NOV 30 2020

 

2020 11 30

My apologies to anybody who received several odd emails yesterday I'm just trying to figure out how to add a picture to the daily doggy that is sent to a couple 1000 individual emails by a company called constant contact .. it's not just simple drag on paste deal and Furthermore I've got to take the picture with my phone camera which doesn't send things easily to anybody else .. so in the process I pushed a few wrong buttons yesterday and sent out a couple mistakes .

 

I had a lot of comments about my approach to  science education...from yesterday ..  the interesting part is the fact that the positive comments we're all made bye people I know to be involved in some kind of practical science ..    Engineers doctors carpenters electricians  People to whom logic is a part of their everyday life ....as opposed to political science which defies everybody's imagination .

So back to logic and The cleaning of my room ..

 

it took 60 years of normal living for me to realize ---- a washing machine in the cellar really didn't make any sense ---you should have the washing machine where The Dirty clothes are .. So when we built this house I ELIMINATED  the closet and put a washer dryer there .

at my advanced age I realized there's only about 5 pieces of clothing that I wear-my daily uniform.... and if I have three of each at 15 piece of clothing one on me one in the washer one in the dryer ..  and at that rate I really don't need the Bureau which is basically a horizontal surface which accumulates   mostly crap ----  and my cut glasss  large shot glass and a bottle of brandy. 

 

But the contents... by actual survey...bottom right-hundreds of  empty, washed vaccine vials and all the labels to explain the  puppy breath project...

For  you new comers... For a long time I heard about how puppy breath has magnificent healing processes and reduces stress and things like that so I decided to bottle it and send it to anyone who wanted some at $8.00 a bottle .. and we sold a lot of it---- people found  it a great conversatiob piecde and reduced stresws  if  they put it  on there computer desk  ..And one member of a board of directors had two vials for Thanksgiving dinner he SAID  that if he sprinkled that around the table the family  didn't argue .. at any rate people got a lot of fun out of that and Furthermore one person sent the vial back to me with $5 wanting a refill .. so much for the bottom right drawer

 

bottom center drawer has a jewelry box which has been raided so many times by Gwenn --- there's a barely anything in it ..a hermannus scarf .. a very pretty scarf I've had it now for about 20 years and I do wear it once in awhile maybe once every five years .it certainly will dress up the most mundane a wardrobes . AS SEEN BY THAT MD ON TV      ...

bottom left drawer in the collection oh iron hardware leftover from hanging the television on the wall... Being a fanatic collector of hardware you just never know when you're going to need a PIECE OF  iron-my father said never to throw away HArdware   -- this does complicate life in general.... ...

The other six drawers are somewhat the same stuff I don't use or wear .. because if I did use or wear them they would be on the washer dryer not stuck in a drawer .

I can't see what's in those drawers .. and if I can't see it I don't own it .. which is why I have a 6 foot tall stainless steel shelving which does have plastic see through boxes of things I use on a more routine basis ..  like mouse traps .

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I am a self anointed expert on setting mouse traps ..   and I better get to it   mice are getting out of control .  

Yesterday Judy was shocked and amazed that I set six traps for without any confusion ..  what I do is to cut Cardboard boxes into about four inches by 12 inches .

then I take a mouse trap dorb a little bit of peanut butter on the target and then with great care set the spring ... at which point this trap is fragile .. so I put it on the Cardboard and with a little bit of Scotch tape make sure at least stays there till we get it where it should be ..  I had to point out to Judy that you couldn't slide it under a piece of furniture that didn't have enough clearance for it to snap   a critical piece of information .. I have tried the electrical .  the water . and any other newly invented mousetrap and constantly go back to the old Viktor --  it is quick it is final .   As for the haverheart trap    I do have a story on that one

I remember I had to have a rat for a photo shoot . and seeing as the barn was full of  em  I SET  a couple have a hearts ..  and in short order I had two rats ..

which were perfect for the photo shoot ..  I also had a policy of not injuring any animal that I've used in a commercial .. so I was not about to throw those in the pond     ---as this direction suggested  --- so I took him up the street about a mile and turned them  loose  in the forest .

one of those rats had a distinctive scar on his back .the probability of having two rats with the same scar is not terribly high ..

but the day after I turned those loose a mile away there was a rat with the same scar back in the barn ..  ..

a granted whatever caused that scar on the rat could have caused this Scar and another rat like a nail sticking out somewhere ..  but playing the probabilities I decided turning rodents loose was not the way to go .

When they started digging the holes for that development next door the entire far est  rat population was extremely upset and we had more rats than we needed So I started using those Victor traps of both sizes  rat and mouse .. .This gave us a collection of recently deceased rats and mice .. which we then decided we should become the... FROZEN RODENT DELIVERY COMPANY... to supply these to the people trying to rehabilitate Hawks and owls and Eagles and things snakes .. which meant we had to store them in the freezer .. 

So that should explain to any shocked  guest in our guest house why there is a collection of carefully bagged dead rodents in that freezer ... Our barn rats  we're grain fed with the best of cereals  that. could  be put in a bag of horse food ..  Once again   my philosophy  was of  finding a need and then fill it .....  as well as utilizing any resource to its fullest .

 

Finding a need and filling it ... with readily available assets quickly goes to the number of 20 year olds at a high school who if they had any sense would take this quarantine TIME   To do something like pick up a washing machine being thrown out and taking it all apart and understanding how it all works and then you'd be able to repair a washing machine----and then do the same with anything  LIKE    with a small motor Briggs and Stratton .. learn all you can during this time when you haven't got anything else to do anyway ..  and by the time theCOV  is over you would have a booming business FOR everybody who instead of repairing anything just buys another one .. THE COST OF THIS EDUCATION IS   ZERO.......  THE PARTS ARE THERE...  

certainly the dump my favorite place--- is full of objects that could teach somebody to be a repair person ..   of which our society has damn few .

I had a conversation with a PhD in business management .. who explained That the business world who have  taken over our hospitals oUr vet d practices  ETC  Have now taken over colleges and are all grabbing at any student who can pay the tuition to whom they can give a  Piece of paper which is worthless .

 

one of our volunteers has 2 Masters degrees and cannot find a job ..  but the two colleges thAT  gave her those advanced degrees PUT HER IN  DEBT to the tune of $120,000 for something that's doing her no good . THEY KEPT THAT MONEY..  

So I went on line and looked up Colby college tuition ..   which is now $57,000 a year .. If anybody is considering spending $57,000 a year at Colby    keep in mind the only thing I thought I learned there which was useful was exactly what a deadline was ..  and I have a camera person reader of this daily doggy   who says all she learned to Colby was to cut hair ..  so I think you should stop  AND  think $57,000 ..  that would buy a lot of wrenches and screwdrivers and you'd be set up in a valuable business oF being able to repair anything ... 

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I GOT ALOT OF THESE FROM YESTERDAYS 

UNLESS SOMEONE PLANS TO BE A JEOPARDY! CONTESTANT, EDUCATION BEYOND BASIC READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC IS A WASTE OF TIME.  MOST LEARNING WE DO, WE DO WHILE ON THE JOB.  OTHER THAN THE BASICS LEARNED IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, NONE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE CLASSES I TOOK HELPED ME GET ANY JOBS... LAUREL   

INTERESTING SHE CUT IT BACK TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL... 

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I HAD SOME COMMENTS ON THE BREEDING OF DOGS ...

 

I pay more aTTENTION TO THE BREEDING OF OUR DOGS THAN  THE ATTENTION MOST PEOPLE  GIVE TO THE THINGS THEY ARE BREEDING. 

 I COULD HAVE A FIELD DAY THERE.  

 SOME OTHER  DAY....

NOV 29B 2020 PRACTICING

 

nov 29 2020 sci ed

i was all set to discuss changint the education of  our 10 year olds.... and almost got distracted  by fear marketing. 2020 11 29   And I still have to make an effort .  I don't know who in history decided that high school kids would be much better educated if they took Latin ----the excuse given to me was it would help with spelling and vocabulary to know the history and the root of many of the words we use ..  well I'd like to make it quite clear that it didn't help my spelling and  my vocabulary was not something I learned in Latin class ..   however ---not a day goes by that I don't use arithmetic geometry and physics ..  even from a very young age----- but that was never pointed out to me on a more practical level .. so although I wouldn't spend a year teaching a fourth grader algebra .. I do think there are some points of wisdom that should be planted at a very early age by someone who doesn't stand there and say oh I never understood algebra anyway  well more people do than they realize .. but the presentation is wrong. if you told a kid that a candy bar was $0.25    even at a very young age you could say how much would three of them be and that kid would know right away $0.75--- the right there you have not only algebra 3X equaling  Y..  but you have the decimal system 3/4 equals   .75  I have to put arithmetic somewhat the same level as spelling 2 + 2 has to equal 4 ..  there are some basics you have to know---- I before E except after C or when sounded as a as in neighbor or weigh ---  things like that   Then scientists decided to teach science.......they get bent out of shape teaching new base systems because our base system of 10 started because we have 10 fingers  but we already know other base systems-----   we just don't label it as such .. the simplest his feet and inches 5 foot 2 is     is 5 times 12 .... +2 ..  and if you're measuring horses it's hands which is 4 inches so a horse that's 16.2   is 16 times 4 +2 .. ?? pounds and ounces  gets really screwy with a decimal on some scales..  Hardly any of the math science I had through high school any rate ever related to the real world .. geometry ??  tripods don't wobble ever and the reason is because three points form one an only one plane or flat surface.. thr geometry rule... 3 points form a plane,,that's ridiculous  3 legs can be made sturdy on any kind of ground as opposed to a four legged table which constantly has to have something slid under one leg to stop it from wobbling ------ some farmer figured that out long ago when he made a stool to sit on when he milked the cow  and that stool had  only three legs. To ask a grade school kid to make a list of all the triangles they see in their life is  a reasonable thing to do ,,  so why do we see triangles  ?  Because a triangle is a fixed shape that doesn't wobble    a  frequent  example   any kid would see is basically the shape of a coat hanger... the old wire coat hanger is basically triangular .. as are the wwwwww shapes under a lot of highway  bridges or  library shelving...      Then physics-my favorite syphoning --  fun with straws and water... is not too messy...   .   Lifting water with a straw...  or the advanced class of toilet flushing... Problem is  the physics books may discuss an “inclined plane”   when in fact they  are talking about a  simple screw..  GRT EM YOUNG TRTAIN EM EARLY  BY  PLANTING A FEW SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES THAT  READILY AVAILABLE AND ARE EASILY UNDERSTOOD BY YOUNG KIDS... THEM MAYBE WE WOULD HAVE JUST A FEW MORE SCIENTIFICALLY ASTUTE  COLLEGE GRADS..  there is a whole age group ( about my age  )  which  was carefully taught to fear science / math as just weird and unknown...  ..  then it went overboard with  trying to multiply numbers in the base 14...  somewhere we shold start with the very practical.....   I SUFFER  -- TRYING TO DESCRIBE  to college  age  kids....     IF BOARD “A” IS LEVEL, THE A BOARD    that measure equally  4 foot above it is also level..... or... don’t try and pick something straight up.. with a BOArd and a rock, you can simply use yoru foot to lift a post out of a hole.  Never thought of it????  .....I came  I saw  I conquered.     We need more “sawing”.. ------    there are some CLEVER COSTCO SPAMS    out there    involving the costco charge card.... and free give aways  if only you will pay the4 postage... with your card...  --  speaking of postage on doggie bag things.... like monkey fists....     we had to try and  include  aprox postage  in the prices of things.. because postage is not free.... it is darn expensive  so our $5 item is now $6  because mailing it is  $1.08. now if anyone is wild enough   to buy that monster monkey fist for the posted    $5000,, we will include teh freight  on that one !!!   ( it is heavy !!)

 

NOV 28 MICE

 20 11 28

OH MY  I GOOFED 

Living in one room ,a bathroom And a car--- pretty big car---allows me to collect things-- projects --future projects go away get away ..  certainly these two puppies oARE a future project but unfortunately as we found out during the family zoom meeting that I'm not the only one living in my room-- there's a mouse . AT LEAS ONE   . so it was suggested by my children that perhaps I take a day and maybe clean up this AREA   so today's the day then I'm at least going to think about it------    I probably won't get anything done but I'll at least start thinking about it .. 

 

I have a theory ---actually I have a lot of theories --  well this one is I think I did not have enough toys of the kind I wanted when I was a kid ---so therefore the older I get the more objects I collect of a certain type and in my case it's wheeLs...  round things -----I have a large collection of tires and wheels and rims and things like that ..and every once in awhile I find some I can use...  a need .. I think as a youngster I never resolved how you put some kind of axle in the middle oF  then wheel... I think if someone had explained to me about ball bearings, I could have conquered the world...... instead of collecdting  THINGS THAQT ROLL.. LIKE WAGONS... CARS, AND   the  SHELVING ALL OVER THIS HOUSE.. IS stainless steel and  ON WHEELS !!  (no excuse for not  under cleaning. )     It is painful for me to throw away those round wheels that wires  or rope comes on... if I see one of those telephone company wooden ones  I have been known to burst into tears trying to stuff it =in my car with the 3 or 4 dogs usually there,-----CONSEQUENTLY.......     in the back left corner of both the arena and shop there is a pile of  "things that are round"  ... with no other identifying charTERistics.....

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The next theory someone needs to look into is ... with a mouse on my bed....  Aside from being thankful  I  sleep with a cpap covering m y nose/mouth....  The reason They are there ========TALKING TO  SIZZLE=====what's your problem but you have to have a cookie or something didn't you get you had breakfast I didn't need your breakfast who is your breakfast eat your breakfast it's a good breakfast you gotta eat the breakfast eat it eat the breakfast it has got a whip cream in it ========    is because not long ago I started eating crackers  for a 2am snack...   I knew i have had a mouse on the floor for a long time.. it has a daily routine you could set the clock by it.  In places like The floor in  m y closet and under bureau... those places didn't bother me but I do believe that this goldey person ghost that I live with sometimes makes suggestions ----  well things I ought to consider .. and I wonder now if the fact that that little mouse that's about an inch and a half long Knew that I SPILL just a few tiny pieces of cracker on my bed .. which has to be 24 inches off the floor .. comparing all those dimensions  INVOLVED   I wonder if we would be better  off training by mice than  dogs  to sniff contraband at the border .

I remember before we had the shipping container in which we keep dog food , we tried STORAGE IN  the old ambulance .. and we parked it at least 100 feet away from the barn or any area where there were rats .. and it didn't take those rats more than a WEEK to locate that ambulance and somehow get themselves in--- must have crawled up the tires---   so when the cars for kids came to collect the ambulance the minute they moved it you would have thought there was some kind of rat type fire drill as they all ABANDONED SHIP. .

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And then.........  cov numbers..i did see somewhere  THERE IS  a self test- if that is true, then it explains the number of false negatives...because....

Linda went to be tested, and she  explasined the person ouTside her car window had shoved a  large pole up her  n ose and  counted to 5 as it was wedged behind her right eyeball.  She explained  if that is where the cov  hides, there is no way aNY SELF TEST WILL BE ACCURATE.

 

I MUST NOW DEAL WITH SIZZLE BECAUSE THE BREAKFAST SERVERS FORGOT HER WHIPED CREAM TOPPPING SO SHE IS LOOKING AT THE DISH.... THEN ME... 

nov 27 2020 ERE

thanksgiving??  we thanked and made it. having zoomed the family from north carolina to texas to calif  and colorado... I WAS ONCE AGAIN REMINDED THAT THE SUN GOES OVER T HE MIZZON MAST AT 8 AM IN TEXAS -- CRAZY TEXANS -- NOT ONLY  FOR THE CAMERA PEOPLE CRAZY TEXANS BUT MY RELATIVES.... GOT A RUNNING ASTART ON OUR ZOOM AT 11... ..    zooming beats airoporting  even WITHOUT COV INFLUENCE....  with the help of the chef, and bbq chickens from the market  11 people ate here and 2 family size leftovers WENT HOME TO  OTHERS...  mean we still have some full dinner  collections in the t tent for anyone here today...   the  pearl onions with velveta cheeze were a HUGE SUCCESS ( AN UNKNOWN REALLY EASY DISH).. MY KIND OF RECIPIE-----  BOTTLED ONIONS HUNK OF CHEESE AND SHOVE IN OVEN TIL CHEESE MELTS. SO THAT IS YOUR GEM OF WISDOM FOR THE DAY,..... BLACK FRIDAY  - NO ONE LINED UP AT 12:01.. THAT I KNEW OF..   EARLENE-- OUR ORIGIONAL PUPPY BIRTHING VOLUNTEER WAS OUR  BLACK FRIDAY SPECIALIST...I DID HEAR  "DON'T GO TO THE STORES,, SHOP ONLINE"   OK...... WE HAVE AN ONLOINE STORE   THE DOGGIE BAG.. SO TODAYS BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL IS A 2" MONKEY FIST WITH A SOLID BRASS SNAP FOR $14  AND WE ASK Y OU TO ADD A FEW $$ POSTAGE BECAUSE IT GOT TOO COMPLICATED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT THAT IN THE DOGGIE BAG SHOPPING CART CALCULATIONS. ACCORDING TO LINDA POSTAGE VARIES FROM $2 TO $12 WITH WEIGHT AND ZIP CODES... IT WAS TOO M UCH EFFORT.  JUST ADD SOME $$$ AND THE REST CAN GO IN THE SWEAR BEAR.  ---  BACK TO MY TRASH COLLECTOR -- AND THE WORLD OF PEOPLE " DOWN THE LINE"  BEHIND ALL THOSE WITH TITLES AND DEGREES.... THERE IS ONE THING THAT HOLDS A GREAT DEAL OF WEIGHT  --- AT LEAST TO  ME....  IN THE JOBS WORLD... THAT IS RELIABILITY..  COUPLE THAT WITH THE NEW TITLE GIVEN MANY OF THESE PEOPLE  "ESSENTIAL"... SO  RELAIBLITY AND EFFORT    SHOULD   BE A  TITLE THEY CAN PUT AFTER THIER NAMES..-----.  xxxxxxxxx  yyyyyy , ERE----- for the essential, relaaBLE AND EFFORT...  in the same vein as teh class valedictorian in a class of one....  animal episodes was new england's premier provider of animals for movies, commercials....we had a good reputation.. only becayse everyone else was worse....  i did hear once " she will at least show up  on time with the correct animal"  that was enough of a compliment to keep us in busniess for ?25 years????  spmetimes you can see animal episodes in the "credits".  i never worried about htat.... i just cashed the check. -- 2020 11 27  the night report of noise and who was outside thir kennels???? there was on e night ladst month t when there was significant noise.....   carefully documented by camera person lynne. At 3:38 am  something happened... horses whinnied  donkeys snorted and dogs barked for about  an hour.    The rest of the  month lynne documents dog that were outside [peeing and quiet... geese homnking the roosters  ,, donkeys banging buckets  and all  quiet..  just that one night... I think the written report of Lind could probably be backed up but the actual visual which I'm sure is saved on some cloud or another of months of absolutely quiet until something happens to set off the whole barn it's my contention and we have videos to prove the cats come and go that's feral cats house cats and probably Fisher Cats we have owls that swing into the barn to pick up a rat  For dinner  at 2:00 AM ... And then we have just plain neighborhood noise people leaving for the airport at three or four in the morning or two people slightly inebriated proceeding to fight with each other at the state boat ramp there are other dogs in the neighborhood but generally speaking we have 30 days of dogs were quiet dogs were quiet dogs are quiet . our dogs are happy well exercised well trained well cared for and don't do that frustrated bark of  "please come help me I'm locked in this cage ."  . they just don't do that --but dogs have the reputation for being frustrated in  cages .. and we are suffering with the neighbors because of that reputation I don't think we're guilty .. and I don't think we could care for them any better .. also I was here long before they moved in next door and I used to have an awful lot more animals then the 50 or 60 great Danes I now have .. at one point I did count 150 animals I have to admit there were a lot of birds .   which reminds me ....here we go again I used to get calls for white doves for various reasons ---throwing them up in the air at weddings or something whatever .. and just so you know those aren't doves that people are tossing up in the air because if you toss a dove up in the air 9 times out of 10 it flutters on down to the ground and walks around .. so those things that people are throwing up in the air are white pigeons .. and there are people well there certainly was a Mr Scott who raised white pigeons .. white homing pigeons .. so for a couple $100 he would let me go into his chicken coop gather up a cage or two full of white pigeons which I then would take some place and throw 'em all up the air they go back to Mr Scott's .. Mr Scott was very old even by my standards . and he was very happy to have me rent his pigeons .. he knew his pigeons . except for the day .. I had a call from the Loudon race track where they race cars---- it was to be opening day and they wanted in the ceremony to have a whole bunch of what they thought were white doves thrown up in the air and let fly of off .. so we rigged my son in law's pickup truck with the cap on the back we collected a whole bunch of Mr Scott's white pigeons and he went off to Loudon racetrack where he got in front of all the cars to lead them to the track . it just so happens that my brother in law was here at the time with his Cessna plane   .. so he and I flew up in the plane to watch this happen and we were flying around and around the racetrack azran my son in law pulled out onto the track with all the cars open the back of his truck  and the pigeons all flew off it was all wonderful ..   and we all came home .. I say we came home ----those pigeons did not all make it home .. a bunch of them decided they liked the atmosphere around Loudon NH and they just stayed there ....   so   there were some people who lived there who never could figure out why Loudon had so many white pigeons ..  they didn't know about Mr Scott's pigeons that didn't quite come home... but not all of 'em --Loudon has to this day an extraordinary number of pigeons that are white .   I've no cut and paste everybody was too busy eating Turkey yesterday ..so on we go Carlene White www.servicedogproject.org https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall CARLENE HAS A DEFICTIVE LEFT PINKY FINGER WHICh CAUSES RAndom caps lock

 

nov 26 2020 t day car

  2020 11  26

“ipswich police you're being recorded “

hi this is carlene   service dog project---- we have a car that's been abandoned here and we would like to get rid of it apparently I need some paperwork from you so I can donate it to kars for kids. “

“abandoned  ?   how long is it been there “

about two years

“where is the owner?”

I don’t know really, she died

“ Are you sure ?”

I went to the funeral , it certainly looked like an official funeral.

“you better get in touch with her relatives

 there weren’t any at the funeral,

who paid for the funeral?\

I don’t know and it did not occur to me to ask.

I heard she had a brother in North Carolina .

“well then get in touch with him “ 

I only know her first name  annie... women keep changing LAST NAMES you know-  I’ve had 3 myself..

.YOU BETTER JUST call  A TOW  COMPANY TO TAKE IT

 WOULN’T THEY CHARGE?

OF COURSE

I CAN’T SPENd  our CHARITY MONEY FRIVERLOUSLY

WHAT DO  THEY DO WITH A CAR WITH NO PAPERS

PROBABLY SELL IT FOR PARTS

WELL WHY CAN’T I GIVE IT TO KARS FOR KIDS?

BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PROVE IT WAS NOT STOLLEN.

 I would  love for it to be stolen...  Can you arrainge that?

No.

How about I just roll it out onto the street

and let you deal with it

We’d  have to fine you

but it's not my car  -

etc.......

So In The good old Massachusetts tradition  we  have a friend...who has a    a friend with  only a phone number who will come and get it - sometimes even paying for it... no questions asked...    that number is now on my desk   as one of those details of life which promotes practicality.

 

I do  have a few car stories....   Although FOR  most of my ADULT driving career I DROVE A VW BUG-USUALLY PURCHASED FOR  $100 AND YOU OFTEN  HAD TO ROLL   THEM  TO START  BUT I WAS HAPPY BECAUSE THE HEATERS WORKED AND THEY WERE LIGHT TO ROLL WHILE DELIVERING THE WANT AD MAGAZINES... ....    WHEN MY VW’S DIED  THEY WERE DEAD....  BUT THERE WAS A VW DEALER IN SALEM MASS.... WHO WOULD TAKE THEM FOR PARTS..

 THERE WAS NO  VALUE IN ALTERING THE ODEOMETER ON THEM... HOWEVER.. MY HUSBAND’S CAR WAS  blatenly NEWER,BIGGER,, MORE VALUABLE. THEREFOR  HE KNEW  THERE WERE PLACES YOU TOOK THE CAR TO WIND BACK TH E ODOMETER..  I WAS THE ONE TO TAKE HIS LINCOLN TO THE PLACE.. I NEVER REALIZED IT WAS GOING TO TAKE HOURS TO WIND IT BACK... BECAUSE BASICALLY IT WAS HOOKED TO AN ELECTRIC DRILL AND RUN IN REVEARSE.. FOR  4  HOURS WHILE  I SAT WITH 2 KIDS IN  A CHARLESTOWN PARK.   IT WAS A VERY BUSY GARRAge with lots of electric drills... the garage is still there... must have a new project...

I think the  computerized odometers  eliminated that occupation entirely..  just as ebay eliminated my job with the want ad.

 Progress...

 

Lots of vw stories  -- a small  k-mart do it yourself trailer for the carotns of  magazines --- every Monday at least   5 kids packed in-get in and be quiet and you can go with us  to cannobie lake park  ( next to where I had to deliver magazines.)   for a while one of them had a full cast on a leg... get in be quiet.. we went to mcdonalds---  each kid got 2 items .. one for each hand---  thqt story  might be in the dogs donkey book...

Now??? I would be arrested for packing kids in like that...

 

 As I watch all the huge cars on the highway with one person  in them.......All this made me firmly belueve that a ve ry small car  is  the answer to carrying “stuff”   -- because a very light trailer can be detached when you are not needing it. Problem there is people would have to learn to back up a trailer.. which is ver y easy .. all you have to know  is  put your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel,, and that is the way the trailer will go when backing...   you start it turning.---. then chase---   it -----so you don’t jacknife. go slowly !!

 

Needless to say , I have a lot of trailer stories ---  including ---friend ann---- sending me down her "back driveway"   with a 50 foot long trailler-- and i got to a point where i just could not go round the corner involving 2 big trees  so i h ad to back all the way to where i started.... ann was still, there...  said she had tried to do it with her ( similar ) trailer and didn't make it.. she wanted to see if i could.

nov 25 2020

  three eighth of an inch  aka 3/8"-- i am sure in this worl therr are thousands of dangerous 3/8" things... however let me share one with you just in case.....

2020 11 25 ( thei dictyated  part)

 

Back when I was younger and could bend over and tie my shoes easilly I wore New Balance sneakers for years---I used to buy two or three pair every year at the New Balance factory outlet which is in Lawrence MA and since I'm sure you all want to go there it's under the Clock tower easy to find they used to sell them the regex or seconds for $10 a pair where the 1st or whatever we're often 80…90 a $100 a pair so I was in the $10 variety and they worked beautifully for probably 10 years 15 years whatever .. Then they came up with the new design I think they call them walking shoes or they gave him a name whatever and it had a slightly bigger heel it was decidedly rounded and stuck out behind your heel 3/8 of an inch ..Fast forward several years and I became addicted to strikers they don't need tying ---I didn't realize I had a pair of those brand new New Balance  in the back of my closet along with several mice--- brand new (the shoes not the mice)  a)nd figured I'd wear them .  I didn't realize that my subconscious was so sharply in tune to 3/8 of an inch until I started to go down the cellar stairs that heal sticking out the 3/8 of an inch caught on the step if I'd had on strikers I would have cleared it but that 3/8 of an inch very nearly put me down the cellar stairs … if it hadn't been for the ridiculous laundry chute that almost 

Prevents even a normal sized person from getting it up and down the cellar stairs I would have fallen badly .. so I put them on the the free bench with a warning and within hours they were gone .. hopefully to a younger person whose life is more in tune with  3/4 of an inch ..

 

There are so many things we just do without thinking … and as frightening as that is -- we don't really think about it until something like that 3/8 inch  becomes a problem

now with the cova here I'm paying more attention to my mouth and nose .. and I have noticed something different in the last six months .. I don't know whether it should be recorded but usually when I sneeze it's just one kerchoo ..  but in the last six months it's two sneezes in one ---in other words it's ker Choo Choo .

I don't know whether medical science should write that down but it's definitely something that's new since this virus struck .---  Maybe we should apply for a grant to try and figure out the second Choo..  Lord knows there are studies made which have less utilization ..

every night at Mail call we get a letter from Jan which includes three poo pickers with sayings on the back very often Snapple facts .. and for the life of me I cannot see any purpose in any of those facts .. one of the latest was the little animal that produces poos  that are cubic not round … So of course there are people or someone who made a great study of the muscles of the rectum of this animal which I've forgotten the name of .. it's a little mousy rat thing probably from Australia that's where they have all sorts of strange things .

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moving on –

to this chevy van   This Chevy van that was given to us is a nice vehicle .. it has only 90,000 miles on it which is not much for a utility vehicle .. and it certainly would enable us to have two trainers two dogs one trip ..  or eight or nine puppies go to the fairgrounds for a run around … which I used to do all the time .

somehow all my puppies always stayed together they got back in the car or van without any problem and I don't ever remember having to chase one to get it back in .. that spoon feeding of the group ---there is more to that than meets the eye ..

As for the two trainers two dogs … I could try that again but it was not historically been very successful because it may  cut the gas expense in half .. it quadrupled the time involved as two trainers two dogs we're gone for four hours .   Experience does come from bad experiences .

to get that van ready ---   the back of it is full of metal shelving the whole tools etc ..  and those shells have sharp edges , so I either have to take them  out or cover them with the wonderful moving blankets that we do have around here someplace … 

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just to prove how educated we all are ----I must cut and paste   the return I got for saying -- who said... “ there is many a slip twixt Cup and lip “  

Hello Carlene,

"WHO SAID THAT???"  It is a very ancient saying that may be attributed to Homer. and his publication of the "Odyssey"in the Eighth Century B.C. See See http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D22%3Acard%3D1 for an online English translation of the Odyssey where the meaning of the phare in question originated.Before Homer it was told and shared in oral tradition. Reference: https://www.history.com/news/homer-odyssey-fragment-found-ancient-greece Thus, who said that first will never be known.  Homer was the first to record it.

Aulus Gellius recorded it in "Attic Nights', a multi-volume collection of phrases and stories from his travels. The original date written is placed between 138 AD and 169 AD See Reference http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0073 for detail on the date analysis.

Aulus Gellius'   work was compiled and translated into English in the tome  "Greek Anthology"    https://archive.org/details/greekanthology04newyuoft  See page 21, entry  number 31.   Here you will note the phrase

I hope this helps.

Tim

NOV 24 2020

 many a slip twixt cup and lip??????  WHO SAID THAT??? ---    now for the  melatonin report--  i found out that taking the whole pill causes  wild dreams  plus a fat lip... an hour after teh pill i tried to get a drink of water and hit my lip  with that water jug...    .. the label says careful with machinery... but A cup????

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t day...

thanks to fugen, we h ave a bunch of actual dinner plates so armed with that  and your individual serving spoon we shoudl... in the  fresh air of the t tent have about as safe a dinner planned as i can figure.. ALL WE ARE MISSING  ARE THE INDIANS?   WERE'T THEY AT THE FIRST DINNER?  WELL  GARY ( OUR ONLY ACTUAL INDIAN CHIEF--- WHO HAS ONE OF OUR  SERVICE DOGS...   )  YOU CERTAINLY ARE WELCOME TO JOIN IF YOU ARE AROUND.

SPEAKING OF THE FACT THAT  ALL THE REST OF US ARE IMMAGRANTS........SOME NEWS Ran thru the people resoponsible for the upcoming vaccines and both  of the2 BIG ONES    are the product of immaGRANTS WHO ARE EXTREMELY WELL EDUCATED. scientists...   ..... IN CHARGE OF THE PRODUCTION..

 AS I MENTALLY WENT FROM THAT TO HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATION  TO THE MASSIVE  STUDENT LOANS TOPIC...WITH A HELAthy dose of mike rowe...

certainly i am very happy those 2  ...men... are on the vacine problem....and i am glad they studied very hard and somehow managed to pay off their student loans.... however  

 being a very lower level mathmatitan.. let me consider what are now considered  critical personell  namely my trash collector and the guy who stacked my oranges on the suopermarket shelf.....  just looking at the actively employed workforce.. whaT  IS THE PERCENTAGE  OF WHAT WE NOW  CALL CRITICAL PERSONELL  AS RELATED TO HGH SCHOOL OR "Advanced degrees" 

the student loans accumulated by "kids" to achieve the medical degree explain very quickly the percentage of " foreigners"  who are now working here as medical doctors  -- thank heavens-- apparently we do not produce many of our own...  i do not know of a  CHILD OF A DOCTOR WHO IS STUDYING  TO BE IN THE MEDICAL PROOFESSION...   THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG THERE..  SO I AM PLEASED TO WELCOME WHATEVER MEDICALLY EDUCATED PEOP LE WE CAN FIND... 

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it is no secrete that i have  a distinct haTRED FOR PAPERWORK  AND I WOULD PUT THE PAPERWORK PRODUCERS   WAY OUT ON THE TAIL END OF THE BELL SHAPED CURVE of critical workforce.

take my chimney... please.....  i have  had at least one large chimney fire for the 30 years i have lived here.. it is a  6' x 6' block of fieldstone and i never worried much about it.  i assumed that is how you got the creasote out of a stonee chimney...   i never shoujd have said a word.... but  i the last one produced a fire department report  which being a  law abiding  citizen,.  ( yes?)   i had the thien inspected...  and tehre is a 6inch by 1/2 inch  chunk between 2 ceremac tiles that was dislioged sometime in the poast 30 yeafrs...  

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but now there is  paper report and the chief of the fire Department told me I was not to use the chimney because my insurance would be no good well that sounds serious this little cheek of masonary that is gone is still about 2 feet   of fieldstone -- away from anything burnable .. doesn't matter ---  the piece of paper says I must not use the fireplace until I get that fixed and they don't just replace the little chunk of masonary I now have to put in a stainless steel liner inside this massive collection of fieldstone .. which I called two people too 2 2 chimney fixers and both gave an estimate of about $5000 and then they disappeared having charged me $269 to come and inspect it ..

I tried to get them back to fix it with many phone calls it didn't help so I tried another off the Internet And  they came for an extra $200 on a Saturday and inspected it and told me I needed $10,000 worth of repair .. before I could use my chimney Furthermore they wanted 1/3 down 1/3 when they arrived with the parts and 1/3 at the completion .. that meant    I would have given them $6000 tord finishing a job which they hadn't really even started yet and meant they could just disappear .. so I went to a local fire Department chief and he said he'd never heard of this company even though they're in the next town he said he suggested I try the Better Business Bureau .

so I will back the Internet and picked out one that had a BBB logo they are due to arrive here on Wednesday I don't know which Wednesday but they charge $269 for the inspection ..  looking back not 10 months  alltrack book I found a 269 check  to one of the first chimney fixers but chimney fixer #3 or is it 4   said they were not related to whoever I already paid $269 to ..

point being my fireplace and the use thereof is now controlled by paper pushers probably in Hartford CT   when for 30 years we've been doing very well was giving a fire extinguisher to Janine and putting her up on the roof . only problem there is the fire Department remembers that episode ..

To be continued .

And I know I must not tempt fate of having a real roof fire.

WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A CONSTRUCTION TYPE "VAN"  AND ARE WORKING IT INTO OUT TRAINING PROGRAMS.. LIKE TRYING TO CARRY 2 TRAQINERS AND 2 DOGS IN ONE TRIP... A PRACTICE I H AVE FOUND TERRIBLE IN TH PAST  ..  BUT I  WILL TRY... AGAIN... 

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i have HAD NO COMPALINTS ABOTU ALL CA-P-S  AND MANY ABOUT  LIKING THE SPOTS WHE RE CAPS ARE

GOOD MORNING CARLENE,

    JUST A QUICK NOTE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR USING CAPS IN THE MAJORITY OF TODAY’S DD.  SURE MAKES IT EASIER FOR THESE OLD   EYES.  I’M GUESSING YOU CAN’T USE CAPS WHEN YOU PASTE SOMETHING IN IT, BUT WHENEVER YOU CAN, I LOVE THE CAPS.

THANKS AGAIN, HAVE A GOOD DAY,

   JAN 

NOV 23 2020 COV

I ALWAYS LIKE TO START TEH DD WITH A POINT TO PONDER......  AND TODAY........IVERMECTIN FOR COV????

I DO HAVE A  HALF  VAST.. (NOT HUGE BUT SIGNIFICANT) COLLECTION OF FRIENDS WHO ARE MEDICALLY TRAINED...    BOTH HUMAN  DOCTORS AND VETERNARIANS..... SO YOU CAN NOT ASSUME WHO THIS IS.....  BUT....

 ONE OF THEM EMAILED ME TO SAY THAT   HE/SHE  ROUTINELY  "WORMS " HIM/HERSELF   ABOUT YEARLY-- WITH IVERMECTIN.....

HMMMMMMM- 

I KNOW THAT PERSON TO BE A VERY INTELLIGENT  PERSON ... IN MY OPINION...   UN ENCOUMBERED BY PUBLIC OPINION WHEN IN A MORE PRIVATE MODE...  OTHER THAN THAT  HE/SHE IS MAIN STREAM OPINION AND WOULD NOT DARE  ADMIT THAT A  YEARLY WORMING IS A GOOD IDEA.. I CAN HEAR IT N OW.;.....HE/ SHE MUST BE DIRTY---  APPLY THat to maybe my kids were the  only ones in first grade who were not wormy.      fsce it...  children are dirty creaturees...

 I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WOULD  NOT HAVE WORMS. A BABY PERSON CRAWLING AROUND THE FLOOR PUTTING EVERYTHING  IN THEIR MOUTHS IS ONE OF THE DIRTYEST  OF BABY CREATURES .  EVEN THE PUPPIES DIG A HOLE TO HAVE "FRESH DIRT" TO LIE IN... .MAYBE IT IS PART OF THE MATERNAL ANTIBODIES   PROVIDEING PROTECTION UNTIL THEIR  OWN. IMMUNE SYSTEM PERKOLATES....  

- IT IS PART OF OUR AMERICAN BLINDNESS   "PEOPLE ARE CLEANER THAN THE DIRTY ANIMALS"   AND "THE AMERICAN WAY IS THE VERY BEST WAY"   THIS HARD HEADEDNESS  OF THE  COLLEGE WEEKEND BEER PARTY MENTALITY  HAS ALLOWED US TO ACHIEVE  A HIGHER RATE OF COV THAN THE USUAL "THIRD WORLD " COUNTRIES.  IT DOES NOT PERTAIN TO "US"--   MOMMY NATURE IS GONNA GET YO FOR THAT ONE... LET ME REPHRASE " MOMMY NATURE HAS ALREADY GOT US FOR THAT ONE." 

SO BACKJ TO WORMS...

  

so all you scientific types... can anyone explain why ivermectin is included in the cov r=treatment   for any reason than why not take care of any possible negative???  

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doctors--- and the  cov opinion  they will give... long ago i described buying a h orse and asking a vet to "vet " it for me which was a common poractice, untili  i  reaqlized they were all going to say the horse is "pre navicular"-- WHICH IS  like saying a dog... or person.. is pre-arthritic../  WE ALL ARE.!!

no vet would say  any horse is sound...   ( my friend connie 20 years older  than me   would not say "sound"   only say "if you don't buy him , i will")  

  IT IS LIKE THE OLD LOGIC GAME -- WHERE THE  LOGIC IS.....   THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION  " DO YOU TELL THE TRUTH?" 

I PREFER TO ASSUME WE ARE ALL PRE COV.... AND MASK WEARING  AND SOCIAL DISTANCING  IS THE WAY TO  PROLONG THE INEVITABLE  UNTIL A VACING COMES ALONG...  HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO LISTEN TO"   THE TEST WAS NEGATIVE " BUT   NEG IS  NOT RELABLE.

WE HAVE A SIGN THAT SAYS STAY ONE COW DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER... I WISH IT PLAYED UP ON THE  DONKEY/  ASS  VERBIAGE. 

SO CRAZY ACRES THANKSGIVING DAY PREP INCLUDE  LARGE PANS OF FOOD  WARMED IN THE T TENT OVEN ( AND MAYBE FIREPLACE)

 EACH PERSON WITH THEIR OWN SERVING SPOON , PLASTIC WARE  AND 3 BIG TABLES FAR APART ---- SO  OUR STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS  CAN BE  WELCOME HERE---- NOT STARVE.--- AND ENJOY A DIFFERENT DAY.... 

MAYBE I COUD GET OUT THE 20 FOOT LONG JUNP ROPE... THAT WOULD HEEP 3 PEOPLE 10 FEET APART AND  HA VE FUN..???

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EVE AND FINN

I do have a cute story from this morning. (unfortunately no pic to go with it) I went out to start the car and told Eve I was letting Finn out before we left. Eve apparently not understanding came out anyway.  Her & I were talking in the garage and I told her to go back in til the car warmed up. I brought Finn back in through the garage where he went and sat at the back of the vehicle trying to find a way in even though the hatch was closed. I called him to come in but he just kept standing there waiting to get in. Finally I hollered for Eve to call for him, she did & he bounded into the house and ran across it to get to her! It was so silly like as though he was getting a kick out of the fact that she tricked him into thinking she was in the car. He proceeded to greet her with many kisses!! 😘 we both were cracking up! He was in an especially silly mood all day! I just never had my phone on me at the right time!

....Since COVID we are spending a lot more time at home which means Eve and Finn not only spend less time working but also less time independent from me.  Not only did you & the trainers tell me I had to protect that bond but as I’ve now has the opportunity to talk to more parents of kids with SD I have found those who have stories of failure is usually because the dog became bonded with mom. So it is something I am always aware of and try to be sure I don’t inadvertently cause. This experience definitely assured me there bond is as strong as ever!!

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁