“Happy to share with you such as we've got the lakes and the roof and the soup in the pot.”.
Crazy Acres has always been able to welcome friends relatives and sometimes strangers who need to just get away from Whatever is bugging them.. Or they're just between jobs or family or houses. From a family of four to a veteran who camped out in our teepee for a week we have been a place for people to steady themselves.. before moving on.. This farm is an asset which has always been shared to benefit a raft of people.. one way or another.
I should have put a brass plaque on each project because this is by no means a spa... and the first rule is I am up feeding animals at 7:00 o'clock and the whole place gets up at 7:00 o'clock and proceeds to do some kind of work or another... these newly graduated college kids... drunk or not quite sober ---leaning on a tree ---they're up. Helping with whatever needs to be helped with..... There are a lot of "for instances". ... the couple who now own a bar in Manhattan were responsible for putting the roof on the old deagle house... the newlyweds from Texas built the culvert that goes between the two ponds ... To the very tired policeman who just needed to hit something so he hammered together a chicken coop---to the person I remember seeing steadying themselves on the grab rail in the caboose while singing woo woo woo.. who is now a retired judge. all these people may or may not have been responsible for the huge marijuana plant out the back door of the cabin--- I don't know -----we got a lot of work done and I didn't ask a lot of questions.
so now at the tender age of 85 still sitting here on my asset... I'm hoping there's a raft of Younger people behind me who might give me a hand if we end up with 12 inches of snow... and being both mentally and physically more agile than I,..... i hope they would feel free to come visit and bring a shovel. T his place must still be a working asset...... I have found many people in these senior residences. who are desperate for entertainment and a place to go... I would like to continue to invite them to drive in and sit and watch the animals. it's like the only kid in a graduating class that becomes the valedictorian.. we have been very popular entertainment.. mainly because that's all there is.
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The picture for today's daily doggy is one of my favorites from Charlestown. A typical job for which we were usually paid $1000 a day.. take the bed ----set it up--- and have 8 fully grown great Danes not spayed and neutered... average 120 pounds.. no leash no collar... Literally hang around the bed.. usually 2 sometimes three would be on the bed and a few under the bed to be able to get away from the crowd.. we did this a lot. four or five years maybe. Certainly every weekend all summer long and then the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.. we travelled with the bed --Cambridge. Wakefield. Danvers. Andover. topsfield fair... --- just to name a few. The job in Boston was 30 days on Boston Common with the bed, the donkeys, and a few other things. when I think of traveling. with eight great danes without even a leash or collar in the car I shudder ----well I don't shudder but the rest of the world shutters.. I was nuts ... but one reason that I was so successful if I was not surrounded by people who we're telling me I couldn't.. it was responsible for being able to pay the tuition for my children to go to college.. I have many a pictures that prove that I did this. this picture in the Navy Yard of Charlestown that's me taking the picture so I'm 20 feet away from these dogs who really aren't trained to do tricks or “sit”. But they were educated.
The only bloody bite I had in the four or five years that we did this was in Medford MA at a Christmas celebration, where a 12 year old kid bit my dog's ear, and I think I broke the kids nose. i hurt my hand.
