jan 31 2023

logic problems--- like how to empty your car of many pounds of. costco meat. needing many trips in from. the car to kitchen counter.... when you have 3 lovely great danes in the car, also needing to get in the house- but may not be alone with all that meat either in the car... or house... luckily cindy came to my rescue / that old logic problem was   2 missionaries and 2 cannibals 1 canoe ----holding only 2 people -- to get across the river-- and cannibals must not outnumber the missionaries. GREETINGS CARLENE😊 THANK YOU FOR YOUR DD; LOOK FORWARD TO READING EVERY DAY. I LIVE ABOUT A HALF HOUR FROM CENTRALIA AND REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE LIVED THERE. YOU CAN SEE SMOKE, BURNT SOIL AND ACTIVE FIRE AT DIFFERENT AREAS. I WASN’T AWARE THAT NY TRASH IS FILLING THE COAL MINES! I GREW UP WITH A COAL MINE HOLE ON MY STREET( A COAL MINING TOWN) Sent from Suzie  i had to buy another vacuum packer---- this time a food savor-- which seems to be better than the old Vacer  one;. once you really lean on it to close it-- i mean really really lean til clicks... so i packed up all that meat in either one supper or 2 breakfast sizes.... because ..the routine --- here i am at 4am.... i started the perked coffee... started the souxvie. to 165 for 3 hours--- sliced and ate an orange-- put bag with 4 chicken legs in the souxvieand came to write the things i need to write today....after. 4 hours i will b e ready for lunch at 8am...and the chicken legs ( today) will be ready to eat or share with mark who does not like to cook a heavy duty protien for breakfast.... i love the start it and leave it function of the souix vie...because i could let it go another 3 hours without overcooking... even have steak stay medium well... ( at 134) or whatever..... todays fyi --- LYNNNNNNNNNNNNN--- and all you people who are inclined to make fun of my repurposing odd things... look what i found today !!! i'm having trouble copy and pasting. but--- worth you looking up --- toilet partitions--repurposedmaterials.net i read this. every day !!! 

 jan 30

skimming todays notes and weather... hippo birdie ( janine's b'day and  sisterfrannie) and weather??? looking forward to feb 13th when it says it will snow and the temp will be 44 degrees-- talk about  climate change....... boy would that be a changer in physics.

i wish there was more practical  science taught to young kids.... not the book learning kind.. but actual hands on...  of course my favorite is transitioning from a straw to a siphon hose to make water run and do things..like turn a wheel??? automatically fill the cats water dish????  something ... anything.... to get learning out of the books aan into real living. i can hear it now.... what?? kids?... siphon hose? and water ?  would be a big mess.... yup...learning can be messy...but water. is becoming another  currency in wealth management. ( along with time being a true currency.....)

i remember..... among the dumbest things i ever said-- of which there are many..... "why would pepsi buy that  property.. all it has is a spring in the back...and no one is going to spend money on gas to ship water around..." 

other spring things i know......  along topsfield road  in ipswich. there is a very reliable spring  which freely flows into the ipswich river.. then atlantic ocean..... i am told  a couple hundred years ago it was the source of drinking water   when wells around ipswich went dry. 

i know there is a piece of property in lynn where lovely water runs  into the drains , and  then atlantic ocean,,,, or at least it did10 years ago..

10 years later... what percent of maine's spring water flows thru someone's  personal internal plumbing  before  hitting the coastline? i know i have seen poland springs bottles on the  tables of the governmental meetings.. and i wonder if all that is trucked to washington... what do those trucks move back to maine???  i bet trash.... and it is only time before the trash and spring water meet. 

what else do i think i know??? i know alot of trash moves up route 95 in the direction of maine -- i see the trucks constantly ---and here's a fact that i know i put in the dd months ago... after years......maine has started refusing some trash .. most specifically the man who removes  recently deceased horses was complaining that his usual composting  was now closed to equines because of plastic sorting.

at least horses are a natural ingredient....  

*** a friend in  new york verified what i read... that there were hundreds of trucks crossing the hudson  going to fill the old coal mines of penna with nyc trash.

**** my father in the 1940's sold many tractors so nyc could fill the  swamps of new jersey with nyc  trash..... how different  was that ????

******

which has nothing to do with the underground fire which i think is still burning  underground in penna. 

googling centralia  fire is interesting on 2 scores--- most notably is the exclamation mark at the top dated may 2022 saying " proper verification of the following details needs more attention"

-ok the article needing verification.  says a fire was started in may of 1962 which got out of hand and is still burning and is expected to burn for another 250 years....

not sure what needs verification... snow melts on the surface of centralia...

now just think of all the  information  on the internet which should have that warning.

river of trash ...lebanon

 jan 29 

sorry... distracted..

took me 2 months to figure out that  a link ----emailed may work but not copy and pasted.....by the time i had 3 walls and 2 methods that was too many permutations and combinations---

i had many comments like t his one

You hit the nail on the head with your mention of testosterone. 

There is a real issue with testosterone these days.  It's pushed by the media & medical community as a means for "a man to stay youthful". 

For 14 yrs I worked for an Optometrist.  I met several men who worked for the local (Charlotte, NC) police dept and their families, when they came in for their annual eye exams.  I observed several of these gentlemen changing, as they matured over the years.  They reached a point in life where they needed to be stronger and more aggressive to do their jobs, like their younger colleagues . Testosterone seemed to be the answer.  (One of them actually told me that many of these men went to the same doctors who were recommended by the department.) 

Funny thing...they accomplished their goal.  However, these gentlemen had personality changes that were not good - short tempers, impatience, aggression, dominance, control.  Most of these men lost their easy going attitudes and compassion.  And, unfortunately, most of them lost their wives and children through divorce as a result.  

IMHO, the 5 - 8 in question, probably fit into this category. Their behavior was out of control violence and aggression.  I pray they are held accountable for their actions. I pray for the victims family.  And I pray someone realizes testosterone is creating a problem for these men in law enforcement

and i agree---and wonder about the  testesterone given to beef cattle ....

rushing

 jan 28

ok.... big shock of the day.....

i click on a funny “bb”  on my computer-- i  must have thought about it at one point== but that is long gone.  i don't have a clue--IN SOOOOO MANY WAYS.....

135 years ago  when the cameras started.. courtney asked if i wouold mind writing something about  crazy acres.. and she gave me some guy's name( 10 years ago... don't ask me to remember---?rick???)---he was very nice.. and corrected all my spelling etc... and somehow. it appeared somewhere.. so 10 years of  mindless pushing  of a  “bb”‘ button and something hiccups to upset it.. ( apparently for just a day) and i have a bunch of CP’s  asking what happened and another bunch wanting it sent to their  personal email-- which i can do and don't mind, but they have to be entered one at a time. and i have to swear i have permission  for concstatn contact to send them...-( which sends them to over 2000 people.. of which 1400  ( WELL 1385 TO 1415) READ IT RELIGIOUSLY EVERY DAY.  SOMETIMES I. LOOK UP INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE JUST to see what time they get up in the morning and read the fool thing..

 

Put it this way.... aside from writing it... and posting  it automatically somewhere, I don’t have a clue.----so yesterday, I ended up asking a CP. (sam)how and where people read it.  She explained... and I don’t know any more than before she explained –

 

I need a flow chart to understand all. this. Internet stuff.... so all you folk who  are internet savvy ----H..E..L..P....

The other option is to just say screw it and bash on pushing  the   “bb’s”. whatever they are..

So I--- other than the constant comment list of 1400 people who read this thing—I don’t know who/where/. or why....

I do know  explore thinks 41% of readers are men--- I never knew where they got that from... but it is interesting.i wonder if they know about the 1400  regulars that I know about????

 

Bashing on...

when does  a couple dogs become a pack......or a team  of people become a mob

My quandry of the day---animal training.   ---- get ‘em young and train ‘em early--- like Mcdonalds happy meals—if  I was  a chief of police ( instead of the other end of that bell shaped curve) I would want some statistics about  how many of the police force ( especially the 5 men now “ex-policemen” )  were  football players  as youth or in high school?   Because the hour or so after the “arrest” looked  just  like football players walking around between “downs” ---- I never liked football--- especially the front line bunch- just huge men to push and shove..... seems a little mindless----with little individual thought.—maybe it is because I am not there... also. maybe excessive testosterone??? 

Then morning briefing  ----they stand the policemen in a line for a daily  team lecture ... certainly  teaming is a huge part... but we had no individual thinkers – not only the 5 but the next 8 – there  was not  one to say wait a minute??? 

 The chief—a woman—certainly  axed the 5 much quicker than in any other case of questionable police  behavior.

I bet they add another 8 to the legal case.  They came.. they saw.. they did nothing....

or more women police to the teams???

 

Somehow there is/ or was a law ( do laws ever become “was” or do they just pile up?) I remember my husband questioning the good samaratin law—about if you get involved you could then be sued for  not performing to expected levels—which also ran into ann and I as emt’s—there is an expectation and we were a bit below the advertised job of emt.  So we never carried our little emt cards. Made helping less complicated......

 SAM k tells me   this daily doggie has been removed from the web  i know lynn has someone in boston (? at BU? ) managing bits and pieces...in the meantime feel free to pass around my email address  ( animalep@aol.com). and i will send it to your email on request.  heaven forbid you should loose track of the intensely  critical news of crazy acres fallen trees or happy mules...

the point to ponder.... of the day-- and this is not a definite-- but an observation  i need to look into.. with the help of  all you. camera people

How many ribs does a lamb have?  and,, more importantly do they match left to right. problem was-- i went into t he butcher shop looking for lamb chops to keep mark happy---- and they had full racks.... so i asked the butcher if he would split them for me and re do the  vac pack ( their vac packer is much better than  mine....) --- and he did-- and put them back in the plastic bag already labeled with weight etc.... i was very happy... and thanked him profusely.... until........ i got home---i have no idea why i did this.... i must not have had anything else to do.... but i counted the ribs .. one side had 9 and the other 8... now if that is normal, i never heard it before... and i need to check further.....like go look at all the other full racks of lamb in their refrigerator.

i wish i still had the bag they came in with the weight.... but i don;'t....my question... did he cut off one rib for his lunch and figure "she'll never notice" ???

or... they could have been packed that way for some strange reason....

that is somewhat akin to the time i. took a gold necklace of mine to the jeweler to get a new clasp.... and he very carefully laid it on the counter and measured it-- noting the exact length on my receipt... when i commented, he said "i would be very wealthy if i took one link off every  gold necklace that came in here." 

did that just happen to me with lambchops?  idunno.

*****

i had to adjust the parking around the area between t tent and barn ... i know- from being in so many senior centers that the activities director  often is in need of something to have on the calendar to entertain the folks... and  in a few cases , i am already on the calendar for speaking.... but  if they got stuck, they would be welcome to drive in  and sit in the warm bus or cars and just watch both the donkey cafe and puppy hill .  having offered that amusement, i had to be sure we could turn around  a bus in that area-- and have unobstructed view of  both sides-- simple thing for us to do yet we might entertain  some otherwise bored senior people who are not able to get the explore,org cameras on their smart tv's. so i asked everyone to park north of the crooked fire hydrant.... which would also make swinging the puppy hill camera a bit easier too...

***

moving a mini mule to nh is, i am told, on the docket-- along with hay.  if i can find someone to go with me... i only drive ( and back up the trailer)

 jan 25

schedule--today

7:30 Janine. feed  at meridith

9:00 court case

10 pick up hay. just beyond court....

11 deliv. hay  to meridith

12 find some comfort food for lunch

1:00 crash

find Ipswich local newspaper and see  what i said????

 JAN 24 2023

To list all the stupid things that I've done would take more time than I've got---- but right up there at the top is the fact that last night I was too lazy to go out and turn my car around so that the plow would be pointed downhill---- so now I'm stuck until somebody else plows me out.  my decision was further complicated by the fact that Lynn said She had arranged for Dana to plow us today.. So I took that opportunity to be lazy. 

You see there is this tree---as I back down it's on my left with the house on the right and I don't think there's two  feet of extra room with  my car between them.. the tree shows many scars... many many scars because just as you go to go between them the ground tips ever so slightly causing you to slide sideways---- over which you have no control.. it's like a Bermuda Triangle. so I really ought to sit here... I have things to do while staring at this foolish screen...

 

I hope Dana shows up--if he doesn't it's lynn’s fault.. Oh the joys of being president ---because the buck stops there...you need to be the first in and last to leave.... it doesn't matter why something happened whatever happens is your fault ----or your success----however most people just love to tell you all the things that go  wrong.. I don't know why anybody wants to be president of the United states there is some statistics like one in 10 gets shot at and there's a large percentage that get killed--percentage wise OSHA would never put it up with it.  There would be all sorts of rules ------as I suppose there are about guns and presidents.

 

Which brings to mind the latest shooting where 11 people died and certainly my sympathy goes out to those families involved.

what I zeroed in on was that you had one man with a gun who was disarmed by a very courageous man without a gun who was further assisted by a friend without a gun saving dozens of lives.  ---why can we not extrapolate that ratio to government control....one group with  guns becoming disarmed by  a larger  group without guns. Thus saving thousands of lives? In 99% of the shootings I remember, there has been only one where a guy with a gun was  where he needed to be with his gun and shot the bad guy. Then run that one by the school where you had  literally dozens of gun toting people who just did not even try.

So arming everyone does not seem to work either. 

 

Excitement here??? Not any yet... but Janine has lined up the purchase of a load of donkeys – probably totally wild donkeys—for us to train... on camera.... in preparation for a pack burro episode reset to october first....so I am now looking for scout leaders who want a fun outdoor project of teaching a bunch of wild donkeys to be tame( will take about 1 week and 50 pounds of carrots) and then to jog along with a person... that could take a while.... donkeys are ( usually) fun animals.

 

With any animals ( or humans) I am always afraid of the obsolute statement.

 Exceptions rule the roost—the “YES BUTTTT ” group.

EXCEPT EXCEPTIONS???

 THIS IS AN OLD FAMILY PIECE.. I HAD IT COPIED... BETSY HAS THEM

 jan 23 2023

Jan 23 2023

It's morning and I have a lot of things to do today and I will get to them just as soon as I can remember what they are. Right beside my left ear wedged onto the wall behind a surge bar there are six papers some of them even plasticized.. which have all the passwords the locations and things that I'm supposed to remember and I just plain can't... I can't even find a normal phone number in this mass... and if I did using my cell phone as a phone is sometimes more difficult than I can process either.

I'll give you another clue about getting old is ------you get tired of failing.. as in doing the same thing over and over again expecting to succeed.. of course with the short term memory you can't remember the fact you just did that two seconds ago.  as you age you find they're just plain is not enough expletive words of proper volume—or I at least Never learned enough expletive words from drunken sailors to properly demonstrate my current exposure to technology. I should have spent more time with sailors known to imbibe. Jesus

 

I was a well paid significant computer expert when things were all black and white ,,  now there's another problem ----vocabulary-   used to be if you avoided politics and religion you were pretty safe----- now there's a whole vocabulary of words which will bring down  the rath of the  prudence committee made-up of Internet experts.   every day that delivers mail I hold mail call at about 4:00 o'clock... where I read whatever mail I get ---and so help me there are days when  I have to skip over words in letters that I get for fear of being shut down by the

group of people who fear the prudence committee.. fear is  marketable....\

 

even though ( going back to paragraph one) age should allow me free expression, I bite my tongue and smile and mentally think...... Foff.. ( that is a word  in my vocabulary)



JAN 22 2023

it looks like tuesday is our best day to get more hay... as in "make hay while the sun shines"... we do have extra in our hay loft -- put there mainly because we have one of those clicker putter upper hay elevator things.... built perfectly for hay-- and a disaster for cardboard boxes, OR BUCKETS OF STONE DUST... elizabeth and karen are going to try riding pockets sometime tomorrow... that should be fun..and if they are not successful. maybe wallace will be trying at 3:00. todY I NEED TO MOVE THE BOX THAT POCKETS STANDS ON INTO THE ARENA AS A STEPSTOOL FOR ELIZABETH TO GET ON POCKETS.... THIS COULD BE COMICAL AS POCKETS MAY PREFER TO STAND ON IT HERSELF... OH HOW I WISH I COULD GET THE PHOTOS OFF MY CAMERA FOR THE NEWS AND THIS DD.. I CAN NOT TELL YOU HOW M ANY PEOPLE ---- MAYBE 6--- HAVE TAKEN THE #$%^& CELL FROM ME AND THINK THEY HAVE SENT PHOTOS TO ANIMALEP.AOL.COM--- AND HANDED IT BACK TO ME WITH A SATISFYING "THERE I DON'T SEE WHY YOU HAD SUCH TROUBLE". BUT WHEN I GET BACK IN THE HOUSE... NO PICTURE WAS TRANSFERRED... DOGS PATTERN SO EASILY-- ESPECIALLY WHEN FOOD IS INVOLVED... EVERY MORNING WHEN I AM 1/2 THRU THE DD A DOG'S HEAD WILL LAND ON MY RIGHT ELBOW-- AND IT COULD BE ANY ONE OF THE THREE- BUT THEY ARE LINED UP FOR THEIR EARLY MORNING -- SOMETHING IN THEIR TUMMY SO THEY DON'T THROW UP BILE--- COOKIE. POOR WANDA--- QUITE HAPPILY IN THE WARM SUNROOM... BUT SHE IS MISSING JANINE BADLY I AM THINKING I SHOULD PUT OUR SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE IN THE NEWSPAPER-- ESPECIALLY SINCE ERN HAS CLEANED UP THE. "CAFE LE DONK" AREA. SO I WILL NOW DO THAT???? SUCH A FACE !!!

 jan 21 2023

Jan 21 2023

 

If I could find some help today I would love to get malarkey working on my wheelchair slash transport chair.. when I have an appointment at Leahy those halls are so long to try and move myself along in a chair is very wearisome.. and I know larky would have a wonderful time barreling down the hall pulling me. but I need to have somebody to work in front of him  to start him because I have spent the last year telling him to slow up and walk next to me so the whole business will be very confusing for about one minute until he gets the idea. remember I have the distinction of being perhaps the only person to be thrown out of Costco for speeding and that's back when Bentley was learning to pull because learning to slow up there's a whole another topic. and yes somewhere in my life I have had one of those funny little ping ping bells but like people have on tricycles I remember using that at Logan airport one day when I got way ahead of the rest of the group which was in a golf cart...

 

I would start the wheelchair bit at liberty tree mall because that has a large area with very little traffic between kohls and the center..

Before anyone sends me advice on how to do this keep in mind you must never ever ever tye any animal to yourself or a wheelchair .

Tying a  horse to a carriage takes a great deal of preparation--  and blinders on the horse..  dogs initially need those same blinders because they too become afraid when they are dragging something right behind their feet..  Dogs can be fairly easily trained to accept that---- horses never.. where this becomes a problem with dogs is when people tie a plastic bag to the handle of a 6 foot leash and then drop it.  that has caused the death of many dogs because of that same fear of something chasing them.. it takes only a few minutes to get a dog used to it.. but if they haven't had that exposure, it can be very dangerous.

 

 This could be a good topic for the next newspaper article

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

All I need is a picture....

Hmmmmmmmmmm

 jan 20 2023

details are getting ahead of me at least.... OUR WEB... I HAVE NOT GONE THERE DURING THE RENOVATION..... AND I THINK IT IS NOT SUITED TO THE GENERIC VISITOR... I COULD BE WRONG.... BUT....

ustabee---- the thing under my signature sent you to buy a brick... now it sends you to some iq test to see if you  can find it....  and i could not. NOR COULD DONNA....... without help.... we all know i need to have my tech iq tests EXTREMELY SIMPLE...  

I KNOW YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, BUT. WHEN  I GOT IN BETSY'S CAR TO COME HOME FROM THE DINNER--- HER AUTOMATICALLY SHUTTING OF THE BACK DOOR CEASED TO FUNCTION....  SHE THOUGHT IT WAS THE CAR... BUT I KNOW........IT WAS ME IN THE FRONT  SEAT....   SHE MUSTA PARKED HER CAR TOO CLOSE TO THE BLUETOOTHING OF THIS COMPUTER AND INSTEAD OF MAKING HER CAR PLAY TEH  AVE MARIA-- IT ATTACKED THE BACK DOOR...

YOU KNOW...... IF THAT LITTLE "THING" UNDER THE DASH CAN TELL THE MECHANINC THAT  THE AIR FILTER IS CLOGGED.... HOW DO WE KNOW IT DOES NOT TELL  ALL FORERUNNERS AIR FILTERS  TO CLOG THEMSELVES . ON FEB 8TH... SO TOYOTA WILL HAVE TIME TO SUPPLY ALL DEALERS WITH NEW AIR FILTERS....

HOWEVER...AS OF YESTERDAY, MY HOME SNOW PLOW WAS WORKING PERFECTLY-- THANKS TO M ARK AND THE ELECTRONIC GUY AT IRA... THERE IS ONE....  IF YOU GO THERE ASK FOR A GUY NAMED "BILL" -- VERY PLEASENT PROBLEM SOLVER  IN ADDITION TO "NICK" WHO HAS MORIA--  BUT NICK IS  GENERICALLY. SICK AT THE MOMENT ( NOT COVID)

SO I AM GOING TO GO SIT IN MY CAR AND WAIT FOR ENOUGH SNOW TO PLOW-- IT IS FUN !!  (usually)

jan 19 2023

A long time ago.  I bought  a voting machine used in Florida.. I don't know why I bought it but I did -----and studying it carefully I have very serious observation of why the votes did not come out as intended---- basically because of the design of the machine and the ballots... the problem never got as far as the hanging chads---- it started before that.-----. now last night at dinner I sat between the ipswich local news editor John and  Doug who apparently writes the outsider page.. and the two of them got into a local vote counting problem  of one vote....... my hearing being such I couldn't get into it at that point but I'm going to go at it  today ----this doug person  lives right down the street from me---and present to him the fact that there is in my cellar a thing that looks like an aluminum briefcase   is actually a Florida voting machine ---bush/gore.....it still must be there people wouldn't dare throw it out would they? ----at any rate it's a perfect argument. for the discussion between John and Doug  on voting.  I hope he carries on with the topic....

 

By the way I see where there is still one on sale on ebay....i paid $150  For mine... now it is  worth. $2500????

 

Doug writes teh “oursider” column for the newspaper... and  he carries a scrap of paper and a pen at all times to gather ideas... ( my ideas come from a case of indigestion or insomnia).. however... his last column had to do with his  yearly health exam....... wellllll---- I can save him a lot of time on that one too....i just leaf thru  a health care cataloge—and there in the index is a list of all the things they sell to fix what age will bring on .... from eyes-to ears – to teeth- to poop- to knees-to feet you name it... it is a list of coming events  for the”aging”

The list is there.

 

It was a fun night...

betsy happily ate there and then brought me home.... to an absolutely empty house .... except for wanda and 3 danes  very strange...

****

 an 18 2023

todays events for cameras...

wallace has ridden the black mare in prep for her to go to her new home. south of the border...she will be picked up here??? today a trailer will appear??? and chester will replace her here for wallace to work on....in the arena we are trying to oscheduel. 3pm. mon wed fri for him

then. ----i will get chester. back up. hook up---

big news.... for hooking purposes...... I BOUGHT A CAN OF WHITE PAINT TO PAINT THE TRAILER AND CAR HITCHES SO I CAN SEE THEM IN THE BACK UP CAMERA.....trailering things from A to B is a big part of my life now... with 4 different trailers.... NOW WITH WHITE "NOSES"

the insurance tree guy due here at 8:00-- apparently my insurance might cover because across the driveway-- at 7am on a sunday......we will see..and we did put up the white fence instead of repairing the split rail... they may have notions about that...------i have yet to wash. the white plastic does get dirty  ----- if i spray it with chlorox /dawn solution in the rain... i think..........i will get one of those hand pump sprayers they work pretty well distributing fluids.....

10 monkey fist 3 inch order is being---- "Dyed by Donna"------dark red.... you will see them hang on the kitchen hook.

betsy is driving me to the "writers dinner" for the ipswich news...(?me???? a writer???)

2 basic concepts there---  

1. when you are on oxycondin you are dim witted and what you write does not come up to ... well it just doesn't

2. along the way ---- a great deal is --- very quietly----mentioned about the value of news from small news sources-- i believe i heard of a gov't program to encourage small town news sources... welllll.......apparently the value of them was displayed by . a small news source somewhere in new york  who picked up the story of a guy running for congress who's name didn't quite match all the sources he was quoting.... problem was the major news sources did not pick up the story... ( is there still an AP wire??) 

i do think one of our major national failures is we have been taught in the past few years, first---not to trust  news---and second.... well i don't want to go there..... but we are getting trained...

 ustabeeeee there was a great burden on the editors to be sure to label what is verified and what is speculation....

so my thanks to editor (and wife) of our ipswich news... to keep us all straight...

 jan 17 2023

 i have to preceed this by saying .. i was in the dark with no glasses.... but......w/r/t automatic performance...... how much  have we been trained to do/or forget.... without thinking????. like digital clocks, cursive writing?. last night--lynn gave me the portable  desk phone to. answer- no problem... ( yet)....it went in my pocket--now at bedtime i needed to locate my cell phone- so i thiought i could simply call it with the  portable phone which i have used for years....  it has 19 buttons by actual count... and i did not know how to make a call to my cell.  one would think........ but.. clearly i did not have a clue-- i managed to make the call purely by process of elimination.  the 1 to 0 at the bottom had to be to chose your numbers... so the 7 at the top  left me with 3 pairs and an odd one....etc.... 

and they still let me drive....

altho someone suggested all  we "old people" should drive with the blinkers on-- which is not a bad idea.. in Britain cars wear an "L" plate to warn of "learners". makes sense.

i must contact the insurance company today--we have had 2 significant trees demolish sections of the fencing on both sides teh drive- and blocking traffic and freeing  animals...... the last being early  sunday morning.  ever tried to call any service at 7am sunday morning??

i was careful to take photos.. which i have on my cell phone.... someone must know how to send them somewhere.../. like this computer???  dreamer !

*****

marcia sent me my morning chuckle......

22 available t shirts...

 my most favorite... among all 22....
4 out of 3 people don 't understand math
science doesn't care what you believe

 

t Tanners barn has become Katie's hangout she has done a wonderful job of fixing it up... so last night in my insomnia I thought she really ought to have a back door entrance to her domain which would mean moving the gate.. and having the door to her area involve the one post that's still there from when the arena collapsed---we had a wood arena that collapsed in long time ago -----at any rate---I was afraid to tear the whole thing down.... because of a rumor that I heard..

ustabee. there was a wonderful steakhouse on the lake right across the street from where i now live ---Jack Hackett steakhouse----it was wonderful I ate there often when I lived in Lynnfield... and it burned down one night ----the only thing left standing was a fireplace in the corner.. and apparently what happened according to the rumor is that Jack hack it tore that one corner down to rebuild the whole thing ---- however----.  once he tore that down he was no longer remodeling he was constructing and as such he no longer had a liquor license and town  could not get the permit to build------- now if he'd left the corner standing and build around it it would have been remodeling and he'd still be there and oh how I wish he was.. so when my arena collapsed and i started knocking the rest of it down i  left one corner which is still there and is part of this Tanner barn which more rightly would be called Katie's barn//I don't know whether that's true but somehow it sounds like Ipswich building inspectors who.ve never been my favorite-- being told i was. "only a woman......"

My idea pf checking the weather is to feel the back of the dogs when they come in and right now they got white stuff that melts...

 

The white plastic fence from Meredith farm is looking lovely out behind the barn and replacing the rusted stuff... problem being I'm not up to speed on what the plans are anywhere on property and I'm told Janine is leaving for South Carolina this morning and we have two very expensive very competent young men coming to work on the fencing along with one expensive machine.. so I have a lot of figuring to do quick to keep them busy somewhere I'm not totally happy with dig safe because dig safe certainly did identify some wires but I'm pretty sure we have wires up both sides of the driveway so I gotta do redo that..

and besides it's snowing or it did snow so my first problem was to get the car off the hill without sliding into the tree which I've done many times

 

News of the day larkey now weighs 170 pounds and he's all muscle there's not an ounce of fat... it is interesting that jiminy weighs 140 and sizzle weighing 150 can both outrun him -----if they were horses we'd be comparing thoroughbred race horses to farm horses or work horses/ draft horses good larkey  would be a draft dog ---he's lovely..  I'm not sure that makes him the biggest.. but he certainly is monumental in size.. he is also of the sizzle lineage. which I do prefer especially since most of them look like jiminy... which is a little bit more accommodating as a service dog... not everybody needs the bulk of lachey.

 

Sara w  weighed all the dogs yesterday so that they could have their flea killer--I believe we're on front line at the moment—

 

 jan 15 2023

sorry for delay/..  large tree down across the droveway and no one coud get in or out...

so wrapped in a fluffy. i moved it til mark can get here....

that is second tree.... and i had the tree company cut down 2 that were questionable...

 JAN 14 2023

I am trying  to write the article for next Wednesday's newspaper     keeping in mind that I have zero medical training but I have raised horses dogs and children----and in an effort to explain why we moved mo over to Meredith farm, I have gotten into a mental  spiral  ---Of. what is the similarity between airplanes kindergarten, dog shows, and horse auctions... it is becoming painfully obvious that they are just Petri dishes for various illnesses people in COVID.... children and runny noses..... dog shows kennel cough...... and horse auctions strangles.....----

strangles is an unfortunate name for a horrendously runny nose on a horse usually not strangling any. ---- even though any of those things can be fatal they're not usually.

in the process of trying to describe why we moved Moe to Meredith I have to bend over backwards not to expose us to any criticism about passing germs around.. and a fancy word like quarantine---we are totally aware of quarantine measures in handling all these animals from Pennsylvania--but should we have any in question, crazy acres does have one stall in a different barn that has different water supply different food supply different pastures area and would minimize the chance of passing any germs around to put an animal in that stall. now if there's anyone in the world that thinks you can sterilize the barn environment and wanna pass a bunch of laws about this they are just plain nuts.. ask China about that..  we can do all we can do which is a lot... including having footbaths with Clorox solution when you go into or out of that separate area.. but it is impossible.

we built that ICU building--with just that concept in mind of having a dog with a problem that needed isolation---we can deal there everything is washable

but there again if you think that's going to be 100% ------please go away... and don't fill the Internet with concepts which are not going to be operational.

 

I have always pitied the single mother who has a job.. and a plan to drop off the child at daycare so she can be on time at 10:00 o'clock... when at 9:46 she notices a slightly damp spot on the child's upper lip quickly wipes it off... drops the child off...   it gets the phone call at noon come get your child he's got a runny nose... so she has to leave her job go pick up the runny nose, even though by then the child's contaminated the 23 other children in the room.. who will then go home and spread it to their parents.. this is how it works ----Petri dishes---

 

not to mention the airplanes who swear they filter all the air being circulated...  and then they test the slurry of contents from the bathroom to see if anyone on that flight had COVID...

 

so I will have to say that mo got movedc to accommodate the two black horses who need training in the arena by Wallace. yesterday it was on camera at three o'clock---I don't know what his continuing schedule is but we are going to try and set up something regular so people can watch it on the explore.org camera.

p.s  I am pretty sure everyone at crazy acres has already had strangles... and I believe it is a onetimer.

THIS WAS TO BE YESTERDAYS PHOTO

 jan 13

regarding ..... armpit  sniffing.----------wandering around... i found....
Les was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 45. Twelve years prior, his wife Joy, a retired nurse, sensed something was wrong. Her husband’s smell had changed, especially around his neck and shoulders. After Les’ diagnosis, Joy smelled the same scent at a Parkinson’s support group, and she linked the two. The night before Les died, he made her promise to investigate the smell, saying: “You must do this because it will make a difference.” Now, British researchers are using Les’s legacy – and Joy’s smell smarts – to develop a simple swab test on the skin oils linked to the smell. Since there is no early test for Parkinson’s, this test could help improve early detection. MORE

ok... now i have a dog.... larkey.. who identifies some smell in the armpits  of about one person in 100.  he is not just  vaguely interested... it is like catnip.----i think i have told you all before-- so now i have written this to the "all of us" medical study group  to which  i am a part. there are only  2 armpit cases...i remember from our wanderings of the adult care centers...... but i know there was someone here in the house he was interested in lately-----i would love to know who that was... 

speaking of larkey- i had a very nasty note about how awful he is treated/neglected  by me  over jiminey-- and how i don't spend enough time  training with larkey because i favor jiminey.  i get one of these notes every once in a while-- and they are always full of "i can no longer watch sdp"... well... i am sorry you can't --- and i am sorry if raising my voice at larkey upsets you....  but that clown has started getting up on the table right next to the front door so he can stuff his face in anyone coming in the door... i do have to stop that before someone has a heart attack with  his 170 pound friendly face.  he gets right down when i "speak loudly" to him... as for his generic training... he is perfectly trained for what we need him to do...sit-- heel--fetch-- are not in his vocabuary--- but if in an emergency i yell " DOGS... get in the car" all 3 stop what they are doing and run for the car door. - he whoas and backs, and don't touch it,and a dozen other things-

he is a character-- and i let him develop some strange things-- like armpit sniffing...  i would never speak loudly to him about that...sizzle and jiminey behave differently-- and i let them do

 their thing too... i do not know why some people think all dogs have to be identical... mine aren't.