NOV 30 2017

new challange.... AOL IS NOT WORKING-- I USUALLY GO THRU ALL MY MAIL BEFORE I WRITE THIS--- HOWEVER... I AM NOT SURE THIS WILL WORK--FYI... THIS MAILING IS DONE BY  CONSTANT CONTACT-- WHICH MAILS OUT BULK EMAILS-- AFTER SORTING ALL LISTS FOR NO DUPLICATES AND GIVES PEOPLE THE OPTION OF UNSUBSCRIBING  IN A VERY LEGAL FASHION SO YOU SOMETIMES HAVE TO GET PERMISSION  TO PUT PEOPLE BACK ON THE LIST-- TOO COMPLICATED FOR ME.....I JUST WRITE THE THING...  IT ALSO GIVES ME DATA ABOUT HOW MANY OPEN THE EMAIL  ETC.. ETC...

I DID MANAGE TO READ ONE BEFORE IT QUIT...  HEYDAWG - IN MAINE  IS GETTING UP THERE IN YEARS  AND IS DOING WELL EXCEPT FOR A FEW CREAKS AND GROANS- DON'T WE ALL-- 

FARM NEWS?  APPARENTLYWE HAVE A NEW MULE ON PROPERTY... JANINE DROPPED OFF   ?LEROY? BECAUSE HE WAS JUMPNG HER 4' FENCING  HE IS NOW BEHIND OUR 4' FENCING AND WE ARE HOLDING OUR BREATH....  WE DO HAVE A 6' PERIMITER FENCE-- BUT HE MAY HAVE JUMPED INTO THE AREA WHERE MO IS... SOMETIMES MULES CONSIDER A FENCE JUST A SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE...

HISTORICALLY----IF YOU WERE WANDERING AROUND IN THE WOODS, AND CAME TO A WIRE FENCE, YOU GOT OFF YOUR MULE, AND HUNG YOUR JACKET OVER TEH  WIRE FENCE,  SO THE MULE COUDL SEE IT BETTER....THEN ASKED YOUR MULE TO JUMP IT. FROM A STAND STILL... AND THEY DID... YOU THEN CLIMBED BACK ON AND WENT ON YOUR WAY...

THERE IS A MODERN VERSION OF MULE JUMPING ( WHICH I THINK CAN BE GOOGLED)

WE MAY GET TO KNOW ALOT ABOUT MULES     SINCE JANINE DID BUY THAT 17 HAND MULE - WHICH SHE HOPEFULLY WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO RIDE...

MO IS PROBABLY 17 HANDS... BUT MO IS A DRAFT MULE HEFTY CHUNK FOR PULLING HEAVY OBJECTS SLOWLY....-- I THIN K THE ONE JANINE HS BOUGHT IS A RIDING TYPE... WE SOON WILL SEE... 

WELL WE WON'T NECESSARILY SEE  SOON... I THINK SHE IS GOING TO LAND IT OVER AT "ANN'S HOUSE"    I HOPE ANN KNOWS THAT ALREADY   BEFOIRE READING ABOUT  IT HERE....I AM SURE WE WILL GET TO SEE IT SOMEHOW...  17 HANDS IS   B--I--G   ( 4 INCHES TO THE HAND... MEASURED STRAIGHT UP ALONG THE FRONT  LEG TO THE WHITHERS..  I KNOW SHE HAS HER EYE ON THE HUNT FIELD NEXT THANKSGIVING........IF SHE DOES NOT GET  EXPELLED...

I KNOW HORSES ARE TERRIFIED OF DONKEYS UNTIL THEY GET USED TO THEM... IF ANY OF THOSE OTHER  "HUNT" RIDERS HAVE THAT PROBLEM , JANINIE WILL  BE IN BIG TROUBLE....

THE HUNT SCENE FROM THE MOVIE "MAME" WITH LUCILE BALL COMES TO MIND....

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NOW TO GO BACK TO TRYING TO GET AOL TO WORK.....

NOV 29 2017

 KITTY SHOULD BE WRITING THIS.. NOT ME...    THERE AE MANY PEOPLE.. MOSTLY COLLEGE KIDS TAKING SOME COURSE IN "FILM PRODUCTION... OR SOMETHING  AND THEY GET SO THRILLED WITH THE "EYE ON THE LENS"   AND TEH FINAL PRODUCT, THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START.... PLUS A FEW BIG WORDS GET THEIR HEADS ALL ABUZZ....LIKE PRODUCTION... SCHEDULING...DOCUMENTARY... INTERVIEWING--EDUCATING  PEOPLE...AND GET THE IMPRESSION PEOPLE  (ME) WILL JUST BE DYING TO HELP THEM PUT THIS TOGETHER....  WRONG.  AT LEAST WRONG FOR ME... I CAN COOPERATE BUT I AM NOT GOING TO DO THE WORK PART.  THEY HAVE TO DO THERI OWN DIGGING/HOMEWORK...

  I sent an email earlier this month, but never got much of a response back,  My goal for this documentary is to educate people about service dogs,  I was told Carlene would be the person to speak with, but didn't receive any information on how to get in contact with her.  I will likely start by late January. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this project.  I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you,

IT IS THE  "I DIDN'T RECIEVE" PART THAT MADE  ME THINK, THIS PERSON HAS TO LEARN TO DIG HARDER...I WOULD THINK SHE COULD HAVE FOUND MAIL CALL... AND OPEN HOUSE....  THE OTHER PART  THAT WORRIED ME IS  ??JANUARY??? IN THE COLD/SNOW??? NOT BLOODY LIKELY- BUT THAT IS A DETAIL.

FOR MY  FRAME OF REFERENCE.... CURRENTLY  THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN "KIDS" EITHER WRITING A BOOK OR WANTING TO DO A FILM ABOUT IS-- PLUS BETSY'S BROTHER ( A PROFESSIONAL FILMMAKER) THAT I AM PAYING TO DO A PROPER FILM--  WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PROFESSIONAL, THESE KIDS ALL SEEM TO THINK I AM GOING TO DO ALL THE  WORK PART...  MOSTLY BECAUSE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND "THE WORK PART" -- ALL OF THESE REQUESTS START WITH A GREAT FLUURY OF  IDEAS....

KITTY HAS BEEN IN THE BIG LEAGUE AND I WOUOD BET SHE HAS SPENT 40 HOURS ON TRYING TO SET UP ONE  STILL  PICTURE FOR THE CALENDAR---- FOR EXAMPLE......BEING PRESENTED WITH THE CONCEPT FOR THE SHOT, SHE IMMEDIATELY GETS INTO FINDING LOCATION, WARDROBE, PROPS, POLICE PERMITS, WEATHER REPORTS LONG RANGE,   VEHICLES, ALL THE WAY DOWN  TO PROVIDING A "KRAFT TABLE" ON HER TAILGATE.... KRAFT TABLE HAS SOMETHING TO EAT IN CASE SOMEONE IS STARVED .. THOSE NUTRITION BARS ARE GOOD, ASPIRIN/TYLENOL, ORANGES, SUNBLOCK, BOTTLED WATER- ANYTHING TO KEEP GOING  AND NOT BE INTERUPTED. AND ALL THAT BEFORE SHE DEALS WITH  WILLIAM ( THE ARTIST/PHOTOGRAPHER) AND MEG ( THE ONE WITH THE DOG... I.E. TALENT)- 

THESE KIDS HAVE TO LEARN THAT--EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD EXPERIENCE....  THAT KRAFT TABLE CONCEPT ILLUSTRATES  THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO GET EVERYTHING ELSE IN ORDER AND HAVE THE "TALENT" SAY THEY REALLY CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER TIL THEY GET SOMETHING TO EAT...

I AM MORE THE CONCEPT PERSON  NOW.....  TAKE THIS  SHOT-- WHICH I HOPE WE DO FOR NEXT YEAR 2019 ...  WE HAD A PERFECT SIZE /AGE OF PUPPIES  WHO ... IN MY OPINION .. WOULD BE PERFECT IN A GROUP... CROSSING  THE STREET TO GO TO SCHOOL-- MEG FOUND A PERECT SCHOOL CROSSING.. BEHIND MASCO-- IN TOPSFIELD/BOXFORD.  I WENT AND TOOK TEH 360 DEGREE BUNCH OF STILL SHOTS TO SHOW WILLIAM- AND HE APPROVED-- IT IS NOT NEAR TRAFFIC AS ITIS ACTUALLY IN THE PARKING LOT BEHIND MASCO.... I WAS ALL EXCITED BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD BE A RELATIVELY EASY SHOTTO DO-- WITH THE PUPPIES FOLLOWING  MEGAN IN A LINE... CROP OUT MEGAN AND IT SHOULD BE DONE. I MENTIONED IT TO KITTY-- WHO STARTED IN...BY CALLING MASCO... WHO DECIDED IF WE WERE TO BE ON SCHOOL PROPERTY WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE CORY CLEARENCES...SHORT OF  HIRINGA LAWYER TO HELP US TAKE A PICTURE, WE WERE STUCK--  THIS PRINCIPAL DID NOT WANT TO BE INVOLVED.... IT TOOK MORE DRIVING AROUND TAKING CELL PHONE SHOTS OF OTHER SCHOOL CROSSINGS TILWE FINALLY FOUND  ANOTHER ACCEPTABLE ONE IN IPSWICH  WHERE THEY SEEMED TO LIKETHI IDEA OF BEING  IN THE PHOTOGRAPH... SO THAT GOT LINED UP FOR NEXT YEAR... HOPEFULLY..-AND KITTY MOVED ON TO ?SHOULD ANY OF THE PUPS BE WEARING A "BACKPACK?"  AND WE BEGAN THE ROUNDS OF THE DOLLAR STORES... COUPLE ALL THAT WITH THE PUPS WE NEED HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN BORN YET...

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KITTY'S WAY IS THE PROPER WAY...JANINE - AND HER CRAZY BOOK WRITING IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE - JUST WRITE THE THING AND PUBLISH IT  AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS...  FORTUNATELY SHE HAD ENOUGH  STRANGE, , TRUE ,  ENTERTAINING EXPERIENCES FROM WHICH TO DRAW, THAT THE BOOK HAS DONE WELL (DOGS DONKEYS AND CIRCUS PERFORMERS.... AMAZON)  SHE MADE A  SINCERE EFFORT TO GET THE SPELLING CORRECT....

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DOG FOOD ADVISOR-- TO WICH I SUBSCRIBE... AN D USUALLY DO NOT PAY ATTENTION  VERY MUCH

IS ONTO DOG BONES-- THOSE HUGE KNUCKEL BONES-- WHICH WE HAVE FED... BUT I KNOW DARN WELL IT IS RISKY AND WE WATCH ANY DOG WHO IS EATING ONE... WHICH MEANS ONLY THE HOUSE DOGS GET THEM IF WE HAVE ANY...

THEY DON'T NEED THEM... THOSE KONGS ( HUGE ONES) ARE FAR BETTER...

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Illnesses reported to FDA by owners and veterinarians in dogs that have eaten bone treats have included:

• Gastrointestinal obstruction (blockage in the digestive tract)
• Choking
• Cuts and wounds in the mouth or on the tonsils
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Bleeding from the rectum
• Death

According to FDA, approximately 15 dogs have reportedly diedafter eating a bone treat.

WHAT  STOPPED ME COLD IS.. THAT FILM AOUBT GEORGE'S BEST DAY EVER IN BOSTON... I THINK I REMEMBER THEY GAVE HIM A HUGE BONE LIKE THIS.. AND HE LOVED IT--- THEY ALL DO... EXCEPT ... KONGS ARE SAFER... IN MY OPINION...

nov 28 2017

 paraprosdokians--- love them---   anne just sent me an article on the fact that winston churchill loved them... as i do..... some of you may have heard this before...it is a writing form where the second part of a sentance/concept  does not match the first.. a well known example.....

.** You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

many of the old burma shave roadside limericks  were like this...making them fun to read..

** no lady likes to dance or dine  accompanied by a porcupine  -Burma Shave

and i think harry potter was full of them too...  sometimes it just  happens in these dd's

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usually i tear apart advertising, but there are a few  modern ads i like..  some are the geico ads-- most notably, my all time favortie is teh  changing of the guard at buckingham pallace---  the slovenly replacement could not be more perfect.

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we still have  "the 2 girls " here   they are really trouble free so far... no arguement .. even with chaos....

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i did "training"   yesterday... i decided i needed more exercise -- so i took bentlye and sizle to home depot -- mostly because they all know me there and i wanted to try and hook the 2 dogs together... so they would stride togetehr...-- i used to do this with all the dogs as they came along  in training...  usually i had 2 horse halters - dog's head thru the nose part and the  dog girth was the strap uaually over the head of the horse..  to start with  i run a rope thru the  halter rings  mid rib cage  in a u shaped so if they pull, they pull themselves together.. what you don't want is  to use snaps at this stage because one might decide to turn around and once tangled you can't work the snaps... .. as they get used to it... usually takes only a few minutes   you can use a quick release tie between  the part agound their necks-- like tieing theri collars together..  then go to a quick release at their girth  and you might have a working pair of dogs... once they get the hang of it, it is possible to get them to circle you by calling the name of the "inside dog"

 when you really get good, you can walk to make the other dog  the inside dog and have the pair make figure 8's by going back and forth.   all i managed yesterday with bentley and sizzle was an eye catching whoa !   where they both stopped and stood..   figure 8's need to be done outside-- and seeing  as it is not in the 70's. that probably is not going to happen til spring..  bentley is a little lazy too--- sizzle might need a more energtic partner...

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between black friday, cyber monday and giving tuesday.. how about chicken shatty wednesday...  there are alot of offers 'out  there' for schemes to raise money... but i think our chicken bricks are the best and most efficient  for money landing in the care  and training of the dogs....with out having to provide anyone with our email list. i am sure our email list of people interested in dogs would draw a hefty price from some companies.. i try and guard it.  i think we have the best method  going--- 

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from bella and george...

A COUPLE OF GIRLS AND THEIR DOG. MATCHING SHIRTS AND ALL READY FOR BED. 

WE FINALLY HAVE TO OFFICIAL SURGERY DATES. BELLA WILL HEAD INTO BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOR THE START OF TRACTION ON DECEMBER 18TH. THAT MONDAY SHE WILL GO INTO THE OR TO HAVE A HALO PUT ON FOR TRACTION. SHE WILL REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL UP UNTIL HER BACK FUSION/ROD PLACEMENT WHICH WILL BE JANUARY 8TH. ALL OF THIS IS BEST CASE SCENARIO. IF TRACTION TAKES 3 WEEKS THEN SURGERY WILL BE THE 8TH. SO FOR NOW SHE IS IN THE BOOKS. SHE WILL STAY IN THE HOSPITAL AT LEAST A WEEK POST SURGERY. THEN IT IS ESTIMATED 4 WEEKS VERY CALM AND RECOVERING AT HOME BEFORE SHE CAN HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL. SO 3 WEEKS FROM TODAY THE CRAZINESS WILL BEGIN. TIME TO START TO GET ORGANIZED! HAVE TO TALK TO THE SCHOOL TOMORROW AND GIVE THEM DATES AND SEE IF THEY CAN PUT A RUSH ON THE TUTOR SO SHE WON’T MISS A BUNCH OF WORK. THEN HAVE TO CALL GENETICS AND MAKE SURE HER INFUSION IS ALL SET TO BE DONE AT THE HOSPITAL. THOSE ARE MY GOALS FOR TOMORROW....THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR ALL THE LOVE AND SUPPORT. YOU HAVE ALL BEEN SUCH AN AMAZING HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT THOUGH ALL OUR TOUGH TIMES AND WE TRULY APPRECIATE IT AS A FAMILY! SO THANK YOU!!

LOVE BELLA AND GEORGE AND FAMILY

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shocking news-- this dropbox thing is loaded with recipients emails-- all the people i am really angry with for not sending me an email about how their dog is doing hae somehow been hiding stuff inthe drop box.   the list is long...but true to computer mentality, it will not let me open the emails-- so i am not much furtherealong than before... my case still stands...   i certainly don't have a clue about how this works,  and i do not have the time or mentality to learn     so...... i can not immagine it is terribly difficult to send me an email when you are lockboxing   -- i am not sure i can stand one more name/ password /secret sentence routine.

nov 27 2017

i should not watch tv at 2am.... but there is not alot to do after going to bed at  6 pm because the #$%^& day is entirely too long... so ...last night it was   ireland-- that is ireland "A" and ireland "B"  as explained by a little old lady who said " that  ridge in the distance was the  line between the two-- and if the gov't ( whichever one, i wasn't sure) put in a crossing  station, it would make a useless    bump in the horizon. "  then the cattle farmer - who's cattle seemed to be roaming without the benifit of fencing..." the grass is green all over  both sides of the line which goes thru here somewhere." ..apply that same lack of personal involvement---  i am quick to admit mr moon.. whoever he is... is a very efficient person with whom i have done business  in the process of getting some more harnesses made..-- it does not occur to me that he is from china.. as my relationship with mr moon is strictly  what is the best way to get this job done. my lack of concern for who's wife sat where at some state dinner in  china is astronomical..  there are  artificial boundries set by governments... and religions which cause divisions not normally present in nature. examples of absolute stupidity??/   cathloic and protestant in norhtern ireland - or the suni's ands someone else  in teh mid east-- been fighting each other ... or the christians ... or muslims   for thousands of years-- i really don't know what the  end game is ... the rest of the world seems to just keep providing  lotsa guns and let them go at it.  but if someone  like that chef guy tony goes somewherer, like iran, and sits down with normal people, the people as individuals are very nice  coffee or beer drinking  sorts. just don't get involved with government groups.. there are 14 million directons i could go with this   and i fully intend to  insult absolutely everyone- ----an equal opportunity  insulter. ****** moving on to groping---also in the news....  i do have distinct feelings about the groper and gropee-- i much prefer the dog solution-- if the male dog approaches the female and she is not  ready to talk to him... she bites him immediately...so that any male with any experience says "may i?"..   there is part of me that does not want to totally discourage the entire dance... what i want is to be able to  do is comment-- either with a sly grin... or screeching and  bashing him in the head with my pocketbook or other heavy item...i notice many of the latest  objections are in the process of picture taking... even  usually polite old Mr Bush... the guy sees an opportunity where the woman does not want to embarass herself .---  why on earth should she be embarassed???  who says so????     i would like t see the headline  "congressman xxxx was taken to the hospital with head injuries suffered while riding the elevator with a young  female intern with sharp nails"----   it would not take long before most men would behave better... as for rape... that is different- a rapist should simply be shot or neutered... either would work..  ****  there was a video long ago of a guy in a new sports car and an old lady crossing  the street in front of him slower than he liked ... so he blew the horn at her and she bashed his car with her pocketbook and the fender fell off.  i liked that one. **** never thought i 'd see the day.... janine is thinking  of selling  lincoln and get some riding mules... lincoln is exactly what some people want.. huge... sound.. jump anything... beautful  shiney black and beautifully trained... except he is strong ---especially when he does not get the exercise he thinks he needs...  janine apparently had her hands full on the thanksgiving day hunt.. nearly passing the guy in the red coat in the front-- a huge no no.   she said he nearly got away from her before she even got on him... never heard her say that before... she also mentioned something about hearing a bunch of crackles and snaps  in her bones when he "flew the coop" ( which in horse terms meant he  jumped very high over the coop) so if anyone hears of a nice pair of riding and driving mules-- big--  16 hands-- (4 inches to the hand)  let me know. **** i am told tanner did an exceptional job making a new door  between the arena and kennel-- so watch  for it when they move the camera.. ****** no time to find copy pastes today cheers...

NOV 26 2017

just for fun..w e put mo's harness on her yesterday.. along with tom... there were " 2 city kids" here  who alon with 3 pounds of catrrots did get teh harness on and walk her aound on camera...... tehre was a look of panic in mo's eyes when that collar went on...  she spent alot of her life pulling something... probably a plow  in amish country...  so now that she is relaxed, we need to get her to realize  hard work is over..  she must now contend with goofey people...  but the carrots are good.-- when she got here, i don't think she had ever been hand fed...life was get up, go to work, back to the barn, eat food, and sleep, and get up    etc...not unlike i see the peolpl commutting  in to boston on rt 95--  i think even amish plow horses get sunday off...  not sure.. but with everyoe going to church  maybe...i do know se needs some more handling to get to relax and stand around for photos and things  like that....  maybe today  we could put the harness on without the bridle and just let her stand around...  hopefully nothing will get caught on the harness... because ,.... until you have sat behind a pair of draft horses you have no idea of the concept of horse power...-- we did not do a good job a dogfest with people pulling against her... she had no idea and it took her 3 leaps to get all 4 feet on the ground an d pull teh 15 or so people behind her on a lon rope.-- we need to do that again...  but with her understanding what to do...

she understands THINGS...

THE GATE OPENS AND SHUTS

THERE IS A BUZZER THAT BUZZES WHEN THE GATE IS OPENING OR SHUTTING...

 PEOPLE DO SOMETHING AT THE WHITE UPSIDE DOWN BUCKET THAT MAKES THE BUZZER BUZZ

SHE HAS BEEN SEEN MANY TIMES PLAYING WITH THAT WHITE BUCKET  FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN SHE REALIZES IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE GATE BUZZING.

 THE ONLY OTHER DONKEY REPORT IS THAT POCKETS IS NOT HER USUAL PLAYFUL SELF LATELY... NOT SURE WHY..  SO I WANT  TO LET HER OUT TODAY TO BREAK UP HER HUMDUM ROUTINE.

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MOST OF YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT BANKS...... PLEASE.. THINK....

TIS TEH SEASON FOR THESE BANKS...... -- AND ANYONE ELSE-- TO SEND OUT POSSIBLE CREDIT CARDS-- TALK ABOUT BAITING THE HOOK--- I WENT AND LOOKED..    AFTER THE INITIAL 0% INTEREST, IT WENT TO 14.99 - 24.99%----- JUST FOR FUN....  AND IF YOU WERE LATE IN SENDIING A PAYMENT, THAT INTEREST WOULD BOUNCE TO 39.4% OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT..  IN THE FINE PRINT...

YOU ARE RIGHT, I HAVE NOT READ TH E EXACT DETAILS... THE ONLY ONE WORTH REMEMBERING  IS-- THE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ARE DEPENDENT ON GETTING YOU TO THE POINT OF NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY MORE THAN THE INTEREST --THEY WOULD THEN HAVE YOU  AS AN INDENTURED SERVANT... YOU THINK NOT? 

An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed time. The contract often lets the employer sell the labor of an indenturee to a third party. Indenturees usually enter into an indenture for a specific payment or other benefit, or to meet a legal obligation, such as debt bondage.  IIS  PRETTY DARN CLOSE.

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I REMEMBER-- MY FATHER SOLD FARM AND INDUSTRIAL  EQUIPMENT (  FROM BIG TRACTORS TO MANURE SPREADERS..) HE TOLD ABOUT DEALING WITHTHE AMISH WHO WHEN THEY CAME TO BUY SOMETHING WOULD JUST PEAL  OFF THE  $100 BILLS-- NO BANK-- NO PAPER-- NO FINANCIAL ...CASH...

 AND THEN THERE CAME TE TRUCKING STRIKE... MANY OF THE AMISH PROVIDED MILK TO THE HERSHEY PLANT IN PENNA- AND  WHEN THE TRUCKERS STRUCK, MILK WAS BEING DUMPED FOR LACK OF TRANSPORTING ACROSS THE PICKET  LINES OF HERSHEY...  THEN THE AMISH, BELIEVING THAT WASTE WAS SINFULL  GOT IN WAGONS AND HAULED THIER MILK ACROSS TEH PICKET LINES AS THEY  HAD SOMEON E RIDING SHOTGUN.. LITERALLY.. WITH RIFLE ACROSS THEIR LAP...  AND NO ONE STOPPED THEM...  

MY FATHER LIKED THAT STORY...  HE ALSO TOLD OF "THEIR WOMEN WERE GOOD COOKS"  I DIDN'T LIKE THAT "THEIR WOMEN"  REFERENCE  SO MUCH...

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 MOVING ON... ROUGH WATERS....

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 COMPLAINT WISE..... WE HAD A LONG LETTER ABOUT USING CELL PHONES AROUNG THE YOUNG BRAINS OF PUPPIES BY YOUNG KIDS- PERSONALLY, I THINK PUPS STAND MORE CHANCE OF PROBLEM WITH ALL THE RUG/FLOOR SHAMPOO  CLEANERS, DANDILION KILLING ON OUR LAWNS.. ETC.. THAT THEY WALK IN...

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AND WE HAD AN OFFICIAL COMPLAINT TO ADI SOMEONE APPLIED FOR A DOG-- THIER DIAGNOSIS WAS NOT SOMETHING WE TRAIN DOGS FOR... SO HE MADE AN OFFICAL COMPLAINT TO ADI ---- I DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HIM BECAUSE OF HIS DISABILITY...

I DID THAT...  AND I STAND BY THAT DECISION...

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SO THANKFUL FOR FINN AND SERVICE DOG PROJECT ❤ IT SO COOL TO WATCH HIS IMPACT ON HER INCREASED MOBILITY NOT ONLY DOES HE PHYSICALLY SUPPORT HER TO WALK BUT HE PROVIDES MOTIVATION FOR HER TO DO MORE WALKING TOO! SUCH AN AMAZING INFLUENCE HE HAS HAD ON HER LIFE! AS WE APPROACH ALMOST A YEAR WITH FINN WE CAN HARDLY REMEMBER WHAT LIFE IS LIKE WITHOUT HIM. EVE TELLS ME OFTEN “IN SOME OF MY MEMORIES I KNOW WE DIDN’T HAVE FINN YET BUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT THEM HE IS ALWAYS THERE ANYWAY!!”

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SOMEBODY SAID WINTER IS COMING.. I AM NOT SO DARN PLEASED ABOUT THAT.

NOV 25 2017

I AM NOT SURE WHAT KIND OF DAY THIS WILL BE... I TRIED TO   READ UP ON ADI'S TRAINING OF PTSD DOGS AND ALL I GOT WAS  INFO ON UPRIGHT FREEZERS. GOTTA LOVE IT.

I DON'T. --  I HAVE A PERSON WHO EMAILED    SHE IS AN RN  WANTING TO GO FURTHER SPECIALIZING IN VETTS WITH PTSD.. AND WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH SCOTT AND DASH-- I TRIED TO GIVE HER  THE LATEST  FROM THAT ADI CONFERENCE ON PTSD--- MIND YOU... I THINK WE ARE DOING VERY WELL WITH OUR DOGS AND PARTNESHIPS..   I WAS FASCINATED BY WHAT ADI THINKS WE SHOULD BE DOING...  SHEILA OBRIEN WAS DOING THE TALKING EVEN...-- ANYTHING I SAY FURTHER WILL GET ME IN TROUBLE,..... HOWEVER......

INSISTING WE HAVE A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL ON THE GROUNDS TO DEAL WITH PTSD WOULD PUT US OUT OF BUSINESS.  WE HAE A FEW PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVE DEALT WITH PTSD PERWONLLY  AN D I WILL HAVE TO GO WITH THAT...  THERE ARE SOME OF THE IDEAS OF ADI THAT TRY AND LEGISLATE COMMON SENSE-  NOT GOING TO WORK..

I HAVE HAD A FEW TOO MANY CALLS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO CAN OT GET A SERVICE DOG  FROM ADI MEMBERS WIHTOU PAYING  MANY THOUSANDS $$$ AND WAITING MANY YEARS...

THERE ARE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WH SOUND QUITE REASONABLE-- SO I AM MODIFYING MY ANSWERS TO BE ... IF YOU CAN GET YOUR DOG THRU THE ADI PUBLIC ACCESS TEST, THEN I WILL CERTIFY IT. (ADDING THAT I AM STRICT)

PROBLEM THERE IS  I CAN'T REMEMBER MY PASSWORD TO GET INTO THE MEMBER SECTION OF ADI TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT THAT TEST IS...-- I REMEMBER TURNING LOOSE IN PUBLIC AND GETTING CONTROL AGAIN... AND HAVING SOMEONE STEP OVER THE DOG WHEN THEY ARE LYING DOWN...-- SEEMS TO ME ADI OUGHT TO MAKE THAT TEST PUBLIC... FOR FOOLS 

LIKE ME WHO CAN'T RREMEMBER  PASSWORDS...

I AM PRETTY SURE I CAN SIT IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND TELL WHICH DOG IS NOT A SERVICE DOG......  4 ON THE FLOOR... 24"INCHES FROM OWNER, UNOBTRUSIVE...  IT IS ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE A NO IS ANO... BUT A YES IS A MAYBE... AND DON'T FORGET THOSE LITTLE YAPPY DOGS MAKE GREAT HEARING EAR DOGS....EVEN IF ONE OF OUR DOGS - A BALANCE AND HEARING TRAINED DANE  DID MANAGE TO WAKE HER PARTNER AND ENTIRE APPARTMENT BUILDING IN PITTSBURG WHEN SHE DETECTED A FIRE...

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE TIMES WHEN  THESE DANES  HAVE TO BE ABLE TO THINK,,,,...  IF THAT HAD BEEN  YAPPY WANDA, THE ENTIRE BUILDING WOULD NEVER HAVE GOT TO SLEEP TO BEGIN WITH.

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I DO HAVE TO TELL ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO CALLED-- PAM TOOK THE CALL... SHE WANTED A SERVICE DOG  TO DETECTAN ONCOMING  EPILEPTIC  SEIURE---- IN HER CHILD... WHO HAD NOT BEEN BORN YET??????  THAT HAS TO BE A FIRST...  LOOKING FOR A DOG TRAINED TO ANTICIPATE IS AN INVITATION TO NOT SO ETHICAL PEOPEL.. HOW DO YOU TRAIN TO ANTICIPATE????   HOW DO YOU PRACTICE?  MANY DOGS WILL PICK IT UP IF YOU LEARN TO READ WHAT THEY ARE TELLING YOU---  BUT  PAYING SOME ONE TO TRAIN FOR THAT IS  IN MY OPINION .. MONEY LOST.  MANY DOGS FROM THE DOG POUND WILL DO TI.  OR YO CAN TRAIN WHAT TO DO WHEN A SEIZURE OCCURRS-- LIKE GO BITE A BUTTON TO CALL FOR HELP.. .  BUT ANTICIPATE?  NO... 

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THERE ARE ALOT OF  CALLS FROM PEOPLE WHO  WANT A DOG FOR ADHD KIDS.. ANOTHER THING WE DO NOT DO... I FEEL BADLY FOR THEM  BUT WE HAVE TO STICK WITHIN OUR MISSION STATEMENT.

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SOME OF YOU ALL GOT THIS YESTERDAY  BUT I FORGOT TO PUT IT IN THE EMAILS...

THIS SHOW  "HOLLIDAY INN"   ?IRVING BERLIN???   LAST NIGHT WAS TERRIFFIC..  SORRYI FORGOT IT YESTERDAY,,, BUT IF YOU NEED ENTERTAINMENT TO DAY OR TOMMORW, YOU MIGHT TRY THIS.

INGRID LETS US KNOW ABOUT THESE SHOWS.. AND THEY RE TERRIFFIC  Tonight will be a winner! This is one you might share via DD so that CPs enjoy.

TRY THIS FOR DANCE ROUTINES !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dJCVwqKHk&list=RD04dJCVwqKHk&t=64

Via PBS Friday 9PM-11:30PM (and maybe also Sat 2AM-4:30AM and/or Sun 3AM-5:30AM).....The Roundabout Theatre Company presents a Broadway adaptation of the 1942 movie musical Holiday Inn that starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. This heartwarming classic with a contemporary sparkle features thrilling dance numbers, laugh-out-loud comedy and a parade of Irving Berlin hit songs.

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My sweet Pixie who has changed my life. I made a video though our year together which our anniversary is on 11/26/17. I can't believe that a year ago today I was finishing packing to for my life changing experience. I can never thank SDP enough and all the volunteers for all the hard work they do. I'm so blessed. I'm forever grateful❤️ 

PIXIE MY SHINING STAR 

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TIME FOR TURKEY BREAKFAST.... AGAIN...

NOV 24 2017

AAAHHHHH CCCCOOOOFFFFEEEEEEE !  AS I SIT  HERE WATCHING ALL TH E NUTTY PEOPLE STANDING OUT IN THE COLD WAITING TO GET IN MACY'S OR SOME OTHER...I WONDER- ALOT OF THINGS... BUT MOSTLY  I WONDER HOW DID ADVERTISING GET TO THE STAGE OF GETTING PEOPLE TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS???

I REMEMBER..........BACK WHEN... I WAS IN COLLEGE AND THE STARTLING BOOK OF THE YEAR WHICH UNFORTUNATELY I CAN NOT REMEMBER...  BUT THE GENERAL PITCH WAS THE PICTURE ON THE COVER TO HAVE A GLASS WITH ICE IN IT SUBCONSCIOUSLY SPELL OUT TH E WORD SEX.  I SPENT ALOT OF TIME LOOKING AT THAT PICTURE AND COULD NOT SEE IT..  MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE READ THE BOOK? 

 I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SUSPICIOUS OF ADVERTISING EVER SINCE SOMEONE TOLD ME  IVORY SOAP  FLOATED NOT BECAUSE IT WAS SO PURE... BUT BECASUE I T 

HAD AIR BUBBLED  THRU IT.

PAM WENT HOME-- LEAVING 5  PEOPLE HERE OVERNIGHT-- SOMEWHERE...-- THAT TURKEY DINNER WAS  ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE  HAD IN YEARS..  THE FUNCTURING/CATERING RESTAURANT IN LYNNFIELD PUT'S THE ENTIRE DINNERS OUT BY THE HUNDREDS... IT IS PAID FOR BY CARD AHEAD OF TIME--  $300 GETS YOU  EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SILVERWARE-- IN A COUPLE CARDBOARD BOXES- ALL READY TO BE SERVED OR HEATED  -- THEY HAVE A BUNCH OF COLLEE KIDS WHO LOAD UP WHEELING TABLE THINGS WITH WHATEVER YOU ORDERED... AHD HUSTLE IT OUT TO YOU R CAR-- WITH THE OBVIOUS GOAL OF GETTING YOU OUT OF THE PARKING LOT. IT RIVALS TEH FEDEX BUILDING FOR EFFICIENCY...

 COLLEGE KIDS ON VACATION ARE A TREMENDOUS SUPPLY OF PERSONELL WHO ARE GENERALLY COMPETENT AND USUALLY BROKE.  THE HOLIDAY BETWEEN T'DAY AND CHRISTMAS WERE BRUTAL FOR US--  ALL THESE ANIMALS-- MOSTLY THE DONKEYS-- WITH ANTLERS AND RED WAGON --TO HAUL INEBRIATED SANTAS INTO GROUPS OF SCREAMING CHILDREN-- WERE OUR BIG MONEY RAISER-  I COULD NEVER HAVE DONE IT WITH HORSES...  THOSE DONKEYS WERE ROCK STEADY...THE 6  TO 9PM AT AN INDUSTRIAL PARK EVERY FRI -SAT SUN FOR THE MONTH  WITHA BUNCH LOOSE  - WAS A STANDARD...AND OUT IN THE COLD.... IT IS WHERE SOMEONE CALLED THE POLICE THINKING DIDA AND I WERE HOMELESS TRYIN G TO KEEPP WARM HIDING IN A PILE OF HAY......

 BUT ON TO P OFTHAT  WE DID TEH MERIMAC  MASS CHRISTMAS PARADE FOR 8 YEARS... AND THEN THERE WAS THE WESTIN HOTEL STORY...

PLAN WAS TO HAUL SANTA OUT OF THE  FOOD HOLDING AREA OF TEH WESTIN HOTEL INTO THE BALLROOM ( ON TEH 4TH FLOOR) -- IN HARNESS WITH THE 8 DONKEYS- AND 45 MINUTES LATER HAVE THE 8 DONKEYS LOOSE... IN SOME DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE BAR AT THE TOP OF THE PRU TOWER... AND WE MADE IT.... THANKS TO A BUNCH OF STUDENTS  FROM BU.-- IT STARTED WITH THE 53' TRAILER UNDER TEH WESTIN AT THE LOADING DOCK- GETTING ALL 8 IN HARNESS AND IN THE FREIGHT ELEVATOR  WITH WAGON-AND OUT  NEXT TO A HUGE RACK OF RED AND WHITE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES IN TEH FOOD AREA.. WHERE SANTA  WAITED...GOT ALL 8 HOOKED IN THE CORRECT ORDER-- AND I DROVE THEM     OUT ONTO THE FLOOR AT THE RIGHT MOMENT WHERE WE DEPOSITED SANTA--   STRAIGHT AHEAD INTO THE  4TH FLOOR LOBBY WHERE  THESE BU KIDS HAD 4 ELEVATORS WAITING...  2 DONKEYS TO AN ELEVATOR AND BYTHE TIME THE Y GOT DOWN THE 4 FLIGHTS THE HARNESS WAS ON TH EFLOOR AND THE DONKEYS WERE LOOSE...-- JANINE AND I  GATHERED THE 8.. LOOSE AND KEPT THEM MOVING AS A GROUP... OUT THE FRONT DOOR... INTO BOSTON TRAFFIC FOR 2 BLOCKS AND INTO THE CELLAR OF THE PRU-- AND THE WAITING FREIGHT ELEVATOR.. I PUSHED THEM  A LL IN THERE...  WITH JANINE, WISHED THEM WELL .. THEY WENT UP... AND I WENT BACK TO GET THE TRAILER OUT OF THE LOADING AREA UNDER THE WESTIN. AND MOVE IT TO THE PRU WITH ALL THE HARNESS AND CARRIAGE WHICH THE KIDS HAD PUT IN IT.  I SAT OUTSIDE THE PRU FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND ALL 8  PLUS JANINE ARRIVED -- LOADED THEM UP TO GO HOME AND JANINIE WENT BACK TO BU WITH ALL HER FRIENDS WHO WERE $100 RICHER..

THAT WAS TYPICAL HOLIDAY SEASON FOR US FOR YEARS... AND THERE WERE ALOT OF STORIES---   ALOT OF THEM.... 

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TIS THE SEASON OT GET A HUGE NUMBER OF " I AM AWAY FROM NY DESK" NOTICES--  LIKE 42 OF THEM WHICH WAS INTERESTING.

HOWEVER HEERE'S ONE WHO WAS STILL AROUND.... ERICA AN D ASHER.

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THIS THANKSGIVING, I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE WORDS TO SAY JUST HOW THANKFUL I AM TO HAVE ASHER IN MY LIFE, BUT I'LL TRY TO FIND THEM ANYWAY. HE'S A LIFE CHANGER: HE'S GIVEN ME THE ABILITY TO GO WHEREVER I WANT TO WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT STAIRS THAT LACK HANDRAILS, UNEVEN TERRAIN, OR CROWDED SPACES. HE'S A BEST FRIEND: HE'S BY MY SIDE 24/7 AND IS THE BEST COMPANY FOR THOSE LONG NIGHTS OF STUDYING OR THE OCCASIONAL AFTERNOON NAVIGATING DOWNTOWN; EVERY DAY HAS ITS CHALLENGES, BUT I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING EXCITED TO TACKLE THE DAY WITH MY BEST FRIEND BY MY SIDE. AND HE'S JUST AN ALL-AROUND SUPERSTAR: HE PUTS UP WITH LOUD AND BUMPY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, TRAIN RIDES, CONSTRUCTION, AND EARLY MORNINGS IN CIVIL PROCEDURE, AND HAS ALLOWED ME TO MEET ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. ASHER HAS MADE LIFE SO MUCH HAPPIER, AND HAS GIVEN ME MUCH MORE CONFIDENCE IN MYSELF ALONG THE WAY.
BUT, ABOVE ALL, I'M THANKFUL FOR THE PEOPLE BEHIND EVERY ONE OF OUR SUCCESSFUL OUTINGS AND I'M THANKFUL FOR THOSE CHEERING US ON. THE TRAINERS, STAFF, AND VOLUNTEERS OF SERVICE DOG PROJECT WORK TIRELESSLY TO CHANGE LIVES LIKE THEY HAVE WITH MINE, AND I'M SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE FOUND THEM AND BEEN PAIRED AS A RECIPIENT. ASHER AND I ARE ALSO SO THANKFUL TO HAVE BEEN WELCOMED INTO SUCH A LARGE COMMUNITY OF SDP SUPPORTERS - THE ARMY OF CPS WHO FOLLOW US ALONG AND MAKE OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER SO MUCH MORE FUN.
2017 HAS BEEN A BIG YEAR WITH LOTS TO BE THANKFUL FOR, BUT THOSE OTHER THINGS WILL NEVER QUITE COMPARE TO HOW THANKFUL I AM FOR MY DAILY ADVENTURES WITH ASHER.

NOV 23 2017

WIERD STORY OF THE DAY... A CP-- SUE--IS A FRIEND OF AN 86 YEAR OLD WOMAN WHO'S DAUGHTER WAS  DYING OF BRAIN CANCER..  THE DAUGHTER HAD 3 DANES  A MOTHER AND 2 OF HER 5 YEAR OLD "PUPS" ---- THE DAUGHTERS DYING WISH  WAS TO KEEP THE DAUGHTERS TOGETHER... THIS CP-- SUE-- SUGGESTED TO THE  HUSBAND THAT HE CALL ME AND SEE IF I COULD PLACE THE DOGS TOGETHER...- I STARTED TO TURN IT OVER TO LYNN/ZEUS WHO HAS CONTACTS WITH NH RESCUE- AND  GOLDIE MUST HAVE STEPPED IN BECAUSE I ASKED WHERE THE DOGS WERE--- MIDDLEBOROUGH- WHICH RANG A BELL......SO I ASKED MORE QUESTIONS... AND FOUND THE DOGS WERE OUR DOGS FROM THE LITTER OF 12 WHERE TRACY KEPT 6  AND WE TOOK 6 - THE LITTER THAT INCLUDED LOLA WILLOW EBONY, MIA AND PERRY -- SO WE HAVE 2 MORE NOW.. Hi Carlene Just wanted to say thank you from Tracy’s mom! I am an SDP CP and a friend of Tracy’s mom who is 86 and has had a tough time since losing her daughter Tracy back in August. I did not realize the connection between you and Tracy but thought that it would be worth a try for Richard to call you and see if you could help place Gabby and Sealy. Boy what a small world! Thanks again for helping. Tracy’s mom just called me to say that you were taking the 2 Danes and I went online to SDP and saw the two new girls! You will never know how much you have helped this family in their time of need. Richard wanted so much to fulfill Tracy’s final wish to keep the girls together.  God Bless you and Happy Thanksgiving!     Sue  DARN THAT GOLDIE.......  THE REST OF THE STORY....AS MEG AND I WERE  CHOOSING ONE PUP AND TRACY THE NEXT... MEG WANTED ONE MORE OF THE WIERDO COLORS-- WHICH I THINK WE NOW HAVE...-- OF THE 2 THIS SEALY HAS THE SHAPE I LIKE-- VERY LIKE OPAL  SHORT, BLOCKY.. THEY ARE NOT SPAYED... LORD KNOWS HOW THAT COLOR WOUOLD COME THRU WITH PUPPIES...  I CAN JUST HEAR THE SHOW PEOPLE GET ALL IN A SWIVET ABOUT CROSS BREEDING BROWN DANES.... A DANE IS A DANE... BUT I HAVE NEVER GONE OUTSIDE THE RECOMENDED COLOR COMBINATONS OF HARLS...-- FOR AT LEAST 8 GENERATIONS.. SO I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THOSE 3 "BROWN/GREY DANES"  CAME FROM... IT HAD NOT OCCURRED TO ME TIL  JUST   NOW...... YOU KNOW.... YOU CAN HAVE MORE THAN ONE FATHER TO A LITTER....----HMMMMMMM....... WHY DID I NOT THINK???------DON'T ANSWER THAT...:(  IF IT WAS A RECESSIVE  COLOR DEAL   , I WOULD EXPECT  TO HAVE ONE OFF COLOR RECESSIVE    BUT TO HAVE 3 OFF COLOR IN  ONE LITTER... ITHE PROBABILTY CHANGES...    TO HAVE 3 MEANS I BET SOMEBODY HAD A BROWN TALL DOG AROUND WHEN SHE WAS BRED... WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE- BECAUSE THE MOTHER CAME HERE TO BE BRED TO JASPER.... OR .DID WE SEND HER HOME ONE DAY TOO SOON- WE HAVE NO TALL BROWN DOGS HERE.....  TRACY HAD A MORE NORMAL FARM SITUATION WITH "BARN DOGS"   , AND NO PERIMETER FENCE....---G--E--O-R-G--E--  ??? .I SUPPOSE WE COULD  DO DNA TESTING IF WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW.... SHE ALSO HAD 17 PUPS WHERE ONLY 12 LIVED...WHICH WAS INCIDENTAL INFORMATION/ THAT IS ONE ARGUEMENT I HAVE HAD WITH THE AKC...    LONG AGO I TRIED TO PROVE PATERNITY ON ONE PUP... AND THEIR $40 DNA TEST WAS NOT SUFFICIENT AND I NEEDED TO DO A $120 TEST ON ALL 3 DOGS INVOLVED...  I WAS NOT THAT CURIOUS...  I WONDER HOW WE COUDL DO THE DNA  IN THIS CASE.....-- ? ARE THESE 2 SISTERS?   -- OR DO WE HAVE TO GET JASPERS DNA AND SEE IF HE IS THE FATHER???-- HE IS AROUND-- IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING.. SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW-- THAT  ONE OF THE GREATEST DOG I EVER OWNED  WAS "JACK"  A MUTT---  A DANE WITH A RIDGEBACK-  MAYBE THIS IS GOLDIE TELLING ME.. GO FO IT... "MINE IS NOT TO QUESTION WHY MINE IS JUST TO DO OR DIE. "      (MUST HAVE BEEN SHAKESPEARE...) .  ****** My daughter sent this to me because I have talked about your donkeys so much - she also loves donkeys!  I think she saw this on someone's facebook page and thought I would like to read it.  Dated Sept 2011.  It was cute about the psychic that came and talked to the donkey.  I know you will not agree with one thing the lady talks about - how donkeys don't get along with canines.  Well, they sure do at Crazy Acres!  And there was an adorable donkey that looks like Edna!  Her photo is below!! THIS  TOPIC COULD BE AN ENTIRE DD--DONKEYS DO NOT GET ALONG WITH DOGS// FACT-- THEY ARE USED IN HERDS OF SHEEP TO KILL WOLVES... AND IN FACT I HAD A DONKEY HERE THAT DID KILL  A SAMOYED WHO WAS STALKING  MY "HERD" -- THEY KILL NOT WITH THEIR HEELS , BUT TEETH.. AND I WATCH OUR BUNCH AS BOTH DOGS AND DONKEYS LEARN TO  CO-EXIST...  DONKEYS ARE VERY WISE ABOUT THE WHOLE THING... DON'T WASTE ANY ENERGY PURSUING A DOG, BUT I F THEY COME CLOSE AND TRY TO BITE- THEN USE THE TEETH.... THE OTHER PSYCHIC AND DONKEY STORY--  CHANNEL 4 ?NBC? HAD A SHOW WITH TOM BERGERON WHERE  A PSYCHIC WAS TO READ THE MINDS OF ANIMALS-- WBZ HAD PLENTY OF DOGS AND CATS FOR THE SHOW AND WANTED SOMETIG DIFFERERNT-- ME-- WITH A DONKEY--  SO I TOOK MY LEAD DONKEY   WHO WAS ALSO MY #1 STUD DONKEY- THE MOST RELIABLE  CHILD PROOF--- AND THERE WE SAT-- ON CAMERA... THE PSYCHIC, ME, AND TOM... WITH THE DONKEY   SIDEWAYS IN FRONT OF ME-- AND THERE WERE  CAMERAS  AT RIGHT ANGLES...  BECAUSE........ AS THIS PSYCHIC TALKIED ABOUT HOW HE WAS THINKING OF HAVING TO PULL A GREENWAGON---IT WAS OBVIOUS TO ME-- AND TOM --- THAT DONKEY HAD   ANYTHING BUT A GREEN WAGON IN MIND.  I NOTICED... TOM NOTICED.. AND I TRIED TO HIT HIS "5TH LEG"   WITH MY LEAD ROPE TO NO AVAIL...AS THE PSYCHIC DRONED ON AND ON...  AND TEH CAMERA ANGLE WAS CHANGES TO A "HEAD SHOT"  I WOULD BET GOOD MONEY THAT TOM REMEMBERS THAT SHOW AND DONKEY...  HOW COUDL HE FORGET????? AND YES.. A DONKEY HAS BEEN CALLED THE BEST ENDOWED MALE ANIMAL. WITH WHAT HAS BEEN COMPARED TO A 5TH LEG....   I SEE NO REASON TO DOUBT IT. ***  MOVING ON..... I HOPE TO GET TO  "THE START OF TEH THANKSGIVING  HUNT" OVER AT ANN'S--  I BELIEVE JANINE IS RIDING--SHE HAS "HER COLORS" - A HUGE DISTINCTION  IN THE HUNTING CROWD....  A YELLOW COLLAR ON HER BLACK JACKET WHICH MEANS SHE RIDES WITH THE RED COATED MEN...  THAT STARTS AT 10:00 IN THE APPLETON FIELDS AND IS QUITE TEH SCENE WITH THE 30 OR SO HOUNDS-- THEY AE NOT  CHASING A FOX, .... THIS IS A DRAG HUNT... WHERE TH E HOUNDS ARE FOLLOWING  THE SCENT OF A VERY SMELLY RAG DRAGGED OVER A SPECIFIED COURSE AT 6AM  -- THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET TO THE GATHERING PLACE WHICH IS ABOUT 1/4 MILE INTO APPLETON FARMS-- BUT   "THE HUNT"  USUALLY GOES ACROSS ANN'S FRONT YARD VERY SHORTLY AFTER THE START..  LEAPING OVER SIGNIFICANT STONE WALLS AND FENCES...-- THERE IS ALWAYS A GROUP OF "HILL TOPPERS" WHO JOIN BY PAYING A "CAPPING FEE" THAT RIDE AT THE BACK... JANINE HAS DONE THAT SINCE SHE WAS 10 YEARS OLD...  EVERY THANKSGIVING I HOPE FOR ONE MORE SUCCESSFUL ROUND ON HER  HUGE HORSE  'LINCOLN'  THE REST OF THAT STORY IS THAT EVERY ESTATE THE GALLOP THRU OFFERS THEM A "STIRRUP CUP" OF BOOZE OF SOME KIND...  SO BASICALLY IT IS 2-3   HOURS OF RACING AROUND VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS  AS THEY BECOME SLIGHTLY PICKLED. LET US PRAY... *****   REORT ON THAT LIFELINE SCREENING..  SO FAR I AM NOT IMPRESSED... MOSTLY BECAUSE AT THE CHECK IN DESK THEY INSISTED I GIVE MY MEDICARE CARD-- WHEN THE THING WAS ALREADY PAID FOR-  I WILL GET THE RESULTS IN 21 DAYS... I CERTAINLY SAW VERY MANY POSSIBLE  PROBLEMS.. NON E THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS TEH BLOOD TEST WAS DONE INTO 2 PIPETTES, NOT A SYRINGEFULL-- AND THEY WERE NOT LABELED WITH MY NAME IN ANY WAY...-- ALONG WITH VERY PORTABLE TABLES AND LABELS ON STAFF WIHCH DID NOT SAY NURSE- OR ANYTHING SIMILAR-I WILL OLD JUDGEMENT...

NOV 22 2017

N.P.O.  NOTHING  PER ORAL???? I AM SIGNED UP FOR THAT TESTING THAT DIDA WAS SO EXCEITED ABOUT -- ARTERIES AND STROKES OR SOMETHING... IT IS A LITTLE STTANGE INTHAT THIS TESTING IS BEING DONE IN A?VETERANS HALL.. A FEW TOWNS AWAY???  SHE WAS SO ENTHUSIASTIC, I FIGURED I BETTER HAVE A GO AT IT...   THEY WILL NOT BE ADDING ANYTHING TO ME...SO WHY NOT??  HARD PART -- NPO FOR 12 HOURS. THAT MEANS NO  MIDNIGHT SNACK EITHER...

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 EXCITEMENT OF THE DAY... WE WILL BE ADDING 2UNSPAYED FEMALES TO THE CREW TODAY- AT LEAST TIL WE PLACE THEM-- HOPEFULLY TOGETHER...ONCE WE GET A LOOK AT THEM.. MY FRIEND TRACY PASSED AWAY-- HISTORICALLY... SHE HAD THE MOTHER OF  BAILEY-- AND AS LIFE WENT ON, SHE HAD COOKIE WHO WE BRED TO JASPER AND HAD  TEH 12 PUPS AT HER HOUSE-- WHICH WE EVENTUALLY TOOK 6 OF THEM LOLA MIA WILLOW PERRY   WERE IN THAT BUNCH...  SHE KEPT THE MOTHER AND 2- NOW HER HUSBAND CN NOT COPE WITH 3 DANES- AND CALLED US - SO MEGAN IS TO GO AND GET THEM TODAY..  I HAVE A FEELING THEY WILL BE A BIT LIVELY AS THE HUSBAND WAS NOT THE DOG PERSON  AND USED THE WORD CRATE A COUPLE TIMES...  SO WE CAN  LOOK THEM OVER THIS AFTERNOON...ONE IS THAT STRANGE COLOR-- THERE WERE 3 IN THE LITTER LIKE THAT... THE OTHER IS BLACK  WITH ONE WHITE FOOT...  SHOULD BE INTERESTING

IT DID CAUSE ME TO SPEND TIME LOOKING OVER OUR BLOODLINES LAST NIGHT-- AND I THINK THE TIME HAS COME TO LOOK AT WATSON MORE CLOSELY... SO LYNN... IF YOU ARE READING THIS, WHEN MIGHT WE HAVE HIM  -- MAYBE OVERNIGHT AND HAVE SOME XRAYS DONE?  IT IS A LITTLE EARLY TO HAVE  WHAT WS CALLED THE OFA EXAM... BUT MAYBE WE CAN GET SOME IDEA...  A NO WOULD BE A NO... AND A YES WOULD BE A MAYBE...

WE HAE HAD SUCH GOOD SOUND DOGS, I WANT TO BE AS CAREFUL AS I CAN ABOUT INTRODUCING NEW GENES...  BUT WITH BENTLEY OUT OF COMMISSION WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING.  THIS LITTLE HARL PUP OF AUDREY'S IS NO SLOUCH EITHER...  BUT A YEAR AWAY.

TONY IS STILL AROUND AND MIGHT BE USEFUL TO KEEP THE HEIGHT DOWN A BIT...

TIS A PUZZLEMENT-

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ALSO JANINE SAYS THE PAINTED ( BULDGING ) LADY HAS NO MILK BAG DEVELOPED-- SO I WANT TO CHECK THAT  TODAY TOO...

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FINNEGAN...

While I’m sitting on waiting for some pre Turkey day preparations to bake I thought I’d check in! Today was our Harvest Feast at school! Totally wish I would have gotten some pictures but I was also working so I never got around to that but Eve received lots of compliments on Finn! Then we came home and got a start on tonight’s baking. Took a break from that to go to Erin’s cheer practice where Eve got in some good PT influence by the squad! At practice Erin started picking on Eve as sisters do and Finn jumped in to stIck up for her — well I think he really just wanted to play too but it sure looked like he was telling Erin to back off! 

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃🍽 

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 WHICH CAUSED ME TO WRITE....

FINN WOULD BITE... I AM SURE-- 

ROUGHHOUSING IS NOT SOMETHING HE KNOWS ABOUT 

 HE DOES NOT KNOW A GIGGLE FROM A SCREAM.... 

SO IF HE BITES DON'T PUNISH HIM...JUST DONT UPSET EVE.

.RACHAEL WAS SWINGING BELLA AROUND HER HEAD AND BELLA WAS GIGGLING

 WHEN GEORGE JUMPED UP IN HER FACE.. DID NOT BITE.. BUT THAT IS WHAT HE HAD IN MIND...

THEIR JUDGEMENT IS PRETTY GOOD AND THEY CAN USUALLY SENSE WHEN

THE KIDDO IS GETTING A LITTLE OVERBOARD AND IN BELLAS CASE, A LITTLE SCARED..

SO KEEP EVE HAPPY AND YOU SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM..

 THINGS LIKE  JUMPING OUT FROM BEHIND A CURTAIN AND YELLING BOO  JUST TO SCARE EVE..

.. MIGHT GET YOU BITTEN.... SO BE NICE TO HER.

NOV 21 2017

THE OVERFLOW ROOM  OVERFLOWETH..... A VERY LONG TIME AGO  (PROBABLY BC..BEFORE CAMERAS..) I HAD REASON TO BUY A ROLL OF THE STUFF DOCTORS PUT UNDER CASTS BEFORE TEH PLASTER - A FUNNY STRECHY COTTON  TUBE ABOUT 2" WIDE WHICH CAN BE STRETCHED PROBABLY OVER MY HEAD... FUNNY STUFF...I AM SURE  HAD A GOOD REASON T BUY IT--  WHATEVER THE REASON-- I PROBABLY USED 10 FEET OF IT AND HAVE 90 FEET LEFT... SO IT GOES IN THE OVERFLOW WHICH IS SOMEWHAT LIKE THOSE NAILS YOU PUT RECIEPTS ON... THE CURRENT LANDS ON TOP. LAST NIGHT AT MAIL CALL MEGAN WAS TALKING ABOUT THE PROBLEMS BANDAGING WALTERS BACK LEG--- AND I REMEMBERED THAT STUFF..-- SO AT MY 2AM PROWL, I STARTED IN-- I BECAME PAINFULLY AWARE I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH -- MY PHILOSOPHY OF BUYING WHAT YOU NEED TO DO A JOB ON THE COMMERCIAL MARKET ( FROM GRAINGER TO ULINE) IS OFTEN CHEAPER EVEN IF YOU DO HAVE TO BUY IN QUANTITY..  THIS ONLY PARTIALLY EXPLAINS WHY THE OVERFLOW IS OVERFLOWING. MOST ALARMING-TYVEK SUITS-- THE XXL  SUITS ARE ABOUT $10 EACH- AND FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER WE USE A FEW A YEAR-- PAINTING OR COSTUMES... SOMETHING..  SO WHEN I SAW THAT  THERE WERE 25 FOR $75 - I WENT FOR TEH CARTON... WELL IT HAS GOT STUFFED IN THE SHELVING OF THE OVERFLOW ROOM IN SUCH A MANNER THAT IT TOOK ME 20 MINUTES TO WEDGE IT OUT AND SEE EXACTLY WHAT WAS IN IT...  HOW OR WHY SOMEONE DYED ONE OF THEM DARK PURPLE IS  BEYOND ME...- BUT BEHIND THE TYVEK SUITS WAS THIS ROLL OF COTTON TUBING.. I DON'T THINK WE HAVE AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY OF MICE- BUT WE HAVE ONE OR TWO - A SMALL  FAMILY PERHAPS - TO WHOM A CARDBOARD BOX IS ONLY A SLIGHT INCONVENIENCE AT GETTING  AT THE DOG TREATS--MAKING THESE MICE VERY HEALTHY AND HAPPY.-  OUR MICE DO NOT LIVE ON GARBAGE... WE PROVIDE A BALANCED MEAL OF  VARIOUS DOG TREATS. FORTUNATELY THESE "WINTER VISITORS" PREFERRED THE  SECLUSION OF TEH  TYVEK SUITS TO THE COTTON TUBING-- HOWEVER THEY HAD  CROSSED IT IN COMMUTING TO WORK IN THE  CARDBOARD SHREADING  DEPRTMENT... THIS WAS THE STUFF MEGAN NEEDED TO TRY WITH WALTER'S BACK LEG-- WHICH IF HE GETS AT IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WILL BLEED PROFUSELY....AND HAS...  ONE OF THOSE LAMPSHADE  COLLARS IS JUST A NO GO WITH 185 POUND WALTER WHO ALREADY HAS TROUBLE GETTING AROUND A NORMAL HOUSEHOLD.. THE TUBING IS WORTHA TRY-- BUT NEEDED  TO BE RELATEVLY CLEAN  CERTAINLY NOT LACED WITH MOUSE POOPIES....     BEING 2AM, AND NOT MY SHARPEST TIME OF DAY, I DECIDED A WASHING IN CHLOROX WOULD BE IN ORDER AND TOSSED THE NICE ROLL IN THE WASHING MACHINE--.. IF YOU  ARE READING THIS AS YOU DRINK YOUR CAFFEENATED COFFEE, I AM SURE  YOU HAVE  REALIZED THAT 90 FEET OF A 2 INCHWIDE BUNCH OF STUFF WILL NOT STAY IN A NICE TIDY ROLL IN A WASHING MACHINE...-- SO AFTER I SPENT  1/2 HOUR UNTWISTING IT FROM THE  "AGITATOR"  I TOSSED IT IN THE  DRYER-- WHICH DID MUCH BETTER AT  THAT JOB. AND IT IS READY FOR MEGAN TO TRY... THESE MICE. ... AND RATS... HAVE SPENT THE SUMMER IN  WILLODALE  STATE FOREST  WHICH AMOUNTS TO THE HILLS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE- BUT THEY SENSE THE COMMING WINTER AND DECIDE TO BECOME SNOW BUNNIES AND MOVE TO  SUNNY FLORIDA.... WHICH AMMOUNTS TO  THE HEATED.. HOUSE... BARN... GUEST HOUSE... LAUNDRY....& KENNELS  SQUIRRELS ARE NO DIFFERENT... MANY IS THE TIME I HAVE FOUND NUTS IN THE UPSTAIRS GUEST  BED.  I FULLY EXPECT TO SEE GISSELLE BACK FOR HER WINTER  STAY...  FOR NEW CAMERA PEOPLE,  GISSELLE WAS OUR  HOUSE RAT- WHO STOLE 4 LARGE MILKBONE DOG BISKETS A NIGHT-- I SET THEM OUT AND TESTED HER...     SHE HAD SET UP A WHOLE COMMUNITY IN THE  6" TALL AREA I BUILT ( FOR ME.. NOT HER) TO RAISE THE KITCHEN COUNTERS   UP  6"... SEEING AS WE COULD NEVER SET OUT POISON- BECAUSE THE RAT POISON IS OFTEN A SUBSTANCE WHICH MAKEA A DEAD RAT BOTH A TOY AND  FATAL TO DOGS.  WE HAVE NONE OF THAT ON THE PROPERTY AND I PRAY OUR NEIGHBORS DON'T EITHER-- ONCE A RAT EATS THAT STUFF I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR HE COUJD TRAVEL BEFORE EXPIRRING.... SO TO EVICT GISSELLE AND HER COUSINS, I DRILLED MANY HOLES  WITH A DOORKNOB HOLE DRILLER  ALONG THAT 6" BOARD  AND PUT THE INDUSTRIAL VACUUM CLEANER TO USE.... GISSELLE MOVED OUT-- OR AT LEAST FURTHER FROM WERE I LIVED.. THAT EXPLAINS THE 2" ROUND HOLES / SWISS CHEESE EFFECT IN THE KICK BOARD AROUND THE KITCHEN.... ALL IS WELL UNLESS I SEE WANDA  ( OUR RESIDENT JACK RUSSEL WHO COMMUTES FROM JANINE'S) WITH HER NOSE STUCK IN ONE OF THOSE HOLES.... THEN I KNOW.. TIME TO VACUUM...  ALL THIS IS TO PREPARE YOU ALL TO SEE RATS IN THE KENNEL AGAIN..-- IT IS ALARMING TO SEE THEM ALL OVER---  BUT RATS ARE SMART- THEY KNOW A GOOD THING WHEN THEY SEE IT....PLUS TEY ARE GOOD FOOD FOR  THE OWLS WHICH ARE AROUND SOMEWHERE...  THERE IS A VIDEO OF AN OWL SWOOPING INTO THE PREGO'S STALL AND FLYING AWAY WITH A FAT RAT.... IF THE RAT PRODUCTIONGETS OUT OF SIGHT, WE DO HAVE THSOE SNAP TRAPS TO PUT IN THE FOOD  PREP AREAS--  THOSE DEAD RATS ARE THEN BAGGED AND FROZEN-- AWAITING DELIVERY BY OUR AFFILIATE "THE FROZEN RODENT DELIVERY COMPANY' WHICH PROVIDE FOOD FOR RAPTOR REHAB FACILITIES. SO DO NOT BE ALARMED WHEN YOU OPEN THE FREEZER IN THE GUEST HOUSE

nov 20 2017

today's   incidental intelligence  provided by cp..Mandy    

Thanksgiving has been the 4th Thursday in November for as long as I can remember, which, being less than 40 years, isn't saying much, so I looked it up. The Wikipedia article has these two important points:    "The final Thursday in November had become the customary date in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 19th century."

"On December 26, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the national Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday. Two years earlier, Roosevelt had used a presidential proclamation to try to achieve this change, reasoning that earlier celebration of the holiday would give the country an economic boost."

So it turns out you're right, Carlene, it's all about the money. *sigh* 

i did order teh entire  t'bird dinner from spinelli's-- it could be done here ... except  the best oven is in the guest house, and  the puppies are in the main house so anyone babysitting the cooking of the turkey would be pretty much in seclusion... except for when they had to run across teh driveway to get all teh paraphnelia like salt , pepper and ladles which  are in this kitchen ...the t tent has a pretty good oven too...--well,, you get the picture... cooking here is possibel.... but not when you can get teh enire 9 yards in one huge cardboard box  which will fit nicely in the back onf my car.

i am hard pressed for topics...but... one of my more amazing discoveries yesterday is the amount of turkey gravy on sale in the markets--REALLY????  WELL MAYBE I CAN OFFER some usulally useless educational  information-- along with my mother telling us--- if a policeman says to stop, you do that.---.she also told me that ---there were people in the world who did not know that the  brown stuck on goop in the bottom of the roasting dish was where gravy came from...and i saw her do it !!!  she poured off alot of what ws probably fat, then put the pan(metal)  on a burner added a bit of water and gurgled it while scraping off all the browned on bits-- then she took a jar- with a lid, and added cold water to  a bunch of flour and shook it smooth , then slowly poured and stirred  it into the simmering  watery stuff in the pan- which thickened it into GRAVY !!    SHE EXPLAINED THAT THE BURNED ON BROWN STUFF IS WHAT HAD ALL THE FLAVOR ( AND COLOR) IN IT...  that was before you could buy brown stuff in a little square bottle---  which made the gravy look right, but  it was lacking the burned on chiunks which gave it the flavor.  pouring the flour/water  too fast is how you make lumpy gravy-- which can be poured into a blender to make non lumpy gravy-   she didn't have  blender... she knew how to pour it .... because in her day and age , lumpy gravy was as bad aa an american indian woman with a  wrinkles in her  teepee.-- people would talk. "she is a very nice person but she serves lumpy gravy"  

she spent alot of time dealing with people who would talk-- i think it was mostly women who were waiting in the wings to attack if she  sent her kids to school with store bought bread....."you have to learn how to iron a man's shirt...you wouldn't want to send your husband off to work  wrinkled"-- little did she realize that the way to keep those shirts perfectly ironed was to vote against deporting all those people who started a great business keeping those shirts perfectly ironed   sometimes as fast as in one hour.

looking back---only because looking forward doesn't work....---her  whole generation lived in fear of other females- she never realized her birthday which we had ceolebrated for 65 years on july 30th... was wrong...when she went to apply for ssa, she had to get her birth certificate.. which showed  she was actually born 3 months earlier in pitsfield mass-- not the normal family location of new rochelle, ny.......just to make the math come out right.--- today it is acceptable., if you are married within 4 years of the birth of your first 2 children, 

that public pressure is not much different than being trained that   the day after thanksgiving is to be a national shopping day " black friday"-- but you see how this year even those  traditions have been shot down-- as today is monday- and we are to behave like it is black friday????  in  other words..... just to put it in perspective... the giving of thanks for the harvest, has been altered to accomodate the shopping for things 99% of which are made in china...

bring back all the manufacturing of  widgets so they re made in usa... is a grand idea, but keep in mind  along with   the jobs, we are bring back all the  pollution that goes with manufacturing.  much of why all those chinese citizens wear those face masks is making the stuff they put in those huge shipping containers that run into our navy vessels so the containers can end up keeping the rats off our donated  purina dog food.

it ws a long haul from gravy to purina, but i made it.--

nov 20 2017

today's   incidental intelligence  provided by cp..Mandy    

Thanksgiving has been the 4th Thursday in November for as long as I can remember, which, being less than 40 years, isn't saying much, so I looked it up. The Wikipedia article has these two important points:    "The final Thursday in November had become the customary date in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 19th century."

"On December 26, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of Congress changing the national Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday. Two years earlier, Roosevelt had used a presidential proclamation to try to achieve this change, reasoning that earlier celebration of the holiday would give the country an economic boost."

So it turns out you're right, Carlene, it's all about the money. *sigh* 

i did order teh entire  t'bird dinner from spinelli's-- it could be done here ... except  the best oven is in the guest house, and  the puppies are in the main house so anyone babysitting the cooking of the turkey would be pretty much in seclusion... except for when they had to run across teh driveway to get all teh paraphnelia like salt , pepper and ladles which  are in this kitchen ...the t tent has a pretty good oven too...--well,, you get the picture... cooking here is possibel.... but not when you can get teh enire 9 yards in one huge cardboard box  which will fit nicely in the back onf my car.

i am hard pressed for topics...but... one of my more amazing discoveries yesterday is the amount of turkey gravy on sale in the markets--REALLY????  WELL MAYBE I CAN OFFER some usulally useless educational  information-- along with my mother telling us--- if a policeman says to stop, you do that.---.she also told me that ---there were people in the world who did not know that the  brown stuck on goop in the bottom of the roasting dish was where gravy came from...and i saw her do it !!!  she poured off alot of what ws probably fat, then put the pan(metal)  on a burner added a bit of water and gurgled it while scraping off all the browned on bits-- then she took a jar- with a lid, and added cold water to  a bunch of flour and shook it smooth , then slowly poured and stirred  it into the simmering  watery stuff in the pan- which thickened it into GRAVY !!    SHE EXPLAINED THAT THE BURNED ON BROWN STUFF IS WHAT HAD ALL THE FLAVOR ( AND COLOR) IN IT...  that was before you could buy brown stuff in a little square bottle---  which made the gravy look right, but  it was lacking the burned on chiunks which gave it the flavor.  pouring the flour/water  too fast is how you make lumpy gravy-- which can be poured into a blender to make non lumpy gravy-   she didn't have  blender... she knew how to pour it .... because in her day and age , lumpy gravy was as bad aa an american indian woman with a  wrinkles in her  teepee.-- people would talk. "she is a very nice person but she serves lumpy gravy"  

she spent alot of time dealing with people who would talk-- i think it was mostly women who were waiting in the wings to attack if she  sent her kids to school with store bought bread....."you have to learn how to iron a man's shirt...you wouldn't want to send your husband off to work  wrinkled"-- little did she realize that the way to keep those shirts perfectly ironed was to vote against deporting all those people who started a great business keeping those shirts perfectly ironed   sometimes as fast as in one hour.

looking back---only because looking forward doesn't work....---her  whole generation lived in fear of other females- she never realized her birthday which we had ceolebrated for 65 years on july 30th... was wrong...when she went to apply for ssa, she had to get her birth certificate.. which showed  she was actually born 3 months earlier in pitsfield mass-- not the normal family location of new rochelle, ny.......just to make the math come out right.--- today it is acceptable., if you are married within 4 years of the birth of your first 2 children, 

that public pressure is not much different than being trained that   the day after thanksgiving is to be a national shopping day " black friday"-- but you see how this year even those  traditions have been shot down-- as today is monday- and we are to behave like it is black friday????  in  other words..... just to put it in perspective... the giving of thanks for the harvest, has been altered to accomodate the shopping for things 99% of which are made in china...

bring back all the manufacturing of  widgets so they re made in usa... is a grand idea, but keep in mind  along with   the jobs, we are bring back all the  pollution that goes with manufacturing.  much of why all those chinese citizens wear those face masks is making the stuff they put in those huge shipping containers that run into our navy vessels so the containers can end up keeping the rats off our donated  purina dog food.

it ws a long haul from gravy to purina, but i made it.--

nov19 2017
cake day !!! to the fire departments....

as we get organied to deal with ... hopefully... thousands of orders for calendars, linda and i started "cleaning out" ---"  looking over"  the content of her little corner of the world....

well... the   "give it to linda to deal"    has to stop.. and i am the most guilty...

people-- camera people come up with some fantastic ideas- and products we could "market"  from bumpoer stickers to wrist bands to collars... to my monkey fists ( now isn 4 sizes/colors) ...linda put it very well...   "i feel like i am running a gift store at teh airport" so we made teh executive decision... to put all the extra things on the freebee table with all teh candy  and let volunteers and staff help themselves-- because to have linda deal with a 50 cent item is lovely-- but not worth her time....  my way out of teh small ( cheaper) monkey fist-- is to have any camera person  who wants one send me te self addressed envelope- and i just put one in and trow it in the outgoint mail place-- if i have to find the envelope and address it, the small ones are then $5...  which  as a zipper pull or school bag decoration,  is still an intresting gift.   i should put that reminder on the chicken brick welcome board....

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sizzle--- is becoming a dog... she has been a lemon for a long time as with alot of teenage dogs--- ican rely a bit more now with her... and i must say, she marches around costco with authority ignoring everyone....--- and gets twice the compliments that bentley gets.. with her i can pull the "isn't she beautiful?" and i can say  "oh  do you mean the dog?" gets  a few chuckles sometimes  - and i get to talk with a few people who look like thy might be candidates for vv  ( visit and volunteer-- new terminology ) and hand out  few pokerchips---( on which we are getting low ....MARKKKKKK)

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APPARENTLY MARK, AS  'dartworld'  bought a new machine for 234 million dollars to make pokerchips  IN COLOR i never thought about it... but as people collect those thiings- and he makes them for places like  budweiser and  motorcycles-- ... they are good ones-- and survive many cycles thru the laundry... another  goldie finding....dartworld.com does google....

i have said it before, but dartworld, ( and mark is the guy with the big fancy desk in the corner.... ) has teh most tidy warehouse i have ever seen....  i am not sure why you need to know that .. except mark's mind is teh same one that can locate any individual SDP  picture  in teh 43,000 pictures on his computer... i have seen him do it..... to the rest of us....  me... i find that talent particularly annoying,  how does he do it.???.  ..  apparently donna's husband , when hearing a song, can play it perfectly on the piano... another talent of which i am most jealous. 

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 speaking of goldie... i bought a chair at staples.. in pieces in a box-- i never liked my old one... i get home and find tom's job in the past was putting together chairs for staples....

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i do not know who decided thanksgiving was not the last thursday in november... i bet it was teh black friday group.... all this early  black friday super sales has to  make one stop and think........ and think..... when teh biggest sale- cheapest price is  dec 26th-- so what you should do is celebrate christmas (Xmas, Holidays) on jan 3rd or to buy all 2018's christmas gifts on jan 3,-- unless all your relatives are my age... i didn't say jan 1st   in case you  went to times squaree and had too much to drink on dec 31 

personally times square is the last place i would go on dec 31-- actually it is  not high on my  list  of destinations anywhere in the world...

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one lace i would like to see is teh fedex sorting facility in tennassee

i might be able to use some of their tactics around here...

nov 18 2017

calendar is done.... and away to the printer  i believe-- whic means we are supposed to be delivered before dec 1st...  linda has ordrs all  orgainzed.. ***** also... it might be fun for some of you to write a thank you to  r&w rope----p.o.  box 50420---  new bedford  ma  02745-- they sent me a donation of a  big chunk of orange rope to do the orange monkey fists as a money maker for SDP..-- so notes from all over would be fun....and  nice to send them... it should mean over $100 to sdp. ***** i had a few emails  wrt  responsible pet ownership-- and then i had 2 about responsible child production  when in costco with a  sizzle or bentle,   for every 5 people who say  " i wish you'd train my dog," i have at lest one who says "i wish you'd train my grandchildren"  ... i don't see those "child leashes" much anymore-a kid with a strap around thier wrist an da leash to mom.     i used to be horrified to think that the child would grow up and vote.  the fine line between overactive and just  healthy active got smeared along the way.. when doctors started trying be "the answer"  -- to appease mothers by  offering a name and chemical solution to a  problem which might be solved by more exercse less  tv ---in my time...( now it's computer time) please do remember i am an animal person... but i know...  if we wear out the puppies, they will sleep.. if we don't, they will chew on each other's heads... or some other part-  there is an active part of living  for which kids have no feel.. and "we" caused  it.. eliminate teh music program in schools, eiminate the recess program so we can have more hours of scolastic stuff...and pretty soon we cant do the scholastic stuff because kids have not  moved around enough to deal with growing bones and muscles...  we went to laura's school for a "volunteer for community service" day--- and  all i had to do was sit there and think, if that school had any kind of forced physical activity they would need to have the ambulance on site...  from  guys in flip flop shoes to girls in high heels -- guys with pants sliding down  past their hips  to girls with skirts hardly covering the necessitites of life... the school  struggles with  individualism of  expression with dress codes-- which is entirely the wrong way to go.... i could fix it  quickly--- instead of letting them out to roam the halls--- give them 30 laps around the gym-- one teacher one magic marker and when they got their "card"   with 30 marks, they could go to lunch.--- if they didn't get the 30, well then ... that  would be thier problem  --no lunch-- and all those flip flops and drooping drawers would be history.-- i see track people out running the streets with no problem so my origional was to say run around  the building outside  but i was  sure  some parent would say  it was too dangerous-- and it might in some cases be... but not these kids who make it into town all by themselves to buy donuts...  there would. be some way around that..   30 minutes of running around outside in the fresh air would straighten out more than thier clothing. at some point we have to keep our eye on the end goal-- an educated kid--  not just a large  well fed one.----but also a kid who  has found out life is not fair so get over it...no   complaining  about  you getting  only one scoop of ice cream if somebody else got two...  i remember...... edinburgh---i was a math major- and by american standards, a pretty good one.. then i got to edinburgh where my education was more of a joke .  they get out of high school with our college education--  then they go to"  university"--- i was lost-- big time...- one of the classes i took,... the class was so big i could barely SEE  the professor let alone hear or learn from him.... too bad... my problem... basically my fellow students totally understood topics i could not even pronounce...  another thing.... there was a guy in a wheelchair, and if you came to him somewhere, you just pushed him in whatever direction seemed logical..he was doing fine. ***** my methods are the same with dogs in airplanes...a sign " all service animals must pass thru  the scanner alone with all harness removed..."   any trained service dog is supposed to be able to do that-- per that adi public access test... "remove all harness and regain control of the dog in a public setting" **************** i am goin g to leave here this morning... for an outing--big excitement---- maybe to costco... so far this week i have wasted  days waiting -- for animal control inspection 2 days-- 3 delivery trucks  computer to function for calendar reasons plumbers to call i want OUT.. ***** this was wrt animals---- Keep up the excellent work and please send my thanks to the many volunteers and to your great staff, which never fails to amaze. Sorry this is so long but just wanted you to know how much I agree with all you do.  Keep up the good work. Love to all,   Stephanie

nov 17 2017

discombobulated ramble today......what happened??? we have a surplus of people and not enough who can train dogs... i wish i had a nickle for every phone call i get about training dogs in general-- if i then had another nickle for the number of calls i get abotu providing an "emotional support dog"   we would not have to worry about selling chicken bricks....  there is something lacking in the basic understanding of animals-- maybe it comes from 2 parents working to put food on the table--( mind you, food  is one of my personal favorite things)..... but in an effort to  provide animal experience, parents take the least labor intensive way out and buy a hampster  which they keep all alone in  a nice tidy  cage- or a canary-with no regard for the social life of the solitary animal.. and the kid involved learns a feed/water/ detachment to the mind of the beast...  it is that detachment that  ends someone on the phone saying "i bought this puppy, i need to have you train it for me to have as a  companion"   what i want to say is    try taking care of it yourself  and thinking about  some other  living thing will start you on what you need anyway... 

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this could go so many different directions...  from the solitarity confinement of helen keller( movie miracle worker/patty duke)  til she leartned to communicate by figuring ot the one word "water" -- to the the solitary confinement of so many of our  animals--- from hampsters to 1800 pound mo...  i bet  mo spent 15 years of her life eithere  in a 6 x 10' straight stall-- or in harness pulling a plow- her big excitement of the day was to get fed---  she arrived here mad at people-- and kicking...kicking with authority at anyone within reach...then we turned her loose in the yard-- no more kicking, great interest in bud's various projects in the shop-- many people can not get over the personality she has developed... all on her own.. 

 we just let her..

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so many  dogs are micromanaged-- leash laws mean never an chance to run  unless there is a dog park - and someone willing to take them there... how m any dogs i have watched ... on  a  leash.. trying to move thier bowels while being dragged along by someone half awake, totally detached from what is happening....the norm  "buy a cute pup.. get a collar to drag it around... feed it good food til it gets stronger  than you and drags you around- so you give it up as impossible" .     when... in soooo many cases having a well trained dog means mererly to teach the owner how to  graciously cope with another living  thing. it is not micro managing  a mechanical robot...

maybe half of our "program' is allowing the dog to bond with their new partner-- which is why i still question the accepted process of giving a puppy to a puppy raiser, then taking it back at over a year old - usually into a crate in a training facility for months,  --  then giving it to  work for someone-- when it is possible the dog is still looking for it's puppy raiser...

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giving up for the day...

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cp--JENNIFER  HARVEY sent this comment on  farm life...

 Not a lifestyle for those who have to plan everything.

NOV 16 2017

THE CALENDAR  IS GONE TO BED... (OR   PRINT...I THINK....) 

IT STARTS WITH JANUARY.AND WANDA...THE  JACK RUSSEL

"WANDA... COME HERE"

"OHAHUMANHASCALLEDMYNAMEIGETEXCITEDWHENANYONECALLSMYNAMEITISSUCHANICESOUNDTOOTHATMEANSICAN THEN RUNOVERANDJUMPINTHEIRLAPANDWAGMYTAILATTHERESTOFTHEWORLD. "  

"NOW JUST STAND THERE"

"IAMSOHAPPYTOSTANDTHEREBUTICANALSOJUSTSTANDONTHREEFEET" 

"WANDA PUT THAT FOOT DOWN"

"HOWCANIPUTTHATFOOTDOWNWHENIAMSUREISAWACHIPMUNKDARTINTOTHATHOLEANDTHEREISSSOMEONE OVERTHEREI HAVENOTSEEN BEFOREANDMUSTTALKTOANDWHYMUSTIHAVE4FEETONTHEGROUNDWHENICANSTANDVERYNICELYWITH3BUTAS SOONASYOUSAYTHEMAGICWORDOF  "OK  "  IWILLZOOMAROUNDTOTHATNEWPESONANDTHENJUMPINSOMEONESLAPANDRELAX"

"WANDA DON'T TURN AROUND"

"IJUSTHADTOTURNAROUNDANDSEEWHOTHATDOGWASBEHINDMESEEINGASHEIS20TIMESMYSIZEI ANTTOBESUREICANSTIL WHIP HIMOHITISONLYADANEANDIKNOWICANBOSSTHEM.AROUNDDIDYOUWANTMYTAILUPORDOWNICANWAGITSIDEDTOSIDEIAMSOHAPPPYTOBEHERECHECKINGOUTTHESECURITYOFTHEPLACE ANDICANTELLTHATTHENEED FOR MY SERVICESISGREATBECAUSE IAMSURETHEREAREALSOSQUIRRELSAROUNDLETMEATHIM." 

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IT WAS SUCH A RELEIF TO GET TO DECEMBER WITH THE DANES-- GOTTA LOVE 'EM....

"OSCAR .. COME HERE"

"WHY"

"WE NEED TO HAVE YOU JUST SIT THERE"

"OK"

"NOW HOLD STILL WHILE I PUT THIS ON YOU"

"PEOPLE ARE WIERD"

"NOW OSCAR... JUST STAY THERE"

" WHO'S MOVING? " 

"STAY"

"WHEN'S DINNER?"

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AND THEN THE TREMENDOUSLY  TALENTED CALENDAR CREW WHO HAVE A TERRIBLY DEBILITATING  AFFLICTION CALLED  "PERFECTION" 

"NO, IT'S--'FOR'  --, NOT-- 'TO'  "

"THAT WORD DOESN'T   'FEEL'    RIGHT"

TO WILLIAM IN THE MIDDLE OF A VIRTUAL FOREST... "CAN WE GO  LOOK AT ANOTHER TREE?"

BUT BY ALL RUMORS... WE MADE IT LAST NIGHT AMID AOL BEING NEARLY DOWN BECAUSE RIGHT AT OUR 6PM DEADLINE GOOGLE GOT INVOLVED WITH REBOOTING AOL ( APPARENTLY) AND SENDING FILES GOT ... IN A WORD.. LOUSY !

AND-- SO HEL.P ME.... MY CELL PHONE WOULD NOT CALL  ANNE'S PHONE..  . HER PHONE RIGHT NEXT TO HER

WAS NOT RECOGNIZING INCOMMING CALLS ( AND YES SHE/WE... DID CHECK ALL THE BUTTONS)  NOR WOULD IT CALL ME... SO I SAT HERE WITH BUD-- ANNE AT HER HOUSE WAITING FOR ME TO SEND THE LAST PAGE FOR HER TO LOOK OVER -- MY COMPUTER WASN'T SENDING THE FILE....  THE PHONE WOULD NOT WORK.. COMMUNICATION WAS  IMPOSSIBLE--

MAKES ME UNDERSTAND WHY ... IN LONDON WHEN THEY HAVE TO SHIP  EYE CORNEAS BETWEEN HOSPITALS  BEWEEN DONOR AND PATIENT, THEY USE CARRIER PIGEONS... AT LEAST THEY ...DID....I DUNNO NOW..... THERE IS A LESSON THERE.

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THE DEAL ON THE CALENDAR IS ----IF WE GET IT  TO TH E PRINTER BY FRIDAY  WE WILL HAVE IT DELIVERED BY DEC 1ST-- I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THE PRINTER EVEN IS.... LET ALONE THINGS LIKE WILLIAM CHECKING THE COLORS OR WHETHER FEB HAS 28 DAYS...

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WHAT DID I LEARN?----NEXT YEAR---- WE WILL DO IT WITH THE  NATIVE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF "ONLY THE GODS DO EVERYTHING RIGHT-- ANYTHING WE DO MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE  IMPERFECTION SO AS NOT TO ANGER THE GODS."   

AND 

NEXT YEAR WE WILL HAVE IT DONE BY DOGFEST... ( OCTOBER)

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IT IS TOUGH TO COME UP WITH  CREATIVE IDEAS... THIS IS OUR 5TH YEAR??? AND EACH ONE HAS BEEN  EXCEPTIONAL- ..AS THERE ARE SOOOOO MANY PEOPLE INVOLVED WHEN YOU  FIGURE IN --PEOPLE'S HOUSES --MEGAN'S  STAMINA-- DEVLIN'S DIMINUTIVE SIZE--KITTY'S DETERMINATION- ANNES ENGLISH-FROM FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO SCHOOL PRINCIPALS-- THERE ARE SOOOO MANY WHO HAVE COOPERATED...SOOOO MANY WHO JUST DON'T QUIT....

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SO AT $20 PLUS $5 IF WE HAVE TO MAIL IT IT WILL AGAIN BE A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT - WE SHOULD GET IT FROM TH EPRINTER ON DEC 1st.

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PURINA FOOD--- A HUGE DEAL IN OUR LIVES- BOTH MONETARILY AND JUST BULK........ AND GOLDIE-- OUR GHOST-- WAS RIGHT IN THERE  WORKING HARD...-- 

 THE ORDER ( DONATION) USUALLY COMES   1 PALLET OF WET AND 8 PALLETS  OF DRY ( 1 PUPPY 7 ADULT)-- BECAUSE OF THE PUPS, I ASKED PURINA  IF WE COULD HAVE 2 PUPPY, 6 ADULT PROPLAN-- NO PROBLEM...

THE OTHER DETAILS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THIS STORY IS  - WE NEED THE TRACTOR TO UNLOAD TEH  DRY FOOD WIHT THE "FORK LIFTS"  AS IT IS "TAILGATE DELIVERY"  ( THE OTHER  KIND OF DELIVERY WITH THE TAILGATE THAT LOWERS PALLET S TO THE GROUND IS  "LIFTGATE DELIVERY"    AN EXTRA CHARGE AND SHOULD BE SPECIFIED AT PICK UP..)-- THE TRACTOR WIL NOT PICK UP THE WET FOOD PALLET  AS IT WEIGHS  1019 POUNDS....THE TRACTOR JUST BARELY PICKS UP THE DRY FOOD WHICH IS 24 BAGS OF 40# EACH= 960---  SO IT IS CLOSE..... 

FEDEX CALLED TO ASK IF WE WERE READY TO ACCEPT 2 PALLETS-- I ASSUMED....... THEY MUST BE SENDING 2 WET SO WHEN BUD ASKED IF IT WAS A GOOD TIME TO CHANGE THE HYDRALIC OIL.. I SAID YES...SO HE GOT UNDER IT AND UNDID THE 3 PLUGS WHICH HE READ ABOUT IN THE MANUAL ( HE READS DIRECTIONS)

BIG TRUCK #1 ARRIVED-- THE USUALL DRIVER-- BACKED UP TO THE DOOR-- AND PUT TH EONE PALLET ON THE GROUNDAND WHILE MO SUPERVISED, OUR CREW UNLOADED  ONE PALLET AND THEN LEFT--I WAS QUESTIONING THE DRIVER ABOUT THE SECOND PALLET WHEN BIG  TRUCK # 2 ARRIVED

THERE WAS AN AWFUL  --HS-- MOMENT AS I  THOUGHT "HERE 'S 8 PALLETS OF DRY AND WE ARE MINUS TEH TRACTOR"...NOW OUR RECORD FOR DISMANTLING  A PALLET OF DRY IS ONE MINUTE 28 SECONDS... BUT THAT IS ONCE IT IS ON THE GROUND. AND WE NEVER HAD DRY ARRIVE "LIFTGATE" ----- IT WAS A SIGH OF RELIEF-- AND THANKS TO GOLDIE---- TO HAVE TRUCK #2 BE FILLING IN FOR TEH USUAL STRIAGHT TRUCK, AND THIS ONE HAD THE ABILITY TO LOWER THE 2 PALLETS  WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE THE 2 PUPPY PALLETS.

AT WHICH  POINT THE PHONE RANG-- HUGE TRUCK #3 WANTED DELIVERY OF  6 "SKIDS"  ON THURSDAY-- BUD SAID TEH OIL WOULD BE CHANGED BY THEN AND TRACTOR USEABLE... SO I SAID YES... SO HERE I SIT TODAY  -- READY TO DIRECT THE UNLOADING OF 6 PALLETS OF DRY FOOD FROM TEH HEATED COMFORT OF THE TRACTOR CAB...

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ONE DISASTER AT A TIME ID DO-ABLE.