may 31 2022 

oh how i wish----  the keyboard clowns who love to  ridicule-- had a photo of the dog fight i stopped along with another trainer ( who shall remain nameless) i fortunately had the front end of bentley-- by skin.. neck.. ears... whatever,,, available  -- if we had a photo. of the other trainer, it  would really be much more  interesting... she grabbed "anything available" at the back end off the other stud dog... which happened to be his masculine appendages-- she pulled and he let go about as fast as i have ever seen a dog fight be broken up.....it worked... now would i recommend it???  i would recommend anything that works... but mostly i say unless you have alot of experience with dogs and fights, it is better that you just go get a cuppa coffee... even more so with the tiny dogs-- who bite even faster than the giant breeds.  certainly tail pulling might work... but i never saw any dog forget fighting as fast as the one where the "anything available"  was his "parts" . lesson of the day..

speaking of facebook..... i don't usually even go there... because i do not know how to find any one topic.. but last night i got caught up  with handy householod ideas-- a topic i do enjoy-- the crazy things you can do by cutting up a soda bottle kind of thing -- i ran into a ? group? of videos which can only be some kind of study about  "how long can we string this topic along before this idiot stops watching."  it started with 3 boxes of wooden matches.  taped in a lump.... onto which a woman cracked an egg, and separated the yoke carefully. then slid the yolk onto the match heads... while at least 2 other people waved lighted matches thru the screen very threateningly over this wad of wooden matches...  i was curious if there would be enough heat to make any difference in the yoke..... and i started watching...  9 yolks later  i was still sitting here---i am sure it was well over an hour of waving llighted matches over those match heads... add one here.... remove one there in a very puprposful manner so you are sure they must be ready  to light the bunch... it was the ... how can i stop watching now? 

i rode that one out and then almost got pulled in another about snakes under a tarp ??laying eggs????  maybe you people know about these ... but it was interesting to me how they toyed  with the "almost"  of real life curiosity. 

my great achievenment of yesterday was to back the trailer full of kitchen cabinet parts in under the g-tent. with  maybe only 2 inches clearence on either side-- ok so now what???   what we need is to. get all t that in this house somehow and somewhere so we can assemble it all and see what we do have....- it is going to take a very long time... and either hot of cold.... i would prefer to be in the house...  to assemble and baracaide  the finished product so we can see what we do have....  first problem is to get it all in. one place... not the cellar??? maybe what was the living room for assembling and overflow room for collection???  we need to get the group who unloads the food... to unload this collection...

 may 30 2022

we have so much to re-think.... i don't know why i put the "re" there...... the problem with re-thinking is it so often follows the total lack of thought to. begin with.

i can only address my miniscule world of problems.....   a very annoying one is the visual of the  tent  overlooking the pond..... 

We did not pay attention to a tiny puddle forming in the canvas of the roof in some rain storm..  and by the time we noticed it again the tiny puddle had grown to a tremendous weight which pulled down the canvas and bent some significant pipe that was holding it up -----now if we'd gone and made the tiny slit in the tiny puddle we wouldn't have this problem or if we did what people sometimes forget is that might make another tiny puddle form somewhere else to also be slit.  in the canvas and we would have to pay attention to be sure that wasn't growing to be a reservoir that would pull down the pipe----- at any rate the pipe is bent... making it obvious to the world we didn't pay enough attention to the whole thing.. this does not stop everyone from explaining to me I should have made a little slit etc and I know that-----   however now I have to fix the pipe so that people will stop explaining to me how stupid I've been not to make a little slit and let it drain..

 

to do this---a ladder will have to be involved--- of course -----we have lovely ladders and it has become obvious to me I am safer in the yard climbing a ladder... that I am trying to take a bath in a house alone.

at least in the yard if I fall off the ladder somebody is bound to recognize it...  if I fall in the bathtub and there's nobody in the house survival is not guaranteed.   The fact that there is no one in the house 24 hours a day at the moment... is being addressed but the fact remains that tonight it will be me larcky sisal and Gemini... so what's the answer I just don't bathe for five days till we get till we get organized????---

Bathtubs are dangerous... and I always very carefully hang my Pennant I've fallen and I can't get up pendant.. right next to the bathtub..  the last time I slipped in the tub and had to try and get my feet back underneath me it was a very major project and I could see it could be disastrous..   I've just heard that one of my friends from Lynnfield. has fallen it is now in a nursing home...   my. children I've been very careful to point this out to me... and have suggested I get the ladder and stand there in the yard look helpless somebody will come along and actually fix the damn pipe..

 

there are enough people here---  who benefit by the very existence of crazy acres that somehow there are a lot of tiny little jobs which really have to be done by those taking advantage of the existence of crazy acres..

 

most notably at the moment is what Pam used to do..  it was her job to take a pair of scissors and snip the bottom of every vine trying to go up a tree between the gate and the street and you can see on the trees her work because there's dead vines a lot of places----    however since she died nobody has paid attention to the vines so I have given that chore  to   matts friend---- every time I go up and down the  Driveway I am annoyed at the fact that's a big tree at the bottom of the driveway has about 10 vines crawling up it it wouldn't take 5 minutes to snip the bottom of those vines... but it becomes a symbol of getting ignored doing it later...

 and while I was thinking of that. Matt and friend  walk  by 2 instant on generators.  one for the laundry building and one for the barn. I am told by.  bud of course. that there should be a green light showing at all times----if that green light is either gone-- yellow--- or red we need to address that problem immediately because the generator has a problem..    now wqtching those 2 grenerators only takes a slight turning of your eyes... to chick the house generator would  involve walking 60 feet up and down a  hill... I don’t think that is too much to ask...... and I have not asked it yet... but I will today-- and that tree at the bottom  of the drive will remind me.

 

I would never ask. anyone to do something I would not ... or have not done myself....but that leaves a lot of room.... so get ready...i think free rides are immoral

MAY 29 2022

Hi Carlene and all-

 First- Kevin/Heiden is well and happy, living a life of leisure, after successfully training Mark and I that he is now running this show.

 Wanted to mention another way to cook food, which maybe you've already tried- which is cooking fish in the dishwasher.

 I've read of wrapping salmon filets in aluminum foil, putting it on the top rack, and running it through the washing cycle.

 Could be fun. Or a mess.

ok..... is there a cookbook for wierdos in the making??? i have heard of the top of car engines... can you all come up with some more??   

and ----- hey GRUMPY --- (one of our retired legal consultants)-----while you are at it.......... maybe 10 years ago ...or so... geroge myers (DVM) warned me that eventually all kennels would be required to be in complience with

 a bunch of ideas that made them more germ resistant ... i e washable/ waterproof.  contraRY TO POPULAR BELIEF, i sometimes listened to george's  advice.

so when i went to. build what is now the icu building... i built it with that in mind.. and i think for the most part( which would be the first floor) it is hoseable downable.

slight problem with the floor drains... but that is a whole nother problem.. the building is  "in complience " with that washable.....

 however....the 40 year old barn - being normal wood.... i s clearly not.    it is extremely clean. with concrete floor and daily  attention. 

  we have been given a deadline to have the barn become in compliance with a non specific  "just fix it"  by july 27-- 

this "just get rid of the wood". in a wooden barn...is a tough order to fill.  we clean constantlly and have had no health issues---

 been inspected by the "authorities" regularly without. complaint.  we do have 4 kennels in the. "icu building" .... where we could isolate if needed... 

 but other than "in heat"  it has not been necessary... so far.

i started asking around and i can not find any other kennel or dog owner who has been threatened by this  mandate----in ipswich--- or the state of mass....  none. 

-- and i have asked EXACTLY what is it they want us to do... so far the random orders  just fix...would cost us in the 6 figure catagorie IF WE EVEN TRY TO ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE...  

 i have been  in a lot  places from doggie care to doggie hospitals... i can not find anyone who have experienced the. joy of 

5 vehicles drive in and 5 people invade every corner of 

 their place ---no invitation, no search warrant....only to report to the town hall personell that i had not made my bed that day.   when does this become harassment?

i have asked for  EXACTLY what i need to ask a contractor  to bid on... and i have asked for a list of other kennels of whom this has been demanded 

so i can figure out what they  intend to do.  so far no answer.

 if there is some way to become  "better" equipt to handle  a bunch of dogs, i certainly would love to talk with any expert who has done that.

in the meantime....  we have a job to do training dogs.

...  LYNN and the crew of people training and handiling have done a wonderful job with Proxy who will be going home  shortly  to enjoy 

the benefits of   an education.... like "sofa sleeping".  

THIS FOOL MACHINE IS REFUSING TO PUT HIS PICTURE IN HERE AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

 may 28 2022

june 6th......   lets not let the current news get us distracted from hearing what happened june 6th????? 

time wounds all heels.....as long as we don't let anyone forget..

with all of this boiling down to a person proping a door to retrieve a forgotten  a cell phone...

this reminds me........ daughter gwen.  long ago... applying for a job

She was given the Grand Tour of the facility... which involved highly classified material and equipment...  as they got into one office the secretary there had propped open the back door to get some fresh air and she had then gone to the bathroom.... and the person giving the tour to  gwen... Never related the unattended back door wide open to  the fact that they were supposed to be so highly classified..  People can be trained to accept The normal without question...  happens all the time around here... If you wanna hide things... hide them in  wide open places....   with a few notable exceptions..

 

In my further pursuit of cooking with a blowtorch... this sui   veie Boiling bag routine... was made simpler yesterday by the woman demonstrating it by simply putting a steak in a normal freezer bag and holding the top pinning it to the top of the pot she let the water squeeze the air out of it so you don't need a vacuum pack machine/

 

and then there is mark...  who quite rightly gave me a lecture the use of too much plastic.. he was objecting to the plastic holding his lunch . when once I got in the house and see the amount of plastic being buried with the dead bodies from the war I somehow didn't think marks lunch  would begin to approach a significant amount..  certainly those things are buried and will probably never get to the ocean probably.. 

------Although if anybody wants to get into the rising sea water that's a whole other ball game...   we kind of got used to high tide in Venice involving knee high water in the main square..   but when-- was it the storm.  sandy,  started pouring water down the stairs of the New York subway system I began to take it more seriously...  I got all concerned about things like electricity and third rails.

 

to go to a much more fun topic I miss the mythbusters. and remember all the fun concepts like a man peeing on the 3rd rail..  which I think they decided didn't didn't work... That along with Victoria's Secret underwear making enough of an electric spark. to set off an explosion while  someone pumped gas.... was another of their experiments.... does anybody remember the how far  do particles travel when you sneeze as opposed to someone who has a mustache sneezing.  .. That one was very closely related  to their dinner party under the blue light which showed how germs travel all around the table even when everyone is being careful..   I'm very sorry they're not around any longer.. although I do have them somewhere on this wild machine.....

 

Then there is these stretching the mileage.  in your car by trying never to put your foot on the brake.. this too has as one foot in reality. because if you're using gas to propel yourself and your car forward than anytime you do anything negative would have a negative effect on your mileage...   this is often why. if you watch these big truck drivers approach a stop sign they try never to actually stop because to get that whole rig rolling again would take another quarter cup of gas or something... there is a there is a fact there somewhere. 

 

I am sure my 4^th  cov shot caused my stomach to be very upset--- it can’t possibly be the lime cheese cake I had at bedtime.

may 27 2022

wow the number of people who know all about  this.  cooking in a dishpan is amazing....

 even a few who do not have a "proper" heater thing.. have constructed their own with bags and thermometers

 it does sound like it might cope well  with my combination of cooking maladies... lack of concentration and memory....

Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body,,,

heat can't pass from the cooler to the hotter because the hotter bodies heat will pass to the cooler

That's the physical law  ..

 So if it stays at 1:40--- pink ---for an extra half hour because... I forgot it .....does it stay at 140... pink

From the way it's handled in restaurants apparently it would seem likely that that's true. Can it be held at a certain donness????

 Somehow having a stove that's basically a dishpan Sounds appealing

 

My 4^th  shot.. experience......  I was pretty good til mid afternoon when I just fell into the chair and slept for 2 hours.... could not hold my hand or my head.up

I Deserted nick in the driveway ... who said he got my radio on channel 77   broadway music....  I won’t even touch it !!

For those around here needing shots.   ... there is a cov shooting place  right around the corner, 2 and ½ miles away.... route 1 , next to the Chinese restaurant In the  small mall.  I never noticed but that mall has a guns and ammo store.... hmmmmm

i listened with enthusiasm  how Australia had  a mass  shooting,, and simply bought back guns and outlawed 

 them ------the british were never big on  guns...

 ustabee.. when i was in scotland. the police-- even in London- did not carry guns.... and you just never disagreed with a "bobby" 

they did have that bat--- and could knock someone out of the way with that ....

makes me wonder..... all these rifles used to fight wars way far away... who made them ---??

... and flew them in to. then  nearest airport----like  the bunches of men  waving rilfes over their heads in the middle of some desert..

there is a whole support system that got them there... somewhat similar to. t he support system trying to land baby formula in some kids mouth in idaho.

 we never hear about that.   at least i don't. 

 but i never heard of sous vide either.   there are so many things  i don't know.

as for teh huge crowds of people in the desert... i spend alot of time wondering about drinking water and port a poties... 

 MAY 26 2022

TODAYS TOPIC... HAPPILY ....FOOD.... I HAVE TRIED SEVERAL OF THESE "EATING" PLANS-- TRYING FOR  HEALTHY FOOD,SIMPLY WITH VIRTUALLY NO PREP OR CLEAN UP. ------

WE BETTER WAIT FOR A FEW MORE REPORTS, BUT LAST NIGHT I HAD  SIMPLE SALMON WITH GREEN BEANS ABND COUS COUS WITH A FEW CARROTS.. AND EVERYTHING WAS COOKED PERFECTLY--
DELIVERED IN PLASTIC  BOILING BAG -- WHICH. IS ALSO MICROWAVE-ABLE..   SOOOOO... SO FAR....  REAL EATS  SEEMS TO FIT THE BILL---  STAY TUNED.... THERE ARE SEVERAL OF TEH STAFF WHO REALLY DO NOT WANT TO COOK... OR ANYTHING RESEMBLING COOKING.  SO WE WILL BE EATING OUR WAY THRU THIS BOXFULL....  WHICH ARRIVED WITH  LUMPS OF FROZEN  ICE STILL FROZEN...   THIS OUTFIT ALSO GIVES YOU THE CALORIC CONTENT. ... WHEN YOU LOOK OVER THE MENU...

FURTHER FOOD TOPIC.... ANN DROVE ME TO THE DR.... AND SHE  NOT ONLY -- IS FROM DENMARK------SPEAKS 7 LANGUAGES PERFECTLY,--- BUT IS A  WEALTH OF INFORMATION NOT USUALLY FOUND ON  AMERICAN BROADCASTING..... AND SHE TELLS ME.......

THERE IS A WAY THAT  IN RESTAURANTS------STEAKS ARE COOKED TO A CERTAIN "DONE NESS".  BY BEING BAGGED IN ONE OIF THOSE VACUUM BAGS... BOILED...  FROZEN...  THEN FLIPPED ON THE GRILL-- BOTH SIDES  AND WITHIN SECONDS  LOOKS PERFECT AND IS DONE TO AN EXACT "DONENESS..."   SOMEHOW THIS SOUNDS LIKE UTOPIA COOKING. TO ME.....     DOES ANYONE KNOW THE DETAILS????

I AM ALL READY TO BE TIRED TODAY....  AMY PROMISED.... AFTER THE 4TH SHOT SHE WIPED OUT FOR 24 HOURS... SO I AM GOING BACK TO BED AND DREAM OF PERFECTLY DOGS STEAKS AND NOTHING TO CLEANUP !!

 may 25 2022

fact-- according to the news at least-  the biggest killer of children is now guns-- it was car crashes == but we cut that down by making some 

"suggestions" like seat belts... in the back seat.."    somehow those folk in washington can not get their minds around that concept?

the other thing that blew my doors... is... "they said". you. can order the parts by mail  and build you r own ak47 which has no serial number????

so i went out to amazon.. -- there are plenty of pistols-- labeled co2 powered- can be converted- TO WHAT?   WITH OVERNIGHT DELIVERY???

i have attacked and demolished one of the "portable " phones...  happily ripping.  out it's innards with a screwdriver.....  

it was the one that was answering the incoming but not letting me speak..... i knew there was a phone like that around....

 but every time i tried to use it.... i would put it down somewhere and race to find a working phone.. then of course i'd forget

so i finally located it -- and containing my immediate anger i grabbed a screw driver and ripped away. that is one problem solved.

puzzle for the day.....

 the puppy fence around the tipi. is basically a ground sleeve into which you slip a post.. the ground sleeve inside diameter is of course    slightly more than the outside diameter of the pipe which will be slid  into it..  and to pound the ground sleeve into the ground you need   a lump of iron  with outside diameter less than the inside diameter of the ground sleeve to be pounded.  if the od  of the pipe is 1.315
what should the rest of the measurements be.....? because  of an error in sku numbers( i think). i ended up with a   ground posts pounder.  for pipes with a 1.05" od...
i was on the phone with a very nice lady from farmtek for a very long time.  and finally decided the 18 sleeves i now have will have to be inside the puppy pen posts.... not impossible... but not right.

and i have another pallet of concrete blocks coming friday to be the below ground sand holder backers...

another news article. comes out today... i wonder what i said.....

 MAY 24 2022

TIPTOEING LIGHTLY THRU THE PLANS FOR THE DAY.....

MARK GOT A LINE OF BLOCKS DOWN THAT YOU CAN NOT SEE ON THE CAMERA........ BUT IT SETS THE LEVEL FOR GETTING SOME SAND-- AT LEAST ONE TRUCKLOAD... I CAN NOT ORDER A TRAILER LOAD... BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT RAISE THE BIG. TRAILER TO DUMP IF THEY ARE NOT PERFECTLY LEVEL... SO MAYBE 2  10 OR 14 WHEELERS???? ( YOU COUNT SIZE BY TIRES)

"THOSE KIDS". WHO COME HERE WITH THEIR "ADVISOR"  COULD BE A HUGE HELP DOING THE HANDWORK.... LIKE P/U ALL TEH FLAT ROCKS NOW AROUND WHERE THE TIPI NOW IS... SO WE CAN USE THEM TO LEVEL.... DETAILS...

I AM MAKING AN EFFORT TO CONQUER ONE TECH DEVICE A WEEK- THIS WEEK THE INSTAPOT-- WITH IT'S 23 BUTTONS

TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT ONE ON/OFF USED TO DO.... I AM STRUGGLING. BUT THE CHICKEN STEW WAS EATABLE... LAST WEEK I LEARNED HOW TO USE THE EMERGENCY FLASHERS ON MY CAR... SEVERAL RELATIVES HAVE SUGGESTED I DRIVE ALL THE TIME WITH THEM ON... SORT OF LIKE THE "L" PLATE IN BRITAIN... A GENERIC WARNING.....

I CAN REMEMBER.........LONG AGO... MAYBE 20 YEARS... SOME FRIENDS OF MINE OWNED A HOUSE IN "NYC... THE VILLAGE...." AND WHAT LOOKED LIKE FOR NO APPARENT REASON DECIDED TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE WILDS OF GREENWICH VILLAGE TO THE COAST OF MAINE ----I ALWAYS FIGURED IT WAS THE INCREASE IN PEOPLE NUMBERS.. NOW,,,, IF I HAPPENED TO LIVE "OUT WEST" I THINK I WOULD. BE. LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE RAINFALL----MAYBE PROPERTY ON THE SHORES OF A GREAT LAKE... TODAYS PROJECTION IS OVER 100 DEGREES FOR NEARLY THE ENTIRE STATE OF CALIF...

 I ONCE THOUGHT .. WHEN CONSIDERING INVESTING IN COMPANIES... WHY WOULD PEPSI SPEND MONEY ON FUEL TO SHIP WATER AROUND? NOW I AM WONDERING WHEN WILL THEY PUT IN A PIPE TO DRAIN THE. GREAT LAKES TO THE GRAPE GROWING FIELDS AND HUGE APPARTMENT COMPLEXES OF THE. WEST COAST?  

I LIKE WATER.....

WE APPARENTLY HAVE A RECIPIENT COMING TODAY-- I HAVE LOST TRACK OF THE DETAILS... BUT THAT IS ALWAYS EXCITING... WE SHOULD MAKE A BIG DEAL OF PLACING A DOG WITH SOMEONE.....IT IS CERTAINLY A NEWS WORTHY EVENT BUT WE NEVER QUITE GET AROUND TO IT. .. FOR A WHILE I AT LEAST SUGGESTED WE GO TO LUNCH AND TRY FOR LOCAL NEWS. BUT ONE TERRIFFIC LUNCH AT THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY AND THE WHOLE THING FELL APART...I WAS ALWAUS AMAZED AT HOW WELL SOME OTHER TRAINING FACILITIES MANAGE TO. MILK THE PUBLICITY FROM THE SIMPLEST OF HAPPENINGS.... WE RELY - SO FAR SUCCESSFULLY----- ON OUR CHICKEN SHATTING AND 2 GRANTS TO SUPPORT US SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DONATE OUR DOGS FREE OF CHARGES... SO FAR SO GOOD.... OVER 200... AND ONE MORE TODAY.. SO IF YOU ALL WOULD GO OUT YOUR FRONT DOOR AND YELL "WHOOPIE" THREE TIMES THEN COME IN AND BUY A $10. CHICKEN BRICK. WE WILL JUST GET ON WITH .... THE NEXT ONE. 

 ASSIDE FROM THE VERY EXCLUSIVE "SHATTING SOCIETY OF IPSWICH". WE REMAIN A DOG TRAINING FACILITY.... WELLLLLLLLL...WE DO ENJOY ALL THE NONSENSE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE. CAMERA PEOPLE...

THE CAMERA PEOPLE FROM THE "EXPLORE.ORG/ SERVICE DOG" CAMERAS PROVIDE US--- AND THEMSELVES..... WITH A CONSTANT " WOULD YOU BELIEVE.....?" FROM NAMING THE. BIRD "JACK" THAT COMES AND SITS RIGHT IN. FRONT OF THE DONKEY CAMERA CONSTANTLY ... TO QUESTIONING EACH AND EVERY DELIVERY COMING DOWN THE DRIVEWAY TO THE BARN .. THEY/YOU. ARE UNBELIEVABLY OBSERVANT.

AND THE SPEED AT WHICH YOU ALL CAN FIND PHOTOS AND POST THEM NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME... IF I MENTION THE MAIL CALL WHERE I RODE THE HIGH WHEELER INTOI. THE LIVING ROOM, IT WILL BE LESS THAN 60 SECONDS SOMEONE WILL POST THE EXACT PHOTO.... OR A SPECIFIC BIRTH OF A SPECIFIC PUP. WILL BE POSTED WITH AMAZING SPEED.

OH THAT I HAD THE REMEMBERING ABILITY OF SOME OF THESE CP's !!

 MAY 23 2022

SHORT DOGGIE..

.interesting schedule todaY.  SHOULD BE PERFECT.......   EXCEPT..............MY NERVES..AND THIS GOLDIE THING

LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY..... MATT DOES THE HORSES -- EARLY--- AS IS "NORMALL'' HE DOES THEM ALL ALONE..

 AND PROBABLY ENJOYS THE TIME ALONE..\I KNOW JANINE DOES WHEN SHE GOES TO DO THE  HORSE. CHORES...

  AND IF EITER OF THEM FALLS AND CAN'T GET UP... IT IS THE NATURE OF THE  NORMAL HORSE/EQUINE.  TO. AVOID THEM AND JUST LEAVE THEM THERE.

AS HAPPENED WITH ANNIE.. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER THAT PHONE CALL".

 SOMEONE HAS FALLEN. IN THE DONKEY STALL. AND IS NOT GETTING UP"

WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME A 911 CALL AND THE AMBULANCE  RUSHING TO THE AID OF DOLORES

 WHO'S LEGS WERE STICKING OUT FROM UNDER THE TRACTOR....

HOWEVER... IF YOU. FALL. IN THE  KENNEL AREA YOU BECOME A FASCINATING  TOY TO BE SLOBBERED ON TIL YOU GET YOURSELF ON YOUR FEET.....

 SO I AM MORE COMFORTABLE WITH A SECOND PERSON "AROUND".  WITH THEIR FINGER  ON THE   NUCLEAR BUTTON-  I DUNNO  WHY TODAY.. GOLDIE. I GUESS...

 SO THIS MORNING  THAT WILL BE ME QUIETLY DRINKING MY SECOND CUPPA.... FROM THE COOL SHADE OF MY FORERUNNER.
EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD EXPERIENCE. --- NORMALLY I DON'T LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE IN DETAIL

BUT SOMEHOW THIS MORNING I HAVE NOTICED.

THE OTHER REASON I  PICKED UP. ON THIS... I HAVE TO BLAME ON FUGAN--- OUR WONDERFUL CP FROM ? CALIFORNIA? 

 WHO GOT ON MY CASE YESTERDAY ABOUT THE  "I HAVE FALLEN AND I CAN NOT GET UP"  BUTTON I WEAR  

AROUND MY NECK ( IF I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN TO PUT IT ON AFTER I SHOWER),  I HAVE TESTED IT IN THE HOUSE..

. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR FROM THE HOUSE IT WORKS.   SO SUBCONSIOUSLY I AM AWARE. THAT TECHNOLOGY AROUND HERE

GOES  ABOUT AS FAR AS  THE NEWLY FORMING SAND PILE-- THE PORTABLE PHONES DO NOT WORK TO THE BARN...

MY CELL IS TOTALLY UNRELIABLE FOR ME--- OR EVEN  SOMEONE WITH M ORE "ELECTRIFYING  INDEX FINGER-- IT IS TOTALYY RANDOM.-

MY FORERUNNER IS EQUIPT WITH A BUTTON. --- INSTALLED BY ME----... THAT WILL TELL PEOPLE WHERE I AM NATIONWISE..

SO THAT IS OUR EMERGENCY SYSTEM.... AS LONG AS I AM NOT N APPING.....   I HEAR ARRIVALS...

 may 22.  2022

haveing. mark help by being my arms and legs is working well.....   the shop is.... for a shop... spotless 

bud said mark did it.    WOW-- big time... it is not an easy thing to straighten out... 

 mark also got the 27' long poles out so we could "try" different positions of the smaller tipi in the puppy pit,...

because we do not seem to be able to move the camera sideways ( without "shimming")  we may move the tipi back toward teh t tent

blocking the camera... but that is not visable anyway......(it makes sense to me). 

the driveway , the fountains, and lynns office window are all  visable....

janet and didi put up the chicken fence all by themselves-- so that is done...

now today ... if i can have some rock moving help, i might be able to order sand on monday.... 

lets not get toooooo specific about the door of a tipi facing east--- because this one aint gonna.

i am  into "time and motion studies"  and refiguring some of our "proceedures" around here.....

i know full. well that the lack. of a dishpan in the kennel has cost sdp many$$$  as the cleanup from doggie meals

could be streamlined into  10% of the time if we just had a dishpan in that sink-- and i am sure we  own 14 dishpan type things somewhere...
there is no reason to soap/wash/ wipe/ and dry.  each dog dish when

 a soapy dunk/swipe/ rinse and let  God dry them would do just as well but save staff time.

....there is also a  unnecessary standaround.. during feeding which could be rinse kennel- briefly -  saving water and time..

 there will... hopefully be a few people here today   who have this kind of mental process..  we need to become more efficient...

and lord knows... i am sure the camera people ... once started on this concept will. come up with amazing time and money savers...

how observant are CP's????.  let me---

to notice one lightweight elastic band  on the floor of our kitchen has to be the ultimate....

then there is the story of me trying to order chinese food- i can't find teh menu.. 

and the phone rings....... a CP... from thousands of miles away... said "it is in your center drawer" and it was.!!

happily these guys don't miss a thing...  well mostly happily.. some things are best not noticed.

 already i am sweltering and i have only been told it will be awfully hot today.  i really want to get one row of rocks around the sand pile.

mark got the chicken side lined with generic rocks.. the t tent and driveway side  are supposed to have the more organized cobblestones  defining the sand pile/ 

mark also got 3 of the looooooong ti[i poles from teh 27 foot tipi we used to have..( i saved them in the arena) 

 i just want to put up a tripod to define the visual and be sure to get the camera in the right spot....

turns out that "driveway" camera is one of our more popular  because of the. constant activity-- of dogs too..... with people walking dogs to and from the deagle h ouse

i did watch the  "normal " news this morning- i feel terrible for the parents of the little kid caught in this war.....

 i felt equally bad for the parents of the 14 kids probably shot  on an average night in chicago.. which is so normal it never got mentioned.

todays the day i have to turn in my news article-- by noon.......hmmmmmmmm

 may. 20 2022

there is nothting more impressive than a perfectly behaved great dane..

. unfortunately the opposite is true also... there is nothign worse than an out of. control 160 pound ballistic missle

and unfortunately my 2  need some work. also. donna has her two trained  that when she opens teh gate to go home.. her two run for her car

and hop in.. absolutely perfectly....

unless they get distracted by wanda and janine carrying groceries...  

 bad scene-- and i have to admit my two are not any better with the car thing.

i have let them out a gate to decide on their own to run and jump in my car.... which is sitting there with the door open,no problem... except......

once a dog is programmed. to do one thing..... all is well as long as there is not any diversion...

 in my case. the passenger door was not open one day and lachey just jumped in. the drivers window--

 fortunately the motor was off as he got all  involved with. the levers.  and buttons. 

 the joy of performing an expected maneuver adds to the volitive atmosphere so to all of a sudden add an unexpected element   can upset the entire applecart.

there was a nearly disasteous case yesterday also--- with a puppy.  these pups have been trained to run out the icu door and run to ht e gate of the puppy pen.

yesterday a handler let out one ppuppy to work with- and did not notice i was backing up my car and mark was turning the tracto r  we  both braked to  a halt.... but there was just enough  confusion, so the handler  did nto get the gate open as expected-which caused total panic with the pup who began to run around and around looking for the opening-- because he knew he was expected to get in there somehow.

he ... as donna's and my two.... have been taught to behave a task without human direction..  

yesterday it became obvious i have some work to do on my pair. lachey and jiminey....  gate training...  even if the cart is sitting there with door open,, you must say "may i?"  like that idiot childs game of may  i?... no you may not... you may take 2 giant steps... may i ?... no you may take one.  

sizzle is better educated.. ( bentley never would have done all this,)

my two certainly have front door and food dish training... we need to extend it to gates ... i have been sloppy...  until i. get better control.  maybe a leash is required.?

freedom demands some discipline..

as a dog, or country , or world..... have we learned that yet?

 may 19 2022

 from the "we'll send you a second one free" department on early morning tv.....  there is one today  that i think probably works

some water reservoir sprayed in front of a fan   as a personal air conditioner...  

must work the same as the misters we use in our barn --- and disney world uses them  for people in line....  concept is good...

i have always suggested a simple fan. and use a hand sprayer  to make  water dropl;ets 

in front of the fan. will cool.  the air right around. you.

 it looks like this year they have made a personal size one.. i think it was artic air-- with 2 variety. $29 and $19.  ( water tank over of? beside?)
just out of curiosity i am tempted to order one..

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work order for the day/. lynn has said today is desk moving and cabinet removal  day..

 and i was to. be in charge of the  soup spoon recovery department .

you have no idea...... so let me frame the reference.....

10 years ago-- when the cameras started-- we used to do sunday stew. 12 to 4.  and i made chicken stew.. the easy way BUNCH. OF THINGS ... IN. AN IRON POT... and over the fire...

this disintegrated to  a more pot luck arraingement... and people brought slow cookers with some great goop-- and a serving spoon.

the various goops were wonderfully popular, and teh empty slow cookers.... for the most part... went home--- but rarely did the serving spoons.

these eventusl;lyu got warshed and stored/ i e  crammed into 2 drawers in the  t tent and 4 drawers in the kitchen,,, 

with the extras  tripple hanging on "S" hooks on th e pot holders.

todays concept is to gather  the contents of all drawers  and run them thru the

 dishwasher before putting them in a plastic  container in the clean cellar-- so. that when you need one in the kitchen , you  will. not be able to find one.

we have a very similar problem with treats--- i have been moaning about no desert pickings for a month .. and last night...  matt ... in his most pathetic voice

asked where did all the snacks go----- which is why he shows up for mail call in the first place---- mail call is munchie time.. 

except when THEY hide teh munchies in the cellar... where the chosen few get to pick out all the milk chocolate....

it gets even worse.... i have to look forward to days when donna works.... she lets me have my own Kleenex-- and sometimes even a roll of paper towels..

now i could go downstairs and search. for my own chocolate covered biscotti'...

 except there is no place for me to nap to rest up for getting myself back up the stairs.

life is. complicated...

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if mark arrives today. with a few hours tractor time.. we might be able to  order a truckload of sand-- and begin to look excitingly like A PUPPY SAND PILE.

OF COURSE YOU ALL. REALIZE  A GOOD INDIAN WOMAN CAN MOVE AND SET UP HER TIPI IN ABOUT AN  HOUR... ALL BY HERSELF....

... MOVING THE TIPI WILL HOPEFULLY BE ON CAMERA. 

 AS WILL... HOPEFULLY THE DRIVEWAY,--- LYNNS OFF ICE WINDOW, ---THE FOUNTAINS AND THE.PUPPY  PLAY YARD...

LET US PRAY !!

 MAY 18 2022

dear irs...

pleaSE TELL ME HOW TO FIGURE THIS $$. OUT--

WE- SDP NEED TO CLEAN UP OUR PUPPY PLAY AREA - AND A LAYER OF SAND WOULD BE LOVELY
SO WE REMOVED AND PILED UP ABOUT "DIRT" WHICH WAS ABOUIT 6 INCHES OF THE AREA

 WHICH ONCE HELD TEH CHICKEN COOP. I.E. FERTILE FLOWER GROWING STUFF. I.E. VALUABLE..

.BUT SINCE IT----- 4C LUMPS... EACH THE SIZE OF A VW BUG------...

  IS NEARLY BLOCKING THE DRIVEWAY -- BY NEXT MONDAY ( BIG TRASH TRUCK DAY)

IT WILL DEFINITELY HAVE A VERY NEGATIVE VALUE.- AND THIS IS WEDNESDAY.

 THE GOOD LORD MADE JUST SO MUCH DIRT- SO AS BUILDERS TRY AND REARRANGE THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF HUMANS,

DIRT .. OF MOST ANY KIND HAS VALUE--- WITH  BLACK TOPSOIL BEING THE PHD OF THE SOILS.

TEH VALUE WOULD ONLY BE REDUCED  IF THE BLACK TOPSOIL IS ... CONTAMINATED WITH EVEN ONE BEER CAN OR HAY STRING.

(THINK BACK TO ME BEING CALLED #$$%^&&*() FOR BECOMINHG BALLISTIC AT THE TOPIC OF ONE HAY STRING IN. THE MANURE PILE)

PERSONALLY , I AM KNOWN FOR HAVING A  WONDERFULSOURCE OF "USED HAY"-- BECAUSE OF TH E LACK OF CONTAMINGTION

EVEN THO AT TIMES THE PERCENTAGE OF USED AND NEW HAY IS SOMETIMES QUESTIONABLE....

I CALLED A LARGE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND BASICALLY GOT THE OFFICE HELP

THEY WERE NEW AND NOT FAMILIAR WITH MY SUPERB REPUTATION IN. THE. USED HAY FIELD....

AND SAID THEY MIGHT SEND SOMEONE AROUND TO LOOK OVER TEH 4 LUMPS... SATURDAY MORNING.....

 I ASKED FOR THE MANAGERS CELL... AND WAS NOT GIVEN IT... EVEN THO I HAVE IT SOMEWHERE...

THAT MUST HAVE TRIGGERED THE NEW HELP TO LET TEH MANAGER( OWNER) KNOW  THAT 

"SOME NUT CALLED TRYING TO SELL THEM SOME DIRT". AND AT 5PM YESTERDAY I GOT A PHONE CALL

SAYING THEY WOULD BE HERE AT 7AM TODAY TO COLLECT THIS VALUABLE  PILE... A VERY QUICK TURN AROUND.....

I CHALLANGE ANYONE ELSE TO BE ABLE TO CALL FOR A  LOADER TRACTOR AND DUMP TRUCK AND SEE HOW FAST THEY ARRIVE...

SO ..... I HAVE DEALT WITH THIS OWNER FOR A WHILE-- AND HAVE NOT BOTHERED TO DISCUSS THE.  DOLLAR VALUE OF THE 

PILE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE....  BUT I KNOW.... HE KNOWS I KNOW.....AND  HE OWES ME ONE.... AND I. WILL NOT.  WORRY ONE SECOND. 

I HAVE FOUND YHRU THE YEARS THAT WHEN YOU DEAL WITH. A SUCCESSFULL  LARGE OUTFIT THERE IS A. MORALITY THAT SHINES THRU..

 FROM DOG FOOD TO CAMERAS TO DIRT PILES ---  THE  BOSS'S WORD IS AS GOOD AS GOLD.

THIS IS WHY I STRUGGLE SO HARD TO KEEP THE HAY STRINGS OUT OF THE MANURE PILE...

  WHEN I TOLD HIM IT WAS "CLEAN DIRT"  HE KNOWS IT PROBABLY IS.

AND WILL BE HERE IN A VERY FEW MINUTES TO COLLECT IT.