may 31 2023

Sandy wore me out.that woman has more stamina than i ever had-- also it was the cleanest house i have ever been in...-- it was a  struggle for me to behave--it was a constant challenge..... -from the initial run in with her beautiful shower with it's 47 levers to the boat shaped bathtub with jacuccis nossels to the remote controlled  toilet ( would you believe it????). i will spare you. the exact details because your imagination will suffice.--remote controlled. !!!

moving on from the "rest room" to the kitchen--- designed long and thin so she can keep a hand on each counter--- but it also caused her to say "all kitchens should be designed so only one person can be in there at a time"  as in too many cooks spoin the broth???? she had an under the counter microwave-- "sharp"  never saw one before-- realllllly handy-- great counter stools where we enjoyed a terriffic breakfast of bacon and eggs one day- and raw cookie dough the next...

and then the night life !! we went to ray stevens??club -- where everyone knew her-- or at least "lady ripple"- who i was very proud of---- great piano bar then you moved to the dining room

for the performance-- dinner was served---no choice- you ate what was offered that night... a very interesting concept.  salad - roast chicken -mashed potatoe, green beans and some peach/brown sugar  ice cream desert which we shared with lady ripple under the table. people seemed to know her and loved the dog-- asking her to come back with both her dogs--- she does have a second pup--- ??pup??? a 170 pound lively pup-- who eventually will be terriffic... except right now he is bigger than she can handle alone ... he will learn -- maybe 6 months...

Sandy wore me out.that woman has more stamina that i ever had-- also it was the cleanest house i have ever been in...-- it was a  struggle for me to behave--it was a constant challange..... -from the initial run in with her beautiful shower with it's 47 levers to the boat shaped bathtub with jacuccis nossels to the remote controlled  toilet ( would you believe it????). i will spare you. the exact details because your imagination will suffice.

moving on from he "rest room" to the kitchen--- designed long and thin so she can keep a hand on each counter--- but it also caused her to say "all kitchens should be designed so only one person can be in there at a time"  as in too many cooks spoin the broth???? she had an under the counter microwave-- "sharp"  never saw one before-- realllllly handy-- great counter stools where we enjoyed a terriffic breakfast of bacon and eggs one day- and raw cookie dough the next...

and then the night life !! we went to ray stevens??club -- where everyone knew her-- or at least "lady ripple"- who i was very proud of---- great piano bar then you moved to the dining room

for the performance-- dinner was served---no choice- you ate what was offered that night... a very interesting concept.  salad - roast chicken -mashed potatoe, green beans and some peach/brown sugar  ice cream desert which we shared with lady ripple under the table. people seemed to know her and loved the dog-- asking her to come back with both her dogs--- she does have a second pup--- ??pup??? a 170 pound lively pup-- who eventually will be terrific... except right now he is bigger than she can handle alone ... he will learn -- maybe 6 months...

*** I could not begin to cope with trying to do m ail call---- boat ride on the river where she negociated a sizeable  floating  device out of the slip and back in—with a cross breeze....  I sat.

 

I sat a lot---- and enjoyed having no responsibilities at all—judy gave me to a delta skycap who put me on a plane.  I was shuffled to sandy’s car and house and boat and barn and golf cart( gas golf cart—a new experience)  back into a car and delta skycap and judys car to home again.it was lovely.

Megan has a well run kennel and appartment next to sandy’s house. She is extremely well disciplined as I watched from my window—up well before 7—basic chores quickly done- and out the driveway to “the jim” for a workout—and back before 9 to a clean kennel ( done by steve) when she deals with the 10 pups – about 8 months old--  one at a time  and then the whole group in a sizeable pasture  for a playtime  runabout—except they  stick pretty close to her as she walks around..  that photo of her  with 10 dogs is not photo shopped-  she is managing all 10 at once.. her fascination with collecting couches has followed her there--   as we sat as she introduced each pup to a group of possible financiers from Nashville.

 

Sandys son brian- lives in another garage sort of thing- he restores vintage vehicles---- and fixed the trash compactor yesterday.

He is sort of the “Janine“ of her establishment.

 

I certainly enjoyed my 3 days there....  sandy was a perfect hostess---- I had to come home to rest up !

 May 29th 2023

May 29th 2023

My mother used to refer to a very shapely woman as looking like a feather bed tied in the middle!  I never knew what a feather bed was until I got here! This is the softest, fluffiest bed I think I have ever slept in and it's really not very bad at all!

Sandy has a check off list of things I must see on today's list including her neighbor's cows.  I couldn't imagine why she was wanting us to go see the cows except they were strange.  I believe they were Scottish Highland cows with great monstrous horns who then came right over to the golf and proceeded to compete for the cornbread that we had taken with us.  Those horns are massive and I needed to have more space with regard to those damn horns than she seemed to think necessary!  We did make it back safely!

Steve's hamburgers and Megan's fresh made potato salad for dinner rounded off a wonderful day.

Today's adventure involves going out on the boat.  I've tried to explain that I don't do well floating on water or with things that float on the water but I'm going to give it a shot!

May 28th 2023

May 28th 2023 Good Morning! Here's the Daily Doggie that was sent by our fearless leader to be posted this morning. Title - We are at the Nightclub waiting for the Show to start. Sandy is a regular at the nightclub, her dog is under the table. I am still alive....... Her House is perfectly polished. Tomorrow I may try a dog. Megan's dogs look beautiful! Reading yesterday's missive, all we could think of was that we might need to send money either for the nightclub or bail? Now we know why there was an emergency deviation from Carlene's daily uniform code! Pretty blouse indeed! Here's this morning's update! Sandy and I were out until midnight last night and we just got up for coffee! I have so many ideas that I don't have time to write them all down but things are cooking! Sandy came up with the concept that all kitchens should be reduced in size so that only one person fits in the kitchen and I think that's a very significant statement. Think we may need to batten down the hatches, things are a shaking!

https://www.crazyacresfarm.org/ and this gets you to donating a $10 bale of hay www.memsaic.com/haybale beware of little old ladies?????

 may 27 2023

moving on-- to the airport in a few minutes...wow.  a real vacation !!

i have packed all kinds of passwords which might allow me to do a daily doggie 

from there but i can not rely-- heck they don't often work here

sandy reported my box of clothes and ropes got there

i am looking forward to first class... i never intended to need first class- 

i never intended to get old in the first place.... 

who knew i would be one of those little old ladies who needed help crossing the street.

 i remember and will never forget the little old lady with a grocery bag 

crossing in front of a sports car- and the driver blows his horn to make her hurry

so she slings the bag of groceries at his car and dents the hood.

 leaving the 4 dogs-- is a new experience for me....- with animals ... so much can happen in 24 hours

between dogs and prego pony....

i am leaving them in the best of care...i.e.  people they like... with heather as back up they should be fine/

i am wondering if they TIA will allow me to carry on a glue gun--- i should have mailed it...

 i think i have a few leashes to make.

 leash making, dog training and trailer backing .... i can still do those....

hopefully i will be able to get on a computer "down south" .

 may 26 2023

take a bucket day......  the tendency to make great long lists of  what to do when the butter  churn paddle sticks  is great-- however peter did come up with a reminder. 

CAN YOU PLEASE REMIND ELIZABETH AND CARLY THAT ABSOLUTELY NO WASHCLOTHS, HAND TOWELS, SOCKS, SLIPPERS OR UNDERWEAR SHOULD BE OUT IN THE HOUSE AS THEY ARE LIFE THREATENING FOR LARKY? OR PUT A BIG REMINDER UP SO THEY DON'T FORGET WHILE YOU'RE AWAY?

FUN MAILCALL!----HAVE A FUN TRIP! 

wonderful reminder--- that's what is so mind boggling-- who would have thought that in leaving the place for a few days that i would have to remind anyone that  all their socks and underwear must go directly to th e washing machine-- and not be neatly stored in a laundry cart...

so....... yes.. for the first time ( i think ) in about 30 years i am leaving the property for a few days...   /sandy  in tenna offered me a place to go and relax-----and all my friends and relatives here offered to pay and get me out of town for a few days--- took a collection -- enough to fly me first class-- which i also have never done.--

let me be perfectly clear-- i hate to fly----but time to make an exception.... so i sent my "luggage" ( cardboard box) ups with enough rope and twine to keep me busy for a few days--- clothes??? i wear a uniform-same thing every day - saves alot of confusion.   dressed up means add a beautiful  scarf- which i own but can't find..?how beautiful? i remember ann getchell telling me  it was soo nice and expensive that i never even heard the name... but  i;m like the doctor in the covid tv's. who just kept changing her scarf... .

i will try and send the makings of the dd-- but between eliz, judy, carlie and janine-- maybe i should just let them write it... i think i have over 4000 "out there" i have not missed too many...and the new mail call-- they tell me they can walk me thru it long distance--- all i can say is stay tuned for the latest fiasco-

 ( now there is a name for the next pup..) 

i did some bookeeping--- i am thrilled to say--- even with the few extra equines-- the  ERN hay bill for jan thru wednesday was $28.  all the rest was paid for by you kind souls-- so they have more of their money to spend on vet bills and purchasing animals---- something i have no part of...  i am purely on hay detail.  now... at the moment---ERN is a charity (with a 501 c3 number) so hay bale money  gets depositede to thier account, then i bill ERN -- because it was my pocket money which actually paid the guy with the hay-  what i am doing  with any extra fun fund money is to record it on the "welcome  to" the  hay bales screen

because- again at the  moment it is not big enough to warrant a new account.   i think this deposit to ern includes $107 IN BILLS FOR THE FUN FUND... DULY NOTED ON THE  HAY BALES ACCOUNT.

there again... if the plane only goes 3/4 the way to nashville, someone will have to explain that to elizabeth...

am i nervous?  who me??? nervousssssss????

 may 25 2023

whoops---quick daily..... i got watching clarkson's farm again== second session. into cows

 with the front wheels of his huge tractor off the ground....

....my head can't do a dd-----i have a duffle bag to fill for sat  morn flight

i sent a box of clothes (and rope) ahead

 i was literably up all night even with a melatonin in me.

 may 24 2023

i am happy to announce crazy acres is getting back in stride.judy and i came back from a stint at a rehab center in danvers about noon, and judy asked What's that noise?-- we Decided it sounded like someone snoring--must be one of the dogs---except it sounded like it was coming from upstairs----- DOGS DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS IN OUR HOUSE-- THE STAIRS ARE METAL  SPIRAL ---so Judy went up and came back saying the door was shut so she  didn't open it but there is someone up there snoring and it must be a man because the toilet seat is up.----- all right ---So what man was asleep at noon upstairs in my house... there had been such a turmoil the night before getting the cameras up and getting five or six new animals in and settled that it must have been in somebody associated with that bunch ... OK so who could be minus a husband and not notice or be concerned about it.. that would be Elizabeth and sure enough we found that nick  had said he was going up there to take a nap and he'd fallen asleep----- well she didn't have the nerve to wake him up and she just left him there----- OK but that was last night and it was now noon and all we knew was that he was at least breathing because of the snoring..... eliz  decided there was no need to wake him and left to go tend to the animals at Meredith farm..--- with the plan that if he gets up and wants to come find her, janine's two vehicles were sitting there and he could just take one of those over to Meredith---because Janine was also sleeping the clock around   from dealing with the auction and animals the day before.

so at the moment.... one car is gone and there is no snoring-- could be he woke up and took janine's car to meridith and janine was still sleeping or working-- the other option is janine went somewhere in her car and he stopped snoring-- which could be a very serious matter !----do you see the kind of problems i have to deal with? ?

i perked this morning's coffee-- you know--- perked is better even if it is more work.....

now the other bad thing i have to pass on.....when nick got up, he told me this place was like CLARKSON FARM - a british thing  i had not heard of... so for the next 2 hours i was glued to the computer watching/ reliving the process of learning to farm... the british comic way on a huge farm measured more in m iles than acres...

who knew---- that amazon carried this kind of thing--- a hugely entertaining british comedy about a guy who buys a farm- and gets idea after idea 99% have some screwy complication-- like he goes and buys a lamberganni tractor-- which does not fit in his barn door... and is too long to turn around in a 3 point turn

finally -- with great pride ---unloading 1 ton of fertalizer --- figuring he was done.... til the driver points out  there are 37 more tons in his order on the truck.

the whole thing hit very close to home. he gets caught between his accountant and the neighborhood "kid" who knows the farm from working on it.......

...... with permits from the town committees  protecting  salamanders vs building a farm stand...i think i only watched part 1 for ?2 hours???  so when we are off camera-- have a look at that.  amazon-- then  clarkson farm  and you don't have to buy anything.

the british are super at comedy especially "situation "  comedy

someone sent me this

Teamwork makes the dream work.  

yup !

malarkey discovers my bedroom window.

 MAY 23 2023

AFTER HAVING A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN OVER USING MY CELL PHONE TO ?"BROADCAST? " MAILCALL-- I HAVE TO ADMIT... IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING-AS LONG AS SOMEONE ELSE WORKS IT.-- I CAN BARELY USE IT TO MAKE A PHONE CALL---MY APOLOGIES TO EVERYONE SENDING ME STUFF ON THIS FACEBOOK THING... I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO THEM-- AND THERE ARE SOOOOOOO MANY.

I AM TOLD  THE  VARIETY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE AROUND 5PM BECAUSE OF AFTERNOON FEEDING OF "HOOVED STOCK"  THEY HAVE ALL BEEN INVITED TO FIND ME AND WHEREVER WE ARE HOLDING MAIL CALL  SO THEY CAN JOIN IN THE FUN-- SO EXPECT NOT ONLY ME... YESTERDAY THERE WAS MUCH CONFUSION AS TO WHERE JANINE WAS WITH THE TRAILER FULL OF RESCUES-- AND EXACTLY WHAT SHE HAD ON BOARD...  SHE HAS THE NORMAL 2 HORSE "STOCK TRAILER".. WHICH HAS NO PARTITION IN THE MIDDLE LIKE A  2 HORSE.. I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT  A MAMOUTH JACK ( BOY DONKEY NOT NEUTERED YET) A SMALLER DONKEY  - I WAS DOING OK WHEN SHE GOT TO A  TERRIBLY THIN MORGAN HORSE--  I WAS CONCERNED  ABOUT HOW ALL THAT FIT----WHEN SHE GOT TO A SMALL PONY- AND ADDED IT WAS "BAGGED UP"  ( ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY) -PANIC SET IN  WHEN SHE CASUALLY ADDED A "DUTCH HARNESS HORSE". NOW THAT IS A BIG ANIMAL.. ELIZABETH SAID IT WAS DANGEROUS TO SEND JANINE TO THE AUCTION WITH AN EMPTY TRAILER--- YUP !  THE WHOLE. PACKAGE WAS ON IT 'S WAY HERE AT 7 PM LAST NIGHT WHEN I WENT TO BED..   SHE WAS ON ROUTE 84 COMING ACROSS  BY HARTFORD  AND REPORTED A FULL TANK OF GAS AND AN EMPTY BLADDER. SO SHE WAS NOT EXPECTING TO HAVE TO STOP BEFORE GETTING TO CRAZY ACRES-  WHERE ELIZ AWAITED HER WITH MY CELL PHONE... I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT..

I AM BACK ON THE CALENDAR KICK-- I NEED IDEAS FOR JUST 13 PICTURES--  AND I HAVE HAD ONLY ONE BRILLLIANT IDEA SO FAR-- I AM AFRAID THAT IS THE  ONLY BRILLIANT  ONE I WILL GET FROM ME--I AM BRILLIANTED OUT FOR THIS SEASON...HELP???

I DECIDED MY FOOD SUPPLY WAS GETTING TOO BLAND-- SO I INVESTED IN AN INDIAN  COOKBOOK--SO AT 3AM-- HAVING NOTHING TO DO, I STARTED READING IT-- AND THE CONCEPT OF MIXING THE SEASONINGS WITH HOT OIL--AND THEN COOKING WITH THAT WAS A NEW ONE FOR ME...AND THEN I THOUGHT I READ SOMETHNG ABOUT MIXING SOME SEASONINGS WITH FLOUR AND PLASTERING IT ALL OVER YOUR BODY...I WENT BACK THIS MORNING AND CAN NOT FIND IT IN THE BOOK-- AND I AM AFRAID IF I TRY THAT - AND FIRST RESPONDER COMES TO ME SITTING IN THE BATHTUB COVERED IN BAY LEAVES THEY MIGHT JUMP TO THE WRONG  CONCLUSION... SO I WILL NOT BE TRYING THAT UNTIL FURTHER INFORMATION IS GATHERED.

TODAYS PHOTO IS OF TURBULANCE SUCCESSFULLY STUFFED IN THE AIRPLANE FOR THE TRIP TO ? FLORIDA???

SEEEEEEE.... IT DOES WORK-- AS LONG AS HIS DADDY JAGGAR IS WITH HIM , HE IS HAPPY

 may 22 2023

on the beaver butt question ----from CP.  Sue B. ---When in doubt, go to Snopes!! ---- and yes...

 they did  an extensive study of these odd "facts" offen found ------ which made me wonder

 who's footing the bill for the payroll they must have.?  - google says it is basically publicly supported.

 but not a charity ----  consumer reports is a 501 c 3  and they check facts...

so  my question wellllll if not why not?  I dunno... except.... consumer reports is more inclined to study “can the door handle of a ford 150  cause a fire?”  where snopes gets into the really interesting “did hitlers  ancesters really write the star spangled banner? “

 

I defy anyone to  go to snopes to look up beaver butts and not start to glance down the list of other reported rumors. “is oprah really dead from a diet pill ?” ---- I find those interesting ---who dreams up this stuff???or  does any of it have one foot in reality and it just got distorted by repeating it  4000 times.. ( and then who discovered that  the repetition eventually replaced reality)  the beaver butt apparently does have that one foot—because  there is some smelly substance in the anal glands which was used in perfumes  but  not so much now.. BECAUSE  EXPRESSING THE ANAL GLANDS IS TOO DIFFICULT/EXPENSIVE... to make that statement means  someone was sniffing it ???????

?back to who was doing what to discover that??? Hopefully the beaver pelt business.

 

I have the same kind of ridiculous  curiosity about the repurposed materials site--- I can hardly wait to see what someone is doing with the floor of a bowling alley.... the street sweeping brushes are there... and I often thought of getting one.... except..... they have one at meridith... and I. have never seen an animal use it...- I think they would have to be shown how to... or put it in a  place where they would accidently discover  the joys of scratching an itch...a problem for alot of handicapped peoploe ... or people in a  cast of some kind---

There are such subtleties to farming you never thought of... I installed ?300 feet of hex chicken wire coated in uv protected vinyl covering—7 feet high—perfect for the chickens-  then it was noted there were no chickens, but  a lot of greenery  in that chicken enclosure—“lets put the goats in there it clear that out.”  GREAT IDEA.... except the goats know they can happily  scratch their backs on the usual wire fencing—so they started on the chicken wire----- which was not designed to scratch the back of goats.... consequently  unbending the 7’ chicken wire is now on the “someday” list---

 

That is someday before the chickens (that Elizabeth ordered) get too big.. it is planned they will  be raised in the sun room of the house with a heat lamp. Til they can take the outdoor world.  Let us pray the bank vault door holds—( which separates the house dogs from the chicken growing project).. ???BANK VAULT?????-- that is another story

 MAY 21 2023

THERE ARE SOOOO MANY TOPics to write about today i can barely stand it... 

it does not sound like much but.....questioning the unexplainable  is  intellectually critical.....

Some of you may be old enough to remember the problem of My sexy scissors in the same drawer as Goldie the ghost of our left hand drawer.  The basic problem was every time I turned around my left hand drawer was overflowing with scissors a variety of sizes and shapes..  I have a feeling the whole thing was organized buy some camera people but still it was a little bit of alarming situation to open that drawer and have six or eight brand new pair of scissors there that I never opened at mail call or put there-----this went on for about a week we have a lot of scissors around here now due to that episode. if not Goldie... then WHO? 

 

well you know strange things do happen around here and right now we have a problem where doors seemed to be reproducing at an alarming rate.

I don't know about the reproductive cycle of a wooden door. We have doors popping up all over the place. it you think I'm kidding..

I knew about the very nice cedar door which is my project table in the overflow room of the house..   and the second indoor door of the same beautiful cedar wood which has been stashed for quite a while behind the spiral staircase...  known doors.....but from there.......

I started yesterday thinking I would like to have a door from the laundry room into what was our meat shack---where we used to shred the roast beef ends that we were given from a roast beef sandwich store... apparently OSHA didn't like anyone's fingers closer than 1/2 inch to the blade that was slicing,.... which left a respectable lump of roast beef.  which we could  chop up for the dogs and on occasion make Stew out of it ourselves ----it was perfectly good.. at any rate----- we used to cut it up by hand while we sat in front of the fireplace and then we got into shredding it with a wood chipper which really was very efficient at shredding up roast beef ends... although there was  a considerable SPLATTER FACTOR so i built-- literally hammered together.... the shack where that was pretty much what they did in there... it has washable walls to deal with said splatter....   with the walk in freezer right next door..  about 15 tubs of roast beef would get dropped off in the freezer every week or two and be shredded - then the chipper would be washed in dawn and rinsed and very carefully put back in the shed---

In trying to figure the location of the door to connect the meat shack to a new  laundry   apartment, I opened the meat shack door  and was shocked on 2 counts... firstly- there—way in the back. I could see  a lovely  what I would call a Christian door- brand new—door only—no frame ------but secondly the entire building was filled.... I mean filled.... I could not even get room to stand inside the door—with an amazing collection of all those things that rush to fill any available space . boxes ---cartons--- fencing( that I had been looking for)---

 

Turns out that new  Christian door got there by carley  who found it  over the hunt club being thrown out----- so being a good truck driver she put it in the back of her truck and bought it to  crazy acres... ok....

I mentioned that to bud. and he said go look at the back of the T-tent.  somebody left an indoor door there complete with frame and sure enough lying on its side there's a brand new indoor door..  which doesn't necessarily go with the outdoor door that currently  appeared////in the G tent which is the big white tent. .

..  so bud came up yesterday having walked through the cellar to get here.. and said you know there's another indoor door in the garage of the house.  Lying on it’s side...

So who’s counting?  Does anyone know of another “place” where 6 doors appear totally unattached to any building?

Has to be our “GOLDIE”-----Ghost of the left hand drawer...----

WHAT WILL be interesting is to see if those doors can actually be used in the “carlene relocation” plans.  Goldie is danm good at that stuff...

 may 20 2023

the hurrier i go the behinder i get.our crazy mail call made it to friday 

as just a sit down /end of day relaxing unscripted conversation

 which ( and this is a warning) can go anywhere. i mean...

 we do try and remain civil and keep any  opinions about 

political , religious or dog food  tempered...

to so many people  dog food is a religion- i have had people tell me how

cruel and uncaring i am because i did not feed only raw chicken necks.

yes... i did have that conversation... the concept was promoted by

(you guessed it) somebody who had too many chicken necks.

i have fed purina for so long, if it was to be a problem it would have shown by now.

some of you may not have heard the bose radio story---

ustabe---30 years ago-- i was buying purina proplan wherever it was cheapest...

and they had a "program" for breeders and shelters where you could remove teh weight circle

and earn point  to purchase "stuff"--

 the most expensive "stuff " you could purchase was a bose tabletop radio...

all my friends and relatives had bose radios i had given them and i still had a few in my closet

when i happened to be on the phone with the charity division of purina,

i could honestly prove how devoted i was to purina because 

of the number of bose radios i had received from them

\with that - he believed me -- and we have received 8 pallets of food every 2 months since..

i have been thru all the  "oh the only thing i can feed my dog  is seaweed and ground up peanut shells"

because they get a terrible skin rash....

"my dog can not eat corn... or. chicken... or wheat.. "  but when these people go away and i feed 

their dog the same as mine i have never seen a problem/

 basic problem is-- to scientifically prove an allergy, you must switch on and off several times

otherwise you may just be letting mommy nature cure whatever the skin problem  is

 which you then attribute to the food..... 

i think i know...( that's one for the books). there is some tiny may fly- or something 

that often makes red bumps on the underside of .. particularly white dogs-- but then maybe i can't see it on black dogs.

so much for my lack of medical knowledge.

 

Somewhat akin to ---all my friends and relatives have monkey fist zipper pulls that I made-

 so I have slowed production.. although a few do seem to be still wandering off the board...

pasta learns to lean  in...

 

moving on

 to GOATS and teh natural intelligence of goats vs humans—a bunch of volunteers will be testing that  fence again today

so far goats 3. People 0..

 may 19 2023

just when you think???? that vanilla icecream we love to cover with butterscotch is flavored by the anal glands of a beaver??? i have a problem with that internet gem.... even if most discoveries are accidental -- like pennacillin-----beavers are protected-- the entire beaver is protected-- anal glands and all--  so just who was messing about  with the rear end of a beaver in order to discover...THE TASTE of what nature had in mind being used to label the piles of poo produced by each beaver for social reasons. 

 now to compare that accident with the penicillin- which was apparently noticing something odd in a petri dish--even the most imaginative person can not concieve of  vanilla being found that way--  i thought it was beans-- vanilla beans... so i looked it up.. on said internet there is no mention of beaver butts.

just does not pass inspection  in my book... but the internet is "full of it"

what  i did discover is that in ancient egypt there was a custom of  using moldy bread on wounds --- mold being the  vehicle for pennacillin... that in itself makes me wonder who found that out-- can you see...in the heat of battle---" oh we have no bandages... here try this moldy. bread."

and if this stuff is going on all around us-- what on earth are we ignoring that we should be experimenting with... maybe ... because this daily doggie  has in it both penicillin and beaver anal glands-- maybe we should be smearing the next laceration  with beaver anal gland goo.  i do know moldy bread would never occur to me either...

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moving along.....

judy finally gave me her master list in excell spreadsheet form-- and i had a great time---- since we started  3487 people have patted and fed cookies to my dogs.  granted it started a couple years ago with the burp of covid in the middle...  we now try for 100 a week...and that is sustainable... we revearsed the process yesterday usually judy goes in andlocates a sitting place for me-- then i come in with the dogs..  yesterday at nearc  i went in and sat.... i had staff hold open the 2 doors and get people out of the way, and judy opened the car door... all 4 dos flew in to where i was seated... it was spectacular and got every one laughing as they scrambled for cookies i threw on the floor. and quietly came and layed  down.

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 mail call

is a work in process-- most videos are preplanned-- ours are seat of the pants-- you never know what direction they will go in-- elizabeth was there with her scottish accent... we wandered thru many topics for about 45 minutes.... i was told there werre over 500 people watching... i wish we had better handle on the questions and comments-- eventually we may-- but right now the whole thing is "in process" and i have to be allowed a day here and there to be tired...

it happens !!

here is our working list of senior places we have visited...

i had to slice th photo to eliminate the phone numbers 

 may 18 2023

every time i think i have heard it all-- something else comes round the pike....

apparently someone "out there" has asked if  i buy my own dog food for my dogs---- and  if not why not. .....--- because the purina donation is for SDP...

i certainly have. and would if  there was a shortage--and i certainly have purchased thousands of  dollars of dog food back in the good old days of  weekly trips to sams  with megan--- i would get a cart and she would push that flatbed cart thing-- and we would pile it as high as we could with purina dog food at about $38.00 a bag -12 bags i think fit in my car-- megan is strong...... $456 --- plus i usually bought the makings for the chicken stew on sundays another $100 so that killed over $500 a week. for many weeks ... mmmaaaannnyyyyyy.  weeks... ?years???

how foolish of me to assume i was entitled to  a bag of dog food as long as there was no shortage....and how kind of the persons to circulate that i am not... at the moment seeing a need to buy my own - but i certainly will if necessary.  i do work overtime to be sure Purina gets all the advertising possible from me and the  donation to us... down to the point of  if cookies are donated that are some other brand, i try not to show the logo of others and only wave around the treats purina makes...   that is one way i pay my way== using my name and  good reputation--- there is a monetary value to that.

so back to the friendly soul who has circulated the question about who pays for my dog food?...  please write the question and your concerns  online with your name and email attached....and i will figure the numbers  to more exactly  answer your  query... 

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i don't want to brag ( yes i do) but  i put in at least 60 hour weeks for  SDP for 20 years-- and the last  2 "official  paying jobs" i had paid me $50 an hour-- the  fact that it may have been only 2 hours a week is a detail i will skip over.... because crawling around a studio floor to catch a loose mouse just does not carry the  impression of $50 an hour job........but then it is the perspective.  i was there...

  i know a surgeon who just paid $256 for a guy to seal a leaky pipe in his cellar which. took 20 minutes...( $768 an hour) -- this is why i am so fascinated with jobs where the person  "is always there..."  ------ does that boil down to ------ coming thru high school, you have a choice at graduation--party now or study now--- if you study now ( for the next few years)  you will charge more per hour later so you can party then.. if you. aren't too old...  if you party out of high school you will probalbly make less per hour unless you can get into the "emergency always there" group.  as i was-- with the mouse catching job.    armed with a. roll of toilet paper and strainer , i earned a good living on the coming of  THE  COMPUTER MOUSE  we all have  grown to know and love.

long live mike rowe--- isn't there an mike rowe university now???

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 there was an Animal Epoisode  job...... how could i forget..... where for some music video i had to slide/drop  100 black snakes onto a table of fancy glassware-- and then be sure i got them all back....-- i don't remember where i "rented" those snakes  but  i can remember where i parked in boston.. and------- how i captured  them was to put a plastic drop cloth  under the tablecloth and have all the. people in the studio hold it up.  i hate snakes-- they move too fast...

 but for money?????? i managed.

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now. as for the shortened "mail call" yesterday-- i was exhausted  for  no particular reason -- all i did was to go get janine's truck which she had left in the shuttle parking-- ?simple?-----now PLEASE consider how many  grey ford trucks  with keys on the floor are parked in a lot of 400 spaces... if it was not for her sticker of "ride a rescue" on the tailgate, there could have been an nasty accidental  truck jacking which could have ended with the jacked truck in my parking pit...