aug 15 2022

disrupting conventional wisdom is a speciality of the house....

you may think hollywood sparkles ------but  i remember.... some shot we had to do of a well known actress who had to lie on a black  concrete floor  in a black gown  with  white bunny rabbitt.....and the shot took soooooo long that  we , including me, had to  help slowly  hand move her legs and arms because her joints got  so stiff.  it was  very painful- and she never said a word.   just part of the job.

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water and the lack thereof---  my only  hope is when i. hear there was a similar drought in  1934.. 

I have always thought that any emergency supplies should include a quantity of plastic tarps and sheets for  alot of things including the  collection of rain ..  the old house that I had in Lynnfield was once a small dairy establishment for  probably 8 to 10 cows and even then someone had put in a 8 foot deep cistern about 12 feet around  to collect the rainwater off the roof of the barn.. even though the property had a marvelous hand dug well which we used for years before the town put in water.

We have gotten too far away from that concept of collecting rainwater especially because  there is  no rain.

 

we didn't know we had a cistern..  there was always a small shed in the back where we stuck hay or  whatever..  until Carol kesting's  horse got  loose one afternoon and wandered in there and went through the floor.... For awhile we didn't know where he was and finally located him standing quite happily in the bottom of this 8 foot cistern... we took out all the pieces of floor that had gotten in there with him gave him some hay and some water.. All the kids were pretty excited about it-- Except looking at what we now had, he was fine except he was down in an 8’  hole..   The reason we had found him. was that it was getting to be 4:30 and time to feed the horses when  we noticed he was missing....

So I left the excitement of the kids and went to  have a cup of coffee in the kitchen ===try and think of how to get the horse out of the sistern ...... he would have needed one big crane because he was a big horse probably 1200 pounds so I didn't see how that was gonna work because we would have to take the roof off the building get the crane to pick him up... there was no room to put in a ramp... and then I thought sand or dirt some kind,,,, so I called a local sand and gravel pit and I asked if they could deliver a load..... I had calculated the cubic bunch of stuff I needed.. and they told me they could send it if they could send it right away because by now it was nearly five o'clock quitting time.. so I really didn't have a chance to think about it too much but I said fine go ahead send it I thought eventually it would work somehow---- I didn't know how I was going to get the sand in the hole..  while I was sitting there waiting for the sand to arrive I called some friends at the TV station and said you know I've got an interesting thing going on here ---the horse in the hole ---and they immediately got on it and.. we began to have people arriving,, so I got the TV station to mention the fact that anybody wanting to go and help with this should arrive with some buckets.. and that's what we did I can't tell you how many tons of sand the whole neighborhood moved into that hole--- which took five hours I think he finally stepped out of the  last 2 1/2 feet at about 11:00 o'clock at night..  the only picture I had of the operation was about uh 3 year old kid sitting with a bucket in the pile of sand very carefully filling the bucket by hand it was a cute picture and I wish I still had it but I don't.

 

I wonder... would that still be on the internet ..  try things like -----4H kids. Lynnfield mass--- carlene koller ( my name then)  horse in a hole    and it had to be  about 1973?????

It was a good story.