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why does this do that?????? i now have t ogo find it and copy paste again....

Straight off the television. ? do you have a life insurance policy you no longer use? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.. how does one “use” a life insurance policy???

Some of you have heard this.. however....

I had a life insurance policy $250,000 a very impressive number... and out of the clear blue Sky One day I got a letter from the insurance company saying that my policy had 0 value Even though the bill I had received from them the previous month said there was about $100,000 cash value---- I've been saying I've been sending money in since 1980 something

So I ran to the phone and called the number that was on this notice and the phone number had been discontinued...  slight panic setting in I then wrote a letter to them which was returned to me nobody at that address...  it began to look like I was out an awful lot of money so I called the Massachusetts department of people who are upset with their insurance companies.. and after that got kicked around someone finally told me to get a hold of the agent that had settled sold me the policy if I could and put that to him.. so I did that and got a check for almost the cash value but all things being equal I just decided to take it and run which seemed reasonable.

in other words they had my money interest free since 1980 and left me happy to get anything.. they're very clever.. because being 80 years old if they let that run too long they might have to pay the whole 250,000 so they could save 150 by coaxing me to cash it in... By setting up a dead telephone and a fake address they made me happy to get anything.

.. thus  illustrates the reason for my love of insurance companies..

Penny is getting down to a routine of waking about 4am... to be quickly shuffled out to pee on the deck and back in for early breakfast – and a nap with larkey... she readily jumps in the car—sleeps til we get to a job—then goes in to say hello to everyone in sight. She loves the work !! and the cookies I toss around the floor to “direct “ them to individuals

After a while. I have my three lie down and stay—and jannine goes outside and gets “act 2”  off the trailer—that being mommy donkey and baby  who do about the same thing for apple alphalpha  cookies... it is a very polished performance ----lotsa smiles and photos... beginning to end, it takes us 3 hours to get ready, drive and get back home ands clean out the trailer....all with a dunkein donuts coffee in one hand....

So many people... so many smiles,,...

 Dd 8 28

My heavens... such an uproar..... Because I mainly didn't describe as carefully as I should have done..  the henny penny will stay at the 756 bricks..... that it has been all along and that is what's keeping us going very nicely the way we are ....please and thank you...  however... if I am going to try and stay ahead of whatever is happening or make any plans for the future I need to know whether there are enough people to support something like maybe two teams of people which would involve developing another larkey... if at all possible..   but you do get the picture heaven knows the need is out there... and we are very capable of filling that need... I'm talking trucks trailers etcetera etcetera but if we are to start out two teams of people some things would have to be doubled..or. If we get a lot of seniors coming in these buses are we gonna need more than two tables undercover in which case we'd have to clean out the giraffe 10 and move or by more tables so people could sit in there ..   there's just things I need to try and figure out ahead of time and to try and see what kind of support we would have is perfectly logical 

sorry if it upset anybody I do notice 20 some odd people ran out and gave us a donation quickly which was very nice thank you..

 

now one other thing for which I was not prepared....   it never occurred to me that if I asked for someone to come help drive me to a daycare center with my dogs that that should be a personal expense...  I don't think so ---but let me run it by you all just in case..  I have just so many hours in the day and just so much energy etc and I am happy to donate my time and energy in the most efficient way..  I am an excellent dog trainer and handler and I am a lousy bookkeeper...  so for me to spend hours trying to solve a bookkeeping problem makes no sense if there is someone out there who could whip through this Verizon account and decide whether we are doing it correctly or not..  the reason I'm suspicious and want verification is it somewhere in the last month or so Verizon took $500 out of my checking account and I don't know why --mostly why because  that nice round Number of 500--- and then shut off my phone????   at any rate.. I could tackle the whole thing myself actually I have listed all my checks in one place to start with but to try and sort it out it's gonna involve going to a Verizon store where hopefully they can figure it out but I have my doubts whether that would be a one shot deal or not -- the whole project should be handled  by someone who's better at it than I am--so that I can continue to take the dogs places in community service. 

Maybe I have it wrong but it seems to work out that people would rather watch me managed the dogs then to watch me try and straighten out the Verizon account... 

This concept has far reaching ramifications and complications---let's try a simple gas bill --in my head I figure at least one tank full of gas a month should be paid for by the charity---which comes out of the henny penny--now I don't keep track of how many times I get or charge any gas So what I have in my head may not be reality... but that's what I was trying to do since I hardly ever have the charge card I am sure I pay for more gas then was actually in THE PLAN... that's just the way it goes ----if you can't find the charge card get a check from carlene..  and I don't keep track but the checks are there in my banking account and if anybody is really picky about it you are certainly welcome to go through it all....  who ate how much of the 12 pizzas I ordered eight years ago is not too high on my list of things I supposed to do... somebody has to look at the big picture.   the mission statement

cylindars

 dd 8 27

 

Cylinders---  that is a big word in my world and penny produces lovely cylinders sometimes even on the deck now which is wonderful however larkey came to me and said he didn't think I wanted him on the deck and kept going to the back door which goes into a little pasture and then this morning Carly told me that she didn't think lucky was having the cylinders he actually had it upset tummy...   well this is kind of critical when you're going to go to daycare centers so he may have the day off for a day or two off..  and the whole thing is governed by whether or not he can produce a cylinder..   The other problem with that is that having an upset tummy-and producing diarrhea is usually quite confusing to a dog who often ends up turning in circles so that the distribution can be a six foot diameter circle--  or heaven forbid they have projectile diarrhea which can have almost unlimited dimension I had that happen once it was deaggle and he was in the living room in front of the fireplace... by the time he turned 6 circles we had a massive problem.  Memory of that episode is why I worship cylinders..  one additional fact to that episode is that the rug cleaning establishment in topsfield said he never wanted to have any of our rugs again...

 

that rejection is probably unique similar to Costco rejecting me for speeding probably doesn't happen too often.

 

with that happy thought We did have a similar episode over the weekend where penny got hold of my sugar container and carry that around shaking it and landing on the bed   Lying in it-----sugar and sticky are not my favorite words....

 

according to someone the newspapers are now having articles on equine encephalitis which is not a good thing carried by mosquitoes I'm not too sure exactly what we are supposed to do about that except worry about it I mean we have sprayed the animals and ourselves as much as is necessary I actually have not seen that many mosquitoes this year so far although according to Elizabeth that's because they prefer her to me.

 

a notice like that “beware of mosquitos is a little like the note on ht highway

 “beware of low flying aircraft”. what am i to do??? take my hat off?

 

Cloud is doing an amazing job keeping us as organized as is possible with our constant variation of details..

I came out of the doctor's office yesterday to have a note on my cell phone “go to rainbow”. which is a daycare center not too far from the hospital I already had lucky with me and sizzle and penny were in the car waiting to Take Me Home so it really was no issue to just go to rainbow... that's one place that hangs a little bit loose and the director came out and said I didn't know whether to expect you today or not

but we certainly. Are delighted to see you any time you're driving by...  we. as rainbow ... oh are coming to visit the farm I think she said Friday there again that hanging loose falls into place when they get here they get here.... I said make sure you bring your own food she assured me they would.

 

I am really needing to do indoor things A couple days here namely the budget is extremely complicated with the tree falling...  and we have to do something about the Cummings grant

 

well I'm there initial form they very carefully exclude anyone not in business for two years or whatever but they do make provision for being reestablished and I certainly hope we can fall into that category.   I did not know about that exclusionary line...   and have been really counting on some support from the Cummings foundation I honestly don't know how we can continue at the current rate without some kind of financial input..

 

Our current henny penny board is absolutely wonderful and does take care of the slightly scattered approach to visiting daycare centers... But to do it correctly we really should have one person on salary in charge and a second person at least 20 hours a week permanent to keep the paperwork going..  An example of the type problem we have is that over the weekend my phone was shut off because Verizon had applied the last payment to my TV and not my phone which was probably our error in the first place.... but it's the kind of thing to get on the phone on hold and straighten it out we just don't have anybody who could do that now.   Judy is struggling as best she can and doing a wonderful job but it really should be a at least a 20 hour a week paid position.

so let's see what we can do and I certainly will let you know.. I certainly will continue as volunteer with no pay... except for maybe the occasional cup of coffee.

 

I will increase the henny penny board---in a more open-ended style--for a couple weeks to see just what we as a group now..  can support.. Let's face it Mr. Cummings with the possible $100,000 it's hard to replace.. and I do think we are doing exactly what he wants very locally . So if you can then ask anybody who has a relative in nursing home or day care who can appreciate what we're doing if they could do $10 a month . Let's just see what we can raise.  And it anyone has an “in” with mr cummings... now is the time to speak up.....

 dd 8 27

 

Cylinders---  that is a big word in my world and penny produces lovely cylinders sometimes even on the deck now which is wonderful however larkey came to me and said he didn't think I wanted him on the deck and kept going to the back door which goes into a little pasture and then this morning Carly told me that she didn't think lucky was having the cylinders he actually had it upset tummy...   well this is kind of critical when you're going to go to daycare centers so he may have the day off for a day or two off..  and the whole thing is governed by whether or not he can produce a cylinder..   The other problem with that is that having an upset tummy-and producing diarrhea is usually quite confusing to a dog who often ends up turning in circles so that the distribution can be a six foot diameter circle--  or heaven forbid they have projectile diarrhea which can have almost unlimited dimension I had that happen once it was deaggle and he was in the living room in front of the fireplace... by the time he turned 6 circles we had a massive problem.  Memory of that episode is why I worship cylinders..  one additional fact to that episode is that the rug cleaning establishment in topsfield said he never wanted to have any of our rugs again...

 

that rejection is probably unique similar to Costco rejecting me for speeding probably doesn't happen too often.

 

with that happy thought We did have a similar episode over the weekend where penny got hold of my sugar container and carry that around shaking it and landing on the bed   Lying in it-----sugar and sticky are not my favorite words....

 

according to someone the newspapers are now having articles on equine encephalitis which is not a good thing carried by mosquitoes I'm not too sure exactly what we are supposed to do about that except worry about it I mean we have sprayed the animals and ourselves as much as is necessary I actually have not seen that many mosquitoes this year so far although according to Elizabeth that's because they prefer her to me.

 

a notice like that “beware of mosquitos is a little like the note on ht highway

 “beware of low flying aircraft”. what am i to do??? take my hat off?

 

Cloud is doing an amazing job keeping us as organized as is possible with our constant variation of details..

I came out of the doctor's office yesterday to have a note on my cell phone “go to rainbow”. which is a daycare center not too far from the hospital I already had lucky with me and sizzle and penny were in the car waiting to Take Me Home so it really was no issue to just go to rainbow... that's one place that hangs a little bit loose and the director came out and said I didn't know whether to expect you today or not

but we certainly. Are delighted to see you any time you're driving by...  we. as rainbow ... oh are coming to visit the farm I think she said Friday there again that hanging loose falls into place when they get here they get here.... I said make sure you bring your own food she assured me they would.

 

I am really needing to do indoor things A couple days here namely the budget is extremely complicated with the tree falling...  and we have to do something about the Cummings grant

 

well I'm there initial form they very carefully exclude anyone not in business for two years or whatever but they do make provision for being reestablished and I certainly hope we can fall into that category.   I did not know about that exclusionary line...   and have been really counting on some support from the Cummings foundation I honestly don't know how we can continue at the current rate without some kind of financial input..

 

Our current henny penny board is absolutely wonderful and does take care of the slightly scattered approach to visiting daycare centers... But to do it correctly we really should have one person on salary in charge and a second person at least 20 hours a week permanent to keep the paperwork going..  An example of the type problem we have is that over the weekend my phone was shut off because Verizon had applied the last payment to my TV and not my phone which was probably our error in the first place.... but it's the kind of thing to get on the phone on hold and straighten it out we just don't have anybody who could do that now.   Judy is struggling as best she can and doing a wonderful job but it really should be a at least a 20 hour a week paid position.

so let's see what we can do and I certainly will let you know.. I certainly will continue as volunteer with no pay... except for maybe the occasional cup of coffee.

 

I will increase the henny penny board---in a more open-ended style--for a couple weeks to see just what we as a group now..  can support.. Let's face it Mr. Cummings with the possible $100,000 it's hard to replace.. and I do think we are doing exactly what he wants very locally . So if you can then ask anybody who has a relative in nursing home or day care who can appreciate what we're doing if they could do $10 a month . Let's just see what we can raise.  And it anyone has an “in” with mr cummings... now is the time to speak up.....

Tue, Aug 27 at 8:56 AM

who often end I worship cylindn it out we just one has an “in” with mr cummings... now is the time to speak up..... 

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I was doing really well with the puppy for a while but as of today she seems to wanna eat every everything insight and to insist on lying with sizzle or lockie and cleaning up their feet so of course they can't sleep with that going on she just seems to be a nervous wreck today nothing 20 miles wouldn't cure so I think today is concentration will be how to run next to the golf cart   we almost had it yesterday yesterday she was not on a leash today if I put her on a leash so that she has to run in a certain spot I think that would be better

I do think she has worms and not worms--- fleas ---she spends an awful lot of time trying to clean herself up.  Just to finish a report on penny I am happy to say I have seen her lie with her back legs absolutely out straight...  the story on that is my father born in 1900 told me when I was picking a puppy to pick the one who lay lied lay down with his legs absolutely straight Outback he was born in 1900 now Fast forward 2 probably 2000 I was trying to X-ray a stud dog for possible hip dysplasia and when we had him on the table we were supposed to twist his legs very slightly and pull them straight back for the X-ray.. and in the process of doing that the vet tech told me that she could tell his hips  were fine Because if they weren't you couldn't even get them in this position so I was very happy to saee Poor sizzle good girl go ahead go aheadpenny lie with her legs absolutely straight back.

Poor sizzle she was lying very quietly on bed #2 when penny went over to join her and proceeded to clean their feet with such ferocity that sizzle had to get up and move back to bed #1 there is a definite preference for bed #1 next to the next to the window which is right now we're lucky is..

Her lesson of the morning is ----no don't touch this... whatever this is,,, and I don't take it away from her we'll put it back where it was with a very severe “no don't touch this” because if you take everything away from her so she can't chew it all what's happening is she's teaching you to get things out of her reach whereas if you put things back where it was and just try and concentrate which is difficult but

just tell her “no don't touch it” then you've made great strides forward.. I think all my dogs know “leave it”..

I have often demonstrated that when eating my lunch or supper of some convenience stool, and have a dog come over and look longingly at my lunch and I just say “leave it” and I don't move it out of their way.  And they will sit back longingly and look at it but they wouldn't dream of touching it--- at least that is when  I'm there---- I don't think I'd leave the room although I just might be able to with some of them like sizzle.. with penny I don't seem to be able to keep track of what's right next to me on the floor because three Times Now she's grabbed something out of that pocket book of mine and she hasn't get got that no that’s not to be touched. 

Another spot I have used that concept successfully is to be in my golf cart and to start to go down to pick up the mail and when I get to where the gate was I stop and say “no you don't come any further “they --- that's both sizzle and locky--- stop and look at me and I have been able to go all the way down get the mail and come back and they're still standing there that's also not happened a couple times but they do know what that means which is sometimes very lucky. Another time it's more spectacular is to be in a wheelchair getting pushed toward the check in at the hospital clinic and just say whoa the lackey while they're pushing me and he stops and stands there which is very interesting as people get off the elevator and he is just standing in the middle---

doctor's appointment first thing this morning--- well 9:00

 

Dd 8 25 I had to go and purchase this 2025 book---a there was so much talk about it I had to see what was in it... I have to say I am minus any political affiliation and wish to stay that way but along the way I've had ideas and I don't mind mentioning them.. first of all as I've mentioned before I have a binary problem light switches right left things like that and among those are red or blue I can never remember which one goes with which... however way back when I was very young my sister franny told me that if Truman became president the world was gonna come to an end and I worried about that for days I must have been all of about 8 years old that wasn't very old... The only reason I have donkeys. is only because they're easier and cheaper to own than elephants although once at an auction I did I did bid on an elephant so I could say I had but thankfully I didn't win it  this book 2025 I can guarantee you I will never finish reading I have so far flip through the 170 odd pages just looking at the titles which is almost enough I have learned about this Heritage Foundation---which says it's the 6th largest think tank in the world---a little frightening because I'm not sure who said the participants we're qualified to think however it says it is and it started sort of in the 1970s. well I have a first hand experience along about that time my children were born in the 1965 era.. 2 girl children.. so when the news came round that a large group a white male children was enjoying a financial bonus of a in international trip somehow it was either Africa or South America it was a significant trip and the purpose of this trip was to make sure that they were friendly toward one political party and it apparently was no secret that annoyed me.. having two girl children we didn't even stand a chance... so I let that one go by without too much fuss but I did remember it so that every time I see a picture of all the representatives or senators or whatever I wonder how many of those white male people were previously trained for the position they now hold ---and it angers me.. however it's not going to do me any good but I did remember it. my next politically related story would have to be when I was operating as animal episodes the commercial called for horses.. to be filmed down at Faneuil Hall area in some market.. and it called for the person running for presidency to recite a short line while going thru the check out......  however this white male president applicant had to redo that scene more than six times..  enough for me to think my God I hope there's a bunch of people behind him to keep him going straight.. that would apparently be this Heritage Foundation kind of thing.. so ... I do recommend some people buy this book.. it is a terrific reference of how our government is configured,,,, and references hundreds of people by a page reference to what they have done or said.. ***actually. That is an assumption.. because I have not read it--- but I did look at the pages full of small print .

 

You may not believe this but the problem with getting the daily doggie out on time now is affected by the fact my leg is no longer in rap my leg is no longer wrapped up which means that I can get up and take a shower get dressed normally except for the extensive grease job then required By the dermatologist who highly recommends EUCERIN as long as it's it is checked off all the way to the right...  apparently it comes in different strengths and is labeled intensive repair.. the only thing on mine is at the moment is the elastic socks which I did buy and someone probably Judy put away somewhere we have a lot of time of trouble finding these somewheres where people put things a lot of stuff comes in and I never see it again.. like the opera gloves lovely white gloves shoulder length just stop me from scratching any itches in my arms..  they're gone carefully put away somewhere... along with the two dozen white gloves that I should be wearing at night and I will as soon as I find them maybe.

being minus the extensive wrapping of my lower left leg means I can shower normally ...I like that my only problem now is the wobbly shower stool it seems to be minus a screw or something I must attend to that.

I don't think we have any jobs to go to over the weekend except there are a couple outfits coming here. and then a bunch of people learning to walk donkeys and some of the donkeys are doing quite well ------donkeys are an unknown wealth in the United states. and if you watch very carefully in Gaza they are still working over there carefully pulling cards wherever they have to go.  you don't see any horses in that mess .

I should but probably won't get to it... have vests made for the donkeys then simply say vote... why not.. I can remember when Obama was first speaking here in Boston someone wanted to borrow Mary but I was afraid of the crowd some people think it's cute to hit a donkey... because if you scare them enough they won't move frightened donkeys don't move.... frightened horse will break your neck or anything else that happens to be in the way.... but the steady donkeys I made fun of...  go figure...

 Dd 8 23.    Yesterday no daily doggy because I was literally awake all night long and by 5:00 in the morning I'd fallen asleep getting my days turned around again is difficult but I'll give it a shot.  as I managed to sleep last night.  for the first time in a long time I could take a --- real----\\\\shower because I don't have one leg and a bandage so I'm looking forward to that//.

 

 puppy progress is is progressing...  My biggest problem with her is she jumps up on you.. which means her back legs are wonderfully strong but I'm telling you if she continues that as she gets older and bigger that's going to be a larger problem so that's what I'm working on at the moment she is very active and and she can stand for a long time quite nicely on her back legs..   

 

Janine and Carly managed to get yesterday's daycare center done very nicely they had a good time and we have that daycare in Wakefield to do today which is one of our favorites it is the first floor we can take the donkeys no problem and after we finish at 11:00 it's time for Nelly Thorpe to open which is my very favorite ice cream stand so I think I'll manage to get that to go on that job today..  other than that I have no news to report everything else is political

 

I have in my new emails list I believe one point 4K I'm afraid I'm just gonna have to wipe out the whole thing without looking over it I just never could manage so if you've got something out there that I should read send it to me tomorrow\

  I NEVER SAW THE “WEB” TIL TODAY.. .IT CERRTANLY IS FULL OF PICTURES IF YOU CLICK AROUND THE TOP ITESM.   www.goldysfarm.com.  

 

 

LIKE CORPORATE VISITS...  Which happened yesterday---- the plan of the day was for me to go to the bandage department with lucky.  at 9:00 and then join Janine at the hunt nursing home shortly after 10.

 

all went well till we got to the nursing home and there was no Janine turns out we had not gotten the cancel message because they too are now loaded with COVID so Janine had gone on to Home Depot with the trailer figuring to look at the skylights needed for this bit about the tree falling into the house..  the message I got at this point was did I have any cards and bring them to Home Depot immediately..  I assumed that was to buy the skylights and went flying over with the credit cards which are stuck to my advisor but that's not what she needed she needed these business cards and I did have a few..

 

 because Elizabeth had taken Angus... our four month old baby donkey who is extremely sociable and just looking for something to do she took him into Home Depot and what she needed were the business cards to hand out and I only had a few but SHE  did hand them out it was an exceedingly popular activity... Which attracted all the Home Depot employees and practically everyone in the store.. Janine immediately sold this as a corporate event to cheer up or whatever wherever some cheer was needed..

 

There is no end to the odd things we can get into from goalie sfarm.. Not only do we have the very well behaved /socialized...dogs and donkeys and horses couple chickens or go to R2 all the way down to a turtle.. We have the paraphernalia to take them places etcetera with trucks and trailers and cars we can do some very strange things at the spur of the moment... we do need to produce a better flyer but listen in I still would like to sit on a street corner and wait for the the van to take me to a nursing home somehow somehow that appeals to me because at some point I became just another piece of the farm where my 86 years has its own marketable value.. the horse in the elevator was another popular item...

 

 in the mean time i'm still trying to house break the dog/the score for the night was one large P and two separate BMS on the deck however there were two tiny ttittles in the house

 

The rest of the excitement for the day was when the freezer  oit stopped  freezing the ice cream calling us to try and figure out why which involved pulling the refrigerator away from the wall which disclosed an unbelievable collection which I won't bother going into well I eat my breakfast and then the right joining is scooped all that up and applied a little bit of vacuum cleaner to the inside and all of a sudden it works again

so we all of you out there in the world take tomorrow and pull your refrigerator away from the wall and undo the damage

 

 Actually I was shocked and amazed have 3 donkeys come out of the barn at a relatively controlled jog trot with three women attached to a lead rope almost as good as the packed borough raised donkeys they were all travel trotting straight ahead and it was a go progress is being made of course we need about 20 donkeys but we're getting there I we're we're doing better than I thought we would be at this stage of the game..  and the visiting the daycare centers with the donkeys is really no particularly bother as long as the trailer just plain stays hooked up so we just have to throw a couple donkeys on the trailer and drive off and we're all set um we are working slowly to have lockie be slightly more tolerant of the donkeys when they are visiting and that still is a a situation that has to be addressed because if he ever got decided to chase him it would be bad so when we do nursing homes with both species.  we put him back in the car before we get the donkey out last week's visiting in Ipswich at the riverbend it was really very nice and I did write it up for the newspaper and hopefully that'll be in this Wednesday

 

We have done our homework or actually Elizabeth has--- in that all the animals have their rabies shots in the paperwork the certificates are in are copied and are in the glove compartment of both the truck and my car so that wherever it's needed we should have it hopefully we won't need it --so as long as the trailer stays hooked up it's a very simple matter to put a few horses or donkeys or something on it to go to these nursing homes all we need are more volunteers I cannot handle everything nor can Janine so to really do a nice job we need more volunteers so get at it...

 

I do have a pikkle  report to make this morning--  thinking back to having ziti here for a few days weeks whatever I was cognizant of the fact she pees a lot very often and I was afraid of urinary tract infection and I did have her urine checked um as did Bella who now has her but the frequency of the pedal was appalling and now that I have penny I have noticed the frequency of the penny piddle  is about the same as the CD piddle which was not an infection but a a young u female dog’s problem..  in all probability

 

And a lot of my chosen medical treatment is of the probability  kind.. 

 dd 8 18

stolen from elizabeth warren’s political web page.... but so true

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it is related to my husband’s medical practice ----  to see 2 patients every 15 minutes( which really screwed up every  appointment book printed. of one every 15 min)  not only that but  i did hear with my own ears...” it would be medically incorrect for me to prescribe birth control pills without a pap smear.”was the rule for years !!  i have heard the exact words from some vets...”it would be medically incorrect for me to give a rabies shot without a physical exam”....

fine ... well then   i will get my mandated rabies shot at the fire station for $2. or tractor supply. for $7...

welllllll.  i  could not find fire station with rabies clinics.. so i asked bryan ( equine vet) to do all our rabies at once for cost plus rabies vaccine,,, rabies shot has to be done by a vet who certifies that they got it !

this story  of the initial $300 vet charge is absodlutely true-- when we picked up penny, she had a distict gurgle i wanted someone with educated ears to listen to...  so i took her to. the friendly wednesday vet..   who now knows us a little--  but he said  “to be medically correct i should do xrays-- but personally my gut feel  is wait and see what happens next... and you seem the gut feel type”. TRUE !

WE ave start4ed the day---

 dd 8 n177

i give up.... for the daqy

 

i have  to admit I have never managed to house train a dog.. they somehow managed to become house trained but I can't say as I worked on it----- I watched people up and down boxford Rd. Walking dogs on leashes and thinking if I've ever I had to do that with my dogs I don't think I would have owned a dog.. somehow I have always had access to a very limited fenced area for potty purposes..

 

However... I now have what has been called “my puppy” and I do have time to think about how I could and should do this also because the Wednesday veterinarian who seems to be a good veterinarian with a sense of humor.. has given me the official” how to house train a puppy..."

 

It is a long complicated set of instructions about putting your treats in the left pocket and the right pocket and telling the dog good dog and bad dog and stuff like that it's just that that that just is beyond me ----I prefer to sit and think about it so I did.

 

there are a couple training things that are basic to me-----one is you never use your muscles to control a dog (unless absolutely necessary..) and you don't use treats when you're trying to teach them anything.

 

first of all if you're using your muscles to make them do something they don't want to do you already have a negative reaction going there ---it may be minor but sometime major....   and if you start giving them treats their mind will be on the treat not whatever you're trying to teach them so basically you learn to carry treats and feed the dog.

I also think that has very young babies there is an instinct to get out of the nest to pee and poop I watched them at 2 weeks old try and get out of the nursing area and get away from mommy's nose they may be just getting away from her licking them or it may be just a natural instinct to get away from the nest or sleeping area..  whatever.....i do think there is a natural instinct to get away from the sleeping area... so I try and capitalize on that

 

So what I've started and would like to brag about because I have this morning two outdoor poops as proof that she went out twice.. I started with the going outside--on to the little deck attached to the room. no treats just “outside “as we walk through the door many times   I refrain from using “inside “as the opposite because it sounds too much alike but within a day if I went anywhere near that door and said outside then she went outside..  so now I could sit in my chair and watch her and if her tail was up and her nose down I could yell outside and she went outside..   Right at the moment I am looking at great success... 12 hours overnight. 2 poops....,... could be success or accidental stupidity..  whatever I'll take it.

 

Stay tuned....

  

Dd 8 14

kenyon collage is a good college--- a  damn good college and way back when we were thrilled to have Gwen be accepted.  I mean she had good grades and good SAT scores but when she went there for their freshman initiation speech by the president of Kenyon College he mentioned the fact that they even had someone in the freshman class who had run a circus..   which was Gwen.  If I didn't know it then it certainly solidified the concept of doing something unusual that would make you stand out from the crowd.. because I'm sure Kenyan was inundated with qualified applicants..  and in my opinion Kenyan provided a super education for Gwen and the next four years..  When she graduated she knew all kinds of things that I had never considered when I graduated from Colby....  I'm pretty sure my parents paid to Get Me Out of there because I don't think I ever pass the dam 500 word spelling tests.   

 

I am sure running a circus in the eyes of the president of Kenyon College his field of reference was probably ringling brothers however running our circus took a lot different huzzah..  and my first and best memory of the circus was Gwen trying to sow a straight line making the clown outfits on  the old treadle sewing machine ----neither Gwen nor Janine was very old at the time and Gwen yelled  “Janine pump faster.”  to Janine who was sitting on the floor working the  treadle...  That crazy circus was just my way of not having to prime the kids to have their ponies in horse shows where they get a blue ribbon or more likely they wouldn't get any ribbon and I'd be left wondering why I did all that--- the circus was something else we made money for project hope about $1000... with the aid of Wayne Cashman left skate---- I'm not sure how I ended up with his left skate but I had it and I put it on a piece of wood and auctioned it off Wayne was one of the Bruins hockey players who had won the Stanley Cup so that scate was a very valuable thing I don't know what happened to the right skate but I had the left one I wonder where it is now.  Wayne's wife was  the horse person.. that's how I got to know them..

 

Circus practice began at 7:00 every morning with the flag raising ceremony where all these kids about 10 years old would get out in the middle of the front lawn and somebody would bring out the flag to raise it

it was very official...  and the circus provided and untold number of learning experiences.... including how do we get rid of a dead monkey before the crowd gets here,.... but that's another long story. Along with if you're planning to have a clown ride a horse then the clown outfit must never be made out of anything slippery..  such were the details of running our circus..  we were a long cry from ringling brothers but we were happy to share some of their publicity..

 now for the morning poop report...... 2 outside tinkles... one significant bm inside..significant, but exceptionally tidy in tight cylindars.  

 and currently sound asleep...  i think she has some catching up to do in the sleep department... she is a baby .. she is hav ing a w0nderful time rying to figure ... which is in and which is out???

***** now for a significant  study.

there is a remarkable number  of u.s presedents whdo were raised by a single parent-- thanks to diana. nine of them..actually 9 plus 2 

that is 11 out of 45???  statistic wise that is huge///. and worth consideration??? it is nearly the same as the number that have been shot at.....  can someone find that one out???

ok so hands up for who wants to be shot at?-----osha could never deal with those numbers...  

problem of the day--- the ;;;my.... front door gets stuck shut--- would never do  if there was a fire drill... iwell there are 2 other doors... but a stuck door is my biggest problem of the day...