here we go again... time to write teh grant explinations again. what did we do last year and whT DO WE INTEND TO DO NEXT YEAR...GET OUT THE CHECKBOOK AND FIGURE IT OUT.
OUR BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT IS REMOVAL OF TEH DUMPSTER PUDDLE... BUT THAT DOES NOT SOUND VERY EXCITING...KEEPING OUR FEET ON THE GROUND WHILE OUR HEADS ARE IN THE COV CLOUD TOOK A BIT OF FANCY FOOTING.
LAST NIGHT AT MAIL CALL WE GOT INTO THE NUMBERS GAME....-- IF A DOG COSTS US ABOUT $30,000 TO "PRODUCE" HOW DOES THAT TRANSLATE INTO PEOPLE AND TIME AS OPPOSED TO MONEY.? FIRSTLY--- THE $30,000 IS MADE UP OF 3000 DONATIONS OF $10 EACH-- AND THOSE 3000 PEOPLE OF TEH GENERAL PUBLIC. ---DONATE TO US SO WE CAN DO A SUPER JOB OF TRAINING AND PREPARING THESE SERVICE DOGS FOR A HAPPY LIFE OF WORKING WITH THEIR OWNER. SEEMS TO ME THT EVERY ONE THAT HAS ONE OF OUR DOGS... HAS A DEBT TO PAY TO TEH GENERAL PUBLIC AND INSTEAD OF PAYING US MONEY, TRY PAYING THAT DEBT FORWARD BY FINDING WAYS TO HELP OTHERS... SO MANY OF OUR RECIPIENTS ARE DOING THEIR HOMEWORK....BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS A FEW IN A NEGATIVE NEST. TRY READING. SCOTT'S BOOK "KNOT TODAY". -HE'S PAYING IT FORWARD BIG TIME...I AM WELL AWARE HOW EASY IT IS TO SLIDE INTO NEGATIVITY, BUT WITH THE HELP OF OUR DOG.... GET OVER IT AND GET TO WORK. EASIEST WAY TO HELP. YOURSELF IS TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE.
AFTER THAT $30,000--- I STARTED TO THINK ABOUT....... THE "STUFF" I ALREADY OWNED WHICH ALLOWED ME TO START SDP........-- 90% OF OUR LIVES ( 2 KIDS AND ME) WAS CENTERED AROUND TEH WANT AD MAGAZINE-- AND TEH FACT THT I RECIEVED 4 CENTS PER COPY SOLD .... IT WAS ON THAT THAT I BUILT TEH ARENA WHICH COST $51,000. ???ON 4 CENTS A COPY?????? THAT IS 1,275,000 COPIES SOLD--TEH LAUNDRY BUILDING WAS MY MAGAZINE SHED... THERE WASN'T MUCH ELSE...LAUNDRY WAS MUCH SMALLER WITH NO ELECTRICITY OR WATER-- AND WE CONSTANTLY GREW. UNTIL WE NOW HAVE A PAVED DRIVEWAY !!ALTHO WE DID MAKE SOME MONEY SCHLEPPING COCKROACHES AND COWS AROUND MOVIE SETS, OUR MAIN INCOME WAS THE 4 CENTS A COPY MAGAZINES. WHEN YOU GET TO PROPER KENNEL FENCING AND FOUNTAINS IN TEH POND YOU CAN GET A FEEL FOR WHY WHENEVER I START TO TALK ABOUT BOXES OF CALENDARS I CONSTANTLY SAY CARTON OF MAGAZINES.
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SO WHEN YOUR SON WANTS. A PAIR OF $259.00 SNEAKERS... DOES HE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG YOU ---- OR HE--- WOULD HAVE TO WORK FOR THAT PAIR OF SNEAKERS?-- OR COMPARE TEH MINIMUM WAGE TO---- 'MINIMUM FOOTWEAR'. ( SNEAKERS)--I HEAR MIN WAGE IS 12.50 IN SOME PLACES. YOU WOULD HAVE TO WORK 20 HOURS JUST TO PUT ACCEPTABLE "FOOT COVERINGS" ON YOUR SON.... - THAT DOES NOT LEAVE MUCH TO FEED AND HOUSE HIM...
WHEN I WAS A KID. BABY SITTING WAS 25 CENTS AN HOUR AND CIGARTETTES WERE. 18. CENTS ( in a vending machine. 20 cents got you a pack and 2 pennies in the pack.) AN INTERESTING RELATIONSHIP.
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why -- after all th e talk about mark and his pokerchips stuck in some chinese harbour did i not associate my search for a saddle made in china not have the same problem.. we always assume these complicated peoblems are other folks "worldwide" and not to do with my world-- then it hits home...walmart may become empty if thsoe ships don't saail soon... 3 different saddle places say "we don't know when we could fill the order"-- which is more accurate than the wall street journal...
