Monday, March 1, 2021

mar 1 2021

 how many of you remember specific  things your mother told you to do....  or in this case to ignore...  at the moment i can specifically remember being stood up on my own two feet for my mother to read the riot act about something..... i already did a DD on the time she stood me in the living room and said " if a policeman tells you to stop... you do exactly that and nothing else.... you can argue the details later.".. and she had on her "kitchen apron.... white..ish.." i remember that especially since it was eye level to me..... 

then yesterday  i had reason to remember " we're going to visit aunt Marie..  she is going to look very funny ..and i don't want you staring or asking questions".. when we got there i did steal a glance or two.... and Marie, who was slender, had a humongous bump in her middle.... which i did hear referred to as "another cousin"  i was dying to ask how the cousin got in there. but i was afraid....
well yesterday i got an email from that humongous bump---- turned out to be ... Roberta Price.

here's where it gets interesting....."Berta" is exceedingly bright... she can spell.. graduated from vassar.. and wrote a book.... Huerfano..  something about the "counterculture.."  There is a picture of berta on the cover ---buck naked.. carrying an armful of marijuana... you can all rush to amazon to see...
along the way... before the book got written.. i heard stories about berta not utalizing the splendid education that vassar had given her (??? given??? probably cost a fortune//) and living in-- or oiut of a big old car ?? caddy? with some guy... as the year went on..  much was said by my father particularly about "living on a rock,  out on some hillside in colorado" .. several years later... i decided i had to go see this ..... by  plane, bus, and rental car.. i still had to walk a couple miles to get to the "commune" ... it was a shock....
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Berta was indeed living literally on some rock on a hillside in Colorado the part that everyone else had missed was that the engineering and skills that went into building this house around this rock was astronomical .. her house was organized so that the sun came through a window to warm this rock which was 8 feet across maybe and that rock would hold the warmth to keep the basic cold away the rest of the heat was provided by and absolutely beautiful antique iron coal cookstove very much like the one I have in my kitchen only hers was usable where mine is covered with microwave and things .. they had no electricity they grew their own vegetables had their own source of milk I think it was goats I think there was a horse around for transportation and she and this guy we're not the only couple there ...nor was their house on a rock the only one that was it's incredible feat of engineering ..I seem to remember a very good size Dome house which was kind of where they all met there are there were six 810 couples I've forgotten but ..m.  I seem to remember there were one or two children involved at which point this group of people as the commune had enough degrees among all of them to be an entire school system so they did their own education too .. it is a very interesting read .and I don't know if one could actually go out and find that house on the rock .. .. With a population explosion what it is probably the whole place is a high rise with an accompanying.  Mall..  but it would be fun to try and look it up on Google earth search .

 

last I knew Roberta was living in maybe Arizona .. And is a lawyer ? ...  i.e. within what is now relatively “normal’ society”. As good or bad as that might be... I think she got the law degree after the commune episode...Huerfano  is very interesting to read--- I think ---- and Furthermore I'm in it on page 35 or something -- I think she refers to me as one of her normal family .. which says a whole bunch of things for the rest of the people we’re related to.   Certainly I had only positive things to say about the commune and their way of organization ..  their engineering expertise ,,adjust the concept of what they were and we're not .

moving on

what day would be complete without the vomit report ..  and I'm very happy to report that  malarkey had projectile vomiting and produced one of my socks .hopefully he ate only one of them ... he seems fine .

empty is bad....as opposed to bentlye. Who did not eat his morning cookies.. so his tummy is empty, except for bile.. which he is proceeding to get rid of....  a dane habit...

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the other medical issue I plan to attack today is I really have to do something about Bentley and his masculine appendages ..  I have known for over a year. That  there is something wrong ..but he's totally healthy .. and an older dog is not the best candidate for anesthesia .. but this is getting ridiculous and he still seems absolutely fine in spite of this appendage which approaches the size of a baseball ... it seems to be growing exponentially now .. so I will be talking to a surgeon ... hopefully the Doctor Who operated on scarlet .

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Other indoor project is cutting out little leaves to try and continue our family tree of our  Great Dane dogs....    among other things I will be buying some white paper on a roll  butcher paper???   in order to continue upward with the current tree of 47 litters. With many many little black leaves ----trimmed in blue for black male pups – red for females.. them. Grey   merles and  spotted harle s. males and female... i.e.  that's many many  little bits of paper in paper cups....

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n  We made  it to march..... ... so far.