Thursday, January 14, 2021

jan 14 2021

 .."What is this---- larkey just threw it up"  whata way to start the day... all be it ....fairly normal... 

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Fortunately Donna had carefully washed the thing off but it does look like maybe 12 inches of pantyhose open it both ends so I can't imagine what it is,,,,, it's not certainly anything out of my wardrobe,,, I do have smaller version in white of arm coverers I think that comes out of the sports industry ..but where he got that I do not know... Fortunately he rejected it /

great Danes have a remarkable ability to throw things back ... --because the other way out is about $700 for a veterinarian to take it out .. The early morning gagging production of yellow goo can be deflected by a handful of cookies ....Danes do not do well on an empty tummy ...that's your valuable piece of information for the day .

 

I have a choice of two locations with the cov bit .....My bedroom or my car .. both are pretty well equipped for the production of e rope things like monkey fists or leashes ... plus both have two phones   along with      pu pickers for making notes ..

so when I have a meeting with someone we just pulled down into the area in front of the flag and sidle up to each other window to window about 10 feet apart and that's how we discuss things  like like future breedings , training problems , manure piles ,  or very likely the chef and his meals .....

those meals are part of our financial  planning...It's a very good way of repaying volunteers and staff which the IRS had not yet figured out how to tax ..     I have several volunteers who are not on the payroll but are given refrigerator access .. that is they are welcome to take anything in the refrigerator that doesn't have somebody else's name on it ..this seems to work very nicely ..because there's Mike ...the chef ... who .goes and does the shopping not only for the meals but in additional one or two items while he's there... so that I can keep the refrigerator pretty well stocked with generic food ..like peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches or beef stroganoff ..  Linda has a take out window so it's very possible to call her on the phone and have her hand the container of chef food out the window ...very strange system but it works .

Free refrigerator access is just one more odd financial process which---- if he knew about it--- would be very frustrating to our account ant .. I don't think he reads this DD.

We have an exceedingly official  group of volunteers .. and one of my biggest lessons there is make sure they have all the equipment they could possibly need and make sure it's running correctly ..  therefore having two tractors both with front buckets .... one with a backhoe and one with a device for spreading sand or fertilizer ..

men do like to play with things like tractors ..  and I do highly recommend our kubotas... they have been great ... especially the one with the heated and air conditioned cab ---  well just to make sure this report is complete there is a problem with the backhoe the levers to control it were designed by a very slender person because when you sit in the seat to use the damn thing those levers are really in your lap

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We are pretty well equipped with carpentry type things table saws chop saws skil saws Reese appreciating and a few others I've probably forgotten along with drills things like that what I never really got into was welding ..  somewhere along the line I did have a volunteer who could weld and I did buy a small welder so that is certainly here but at the moment nobody knows how to use it and there are many days when we could use it to do something .. I would be very happy to pay for a course   a welding at the tech school for anybody who wants to take that up because on a farm there's a need for it .


It is very evident to me that there are an awful lot of people with not a lot to do .. and a lot of those people watch our cameras instead of the news .. who can blame them ... On a daily basis I get suggestions of changes I should make or questions about why I'm doing a B or C .. plus there are several people who are upset by the fact that the camera showing the chicken coop  is not functioning right now and they like to watch the cars  coming and going ... I am certainly glad to provide them with entertainment but they've got to be pretty hard pressed for Something to watch  If the arrival of the trash truck is what makes their day .. it could be the case .

It would be nice to get that camera going again because watching these chickens which are now all over the place would be educational .. it certainly has been for me I will never again use the expression dumb cluck .. because I see them for m patterns and figuring things out and certainly there ability to find the smallest piece of leftover pancake is far superior for them than  dogs who are supposed to have good noses .. I don't know what those chickens have.... eyesight maybe .. but I have been experimenting with dropping tiny bits of leftovers in certain places around the property and then drive and see how long it takes the chickens to find 'em .. 

without a chicken insight ,  I dropped ten strands of spaghetti  by the fire hydrant .. drove to the bar n and turned around and came back to watch and already they were gone .   a scientific study   -- as good as a lot of others...


like 454 new dollar bills are  a pound.   I mentioned that at mail call and had 7 emails this morning saying it is right.

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My thanks to the cp wh o sent an older  metal yuppy puppy... I set it up[ in the kitchen and one of the new pups can use it... I am told... apparently the pup with the bigger black spots..  if  Any of you camera watchers happened to see either puppy use that thing I would appreciate letting me know .. and with what are they pushing the lever their nose or a foot ? ...  used to be every  puppy on the property knew how to do that .. darn .