snow/ 5am..... so far so good not plowable yet i did get a full nifght's sleep...
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2020 12 17
I know I was supposed to have a discussion about more training today but I really have to get out in the next 20 minutes and start plowing it looks like it's light and fluffy but the wind is blowing pretty good so I do want to stay ahead of it and make sure people can get in here at 7:00 o'clock they may not get out of here but ........ OK
the goal is to get it plowed all the way to the barn and /dumpster!!!!! and out to the street with room to park six or eight cars .. Bud got me all organized last night with the car backed up to the garage with a plow pointing straight out and the tractor at the front door / top of the Hill headed down the walk that'll give Me 2 good swipes to start with .. I really think the ploughing problem will be as the day wears on because it's supposed to snow the entire day .and we are supposed to have 18 inches .
for the first time in my life I had to consider the fact that if I got stuck out there I could not walk back to the house ---0mind you I wouldn't mind sitting in a nice warm car for an hour or so while people figured out how to Get Me Out of the car but not being able to go walk into a nice warm building there did cross my mind so I'm happy to wait until daylight today ..
last night's Mail call was hysterical ..
Janine has one donkey that she has taken into nursing homes and things that ordinarily comes upstairs very quickly ..and he started to come in the front door when the dogs spotted him and barked at which point he decided to go the other way so it took quite awhile to convince him to come in the door a bucket of grain helped and he was very nice and polite standing there for a very long time and then he had to go to the bathroom === he tried to turn around and get out the front door but the door was shut ----I was at the business end the whole episode came out right up my feet and on my feet and my blue jeans in the wall or a few other things ..in dog language with a real pancake .. sounds absolutely terrible except horses/donkeys eat only grain
well this is a study that you won't find too many people will talk about . but manure pile for the horses is a rather pleasant odor I think it doesn't bother me at all .. so the stench of this at my feet was no particular problem it just smelled like horses .. now------ I had a pig once .. and for a very long time we fed it only grain and there was no smell to the pig there was really no difference from the generic horse smell .. and then we opted to feed are leftover table scraps which contain meat and the stench was incredible ----smelled like a pig ..
so as I go out to plow . there's a good one for you to think about I suppose if I was a real scientist I would try putting a dog on a vegetarian diet and see if that cured that horrible doggy smell (that we don't have because we pick everything up for it quickly ).and as you sit there I drink your morning coffee you can extrapolate that idea many times over and then maybe tomorrow I'll get back to dog training.
