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—