTERDAY TO WRITE ABOUT IT..

  THERE IS A PROFOUND THOUGHT THERE...  DEALING WITH TOO MUCH PAPERWORK CAN LEAVE YOU NO TIME TO  DEVELOPE THE THINGS ABOUT WHICH YOU ARE TRYING TO WRITE.

ANNE IS HELPING WITH THE GRANT THAT IS DUE JUNE 2ND...AND TEHN I PICKED UP THE MAGAZINE  IPSWICH NEIGHBORS  A NEW PUBLICATION ( FREE)  SURVIVING ON LOCAL ADS... THOUGHT MAYBE THEY WOULD LIKE A MONTHLY SERVICE DOG REPORT TO HELP FILL THEIR PAGES..  NOT SOMETHING I WOOLD PAY FOR... WE DO HAVE A STORY THAT IS VALUABLE...

PUPPIE S ARE DOING WONDRFULLY-- AND WE MUST GET THEM OUT  AND AROUND TODAY.. FOR SOME KIND OF MEGAN MARCH DOWN TO THE T TENT AREA...  AS LONG AS IT IS WARM ENOUGH.. A BIT OF RAIN WOULDN'T HURT..  THEY NEED TO GET OUT.   MAYBE MOVING THEM 6 AT A TIME WOLDN'T BE  A BAD IDEA...

THE PROPBLME IS...... ONE PERSON GETS OUT AHEAD AND TPS A CAN  SO MOST OF THEM RUN..  A FEW HANG BACK... SO SECOND PERSON 15 FEET BEHIND THE TAPPING CAN PERSON STARTS TRYING TO CALL THEM... AND I SCREAM.....  BECAUSE NOW YOU HAAVE SOMEONE CALLING THE FIRST   BUNCH OF PUPPIES FROM BOTH ENDS AND I SEE THE PUPPIES START RUNNING BACK AND FORTH ALL EXCITED, NOT UNDERSTANDING AND CONFUSED..... ABSOLUTELY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO  TEACH THEM--  RUN TOWARD TEH TAPPING AND PUPPY  PUPPY  NOISES.. BUT EVERYONE GETS SO EXCIED THEY CAN NOT STOP CALLING THEM...

 SO VERY OFTEN  WE GET HALF THE PUPS OUT THE DOOR AND SOME PERSON STANDS AT THE DOOR CALLING THE SECOND GROUP TO COME AND GO OUT... NOT REALIZING THEY ARE ALSO CALLING THE FIRST GROUP TO COME BACK IN..AND THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION NO ONE HEARS ME TRYING TO STOP THE WHOLE PERFORMANCE...

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS DUCT TAPE... LINE UP ALL THE HELPERS AND DUCT TAPE ACROSS THEIR MOUTHS LEAVING ONLY ONE  PERSON DUCT TAPE FREE..

I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE...

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CLOSELY RELATED  , I STARTED TAKING LAURA AND BELLA #2 ( NOT GEORGE'S BELLA) OUT FOR A TRAINING TRAINER  RIDE--  THERE ARE SOOOO MANY DETAILS TO THINKK ABOUT.. WE HAD SIZZLE AND BENTLEY--- IT WAS A GOOD LESSON TO START THE KIDS THINKING...  THE HARDEST THING FOR BELLA WAS  SHE NEVER REALZED HOW OFTEN SHE SAYS "OK"-- WHICH IS THE DOGS "RELEASE " SIGNAL TO  GO  DO SOMETHING ELSE.   

THINKING SO YOU GET TO  UNDERSTAND WHAT THE DOG IS HEARING... THINK ABOUT THIS SET UP....  "BELLA TAKE A WELL TRAINED DOG- BENTLEY IS NOT TOOBAD...  FOR PRACTICE TELL HIM TO LIE DOWN WHILE WE TALK." .... I DESCRIBE  THE PROCEEDURE OF HOW TO GO THRU  A PUSH DOOR AND I SAY TO BELLA " GOT I?"  AND SHE SAYS  "OK"   AT WHICH POINT BENTLYE WOULD GET UP AND RUN OFF.  A TRAINER HAS TO BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT WHY THAT HAPPENED....-- OTHER PEOPLE GET MAD AT THE DOG FOR NOT STAYING  IN THE "DOWN"

SO MANY "UNTRAINED DOGS" ARE ACTUALLY  VERY CAREFULLY TRAINED TO DO ALOT OF MISERABLE THINGS..  MOST OBVIOUS IS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR- THE DOGS SEE YOU RUN TO THE DOOR AND MAKE  EXCITED HAPPY NOISES--- SO THEY DO....

OR BETTER YET  TYPICAL JACK RUSSELL PROBLEM...... THE POSTMAN COMES UP TO THE DOOG- PUTS THE MAIL THRU THE MAIL SLOT  WHILE THE DOG BARKS  AND BARKS--  THE MAIL MAN WALKS OFF TO THE NEXT HOUSE... AND THE DOG THINKS THEY DID A GREAT THING TO CHASE HIM AWAY..

  NO SELF RESPECTING BASSETT HOUND WOULD BEHAVE LIKE THAT...

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Hi Carlene,

Just wanted to pass along a short video.  This weekend, I started working with Clark on walking next to me while I ride my recumbent bike.  He was a little confused at first, but quickly caught on and did very well, especially considering it was the first time we tried it.  We just went up and down my street several times, both yesterday and today.  This video is from yesterday after only a few minutes.  Clark fell right into stride next to me and "whoa"ed perfectly at the end of the street every time! We are just getting started and have a ways to go, but he did very well.

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I WARNED HER  DANES ARE NOT KNOWN FOR STAMINA AND TO BE VERY CAREFUL AS HE STRUGGLES TO CATCH UP WHILE SHE COASTS ALONG...

I REMEMBER JANINE TOOK ONE OF OUR DOGS TO SOME EVENT WHERE SHE WAS ON A RECUMBANT BIKE-- SHE WENT ABOTU 1/2 MILE AND HAD TO CALL ME TO COME WITH THE TRUCK AND PICK HIM UP  HE HAD DROPPED INTHE MIDDLE OF SOME CLOVERLEAF IN BOSTON AND COULD NOT WALK...-- HE SURVIVED.... BUT I HATE THE CONCEPT OF  A SERVICE DOG TRYING TO STAY WITH THEIR PARTNER  AND  HAVING A HEART ATTACK IN THE  PROCESS.

I SUGGESTED SHE GET A FRIEND TO STAY WITH HM IF SHE IS GOING  TO RIDE A BIKE,

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FROM NEPHEW DOUG.....  

  monetary compensation  is just an unintended byproduct of choices. 

AN INTERESTING CONCEPT....

MAY 29 2017

THERE WILL BE A VERY ABREIVIATED DD TODAY--

- I HAVE BEEN UP WRITINV FOR A G RANT PROPOSAL SINCE 2AM  AND AM NOW GOING FOR A TUB SOAK... SO THERE...

TODAYS SCHEDULE

ANNN WILL BE AROUND TO CORREDT MY SPELLING AND ANY IDEAS TOOO AFAR OUT

I WANT TO GET POCKETS ON TEH BOX AGAIN... THERE IS A GOOD VIDEO OF YESTERAYS SESSION WITH THE FOOD INT HE BUCKE OF THE TRAXRTOR.. IT WORKED..

PUPS ARE DOING GREAT AT EATING AT TEH TINY FEEDER-- EXCEPT TODAY IT IS RAINING SO THEY MAY EAT IN...

Hi Carlene,

While I could never take Ava, and all that she does, for granted, sometimes I have to admit that I do expect her to know how to act and what to do. Last night was no exception. We were at a local restaurant in town, where they know her and had already pulled out the extra chair. As usual she got right down on her mat and achieved boredom. She got up long enough to help me negotiate the tables and get to the restroom.

Before we left, a woman came to our table and said that, as a dog handler, she just wanted to say how much she was impressed with Ava, and how well Ava and I did together.

Of course, Jim launched into a quick story of where she was bred trained from birth.

Thanks again for such a wonderfully trained, loving and thinking walker.

Cindy

P.S. Just encountered a family in the woods. When they saw Ava, they quickly moved to the side of the trail and told us to take our time. Then, with a smile and reverence in her voice, the woman asked if she could just stare.

MAY 28 2-17

30 DAYS HATH NOT MAY-- SO WHEN YOU START FIGURING THE 63 DAYS GESTATION PERIOD FOR LAINEY-- 

AND YOU HAVE  FIRST "TIE  "    MAY 23 WITH LAST MAY 27-- GO FOR IT....

---.OLD WIVES TALE  "WHEN THEY CONCIEVE- THEY QUIT AND BITE THE POTENTIAL PAPA---  THAT KIND OF GOES ALONG WITH  "THEY CONCIEVE TOWARD THE END OF THIER CYCLE..."

AND CARRY 56 TO 66 DAYS-- SO ALL THAT BOILS DOWN TO   WHEN DO WE PAY ATTENTION AND START TAKING TEMPS O SEE IF WE GET THE DROP TO 98 DEGREES 24 HOURS BEFORE LABOR STARTS...   HAVE AT IT !!

PERSONALLY , WHEN THEY REACH DOWN AND GRAB THEIR BLANKETS AND STRETCH UPWARD RIPPING EVERYTHING,, I START TO FOCUS...

IN TRUTH ANYTHING YOU SAY WILL EVENTUALLY BE PROVEN WRONG...

I DON'T KNOW HOW  TO PREDICT THE COLOR-- WITH WALTER BEING  "PIEBALD" ( LARGE SPOTS.. NOT BROKEN/TORN PATCHES.. OF THE TYPICAL HARL) AND LAINIE PRETTY BLACK.  ALL I WANT IS A BUNCH OF HEALTHY STRONG PUPS.....

PUPPY COLOR SHOULD  NOT BE AFFECTED BY TEH FACT  THAT WALTER SPENT A YEAR OF HIS LIFE DYED BRIGHT ORANGE WITH A DYE GUARENTEE'D TO WASH OUT... THAT DIDN'T...

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DONNA WANTS TO TRY AND TAKE WATSON HOME AND SEE HOW HE DOES WITH  HUSBAND AND FAMILY---  I AM PRETTY SURE  WATSON WILL BE THRILLED... DONNA WILL HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION .. WATSON IS A POWERFUL DOG...  I CAN SEE HIM LEAPING ONTO HER DINING ROOM TABLE.  HIS BACK LEGS WORK FINE...  THEY JUST LOOK A LITTLE WIERD-- COULD BE STILL GROWING-- WILL NOT NEUTER HIM  AND SEE HOW HE DEVELOPES.-- AND IF HE STRAIGHTENS OUT AND WE CONSIDER BREEDING WITH HIM, I WILL GET HIS HIPS XRAYED  JUST FOR  GOOD LUCK...  WE HAVE PRETTY GOOD/ STRONG DOGS IN OUR LINE... DON'T WQNT TO INTRODUCE ANY PROBLEMS-- 

THIS MEANS TENTATIVELY WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PUP FRO EUROPE.  AND WAIT FOR GOLDIE TO INDICATE TO US   US WHICH PUP SEEMS RIGHT... -- I HAVE LOOOKED AROUND... AND RUSSIA HAS SOME GOOD LOOKING DOGS TOO..  THE PEOPLE SEEM VERY NICE TO DEAL WITH-- JUST THE GOVE'T SEEMS  OFF KILTER... NOT UNLIKE ALOT OF GOV'TS... I WONDER HOW FAST JUDY CAN GO TO RUSSIA???  THE 24 HOUR TRIP TO  AND FROM DENMARK TO PICK UP WATSON HAS TO BE SOME KIND OF RECORD...

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IN AN EFFORT TO GET MORE DOGS OUT  I AM GOING TO TRY AND  A FEW OF OUR YOUNGSTERS( PEOPLE)  OUT TRAINING.. LAURA IS SO GREAT AT ORGANIZING THE PLACE THAT - WE REALLY SHOULD TRY HER  IN TRAINING-- ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS....

I REMEMBER.... LONG AGO... ECAD ( EAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS- TORRINGTO N  CT... USED TO OFFER A SERVICE DOG  TRAINING "CLASS"  I HEARD ABOUT IT AND SENT FOR INFO... -- IT WAS 6 MONTHS COST $5000 AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST "CLASSES" STARTED OUT WITH  "DOGS SMELL WITH THEIR NOSES"   -- I DECIDED I WOULD SAVE $5000 AND JUST SHOW THE ADI PEOPLE WHAT SOME OF MY DOGS WERE ALREADY TRAINED TO  DO...AND THEY WERE IMPRESSED...

WELL SOME WERE... MOST JUST DIDN'T WAN TOT DEAL WITH DANES...

NOW DOWN THE ROAD, I DON'T THINK YOU COULD FIND A BETTER TRAINED SERVICE DOG THAN GEORGE...  WATCH THE VIDEO OF BELLA AND HIM COMIND DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS WHERE IF SHE HESITATES STEPPING DOWN, HE MATCHES HER MOVEMENTS EXACTLY...  

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PUPS  GOING OUT FOR THEIR SECOND MEAL OUTSIDE-- I SHOULD GO HELP..... BUT.... THERE ARE 3 PEOPLE....AND ONLY 12 PUPS....

I WILL WATCH

BYE

MAY 27 2017

OK... EVERYONE DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND PRAY  THAT  LAINIE IS PREGNANT...  WALTER CERTAINLY HAS TRIED.. WITH 3 TIES-- I HAVE OFTEN SAID  WE HAVE NEVER HAD AN AI BE SUCCESSFUL AND NEVER HAD A NATURAL BREEDING FAIL..  WHICH IS NOW NOT TRUE...  WE HAD ONLY ONE  NATURAL NOT "WORK" YELLOW AND  GABBY'S TIE WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL

 WE ARE BEHIND SCHEDULE  BY  5 WEEKS ----  MOMMY NATURE  HAS BEEN ON VACATION...  WE NEED TO BREED  ONE FEMALE  WHEN HE OHER IS WHELPING  WE ARE READY FOR RENEE AND REGINA TO COME IN... APPARENTLEY GABBY IS DUE IN HEAT IN JULY-- SHE WOULD PROBABLY  BE BRED TO   BENTLEY..HAVING SPENT HOURS POURNG OVER  BLOODLINES AND STATISTICS AFTER THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING.. I WAS DELIGHTED TO FIND   AUDRY IS NOT SPAYED...  

AUDRY IS----- IN OHIO---   SCARLOTT AND BENTLEY ---  AND PRETTY WHITE-- SO BEFORE EVERYONE COMES DOWN ON MY NECK FOR BREEDING WHITE..........I WENT BACK TO THE COLOR CHART WHICH I HAVE FOUND TO BE PRETTY ACCURATE IN PREDICTING LITTER COLORS AND  PERCENTAGES...  WILBUR IS BLACK-- IS JASPER AND MISCHA-- WHICH MEANS THE PUPS  WOULD  HAVE  BENTLEY X SCARLOTT 3 GENERATIONS BACK... NOT TOO BAD...

PER THE CHART  ... ASSUMING  AUDRY IS WHITE HARL ( SHE DOES HAVE A FEW SPOTS) AND WILBUR IW BLACK WITH WHITE  , THAT IS ACTUALLY  THE MOST PREFERRED MATCH FOR CREATING HARLS... 67% HARLS 33% MERLES   WITH NO WHITE DEAF PREDICTED...

NOT THAT I AM INTERESTED IN PRODUCING HARLS.... BUT  TOO MANY BLACK DOGS GETS TO BE A PROBLEM AROUND HERE...

I DO AGREE THAT BREEDING AUDREY TO A MERLE MIGHT  BE A TOTAL DISASTER OF WHITE /DEAF PUPS    ... SO  WE WON'T DO THAT...

IT IS AMAZING HOW WELL EDUCATED ALL YOU CAMERA PEOPLE HAVE BECOME.... HISTORICALLY  "DON'T BREED WHITE"  WAS DEAD WRONG... AND MANY PEOPLE CALLED ME TERRIBLE NAMES  LIKE  " IRRESPONSIBLE  BACKYARD  BREEDER....." ---BUT SINCE.. IT HAS BECOME BREED WHITES CAREFULLY-- AND THAT MASSIVE LIST OF  THE GENETICS OF COLOR IN DANES  HAS PROVEN TO BE  FAIRLY ACCURATE-- THE WORST WE HAE DONE IS   BENTLYE TO SCARLOT ( HARL TO MERLE) AND HAD SOME WHITE DEAF-- THE CHART SAYS 10% -- CLOSE.....

IT IS NOT S SIMPLE  GENETIC  "MENDEL SQUARE" ----  WHEN I BOUGHT TIFFANY , IN  1988 I FIGURED IF I BRED HARL TO HARL, I WOULD GET HARL PUPS-- NOT TRUE-- THAT IS THE BREEDING THAT GETS  YOU   BLACK,WHITE,MERLE AND HARLS WITH 10% WHITE DEAF.

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 YOU ARE 99%  SAFE  WITHOUT WHTE DEAF IF ONE PARENT IS BLACK....  OR BLACK WITH WHITE....

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MOVING ON.......

THE OTEHR STATS I SPENT  HOURS ON YESTERDAY-- 

IF A TRAINER CAN TAKE ONE DOG OUT TO THE COMMUNITY  PER HOUR  THAT IS 8 DOGS A DAY...  5 DAY WEEK  = 40 TRAINING SESSIONS PER TRAINER..3 TRAINERS= 120 SESSIONS

NOW IF WE HAVE  24 DOGS   --5  DAYS TRAINING AND TWO  OFF WOLD EQUAL -- 120  TRIPS PER WEEK ----    IT SHOULD WORK....

EXCEPT  STEVE DOES NOT TRAIN FRI SAT SUNDAY  - OLIVIA HAS WED SAT SUN--

WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ... FROM THEIR TRAINING LISTS.. IS THE DOGS ARE GETTING OUT ONLY 4 TIMES PER WEEK....

THAT HAS GOT TO BE RE THOUGHT...MAYBE WITH SO MANY INTERNS THIS SUMMER  ---WE CAN TRY 2 PEOPLE 2 DOGS  PRE TRIP  AND JUST DROP THEM OFF IBN TOTALLY DIFFERENT PLACES... AND LET THE INTERNS JUST DO DOWN STAYS AND LET SOME OF THESE DOGS JUST GET OLDER AND MATURE --

SOMEHOW WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING...

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NIEGHBOR DEB - AT TEH BORARD MEETING---BEING THE SEMI  NORMAL BUSINESS PERSON-- "WHAT DO YOU WANT IN 5 YEARS'  TYPE QUESTION... I WOULD LIKE  TO  "GRADUATE"   2 DOGS PER MONTH...  WHICH WE HAVE DONE IN OUR CAREERS ( 2013 TO BE EXACT)  

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HER POINT BEING    ---REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE LEARNING TO DRIVE, YOU GOT TOLD TO KEEP YOU EYE FURTHER AHEAD ON THE HIGHWAY  IN ORDER TO HAVE A STEADIER HAND ON THE WHEEL....  RUNNING...  SDP IS NOT ALOT DIFFERENT-- AS LONG AS YOU KEEP YOUR SECOND SET OF EYES ONTHE CROSS TRAFFIC. !!

may 26 2017

just because i now can use the recorder to record --play-- and erase, i was full of confidence-- i was also  unstuffing one of those "LATER"  places on the bookshelf-- and becaue the directions to the use of my phone were the same shape as the recorder-- i found them.. and  started in.... full of cheer. i have had the phone for  over a year, so i figiured it was time to figure out how to get the messages--   it said  --clear as can be  "to retrieve your messages  dial 86 and send" -- so i did that.. and got "your call can not be completed as dialed..."  right -- so back into a new "LATER " pile...  my life with the telephone has not been an easy one....  as a child... youngest of 3 sisters--- i loved to answer the phone from a very early age... -- somebody wanted to talk to me?????   the phone in our house hung on a wall in such a way that you could  answer  from the first  floor  or reach thru the railing and answer it from up stairs--my oldest sister knew i loved to answer the phone  and would wait til i just about had my hand on it from one diredtion ... and would grab it from the other.   consequently  i was trrained from an early age to panic and run when the phone rings... i am like thaat to this day... if it rings 3 times... i panic...     i can become frazzled if the phone tells me there is a call waiting... "don't worry they'll call back"-- is just not in my vocabulary. so...----now that my car is 2 years old, it is an invatation for the  telephone marketers to call asking if i am prepared for it to fall apart- and why don't i want to extend some warrentee or another...  so i have a new defense...  -- when a blocked call comes in  i pick up the phone and say " this phone does not accept blocked calls" and quickly hang up... like i am a machine.----that is very therapeutic... ***** last night  board of directors meeting....  we actually did discuss a few things  dogfest "september 23......lobster/clambake--- ben and jerry's ice cream.. no.shore acapella group--spirit stick march-- talbes and chairs.. tents and things... apparently the  local jaill now provides tents which teh inmates put up and take down  for free......-- boy that  is a new one...  but wih the g-tent , and t tent if we put up much more, the whole farm will be under canvas---  i will have another look at the big door in the laundry building... maybe that area could be food distribution area and have tables and chairs in our already esixtining tents.????  maybe just a piece of tarp to cover food tables would work,... **** big discussion about book writing... someone contactrd me about that...  might happen... got to look into how well she spells... *** and cars.... our wonderful highlander is getting tired and we need to address how  to get another car.... best idea was to mention it to our community and see if anyone has an old reliable  they could donate--- do you?.... **** and we discussed how being associated with ADI ( accredited by...) was necessary... but added greatly to our expenses... as does being spotless.. for the cameras...but we couldn ot have it any other way. and how we have put out some pretty perfect dogs.... doing a whale of a job....  but we should do more...  we have the setup... need more femaes... ***** my biggest concern is  we are behind in puppy producion... and i need to get more females "in the wings"   reginna and reese shold be coming in heat... and we will breed both... -- but planning  must be done 2 years ahead...  some of our old faithfulls are retired ( spayed) now... we should be able to have 3 or 4 litters from each female while she is still having a wonderfu l life as someone's perfect pet...  mischa  was "away from home" for about 4 weeks   for each litter..  she is a good one... **** the dry food purina arrived yesterday and megan put out the call--- i ran teh tractor to unload and a big group of volunteers flew at teh pallets and ghad it stashed away in nothing flat  ( 1 minute 28 seconds per pallet is what it takes to  store it in the container) **** we get too soon old and too late smart.... we stacked the empty pallets nd put them back on the truck !! *** now to bite the bullet.....  when i get  life undercontrol today-- maybe mid morning, i plan to go and see just how well pockets remembers  getting on the box.... it will be on camera... even if it is raining...  if it si a failure..  you may all have a good laugh  at my expense..... i think we may have had teh   "water moment" from  the movie miracle worker  with patty duke... a must see for anyone training animals...

may 25 2017

there is a huge quantity of "later i will fix/understand/make a million redesigning..." THINGS around here...in the latst uncover episode i fournd a tiny recorder..  could possibley be a huge help qround here-- especially if the latest person of offer to write ( or write for me)   the story of crazy acres becomes a viable book deal....

it was in a box... with the directions--- 16 pages of "quick startup" directions...  that required i use my wonderful  lighted maganfying lens... it measures about 1 x 4 inches  .... that it is the perfect size to get lost in your sox drawer.* 

with emense courage ... i finally got the date set in about 1/2 hour...  first thing missing in the directions is  how to push a button....  it took me a long time to find out that  push button had 2 differejnt push modes.. sometimes it meant "poke" button.. and other times "depress button slowly"   so the 65 different instructions on ths 16 page mannual was actually 130 different  reactions..add permutations and combinations--- and there is no way.

 right-- you know where this si going...     what happened to on/ off and record/ play  --  

just as with the desk computers, just because you can do something, is no reason to make it so complicated that it's usefullness is marginalized..

like computer users--- nearly everyone now is an expert on one use of computers, and totally ignorant ot the rest of the 99% of it's functions...  i have 2 children --- well employed in the computer business-- but if i ask either one  how to turn mine on when it is stuck... neither one knows a thing about it.  UNPLUG AND REPLUG  is about hte extent of thier help.  which often works...

i think i am glad we have located a "computer doctor" in ipswich....  he knows a bunch of stuff which helped last time someone else got control of my  curser and i had to change  my ( and spd)  bank accounts and charge cards.

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yesterday.... tractor trailer of . food was to arrive bettween 10 and 3  -- i was lucky because i did go and pick up debi at the shuttle  at noon....it is 15 min down the highway.-- becauess-- those 8 pallets of dry food ned to be unloaded with the tractor.... and yesterday  i was  #1 operator--  we got back in time for the arrival of the "yellow trucking line" --- NOW........ per his instructions  he was to deliver between 1 and 4 and he had only the pallet of wet--- whcih had to be let down off the truck with his tailgate  which we then hand carry into the barn...  because the phone all said 10 to 3.... that must be a different truck with no tailgate lift which means we have to use the tractor to get it off the truck... which means i really can't go anywhere today  until the missing truck arrives withthe 8 pallets of dry....

sometimes they both ccome here at the same time...  but not yesterday.

 the wet food gruck guy is very nice--- and said they do gladly take back pallets  so i quickly loaded 2 big stacks on his truck... and promised to get teh rest organized by his next delivery.    but ...maybe i can unload thme to the dry food guy-- that is the next chore for the community service kids... pile up a bunch of ... nice... pallets and maybe the dry food guy will take them

history was   i could get $7 per... but now they don't eve take them away.. at least that i know of.

kinda similar to my manure pile problem

once in my lifetime.. we sold it  then we gave it away-- now we can't give it  away..  janine is luchy... she found a place where she can take hers and dump it... ( we are beyond that  in quantity....)  

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the chain link fence   for the new building arrived  ON A TRUCK WITH MY FATHERS RAMP - FRONWHICH WE NEVER MADE A PENNY... BUT HE HAD FUN PATTENTING IT.  ---  back to the  fnecing--- HEAVY GUAGE CHAIN LINK... DANES CAN WALK THRU THE LIGHT WIEGHT CHAIN LINK..--   I WAS IN  TEH MODE OF    SIT DOWN AND TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO FETCH AND CARRY---  THE KIDS HAD A LESSON IN CHAIN LINK INSTALLATION...  SIMPLE BOLT 2 TOGETHERE AT RIGHT ANGLE, AND YO DON'T HAVE TO HOLD IT UP.--   it gets complicated when 3 pannels meet.. you have to be careful what gets bolted to which.  it is wonderfully designed...til you loose the  right size wrench in the grass... .

our only real problem is the  clamping  pieces which do teh bolting were far lighter than i have ever used before...  so i spent the rest of the day going thru the collection of buckets containing :fencing pieces.... very gald to  find we have maybe enough to  solve the  "weak joints" 

that is toeday's job.... while i wait for teh 8 pallets of dry food...

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i hate to think where we would be without purina -- we have enough troble with  free food... and such good food too...  we ran out of puppy food... and i went to tractor supply and bought  one 50 pound bag was $50.00  --  BLESS PURINA  !!

MAY 24 2017

ALL MY BRILLIANT IDEAS  FOR THIS DAILY DOGGIE ...HAVE DESERTED ME-- IF I COME RIGHT OUT OF MY ROOM AND GET AT IT-- THE DD USUALLY HAS SOME REACTION TO THINGS ON THE NEWS... INCLUDING ADVERTIZEMENTS--  AS YOU AL LKNOW...  HOWEVER TODAY  I FELL VICTUM TO AN AD FOR WRANGLER JEANS-- AND  ORDERED A PAIR-- IN BLACK ... SO I CAN WEAR THEM TO TH EPLACE THAT HAS A DRESS CODE AGAINST "BLUE JEANS"

ONCE I DID THAT-- ALL  CLEVER FLEETING  CONCEPTS FOR THIS DD   FLED.

SO....STARTING FROM SCRATCH...

THE DRAINS IN THE NEW BUILDING-- YOU KNOW THE $11,000 FLOOR DRAINS THAT DID NOT DRAIN....... IT IS AMAZING BEING THE LITTLE OLD LADY ROUTINE...  I CALLED THE COMPANY WHICH HAD PUT IN THESE FLOOR DRAINS "WHICH THEY HAD TO DO TO CODE... "  INSTEAD OF MAYBE $50 OF PVC WE HAVE $11,000 OF CAST IRON AND COPPER -- PUT IN WITHOUT MY BLESSING--.HOWEVER MOVING ON....TO TEST  IT, THEY HAD  PUT IN A 8 FOOT TALL PIECE OF IRON PIPE   - VERTICALLY --AND FILLED IT WITH WATER FOR A PRESSURE TEST....

THEN LEFT IT FOR 24 HOURS TO SEE IF ANYTHING LEAKED... THE INSPECTOR CAME AND APPROVED, THEY TOOK IT DOWN AND SAID WE WERE OK TO POUR THE FLOOR.. WHICH WE DID--- AND FINALLY, IN THE PROCESS OF CASTRATING THE MALE DONKEY IN THE BUILDING, I DECIDED TO  POUR WATER DOWN THIESE VERY EXPENSIVE DRAINS...

 HORRIFIED IT DID NOT DRAIN...  WELL IT DID DRAIN VERY SLOWLY---   IN 6 HOURS... ---THE ONE THING I HAD BUILT THE BUIDING FOR WAS TO BE ABLE TO  RINSE THE WHOLE HING DOWN WITH CHOLROX IN CASE WE HAD A CASE OF   ANYTHING CONTAGEOUS ( OR IN HEAT NOT WANTING TO BREED)

WITH $11,000 BLAZEN IN MY BRAIN... I CALLED THE COMPANY.. AND THEY SENT A NEW GUY.. ASSUMNG HE HAD NORMAL RESPECT FOR DISCUSSIONS, I SUGGESTED MAYBE THERE WAS SOMETHING BLOCKING THE DRAINS LEFT OVER FROM THIS PRESSURE TEST WITH THE  8' COLUMN OF WATER.  

HE STARTED IN..... EXPLAINING HOW WATER WAS TO RUN DOWN HILL-- THEN HE STARTED IN  EXPLAINING TO ME  HOW THE "P" TRTAP WORKED AND  ASKED  DID I KNOW HOW SIPHONING WORKED-- HE OBVIOUSLY HAD NOT SEEN MY NUTTY PROFESSOR PERFORMANCE TRYING TO GET MY RUBBER DUCKY FROM THE BUCKET WHICH WAS THE ATLANTIC-- TO THE  "PACIFIC" BUCKET THRU THE "PANAMA CANAL " OF DISHPAN THINGS... OR THE TRANSFERING OF PURPLE DYE THRU A STRING OF WATER BOTTLES AND ALL OVER THE FLOOR AND ME...--I FINALLY CUT HIM OFF..AND TRIED TO ASK THE QUESTION....  ?IF THERE WAS SOME SORT OF PLUG LEFT OVER FROM THE PRESSURE TEST... WHY WAS IT DRAINING  SLOWLY ANYWAY.. HE-- WITH DIFFICULTY REMOVED 5 PLUGS  ON A STRING.....

THAT QUESTION STILL REMAINS....I SUSPECT THE PLUMBING INSPECTOR NEVER CAME TO "READ" THE  PRESSURE TEST. 

 OTHERWISE-----HOW COULD THOSE 2 THINGS BE TRUE?

JUST ONE MORE " AT ODDS WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTOR"  --  WHO ONCE TOLD ME  "YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE, YOU ARE ONLY A WOMAN"  

AS ONLY A WOMAN... I KNOW FULL WELL WATER RUNS DOWNHILL  ,UNTIL SOME  CONGRESSMAN TRYS TO PASS SOME LAW TO THE CONTRARY....

IN ADDITION... EACH OF THESE "P TRAP DRAINS" HAS A VENTN  - UNFINISHED AND STILL "INSIDE" -- WHICH IS O GO THRU THE ROOF - WITH MORE IRON PIPE--- I TRIED TO GET HIM IN CONVERSATION  ABOUT WHY CAPPING THOSE WOULD AFFECT THE ABILITY TO DRAIN THE FLOOR, IF BOTH ENDS OF THE DRAIN PIPE WERE OPEN ANYWAY...  HE WOULDN'T EVEN GO THERE... AND PROCEEDED TO LECTURE  ME ON SEWER GASSES.

SEWER GASSES HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ORIGIONAL QUESTION  ABOUT SIPHONING.

A TACTIC OFTEN  USED AGAINST LITTLE OLD LADIES  AND OTHER  VOTERS...  QUICKLY THROW IN SOME "BUZZ WORDS"  AND DISTRACT THE LISTENER...  

 HOW RARELY HAVE YOU HEARD A NEWSCASTER SAY THE WORDS " BUT THAT DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION I ASKED..." 

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IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AROUND HERE... AND I AM DECLARING WAR AGAINST THAT SLOPPY LOGIC...  LAURA HAS BEEN TUNED UP  AND DOES PRETTY WELL..  IF I ASK "HAS ANYONE WASHED THE FLOOR TOFDAY?"   I GET ANSWERS LIKE " THERE IS A NEW MOP ON THE PORCH"   OR "WHY, IS IT DIRTY?"    --- ANSWER SHOULD HAVE BEEN  "I HAVE NOT WASHED IT TODAY.." OR EVEN   "I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYONE WASH IT TODAY." 

PEOPLE FROM NEW JERSEY ARE RUMORED TO BE GUILTY OF THAT..  I AM TOLD..... IF YOU ASK THE JERSEY TURNPIKE TOLL TAKER " WHICH WAY TO PHILADELPHIA? "   YOU WILL GET--- " WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GO THERE FOR?"

 IT IS COMICAL.... AND I AM ONTO IT..

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SCHEDULE....

CHAIN LINK FENCE IS DUE HERE THIS MORNING.... AND THE DOG FOOD TRUCK BETWEEN   10 AND 3-- SO I NEED TO GO SEE OUT FRIENDY POLICEMAN AND GIVE THEM SOME LIFESAVORS TO THINK KINDLY OF LETTING THERM THRU...

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Last year I started watching SDP right around the time of my 2nd mastectomy.  The first mail call I watched was with Steve and you were talking to some guests about your previous work on films.  It perked me up, and then the puppies came in June.  I love watching the puppies.  Your 24 hr access has helped me through a rough time.

Now I am obsessed with watching SDP.

I feel like I know some of the people, and appreciate and enjoy all your

stories.  I tell everyone about SDP.  I would love to be able to make it to a dogfest and meet everyone in person.

I am going to try and buy a chicken brick every other month this year, but this month I am going to buy 2, one is extra, since I was going to send something, but you said you just need bricks sold.

MAY 23 2017

TODAY SCHEDULE--

FIRST THING----EYE DR APT ...I WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER MY CATARACT SURGERY A SUCCESS... I CAN SEE ALOT BETTER...  HOWEVER THAT IS STILL NOT PERFECT --- THERE IS A PERMANNENT  BIT OF DOG SLOBBER IN MY RIGHT EYE....-- 

 SECOND CHORE OF THE DAY IS A STAFF MEETING-- SEEING AS I LITERALLY VIEW  THE WORLD THRU A BIT OF DOG SLOBER,..... I MUST BE VERY CAREFUL TO "OFFER SUGGESTIONS"  TO  EVERYONE- EQUALLY OFFENSIVELY  --- I AM NOT KNOW FOR MY DELICATE  LANGUGE------  GOT TO ADMIT  THE DOGS WE ARE TURNING OUT ARE NEARLY PERFECT..-- BUT THERE ARE DETAILS WHICH SOMETIMES PEIPLE SAY "WHAT DIFFERENCT DOES THAT SMALL DETAIL MAKE?" --THEY NEED TO BE REMINDED... SIMPLE THINGS.... LIKE--- IF I AM OUT TALKING TO  WHAT I AM SURE IS A MILLIONAIRE WITH CHECKBOOK.... AND I OFFER TO SHOW THEM HOW THEY COUDL WATCH US ONLINE....., AND I DIAL UP THE WEB SITE, PROUDLY CLICK ON WATCH US... AND THERE IS NOT A DOG IN SITE... HOW ON EARTH WE CAN HAVE 6 CAMERAS, 60  DOGS... AND NOT HAVE ONE SHOW  ON CAMERA....THAT HAS TO  CHANGE...  ALONG WITH  REFERRING OUT CHORES YOU DIDN'T WANT TO ADDRESS YOURSELF.... ATTACKING BUD WITH A LONG LIST OF SIMPLE THINGS WHICH SHOULD BE SOLVED WITHOUT HIS HELP...

PLUS.... IF WALTER DOES NOT ACHEIVE A TIE THIS MORNING, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CALL IN THE  PLAN B... B= BENTLEY...  I DON'T WANT TO TAKE A CHANCE ON NO PUPS FROM THIS FEMALE--  2 YEARS FROM NOW WE WILL BE VERY SHORT...LOOKING BACK...  YEARS AGO WE DID NOT SAVE ENOUGH FEMALEWS TO KEEP US BETTER SUPPLIED...  WE ARE 5 WEEKS BEHIND SCHEDULE OF PUPPY PRODUCTION...

 THIRDLY-- I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH CRANNEY COMPANY-- BECUSE AT THE MOMENT,  THIS BUILDING  WE BUILT SO WE COULD WASH DOWN THE FLOORS AND WALLS,,, AND HAVE  IT RUN OUT THE $11,000 FLOOR DRAIN SYSTEM,,,, DOESN'T  "RUN"----  IT DOESN'T EVEN "WALK" ---- MAYBE  THE  BIG PUDDLE I PUT ON THE FLOOR WILL DRIP OUT IN AN HOUR OR TWO...-- WITH ALL THE OBJECTIO TO MY PIECE OF $3.00  PVC PIPE AS A DRAIN-- THIS $11,000  CONTRAPTION DOESN'T WORK...

MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING I DON'T UNDERSTAND....

I ALWAYS THOUGHT WATER RUNS  DOWN HILL.... MAYBE THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED THAT....

AT THE MOMENT A VERY SAD  EPISODE---  COULD BE IN THE TESTING OF THESYSTEM THEY HAD COVERS, OR PLUGS TO TEST THE PRESSURE, AND THOSE HAVE NOT BEEN REMOVED?????  

CRANNEY  PLUMBERS ARE DUE HERE THIS AFTERNOON.

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FOOD IS TO BE DELIVERED TODAY  -- OR PROBABLY--- AT THE SAME TIME... BOXFORD ROAD IS TO GET IT'S HOT TOP TODAY-- I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WILL AFFECT TEH 53' TRACTOR TRAILER  ALSO DUE HERE

 ( PROBABLY TODAY)   WITH OUR WONDERFUL PURINA DONATION OF FOOD.

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 I WENT OU T WITH JODY TO SEE ABOUT THE CULVERT..  KIDS HAVE TO HAVE MOVED IT.. IT IS OFF IN THE SWAMP   

BIG TREE ACTOSS THE DONKEY TRAIL WHERE THE PATH FORKS JODY WENT FURTHER ON FOOT... SAW OR TRACTOR NEEDED....

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I HEAR PLANS BEING MADE IN THE KITCHEN WITH AJAY AND NICOLE ( NEWLY ARRIVED CP'S)----, I SHOULD GET INVOLVED....

MAY 22 2017

I GUESS ADD BEATING TO THE LIST OF THINGS EXPECTED OF A CP..   YESTERDAY  AS TOO MANY THINGS WERE PILING UP BEHIND ME I SWUNG TO HIT THE SEAT OF MY GOLF CART TO DEMO MY FRUSTRATION..... AND MISSED HITTING JODY IN THE LEG-- SHE SAAYS I EVEN RAISED A BRUISE !!.. IT WAS A WHIFFLE BAT REACTION  MINUS THE WHIFFLE BAT...

SO LAST NIGHT-- EVEN WITH MY POOR MEMORY, I LISTED   17 THINGS THAT WERE PILING UP...  WE ARE GOIONG THRU A PHASE OF PEOPLE RUSHING TO TELL ME THE  " WFB"  REPORT.. ( ANYTHING THAT IS WRONG/FAILING/ BROKEN) -- ONE OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT IS THAT ... I AM TOLD THE PIPE I PUT IN THE  WOODS AS A CULVERT "WASHED AWAY??????   THAT REALLY BLEW ME UP... BECAUSE IT IS AN 18 " CULVERT IN A BASICALLY DRY DITCH  ABOUT 8' LONG   -- IF THAT "WASHED AWAY"  I NEED TO GO SEE-- BECAUSE  IN MY JUDGEMENT ... IT  WOULDN'T-- PROBLEM IS... I CAN ONLY GET NEAR IT ON A GOLF CART-- AND THAT HAS TO BE ON A GOLF CART THAT SPENT THE NIGHT PLUGGED IN.... SO MAYBE THIS AFTERNOON... I HOPE IT WAS LOCAL KIDS MOVING IT... BECAUSE I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW....... 

I CAN TAKE JUST SO MANY OF THE ITEMS IN THE WFB REPORT AND I HAVE A MELTDOWN.... 17 IS  TOO MANY

 TOTALLY UNDOING THE CELLAR WAS/IS  TOP ON THE LIST..... AT LEAST I CAN TRY AND FIX THAT.....

BEST ILLUSTRATION???? LINDA PICKED UP A ROLL OF  FOIL WRAP AND WIPED IT OFF... TO FIND IT WAS PURCHASED AT PURITY SUPREME--THAT STORE  WENT OUT OF BUSINESS 10  YEARS AGO--- FULL ROLL-- STUCK ON A SHELF---  AND THAT IS A PERFECT DEMO  OF THE HUGE PROBLEM WHICH IS OUR CELLAR...  PUTTING THINGS "AWAY FOR LATER" 

   THE "AWAY" GOT FULL AND THE " LATER " HAPPENED YEARS AGO...

WAY IN THE BACK ARE MEDICAL  BILLING RECORDS WHICH HAVE TO BE SHREADED  ( OR MORE LIKELY I WILL BURN THEM QUICKLY BEFORE ANYONE TELLS ME BURNING DOESN'T DESTROY THEM ADAQUATELY...) WE ARE TALKING 1985 ISH OF BOXES OF CARDBOARD-- BEST FIRE HAZARD GOING !!

WE DID ESTABLISH A FREEBEE  PILE ON THE STREE, AND GOT RID OF ALOT !-- PROBABLY ONE PICKUP TRUCK FULL-- DE-HUMIDIFIER-- JACKETS FOR DOGS OTHER THAN DANES.... MANY ITEMS  TO "ORGANIZE YOUR OFFICE"   WHICH I HAVE PROVEN TO BE  INEFFECTIVE-- A THING TO HOLD THE KURIG COFFEE LITTLE CUPS THAT WAS SLIGHTLY TOO SMALL -- BUT LOOKED REALLY GOOD IN STAINLKESS STEEL...

WE EVEN PUT OUT A SAMPLE OF OUR POO PICKERS AS AN EDUCATIONAL SUGGESTION  TO PEOPLE WALKING THIER DOGS ALONG BOXFORD RD...

IF WE HAD EVER STARTED THAT  ON SATURDAY MORNING INSTEAD OF WAITING TIL SUNDAY THE CELLAR WOULD BY NOW BE BARE... 

WELLL... EXCEPT FOR THE PAINT FROM HOME DEPOT...  THEY GAVE US A PALLET OF ODD PAINTS-- WHICH IS WHY ALL THE BUILDINGS ARE SUCH DIFFERENT COLORS-- WE USED ALOT--- NOW IT WILL TAKE ALOMST AS MUCH EFFORT TO GET RID OF WHAT WE DID NOT USE...

LOOKING AT IT FROM THE TOP DOWN... WE NEED TO BE MORE ORGNIZED--- FOR INSTANCE....  WE USE A BUNCH OF FLUFFOLIES-- THEY GE T DIRTY AND ENTER THE LAUNDRY SYSTEM, GET CLEANED AND FOLDED AND RETURENED TO UPSTAIRS FOR USE... SOME ARE VERY WARN...A ND NEED REPLACEMENT-- WE HAVE A TON OF REPLACEMENT FLUFFIES-- BRAND NEW-- THAT HAVE NOT ENTERED THE CIRCULATION ( WE DON'T NEED MORE)

 WE JUST NEED JACKY AND AMY TO TAKE OUT THE RIPPED / WORN  FOR THEIR QUILTING PROJECT AND WE STARTT WITH THE NEW ONES...

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SOMEHOW MY COLLECTION OF WIERD BIKES LANDED IN A BAC CORNER... -- MOST NOTABLE MY "PENNY FARTHING" HIGH WHEELER WHICH I RODE TO WIN THE GREAT RACE IN BOSTON--- A 26 MILE RACE ON LAND OR SEA-- WHERE THE WINNER IS ALWAYS DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE THEY MUST HAVE CHEATED..  I REALLY DIDN'T CHEAT--I RODE THE ENTIRE 26 MILES... MOSTLY BECAUSE IT HAD NO BRAKES AND I COULDN NOT GET OFF WITHOUT HELP...  I BEAT THE TV CREW WHO HAD SAILED A WATER BED TO THE FINISH LINE.. SOMEHOW I THINK TOMMY NUGENT WAS INVOLVED DRIVING THE HORSE TRAILER TO THE FINISH LINE TO PICK ME UP????  TOMMY???? THA WAS LOOOOONG AGO--- BEFORE HE WAS A DR, HE WAS MY STABLE HELP !! 

THE OTHER BIKE  IN THE CELLAR.....IS ONE I "MADE" FOR A LATER GREAT RACE-- I SPENT WEEKS PUTTING TOGETHER 2 WHEELS WITH THE HUBS 2"  OFF CENTER--- THAT WAS A WILD  26 MILES TOO..

AND THEY ARE BOTH SADLY UNDER A PILE IN TH ECELLAR...

TO BE RESCUED THIS WEEK...

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FROM MAIL CALL--- AND HAROLD AND WANDA; PRECUT POO PICKERS, I SEE THEY HAEV EATEN  A DUNCAN HINES   APPLE CINNAMIN MUFFIN  -- READY  IN  A MINNUTE..-- PERFEDT FOR ONE--

LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW-- SO I GAVE THAT  POO PICKER TO STEVE-- WHO WANDERA AROND  SUPER MARKETS TRAINING DOGS... HE MAY AS WELL LOOK FOR THOSE

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TODAYS SCHEDULE/ EXCITEMENT....  NEUTERING- SURGERY ON THE MALE DONKEY AT ABOUT 11 AM...  USUALLY DONE ON THE GRASS, BUT SINCE WE DON'T HAVE ANY GOOD PIECE OF GRASS, HE MAY DO IT IN TH EBARN -- HE IS  BRYAN..  TH EONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DONKEY AND HORSE NEUTERING IS A DONKEY IS MORE  INCLINED TO BELEED AND I ALWYAS REMIND THE VET ABOUT  "ONE STITCH" IS NEEDED...

IF YOU WOULD LIKE A DISCUSSION ABOUT HTE ENTIR PEOCESS I SUGGEST A "TED LECTURE"  BY MIKE ROWE-- WHO DID A "DIRTY JOB" AT A SHEEP FARM.  IT IS VERY EDUCATIONAL....

MAY 21 2017

I NEVER SHOULD NHAVE SAID I KNEW ALL ABOUT THIS IMPULSE SPRAYER--- IT TOO IS LIKE  COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY... YOU CAN BE AN ABSOLUTE EXPERT ON ONE PIECE OF TECH,  AND NOT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT  THE REST-- OF WHICH THERE IS A GREAT DEAL..

 SO MY  SPRINKLER EDUCATION CONTINUES-- AFTER LOOKING THIS ONE OVER-- WHICH APPERARS LIKE ALL TH OTHERS I CAN'T FIND.... I CAN MAKE IT WORK PRETTY MUCH AS I WANT.. PATTERN/QUANTITY ETC..  BUT I STOPPED TO LOOK AT THE PIECES.... AND THERE IS A LEVER/SWITCH. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT DOES--..I TAKE THAT BACK... I KNOW WHAT IT DOES, IT REVERSES THE ROTATION--- BUT EXACTLY HOW IT DOES THAT CONTINUES TO COMNFUSE ME-- AND AFTER JOYCE AND I STUDIED IT, I HATE TO SAY, BUT THE ONLY WAY TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND IS TO HOOK IT UP AND GET ALL WET...  WHICH I WILL EVENTUALLY DO ,.... SOME WARM DAY....

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I HAVE HAD SEVERALA VERY INTERESTING FLY TRAP DESIGNS SENT TO ME....  THERE IS ONE  I HAVE USED VERYU SUCCESFULLY AS FLY TRAP IF YOU CAN STAND THE ROTTING SMELL WHICH FLYS REALLLLLLLY LOVE.-- I USE A GALLON MILK JUG ( CUT OFF THE  TOP , INVERT THE TOP AND DUCT TAPE THE EDGES.. MAKEING A FUNNEL IN BUT THE  FLYS  WILL CRAWL UP THE WALLS AND CAN NOT FIND THE EXIT )   -- COUPLE PIECES OF  RAW CHICKEN LIVER-

 ( NOW HERE COMES THE CRITICAL PART....) A GENEROUS GLOB OF DOGGIE DOO.. NOW YOU MUST WATCH FOR A BIT OF  POO THAT IS VERY ATTRACTIVE TO FLYS.... NOT ALL DOG POO IS-

BEING THE AVID STUDIER OF  USELESS INFORMTION....  I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED IF SOME DOGS PASS SOME PROTIEN IN THEIR STOOLS .. MAKING IT VERY ATTRACTIVE TO OTHER DOGS FOR SNACKING-- DO SOME DOGS PRODUCE "FLAVORED POOP"?  WHY DO SOME DOGS TAKE A WHIFF OF A PILE AND EITHER LEAVE IT OR SAMPLE IT?  -- IT IS A QUESTION TO BE STUDIED AT LEGNTH-- AT ANY RATE -- THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN ATTRACTIVENESS TO  FLYS... LET THE FLYS IDENTIFY THE CORRECT POO TO PUT IN THE MILK JUG WITH YOUR CHICKEN LIVER....  ADD ABOUT  AN INCH OF WATER AND SET/ HANG SOMEWHERE  FAR FROM  WHEREVER YOUR NOSE MIGHT BE... 

I HABE BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT 3 OR 4 INCHES OF THOSE BLACK SHINNEY FLYS.  BEFORE I FINALLY BAG IT AND START AGAIN...

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 MY PREFERRED MOSQUITO COLLECTION DEVICE ... CONTINUES TO BE  THAT FINE NET (FROMA FABRIC STORE IS  EASY TO FIND.)  FORMED INTO A FUNNEL VERY QUICKLY WITH A REGULAR OFFICE STAPLER-- AND ZIP TIED TO THE FANS-----  IN THE DELUX MODEL - I HAVE HUNG A REGULAR LIGHT BULB-- BEHIND THE FAN  THIS WILL INCREASE BOTH MOSQUITO COUNT AND MOTH NUMBER... THE REGULAR 20 INCH WINDOW FANS WORK WELL... ( $19.00)

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 WHEN IT CONTAINS HUNDREDS OF MOSQUITOS---- ONE WOULD THINK SPRAYING THE NET WITH RAID WOULD KILLL THEM.. I HAVE FOUND  AFTER A 12 HOUR SOAKING RAID DOES NOT WORK... BUT TWISTING THE NET AND STEPPIN ON IT  WITH A HEAVY FOOT, WILL WORK NICELY.

IF  BEING HEAVILY COATED BY A DIERCT SPRAY OF RAID DID NOT KILL THOSE MOSQUIOS , I WONDER IF THE MAKER EXPECTS YOU TO COAT YOUR  YARD TO A DEPTH OF 6 INCHES  BECAUSE SWIMMING IS NOT A SPORT CDONE BY MOSQUITOS???

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Hi Carlene,

Clark and I have had a few low-key weeks since the end of the semester.  And that's a good thing!  We are enjoying the nicer weather outside on our daily walks, as well as work and errands.

A lesson on listening to your dog:

When we walk in the neighborhood, we usually walk uphill and do the street behind us.  It's not really steep, but the sidewalk is a little uneven and we have to be careful and go slow, or else I tend to stumble on that part.  This afternoon, as we headed toward the sidewalk, Clark kept nudging me and turned the wrong way (or so I thought).  I started saying "Clark, no---" but then realized he was just leading me to walk on the side of the street, which was better paved and much easier.  A thinking walker, for sure!  Glad one of us was using our brain. :) 

We actually ended up walking our route twice before lunch today.  I could not have done that route even once a year ago.  Thank you, thank you for the wonderful gift of Clark!

Caroline

MAY 20 2017

UNBELIEVABLE  HAPPENING !  WORTHY  OF  NOTE...

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Hi, 

Your appointment for today is on schedule. A technician should arrive between 05:15 PM-06:15 PM. We will send you an update if anything changes.

Thanks, 

Your Verizon Team

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I AM AN AVID COMPLAINER- JUST IN CASE YOU HAD NOT NOTICED.....AND WE... LINDA+++ HAD A RUN IN WITH VERIZON... THE TV'S ALL WENT OUT   LINDA CALLED VERIZON- THINKING IT WAS ONLY THE  "OFFICE" TV AND WAS TOLD THEY WOULD GIVE HER MORE EQUIPMENT IN 3 WEEKS... AND TEHN I NOTICED MY TV WAS DEAD... AND I STARTED IN....  CALLED-- ON HOLD-- CUT OFF--- CALLED BACK-- ON HOLD-- GOT AN ENGLISH SPEAKING PERSON...---I  BEGGED THEM "PLEASE DON'T CUT ME OFF  AGAIN"  -- AND THEY REALLY DID NOT--- WHILE I ACTUALLY HAD 2 TECH'S ON THE PHONE FINALLY A WOMAN WHO SAID SHE WOULD HAVE SOMEONE HERE "THIS AFTERNOON"... AND THEY FOLLOWED THRU 150%-- THEY CALLED 30 MIN LATER---TO SAY THE TECH WAS INB GEROGETOWN ... AN D WE  WERE HIS NEXT HOUSE CALL...  THEN HE CALLED AND SAID HE WOULD BE 10 MIN LATE- BUT WAS ON HIS WAY...-- THEN HE GOT HERE AND FIXED IT !  WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT SERVICE???? WE HAVE  5 "SET BOXES" 3 HOUSE  ONE GUEST HOUSE AND ONE TRAINING ROOM... AND WE HAD SOME KIND OF  SIGNAL BOOSTER WHICH DECIDED  NOT TO BOOST...

THE CONCEPT OF NO TV WAS AN EDUCATIIONAL CATASTROPHY--  WHAT DOES ONE DO WITHOUT IT????  I WAS/AM  HORRIFIED TO SEE HOW XXXXXXXXX I HAVE BECOME.  IT IS NOT LIKE I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO...

IT IS ALSO MY NIGHT LIGHT.

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PEOPLE ( CAMERA PEOPLE)  ASK HOW I WRITE THIS EVERY MORNING ( SOME PEOPLE ASK WHY.....)  .. NOW THIS MAY BE HARD TO BELIEVE...  BUT I WAKE UP TOO EARLY  -- 2 - 3 AND I DO SIT UPS  IN BED-- THIS MORING 60 SIT UPS.. I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE A PEN IN MY HAND,,, AND  AN INDEX CARD ON MY TOE--

 AND EVERY TIME I SIT UP , I MAKE A HASH MARK  4 UP ONE ACROSS  TO KEEP TRACK..  AND AS I AM UP-SITTING  I LISTEN TO THE TV - MOSTLY THE ADS  AND IT STARTS ME THINKING...  AND ALONG WITH A HASH MARK, I MAKE NOTES FOR THE DD... WHICH IS WHY MANY ARE RELATED TO ADVERTISING...

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LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT SHORT TERM MEMORY  ( BEFORE I FORGET..) ----

AS I WAS GETTING DRESSED... I REALIZED YOU ALL MUST THINK I SLEEP IN MY CLOTHES BECAUSE MY USUAL "UNIFORM" AT THIS TIME OF YEAR IS A  "TEAL COLORED  SUN BLOCK SHIRT"   EVERY YEAR I BUY ONE OF THOSE  SUN BLOCK SHIRTS  -- THEY ARE EXPENSIVE-- I HAVE DONE THAT FOR MANY YEARS...  PROBLEM IS... IN WINTER, I GET THE CATA LOG AND VERY CAREFULLY PICK OUT A SHIRT-- THEY ONLY COME IN 4 OR 5 COLORS... AND AFTER LOOKING THEM OVER, I DECIDE TEAL IS A PRETTY COLOR-- AND I ORDER ONE..  WHEN I GET IT, I ADD IT TO MY CLOSET---   THIS YEAR I ADDED IT TO THE OTHER 3 TEAL SHIRTS THAT ARE BASICALLY IDENTICAL..

THAT CONCEPT IS EVIDENT IN MANY ASPECTS OF CRAZY ACRES...

WITH SHIRTS IT IS NOT REALLY A PROBLEM AS LONG AS I DON'T MIND WEARING THE SAME COLORED SHIRT  MANY TIMES.... HOWEVER... THE MORE SERIOUS CONCEPT--

I AM TRYING TO GET GREEN GRASS BY DOGFEST IN SEPTEMBER-- SO I TRY AND GET STUFF GROWOING BEFORE THE ARID AUGUST SETS IN...-- SEED IS OUT... HOSE IS FOUND..  I OWN A BUNCH OF SPRINKLERS--  SOMEONE ( PROBABLY RYAN) PUT THEM SOMEWHERE- ONE WOULD EXPECT IN THE VICINITY OF THE HOSES--  BUT NO.... SO I BOUGHT A COUPLE HAND ONES AND A CIRCULAR DEVICE DESIGNED BY  THE WIZARD OF OZ...  

ONE THING THAT MAKES CRAZY ACRES POSSIBLE IS THAT I HAVE SPENT HOURS BEING EDUCATED BY  THINGS LIKE SPRINKLING DEVICES-- AND THIS ONE... WITH ALL IT'S WIRES, SCRESWS AND FLAPS IS NO STRANGER TO ME....

AS I WAS DIDDLING WITH IT TO PURSUADE IT  TO SPRINKLE THE AREA BY PUPPY HILL IN A 1/2 CIRCLE, SOME WELL MEANING PERSON  CAME BY AND  SAID " OH THOSE THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO WATER A FULL CIRCLE--  BETTER TAKE IT BACK AND GET ANOTHER-- THEY DON'T MAKE THEM TOO WELL" ...

 NOW...( THE CRITICAL PART)  IF THAT PERSON  WAS DOING THE WATERING  BY THEMSELVES  AND  RAN INTO THE FINIKY SPRINKLER  THEY  MIGHT RUN TO THE HARDWARE STORE AND BUY ANOTHER WITHOUT BOTHERING TO MENTION TO ME  THAT IW WAS NOT FUNCITIONIBNG AS THEY  THOUGHT I T SHOULD.

THIS HAPPENS MORE THAN I CARE TO TALK ABOUT LATEY--- PEOPLE ARE MAKING DECISIONS THAT ARE NEW TO THEM WHEN THEY REALLY NEED TO RUN  THINGS BY ME---OR SOMEONE.... LIKE BUD... OR DAVID...

I AM KIDDING????   WATER STARTED DRIPPING THRU THE CEILING AND WALL IN THE HALL- I WAS TOLD WITH GREAT AUTHORITY... IT WAS THE UPSTAIRS TOILET AND I BETTER CALL THE PLUMBER...  HAVING THAT  PARTICULAR PIECE OF EQUIPMENT DRIP WWATER THRU THE WALL  WAS NOT  MY IDEA OF  SOMETHING WHICH COULD BE DELAYED...-- SO I ASKEDS SOMEONE TO SEE WHERE  THE WATER WAS COMING FROM--  THEY REPORTED THE INTAKE AREA... I.E. PLAIN WATER-- SO THEY WRAPPED A WASHCLOTH AROND IT AND LET THE WATER  DRIP  INTO A BUCKET-- A GOOD FIX...  DUMP IT IN THE TUB ONCE INA WHLE AND WAIT FOR ANOTHER PLUMBING PROBLEM SO  WE CAN SAVE ON HOUSE CALLS..

UNDER CONTROL...  EXCEPT... THE  BROKEN TOILET RUMOR FLURISHED-- AND SO A WELL MEANING CP  DONATED ONE...  VERY NICE---IT LANDED IN THE GARAGE-- STEVE ( MEATCUTTER SEVE) SAID HE HAD 2 TOILETS HE DIDN'T NEED---- I WOUOLD SAY I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED AT HIS HOUSE, BUT IF YOU ARE COUNTING , SDP NOW HAS 3 WE DON'T NEED.

IN THE MEANTIME ... DAVID WAS STANDING AROUND ENJOYING THE BREEZE OF THE HEAT AND A/C UNITIS HE INSTALLED FOR US-- AND I MENTIONED THE UPSTAIRS LEAK...-- HE CAME BACK AND SAID  IT NEEDED A PIECE HE COUDD GET FROM THE HARDWARE STORE.. I HANDED HIM $10  - HE CAME BACK WITH $8.51  AND FIXED TEH " LEAK"-- IT NEEDED A NEW AIRIATOR  BECAUS E TH OLD ONE WAS PRODUCING A TINY SPRAY OF WATER WHICH  WAS DRIPPING OFF A PERFECTLY GOOD PIPE....  $1.49  FIXED.

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I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED AT THE  BROKEN WHEELBARROW HANDLES BEFORE I BOUGHT THE NEW HANDLES-- WHICH I SHLDH NOT HAVE BOUGHT BECAUSE BY THE TIME I GOT HOME SOMEONE BOUGHT A NEW WHEELBAROW-- SO NOW, IN THE CORNER WE HAVE 2 HANDLES... THESE CORNERS ARE GETTING FULL OF "LATER I WILL" JOBS...

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I COULD GO ON  AND ON-- WHE WHEEL ON THE LAUNDRY CART- SOMEONE BOUGHT A "DOLLY WHEEL"   WHICH DID NOT FIT...SO IT WS SET ASIDE AND A NEW LAUNDRY CART EMERGED---I SAW TEH OVERTURNED  CART IN THE CORNER... AND SAW IT NEEDED A MINOR ADJUSTMENT TO HAVE THE WHEEL FIT-- JODY FIXED IT  IN ? 10 MINUTES...-- NOW WE HAVE 2 CARTS..  AND MANY OTHER CORNERS OF THE PLACE ARE FILLED WITH  "SOMEDAY"  AND " LATER"  ITEMS TO BE FIXED...

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ALL THIS CAUSED ME TO HAVE A NIGHTMARE LAST NIGHT ABOUT  HAVEING THE 12 PUPS IN THE HOUSE,  PLUS.....I FOUND ( IN MY NIGHTMARE) ANOTHER LITTER OF PUPS--  4 WIRE HAIRED TERRIERS- IN THE BACK OF ONE OF THE SHEDS- AND TEHY WERE FILTHY.   I AM SURE THAT WAS CAUSED BY  THE WHOLE OF CRAZY ACRES IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF TOO MUCH --- WHICH IS TOO GOOD TO BE THROWN OUT-- ( WE WILL USE THAT NEW TOILET  EVENTUALLY...  IF WE CAN FIND IT )

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I KNOW I DID BUY A RANGE EXTENDER FOR THE PHONE SO I COULD ANSWER THE HOUNE IN MY SUMMER -- OUTDOOR -- OFF ICE I N THE T TENT.  WE CAN'T FIND IT ... EXCEPT   WE DO HAVE  A 

BLACK BOX-- ALL WIRED IN  -- WITH NO DIRECTIONS - I DON'T DARE DISCONNECT IT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS RUNNING...  MAYBE THA T IS IT....

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LORDY.... AN ERROR !!!   I think you mentioned my cheesecake in a DD earlier this week … I’m from Ohio, not Tennessee.   You got one from Ohio and three from Tennessee courtesy of Kari and her friend. 

SO  OHIO CHEESCAKES ARE TOOOOO GOOOD ALSO

MAY 19 2017

CAKE DAY AGAIN..PROBLEM IS TO NOT EAT CAKE BETWEEN 19TH's  OF THE MONTH...( -- or cheesecake-- or alot of other things too...)

PUPS ARE GETTTING SPOON FED IN AN EFFORT TO HAVE MEGAN BE ABLE TO TAKE THEM ON A MEGAN MARCH SOON....

THERE IS A CALENDAR SHOT  I REALLY WANT TO DO... AND THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW HER..  SHE HAS ALSO SUGGESTED WE LET THEM LOOSE MORE OFTEN IN THE HOUSE...  ( NOTICE HOW I CAN BLAME HER)  BUT SHE IS RIGHT... IT MAY BE EASIER TO KEEP THEM COOPED UP IN THAT ROOM, BUT  THAT IS NOT PRODUCTIVE  IN THE LONG RUN... NOR IS IT WHY WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE PUPPY SITTING WITH THEM...  MUST LET THEM OUT  AND DEAL.....

AND WATER---  THE LATEST SCREAMING WS SOLVED BY FILLING THE WATER DISHES..-- IF THEY SPILL IT IS  A PERFECT REASON TO REFILL IT  :).

THEY ARE REALLY GETTING TO A TRAINABLE STAGE..---SO MEGAN/STEVE  WHILE YO ARE IN HERE WAITING FOR TRAINER TALK, A FEW MINUTES OF TIME WITH THEM WOULD PROBABLY SAVE YOU HOURS IN TEH FUTURE.

 AND UNTIL I STOP EVERYTHING AND GO PUT ON LONG SOX-- OR MY CHAPS, I CAN NOT GO IN WITH THEM... OLD PEOPLE 'S SKIN JUST RIPS AND IS SLOW TO HEAL IN THE BEST OF CASES

MANAGING THOSE 12 PUPS IS NOT UNLIKE MANAGING 2 YEAR OLD TRIPLETS.... WHICH  I THINK TO STAY SANE YOU HAVE TO ANTICIPATE WHAT THEY NEED  BEFORE IT BECOMES A  SCREAMING FIT.  IF YOU WANT THEM TO LIE DOWN AND BE QUIET, THEY NEED A FLUFFY TO IDENTIFY WHERE... AND IDENTIFY A PLACE FOR THEM TO PEEE-- PREFERABLY NOT THE FLUFFY-- SO AWAY FROM IT..-- IT WORKS WELL FOR THEM TO SLEEP NEAR TEH SOFA AND  THAT MEANS TO GET  FAR FROM THE "NEST" AS THIER INSTINCT DICTATES, THE PEEPADS BELOONG NEXT TO THE REFRIGERATOR... OR IN THE ADVANCED CLASS... OPEN THAT KITCHEN DOOR AND HAVE THE PEE PADS IN THE HALL ( WHICH CAN BE BLOCKED OFF.)

MY IDEAL SERVICE DOG--   WOULD PEE ON A PEE PAD IN THE LADIES ROOM OF AN AIRPORT--  IT WOULD TAKE SOME CREATIVE TRAINING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN--- LIKE MAYBE  SMEARING A TINY BIT OF THIER STOOL AND PEE   ON THE NEW PAD  BEFORE FOLDING  UP IN YOUR CARRY ON...  THEIR SENSE OF SMELL IS TERRIFFIC.. SO JUST A DROP OR TWO..... I SUPPOSE TH ULTIATTE IS TO PUT A SCENT ON A KLEENEX WHICH YOU THEN COULD PUT ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE THE MALL... TO TELL THEM  "HERE,NOW, OR FORGET IT FOR A WHILE..."

 I AM SURE IT CAN BE DONE..  HAVE AT IT !!

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IN MY QUEST FOR GREEN GRASS BY DOGFEST, I  HAULED OUT MILES OF HOSE YESTRDAY- BUT IT WAS SO HOT I COULD NTO WATER THE GRASS WITHOURT BOILING IT.

  PLAN IS TO GO OUT EARLY TODAYM AHD WET THE NEW SEED DOWN...  I HAAVE ONE HOSE SETU P SO PEOPLE SITTING INTH E SMOKENG SHACK CAN WATR 3 PLACES WHILE THEY PUFF..

 HOWEVER... I HAVE NOT TRIED TURNINBG ON THE WELL SINCE THEY REWIRED THE PANEL... HISTORICALLY I COULD FLIP THE  DOUBLE BREAKER AND WATER WOULD FIRE OUT OF THE WELL ABOUT 50 FEET...--- GOT TO HAVE A FEW HOSES ATTACHED TO IT SO IT DOESN'T BACK UP-- IN THE REAL WORLD OF WELLS, THIS ONE WOULD USUALLY HAVE A PRESSURE TANK ATTACHED...

I USUALLY WATR THE FLAT FIELD IN AUGUST DRY SEASON...   BUT I WANT TO GET THE GRASS STARTED--  WE  ( I FORGET WHO) SPREAD FERTALIZER AN LIME ALREADY... SO AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE THE HEALTIEST DANDILIONS EVER SEEN...

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 CONVERSATION WITH A NEW CP......

Hello. I just saw a rat running on the floor on the arena cam

YES YOU PROBABLY DID---

 WE HAVE HORSES AND CHICKENS SO WE HAVE RATS TOO...

 NICE FAT GRAIN FED RATS

Okie doke. Yes it did look like a nice cared for rat.

FYI I just love watching the puppies. I was lucky to see them being born. 

? YOU HAVE NOT HEARD OF OUR "FROZEN RODENT DELIVERY COMPANY"   ???

IF WE DO SNAP TRAP ANY  WE BAG AND PUT THEM IN THE FREEER

TO BE DONATED TO THE PEOPLE WHO REHABILITATE OWLS AND HAWKS

SO IF YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING IN OUR FREEZERS FOR A KLONDIKE BAR..... BE PREPARED..

MAY 18 2017

I AM TOLD---- THAT YESTERDAY  I THANKED  A CP FOR SENDING ME THE LONG HANDLED SHOE HORN AND I SAID I USE IT 5 TIMES A DAY.. TO BE ACCURATE-- THAT COULD NOT POSSIBLEY BE TRUE  AS I HAVE 2 FEET, AND IF I USED THE SHOE HORN ONLY 5 TIMES , I WOLD HAVE BEEN WALKING AROUND ALL DAY WITH ONLY ONE SHOE... SOMEONE WOULD HAVE POINTED THAT OUT TO ME.... I AM SURE --- THE STAFF HERE IS VERY GOOD AT KEEPING TRACK OF THINGS I AM INCLINED TO  FORGET--  FORGETTING THINSG IS... I AM TOLD... NORMAL  FOR THE AGE I HAVE ACCHIEVED....-- AS AWKWARD AS IT IS... THERE IS AN ADVANTAGE... SOMETHINGS DON'T WANT TO BE REMEEMBEREDD.... AND THEN...  LOOKING FOR LOST OBJECTS HAS IMPORVED MY "KNOWTICING "   SKILLS.... ( NEW WORD) FARMING  DEMANDS AN ABILITY TO KNOWTICE  THINGS-- TYPICALLY THE ONE NAIL IN THE DRIVEWAY  TO BE PICKED UP BEFORE  A TIRE- OR A HOOF PICKS IT UP..  AS WE WERE FILMING... AND I WS SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING ATTENTION TO WHT I WAS SAYING... I LOOKIED UP.. AT THE ROOF OD THE G-TENT  AND WAS HORRIFIED TO SEE THERE ARE SEVERAL TURNBUCKLES THAT ARE SAGGING... -- SO THAT CAN BE  THE JOB OF THE NEXT BUNCH WHO COME HERE TO HELP...SPRING CLEAN?   TIGHTEN THE ROOF--  WHICH WILL INVOLVE FINDING THE SCAFFOLDING  WHICH HAS WANDERED-- I KNOWTICED  THERE ARE 2 PIECES HOLDING UP A FENCE  BEHIIND THE ARENA--- IT TOOK AS LONG TO GET THOSE PIECES TO HOLD UP THE FENCE AS IT WOLD HAVE TO REPAIR THE FENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE...  THRE IS ONE SECTION  NEXT TO THE ICU HOUSE  A GOOD 350 FEET FROM TEH FENCE HOLDER UPPERS--  IT IS EXPENSIVE STUFF WHEN PUT TOGETHE... INDIVIDUALLY, THE SECTIONS ARE VERY POOR FENCE HOLDER UPPERS. ***  THERE IS A BIG RUSH NOW- TO LOCAT  "STUFF"   BEFORE THE FOREST GROWTH SWALLOWS IT UP WITH  VINES THAT GROW 3 FEET A DAY... **** BACK TO MY 2 FEET...SOME OF YOU  KNOW THE STORY.... BUT...I STARTED WORKING/DISTRIBUTING  FOR THE WANT AD MAGAZINE   1966? IT WAS A PAPER VERSION OF EBAY-- MY FIRST DELIVERY WAS ONE CARTON IN THE BACK OF A VW.... WHEN I STOPPED IT WAS A 53'  TRACTOR TRAILER WHICH FILLED UP TEH BACK ROOM OF WHAT IS NOW THE LAUNDRY BUILDING...  BUT WHAT REALY PAID FOR THE FARM... WAS  THE FACT THAT  BEING A MATH MAJOR, AND COMPUTERS WERE NEW... I PLAYED WITH ONE AND SET UP LL MY RECORDS ON A COMPUTER SYSTEM WHICH I WROTE-- SOUNDS IMPRESSIVE, BUT HTAT IS NOT THE PART THAT GOT ME  WELL PAID....  I MANAGED THE NORTHERN SECTION ONLY BECAUSE I SORT OF GREW INTO  THE JOB......- THE SOUTHERN PART WAS MANAGED BY AN ACCOUNTING FIRM- I FORGET THE NAME  BUT CAN STIL SEE THE BLUE SUIT AND BRIEFCASE AT MEETING WHERE I HAD ON BLUE JEANS....---THE--- MEETING THAT MADE CRAZY ACRES POSSIBLE STARTED WITH THE ACCOUNTANT 'S REPORT... AN IMPRESSINVE 1/2 INCH THINK PILE OF PAPER -- SOME OF  YOU KNOW -- THE IBM WITH ALL THE HOLES  ACCORDIAN STYLE-  I UNFOLDED MY ONE PIECE OF PAPER OUT OF MY BACK POCKET AND SET IT NEXT TO HIS PILE ON THE PRES. DESK.. MY ONE SHEET HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I NEEDED TO RUN  MY HALF--- WE  LOOKED OVER HIS IMPRESSIVE LIST OF CHARGE ACCOUNTS--  GOLDIE WAS WITH ME THAT DAY....I TOOK ONE LOOK AND SAID THE REPORT WAS WRONG-- I COULDNT TELL THEM WHY IT WAS WRONG... BUT IT WAS. THE MGAZINE SOLD FOR $.86 CENTS-- AND HIS TOTAL MONEY WAS AN ODD NUMBER... COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE TRUE... ON,LY THEN DID ANYONE EVEN LOOK AT MY SCRAP OF PAPER-- WHICH HAD BOILED STATISTICS DOWN TO  SOMETHING YOU COULD QUICKLY UNDERSTAND.  SO THEY  PAID ME WELL TO BE IN  CHARGE OF THE COMPUTER STUFF-- WHICH BUILT THE BARN AND ARENA... * SOMEONE SAID  IF YOU ARE OFFERED THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING SMART OR LUCKY-- TAKE LUCKY--- EVERY TIEM... **** SO TODAY'S CHORE--- CAN  ONLY BE SORTING OUT  THE  HOSE COLLECTION  SO I CAN RESIST BUYING SOME MORE-- IT OLOOKS SO NEAT AND ORGANIZED IN THE ADVERTISEMNENTS....  AND I HAVE A SMALL TRUCKLOAD ALREADY IN THE BACK OF  " BUD'S WORLD"- BEHIND THE G- TENT--AND ALOT OF IT SI BIG/FAT  -- TO WATER THE FLAT FIELD FROM THE WELL-- AND...... ALOT OF IT HAS AT LEAST ONE HOLE MADE BY RUFUS-- A COCKATOO?  TOUGH BIRD WITH TH EWHITE FEATHERS HE COUDL STAND UP AND  SCARE DANES.... HE ROAMED THE YARD KILLING OFF WHAT HE CONSIDERED SNAKES  BUT WERE ACTUALLY MY  EXPENSIVE 100' SECTIOS OF HOSE. THT SHOLD BE A FUN DAY...  AND MAYBE I CAN  WET DOWN  ALL TEH NEW SEED WE JUST PLANTED...  I KNOW WE HAVE ENOUGH OSE TO REACH  TO  PLUTO. ***** NOW THERTE IS A LITTER...PLUTO  MARS VENUS THINGS LIKE THAT???? ***** IN BELLA'S LAST BUNCH OF PICTURES  SHE HAS HER HAIR BRAIDED...   WOW IS THAT IMPRESSIVE ***** Hi Carlene,  Josie’s bloodwork confirms the possibility that Josie could be pregnant. Dr. Parrott said you should probably expect her to give birth between mid-June and September.  ****** AS FOR THE WIERD THINGS  ABOUT CASTING SPELLS ON ERANT HUSBANDS.....WHICH APPARENTLY  APPEARED  AT THE END OF THE DD.... I HAVE NO CLUE..  ****  I DID INCLUDE THAT RANDY RAINBOW  YOU TUBE - LINK...  HE HAS DONE MANY-- FROM LYRICS TO VIDEO PRODUCTION.. HE IS GOOD... WORTH LOOKING UP  ..