i take back (nearly) all of those awkward thoughts about people who get a service dog..don't keep us informed... poor david landed in my pile of 1746( literally) spam emails that i don't look thru,,, i am guilty !! he did tell me he had arrived...
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Today's daily obsession is the fact that I heard( on the news of course) that Larry King was raised by a single mother .. this tweaked the previous obsession of mine about how many people were raised by single mothers very successfully .. of course there is Barack Obama but I think Bill Clinton also which started me back on how many presidents have been raised by single mothers .. that did not get me too far but whoever keeps the list of Hollywood and TV actors and actresses there is a very long list
(..this is .an aside to the dogs in my room....) who's growling ----what are you all doing in here...don't pull it up there slide out Don't call up that fluffy I just put it out there no thank you very much .. You had breakfast go away ...)
Being in the dog training business and knowing how being brilliant is most often the case of accidental observations ... I have in the past very often made note of a tremendously successful person talking about the perils of childhood that they had to endure .. we all know how our grandparents had to walk 5 miles to school uphill both ways .. and some went on to become very successful .. so is there not a logic to having children walk 5 miles uphill both ways to school .. At any rate the perils of being raised by a single mother just doesn't seem to hold water .. not that I'm suggesting it be a desirable situation .. but there is certainly an awful lot of people who managed that situation. Likewise It seems to me that most very successful people have gone through a phase of being dead broke .. this may be a necessary part of anybody's education ... even though the very wealthy try and redo it by going camping where they live in a tent with no electricity lights or anything else but a lot of equipment .. That's sort of the part of being homeless in the Woods ..
I went through a phase of tent living for one weekend .. there was a bicycle ride for the benefit of I think aids .. and my children were writing in it and they needed motorcycle riders to help and I had a motorcycle .. so I have had the distinct pleasure of sweeping qa 12 inch path thru broken glass out of every intersection between bear mountain NY and Boston MA ... because all these bicycle riders needed only about a 1 foot wide path through this broken glass .. and nearly every intersection has broken glass to some degree ... at least it doesn't wash into storm drains and end up in the ocean it just stays there and blows up tires of bicycle riders .. so I swept and moved for the three days involved which was two days camped out in a very well organized campgrounds in those pop up tents two people to a tent. it is not my choice to live on hard ground in a tent .. but I can certainly look at some of these homeless situations and be very glad I have been lucky enough not to have to live like that .
Back when the population of the world was not quite so crowded .. it was possible for the older teenagers young 20s to serve in the peace core send him to some godforsaken spot to live in a tent and try and help local residence somehow .. that concept I think is a very good one Very similar to having the same age group serve in the military ... but I'm not sure in today's CLV world that you can find the place isolated enough to make the peaqce corp at all practical ..
Those couple years give particularly the young males a chance to grow up in a very disciplined fashion before they go entirely bezerk And decide they are entitled to a lot of things Not naturally provided by mommy nature . Like purple ink injected under their top layer of skin .
Why that reminds me of something said by somebody else I don't know but flickering through my head was just ... “ if God had intended us to fly he would never have given us the railways “—which could be twisted to..... If God had intended us to have purple skinn he would have given it to us .. I suppose you could say there are a few purple marks under skin which appear naturally ... and I do have a related comment on that one .. .my sister franny -living in Colorado has a small birthmark on her leg .. I have a small birthmark on my leg ... and I noticed my daughter
Janine has a small birthmark same place on her leg ---so much for things breeding true ..
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---- like entropion with dogs - I
The fact that I did not notice one of our breeding females had entropian .. is one of my mistakes with breeding great Danes . entropion is a case where some of the eyelashes turn in and irritate the eyeball .. requiring surgery to fix ... in a few cases we had it in our past , George rotated the eye lash for about $200 .. now they want 2800 dollars to do the same thing .. this is progress ? it's a long way from doctor Connie teabo Doing a quick fix on a dog in his yard----on a bench .. With a cone of ether for anesthesia ... .. I never heard of him losing a dog.. and I'm pretty sure I would have .. many times I have run into his garage /slash office and retrieved a glass syringe out of a collection in a bowl, in his sink ... Connie had retired and basically giving up his practice but would occasionally help out friends ... he was beyond billing people and would just help out friends here and there ,,, I remember one time I paid him with a gallon of pennies to use as a doorstop ... he loved that gallon of pennies and it was around for a long time holding his door open .
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in case you need to know a gallon of pennies is very close to $60.00 ... and I once ran a raffle with guess how many pennies are in a 5 gallon jug ... which I had carefully loaded by unwrapping pennies ... so I knew exactly .., and the five gallons was $291.00 and I forget the change .
it is an interesting raffle to have -- there's an awful lot of pennies to unwrap .. and then the added complication of the fact the five gallons then ways so much it takes 4 people and a lot of ropes to pick it up .
cutting and pasting......
JUST THOUGHT I WOULD GIVE YOU A QUICK UPDATE ON AURORA.
SHE IS DOING GREAT. STILL AMAZED AT HOW QUICKLY SHE SETTLED IN HERE.
DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS AND A RISE IN CASES LOCALLY WE HAVE ONLY BEEN TO TRACTOR SUPPLY EVERY OTHER WEEK FOR CHICKEN FEED WHICH SHE DOES WONDERFUL WITH. SHE ISN'T LOOKING BEHIND HERSELF AS MUCH AS SHE WAS WHEN I FIRST BROUGHT HER HOME. I AM TAKING THAT IS SHE IS GAINING MORE TRUST IN ME HAVING HER BACK? WHO KNOWS. HER PACE WITH ME IS WONDERFUL! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
WE DID GET IN TO TOWN JUST ONCE TO WALK WITH HOPES OF GOING MORE OFTEN JUST TO WALK BUT IT'S BEEN SO COLD!
"WORKING" TOGETHER HAS MORE SO BEEN HERE AT HOME, OUT TO FEED CHICKENS, CHECKING THE MAIL AND AROUND THE HOUSE FOR NOW.
I HAVE A SMALL OUTER PERIMETER FENCE AROUND THE CHICKEN COOP AND CHICKEN RUN SO SHE CAN GO WITH ME, JUST NOT IN THE RUN ITSELF.
SHE STILL PRETTY ROUGH IN PLAY MODE WITH RETIRED SD LYDIA AND MY GRAND DOG CAPONE (RESCUE DANE) SO HAVING THE BALL OUT THERE TO PLAY WITH HER DOES WELL WITH DISTRACTING HER FROM GOING AFTER THEM. NOT AGGRESSION JUST PLAY BUT VERY ROUGH. SHE HAS JUMPED AT ME IN PLAY WHICH I HAD TO CORRECT HER FOR. SHE JUST REQUIRES THAT TIME TO PLAY WITH THAT BALL TO GET HER "WIGGLES" OUT WHICH SEEMS TO WORK.
I WILL BE GETTING HER SET UP WITH MY VET AT THE END OF THE MONTH. LYDIA HAS HER PHYSICAL SO I WILL BRING AURORA'S RECORDS WITH ME AT THAT TIME TO GET THAT STARTED.
OTHER THAN THAT, NOT MUCH EXCITING TO REPORT. I HOPE YOU ALL STAY SAFE AND WARM. PRAYING THIS COVID THING WILL BE MANAGEABLE SOON .
STAY SAFE,
FOREVER GRATEFUL,
ANNETTE, SD AURORA, & RETIRED SD LYDIA
