july 31 2022

from the cp research team....

"The gentleman you referred to who stood for Gabby Gifford is Khizr Kahn. His son who was KIA in Iraq was a graduate of the University of Virginia here in Charlottesville where I live.

He is an amazing man."

I love having the cameras and having people enjoy the animals we have here on crazy acres and all that it entails. 

It's about that entailing part which makes life difficult at times. ----where one or two people will start some horrendous criticism of our

Operation Totally without knowledge or facts... That is very difficult to take.. but I am helped along by the number of people

 who go out of their way to tell me to ignore these neggies  and keep on keeping  on.  

 

it strikes me that in my whole life I don't think I have ever written a letter to a relative stranger telling them what a fantastic job they are doing. like that Mr. Khan the other day.. He has had to stand a lot of abuse for one reason or another.. and I have sat by and watched even though I know full well at the core that's a good man..... I hope he's had plenty of letters from people telling him that..  OK all of you out there if you find me his address I'll write to him because I was impressed... as I have been for the six or seven times I have seen him on camera for one reason or another.

I am guilty of mentally saying “somebody else”  will. Do it”.    It is kind of like voting...   there ain’t enough “somebodfy elses”’s who are motivated.

 

How about  thanking. the  surgeons who donate a few days a year on the mercy ship.  When they could be off  on a ski trip down thre rocky mountains..... If there was snow....

I am having a was/were problem here and in my news article for next Wednesday.    ? anne?????  As a foreign born person. to explain the English language????

 Between providing animals for a business – animal episodes... for movies and commercials—and then service dogs...

 I have had a unique exposure to the public eye....when I started animal episodes—the SPCA and Humane society were very  accurate in being on the set. Whenever an animal was due to be filmed..

I welcomed them- although to start with I cannot say they were friendly—they had heard too many stories of animal abuse on sets..  finally... they were on t he set when  the shot called for putting a dog down a 6’ hole—supposedly. Dead... they expected  the dog to be euthsnized or tranquilized... and I showed up with ellie... a huge harl dane—lovely dog--- only knew one command “whoa”. But she did that  super well... we had just come from a still. shot of ellie in a hammock filmed in danvers by DAH... where we had lowered the hammock – got her on it and said “whoa” while we lifted it into position... she never moved.

So I got her in the hole—the back hoe had left a ramp--  had her lie down with a “whoa”. – she idid fine.... and the directr asked “do you suppose she would let us shovel dirt?” I said as long as there are no rocks we could try”. With that... the bunch of ? gaffers? Picked over a few shovel fulls while I screamed “ellie whoa”

And after the initial handful of introduction  to  shoveling  She didn’t move.

 

With that ... the SPCA said they saw that  monitoring me was "a waste of time" ...  and I never saw them again... until;the banding of homing pigeons... another story.

 

 JULY 30 2022

i was shocked... the president was giving out medals of freedom... or something like that... and as the recipients were introduced.. they took their place in a row of seats... 

going along... the man  who is from a gold star family --- who lost a son--- who carries the constitution in his coat pocket, who is muslim -- you all must know who  he is.. very distinguished. he was ushered to his seat.  then came gabby gifford

 As. Gabby Gifford was ushered to her seat. This man bolted out of his chair like he'd been electrified.  There was no way he was going to sit in that chair when a woman was standing and he didn't make a move toward sitting down again until she was firmly planted in the chair next to him. I saw all this happening and couldn't help remembering or wondering is anyone teaching our young gentleman this kind of thing. so I kind of watch situations like that and yes there are there are men who I've been taught by someone.  and then I began watching people walking on the street.. my father would never let my mother walk on the side next to the street.    he had been taught that the gentleman always walks on the outside.. so when the carriages went by the mud wouldn't splash on her.... and as an aside he said it also meant that man didn't want that woman.  not that I walk anywhere nowadays ... but I could remember feeling very awkward if the man I was walking with didn't go round me and get between me and the traffic..  that's how old I am---- I don't think that even counts nowadays. 

 

I HAVE THE NEWSPAPER THING DONE.... It is on the fact that my father born in 1900 long before X-rays and things like that told me IN 1945.... that when buying a puppy one should always pick the puppy whose legs stuck out straight behind them Because they'd have good hips.. and that was long before anyone even knew the term dysplasia or the fact that an awful lot of large dogs have that problem.. 

 

As for animals in general with leg problems I see I have a photograph from the “Wizard of paws”.  which is a guy who has designed successfully designed replacement legs for a variety of animals.  three 3 legged dog returned as a four legged dog..  he has also done horses and I have seen a video of a horse with four prostheses..  that I don't see how they could have faked.. he had a couple shows on the doctor Paul channel..   Being the suspicious type that I am I don't see how he faked them.. and to make matters worse there's even one for an elephant.. so if you have any spare time after look into what he does. it certainly fascinated me

 july 29 2022

clutter will accumulate to fill available space..

how foolish of me to think That the clutter pertains only to physical things on my physical desk ----well the same concept is extremely valid mentally. unless you stay. on guard----- AND I DO TRY------  all sorts of clutter can be inclined to fill any available mental space too,  I have been vaccinated against tv’s  mental clutter by simply not knowing 99% of the paraphernalia big advertised on television.. I mean I don't even know what some of this stuff does with two possible exceptions... every day as night becomes day there's about 1/2 hour advertisement for some sort of exercise machine so I watch it,, I haven't lost any weight watching it but I watch it..  I am second only to the woman who has decided to call her bathroom Jim... because then she says she has to go to the gym it sounds wonderful and people are very impressed.

the other  "infomercial"  that was interesting is some double sided duct tape we can smack things up against the wall and then they stay there until you twist them off... I don't even have much wall space left in this house but the concept of sticking things to the wall it's a good one for me'cause one of my major problems if I put things all away I can't find them.. I don't think it has anything to do with age I've had this problem for life.. I can design all sorts of fancy systems and then forget why I've done what I've done ----making it very hard to follow directions..

 

I don't know why people have to write  extensive descriptions around here... because by the time you get anything written and printed it's outdated and we're off to something else I find it even listening to some of this stuff very annoying but somebody in their great wisdom has decided documentation is the way to go... good example   1700 pound Moe takes off down the driveway every once in a while ----she seems to like to get on the street... on a very winding  boxford Rd this is not a good thing so it is considered an emergency-----go catch her and bring her back ----which most of us do ----however there is a contingent of people wanting to document  what happened why did it happen and how you can prevent it happening again but by the time you've written all that down .. you find that everything you've written doesn't pertain to goats.. who are now headed out the gate. 

and then you have bud sitting quietly in the background saying why don't you just fix the gate?

 

it is an electric gate wonderful gate... mighty mule I think it's called... and it certainly has been tried and true even though I hear it's now been replaced by something else on the market.. most of us have remote controls for that gate..  but Even so lately it's hardly ever shut.

 

it has been suggested that when I find it hurts my head to bang it on the wall that I just stop banging my head against the wall. I'm working on it.

As you can tell from this daily doggy I have in  the last 10 years found it's a lot simpler right about this stuff than it is to actually go out and move heavy objects around---

Verbiage for verbiage sake. A national disaster......  AAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHH

                                                bud and moe

JULY 28 2022

Larkey -------wonderful cheerful happy pleasant sociable larkey--   how often have I said that you can tell who's the  DOG trainer by who has a perfectly  trained dog..

****** I was doing pretty well there for a while but I have to admit that getting lacky through the two doors at the nursing home yesterday made me look foolish... or actually foolisher then usual .....as I held the heavy  first door so that sizzles tail would clear without shutting  and leaving jiminy in the nursing home... because in JIMINEYS  panic of trying to find me he could start to run and become a 150 pound unidentified flying object through their dining room kitchen and anywhere else---- so I was very concerned that he make it through the door--- meanwhile I had to open the second door which meant the larkey got his eye on “where's the car”  and bolted out--- happy as could be to the parking lot ..... if he could have grabbed it by the bumper and dragged it back to me he would have been very pleased to do it.. that was terrible and I honestly don't think I could have held him--- he knew where he was going and he was gonna go there.  regardless of the fact it could have been across a four lane highway.. I was very comfortable with the fact that he was only going to our car.. but you have to look forward with this nonsense.  he has no business running off like that dragging me behind without even noticing my more than 150 pounds.  so if the definition of a  dog trainer is someone who can alter the behavior of a dog I need to sharpen my skills a little.. Otherwise I'm just one more person walking around with a dog on a leash. which sometimes is adequate.. but it does not make for a well behaved dog. Bentley he  AINT ..   We have a ways to go. He is.  sooooo pleasant.

 

Meanwhile the activities director was delighted with her boxes crayons and things.. Megan---wife of ira Toyota employee with moira   -- went with me. it was her first time wandering into a place like that.. and she naturally zeroed in on the activities director and the other director and got all sorts of paperwork and a copy of their schedule of things that they had booked to entertain these people.... Alzheimer's or not Alzheimer's... that's a problem for me if I'm to be booked into somebody elses schedule.. I try not to do that because of my poor memory...seeing as we had to go by the Ipswich senior center.. we stopped there for more ideas.

 

I have to admit...... it was my first time out the driveway turning the wrong direction and having to make a  u turn—so megan also got the picture of “ASSISTED DRIVING”.  YOU. KNOW... THINGS LIKE. : THAT CAR IS STOPPING.... THE LIGHT IS RED/GREEN. ...  DO YOU REMEMBER WHERE WE ARE GOING???   STUFF LIKE THAT...  I TOLD HER  I FULLY APPRECIATE ALL. TH EHELP I CAN GET....  MY SDP CO HORTS HAVE SAID... IF I HIT THREE THINGS IN ONE DAY  I HAVE TO GIVE UP DRIVING.

 WHICH BECOMES 2 DENTS AND CALL UBER.... 

 "IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT A PENNY A HA'PENNY WILL DO...  IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT A HA'PENNY THEN GOD BLESS YOU" 

AS THE SONG GOES.... THE GOOSE GOT TOO  FAT SO THEY ATE IT.

IT IS THOSE DAMN PENNIES- PENNY WISE POUND FOOLISH---  I REMEMBER-----   PENNY, HA'PENNY AND FARTHING.  THE BRITISH IN THEIR WISDOM PROVIDED FOR 1/4 A PENNY--  I WONDER IF THE WORD IS EVEN USED NOW????

AS FOR PENNY FARTHING..... THAT IS THE NAME OF THE TYPE BICYCLE I  RODE IN THE GREAT RACE FROM WATERTOWN TO MARBLEHEAD----26 MILES--- NO BRAKES-- AND A BEER AROUND MY NECK SWINGING  IN A HORRIDLY INCREASING  RECIPROCAL WAY AS I FREEWHEELED DOWN THE HILL BY WONDERLAND..  MY PENNY FARTHING BIKE NOW HANGS IN THE G TENT RAFTERS- PLACED THERE  BY A VERY TALL MAN AND HIS VERY TALL SON.

 

 THAT  G TENT  ONCE CONTAINED 2 VERY NICE WOODEN TABLES MADE BY THE AMISH- HOW FOOLISH TO THINK WE COULD MAINTAIN AN OPEN AREA WITHOUT COLLECTING  EXCESS BAGGAGE.

IT IS NOW HOME TO BUD--- WHO USES THE FORK LIFT TO LIFT UP ANY GRASS CUTTER HE HAPPENS TO BE WORKING ON-- IT IS ALSO HOME TO JOHN AND HIS SON TO MAKE THE LOVELY KITCHEN COUNTERS AND CABINETS WE NOW ARE ENJOYING.. AND GOLF CARTS,, AND WOODPILE.. AND..... AND .....AND .....AND.......... OUR TENT OVERFLOWETH.

A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF JANINE'S LATEST  "MORE IS LESS" 

 

SO YESTERDAY.... I GOT UP WROTE THE DAILY AND LOADED UP MY 3 DOGS....LEFT THE FARM---LOOKING FOR A SECOND CUPPA COFFEE---- I HAVE A STANDING OFFER FROM A LOT OF SENIOR LIVING PLACES—SO I WENT TO ONE IN IPSWICH—(-THE PERSON SERVING COFFEE UNDERSTOOD 75 SUGARS) AND WE EVENTUALLY LANDED IN THE GARDEN WITH THE ALTZEIMER GROUP  SEVERAL OF WHOM. PERKED UP WITH LARKEY’S HELP.... HE WAS SUPERDOG... JIMINEY WAS VERY COMFORTABLE IF HE SAT ON MY FEET FOR SECURITY... SIZZLE QUESTIONED WHY SOMEONE STOOD SO STILL LOOKING AT HER—I THINK SHE WAS AFRAID SHE WAS ABOUT TO BE ATTACKED... BUT SHE MANAGED TO GET UP AND WANDER A VERY LITTLE.

THESE "INMATES"   WERE WELL FED , CLEAN AND COMFORTABLE   AS I SAT THERE IN THEIR  ROW.... IN A ROW WITH THEM.......ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS. “A PURPOSE,  A PURPOSE----MY KINGODM FOR A PURPOSE”. WHEN THE POO PICKERS CAME TO MIND...  ? MAKE POO PICKERS???  NOT WITH SCISSORS OR ANYTHING ELSE CAPABLE OF CUTTING ANYTHING... BUT... WE   SDP.....HAVE SOME ALREADY CUT --- ON OUR PORCH—ALL NAKED--- JUST WAITING TO BE DECORATED...

 

I WILL GO BACK TODAY—WITH A  CARTON OF NAKED POO PICKERS---AND CRAYONS BOUGHT BY JUDY—AND STAMPS SENT BY OUR ARMY OF CP’S.

 

AND I REMEMBERED... WHEN JUDY DID THIS IN DANVERS ONE OF THE  “INMATES” PROUDLY HANDED HER A POO PICKER WITH SCRIBBLES THAT SAID “THIS IS AN ORIGIONAL RALPH P.”   I WONDERRED WHY THAT MAN KNEW THAT EXPRESSION

 july 26 2022

Who says the banks don't make mistakes.. we currently have a slightly screwed up deal where.... I wrote checks to benefit service dog project and service dog project usually just repaid me which it did this time... but somehow the check never made it from lynn's desk in a purple envelope to my bank account in TD Bank... could be under the seat of some car or in somebody’s  laundry or heaven knows where the teller  might have put it under her coffee cup.. Doesn't matter that's not the mistake part....  so Lynn very simply wrote me another check for the same amount... I quickly deposited it.. as Lynn was on the phone stopping payment on the first check which we did not know the location there of ----all that made a lot of sense--- until someone at the bank got the stop-payment order and noticed that the check now coming through was for the same amount and they didn't check the check number so they just reversed that whole process and took the money out of my account and put it back in service dog project...   so after all that we're back where we started from.. I think my lesson of the day is---if going to replace a check use the last three digits to vary the amount so that somebody doesn't  confused the coming and going.

 

Now about using the last three digits... I personally save those for the date... particularly those repetitive payments which can get all screwed up  like. an automatic payment which I really don't approve of.. or to be correct....   of which I really don't approve...:)

like today – paying the trash guy $185.00 monthly... would be. $187.26. and that extra few $$ could be straightened out  later.. in the meantime you may have saved many $$ of time trying to figure out which payment or transfer was done when.

 

It is kind of like those pennies in an ashtray at the checkout where you buy your cigarettes.. I was soooooo shocked 40 years ago when those ash trays began to appear when I was delivering magazines.... little did I know that 40 years later they're thinking of dispensing with a dollar bill about the same reason

I remember the vending machine which sold cigarettes with 2 pennies wrapped up in the cellophane with the  pack of cigarettes.  and 5 gallons for a dollar.

who would have thought..  well a friend just came back from Sweden or was it Finland at any rate gas there is $12 a gallon... insane ? yeah

 

almost as insane. as Donna leaving for London this morning... where last I saw a photo of the London airport there was a pile of lost luggage which would fill our arena to about 3 feet..  and the line to the ticket counter was doubled over and about 200 feet long..... one of the people standing there said the expected wait  was 14 hours..  I wasn't sure whether that was the line or the time on the tarmac..   I did see several people lying on the floor..  but Donna wanted to go and see her daughter...   if that doesn't define the strength of motherhood I don't know what does.

cheers

 july 25 2022

thankfully BUD can not stand to not understand- he. was in the feed room-- ( dog feed) snd simply ... the light went out. 99% OF THE PEOPLE on this crazy acres would have just cursed teh dark.. SO MAYBE ONE PERSON MIGHT HAVE GONE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER LIGHTBULB....NOT BUD---- HE WANTS TO KNOW WHY THE LIGHT WENT OUT-- AN EXTREMELY CRITICAL QUESTION WHEN THESE DAILY DOGGIES HAVE OFTEN CONTAINED THE WORDS "RATS --- CHEW--- AND WIRES" -- SO HE IS COMING BACK TODAY-- TO BE JOINED BY ME AND MY TRUSTY REFRIGERATOR LIGHTBULB IN A 2 PRONG DEAL... SO I CAN TELL IF A SCOKET IS LIVE. -- FORTUNATELY 99% OF THE WIRES IN THE BARN ARE ON THE SURFACE.... MIND YOU THAT SURFACE IS COVERED WITH ALL KINDS OF BIRDIE DOO.... BUD IS DETERMINED...AND FOLLOWING HIS LOGIC IS OFTEN AN INTELLECTUAL. CHALLENGE. ----- I BETTER READ UP ON VOLTS AND AMPERE'S BEFORE H E GETS HERE.

I DID NOT CALL THE POLICE FOR FEAR OF THE NUTTY OLD LADY SYNDROME... ALTHOI I THINK I AM ALLOWED A CERTAIN AQMT OF PARANOIA....

As I pulled out of my driveway and turned right just intending have a quick round the block in the fresh air I noticed a car a small dark red SUV type pulled. Out of cartridge Berry place and fell in behind me a bbit closer than norm but... that can happen...

I took a right turn on 97 and as I approached route 95 there was a long string of doggy drool it was about to go down my neck so I pulled over straighten that out and I noticed that that car ---although further behind me ----also pulled over which I thought was odd but still didn't pay too much attention.. then i crossed 95 and instead of taking my normal way to get to Ipswich road on that side the highway by taking the first left..... I went up to the second left hand turn this is important so pay attention I took that second road which also goes to Ipswich road a little more windy.. and that red car was still  10 car legnths s behind me but it was still there. so I turned right on Ipswich road and so did this car..

 

now if that car had wanted to get to Ipswich road from where we started it would have taken first left hand turn to Ipswich road which was shorter instead of the second one so that began to concern me....the world is weird.... so I headed for the boxford police station and pulled in there to watch. The car passed  me.... I could not tell if a man or woman was driving..  just one of thse silly questions that could suddenly become not silly...—not critical  enough to report to Ipswich police... but noteable.... so I am telling all. of you.  So I can move on. 

 

Some things are moveonable  onable   and some things are just forgettable in the first place.

I had a second call from an assisted living place in Ipswich...”would I please......”  “wonderfully perfect dogs”  so I said I could , if it could be on a drop by basis—because to schedule??? Schedule is a bad word in my world now... oh I could use my phone to. Remind me...  I did that once..... I was to  meet Kathy at 11 o’clock June 14 ,2022... and it has reminded me of that appointment every day since--- buzzing and tweeting  on it’s own merry way... I dunno how to shut the thing off.

Most annoying—along with my car  peeping “isn’t it time you stopped for a cuppa coffee,?”  as I ride down a secluded road right in the middle.... it tells me  I am on the. Wrong side of the yellow line,,,,

I am on the wrong side of a lot of yellow lines.

****

 july 24 2022

so much so soon..... late again

there is a board meeting this morning... i had stuff to get ready for them.

kathy and i are trying to get the calendar together.. there are a couple photos i want to get today... like 450 pounds of great dane drooling quietly over $50 worth of steak of mine,,,, not daring to touch it

there could be a $50 misteak in the process.

this picture is a commercial i did long ago for the want ad... it is me

and i have ones of gwen and janine.. very similar...

running

i hope it works

my email sender is gining me a hard time this morning

 july 23 2022

my email sometimes provide my "to do of the day." and first one was .... check the horn on the goat--- i keep forgetting.. and visually it looks like it is curving backwards toward his skull-- and it will continue to grow  oushing everything out of the way,,, including his skull and brains... so i really must--and probably shorten it somehow. : horse hoof file???? handsaw??? or bryan....???   if i can just saw off an inch he would be good for another 5 years... at least dr pol says so....

--

how hot is too hot???? too hot is when it is more enjoyaboe to sit in the house and make spread sheats of everything rather than even start the car. 

not to knock the crazy spread sheets--- i discovered a deposit that never made it from lynns desk in it's purple envelope

 to the teller at the bank...  that means i can .. with great delight  just smile when janine says " will you stop spending money--- less is better" 

which brings to mind..... at least my mind... life insurance.    $9.95 a month for 60 to 85-- well i got one of those yesterday and read it while thinking "spreadsheet".  they offered me (84) $20,000 life ins for $70 a month-- i would be paying them $840 a year... so for them to make a profit i would have to pay them for over 20 years-- hmmmm --- there is something i am missing then they got into "double if you were on some public transport.... like plane".  in big print.. so the small print must say something about  paying the $20,000 if you perished on Saint Swithens Day.  before 11 am... i do remember my father had such a policy.. and we did get a check  for $10,000 out of the blue.... i never knew he was paying it...

Dad... and his money management.... boy were dollars a big difference back when this happened..... mother put a poem on our mirrors every week.... we were just expected to learn those--- but "if" by rudyard kippling  hung in the hall-- and we would get $10 to memorize that.....

Well I learned that and got my $10 but I also remembered father's lesson of how bankers made money by just loaning it to people so I kept my $10 in my jewelry box which really didn't  have very much jewelry in it but every once in a while when my parents were going out to dinner father would come to me and say'I forgot to cash a check may I borrow your $10?"   of course I said--- and I charged him $0.10 per day for that $10. I think I also inherited a poor memory from my father because I found if I did not remind him that he owed me the $10 I might get as much as $0.70 for doing nothing at all just because I had loaned out that asset of $10... I did very well with that $10 which I learned from memorizing IF... till my mother stepped in and started reminding him.. she had a better memory.

 

As for her memory... I forgot what she was cooking but every once in a while she would stand in front of the stove and say “flour sugar soda salt eggs milk and butter..”   just to be sure she had included all the ingredients for whatever she was cooking.. ‘

My other memory of numbers was that we used to go out to dinner as a family on a fairly regular basis.. to joes.. which was a spaghetti joint down near the river the Hudson River.. where I would have spaghetti with just butter on it and it was $1  another gastronomique memory is on special occasions we might go to bear mountain inn and there on any special day I might be able to have a shrimp cocktail.. which was $2.50 to go with the roast beef dinner which I believe was $8.99. that's how old I am..  More numbers???  my first job out of college was with Smithsonian. tracking satellites. and my salary was a huge $98 because I was a math major... my roommate Ruth...hadd a weekly salary $50 because she majored in English.   she also passed Colby’s  damn 500 words spelling test first time round.

98 dollars was a lot of money then..  but remembering my father’s  aversion to  bankers in general I did not buy a car and have car payments --- I bought a Vespa motor scooter for cash.

I commuted year round on that motor scooter  ---- in a business suit of course----and eventually commuted from Cambridge out to 128---which was basically against traffic and it worked very well.. meanwhile Ruth with her car payments and income of $50.. who often had to borrow money from her father who I think worked for a banking outfit..... 

Tales from my youth....

And--- at one point I changed roommates and lived with “?alice? “ who was the Harvard band’s. “mother”  and met a lot of  interesting people... somehow my rent included vacuuming her rugs on the stairs—and I remember how picky she was about those stairs, and how I vacuumed them. The only name I remember was Bill Rinehart—from ohio... he was the big drum hitter--- the harvard  drum was so big someone pulled it on a wagon.---- he also tracked satellites—I wonder where???  Anybody  know a Bill Rinehart about 86 years old?

 this photo is something about 50 empty busses, the parkland shooting  driving somewhere

 july 22 2022

this heat is getting serious.... and we are well under control  at the moment....with 7 different buildings and 3 instant on generators... but .......

some  weather guy just said  hot til mid september--- which will be dog fest..( another topic at the moment)

i can remember.......(it is a part of the dd... my memory) the worst case scenerio i had was a bunch of household pets---all in cages--for a commercial in the concord area..went there at 5am... no problems--- and then.......  i started home at 4pm all the cages nicely placed under a tarp in the back of the pick up.... got on 128 highway--and  traffic stopped ... luckily i had a full tank of gas-- the cab was airconditioned... except....all thos animals in crates were in big trouble--- so i had to get out... in .. parked.. traffic.. other drivers  helped and we packed all those crates in the cab and we all made it home... but that was awful....even if close calls don't count.

 yesterday ... my toyota did not keep up with the a/c and i was reminded of that horrible pickup ride......so i am thinking... why take  my dogs out  in my car if i don't actually have to...maybe wait til a rainy day??.....or we get to sept. .... and keep the tank full....

 welllllll there is another a/c car story... ? jerry? got stuck in slow traffic on rt 1 south of boston.  she had her bulldog with her-- they are prone to  have breathing problems any way--- she could not keep the car cool enough and the dog died right there along the road.  

i think i will call this a weather emergency. which may necessitate adjusting our procedures   like maybe slapping up a fence so the "under-deck" could be a potty place if we end up with dogs in the cool cellar.  3 sections of that pig panel stuff could save alot of trouble.     

the arena is just plain uninhabitable til next fall--  someone blaMED THAT ARENA ON THE FACT THAT THEY COULD not open the regular people door in the back....  we have had both side "garage door"  open... with a 4 foot fan in one and still not been able to use the arena.. so that one little back door would be no help.

 we might decide to feed indoors for the moment. at least  lunches at mid day......

we have to pay attention..and consider worst case...  the "what if's".   ..... like the a/c in the barn quits working-- that is 18 dogs to get into a/c somehow---our cellar would be a cool place... but multi dogs... some not pleased to have friends so close... and poo... or heaven forbid--- one or two wwith upset tummies.. loose stool.... disasters have a way of   multiplying... the deagle house and nutt house both have a/c units.. and each of those could pack in a few dogs... and teh condo,,.. we could get down to  one in each bathroom...

donna is supposed togo to london this week.... she has a daughter there.... who is coming home in the fall...  i would rethink that one.. tv this morning talked about a 16 hour delay in london.... runways buckling.... i don't do buckle.. actually i don't do airplanes unless necessary....

i can rememberr...... a while ago my grandson decided he HAD to go to Australia. and he did... i think that was when coiv hit and the airports became impossible as everyone tried to get home... he eventually got a big fistful of cash.. and got on the only plane he could and ended up in new Zealand. where cash  talked too and he got on a plane to the states from  there.  i don't think he ever got his "luggage" 

we get too used to the staqtus quo..... 

scarlot is now sleeping. up at the rainbow bridge with bentley----. here are some of her stats... she was imported from denmark.....

Scarlot born 11/26/11

    She had 29 pups including 14 SDs and 5 breeders (3 female, 2 male)

    She has 77 grand pups including 31 SDs and 2 therapy dogs, 1 breeder - some still in training

    She has 15 great grand pups through Wilbur including 4 SDs

Scarlot / Bentley - 10/2/13 - The Scarlettes

    A Riot

    Blue

    Boo

    Dory SD

    George SD

    Goldie

    Hank

    Lars SD

    Mischa - breeder

    Sienna SD

    Tony

Scarlot / Bentley - 3/11/15 - The Starlets

    Audrey - breeder

    Ava SD

    Bing

    Clark SD

    Gronk SD

    Mae 

    Merle SD

    Sophia

    Vivien

Scarlot / Bentley - 9/26/15 - The Calories

    Asher SD

    Finnegan SD
    Garnet SD

    Kringle SD
    Necco

    Pixy SD

    Reese - breeder

    Ruby

    Seagram 7 SD

Mischa / Jasper - 9/28/15 - The Minions

    Amelia SD

    Digby

    Grumman SD

    Jette SD

    Kaydet SD

    Orville SD

    Pilot/Athena

    Wilbur - breeder

    Zeppelin SD

Mischa / Jasper - 4/13/17 - The Musicians

    Blake

    Bowie

    Ella SD

    Elvis SD

    Jagger SD

    Jewel SD

    Joplin 

    Miles SD

    Norah SD

    Prince

    Ringo

    Sting SD

Mischa / Cole - 10/10/18 - The Tinis

    Apple SD

    Cosmo

    Gibson SD

    Gimlet

    Grey SD

    Marnie SD

    Skye

    Smokey

    Summer

    Tito

    Tuxedo

Audrey / Wilbur - 10/6/17 - The Buckeyes

    Amethyst

    Charisma/Rizz SD

    Chiffon/Kenzie

    Lacey

    Midge

    Saffron/Cassie

    Vance

    Willie - Therapy 

    

Reese / Watson - 2/18/18 - The Poohs

    Bear SD

    Eeyore

    Honey SD

    Kanga SD

    Mac

    Piglet SD

    Rabbit SD

    Roo SD

    Tigger - breeder

    Winnie SD

Reese / Watson - 4/13/21 - The White Christmas litter

    Anna

    Fred

    Lenny

    Sandy

    Sloan

Sizzle / Tigger - 7/30/19 - The Disney II litter

    Cindarella

    Jiminy

    Mulan

    Stitch

Paula / Tigger - 10/8/19 - The Oz litter

    Crow

    Dorothy SD

    Henry/Fezzik SD

    Oz SD

    Tin SD

    Toto - Therapy

Sizzle / Tigger - 7/28/20 - Sizzlers

    Capree

    Cari

    Cinco

    Fracas

    Kako

    Larky

    Proxy SD

    Rambo

    Tenny

    Turby SD

Paula / Tigger - 5/15/21 - Schitt's Creek

    Alexis

    Moira

Wilbur / Gabby - 9/7/17 - Hurricanes

    Antonio

    Eduardo

    Irma

    Javier

    Rafael

    Ramone/Neville

Wilbur / Gussie - 12/15/16 - The Athletes

    Big Papi

    Bolt SD

    Danica SD

    Heiden/Kevin SD
    Lionel

    Martina SD

    Misty

    Serena

    Venus