apr 30 2022

i never liked quickbooks------ what is the matter with a simple spreadsheet ( with catagories..).  

 we have to use whatever the accountant wants....  but don't ask me to believe it...  and at the moment there is a slight discrepancy.   

now about my ailments-- i did have a strange episode  at 1am. where i was coughing 

 so loud  i worried the neighbors would complain because it must be as loud as emptying a dumpster,

 and i knew a business must not do that until after 7am...

so i sat around thinking of wiseacre remarks to end that news article. a really simple idea until you get to remark #4 and the wisdom drys up.

what started me was----- if you drive a trailer you should walk around the whole thing before driving away-- like pilots do...

that would prevent having to chase a horse trailer on foot --- down the street while trying to shut the back door... as happened in topsfield.

and then i remembered.

 never stop learning because you never know when it might be handy to know which is the salad fork...

along with   drink what's right and eat what's left will get you thru most banquets...  where the knife has been turned inward

 so you don't slit your neighbor's throat.... or something like that.

new baby horse now can pop up on. his feet in 2 bounces..... so hopefully we can stop worrying about that... cccccccccccccute baby

we keep being offered new experiences by our "goldie" (ghost of the left hand drawer). and janine-- and olaf for buying a bigger trailer

so lord knows what she will bring home next...

how do i feel?   i like my bed--- it is warm and undemanding--and a huge mess of papers and projects and sizzle. i think i will put n new sheets june 15th 

i will now get back between 2 sheets that are untouched by siz. so far....

higly recommended----  dr pol---- the tampa's zoo training their animals to position themselves for ultrasounds---

 and i can not watch the damn fools who move into the middle  of alaska with small children

 apr 29 

rush job....  it is cold out here !!   i live on heating pads...

foal boy..

foal needs an enema  janine !!! or we call back ehte vet???

i don't feel any worse than i did o starte with... so far...

 apr 28

ok..... i am back on the wagon again...

what happened????

i woke up at 4 am... per usual... and the cough was getteing far worse-- now i had tried to get my gp//. and teh. ENT doctor to no avail... so i figured at 4am it woul d not be crowded-- so i m ay as well beat the rush...   and that worked out very nicely--- except for 2 things..  the cov test  was now positive.. and teh cat scan showed a "little something"  that is probably the cause of all the choking i have had for years.  tehy sent me home with out a definitive yea/no... 

so here i am.. as fit as i was before i knew i was positive...  but i am all set to be an invalid--- feet up in front of the fireplace... i think i have discovered i sleep better sitting.  what better time than now to try... and i know which recliner i want and luckily a daughter with a truck .

last night mom had the baby... beautiful foal looks just like her and this morning seems to be slurping down the colostrium everybody always worries about.-----heaterhe, janoine and matt did teh honors...

bryan has been called... i did not land any iodine on the naval.... i just took a quick look and went back to bed,

as long as i am allowed to have this computer in my quarentine area, i can continue to do dd and mail call  unless i feel sicker... right now all systems are "go"

 april 26 

there does exist a sane person in this episode......   Bill------ of the. farm bureau....  

i am a member of the farm bureau whether the town  likes it or not

and there is a  mass law. 

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There are some legal protections for farms being declared a nuisance by the Board of Health. MGL Chapter 111. Section 125a essentially says that they cannot declare you a nuisance if you are following "generally accepted agricultural practice. They would need to show that your are not doing so in order to declare you to be a nuisance

my problem is... when they came up the. driveway in 5 trucks to talk about expirimenting with rodenticide to see if it would kill a large dog like a dane------ no one... as in NO ONE asked me what i a had already done.  which i. though was significant---- buying 84 victor snap traps and having only 20 left when they got here... for openers...  what they were going on was an  on camera tactic of naming one gizelle...jus to make it sound more acceptable to the camera city folk---  the other thing that probably upset them was i realize rats are smart.... and i was interested in seeing just what they were attracted to-- on a scientific experimental level---- perfectly legitimate.... who in the board of health knew ridex was  an icecream party to a rat--- or my toyota wires.... and what in the home depot hardware aisle attracts some living creature according to our dogs....   i asked these questions, but it was way beyond the board of health's interest.  i still think the world would like to. identify a few more things like ridex..... 

 so then we are to ... is scientific inquiry a  generally acceptable  practice....?   

it always has been or we would starve to death.

Bill. did mention somethign my dogs have been telling me...... there is a stack of branches 10 feet from where i parked my sequoia.... something is in that pile...jiminey and sizzle have told me several  times....

i did know.......shame on me for not doing anythng about that stack..... i dismissed it as squirrels . which are no better...

it is on the short list now.

along with shoving the exhaust hose down a couple rat holes in the barn... and under where  coop once was,,,   yes i will do that when the mare is not in the barn....again an interesting experiment-- the answer i am pretty sure of anyway---  tthere are  many tunnels we never new were there.....  where do they go?  smoke blowing  might be interesting.  with a leaf blower????

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i do feel safer... because i do practice generally acceptable  agricultural practices ( snap trapping 64 in 2 months) hopefully i will be allowed it investigate any "out of the agricultural box" ideas without punishment.  

 april 25 2022

chicken coop is down... now if i can just get a post or two in an d lined up... i can have off season storage and get rid of the  lumber pile....the t tent is 20 x 30  and teh coop was 12 x 16-- so the 2  sisteen sides should make the 30' storage  with very little left over....----then move the tipi and block as little of the pond as possible,/ a truckload of nice sand... and we should have a great puppy sandbox.

lynn did a puppy run with the  9 younger pups... was worth the price of admission... well it was really a 6 puppy run... 2 puppy chase and 1 puppy carried.... with all the handlers calling all the wrong group rying to be helpful  but it can get confusing if you are only 6 inches tall  and can hear pup pup pup from every direction....  they are cute !!!!

we worked on dogfest details....painful that is... from lobster to lobster rolls to chicken to veggies--to my favorite---make 'em help with shucking ears of corn for a big boiling tub over a fire...

i really need to get out  on the tractor digging holes before  even the caffeend.coffee.. makes my eyes sag for a mid morning nap......so go watch the progress on that camera.... or maybe puppy hill.

do you realize i have been  "on camera" for 10 years as of this september?????

Carlene White

www.servicedogproject.org

https://www.memsaic.com/servicedogwall

 

apr23

for lack of a dog story, let me diverge with pigeons.... ( who were in the news)  

100 years ago. when i was providing animals for movies ( as Animal Episodes)there was a constant call for pigeons.

You may not realize it but those pigeons flying so poetically in front of the lens of a camera they're not there by accident..  If the film was made in Boston chances are I was somewhere in the background with pigeons all stuffed  In my jacket.  Ustabee...... 20 years ago, if a movie director called and needed pigeons next Thursday at 4:00 AM in Charlestown it was a fairly simple matter to ask my son in law to get me 100 pigeons underneath the bridge is on route 95 which is where they all slept I paid him a dollar a pigeon and it did not take him very long at all.

I would take them to Charlestown stuff them in my shirt wait till I was told to throw them in the air then probably they would make it back to whatever bridge they came from because pigeons are like that and I'd  come home and take a shower with lice powder because pigeons are like that too.

Fast forward to maybe 10 years ago the animal rights people --------I am on both sides. of most animal questions----- and this one regarding pigeons----- I thought it was stretching the practical aspect of animal management and mismanagement ,,these pigeons started out. free living up and down route 95.. and I released them to a free living about 20 miles South on route 95.

this was determined to be cruel ------I certainly didn't want to be that so starting about 10 years ago all the pigeons that I used in commercials were banded ... that is they had little plastic ring around one leg with a number on it and the pigeon society wherever they are could tell whose pigeon that was so I was only to use banded pigeons -----which was no big deal----  but  put my son-in-law out of business and I started borrowing or rather renting the homing pigeons from anyone in the area and it worked out very nicely. 

the only hitch was I had to stop before I got to the location for shooting and check every bird.. and if I had any without a band I had to throw them in the air immediately and proceed with only banded ones ...   usually..... whether they were banded or unbanded they got home before I did in Boston traffic.

A quick rundown on the price of pigeons 20 years ago when you caught pigeons and did whatever you wanted with them there was a market for live pigeons for I believe it was pregnant women..  From some specific country.. who's diet was supposed to contain pigeons which had recently been alive.. there was a dealer in Woburn who would buy leftovers from me for a dollar.. the same dollar I had paid my son-in-law to catch him in the first place.  There was no shortage of pigeons.

And then there was the guy in north Beverly who raised racing pigeons and at nearly $1000 a bird -----he gave up teaching and went to pigeons  for a good living....

Thus endeth the commercial  photographing  industry....

someday i will ell you some white pigeon stories 

as related to car racing 

 

22, 2022 7:23 am

LEAF BLOWER-- DOWN RAT HOLES... HELPS DEFINE WHERE THEY ARE ...

THERE ARE SOOOO MANY THINGS WE NEED TO DO TO TRY AND  CATCH UP WITH THE RATS....

I AM SHOCKED AND AMAZED.......

TRY THIS.... 

I MET A WOMAN WHO IS IN BOARD OF HEALTH IN BOSTON... TERRIBLE RAT PROBLEM..

..AS WE KNOW. .13TH CITY  IN TH E COUNTRY FOR RATS..AND... SO HELP ME... SHE SAID 

"YOU ARE LUCKY TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THERE ARE NO RATS...."  ??HOW OUT OF TOUCH????
NEARLY AS BAD AS THE  TOWN WHO HAS DEMANDED OF US WE BECOME  A RODENT FREE FARM

SO I CALLED THE MASS FARM BUREAU AND ASKED FOR A LIST OF RODENT  FREE FARMS..

 ,, SHE SAID THERE WAS NO SUCH  FARM ON THAT LIST...  SHE ALSO SAID THERE WAS NO SUCH

THING AS A RODENT FREE RESTAURENT EITHER.

HOW ABOUT A STUDY ON DESIREABLE  FOOD FROM THINDS PEOPLE DO ONT CONSIDER FOOD

 'MY CLASSIC.  RIDEX. AND WHAT ARE THEY KNAWING ON IN HARDWARE STORES?
 THERE IS SO MUCH. TO LEARN.....

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I HAVE JUST LAID DOWN A LAW-- THESE PUPS ARE TOO WILD... WE NEED ONE PERSON WITH THME 

PAYING ATTENTION TO EAR BITING... I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER SCREECH...    WHICH I JUST DID... AGAIN....

I THINK I BETTER GO SIT WITH THEM MYSELF. AND GIVE THEM THE MOTHER TREATMENT OF 

GRAB THE NECK ,,, PUT IT ON THE GROUND,, AND WALK AWAY.

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SPEAKING OF CAMERAS. AND FOALS...

I SAW WHERE JANINE OR MATT HAVE ORDERED AND STACKED UP 3 BALES OF STRAW FOR THE IMPENDING BIRTH...

IT'S NICE BRIGHT YELLOW COLOR LOOKS GOOD AND DOES NOT STICK TO THE FOAL FOR CLEAN UP-- 

SO INSTEAD OF ASKING   ?NOW YET?  WATCH FOR THE STRAW.[

IT WILL BE A TIGHT SQUEEZE FOR THE FOAL....

 april 21

i have soooooo many questions to ask of the  "legal system".  it is a simple matter.....bed making... it is something i do not necessarily do... heaven knows i am not sensitive about bed making..   however....  a friend i  know quite well has taken to kidding me about the fact that someone in the invading party of 5 town officials who  waltzed thru my entire house, barn, kennels with no  search warrent nor  my permission. was heard to tell someone in the town hall   " she doesn't make her bed" ---- those who know me- realize how funny that is.... those who know me really well realize how furious i was over the fact that they were 3 months late, and had the problem all wrong and were paid by my tax money,...

.avoiding that topic........

We need to get delorise - our mannequin-- out and dressed for the season and put somewhere along the driveway.. she does have a complete wardrobe somewhere a business suit in a briefcase and a few other changes.. she has a long history with us I think she is the one I bought and had it delivered in pieces. adjust the time when my two teenage nephew twins were here visiting so I gave them a job of putting the young lady together.. so I have some very funny mental images of the twins rushing about with arms and legs trying to put it together by mail call...   and then there is Andy falling in the donkey stall a group of us were in the T10 and the phone rang or someone from Norway maybe saying that somebody had fallen in the tea and the donkey stall and was not getting up sure enough it was Annie.   so I called 911 and ran up to open the gate so the ambulance could get through which they did and went past me I followed them and they pulled over to the tractor not the barn because somebody had left Dolores with just her legs showing from underneath the tractor so the ambulance assumed somebody had gotten run over by the tractor and that was the disaster such as crazy acres.

 

it's amazing to have Dolores standing there because every time I go to the bar and pass her in the morning she shocks me every time so it's time we got her out I hope someone will take care of that problem’’’ the other problem of the day is to takedown the chicken coop and pile up the materials so that we can reconfigure them .

 

rosie had a few visitors last night on camera.... there seems to be a hole just in her stall door...  I hve a drt apt this  morning. 

I will try and hook up my car exhaust to that hole when I get back.. we had great success with that when we had the other run in with rats it does seem to work I also think it might be interesting to put the leaf blower in the hole let's see if there's another connecting hole somewhere else then we don't know about it so there's some experimenting to be done later

 april 20 2022

te:	Wed, Apr 20, 2022 7:43 am

uasta bee 137 years ago. when i was 34...and for some reason you had to xray a horses foot-- because he had been pronounced prenavicular( which all horses are... like we are all pre arthritic...)so the vet would toss a "film" on th eground and put the horses foot on it for the snap- then he would toss it into his car /truck  with a small pile of similar looking films...----there wer many rumors everywhere.... but horse people began to  toss a car key onto the film with the foot...--making it easier not to be confused by a trunk full or "right foots" --- regardeless of who is xraying what, i always think of that car key solution to a "tacky" problem.

then there is the question...... if you have paid for the xray, i think it is yours ----to request  it or a copy of it...... not too sure on that.....  except i am a total believer in second or fourth opinions--

my knees-- everybody has 2.. ( well no actually ) my 2  hurt... go have them operated on. ( husband (md)'s advice  )...well i went... but decided i  would rather hobble twice as long. and have one done at a time.... rather than have both done at once and be totally incapacitated. ...-- so i started with 2 knees #8 painful--and after surgery i had one #10 and one #8...but before long i had 2 #8's and then 2 #6's  and 2#4's-------- wait a minute------ this was not supposed to happen... but it did... by the time the surgical site was #1. the non surgical site was also #1-- and now 50 years later.... both are zero. and the surgeon is $$ wealthier because of what i had to pay him.... ( pre medicare)not sure what the answer i-- but it is closely related to a dusting of snow.

some folk get bent. out of shape when we have a dusting of snow and the plows are out running upa dn down rt 95 with their plows just off the ground-- plowing nothing...welllll someone in ther great governmental wisdom has figured out from the fiascos in wahington dc... that  if you don't provide i reasonable  income from your investment in snow plows,,, then you will have none when the blizzards hits... which it will every 3 years.

the same goes for surgeons. if they don't make enough to pay off the  significant student loan  from becoming a surgeon in the first place.....then when your kid dislocates the left hand side his body playing football. there would be no surgeon to glue him back together..., so in the  mean time i at least provided him practice so he could keep is skills up to date...  

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mouri was here last night for a run around the pond-- then a run around the manure pile when matt got here with his "ace". they had a grand time-- that is one good looking dog...and she loves her new parents...her new dad works at toyota service and mom works at home. >??accounting???  so it is perfect..  they are like new parents... and since they kept me out in  t he freswh air beyond mail call... i slept ti 4am !! hmmmm.

today----  i will set out equipment for thsoe who have a few minutes to dissemble the yellow chicken coop.... into a pile of  plywood and 2 x 4'sxc;  which willl then be trqnsposed  into a tool shend behind the t tent.. to take the weight off the " seasonal stuff" in the g tent...

so if you ever have had teh urge to tear apart a buildilng... have at it...  there is not alot holding it together....so be carefuel of "supportng elements...."

and one of these days we should. have the birth of something from that belgian mare !!!

april 19.    teh 2 computer tango....it did not send it 

COULD BE.... AFTER ONE ENTIRE EVENING OF ANALYZING EVERY PHART... SHE IS LOOKING A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE.... SHIFTING HER WEIGHT FROM ONE FOOT TO THE OTHER...... SHE IS SOOOOO. BIG... I CAN NOT IMAGINE WHAT WE WILL. GET FOR A FOAL.... COURSE... IT COULD BE A MULE TOO.  I DOUBT 1/2 PONY... THE GEOMETRY IS ALL WRONG.

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. FROM THE COMFORT OF MY BED, I SWORE I WOULD GO AND SCRATCHE AND GROOM HER ALL OVER TODAY...  SHE AND UBER TRIED THE "YOU SCRATCH MY BACK ANBD I WILL SCRATCH YOURS" ROUTINE YESTERDAY WITHOUT ALOT OF SUCCESS...

IF YOU WATCH A PAIR OF HORSES DO THAT, THEY WILL SLIDE THEIR  MOUTHS AROUND AND TRY AND DESCRIBE WHERE THEY WANT THE OTHER ONE TO SCRATCH...   CONSEQUENTLY. YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL  THEY DONT TRY AND RECIPROCATE AND ACTUALLY BITE YOU... 

CHIP OF SWINGSET FAME... GOT THE NEW FLOOR ON THE SHIPPING CONTAINER SCREWED DOWN-- ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY... HOW EL;SE???? I HAVE WATCHED ALOT OF WORKMEN IN MY CAREER IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE OCCUPATIONS... AND HE HAS TO BE THE MOST METICULOUS... AND HAS... ALWAYS ----THE CORRECT TOOL FOR THE JOB...HE HAD WITH HIM A VERY GOOD ASSISTANT... HIS SON....  GET EM YOUNG TRAIN EM EARLY. ..

AND THEN IT BECAME MAIL CALL. TIME--- WHERE I DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE PASTA... SO ON FULL SCRENE CINDY AND I WENT FORTH .....AND FIFTH ,,,AND SIXTH...

ALMOST GOT THERE... WE HAD THE DIRECTIONS FOR 2 CUPS FLOUR 2 EGGS..AND SOME REFERENCE TO THAT WAS FOR 16.    ... I COULD HAVE SWORN I SAW A ONE CUP WITH 2 EGGS

IT MUST HAVE BEEN IN A DREAM BECAUSE ALL OF THE CP COMMUNITY HAD A FANTASTIC TIME MAKING COMMENTS ----AND THERE WAS ONE MAN WHO DID SEEM TO KNOW... BY THEN WE HAD A SOLID GOOPY MESS TO SOAK OUT OF BITS AND PIECES OF THE VERY EFFICIENT MACHINE... BOY ARE TEHRE ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO  HAVE PRODUCED A SIMILAR GOOPEY MESS... SO WE/SOMEONE/CINDY?HEATHER? SOAKED IT OUT... TO BE RETRIED TONIGHT.  ( AN CINDY'S REQUEST SO SHE IS NOT HERE.... TO UNDO THE GOOP)

AND THEN THERE IS THE SORRY LOOKING MAMOUTH DONKEY...  GWEN SUGGESTED BINGO FOR A NAME-- THAT WOULD WORK IF HE DOES NOT ALREADY HAVE 6 NAMES.  HE IS SO MEAK AND MILD ... I THINK I WILL TURN HIM LOOSE AND SEE IF HE CAN BECOME OUR LAWN ORNAMENT.... A NEW MARY????   SHE WAS A ONE ONLY... BUT MAYBE SOMEWHAT LIKE HER... IF YOU DON'T TRY.. THEN YOU WON'T.

 

 April 18 2022

Next time I'm elected to run some town or another I have some changes I'd like to make...... I have a feeling.... that there are more dogs it Ipswich then there are children certainly the numbers might be approximate..  therefore every place in town where there is a playground there ought to be some sort of fenced area for a dog playground.   And I could really get out of hand by saying there should be in the town hall with all the other town offices an animal information office... not stuck in the back corner of some parking lot or trash dump that's history. the animal information office should make it as easy as possible for a family to own a pet.. how many studies do you all have to read about the benefits of children owning animals before you bring up your town offices to match,

This animal information office.. should list all the animal related businesses in town..  or clubs..  particularly any dog training clubs run by the AKC... And of course get back to the fire department with a $2 rabies shot...  It's no wonder that so many parents opt not to have a dog or any other animal purely on the basis of it's too difficult too complicated too expensive but somewhere in there you should have it's too detrimental to our children not to have an animal which I think is a proven fact. in my case,

I think my parents got me a dog so that I was not at the bottom of the pecking order as the youngest child. And then they carted me off.  to dog training club one night a week.. as religiously as piano lessons.  And we all know the outcome of that.

 

I would go further in my animal assistance office...  in the town hall... they have several rooms there now where seniors can sit and stare at each other...  or the black television screens for which I become famous..  why not take one of those rooms preferably a waterproof room which historically might have been the boys locker room...   and make that into a dog bathing room with a lot of chairs because it really is often very entertaining to watch anybody try and bathe their dog -----so put some extra chairs there maybe a coffee pot and I'm sure somebody would bring Donuts to watch people struggle trying to give a Great Dane a bath.. it is possible for people to provide their own entertainment by having to do some things slightly out of the ordinary.. you could book it ahead of time... come to the town hall and watch xxxxx try and bathe yyyyy.   we could have our own show....

 

my guess is that it might be fun to drink coffee and watch someone try and work the noodle/spaghetti. producing machine...  ,, Maybe two men one machine and one set of directions..  could I entertain you for 1/2 an hour..   Johnny Carson didn't need that many props to entertain anybody for half an hour.

 

Now that I've said that...   maybe I should try and make some noodles tonight at mail call 5:00 o'clock..  my problem with mail call is that it's the end of a very tiring day usually starting about 4:00 AM but today I'm gonna try and take a nap so I can do noodles.

does that make it a noodle nap?

 april 17 2022

so many things to discover... or rediscover....... i had.... made up in china ----- rumor has it------ 500 nosebags..... to sell to dd people as carryalls and they were great for about two weeks even gave a handful to janine for ERN.... but then someone moved the ladder and we forgot about all the stuff that had been assigned to the hay loft.... lotsa maybeeee's.... like harness.... blankets... disney stuff... most anything...so next time we have an agile person maybe we can go on a scasverrnger. h u nt up threr... stay tuned for "specials" 

i have every tendacy of a hoarder-- except my father kept my attention  on hardware -- and most specifically hinges,,, lotsa door hinges......long cast iron ones.... and you will see them in use around here....

the latest project that involves a swinging anything..... is the chicken coop ... is about to become a convenient pile of plywood and hardware.... because the old coop looks like it would be perfect if we got all the garden equipment out of there...and move teh teepee to the place of the chicken coop giving more room to see around it.   there is also a posibility of some of the downed pine tree being lugged over to ?encase? the new puppy area which we can fill with sand( by making one phone call...)

sounds simple... but there is a drainage problem there. alreaady failed 637 thimes in getting the rainwater from. the area in front of the icu building to run into the smaller pond and also the rain off the driveway by the guest house which ruins the grassy area on it's way to the larger pond,, sounds so simple...... try some pvc pipe--- i have spent great quantities of time trying to get water to run uphilll-- and i expect to spend more today... and there is always some darn fool who will join me.

the water has to go along and across the "driveway" where trucks have to access the pond occasionally,,, and you thought the coloradeo river was complicated..

i have a severe urge to take the collection of rakes-- by ...GE -- paint them all bright colors and stick them in the holes which once held th teepee puppy fence

alll this could happen on the "coop camera/: if we get any serious help today.--- tools out--- chickens moved----coop collapsed.... and then.... the teepee... pine tree logs... then sand truck... and puppy sandbox !!!!

late... that not news....:( 

8:30

 caught me again.... still in my jammies !!!!!!

thankfully  we have a couple people wh o will helo with stuff around here...   retired people typpe peopel...

puppy feeding is certainly one of them. then there is another. where i need to have someone verify the stats,

it seems to me .... that if y ou are standing next to tree "A". at 3:02 pm and 3:04 pm it is nearly probable that you are standing there at 3:03 pm...

now all of you can de-slouth that one.  it is soooooo easy to make assumptions/mistakes that i really need to have someoen give it a good once over.... at least twice,

now for the news article-- before noon....not being able to discuss topic "a"  in public yet....yet,,,,

 april 15 2022i had larkey and moira at. IRA TOYOTA YESTERDAY creating a general havic of people wanting to meet her and pat her... she was the perfect lady... and lackey was the goofey friendly. so we made it ... no problems....he/they are to pick her up today and we will see if she can keep up george;s  perfect reputation in woburn.... along with a collar and leash... i need to give them the usual.... you give them a happy life and when it is over, it is over....

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i was thiniking....... field "A" has a gate in the way back right hand corner. that will go to the bay state trail from cape ann to cape cod.....   but more than that it would go to a nice 45 minute loop basically around our property and land in the top left corner of our pond.... just a few turns to locate and clear??????

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 this poor dog with the tail problem... i think she may have to become a perfect pet.... i can't imaging she would be sensible aftt the torture with the "E""collar for weeks on end.
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so far today we have. recovered a vomited slipper( lachey)  a destroyed heater control (bridget)  a cloth  mask -( lachey)

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 on a more cheerful note... essex aggi kids painted some of the arean feeders... much more cheerful.... 

i hope they all come back to volunteer 

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we could stand  a couple pairs of people ...? retired couple??? 2 people  who usually coffee together??? we have pups who are ready for specific training exercises.. and we have a lovely heated airconditioned room... with keurig coffee maker... and spoons and cans of dog food.... call by name and spoon ffeed-- individually then 2 then 3 and  if you last for a long time ..  maybe 4 and 8 at the fairgrounds !!!!  this litter of pups is really bright,,, and physically super dogs... so i have great hopes....

we must select one or two to remove as breeding aninmals and i woul dl ove to finiswh the other 6 in 52 weeks....kind of like i did geroge.... as i write the news article of thier progress....   i had it all planned... but i could uso e some help...actually there are anoteher pups following right behind.... those 9 are still in my kitchen and can be seen o n the "house camera" at the moment.

every time i go to the senior center in ipswich... there are always a group of very nice cheerful people sitting around.... why not come here and pat  cheerful pouppies???
hmmmmmmm  how can i meld that into tomorrows news article???    come join us--  there is always laundry to fold too....

 april 14

now....what was i doing that meant i could not get the dd out yesterday ???

if a rooster starts crowing every morning........how regular is he???  

You do realize I have about 7 years of a daily   noise report   midnight to 6 am,,,  Done so beautifully by lynne michieli from ? novascotia.??  ...wellllll I got looking at it and I noticed that the Roosters we're pretty regular in their first crowing of the day at about 5 am..

if you would like the exact numbers as I know so many of you do on April 16th of 2017 the rooster started at 507 and then as we go along daily 5.21 5.37 3 point 47 three point 5.    5.11 5.19 four point 51 four point 56 I don't know how you're gonna read that but you get the picture and then all of a sudden in November of 2020 Mr rooster starts in 1.11 then 12.46 then 1.43 1.53 etc So what on earth could have caused Mr rooster in November to change his pattern... I went so far as to go back to trying to figure out if it was November versus April and from all I found about early Roosters crowing seemed to involve sunrise so I checked sunrise and in April it was six o'clock and in November it was 6.38 hardly enough to make a 3 hour difference in  Mr Roosters habits......

 

Having once got started on that I wondered what else her daily noise report could show me and I ended up with what I think is very significant numbers of weird things the first bunch I would call the time frame for the clanks and bangs  for a month  before other quite specific noises started in in December 2020... how  odd.....

So I kept going with a timeline of activities here at crazy acres running from 1979 when we built the house and barn 2 problems like the COV epidemic my electrocution --when cameras were put in ---, when they dug holes for partridgeberry development --- And anything else I could think of... and it is very interesting how certain occurrences shall we call them........ line up with the various noises that Lynne  documented so very carefully.. ..like donkey braying..... Interesting....

That's what I was doing and it was hard to break the concentration.

 

But now I'm done the weather is breaking and it's going to be very difficult to keep me inside.

I think that we should give up on the grass around the TP and make that sandbox so if I get around to it today I'm gonna try and dig that up and get it in the dump trailer..

all of that will be dependent on what on earth is on the back of my new 4 runner----- it does look to me like there is a hitch a trailer hitch already there but I'm not sure if it's the heavy duty kind on which I am so dependent for things like horse trailers it must be at any rate that's my first problem of the day...  what I might do is load up or arya or whatever her name is with the last one was larkey it was good and then I could drive down to the Toyota dealer and look for the service manager and get his opinion on what kind of hitch do I do have on that truck now hopefully it's a there's a horse trailer type ------2 inch or something. If that's true I could hook up that big heavy trailer through the poor little 4 runner and jiggle it around it best we can. 

So much for the plan of the day.

 APR 12 

YIKES  I HAVE A DR APT AT 9:15

AND APR 13 UI AM EVEN WORSE ABSENT MINDED..

I HAVE BEEN WORKIKNG ON THE LEGAL STUFF COMINMG UP\

NOT GOOFING OFF !!!!

 --i think i finally thought of a dog fest theme.... got to run it "by the board" 

the meeting got a lot done-- including a town day in june as sort of a pre dogfest 

to include the town people who have recently joined our crazy acres .

remember the good old days of having a people van for trips to the fairgrounds???
does anyone happen to have a retired people mover like this one.. we got alot of use out of it...
the adult dogs are bailey.... and i think thumper is.  the black... i don't recognise the merle.....and the litter of all blacks?????

i bet you cp's can figure that out.  if i can just get it to print....

speaking of retire anything... hoiw about retired people with extra talents and tijme on their hands...

we have all sorts  of interesting  jobs to help us get 17 pups ready to help someone get "back on their feet"

like drinking coffee on either sides of the room while calling a puppy first one way for a treat and then back the other for a treat....

doesn't sound like much... but 17 pups?????????if we can split the group and give  a pair of people a few pups... it would be easier..

  that way they learn their name out of the 17... and  also to come when called.....

 it is the basis for perfect behavior that being a servce dog demands....

as a matter of fact any volunteering is bound to expose you to all sorts of tricks to help you train your own dog...

back before i startyed this... i thought iu had to take lessons in dog training...

. so i looked into a program offered by another service dog trining outfit. $5000 . but....

the first lecture was about how dogs smell with their noses-- and i really thought i was beyoud that 

- so i showed some of my "farm dogs". to some sd trainers... and they said mine were perfect as they were

. which i already knew... farm dogs become perfect out of necessitity...

i remember the 34 dogs i had to have to film loose in the main square of newburyport. with heavy traffic not 20 feet away.....

 and i chose a group consisting of all "untrained farm dogs" instead of "obedience trained " dogs.  

i also used farm dogs in the several ads we did of "the homeless" 

 there is a casual behavior that is hard to replicate....

how many. dogs... how many leashes?

(....zer0)

 april.  9 2022

rushing to get $1100 of stone dust in the "tanners barn".  a 2 tractor job... markkkkkkkkkkkkkk????????

the 2 tiny horses are tiny.!! up to lynns hip joint !  35-36 inches... and definitely horses..not ponys.   plus a darn small mule ...

 whaty was iubterestinbg ... when we had an unexpected clatter both mini horses  were startled and jumped around..'

the mule just said whaaaassss that?  this is why i have said a mini horse is not a good option for service-- but a mule or donkey would get my approval! 

maybe just maybe i should........

hey... those are facts !!!

rushing.......tractor....

tail docking....

Been down that road with several Danes, one kept chewing not just the bandage but her tail off, it got shorter and shorter!  The trick to avoid phantom pain, which hopefully your vet knew, is to numb the tail several hours before the surgery, preferably the day before, and keep it numb.  (They use it with soldiers to great effect)  We did that on the last one, and it was so easy. 
The other trick (my vet raises Danes) is to use a plastic syringe casing from a 60 cc syringe.  With a hack saw, cut off the case above the tapered end to the length you want from the flared end.  (6-8" or so is usually enough.)  Shave the tail to the skin, put a round of Elastikon on it, then put the tail thru the tube with its cut end first, towards the dog's butt.  Slide way up the tail, put a light bandage on the stump or injured tail end (one that will fit under the case), slide the case down over it and tape the cut end of the tube to the piece of Elastikon on the tail. The dog can't get to it, it can't whack the bandage, just the case, easy to replace if they crack it.   Easy to change the dressing, and some dogs don't even need an e-collar with it on. 
Also, a 5 gallon bucket can be modified to make a great e-collar, attached to a flat nylon collar.  So much easier for the dog to get around than with the huge flared e-collar.  I have a picture of the one I made--and still use--if you want to see it.
Just my $.02 from the West Coast!
~Sue

 april 8  2022

the tail is still covered....  happy tail = very unhappy dog...  fhe vet first lopped off the bloody stump and left nearly a full tail   which she bandaged.. -- and bridget unbandaged  many times... til i finally got u p and rebandaged..  and she unbandaged....so vet lopped off leaving 6".  -- and bandaged....here comes  the diversion in bandaging techniques...  the vet added more bandage. and a n eliz collar and bridget tore off the bottom of the bandage..collar no help... so;;; i stripped off the. bandage put goop on the stump and put one single strip of stuff on the tail.. with the theory less is better.. hopefully less is less to chew on...

we are 2 hours into it and so far so good.  i have tried many things... including the foam to keep pipes from freezing..and with one tail. long ago. one single bandaid worked !! giving me the less is better cconcept.

i absolutely can not back up janine's ford truck with trailer.... and i am ususlly good at it...   but i had to ask the guy at the dump to get me off the scale and backed in-- the new fords have double mirrors which bare not resemblance to reality and got me all hung up with the barriers on the dump scale...  but since she was dumpng some pretty good furnature- mirrors and things,,  from the  "meeting house...."   the dump help was pleased.... got to keep our trash people happy....

maybe mark will get inspired. to try and land the.  many tons of stone dust in the tanner barn stalls today. \\thank heavens the dodge grain woman has a sense of humor....  she call to ask about a delivery... and i did  not have a clue how many horses we had ... or where they were.... or would be dining....  that big mare is going to need some groceries.....

other than that...

MORNING CARLENE,

WE BROUGHT TOTO HOME IN JULY AND FELL SO IN LOVE  WITH HIM. WE WERE TOLD HE IS A REAL LOVE BUG AND THAT HE IS. WE WENT THROUGH THE THERAPY CLASS AND HE HAS BEEN CERTIFIED FOR A MONTH. TOTO BECAME THE POSTER DOG FOR THERAPY ARC. THE EVALUATORS LOVED HIM. EXACTLY THE JOB FOR HIM. WE GO REGULARLY TO CENTENNIAL HOSPITAL WHICH INCLUDES SARA CANNON CANCER CENTER AND THE CHILDREN HOSPITAL. HE HAS DONE BEAUTIFULLY. TUMBLER HAS HAD TO BEEF UP HER GAME BECAUSE OF  THE ATTENTION TOTES IS GETTING. WE GET SO MANY THANK YOUS AND MADE MY DAY COMMENTS. BOTH ARE CHANGING LIVES IN THEIR OWN WAY. WILL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL FOR TWO AWESOME DOGS. AS MUCH AS WE LOVE THESE TWO, HONESTLY I CAN NOT IMAGINE THE LOVE BETWEEN A RECIPIENT AND THEIR SERVICE DOG. THANK YOU FOR CHANGING SO MANY LIVES . KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK.

LOVE FROM NASHVILLE,

 april 7 2022

This is not a complaint!!!  Just curiosity!! 

When you got out of your chair to reprimand one of the dogs you raised your voice and said the letters of the alphabet from A to maybe J. And then told them basically that their behavior was unacceptable. I'm curious if there is a special meaning behind doing that. I'd like to use it if so!

m. 

and.....

 I HEARD YOU SCREAM AT THE TWO DOGS AND THEN RECITE PART OF THE ALPHABET. VERY LOUD AND ALSO VERY EFFECTIVE.

c.

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i don't remember saying that... but it certainly was better than what i was thinking..... which was....

 "don't move and let them fight it out inline so that the internet nuts don't ruin the rest of your life with idiot ideas and assaults." 

so many of you cp's are wonderfully supportive... not just money, but mentally... but some of the internet insults. get brutal.

and i can not believe some of the things of which i am accused. 

  maybe it is because some of these people have not seen really abusive treatment of animals. not having enough fluffies does not qualify as abusive.

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it is not just the dog internet... janine gets it also with rescuing horses and donkeys.... ... she felt sorry for the mare trying to have a foal in the dreadful slaughter trucks enroute to mexico

so she had some irate emails about spending so much on that horse. what they don't realize is she is outbidding the meat buyers who are buying by the pound,

and that is a big heavy horse. and then stuffing her in her trailer to get her here.....well it ---- was close quarters but janine decided it was better that the other option. 

 she arrived safely. and now should have her foal hopefully without complications here....and then graduate to the beautiful pastures of meridith farm. lord knows what after that ... 

janine will find a home somewhere...she apparently is 4 inches shorter than the quinness record big horse.... and she seems very nice....

 if she is nice enough to. stay loose here, maybe she would stay... who knows.

maybe she could be another mary..... if there is such a thing.

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a funny-- yesterday i went with janine to check the animals at meridith-- and we ended up parked drinking coffee watching the brizilian crew build the beautiful stone walls.. next to another car doing about the same.. rolling down the window i commented on the walls.. and the driver said they liked to watch the animals too.... so i asked whay didn't they come watch our puppies-- she said they used to volunteer at meridith for someone named janine-- so i turned and introduced them.. and said i was her mother and we had puppies.... after which she said. "i used to volunteer there too". so i invited her to come back. hopefully she will.