WE FINALLY GOT THE PAPERWORK FOR PAM AND LINDA WILL BE LETTING EVERYONE KNOW IN TEH COMMENT COLUMN...
IN THE MEANTIME THE OKLAHOMA NEWS PRINTED THIS. MOST LY ABOUT HER VERY ACTIVE LIFE IN OKLA...
I KNEW THERE WAS HARDLY AN OCCUPATION YOU COULD MENTION THAT SHE HAD NOT DONE AT ONE POINT IN HER LIFE...
A COOK BEING ONE OF MY FAVORITES,,"LETS SEE WHAT IS IN THE FRIDGE" KIND OF COOK...AS SHE WOULD FIND A VARIETY TO PUT TOGETHER TO FEED SEVERAL OF US AT LUNCH...
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ALONG WITH YESTERDAY.\'S CONCEPT OF -------- THE SIGN THAT SAYS. -"PLEASE READ THE SIGNS". WE HAVE A PROBLEM IN THE DONKEY AREA.. WHEN I WAS OUT IN IOWA-- OR SOMEWHERE...-- I WATCHED. HOW TEH REAL WORLD FENCES AND CORRALLS LIVESTOCK. ----SO I MADE AN ATTEMPT-- WITH CAREFUL PLANNING YOU CAN SWING A GATE TO ARRIVE AT 2 DIFFERENT OUTCOMES.. FOR INSTANCE......( ?READY?).
YOU ALL WATCH THE DONKEY CAMERA-- AND HOW WE CAN SWING A PARTITION ACROSS THE LARGE STALL TO SEPARATE AS NEEDED... CURRENTLY WE HAVE TWO "ENTIRE MALES" IN ON END.. AND ALL THE GIRLS IN THE OTHER AND TEH REAL STALL BEYOND TEH WALL..
SO THAT THOSE 2 BOYS CAN HAVE SOME SUNSHINE, WE CAN SWING GATE 4 TO POSITION 2. WHICH PROVICES AN AREA 20 X 30 OR "PLAN "B" FOR THIER ALLOTED SUNSHINE. HOWEVER THAT ASSUMES GATE 1 IS CLOSED, GATE 2 IS OPEN. AS IS GATES 4, AND 5 --- GATE 7 CAN BE EITHER OPEN OR SHUT GATE 8 MUST BE SHUT TO SEPARATE THE DOGS FROM DONKEYS. THIS ALLOWS ALL THE REST OF THE "HERD" TO GET IN --- OUT OF THE RAIN.... EITHER THE FAR END OF THE BIG STALL OR THE PROPER STALL -- NOW IF WE HAVE A MOM AND BABY BESIDES... IN OTHER WORDS BASICALLY 3 GROUPS --1 WITH MALE PARTS-- 2.--MOM WITH CHILD AND 3-- ALL THE REST. WE NEED TO PUT GATE 4 IN POSITION 1, GATE 1 REMAINS CLOSED... WHILE 7 MUST BE OPEN. 2 IS SHUT AS ARE 4 AND 5...
THE PROBLEM IS I HAVE TO DIRECT THE OPEN. AND SHUT FROM MY GOLF CART ABOUT 50 FEET AWAY -- TO VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE NOT HERE EVERY DAY AND HAVE NOT LEARNED WHERE GATE 7 EVEN IS...
SO I MADE SIGNS... WITH NUMBERS-- IT REALLY LOOKED GREAT FOR 2 AND A HALF DAYS WHEN THE GOATS ATE GATE 3 AN I FORGOT TO LABEL GATE 6... BY DAY # 5 ALL MY SIGNS WERE GONE. LEAVING ME SUGGESTING AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE "NO. THAT ONE NEEDS TO BE CLOSED" WHILE THE GOATS SQQUEEZED THRU A HALF SHUT GATE 3 AND WERE HAPPILY LOOSE WITH THE CHICKENS.-
THIS IS A PROBLEM ... EVERY TIME JANINE CHANGES THE CONFIGURATION OF OUR "HERD". THE GATES HAVE TO BE CHANGED.... PREGO IS GOING TO HAVE A BABY CAN UPSET US FOR DAYS.. AS YOU KNOW-------- I GAVE IT GREAT THOUGHT... SIGNS DID NOT WORK...-- SO OFF TO HOME DEPOT, WHERE I BOUGHT SMALL CANS OF COLORED PAINT. SO THAT WITH LUCK-- AND THE HELP OF THE NEXT TEENAGER HERE TO DO COMMUNITY SERVICE.... I WILL ASK THEM. TO PAINT TH E TOP RAIL RED,BLUE.WHITE.GREEN SILVER,YELLOW. BLACK, BROWN... MOST OF THOSE GATES HAVE 3 POSITIONS.. OPEN, SHUT. IN POSITION #2. , OR SWUNG TO POSITION #1.
NOW WHEN ONE OF YOU CALLS AND SAYS "WHY IS THE DOOR SHUT?" YOU CAN APPRECIATE WHAT MIGHT BE THE REASON... WE NEED 14 PEOPLE TO CHANGE THE GATES AROUND
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FYI-----SPEAKING OF CHANGE
TEH REST OF THE WORLD( I.E. PENNA...) HAS A HIGWAY SYSTEM BASED ON EXIT NUMBERS ARE THE MILEAGE NUMBERS FOR THAT HIGHWAY... WHICH MOST OF THE TIME ARE THE MILEAGE FROM WHERE THAT ROAD ENTERED THE STATE.----- MASS EXIT 1 ON RT 95 IS DOWN THERE BY RHODE ISLAND SOMEWHERE..
EVER SINCE I HAVE LIVED HERE OUR EXIT WAS 53A. I HOPE PEOPLE DO NOT TELL ME THE NUMBER CHANGED 6 MONTHS AGO... BU T I JUST NOTICED LAST WEEK WE ARE NOW SOMETHING LIKE EXIT 76 -- I DON'T KNOW IF ANY ONE CHANGED OUR WEB SITE DIRECTIONS... IT MAKES MORE SENCE FOT U S TO BE 76.. BUT TO THE UNKNOWING STRANGER THE MULTITUDE OF SIGNS ON THE HIGWAY THAT SAY "76 IS THE OLD #53 EXIT" LOOK DARN STRANGE... ABOUT AS STRANGE AS EXIT 1 IS NOW EXIT 10.--- WHICH COULD BE TRUE...
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THE ONLY OTEHR EXIT NUMBER YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IS EXIT 65 ON ROUTE 84 NORTH OF HARTFORD CONN... THERE IS A PERFECT NY DELI THERE. WHERE YOU CAN GET 20 WHITE BUCKETS MOST ANY TIME --- VERY USEFUL-- HOWEVER THEY ARE THE BUCKETS WHICH HAD THEIR GARLIC PICKLES IN THEM.
FACT.. THAT GARLIC SMELL OUTDOES ALL OTHERS FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS.
