Dd 9 30

I hate lies ---be they either intentional or just due to mental l laziness... I struggle for purity of thought and in this case I have an example of everything.

 

Yesterday having nothing to do I decided to have a ride with Elizabeth over to Meredith to maybe help with whatever I could do.. which at Meredith is driving their gas propelled golf cart while dragging a large piece of chain link fence to spread out the poopies..in the various pastures... this is a critical job and I'm very pleased to do it.. and I try and do it very nicely in straight lines..

problem of the day is when we got to Meredith Elizabeth quite rightly told me that Janine’s  truck and trailer we're stuck together and Janine could not get them apart.

interesting ---that arrangement is called a fifth wheel. where the hitch of the car and trailer is in the bed of the pickup.. to get them apart the trailer has a foot-- which will allow you to Jack it up and pull the truck out from underneath---where hopefully you have lowered the tailgate---otherwise you just smashed it--- you ruined it---this happens to everybody with a fifth wheel   once.. after that you don't forget.

So Janine was compelled to drag that thing around with her when we went to the luncheonette for our typical hamburgers and mangoes smoothies before going home. So we get home and she pulls in the yard plunk in the middle... because there are 8  SDP cars parked where I have clearly asked them not to park.. and they have clearly thumbed their nose at me.. However—

what Elizabeth had told me was very correct the truck and trailer were stuck together . but Janine came along knowing that they were stuck together.. and knowing that the Jack that usually help separate them did not seem to be working.. she told me the Jack was broken---that's the kind of thing that bothers me because she didn't know that... that was yet to be discovered.. Once it was parked in the yard I did go over and not knowing what I was doing at all, I diddled with one of the levers... which cause the foot to drop to the ground. but the Jack part didn't work jeanine came over restored the foot to its original place and told me she had a guy coming in the morning to fix it.. that was another non truth.. she had a guy coming over in the morning who was going to charge her $150.00 whether he got the trailer fixed at that point or not.

With a little bit of a “please get out of the way”--I retreated to my allotted chair .

and fortunately Bud passed by with his small worn  leather pouch of tools so I just happened to mention to him the fact that there was some problem unhooking the truck and trailer. Things that don't work properly really annoy Bud... --so he went over just to stand there and stare at it--- with this how dare you not function correctly attitude.... and he noticed a smudge of greasy stuff in an unusual spot and wondered why it was there.. he also noticed that if you wiggle the handle the smudge came and went.. and when it was there, the Jack function perfectly if you wiggle the handle to make the smudge go away for some reason the Jack did not function correctly... something about engaging the gears inside well ---- the Jack worked perfectly.. if you use the handle in the position that the handle wanted to be used.. . The saving $150.00.

OK so the trailer problem got solved..  I really hope that everyone has also learned a lesson in speaking actual truth.. and not assuming. more then you are entitled to assume. 

the lack of truth makes for very expensive errors.

 Dd 9 29 

OK while I'm at it...   And while people  have “knocked” me for being picky ... my crazy idea of spoon feeding puppies to start their initial training. go back to the pictures of Pam or me. or anybody in the good old days feeding puppies and the puppies are always free to roam around and come running in to the person with the can and the spoon...   ----now last time I saw this is a spoon feeding project with the new bunch of people and handlers and whatever--- they were standing on the other side of the fence while the puppies all pushed and shoved trying to get at the person with the spoon..   swapping back to Pam or me feeding pups they were always sitting very nicely in front of me... there's a whole world of difference it makes to the pup...  to be struggling and restrained as opposed to sitting politely and waiting.. So yes I objected to this new method of training...   because I knew that what Pam did and what I did was a world of difference to the pup.. and it wasn't just a case of getting the food in the puppy.  ..

  I don't think this current bunch of dogs ever did what we call the Meghan March..  freely following the person with the can and  the spoon. 

 

That concept is very closely related to the fact that I do not approve of those easier, quicker circular puppy feeders were just supposed to be so much nicer to feed all the puppies at once ----well it's not if you're a puppy .. this is my number 1 =--I much prefer the individual bowls so we end up raising lovely ladies and gentlemen in the puppy department ----with individual bowls my puppies always grew up to be fed at a table..   sometimes 8 at a time absolutely no trouble... there are photos of me... with 8,  or----as a chef serving  3 dogs waiting for their food.... 

 

Seeing as I think I'm really out of the puppy raising business I suppose it doesn't matter that I saw one of my 8 foot long plexiglass feeders thrown in  the dumpster ---ouch!   

like McDonald get them young and trade them early---  to have happy meals---and where they don't have to fight over others for their food.. 

dd 9 29

Dd 9 28

 

Too much month left at the end of the money--or something like that the tree cutters did not come back yesterday and they're not here yet this morning and I'm beginning to worry because we did pay them a lot of money not the whole thing but it would it's making me nervous because there's still a lot that needs to be done around here.. although Janine has certainly got the driveway swept clean which fortunately was a nice invitation to some friends of mine from Linfield back in circus days Jean gogan was here her kids were young and in the circus so she was well in tune with the way things work around here... I hope to see him again very interestingly she came with three of her friends from their senior living place.. and the way they have it organized is that one of their children picks the three of them up once a week for a spin around the town

and that's really kind of. very good concept and I can think of another family I hope to get organized to as we went through the next couple years where is this damn thing here it is do that which would be the nutters who are also circus people... Them were the good old days...

 

I finally got to Home Depot did did manage to buy so 1 1/2 inch PVC type 1 schedule 40 and they did have four way fitting they didn't have a five way so now I've got to try and match that up with the things online to try and get a five way fitting which is what you need if you're going to have a a stand for the dog to jump over you need five way and they make it they make a whole lot of things for furniture making

 

I took about an hour this morning already to answer some specific questions that a member of the service to our project group had asked or believed in..  There are a couple things I've never talked about till now. but let me just run it one or two by you.

at the beginning of all this there was a distinct shortage of trainers which was OK um with me because back I was involved as president and Lynn was involved as director and seeing as I had taken Megan who was a babysitter and made a very good trainer out of her I assume we could do that again um not everybody would have megan's talents to begin with but it was a goal at any rate because there was a lack of personnel I devised a way of communicating the different problems with different dogs which would be as economical as possible as far as time was concerned with these trainers you know one didn't like trucks or another one tried to run up stairways or things like that that you have to know about to try and straighten out I had a system where they would write any problem in very few words Donna would type them in when she got around to it on a daily basis and all the trainers would get a print out of what dogs were doing what and I don't think it took Donna 15 minutes to do that.. but someone came along and sold a program to listen for the training of dog promising to have completed the dog's training in very short order Lynn bought it and the way it worked was each trainer was to spend almost 1/2 hour on the computer with every dog they worked . However--Lynn wanted everyone to use a program that was being marketed to produce a service dog which involved an awful lot of computer time Which would produce a data file of a lot of information you really didn't need to know what you need to know in this situation is what are the problems with this dog does it really run up the stairs in which case slow it down... That concept of a commercially marketed method as opposed to crazy carlene's method.. seemed to be much preferred by Lynn.. basically investing in the established company..... that many of the more unusual things I devised were tossed aside for the commercial variety.. Occasionally it was clearly the right thing to do but many times there were little subtle changes that got lost and if you get enough little subtle changes go on a whole picture can change which is kind of what's happening so that dogs that I was graduating at about 14 months old were still here trying to jump the fences.

 

That concept of taking someone else's word 4 some process or another... was actually the root cause of many of the larger problems till none of the dog people talk to me  at all.. and I sit around and watch mistakes being made and just drop it let them  do it

 

I just go some other direction. 

 

Dd 0 26

I can tell you what I thought about writing even if I did forget to write it ---jeanine is very intent I'm cleaning up goldie's farm as best she can //unfortunately to her cleaning up means throwing away everything she's not immediately using I have a problem with that

 apparently. service dog project has gone through the giraffe tent and labeled all the things they intend to take/

The part I get a kick out of is that they did not label the John Deere tractor as something they wanted to take because it is now broken and here we go again I this is a very familiar episode I went through this when they had to unload the massive collection which was in my cellar in the house and I listened carefully as Jen would instruct people well we'll take that no I don't want to take that and we'll take that back and forth which left a great tremendous pile about the size of a small Volkswagen bug which then got wet and got moldy and attracted rats mice and frogs um I did mention this too a member of the board as far as I know a man who's a policeman and Lynn I'm told and he said ohh we'll take care of that don't worry about it and 10 days later nobody had done a thing and the rats and the mice was really getting to us so I backed the trailer up and Janine and Elizabeth put on hazmat suits and by hand they loaded everything into the trailer I took it to the dump and it weighed 1040 lbs and I paid for it I bought the trailer back at which point it was removed without my blessing and I no longer have it.

 

 but that John Deere tractor took a beating I bought it from Gwen my daughter when they moved to the Carolinas many years ago and it worked perfectly as it would it would John with wrong gwen's husband he was very good at fixing things and when I cut the grass I did it in long straight lines encircled a bit and another long straight line so that I I didn't have to stop and back it up and turn around and it looked nice with the straight lines now in the last six months service dog project had cut the field in half the flat field in half so that it would have been possible to do it the usual way but they opted not to so they would go across the field and then stop and back up and pull forward and back up and swing forward and go across the field again and stop and back up and turn forward and back up and turn and after all this clinking and clanking of the chain the gears and everything else they've got worn out fast so it it then didn't work at which point they started to use the Kubota and the last thing I know from that episode was that mark was using it to cut this same area and I went up to him and asked him if I might have the keys and he abruptly not very politely told me I could not and that the tractor was broken. well if it was broken nobody did a thing to pick it to fix it they still have the key and Janine is using a push mower that someone gave her to cut our grass While the service dog project part of the grass was cut with the  Toyota Which I was told it does not work and is broken .

 

The fact that service dog project went around and labeled all the things they're going to take or they think they're going to take which included a lot of lawn equipment and garden equipment some of which are not even mine and they just throw away the things that are broken well I don't think that's gonna work this time around so we have a large mess to solve in case you thought we didn't... My guess the John Deere and it was functioning was worth easily $2000 very used I think is what I paid Gwen for it... but not working it has a negative value of many hundreds of dollars when you try and get rid of it in the dump by the pound...

 

That's what was going through my head when I thought I did the daily doggy----the 1040 lbs of trash from the cellar was full of oriental trading boxes which included such valuable things like plastic wine glasses with the SDP logo to go with the BBQ aprons likewise

the only picture of me i ever liked !!

Dd 9 25. Hmmmmm. 97. But who is counting??? Me! That is who !+really... the hardest part of the past 2 years has been to not be able to offer hospitality to all my friends and “warriers” .... I can remember......... The good old days when aunt mildred's needlepoint which said  happy to share with you such as I've got  the leaks in the roof and the soup in the pot.  And Megan and I in our general wandering collected sofas so I could quite rightly offer the camera people “if not a bed I'm sure you can find a sofa”. and all people had to do would fly into Boston and get on the shuttle which would take them to Peabody and we would pick them up so like it was no expense of cars and things like that once they landed at the farm they ate what we ate it did what we did and everyone had a great time... fulgens sent us an actual folding bed for the ICU building.. Along with a few other things to make it livable.... this is not gracious living it's warm dry comfortable happy surroundings and the ability the cook your own food.. That was the good old days.   many times I got a big kick out of watching people meet face to face for the first time having known each other for five years as camera people.  especially at things like dog fest where you had a lot of people... but there were occasions where people organize their own reunions... or organized family outing in historic Boston.. which with three children would be nearly impossible to do if they had to stay in a hotel downtown... Nobody complained about three children on two couches. it worked. There were several reunions both high school and college totally on a do-it-yourself basis... which were great fun.. I hope to get back there.. well I hope to get there in the 1st place which is the first floor of the laundry building. after that we need to dress up the ICU building and the annex. which is building 25..  to have the bare necessities Where  I  need to provide only warm dry... And the opportunity to develop a fun and happy time...   At the moment I can't even start collecting the occasional sofa which I see along the streets.. I remember also in Beverly farms I came to a set of furniture sofa and chairs outside of a big fancy place I pulled over and sat down on them to claim them and called Megan to hook up the trailer get over there and pick me up with all that  furniture. My and megan's tendency to collect beds and sofas became a real problem for jeanine trying to clean us up and she  had to pay to get them thrown away..  So  even if I could offer a roof over someone's head at the minute I'm a little bit short of sofas but we'll figure that out as life goes on so that hopefully by 2025... we can provide the opportunity for some CP’s fun.. inclusion  of all “camera people”  has always been my mantra as opposed to exclusion.. sometimes gets me in trouble but the benefit is worth it. Loosely hung, the rules are ---three days (like fish) ,, and up drinking coffee at 7:00 AM, unless you were on the red eye from California... when you got a few extra minutes to wake up.. And the only ones allowed to drink Are my various relatives that seem to need one glass of wine at supper time....   97... I never thought I would make it this far! the only picture of me i ever liked !!

 

Dd 9 24 aka day #98

 

With many ropes and a great deal of muscle 6 people got mojo back on her feet . When I heard she was down in the field I assumed she was not feeling well and was in mortal trouble however when I got there and everybody else got there we found that she had laid down and in the process of lying on her side her feet were slightly higher than her head and for a horse that's a mortal problem..  so I was given a chair to sit and watch while the rest of the people there picked up heavy duty ropes got a halter on her and proceeded to pull her away from the fence which was slightly downhill from her feet once she was turned around perpendicular to the incline she got her feet under herself ---the back ones first--- and staggered forward about 3 feet of course looking for breakfast..  so in other words she was fine she just had a geometric problem. luckily being a mule once she found herself in that spot she didn't struggle very much--- we could see where she had tried to get on her feet and her front legs formed an arch in the mud sand the in which she laid but she quit.. a horse might have struggled till they died but mules have more sense.. so she just quit and said where the heck  is breakfast?

 

So that disaster over with Judy and I went on to trask which is an adult daycare center..  which we go to quite often in Peabody there's usually about 25 to 35 people there in a vague circle.. so when we got there we just let the dogs go ahead because they knew damn well where they're going and all three bounded into the room amid cheers from the people sitting in the circle...  I joined them in the chair they they saved for me and Judy arrived with the frying pan and we played the usual game feed the dog the cookies.. We had kind of exhausted the cookie routine by one minute after 11..   which meant that the five guys sandwich shop would be open at 11:00 and they have what I thought was the greatest milkshake..

 

we got there at 11:05 and they weren't quite ready for us something about material not being completely frozen to make the milkshakes so I ate a hamburger while we waited and that worked---- they finally came out with a milkshake.   They must have rushed the process because the milkshake contain 1/4 to 1/8 inch light pebbles sort of thing which if I collected them in my mouth and squished them they were squishable on the roof of my mouth into a semi pleasant waxy sort of substance... so much for that lovely milkshake I don't know what those pebbles were never had anything like it before but apparently that's what makes it wonderful if prepared properly and not rushed..  it tasted semi good but I honestly didn't finish it.

 

We came home to chainsaws blaring and Elizabeth photographing the results found that one of the trees right close to the house was totally hollow..  It looked alive but this tree which was probably 14 inches in diameter had only about an inch and 1/2 of wood on the outside the center was totally hollow and black so I think we did the right thing to cut that one down and I'm pretty sure there's another one just like it at the top of the pond... but seeing as that is probably not a threat to anything we may not cut it down in this go round---apparently they will be back to cut down maybe another 6 trees and then bring in a grinder to grind up all the bits and pieces.. which Elizabeth thought would be fine to fire them into the chicken pen and cover that whole area sounds good at the moment I can't think why not eventually we could cover it with horse manure and end up with grass---maybe.  All of this wood I think complete the requirement of the insurance company so that they will give us the last $14,000 of the insurance money,  if their inspection says we've done everything we're supposed to.. somehow with insurance companies I'll believe it when it's in the bank.

 

my idiot brainstorm over the moment is to try and put together and abbreviated agility course and maybe get penny to jump crawl through funny things when we're at a nursing home/daycare center-- remember these day care centers are heated and air conditioned. and love to share it with animals...

 

the hardest. pvc   thing to find are the 5 openings so I could make a very tiny jump a cavaletti...   ..  and see if I could get penny started on agility..  the number one agility Dane in the country belonged to Beth Guttridge... it was a white male  who was 100% deaf---  then she got it doing complete agility courses...  white and deaf is not a death sentence... it just needs a little creative thinking... 

 dd 9 23 

 I think that is 99 days and counting !! ( til 2025)with soooo many disasters in the meantime.... oct. 7 and then vote---- I can not help but think it is maybe THEEEEEE  most critical of my lifetime...  If I was a lot younger I'd have saddle clothes made for all these donkeys and take him out to walk around or maybe get my children to do that would be more probably the case with just plain vote on them.

 

Hello. Judy is talking(OK she she got out talking load that out) janine called and would like us at meridith.. ? mo is not well???

 

I better run...

 dd 9 22

Dd 9 22   Thank heaven someone sent us coffee for the Keurig but Gwen had figured out that it's only two cups of anything warm will do very nicely in the morning so when she doesn't have coffee she just lets the water run through and drinks that and it works at least in emergencies it works..    I found out then a friend of mine from circus days is in a and assisted living place which we go to on a regular basis so I'd like to try and see if we can get there today if not today then pretty soon it was very strange to see them there in wheelchairs and me there almost in a wheelchair but with dogs...   another project of the day is to take the normal hitch off the back of my car and put in that hitch a thing to carry wheelchairs it would be very handy and it does have a ramp which means that sizzle as she gets older could go up the ramp and in the gate in the back door.. it's an aluminum umm what the hell is it it's a it's a ramp with a flat area attached to it absolutely perfect for wheelchairs...  I'm wondering how it survives crowded parking lots with another 2 1/2 feet sticking out the rear ..we'll find out I guess.   One of the things I check along with the weather is the number shot in the United states versus the number killed in the eastern war problem---- the war is not always ahead last night 4 + 14 so far in Georgia maybe Alabama or Alabama I stand corrected--- Alabama   Now As for puppy peeing progress---  we've taken a severe step backwards because she is illustrating the well known Great Dane concept of do not go out in the rain regardless...  I hate to say it but sizzle told me the same thing overnight...  if I do get up and put penny out, I have to put her muzzle on because that stops her from eating rocks at the moment at least since we started using the muzzle we haven't had any rock come out of the back end whereas before muzzle we had at least 75% rocks.. what's interesting is she now lets us put the muzzle on without any fuss at all that runs through the door then runs in and runs to her feed dish to see if maybe she could have a snack we're trying to shovel all the food we can into her without causing diarrhea she is so active I wish she'd gained a little bit of weight we're working on it she does get a vitamin pill--- I still wonder about ADHD this is one active dog

  

Dd 9 21

I just bit the bullet and wiped out 350 old e-mail most of which I glanced over but I honestly didn't read them all there were just so many political ones I couldn't stand it nor could I get control of the current stuff however on we go

for a more serious consideration... is this the sequence of the places we go to

 

And in spite of the tremendous facilities those not one of these I would like to be confined to so keep that in mind I want to be able to come and go.

 

the most high level is the community for people 55 years of age and older..   they are only vaguely organized but on occasion they do all get together in an auditorium sort of situation and I have been asked to speak in those kind of deals which I do and take larkey with me who eventually I just turned loose in the crowd..

secondly I would probably say the senior drop in centers and all the town halls are available for the elderly..  they're just warm and dry places to go which have tables with Scrabble and the computer or two and people just kind of hanging around.

 Thirdly I would probably put. the assisted living places most of which are very fancy pleasant with full restaurant facilities and probably a swimming pool and things like that and I've been to those places the most notably was brooksby village in Danvers where I took Mary into their auditorium and she was extremely well behaved and very popular Along with all my dogs....

Fourthly it begins to be a little restricted where the door is locked behind me as I enter with my dogs and those are the adult day care centers... where they keep you warm and dry well fed...  and although they have an activities director those activity directors are worn out

And when we arrive with dogs or anything we are tremendously welcome because the staff is very tired.

and it goes on from there---  There are daycare centers which primarily have children..  and after that we have daycare centers  Children with special needs..  and at that point you're really getting into stressed help..   as many of these kids have basically an attendant with them all the time... 

 

we go to all those places and the special needs children place is always the most challenging for us and the animals...  but we go there and one of the staff always presses a bunch of bills into my hand as we're packing up the leave ... I think that's mostly because I'm not sure they get anybody else who will even go there let alone with dogs who will relate to the kids and let them pat them..  I think lock is well the usual special needs place is about 120 children...   ohh wanting to pat him..   but lately I hear they were at a place where there were about 300 children who swarmed the animals without any particular problem. 

 

We have always just booked jobs and gone to whoever asks us to go.  but the ones who are happiest to see us when we get there the special needs kids..... and their staff doesn't have time to call us to ask us to come.. I think we need to address that problem and if we could find a special person like bill coming there's somebody. we could try and make sure we do one children's project a week and that would spread it out nicely between four or five towns just a project to work on

 

the other project is the fact that Janine decided you couldn't really distinguish the goldies farm crew from the residence ohh these places... and I think she was really talking to me because once I sit down in the in the circle I look like everybody else so she is designing shirts and hats to distinguish us from the group by the time that gets put together we'll need a complete mailing department because we will be selling the extra shirts and hats. 

 

moving along

 

Dd 9 20

 

Gwen Gwen just showed me a lovely little gizmo about the size of a 25 cent piece which you can put in something you leave behind constantly like your wallet or something and need to go and find it and it really does work if she leaves it in her bags at the airport and somebody steals the bags it will track that thing all the way to their home and get her bag back again that was unbelievably accurate etcetera etcetera so all she needs to have to be able to take advantage of this marvelous technology is our cell phone which is one of the things that she does leave behind but not that often but the problem also is that she's used her cell phone so often that she no longer knows out of her memory what any of the phone numbers are probably including her own at any rate she now has written her critical phone numbers about 3 or 4 of them on a little piece of paper which she then keeps in her wallet which hopefully is not the thing she leaves behind it sort of is technology going through full circle and being dependent on a little piece of paper I like that...

 

 we don't have anything to do today OH YES WE DO.......don’t we nothing on the do we??? I don't think there is any note on my PAPER  calendar.. WE HAVE 2 VISITS WITH EQUINES   AND A PERSON COMING T OHE FARM AT 11

Of course that's a perfect example of technology trying to drag me into the modern world.. Speaking of that I don't think I gave proper attention to Elizabeth and I trying to work the faucet in the emergency room to wash off the big gouge on the back of my left hand... the faucet was automatic supposedly and we couldn't quite determine what caused it to get turned on---when it most comically started up as Elizabeth bent over which caused her to stand up and bend over while laughing hysterically and me yelling because it the water was turned on and hurting me that was a very funny episode .

 

Goals of today--- getting some electrical situations cured so the pup no longer can turn 

off the tv with her teeth... I am tols I have a blood test at 945 and then a vunch coming tosee goldys farm.

 

One of these days I will try and have ai write this thing so you alll can make comments.  Should be amusing.....

 dd 9 19

Dd 9 19. I must have a few critical comments on that man kicking the woman around the floor I think the judge was very wise and not allowing him back out in society not only for the pretection of society but I would hope somebody would flatten him quickly as they may do in the jail---- I will be cheering them on.. I have been in farming too long to put up with a male animal that doesn't behave because what you do in farming is immediately remove the masculine appendages which produce too much testosterone which the animal cannot handle and therefore we trying to handle the animal can't handle.. if do you get rid of those life is an awful lot different almost every horse and dog Has become less dangerous for lack of those things.

now if I think back to entire male animals that I have left entire--- a very spectacular 1 was Don quijote who fathered 30 or so foals.. and was constantly turned loose in Boston and let around by absolute strangers with no problem whatsoever/the more spectacular ones that you may remember deagle male dog that I got from Belgium.. many pictures of him totally loose at the topsfield fairground.. being handled and brushed and carried on by absolute strangers perfect manners... actually better manners than the children around him because he was the one to have his ear bitten by a child in Medford.. ending in a bloody mess

the next spectacular one would be thumper---by the time he was around I was beginning to be involved ADI.. and going to conferences where people brought their dogs and there was a big notice to the fact that entire male dogs we're not allowed at the conference..  but when I got there I found several entire male dogs were allowed ---golden retrievers belonging to what became known to me as the officials of adi..  who informed me that because they were golden retrievers there were no problem..  well I knew that my Great Dane was not a problem either so the next conference I arrived with Thumper--- Who was perfectly behaved.. However the second day of the conference someone finally discovered thumper was not neutered...  and this became a big issue even though he was perfectly behaved.. thus was my introduction to adi... or should I say their introduction to me

after thumper was Bentley--who never took one step out of line and was about as perfect a dog as you could have as he continued to father many pups By then I really was not invited to go to a adi anymore and found my own path of action to be much more productive by eliminating some of the paperwork type things required of adi and just concentrated on good dogs. AD I did eventually send me a letter admitting that my dogs were wonderful and absolutely no problem whatsoever ---the problem was me.. 

I agreed with them and found I was a lot more useful to society by concentrating on producing good dogs and not reams of paperwork. I don't think anyone was terribly thrilled when George was awarded service dog of the year.. that was supposed to be a golden retriever or a yellow lab and not a black  Great Dane.. great Danes were stupid and useless comedians...

Wellllllll,.... not quite.....

So back to this male person kicking a female person around---I hope the people in jail figure out some way to educate that person--- I'm told that happens often....

 Dd 9 18 the problem yesterday was “we'll call you back”... which I'd already been told that the day before and that hadn't worked out so sitting here in the cabin Elizabeth and I decided that if somebody was calling us back they weren't going to be able to do a damn thing however if we made it to the emergency room they would at least give me something which they did..  and part of the reason they did well--- malarkey who quickly had us jump the queue in the waiting room and they put us in A room where they had already spread a fluffy and a pillow for the dog...  larkey quickly laid down on it and was very happy..  the other comment was that he was so well behaved and I did ask if they had other service dogs come in and they said they have a lot of them but none of them behave as well as larkey...  I like that he's a good dog... so basically they gave me some pills and sent me home again with the prescription and directions on how to deal with what may 

 be a physical problem. wanna call it a parts replacement job???.. so I'm here  wow

 

And Gwen is here landed on time and got her own car and landed at goldies farm... Janine had cleaned up the RV thinking she might enjoy using that instead of the loft here at the cabin..  which is also enjoyed by considerable number of mouses..   I don't think the mouse is are as active on the 1st floor as they are so we but the mouse can live a long time I'm just a little bit of dog food that got dropped by a Great Dane. We  have an ongoing problem. Time to get some snap traps again

 

in the last rodent investigation I bought on Amazon 84 snap traps----and approximately 1 month later I had only 20 left..   which means that somehow I had used 64 traps..  and there's only one way yeah use a snap trap..  However I did not bother to save the carcasses in the freezer as I once did for the rehabilitators who had the need to feed several owls and a hawk.. 

 

From the signatures left behind it would appear that we now have only mice...   where that bit several years ago was definitely rat size...   that ate the wiring of two of my cars ..

 

Just to keep you updated Janine is \gone. somewhere between New York and Maryland with Olaf... to pick up two horses which I think will be the two they ride this fall.. both have been hunted by somebody else in the mean time...   it is a crazy business..  but I expect them home Thursday or Friday Olaf now has the title.of master of the hounds I think..   At any rate he has some impressive title at the hunt club which manages 20 or 30 hounds...   the way those hounds are raised is something I will try and look more into..

I know that they are raised with goats as babies and that whole concept interests me.

 

so I'm alive and back working...  trying to get myself organized with gwen's help it's an uphill battle. 

Be a slight delay because the big issue at hand is the fact that I cannot even get in my car for all the junk and trash and things that are stored  in there I had thought there was someone in charge of cleaning my car but it didn't work out that way so now judy's down there -----apparently there was an objection to asking the Boy Scouts to do it and I still don't see why not but apparently I'm not supposed to do that there's a whole bunch of things I'm not supposed to do---- asking help from the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts is now another one but at any rate I will get the car clean 

 it will take a while... 

 

Dd 9 15 I have lost it..  whatever it is --is gone... “IT”  was the combination of a lot of things but the straw that broke the camel's back of course was trash... I started crazy acres back in 1979 -- that's some 40 years ago and during that time I must have purchased a trash can or two...  so jump forward to 2024 why am I riding around in my golf cart trying to find a trash can for me to use. I can't use the dumpster cause  that “ belongs “ to service dog project and they don't “allow” my my trash on their dumpster..  and then there are the rest of the people here--  all of whom have trash receptacles of some kind or another... All of which are not holding trash but  grain of some kind or another.. being put to good use.. sum  substance is I have none. now since 1979 I must have bought a trash can or two or 20 or 30..  at any rate I have bought trash cans so how come of all the people on the property I am the one without the trash can. but I am.. me without a trash can is a disaster because I can sit in my chair and not do anything but breathe and the trash will collect around me..  mostly packaging.. Or small bits of candy wrapping paper. At any rate it does seem to me that at my advanced age I should  have my own trash can ...All of which I have bought in the past 40 years. I am extremely sensitive to the concept it's your own fault you don't have one.. because it's my own fault for a lot of things. most prominently the fact that the houses we all live in and the ground we stand on were because of my fault which was delivering magazines at four cents a copy.... This is not high finances. I am doing good things with taking my dogs to these daycare places  and I can't tell you how often I hear that people would love to help.. well that would be wonderful but helping is not always g please going to the places there's so much background to getting the animals and the equipment in place to go places. take my car-please do.. my car is so bad that I no longer can even get in the passenger seat.. and since I'm not driving this is a very limiting factor...  the first thing I did when I bought that car was to remove the back seat behind the driver because I had an older Dane who was having trouble jumping in.. I remember the people at the agency (namely another nick) saying I was going to ruin the resale value--- he didn't know me well then..  because nobody wants to buy my used car for a lot of reasons mostly four great Danes. That car has served me very well not only carrying the four Danes and the Jack Russell.. but towing impossibly heavy trash to the dump.. or hay from the dealer.. it is a wonderful tool and I use it to its fullest.... but at the moment--- what I need is for someone who is the leader of a scout troop to bring over about 10 or 15 kids to clean out my car.... as a public service--- it certainly would be that because that's what I use that car for..  and I'm doing it on a volunteer basis so I don't have a budget for car cleaning..  I have all the equipment to clean the car with vacuums and soap and things like that what I don't have is the trash can... so bring bags.. I got too old and there's so many things I just plain cannot do.. So by the time you add a few things I don't want to do,  you have a fairly inactive 87 year old on your hands.  I try not to make Impossible requests... But to have my own trash can would solve the bigger problem of my dropping trash all over the place . Janine is back – all dressed in fancy white clothes.... she said she flew first class- where you push a button and the chair goes absolutely flat for sleeping.. ok.. you are back now...get over it. Carl ,wanda and I were thrilled to have her back...there is too much going on all at once.... I can not deal....have at it. I will hope some scouts will take on my car as a project !!..

 Dd 9 14  We had a lovely mail call last night at the expense of Elizabeth’s  sanity..

 

it was really very simple-- she bought 3000 dollars worth of something to repair the house after this tree fall bit and I wrote a check out of the insurance money to repay her.  all was good except when I wrote the date I put in 2023 then I wrote a four on top of the three... a fairly normal problem banks I'm sure run into ..  and when the banks presented that to my bank my bank paid it however the receiving bank landed that check and the falsified  department ----ohh damn it no no no no no no no ohh shoot they've all gone out the door come on back here no ohh ohh dear come on back here come back here come back here lucky lucky come back here go ahead good doggies good doggies very good doggies come out lucky lucky come come come come come dad Carl come hey don't know no no call cup come on good boy come on come on come on come on come on let's stop here we come on come come come come good girl everybody in the car in the house in the house good girl yes good in the house well I can get it locked up God laughing go single cup that would have been like OK ohh ohh what car you opened that door you're not supposed to now what do I do well at least they're all in...

 

back to the falsified check department.. so in spite of the fact my check paid them the $3000 her bank not only stop the check bank. but halted all activity on her account as being a falsified account.. this was extremely uncomfortable situation because she had several deposits that were automatically put in that account and several things automatically paid out of that account and that account was now apparently in some kind of limbo my bank having already paid it..  at any rate because she now was labeled as a falsifier of checking accounts she can't even talk to anyone about it at that branch so she asked for the person who was in charge of things like unhappy customers and she was told that this bank doesn't have one of those which apparently is some kind of illegal that I never heard ,..... but nick who is Elizabeth husband who is in some kind of financial world where he knows darn well the bank has by law a department to deal with unhappy customers except this bank does not seem to have that or at least the people in the branch don't know how to get there.  – 
 Elizabeth went on to deal with the financial woes of being labeled a falsifier of checks.. but I was just dying to take a couple dogs and go over and sit in their branch and be the 87 year old crazy woman angry about the fact that the bank had stolen the money and had stopped my friend from accessing what I put in the bank. I would have had a field day but  sainner  minds stopped  me .

 

dammit !!