nov 16 2022
**The first just wander through wave at people and give everybody something to talk about at least ---which is critical for the staff --as well as the inmates.. doesn't take 10 minutes to cheer up probably 20 or 30 people on one run through....
** the second would be if the people there were sitting in a room. we could stop and visit with each person with the frying pan and entertain everybody probably 30 people and staff with the dogs running back and forth ---the frying pan and Judy rattling forth as only Judy can rattle.. she relates beautifully to--- shall I say ---seniors.
One nurse at a place asked me if I wound her up before I put her in the door ----she does a perfect job at that.. That routine it's usually about 45 minutes and we're back in the car in an hour.
**the third visitation type would be to set me up in one spot to speak to a group. which could be set up on calendar ahead of time and I'd have to be very careful to to take that very seriously --- I could do miscellaneous conversations from dog training to the movie business with cockroaches or something. when I have done that ---so far---- the crowd has been very joyful and laughing in appropriate places... which is fun to do. 20 minutes to half hour... stand around with the 3 ( or 4) dogs and answer questions and be out within the hour.
So far for RE- introducing ourselves-----we have gone to 3 or 4 places a day—places we used to go to BC. Before covid... And the concept has been really more than well received they're anxious to have us come back.
which brings up the topic of each one of these places has to have in activities director ....it seems like.. and the poor activities director has very little budget and sometimes is trying to entertain people with extremely varied abilities... and they're job depends on their ability to fill up a monthly calendar-----consequently to add us to it fills up one square on their piece of paper which is pawed over by some board of directors ---always with questions of why can't you do more... it's an extremely challenging position so to have us mentioned taking up a 45 minute block these people are thrilled.. it doesn't take much.. and let's face it the dogs are beautiful------sort of almost doesn't matter what we do.
We have the pieces... it doesn't take much... to prepare for this I did buy a large gallon size waterless shampoo.... bio groom is my favorite---if I dampen some paper towel with bio groom and wipe the slobber off a dog .. they look beautiful and smell terrific.. .. And if sizzle does absolutely nothing except stand still facing the door (looking for the car..) people are impressed.... amazed and comment how beautiful that dog is and how well behaved ... when. she hasn't done a thing besides stand there.
So far we have three loops--- Danvers x3....N Beverly--and Beverly. the next day we did. Georgetown.. North Andover... Andover.x 2 .. and skipped over topsfield but we thought about it.... And I forgot the third one..
today I'm thinking of ....Ipswich... Rowley.... Newburyport.x2 amesbury and Salisbury ----which would put us at The Hay guy Around lunchtime if we dragged the trailer with us.
there is also a loop involving Wakefield ...stoneham...melrose...malden... saugus
do we know exactly what we are doing? No... It is more productive at this point to be shall we say. Unstructured... it leaves more time to develop things we hadn't thought of... of which there are a lot
