jan 15 

I started watching some Facebook photo about Janine and Elizabeth doing mail call together and I can only understand about every third word so I flicked down and ran into Anna fed out fedora ohh FEDOROVA and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 opus 23 what a wonderful performance that was I wish I could find more of the same of her fantastic pianist and terrific orchestration um chaikovsky that's not spelled correctly well I'll leave you to figure that out---I sat through the whole performance..  if I could do one 100th of what her little finger did I would be super happy,,, 

That performance was certainly something I could enjoy 100% even though my hearing is decidedly reduced I could hear and and feel the music far better than anything I have seen or heard in maybe years... one doesn't go out of one's way to call up chaikovsky on the Internet but I may do that now...  or see if my friend over there on the wall Alicia or whatever her name is couldn't find it for me.   

 

When I was younger much younger I could remember being dragged to concerts at the high school which mind you is only across the street ----well my mother was part of some group that tried to bring in classical music to Newburgh NY and they had some good performances there so many though that I do recognize an awful lot of Mozart and Tchaikovsky and things like that even if at five years old I didn't appreciate it at all....  and certainly as I got into high school and became part of the music department I was far better at the coral groups than I was in things like the band where I just could not make my fingers do what fingers were supposed to do much to everyone's dismay.

 

it was almost as ridiculous as the two years of Spanish I took in high school so when I got to college I could take some exam to see whether I could skip taking Spanish in college which I totally failed and had to take two years of Spanish in college which along with the 500 word spelling test took up a great deal of my education---- however I made it

Somewhere along the line I decided I had a goal of owning a perfect Harlequin Great Dane stud dog---  and that certainly was Bentley..  I don't think there was a fault to him he was perfectly trained he behaved perfectly always he produced a lot of great children which helped a lot of people.  Another was to prove to everybody that I could train a perfect service dog which was thanks to Bella--- George was recognized as #1 service dog in the country by the AKC--I have to admit Megan and many others helped bring him along people like Pam and Donna..  who basically did as I asked we managed to put together a perfect dog..

 

So I did all that and now my concentration is trying to keep a roof over my head and warm and fed and healthy ----a little bit anyway-- between pills and shots nobody better light a cigarette next to me or I will explode.

 

I have come to appreciate our automatic generators...  I had a call from our neighbor Debbie-- because apparently something probably rats had knawed  away the wiring in the transformer right outside her house so she had nothing and was trying to keep her pipes from freezing..  I've been to that road so many times trying to keep the dogs in the barn warm and using every bit of warmth to its best advantage..  at one point I did have a heating duct go. along the back of their raised sleeping loss which carried the heat from the feed room down to kennel 10 and as it passed through the other kennels I poked a hole nail hole or two as it went along which allowed warm air to escape and the dogs could lay up against that pipe which in itself was warm but there was a little bit of a warm breeze out of it that kept them  warm many winters.

I still had to face the fact that if we lost power we lost heat and there was nothing I could do about that until I did bite the bullet and buy 3 automatic start generators the house the laundry in the barn..notably the only one missing is the guest cabin but we have two emergency extension cables out the back door in case it happens again I do need just a little bit of electricity to keep the pellet stove going.

 

I am reminded of the days when I had a little bit of electricity because I had some kind of inverter that I plugged into my car and I could make the heater run for a few minutes and hopefully keep the place from freezing--  and it was movable between buildings---  inverter is a word out of my past but they still are around somewhere I think

 

I do have a doctor's appointment today in spite of the fact it is some sort of holiday Martin Luther King I think I don't know --- Well I should be around I don't know if that includes mail call