sept 30 2021

 I WOULDN'T WANT ANYONE TO CALL ME SCATTERBRAINED..... BUT THAT IS HOW IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING OUT...  THE LEGAL TRIAL  WS PUT OFF TILE MARCH 2022 -- I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANS,, OTHER THAN---I HAVE STATED MY  INTENTIONS ARE TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE TEH SUPER TRAINED DOGS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE IN  NEED WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE 2003--

 AS FOR MY OTHER MENTAL BLOCKS...

CONCRETE PLAYS A LARGE ROLLE ATT EH MOMENT----  THAT SILLY ROCK PILE OF PEBBLES - ALL 9 TONS OF IT... IS ONLY TEH BEGINNING-- THESE KIDS FROM    XXXXXXXX. I HAVE NO IDEA WHEERE-- A STATE RUN .. SCHOOL??? WHERE A FEW KIDS WITH "COACH" COME HERE TO LEARN TO WORK-- AT SOMETHING -- AND I AM DISCOURAGED TO HAVE THEM THINK WORK IS ONLY PICKING UP DOGGIE POO-- SO IN AN EFFORT TO EXPAND THEIR EXPERIENCE AND HAVE SOME VISABE RESUL T OF THERI WORK... I TRIED FOR STONE PILLARS FOR FLOWER POTS ETC.. AND ORDEERED "ONE SCOOP" FROM THE LOCAL STONE STORE... THE SCOOP WS BIGGER THAN  I HAD REMEMBERED AND I NOW HAVE 9 TONS OF LOVELY BROWN, SANDY LOOOKING ROCKS IN MY DRIVEWAY.

HOWEVER !!!!!!

THERE  ARE NOW   3 KIDS MAKING THEM INTO TRIANGULAR  ?STUMPS?   WHICH WILL HOLD FLOWER POTS VERY NICELY INSTEAD OF HANGING THEM....as soon as i figure out the cement   mixing  problem.....which got held up yesterdqay by teh rainstormes.   -----I WENT and    caused teh stone store to donate about 2 quarts of  "peastone". and i glued a bunch  into a pen holder. with gorilla glue... and the kids are diddling with that idea.. as i spouted forth my  concept  of -------finding a way to make inexpensive ( cheap or free) items into somethining of value.---- pebbles into pen holders------or in my personal case. string into monkey fists.... and explaining sometimes ---   it takes some figuring out to geet the details.. like glue/cement. worked out...

one of teh kids. is clearly better at this. than i was.... her stumps have a symmetry. that mine do not...   i pointed that out to her.. she liked that... and if they do get this stump business down pat i told them i was sure  we coudl find a market( that is all you cp's  and a guy named bill cummings. ). we are not ready yet... but we hid theri supplies in stevens chop shop so they coudl work on the idea next time. i left all teh possible glue trials in teh hands of their "job coach"-- who at first thought i was just nuts.. i may be.... but now.  he too is thinking  about round pebbles vs. rectanguar ones...

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 every morning i watch the #$%^&^%$# chef making wonderful looking spagetti from a pastsa  maker-- and i realize  no way could i stand up long enough to make angel hair-- and tehn i wondered....... if i bought some cooking "toys".  like that  would it be fascinating enough to have anyone in our guest house play with  it and serve everyone here lunch?????it could be done.....make a list of th stuff you need from the store...   the trainers who are in theese store every day would buy teh groceries and could have them in teh guest house easily by 9am... there are people who like to. cook.... ( i am not oneo of them) last time i was inthe old folks hang out center in ipswich.. there wqs a discussion of somw wonderful old er italian woan wh o were wishing they y hqd a arge group  to cook for....  why not pick up 2 or 3 of them about 9:00 and let them enjoy crazy acrees while they feed us...  with the right group it is doo able.  and i would gladly buy the pasta maker.--- and groceries....  we have all teh ingredients. - building stove fridge   things like that.....

now that is what i call a good idea....

this was the old sunday stew...... with bud in the background...

please remember the chicken bricks https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall

sept 29 2021

 fall just fell whith a whallop--i knew it was coming... because bud cut up a bunch of old fence rails into fire3wood..  (bud plans ahead... how strange !!)yet  how nice... he is planning for the evening closure called mail call where we open the mail sit around the fire and try and screw our heads on straight------ mail call is a big deal....it is 5pm eastern time--- for teh crazy texans who often join us it must be pre cocktail hour--- i don't know why it got to be called mail call.... except by using that excuse to sit around , it saves having to prepare any script...mail call also defines a unit of time--- there will be an end to the questions and  we will go about  business of the real world.  johnny carson  employed 18 writers to prepre his nightly monolog.....  not availing myself of that luxure.....i have to use available  talent. i.e.. if you have an interewst quote from mark twain,, put it on a poo picker and send it... i will readi it to an.  international crowd.... why so many people sit around to hear me read the contents of the utility bills, i do not know but they do....all donations go in the old  mayonqse jar as do notes to linda..

 a big time banker-- you know teh  terribly tidy kind with polished shoes----once declared our mail/banking system to be as fine as he d observed anywhere....and is ofteen duplicated.... sort of....

mail lands on our table...to be seen on camera as teh camerra swings around..... generlly untouched except by ocasionally lachy----- and at  5pm the sound is turned on... all mail is brought forth-- and one by one.....held up in front of the cameras- either saved for linda or others people in the jar..while a note is made on the white board.... and held before te the camera... ---contents are read( UNLESS THE REQUEST IS NOT TO READ TEHM) -- MONEY/CHECKS GO IMMEDIATELY IN TH EJUG WHCH GOES TO LINDA AS SOON AS SHE IS AROUND...WHACK O aS IT SOUNDS.... YOU HAVE A VISUAL AND AUDIOTRACKING OR EVERY PIECE OF MAIL THaT COME S   IN--- UNLESS IT SAYS DON'T READ THIS  AT MAIL CALL-- WHICH IS SOMETIMES A PIECE OF INFORMATION SOMEONE DOES NOT WANT PUBLIC...  WHICH I HONOr.. BUT ANNONCE IT'S arrival  before stuffing it in lindas jar.

in the meantime--- all our donors have teh knowledge of every  bill we pay---and if they want to they can keep track of donations--- altho  i oten do not announce the actua l ammount.

every arrival gets entered in "the book" by hand--- because computerws screw up too often.. qnd that book gives us an absolute arrival... which shold agreee witheth video if needed.and then AGREE WITH THE BANK DEPOSITS...THERE ARE TIMES WHEN. "THE BOOK" HAS BEEN GOLDEN SOURCE OF CORRECT INFO...

THAT IS TEH ACCOUNTING END... BUT THE THINGS THESE CAMERA PEOPLE WRITE CAN BE DARN AMUSING... AND THOUGHT PROVOKING. SO WE HAVE FUN READING AND DISCUSSING SOME VERY STRANGE TOPICS... LIKE LATELY WHAT IS TEH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NAVICUOAR LAMENESS AND  FOUNDER... ( IN HORSES)

- TOPICS OF CONVERSATION GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO  TEH PROBLEM OF TEH PINCHING TOILET SEAT--- IT IS VERY EDUCATIONAL  AS THSE TPOPICS ARE ADDRESSED SERIOUSLY....

BOILS DOWN TO   " YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP...."

BUT YOU GOTTA LET IT HAPPEN.

ustabee--- and maybe it is still true.   a cuppa coffee or a  cigarette also defined a similar   time limit...  with much overtoning..... "come in for a cuppa coffee" meant-- you got17 minutes to see if you can talk me into a second cuppqa...."  

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anitta before i forget.. i owe you a bunch of money---

 working on a trailer driver... i just can not do highways..

ANYBODY WANT TO DRIVE A TRAILER FROM NYSTTE LINE TO CRAZY ACRES-- I HAVE 3 WAGONS THERE TO CLAIM...

WHOOPS--- RUSHING....

SEPT 28 2021

 Hi Carlene!

My grandfather, who died in 1982 at 90, knew horses from the horse and buggy days on. He had a farm in Wisconsin and drove teams into his late 80s. We had quarter horses,  a few Morgans, and retired Amish horses.

When he was looking over horses to buy, he first checked for the swirl on the head. If the swirl wasn’t centered he said walk away the horse will be crazy!  Matt is right!  He also preferred horses with dark hooves but it wasn’t a have to have.

So interesting to listen to you and Matt. 

Catharine in Las Vegas

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ONE WHITE FOOT BUY EM

TWO WHIET FEET TRY EM

THREE WHITE FEET BE ON THE SLY

FOUR WHATE FEET PASS EM BY

I AM A BELIEVER I THE WHITE HOOF  BIT  ONLY TO THE POINT THAT ... BEING A KNOWN PROBLEM, BE VERY CAREFUL... AND  QAS A MATTER OF FACT ... I JUST BOUGHT SOM E "HOOF STUFF". FOR TAXI-- YOU SCRUB IT IN THE HAIRLINE OF THE HOOF TO ENCOURAGE GROWTH...AND SHOE REGULARLY..... AS TEH WHITE HOOF OFTEN. CRACKS AND BREAKS OFF.

I WILL TELL YOU ANOHER...... ANY.  COWBOY'S HORSE  IS FAR BETTER CARED FOR THAN ANY RACE HORSE IN THE UNITED STATES--  A COWBOYS VERY LIFE DEPENDS ON HIS HORSES HEALTH AND TRAINING-- A THOROBRED RACE HORSE OWNER, JUST SENDS ONE TO PENNA SALES AND  GETS ANOTHER .

OH THERE ARE A FEW WHO LIVE THE LIFE OF RILEY- BUT EVEN THAT CAN BE REDUCED TO ZERO VALUE........I THINK.... WAS IT SECRETARIATE WHO WON SO MUCH AND WAS SENT OFF TO STUD... ONLY TO FIND HE WAS NOT VERY FOND OF GIRLS-- AND SINCE FOR REG THOROBREDS THEY MUST BE "COVERED" NATURALLY-- JOCKEY CLUB DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ARTIFICIAL  INSEMINATION...-- IF THEY DID IT WOULD RUIN THE VALUE OF THE BREEDING BUSINESS..I AM POSITIVE THERE ARE SOME EXTREMELY INTERESTING DAILY NOTES FROM THE STABLE HANDS WHO SPENT THIE DAYS TRYING TO TELL SECRETARIATE WHAT THE PROCESS WAS ALL ABOUT.... 

TRYING TO KEEP THE TOPIC FOR FAMILY DISTRIBUTION........LONG AGO--- WHEN I WAS WANDERING THE COUNTRY LOOKING FOR A DONKEY-- FINALLY BUYING MARY. IN KANSAS-- I WAS OFTTEN TOLLD STORIES ABOUT SENDING YOUNG MULES TO AFGHANASTAN BECAUSE OF THEIR EXTREME VALUE IN THE MOUNTAINS THERE....  REMEMBER.... YOU  CAN  GET BABY MULES BY BREEDING A HORSE AND A DONKEY. ---USUALLY A GIRL HORSE AND MALE DONKEY---   WELL MALE DONKEYS CANBE OPINIONATED ABOUT JUST WHICH FEMALE  IS ATTRACTIVE....SO TEHRE ARE MANY INTELECTUAL DISCUSSIONS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AT THE LOCAL PUB ABOUT HOW TO MAKE THE GIRL HORSES MORE ATTRACTIVE TO THE BOYS IN THE BARN... I.E. DONKEYS.....MANY CIGARS AND PIPES ARE SMOKED IN  THESE "LECTURE HALLS". WHICH OF COURSE ARE   FOR MEN ONLY.

UNLESS YOU GET INTO BREEDING BELGAIN WORK HORSES -- FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PREGNANT MARES URINE.  AKA PREMARIN FOR USE IN TH E. PRODUCTION OF PEOPLE.... BUT THAT IS ANOTEHR STORY...( AND THEN NOW... HOPEFULLY... MAKE AN ARTIFICIAL PREGNANT MARES URINE PRODUCT.....

CONCRETE DAY. LAWNKEEPER. MARK SAID HE WOU LD.  HELP.

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PLEASE DON'T FORGET TEH CHICKEN BRICKS. 

https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall

. 4 WHITE LEGS = 4 WHITE FEET

sept 27 2021

 THE BIG SHOW TODAY WILL BE ON PUPPY HILL CAMERA AS WE SORT THRU THE HAYLOFT CONTENTS....... I SUPPOSE IF ANYYNE RECOGNIZES ANYTHING THEY WANT SQUEEK UP.  

 i think i heard grace SAY ALL THE REST OF TEH PILE IS MINE....SHE Does not want any more of the pile. in which case we ARE IN FOR THE WORLDS BIGGEST YARD SALE OR DUMPSTER... YYET TO BE DECIDED. I WISH WE HAD DONE THIS DURING DOG FEEST SO EVERYOINE COULD H AVE HELPED-- I AM PRETTY SURE WE WILL GET AN INCREDIBE BUNCH OF PLASTIC 

BOXES. MEMORY NOT being my  GREAT4EST..... BUT AS I WATCHED THE UNLOADING I KNOW... A STUFFED GARAFFE. ?5 FOOT TALL-- AND A MONSTER TEDDY BEAR...-- EITHER DUSTY OR MOUSEY. YET TO BE DETERMINED...

I KNOW I SAW A FULL SKELLETON BUNCH OF BONES...  AND ANOTEHR.  MANNEQUIN...A SMALL BOX OF TOOLS WHICH CONTANIED A MAGNET WE WERE LOOKING FOR TO COLLECT TEH BLACKSMITH'S NAIL ENDS...'' I SEE NO REASON  NOT TO SORT IT ALL OUT IN  FRONT OF THE CAMERAS -- EITER IT IS OR WAS MINE... OR   GRACE DNO LONGERS WANTS IT .. AND IT IS THEREFORE MINE...

I SAY THIS IN PREPARATION FOR MAKING WIERD COMMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENTS...  I AM A HOARDER AT HEART----ALTHO I TEND TO  HARDWARE HOARDING....IN THIS PILE WE HAVE.........TEH  SKELLETON...-- THAT COULD BE MINE--- A LEFTOVER FROM SOME MOVIE SHOOT?  OR DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHY I WOULD HAVE PURCHASED A BUNCH OF BONES... OR WHY WE SHOUD KEEP THEM???  I AM PRETTY SURE A BUNCH OF BONES IS EXPENSIVE TO BUY.... 

NOT SURE IF WE COUDL GET IT ORGANIZED QUICKLY ENOUG H TO HAVE A "CONTENTS OF HAYLOFT SALE"". ON A SUNDAY...  WE COULD INCLUDE A BUNCH OF DOG  CRATES WE HAVE GATHERED FROM   SHIPPING FROM EUROPE....

LIKE ANY TRUE "GATHERER". , I AM ANXIOUS TO GET AT THE PILE.........MY INSTINCTS.  ARE TO HAVE AA HAY LOFT SALE-- ADVERTISE IT IN THE NEWS PAPEER TO GET ATTENTION HERE...

FUN DAY AT CRAZY ACRES. HAY LOFT CONTENTS SALE   DAY..... OR MAKE IT A DIZZY DONATION DAY--- EVEN BETTER....  CAR FULL OF CHRISTMASS TREE WREATH MAKINGS $4,83.  HALLOWEEN COSTUME  MAKING MATERIALS 82  CENTS A BAG.--------- 2 SEWING MACHINES of unknown  abilities....   $1.24.each.  and very expensive dog crates for a bunch of money....

if we included some of the things we don't really have a purpose in owning... it could get to be profitable... like teh amish buggy...   

could be alot of fun.......  

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Today the family and I (with Quinn of course) went to Honey Pot Hill for apple picking. To say Quinn was a rockstar would be an understatement. Being a Sunday afternoon it was a mob scene and he was focused 90 percent of the time on me. If I didn’t know better I would have thought we had been working together for a number of years not only about a month. We aren’t not doing a ton of outings yet with the risk of COVID but it’s wonderful to see how fantastic these dogs are.

Thanks

E

We have oak tree that started doing the same thing last month. It looked like someone was pruning the oak by cutting footlong branches. It happened for a few weeks and then stopped. It was very strange and I never figured out what caused it. I did read on the internet that there is a phenomenon called “summer branch drop” where oaks will just drop branches. There doesn’t seem to be any consensus as to what causes it. I saw theories ranging from drought to heavy rain after prolonged drought (the later theory seems more likely since NH had been in a severe drought until this summer when we were inundated with rain, including several storms which dumped 3+ inches).

Kristi

here is the link to the chicken brick fundraiser.  

https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall

Carlene White

www.crazyacresfarm.org

https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall

sept 26 2021

 

this is the picture i have been trying to replace

this is th e old. sunday stew... wouold be fun to start it again in cold weather.... you got a coffee cup of great chicken stew and a for.k....  i found the tripod used to lond it over the fire...

nothing is safe anymore... from legal notices telling you how unsafe it is.. starting with my concrete project... i can see how dangerous it woul dbe to breathi the cement dust.... and i would not wiilingly cover my hands with it.. but in the wide open spaces of crazy acres i can not see why stirring up a cup of concrete with a big spoon in a bean can. would be detrimental to anyone's health... but the label says so.. so now before i go any further with my 9 ton rock pile, i better get the advice of teh tech schools.... how to mix a cup full of concrete safely?-- we may end up with free form piles of rocks around pots of geraniums all over teh place along with all the other out of control projects... there is the calendar...the idea of 12 of the perfectly comical photos with cartoon clips-- would be fun but now to locat 12 good ones... like iAWLMOSHT GOTZ IT FEEXED KIN U PWEEZE PASH ME DE SQWEWIE DWIBER? IF YOU KNOW OF A PRICELESS ONE.. PLEASE SEND IT TO ME WITH THE SUBJECT CALENDAR PJJOTO... INFO @ SERVICEDOGPROJECT.ORG. SHOLD GET TO BOTH LIND AND ME; ------ I HOPE MORE PEOPLE SHOW TODAY WITH ONE EYE ON HELPING PUT AWAY  THE DETAILS OF DOGFEST...AND HOEFULLY YOU WILL SEE MORE OF GRACE AS SHE WHITTOES WAWY AT TEH PILE BY THE PUPPY HILL CAMERA....   ------- SOMEONE AT MAIL CALL SUGGESTED WE TRY THE ARENA MIC ON THE DONLEY CAMERA... A GREAT IDEA. BUD SAID HE WOUOLD TRY TODAY... ----- I WISH THERE WAS SOME VERY EXCITING PUPPY NEWS TO PASS ON... BUT WE ARE IN TH E VERY DULL GRIND FORWARD PART OF THE PUP'S EDUCATION... ---- ABOUT THE MOST INTERESTING TOOIC OF THIS DD TODAY.....  WOULD BE TEH CONTENTS OF A SCRAP BASKET.. DO NOT LAUGH--- SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THE CONTENTES OF HER SCRAPBASKET-- EACH PIECE.......WHERE IT CAME FROM. AND WHERE IT WENT.... IN  IT WAS DONE IN NY CITY.. SO SHE GOT INTO THE WHOLE TRASH TOPIC OF NYC.... VERY INTERESTING. AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE OUR TRASH TO USEFULL RATIO, I HAVE OCASIONALLY TAKEN OFF ALL TEH EXCESS#$%^&* ON ANY PURCHASE AND LEAVING IT AT THE CHECK OUT-- I THINK I HEARD THEY HAVE TO TAKE IT... SO FAR... THEY DO...  ----- FOR EVERY BRILLIANT IDEA, THERE SHOLD BE A LITTLE SLIP OF PAPER-- LIKE THE DRUG COMPANIES... "POSSIBLE SIDEEFFETS".  LIKE RACCOON AND RAT POPULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE OUTDOOR KITCHEN SCRAPS CONTAINERS FOR COMPOSTING.  MY ASSIGNMENT FOR TEH DAY IS TO SET 14 RAT TRAPS..... THRILLING????

.anybody know how to insert a picture reliably?????????

sept 25 2021

 yikes!!!!    CHICKENS ARISE......... only 24%bought... .shattering Oct 3  2021   go chicks and cps.--- thanks  for reminder.   linda d

 i hope dogfest didn't throw everyone too far off......   

i thank all for so many complements.  about how relaxxing and differrent crazy acres manages to be amid a world of turmoil ( now there is a dogs name  in the chaos ---mayhem  bloodlines.   ) to keep th  frm suspended above teh turmoil....we need help... sdp really  needs to hire a retired handyman---bud and "lawn mowerr matt "do a terriffic job, but the whole place begins to take teh easy way out too often and stuff piles up in the wrong place... so you can not locate what you need...  there is no difference between not owning something and not being able to find it.

i have decided the makerrs of plastic bins are subsidised by amazon....   too much stuff is too easily accumulated in a tidy fashion by pilineg up plastic bins..... however when you need somethg it is still easier-- and quickeer.. to do amazon overnight than to find what you already own.

here's a  camera shot./place you can see the process...  in action.....

when the canera swings to the donkey cafe--- note the accumulation allong the side of the yelloow shop-- not long ago i emptied that place and declared it to be  a stuff free zone...... then then someone left a gate  there---- and a few pitchforks.... then some fencing... perfect place for a ladder......   and we are off and running 

ar one point the G tent. was totally empty.... then i realozed plywood would fit along the sides without taking up andy room at all... by now--- at dogfest-- we hardly had room to hang the quilts there it is sooooo ful.l" 

definitely part of  the   "do i buy it and store it  or rent it " philosophy -----   

last time i had to go to "ozark tent" to get one for dogfest... the owner ( who i know pretty well).  was not there... so i sat around and made phone calles etc-- he came home... and i told him how i had enjoy3d being in the peaceful organizartion  of his perfect  tent business...

there is another equally organized business i know of... camera mark's warehouse-- with his dartboards and poker chip business. it is orgaized to the hilt.  problem is as he said last week...  so much is stuck in seabound  containers which are stuck in some chinese seaport.... this is a problem i have begun to run into for farm and fencing supplies... what was really shocking -- some tv statement that the. problem of the ship stuck in the suez canal. was just now ( september) beginning to clear up shipping lanes...   

somhow i do not like my farm supplies dependent on the jellyfish blockage of teh  shipping lanes.  it is ok for walmart supplies-- we can live without plastic toys... and to have the polution that mqnufacturing causes is better off in. china... but my caesar salad  harvesting euipment... i would  like to have made here at home.  i have enough trouble worrying about all theh bridgess my salad has to cross to get to boston.... and to get it thru th e. panama canal can have  complications when teh pacific  ocean is taller than the atlantic????? i think???? could make an awful mess if teh plug in teh canal misfires...

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 a couple people country wise commented on the shedding of oak branches..

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We have oak tree that started doing the same thing last month. It looked like someone was pruning the oak by cutting footlong branches. It happened for a few weeks and then stopped. It was very strange and I never figured out what caused it. I did read on the internet that there is a phenomenon called “summer branch drop” where oaks will just drop branches. There doesn’t seem to be any consensus as to what causes it. I saw theories ranging from drought to heavy rain after prolonged drought (the later theory seems more likely since NH had been in a severe drought until this summer when we were inundated with rain, including several storms which dumped 3+ inches).

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Kristi

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the chef is back-- with a mediterainian type assistant...-- we are hoping his next help is more Asian..   indian and beyond.

  the only local indian restaurant... and it is a good one.... is also a gas stationn....

whatever works.

SEPT 24 2021

not only does one have to worry about what  you say , but you must be very careful about any part of what you might say which could be distorted into a totally different very damaging sound byte... then passed around facebook in  a gottcha game.... apparently last night at mqil call--- i was tired... having been up since 4 and put in a pretty good day-- so when bev had to go into linda's office to get a pen... i verbalized my annoyance-- as i will do exactly that again....   what kind of idiots keep no pen in a place where it is most often needed... it was not bev's desk-- so not her fault... it was a very generic comment.. and still is a valid one-- it is like keeping bandaids in thr bathroom whe you qre moe likely to be injured in teh kitchen...

it was a realization that ithe system is at fault---load that drawer with pens and they wold disappear faster because you would run into. " i know where there are a bunch of pens" and they would  dis-apprar even more  quickly.... 

i meant only a disparaging remark about human behavior.... mine included... 

before i go any further...  pens.... by the 1000------  before servce dog projet   had theri own... i used to buy pens on  ebay.   1000 at a time...$40.00  then if i had a doctors appointment, i could. " jump teh queue".  i woul d take a shoebox full and give them to the receptionist-- who has a "pen problem" for just tht reason.. every one runs to her"because she always has a pen.   ...  i made a study of pens and people at one point....  the most expensive employees are most often pen-less and most often run to the lowest employee for a pen--

i got a lot of mileage out of the 1000 misprinted pens--- which i distributed for years...    

tufts univ is sending us 20 able bodies to work here 9 to 12 today. - and since it may rain... i have planned to empty the hay loft so we might fill it ... with  hay!!!

it is part of their community service program.... usually they rake leaves... but we are off kilter this year.. the only falling leaves.... just started yesterday.. - and this is a serious observation...  some creature is chewing off about 8 inches of the oak branches... just started by our deck... and before supper anotehr oak is dropping 8 inch pieses by the laundry...    is this the start of some catapiller process?   what is strange is the pieces are very uniform... there must be about 30 of them -- all produced in one day....

anybody else have this happening....???

i do remember the infestation where there was not one green tree from boston to new york....in  spite of teh "tie a yellow ribbon round teh old oak tree "cure".  -- and they al came back...catapillers in hubcaps, crawling up horses legs---  it was awful... 

should be a busy day... if we put u p httent and run things out of the hay loft... maybe teh puppy hill camerqa could see a slice of it turning tight to the barn???whatevere..

NO PICTURE... I DUNNO WHY

 

sept 23 2021

ALL RIGHT---- TIME TO DEFINE THE PARAMETERS....

PROBLEM #1------.COULD I RIDE TAXI INDEPENDENTLY????     IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO SWING THAT "LIGHTWEIGHT...OLD PEOPLE'S".  SADDLE ON  TAXI BY MYSELF -OR MUST I BE DEPENDANT ON ANOTHER STRONGARM..

 TAXI IS ONE DARN BIG HORSE... BUT VERY GOOD ABOUT STANDING STILL...THERE ALWAYS WAS A WAY OF STARTING WITHTHE SADDLE QT YOUR FEET AND BEHIND YOU-- SO YOU START THE MOMENTUM WITH AN UPWARD SWING- AND LAND IT ON THE HORSE.---  JAVELYN STYLE???  THERE IS NO WAY ANYONE COULD JUST PLAIN LIFT AND DROP...... IT IS THAT SWING...... AT LEAST WITH A WESTERN SADDLE....

problem #2.  DO I HAVE EH RIGHT CEMENT.   TO AFIX THE ROCKS TO EACH OTHER AS TH 2 KIDS FROM N.S C HAVE STARTED YESTERDAY....I HAVE 3 SAMPLE PRODUCTS. MORTER SOMETHIGN QUICKCRETE AND SOMETHING ELSE....

NOW IF I GET TEH SADDLE ON TAXI... AND CAN GET ON HER WITH THE LADDER... I COULD THEN RIDE AROUND TEH BACK OF THE ARENA AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO BEST DEAL WITH "TANNERS BARN"" AS JANINE HAS SOMETHG SHE WQNTS TO  PUT IN THERE--- 

JUST SO NO ONE STARTS ANY NASTY RUMORS ABOUT MY SPENDING SDP MONEY ON HORSES... I WILL KEEP YOU ALL  INFORMED ABOUT WHAT COSTS WHAT..-- I DO HAVE M Y OWN PERSONAL "FUN FUND". AND I GUARENTEE  NOT A PENNY OF SDP  DONATIONS WILL GO TO SUPPORT.  ANY ANIMAL OTHER THAN DOGS....  THERE ARE TIMES... KNOWING ME... THERE ARE TIMES I GET OUT THE WRONG. CHECKBOOK OR CHARGE CARD.. AND GO AHEAD AND PAY THE BILL... KNOWING FULL WELL LINDA WILL HAVE ME SIGN A CHECK ON MY OWN ACCOUNT TO REPLACE THE FUNDS....  IT HAPPENS...

I HAVE 2 IRS STORIES....  ACTUALLY 3 OF THEM....

THE ESSEX CO COOP-- WHERE I BUY HAY ABD GRAIN....I BELONG---JOINED IT YEARS  AGO WITH $ 20 fee.-- EVERY YEAR THEY SEND A $1.00 DIVIDEND CHECK-- I HAVE ALWAYS DECLARED TEH $1 ON OUR TAX RETURN.. ONE DOLLAR.. WHAT DIFFERENCE WOULD THAT MAKE???? LET ME TELL YOU...   ONE YEAR ALL MY HORSEY FRIENDS GOT AUDITED... AND I DID NOT.... TURNS OUT.. THAT $1 PUT YOU ON A NEAT LIST FOR TEH IRS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE PAID A DIVIDEND.. A QUICK COMPUTER CHECK WITH THOSE WHO DID NOT DECLARE IT   GAVE TEH IRS A PERFECT PLACE FOR A NEWLY HIRED PERSON TO PRACTICE AUDITING RETURNS...  LESSON-- COMPUTERS EXCELL AT MAKING LISTS-- AND THAT "SILLY" $5.00  CHECK THAT THE  COMPANIES SEND THAT YOU JUST THROW IN THE NEAREST DEPOSIT... PUTS YOU ON A POTENTIAL TROUBLE LIST.

OH I HAVE BEEN  SUBJECT OF AUDITS....AT THE START OF ONE AAUDIT. I WAS TOLD " WE'VE NEVER SEEN A CASE WHERE A DOCTORS WIFE NEEDED  TO REPLACE A BROKEN PITCHFORK".   I INSISTED ON AN ONSITE AUDIT.... AND THE GUY SAID HE COULD GUARENTEE HE WAS NEVER GOING TO AUDIT ME AGAIN....   THERE HAD NVER BEEN A COMBINATION OF A MEDICAL DOCTOR AND THE NEED FOR RENTING COCKROACHES-- WHICH WAS OF COURSE MY COMPANY "ANIMAL EPISODES"  FOR TEH MOVIE THE NEXT KARATE KID.

 HE DID MAKE ME CHANGE ONE FIGURE FROM 0 TO $ 320- APPARENTLY FROM HOME TO OFFICE IS COMMUTING AND NOT BUSINESS EXPENSE..... IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT I HAD MADE THE BACK "CONDO". ROOM A MINOR MEDICAL OFFICE. -- AND HE DID SEE PEOPLE HERE... YOU ALWAYS DO------ BUT THE IRS GUY WAS NOT TO BE DETERRED.. HE DID NOT SEE THE OLD EXAM TABLE AND BOX OF SYRINGES AS A COMPLETE OFFICE..  IF IT HAD BEEN..  TOM WOULD HAV BEEN GOING "BETWEEN  OFFICES"   WHICH WAS  DEDUCTIBLE.

THAT IS A FACT TO REMEMBER NOW. AS SO MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO HAVE AN OFFICE AT HOME.... BOY DOES THAT OPEN THE PANDORAS BOX FOR DEDUCTIBLES....  HEAT  LIGHT. WATER. SNOWPLOWING-- I AM NO TAX EXPERT.. AND TEH RULES MAY HAVE CHANGED.   TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE TAX LOOPHOLES IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY..

NOW. .....BECAUSE OFF MY COMPANY....... ANIMAL EPISODES..... ALLOWED ME TO OWN/BUY... THE CRAZYEST OF THINGS- ALL I HAD TO PROVE WAS THAT I INTENDED TO USE IN A FILM.... AND.  MAKE A PROFIT ON THEM... AND OFTEN DID.... LIKE TRAILERS... OR. THAT BARREL THAT SHIELA  WORE YEARS LATER...  IT IS CRAZY--- BUT DEAD HONEST. 

PERFECT EXAMPLE AT THE MOMENT.....I ORDERED AND PAID FOR THAT SMALLER 20 X20. TENT---- I BOUGHT  IT FOR DOG FEST...  $500... I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR IT PERSONALLY  OR IN TEH HORSE/ANIMAL.   WORLD..... SO -- I WILL EITHER ABSORB THE COST MYSELF--- OR HAVE THE TENT  BE PAID FOR AND OWNED BY SDP....   I WILL LET THE BOARD DECIDE.... IT IS NO BIG DEAL... BUT A TYPICAL ONE.--  WE NEEDED A TENT... AND CAN PROBABLY USE IT IN THE FUTURE TO STAY ON SHATUPON CAMERA. BETTER -----TEH BIG TENT.20X40.  WITH TABLES AND CHAIRS WAS $1100 -- TABLES CAN BE $100 TO $200 EACH AND CHAIRS.  $20...

SO THERE IS A CONSTANT DEBATE. DO YOU BUY IT AND OWN IT... OR RENT IT.  BOTH MAKE SENSE....

IF YOU BUY IT AND OWN IT--- IT MAY SAVE MONEY.......HOWEVER........ EVENTUALLY YOU ARE DROWN ING IN --- STUFF......

 

sept 22b 2021

FINALLY I WOKE UP THIS MRNING  USUAL COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS/TOPICS. FOR THE DAILY DOGGIE... HOWEVER I AM NOT RECOVERED ENOUGH TO. HAVE A PEN AND "REPORTERS NOTEBOOK.." WITHIN REACH... MAYBE TOMORROW..

TRAINING-- SOME OF YOU WATCHED TAXI BEING RIDDEN BY MATT--AND TO SOME IT MAY HAVE LOOKED STRANGE TO WORRY ABOUT EXACTLY WHERE HERR FEET WENT..... BUT THIS MORNING... ON TV,,, I CERTAINLY DO NOT APPROVE OF CHASING PEOPLE ON. HORSEBACK, BUT IT WAS AN EXAMPLE OF 3 QUARTER HORSES MOVING IN A GROUP OF PEOPLE-- CHASING THEM-- AND THE RIDER MOVED THAT 1000 POUND HORSE AROUND WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE......AND THE HORSE CONSTANTLY AT ATTENTION FOR WHERRE DO YOU WANT ME TO GO NEXT.

TIME WAS--- MAYBE STILL IS... THE PHILIDELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT USED ALL BLACK QUARTER HORSES FOR CROWD CONTROL--SOMETIMES THE SOLUTION IS ANIMALS--- THOSE 1000 POUND HORSES ARE OFTEN STANDING ON ONE 16 SQUARE INCH AREA. WHETHER YOUR FOOT IS IN THE SAME 16 SQUARE INCHES OR NOT.

SPEAKING OF TRAINING----- I SPENT NEARLY AN HOUR ON THE PHONE WITH LU picard.... ceo of -- OF ECAD.-- SERVICE DOG PROGRAM IN CONN. ...PRODUCEER OF REALLY GREAT SERVICE DOGS.... WE ARE OLD FRIENDS FROM WAY BACK... WHO AGREE ON VERY LITTLE WHEN IT COMES TO TRAINING.... .... WHEN EXPLORE FIRST GAVE ME FUNDS SPECIFICALLY FOR A TRACTOR, I GAVE LU MY OLD ONE-- SHE STILL HAS IT.... SHE ALSO HAS A HUSBAND TO KEEP IT GOING STRAIGHT... wonderful KABOTA.. GOTTA LOVE THEM....  

I THINK THE WORLD OF TRAINING SERVICE DOGS WOULD BE IMPROVED TREMENDOUSLY BY A 2 HOUR DISCUSSION OF TRAINING TECHNIQUES BETWEEN LU AND ME.... ONLY BECAUSE THE RESULTS ARE NEARLY PERFECT FOR BOTH OF US. yet we arrive there with totqlly different approaches..... SHE HAS ALL THOSE BROWN TYPE DOGS.....:).....  which are 180 degrees different than danes.... which could explain the different approah... but i still wonder what would happen if we raised a litter of labs/goldens using our "out of the box" methods.... could we produce a perfect service dog by one year old.....as we have done-- several times... most notably george-- who first went home with bella. at-- i think--  9 months.... winning service dog of the year in 2015 and is going strong years later... 

ONE PROBLEM OF TRAINING Is WE GET STUCK IN SOME ROUTINE--- WHICH EVEN IF IT IS A BAD ONE, THE DOGS ALLOW US AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO ADAPT WHEN IN FACT WE SHOULD RETHINK......

--I KNOW THERE IS A THEORY SOMEWHERE THAT YOU MUST NOT"WORK" A DOG TIL THEY ARE 2 YEARS OLD--- PERSONALLY I THINK THT COMES FROM. T EH HORSE RACING WORLD OF "GROWTH PLATE" AND KNEES..... WHAT I CAN NOT CONNECT IS THE WAY OUR DOGS BATTER ANE BEAT EACH OTHER PLAYING UP AND DOWN PUPPY HILL.. DRAGGING SMALL TREES WITH. THEM-- I CAN NOT JUSTIFY SITTING AROUND FEEDING THESE BEASTS UNTI THEY ARE 2 WHEN THEY ARE DOING FAR WORSE TO EACH OTEHR THAN ANY DAYS SERVICE WORK... BUT THEN MY KIDS WORKED AS SOON AS THEY COULD COUNT MAGAZINES. GWEN IN THE HOLE IN THE VERY BACK OF THE VW. "GET 12 BOOKS READY". JANINE ON THE FLOOR..." PUT THE MONEY IN THE CAN".  AS A KID TYOE BREAK......THERE WAS OUR WEEKLY TRIPS TO CANNOBIE LAKE AMUSEMENT PARK.. BECAUSE IT WAS ON THE WAY" -NOW I WOULD BE ARRESTED-- FOR ALOT OF THINGS...  

PROBLEM IS. I DON'T THINK THE "WORLD OF DOGS" COULD TAKE A TRAINING DISCUSSION.... ......  INSTEAD OF BEING A LEARNING OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME NEW CONCEPTS, SOMEONE WOULD PULL OUT A SOUND BYTE AND RACE AROUND FACEBOOK WITH THE "RIGHT WRONG" CONCEPT...... INSTEAD OF PULLING JEMS OF WISDOM FROM BOTH OF US.

 AND WE ARE BOTH "FULL OF IT"...... SO TO SPEAK....  

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I HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE... BUT I Bares re rereading...

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60+ years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don't have acne. Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now. Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers. I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row. I decided to stop calling the bathroom "John" and renamed it the "Jim". I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning. Old age is coming at a really bad time. When I was a child I thought "nap time" was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation. The biggest lie I tell myself is... "I don't have to write that down, I'll remember it". I don't have gray hair... I have "wisdom highlights"! I'm just very wise. If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees. Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet. Why do I have to press one for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway? Of course, I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice. At my age "Getting Lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for. I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names. Now, I'm wondering... did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

why i can not put in a picture i do not know. 

sept 221 2021

 recovery is still in process.....so. dog fest to dog fest. 22.  the only glitch i heard about was a neighbor.  trying to stop people from using my  2nd driveway....  if you were one of those people, maybe writing down what happened in an email to me.....  might help us explain to the neighborhood. that is my driveway....

elvis and wife went "home" last night--- back to mreidith farm. where so many people pass by and admire  elvis's golden balls .

a few trailer problems to solve...janine's does not fit in her driveway so she is still driving mine... and 

i have. 3 carriages to pick up in new york.....maybe we can get measurements on them next ????  hoping they fit int the dump trailer and janine's truck.- otherwise 2 trips... 

closely followed by the  neighborhood. court case on the 28th. 

then.....i think i have off til dogfest 22 !!  

well then maybe i can pursue my 9 tons of rock project.  that could really turn out to be q good fun.... last night's insomnia. i was into all the odd things we could do by gluing all thowse rocks togethere..... if it turns out these kids can pile them up and glue them togetehr...-- how about mailbox posts--- done around wire fencing with rebar across diameter.. tehn 2 x 4's strapped tight to transport?????  the current 9 tons are 4 to 5 inch rocks...  but if tht works i will get a 5 gal pail full of teh 1" ---1/2" and 1/4" sizes.. to expeeriment....

i dunno why....? wedding presents?   we even have a full box of  gizmos to strap something circular....   

i need help with teh words.... mortar... concrete...cement---  all i want to do is glue them togetehr.... how about flex seal. ..... gorilla glue....??? any experts????