ustabeeeeee..... for alot of years--- i would stop by any adult day care-- or nursing home- on a drive by basis- nothing official... people seemed to like it.... especially the staff-- i totaLLY ENJOYED TEH FAct that my dogs were spectacularly big aND perfectly behaved... made people either smile-- or at least be distracted from their grim details. i never kept track--- and tehn we lost out on a grant from cummings - one of the big reasons was we were not local enough- the cummings grant was specifically for a few counties in eastern mass.altho we are from teh area, the recipients of our dogs are from too far afield... bella is great--- but donating to eve in wisconson did us no favors with cummings.
we blew teh wrong horn-- SDP' orchestra has an entire brass section- and tho teh service dogs may be teh trumpet section.... , our road trips are teh french horn division, which is not quite as flamboyant but lend a quality of mellow tone to the orchestra.
in jan of 2019 we ( judy) started keeping traqck.. and listing the current ones plus those we could rememeber form 2018. As we went around-- now judy found every one of these places had a director of entertainment ( or some such title) these poor people were hard pressed to come up wih "things" -- TO ENTERTAIN THE REALLY POOR PEOPLE IN THEIR CARE.
not to be outdone in teh creative department--- judy GOT THE IDEA OF ENTERTAINING THE ALTZEIMEER GROUPS WITH DECORATING OUR POO PICKERS-- AND SHE HAS A PACKET OF POO DECORATION EQUIPMENT-- STAMPS CRAYONS -- LIGHT COLORED POO PICKERS SENT BY CP'S-- THIS IS A big success- and entertaining for thejm --- and me -- to watch teh difference a few dogs and a simple chore can make in a dreary day, also judy is capabLe of aNIMALTED CONVERSATIONWITH ABSOLUTELY ANYONE.
SOMETIMES IT IS SHOCKING.... ONE MAN WHO RARELY SPEAKS AT ALL TOLD JUDY AS HE HANDED HER HIS DECORATED POO PICKER "MAKE SURE THEY KNOW THIS IS A FRED CONNER'S ORIGIONAL"
SO SOMETHING WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE IN HIS HEAD !! --
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AS I SAT WITH THE 2 DOGS -- BENTLEY AND SIZZLE-- LOOKING AROUND.... I ZEROED IN ON ALL TEH HUGE TV/MONITOR/WHATEVER.. SCREENS- I DO NOT REMEMBER ONE PLACE WITHOUT ONE OF THOSE SCREENS--- LOOKS LIKE SOMOEN ..? THE TOWNS?? FED GOVT?? IN SOME COUNCIL OF AGING PROGRAM, INSISTED THEY HAVE ONE. -- THEY HAVE TEHM...
IN MY NOBLE OPINION, NOT ONE WAS BEING USED AS INTENDED-- TO RELIEVE BOREDOM OF TEH "INMATES." USUALL BLANK-- NOT EVEN ON... SOME STATIC COMMERCIAL LOGOS ----OUT OF 78 VISITS, ONE HAD A GAME SHOW WHICH I WAS TOLD WAS A REPLAY-- HOW BAD IS THAT????REPLAYING A GAME SHOW????
I KNOW TEH GOLDFISH ON EXPLORE.ORG 'S UNDERWAter cameras WOULD BE 1000% BETTER THAN WHAT IS THERE NOW.
teh shame of not being able to work my "smart tv" finally got to me-- i bit the bullet and bought a small laptop and a hdmi cable-- now i can watch expore.org instead of the news channels.
how do we now say to bill cummings... ok -- it is your turn to help-- you must have an IT department.... loan us teh personel to get these "smart tv's" operational.... that would be financially more economical than to alternately give us a grant to make this " road trip" more than just an idea division of SDP/.
Dear Mr. Cummings.........
