aug 2 7 2022
10 years ! thank you Charlie ! W..h..aaaaaa.......ttt? who's Charlie???
You could call Charlie a naturalist, and also an enabler. Because of Charlie’s. interest in nature documentaries ---- we were enabled to develop service dog project, by installing 7 cameras around our crazy acres farm.as part of his efforts to provide the means of.......never stop learning.
those cameras enabled us to develop a community of camera people AKA ....c p’s .... Who allowed us to develop and train great Danes as wonderful service dogs for both 6 foot 4 inch veterans and 4 foot 6 inch kids.. both doing amazingly well..
Way back at the beginning Courtney who was Charlie's helper asked ME if I would mind getting on camera once in a while and talk to the people who were watching----of course I wouldn't mind---that developed into mail call---which developed into the SHATUPON SOCIETY... Which has enabled over 200 people to get up out of a wheelchair and walk with a Great Dane..
I can remember..... someone coming up the driveway and asking me if I would mind if they put cameras around the farm.. I was busy at the moment and didn't pay an awful lot of attention but I said certainly as long as it didn't cost me anything.. and the next thing I knew there was a crew of five people. installing cameras around whatever we were doing.. which was fine ---- That evolved. into. ANNE Peterson and I. going to Los Angeles to meet this Charlie person-We started out terrified.. and we had a dog with us ----a black female callED order... because she was order out of chaos... turns out order preferred Charlie's right hand person Courtney... so we left order with Courtney...
In spite of the fact both Anne and I were terrorized.. OF meeting all the important people we totally enjoyed the very normal group.. and one night after dinner somebody said "let's walk to the office it's only two blocks and it's a nice night," ------ that sounded all well and good as the whole crew including anne went striding off into the evening air along the ocean in a very athletic manor... however I don't stride off athletically... and I struggled to keep up with the group as they went ALONG A very long two blocks... the only thing that saved me was the pedestrian traffic light that they had to wait for to make a left turn across the road.. fortunately it gave me a chance to catch up... because I had begun to wonder how far ahead they would get before they lost me entirely....
So here we are 10 years later and they ain't lost me yet. I hope we can continue to do a good job for them... and the way we can do that is to put the word out that these cameras are totally free of any cost or advertisement.. they are perfect for all of these senior living places. or also hospital waiting rooms... or any other waiting room for that matter because all of these smart televisions.. are somehow capable of streaming these cameras.. with perfectly beautiful photography. from Australia to Alaska to Africa to Ipswich MA... and once again I plead all of THE crew here please be conscious of keeping entertainment in front of the cameras... that's one way we can help Charlie TO continue his concept of never stop learning.. even though in our case it may not be understaanding the effect of warming on the glaciers and something far more mundane. like how to fix an Abscess in the foot of a rescued mule. learning is learning
here is a need to learn to learn.
