dd. 11 01

Dd 11 1

True story ----absolutely true.

I was in the business of providing animals for commercials and movies and things like that and I had a call for a golden retriever to run down a hallway and stop and bark.. so I found one of those borrowed it from somebody and went on to the location which was at a bar in the lower part of New Hampshire someplace =---not an unusual request.

 

the shot called for the dog to run down a hallway into an open area and then stop and bark. OK

well the it actually was to run down a hallway with a bar on one side and a doorway to the cellar on the other side it was to run down that hallway and run into the open area of the bar and then stop and bark should not be too difficult..... so we started in I had the dog sit and stay and then I went into the open area and called him and he came except he stopped at that door..  whoops... sorry try again line them up roll the cameras run down hall stops at the door and barks. I.  could not get that dog past that doorway..  so as the director was trying to redo the scene the bartender says to me "that's the doorway where.  . we've seen the ghost.".. OK so for whatever reason I could not get that dog to run past that open door this was a nice normal dog didn't have any neurotic hang ups that I knew of there was something about that open door and the bartender said that's where they have seen the ghost..

 

So when someone asks me if I believe in ghosts I really have to Tell that story... because I had a really bad time trying to get the dog to behave in a way that a normal dog would have behaved... and I could see absolutely no reason. until the bartender said “that's the doorway where we've seen the ghost.”.    OK. The dog believes you !!

 

so back to today do we have a job today.??....hallpween????? I'm not sure it was all that formal list making or at least  less than 5 seconds I made the list ohh well that I mean there are three nursing homes right close to each other yeah in Peabody ---

 

My assignment is apparently to take the trailer to the dump..   I don't know what anyone else's schedule is for the day it's nothing there's nothing on the calendar.

OK

p.s.   i am told janine fixed my blog problems

 dd 10 23

Dd 10 23

larkey got another unknown diabetic yesterdqay !

What happened to elvis's playmate? she is still here she was wild and is a little less wild now but still not public savvy like Elvis and it turns out that Janine has located a breeder of these mini bovines so she has offered to buy a baby which we then could handle and it would become more like Elvis and trade what seems to be a perfectly good breeding female for it... so that may happen. As for the goats which are in my book relatively useless because they don't even eat weeds they prefer hay and grain

so these are serving no purpose whatsoever. well they did do a job at the donkey walk because they were a hooved animal which it seems.  very small children could walk with or just plain turn loose with which seemed to happen a lot.. they are relatively Trouble free... relatively. ..  through the expression..” if a goat's head will fit through a fence the entire goat will fit through the fence”. Seems to be pretty true.

I sleep with the television on most of the time.. and this morning I woke up hearing the words “DROPPED OUT” and I got all excited but it turns out it wasn't anybody I had even heard of. ... And then it quickly went into the number of people of the elderly variety.. who have donated $5.. and not push the button that said “ONCE” and having the computer absolutely empty their savings account $5 at a time... Just one more thing to worry about with regard to a computer.

I remember...  a friend of mine years ago during the age of the circus... who would not even have a checking account and paid everything in cash which I thought was ridiculous... I don't think so now... Now I'm told that the bank is supposed to keep track of or something.. people who deal in large quantities of cash... I can remember the days of the want ad ---right paper bags cash to deal with every night. that's the kind of red flag they are apparently monitoring.

I never got a chance to thank the woman who was here for the donkey project--- and she had a binary name with five letters which between Linda and Nancy was never too sure but she did a fantastic job of helping out in odd places... she stayed in Gloucester And apparently it was her second year volunteering..  she was a very valuable volunteer and one of those people

who suddenly... was standing right where you needed somebody to be standing with the capability of doing whatever needed doing... it's a very odd trait but it's a valuable 1 ah

the job today is hunt rehab which seems to be some kind of daily drop off along with permanent nursing home people.. at any rate my version of it is that we could park the car 15 feet from the entrance... there are two chairs right inside the entry door

where I can sit and manage the dogs while whoever is with me parks the car... there's a lot of traffic right there because of two elevators and if I'm not careful lucky will just get on an elevator..  that . if he ends up on the second floor without me I'm sure he would be respectable but his version of respectable might not be what a nursing homes version would be.. and there would be a horrible scramble as I tried to get on the other elevator and to get up there before he came down again ---but in this place luckily there are only two floors. Just think of the confusion we could create by having locky on a random floor pushing random buttons having people wondered where he came from.. I don't want to do that

I did have a Great Dane jump out of my car window in the parking lot and go through the automatic door into a supermarket where he just wandered around looking for me... and the office and the microphone began to worry about a wild animal loose

it took me 4 seconds to realize the wild animal was my 180 LB Great Dane.. who was behaving perfectly by his standards.

 dd 10 22

I thought  would never see it again but last week.  In my driveway... we achieved having a group of both adults and children eating while happily giggling over the antics of several animals.... Some of them loose ohh. as the final stragglers raced across the finish line at a snails pace..  Namely Mr. tilson an Elvis that we didn't realize that joined the race at all ...  He reported that Elvis seemed to enjoy wandering around the woods following donkeys.. so I suggest we get his golden   balls put back on his horn tips just for protection's sake..  turns out they still make them and I can get them from a dealer in Amish  country . 

 

Now that I see some of the reports coming back through the Internet I realized there is no other animal oriented activity totally enjoyable just for activity's sake and lacking  all competition. The concept of having a fairly respectable looking businessman wandering around willowdale state forest semi lost.. with a cow makes most everyone at least smile. 

 

 And to be clear Elvis is not a cow but a miniature ebu maybe.. with the hump on his shoulders like a brahma bull...   he was hand raised. it is exceedingly gentle and seems to enjoy the company of humans whether in the barn or in the driveway or in the woods.. so we must remember to give him more human company.

Yep not sure I want to include him in the daycare centers because a boy cow has a tendency just sort of drain without warning..  so he will be outside entertainment only especially if we get the balls on his horns.

 

today we have Hawthorne which is usually a group circle organized by the time we get there and we will be taking just the dogs..   jolene has already gone out riding so our equine stay home. 

 The donkey Derby really started with it great visual of about 20 animals attached to maybe 30 people..  they were collected at the bottom of the driveway to get them organized sort of and then the object was to get them all running together to cross  the starting line which is always a bit of a riot in all these donkey derbies this was certainly no exception... How Colby--- my grandson---- managed to gather a dozen people at a typical Saturday night party and have them all come down to run with the donkeys I do not know but the presence of the large collection of energetic Kids of approximate college age certainly added to the fun.

the race was set up in 3 divisions and I never did see who belong to what but there was a one mile 3 mile and five mile loop.. whatever there was they all seemed to have a good time there were snacks at the finish line along with a bucket of water...   

Actually there was 1 clear winner Of the donkey Derby the donkey jogged right its handler almost across the finish line but the finish line had a ribbon across it and no self respecting donkey would take a chance on stepping over a ribbon so he didn’t. and  stopped short of that but other than that he was a well ahead of everybody else he was well ahead of the second place the second place was. snap snap crackle and pop---  3 neutered male goats .. As the rest of the tribe wandered in I didn't realize that Elvis our cow looking animal had been

led by someone over the mile route..  There seemed to have been plenty of activity to keep all the runners and friends entertained nonetheless of which is the fact that one of the goats laid down in the middle of Lynbrook Rd. And refused to go any further until Janine came along rattling a bottle of goat cookies and he got right up and ran off with her.... but there were plenty of  donkeys  personalities...and things like that but everybody had a good time.

 

ON TO THE NEXT !!

 dd 10 20

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Dd 10 20

With 894 in my new category I have no choice but the whip through some  and then delete them--- it really is the political, Closely followed by hearing aids , but if I should miss anybody that's why ..

I think we are up and running so to speak Janine has labeled 3 different paths through the forest 1-3 and five miles ---(

 talking to penny)---ohh heaven's door is stuck---go ahead go on get outside outside come on let's get outside come outside come on we go outside that's a good girl come on don't get in front of me ohh come on get outside here we go how do I save this this is holding it back no go ahead there you go good girl that you could get in and out good girl ohh ohh what did we get out it was a good girl what did you have a good time out there was that good good girl OK get out of here-----whew... I think we made it---

Back to the three different paths... it would be nice and helpful to the veterans who do come here you would like to go for a walk in the woods to have a labeled path available to them and hopefully we now do however there is someone out there that does not like anyone putting up signs and she's inclined to take them down I have argued with her--- she does believe that the woods are hers---. when indeed they are a state forest..

These woods right behind me.  are filled with where are the glaciers made great piles of dirt and crevices so there is at least one place where the path is only about a foot wide and it drops down on either side a considerable distance... it is also possible to totally get lost in those woods I don't know how many acres they are totally but I have been out there on horseback and I figured the horse would Take Me Home and that didn't work out that way and I ended up  lost . in the next town having to call for a horse trailer to come pick me up... hopefully today anyone going out there with a donkey the donkey will have more sense and bring them back again... or more likely the donkeys will stay a little bit of a group,, they did a test run yesterday and there were three who jogged the whole way and came back very soon to the point where I wondered what happened to the rest who were kind of wandering around because one donkey had gotten loose.. which were the horse would have made a big difference but with a donkey I'd have kept walking and it would join the group eventually I'm sure donkeys are usually trouble free I don't want to say that too loudly.... well I can say I have owned donkeys for 30 or 40 years and I don't remember any of them ever having a laceration that's a lot of donkeys a lot of years.. whereas you own a horse and within 40 hours, you've had to call a vet for something .

 It was nice to have a bunch of people camera people stop here last yesterday and have supper there were people from New York New Jersey Texas in Colorado... not bad for opener... After testing out the one mile trail pomodori is arrived with dinner... and Elizabeth had very carefully defrosted two of the super cakes that had been sent for my birthday and we're still happily working on.

There are two heavy duty batteries on my desk this morning so it looks like to name is planning a quick run through to check to be sure signs are still in place I hope... otherwise everybody's got a cell phone and we'll find you eventually!!

I believe Janine has organized the start and finish within range of the one camera that's on the deagle house so that you all can watch some of it.. shirts and hats have arrived---

should be fun

 

Dd 10 19

Every time I hit the 19th of the month I think I should be running out and buying a cake and going to the fire department we had to kind of give that up I think they were suspicious why the hell we're pills showing up with cakes random and it really got to be questionable so we had to quit it was fun while it lasted

Someone passed a law a rule somewhere about not taking edibles from strangers so they couldn't have a cake anymore.

Even my own fire department in Ipswich could not take a cake from me on the 19th because someone passed a law that people are not More generous at random so fire departments in general were told not to accept any edibles---- isn't that nice? OK

so on we go with the donkey project I had several comments about a 15 foot long lead rope is the problem with the horse it certainly is if a horse gets 1/2 an inch ahead of you you lose control however these are for jogging with the donkey where the donkey is directly in front of you and you're just running along behind... it's a very peculiar race over many miles where the donkey just jogs straight ahead and you follow generally.. it is also possible that occasionally you are ahead of the donkey and he's jogging behind you at any rate with a mammoth donkey a 15 foot lead rope would be better to give you some distance from the jogging rear end in front of you. our friends from Colorado are here andhave  spent two afternoons now checking out the donkeys that had been prepared ---so to speak--- By Elizabeth and friends to just jog steadily straight ahead it was going to be centered on Meredith farm which would have been very nice but there was a possibility of a parking problem with spectators etcetera so they are going to operate out of here and I don't know what we're going to do with the parking we'll figure it out--- there are three loops 5 miles three mile and one mile and I don't know the exact details but I do know that Janine was out late yesterday afternoon with a leaf blower blowing the trail relatively free of leaves so people would  not get lost out in willowdale state forest -hopefully the three different trails will stay marked for anybody else in the future-.

At the moment Elizabeth is not 100%... I think the expression is “in bed with a bug I hope he's fun” at any rate Janine has to double up feeding at Meredith.. I have to remind Janine that all these hooved animals

that eat hay.. will survive very nicely on just hay and water for a few days so she shouldn't try knocking herself out to give individual grain... they will live on hay and water... We spoil all our animals with these super diets--- Just think if they were turned out in a pasture as they would like to be they would be living a little bits of grass about two inches long and they would thrive....

As for the hay cutting it Meredith I think I heard there would be no second crop this year because of lack of you got it ------water. --- Water comes home to roost..... too much or too little. Water rules the world.

 I did not see the article myself but I'm told there was an article where the exporting of hay to Arabia out of Los Angeles was stopped.. apparently we grow much better hay then they can at least at the moment the water is changing things.. I bet you all laughed when I said I I liked buying this property because of the lake across the street..  but you know way back on my pencil written deed many years ago provision was made for the acre in the back to have access to the water in the pond which is why there is a right of way next to the Partridge vary fence development..  AKA my back driveway

And this morning on the television there was a special on the concept of how much water per person is needed and whether the earth is now producing that clean water.. so people are beginning to pay attention.

 dd 10 18

 

I had a complaint about the lead ropes for the running of the donkeys in that the 8 foot long ones were really too short for the mammoth donkeys so I have redone four of them in the 15 feet –long 

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Yep  yeahng umm. That is apparently what a dog barking sounds like to a machine that's taking dictation..  and I think I'll just leave those when they occur because it is 7:00 in the morning and people are beginning to arrive and uh there'll be a bit of barking.. maybe...

 

It's 822 and we leave here by 9:00 so we have to leave here by 9 we're going to go last yeah So what time is it now 822 ohh shift yeah OK ohh —there goes todays dd--- I am still in my pj’s and need to be downt he driveway bby 9 to get to glouester by 10

 

So there you have it !!!

 Dd 10 17

 

I am still on this home health care system which yesterday provided a physical therapist ohh actually got me out in the driveway with the up Walker contraption..... this up Walker allows you to stand much straighter and still have a seat ---The gift from Anne gatchel. whose sister was no longer using it.. it certainly does let's just stand up better which is one of my problems so right at the moment this home health care is providing a nurse who comes and takes my blood pressure and there's physical therapist who gets me out of here and I believe also a social worker who worries about the fact that I am forced to climb a flight of stairs when another apartment is available or at least would be available...  or at least will be available on January 1st absolutely ridiculous in the meantime the bathroom is \still locked   from my using it....I believe...  I actually haven't gone to check.. because I'm afraid someone will yell at me for being there  or I would get  a nasty letter from the lawyer which would cause my lawyer to have to respond which would cost me money so the whole thing is just not worth dealing with when it will be gone on January 1... I am afraid to even test it because somebody already scolded me for putting a small bag of trash in the dumpster..   I have a letter from their  

lawyer instructing me not to set foot inside their territory to give some fluffies  to a pup  in the photograph on concrete. 

 

I will now skip over the topic of bad manners and normal decency... Even though the other day when a limb fell out of a tree across the driveway 3 of the service dog staff stood and watched while Janine picked up all the twigs they were not offering to help pick one twig.... It was really quite a picture.well no..... a picture is worth 1000 words...

 

Apparently two people will be arriving today from Colorado to play with the donkeys...  And I have been instructed to get with it get more lead ropes made and died yellow...   so I'm on that..  progress ( and leadropes)  will be made !!

p.s. in the middle of the night i heard the doggie dog flap.. -- i checked.. both siz and larkey were asleep.. whicH means.......PENNY WENT OUT AND POOPED ON HER OWN.....

 

Tight scheduele today with people arriving for this donkey?derby? apparently  couple have rv’s and there was ssomethig BOUT PICKING UP ANOTHER IRV AT6PM??

AND THE SHIRTS ARE DONE – LOOKING GOOD...  BUT THAT ADDS ANOTHER SECTIODN TO GOLDYS... ATHE 2MAILORDER DEPARTMENT..

 

I was hoping to find somebody to help get down the yuppie puppy from the back of the building 25 I'm gonna be on the lookout for the first first person standing around not actively employed I think Yep penny could enjoy that and it would be a source of food for her to keep eating she just cannot get enough food to eat also

 

OK so much for dictation because I did not use the word eat up there that got put in because of the word food. 

Remember any of this AI is in fact artificial. ? is that what that stands for? Strange world because AI to me means artificial insemination---thanks for helping to put the sperm where the boy fellow wasn't able to get it somehow umm..  I've tried. that process I had some frozen DOG   sperm from Germany umm... I think I have detailed that once before but it involved drawing the sperm at an official sperm drawing place so they could verify the male that was used that happened I think on a Tuesday and was frozen ... in a 3 foot tall sperm holder....and shipped on Wednesday and somehow landed in Paris on Friday which was a holiday and it did not get shipped out until Monday when it landed in the United states On an off day so they had to get someone from the US Department of Agriculture to verify the arrival of this sperm so I didn't really get it till Tuesday or Wednesday I've forgotten which but George tried to put it where it belonged and which didn't work and I eventually got the New England expert who was in Rhode Island I had to drive down and he surgically implanted the sperm end the harl female I've forgotten what her name was nice dog anyway that didn't work either so I'm not a real promoter of AI of any kind,,

 

LAURA OF BMW KENNEL was much more efficient – she didn’t bother with the frozen nitrogen  container,,... she had pilot friends who transported vials in their shirt pocket--- and many of her litters were conceived in the lady room of the kennedy airport..  she had beautiful dogs—winnng west minster many times....

But her more remarkable “feet” was to transport 4 or 5 to fire island in a small rowboat

 

I tried to duplicate that in hoods pond... unsuccessfully...

Dd 10 15.

Maybe,,, just maybe we will get back to normal- Janine just told me 3 people will be showering in my bathroom  starting today. I am looking forward to the old attitude of crazy acres where it was that question of hang the details we'll make it work somehow... and we made a lot of things work.. so I don't know who these people are who will be showering in my bathroom but that's one of those details that I don't really care about... we do what's necessary.. Somebody must know who these people are the three that are going to shower in our bathroom today that the mom and dad and the son is it the mom and the dad and the son from Colorado I don't know could be could be.. we'll find out when we get there. I did hear some rumor about leaving the Volvo in the parking lot of the shuttle from the airport so somebody's coming from somewhere who needs a shower is all I know. Perhaps they are “friends I have not yet met.”

To continue with my incomplete bits of knowledge in the process of cleaning off my desk I came to a ..book I guess you'd call it  right about project  2025 .. I'm not sure where I got this but even reading the index was very educational .. Far be it for me to get into anything even slightly political But what it seems to be is a very brief index of the contents of some 900 page book which apparently describes the possible inner workings of the government. In 2025... Personally I couldn't get much further than just the index which I found enlightening because it is set up in chapters like Health and Human services.. well I've heard that term before and now they have opinions on things but I never really thought too much about who was where .. But this book is full of words or titles you've heard many times before they may never have understood how it fits into the big puzzle.. I don't know where I got this book could be a camera person sent it to me.. however I do think even reading the index is worth the purchase price.. the name of the bottom Simon Pierce and I really can't go any further then to say it was educational.. as I flipped through the pages containing many expressions I had heard many times before.  Interesting. Even minus the political impact of the contents, I found it interesting .

Now As for my monkey fist department Betsy tells me I hav e 4  orders  For those ones I did whispered hold the door open I've gotten on that project ... along with making a bunch of zipper pulls For this donkey episode which is approaching

these are 3 monkey fists that would hold most doors shut... or if swung might kill someone. so don't take them on a  airplane 

 dd 10114 nearly

Carlene White 

From:animalep@aol.com

To:pearl2637@aol.com,carlene white,doug phillips,Linda K. Brown,Kitty Bartholomew

Mon, Oct 14 at 10:15 AM

this totaly wiped out today... all that happened so far is a phys ther visit,,,,f

the rest of this is yesterday,,,, and i can’t get it back...

 i have donhe 2 door holding monkey fists.  and tqaled to the phys therapy guy 

Dd 10 13

Judy said she wasn't going to speak to me if I didn't get rid of that pile of papers right in front of my chair so I did that and now I'm late here however progress is being made Janine is feeding at Meredith and things like that and we'll be back shortly I don't know what's going on with Elizabeth haven't heard I was busy doing paperwork I hate paperwork.

 

the best news I have to report is that bud blocked the door the cold air coming in the door with a plywood door and a doggy door on the bottom and they are using it including penny who's not thrilled with it but she will go in and out that's a great plus because the pellet stove as you know is not being all that reliable so it is nice to have the draft of cold air blocked and bud did a fantastic job as he always does..

 

Janine and I have some scheduling and thinking to do...  and I am told that Mary is about to arrive back from California and we'll probably land in the RV probably life is going to be so much easier January 1^st... then I can invite people to stay and I'll have room to put them and things like that...

 

 One of my biggest assets in the past two years has been my poor memory if I get stuck on any of the details it has been outrageous however moving forward I've got plans and God help us...

 

2 years ago i gave those lovely floor people a huge deposit..... i trust they are “still with us?"

ohh yeahaybet ohh no no ohh no ohh nohe 

 DD 10 13

as erratic as i have been in getting the dd out on time, it is still read by 51%of the people i send it to....AMAZING NUMBER !!!

Dd 10 13

Judy said she wasn't going to speak to me if I didn't get rid of that pile of papers right in front of my chair so I did that and now I'm late here however progress is being made Janine is feeding at Meredith and things like that and we'll be back shortly I don't know what's going on with Elizabeth haven't heard I was busy doing paperwork I hate paperwork.

 

the best news I have to report is that bud blocked the door the cold air coming in the door with a plywood door and a doggy door on the bottom and they are using it including penny who's not thrilled with it but she will go in and out that's a great plus because the pellet stove as you know is not being all that reliable so it is nice to have the draft of cold air blocked and bud did a fantastic job as he always does..

 

Janine and I have some scheduling and thinking to do...  and I am told that Mary is about to arrive back from California and we'll probably land in the RV probably life is going to be so much easier January 1^st... then I can invite people to stay and I'll have room to put them and things like that...

 

 One of my biggest assets in the past two years has been my poor memory if I get stuck on any of the details it has been outrageous however moving forward I've got plans and God help us...

2 years ago i gave those lovely floor people a huge deposit..... i trust they are “still with us?"

 

Dd 10 12

We could live with a little less excitement .. Yesterday I think it was we were on a split second schedule or at least I was to get dressed and get out and stand in the middle of the driveway picked up 

by Janine in route 2 a nursing home with both dogs and horses... turns out it was my three dogs her two dogs a donkey and a mini horse..   and we did it it was fine however I think we need some better organization... Five dogs is really too many when you add a donkey and a horse both of which need a constant watch with bucket detail Wanda goes in these places and knows exactly what she's doing so she disappears and sometimes don't see her for the entire visit Carl doesn't do anything he wanders around he likes people so he's safe to wander round that leaves me with my three the worst concern would be one of mine knocking somebody over specifically penny so I try and have her on a leash which eliminates that but I do think we need to seriously think of how we're going to do these jobs and with what animals and how so as we have the right people at the right time and when we don't have the right people we don't have that many animal these places are so glad to get us in the 1st place that they may have to put up with a little bit of shuffling .

 I can start out with one dog one person And two dogs would require either one or two people depending on the dogs.. by the time you get into four and five dogs with a donkey and a horse who need to be followed with a bucket the three people is just to I don't want to say dangerous but it's just it we're not covering the situation so I think the Janine and I should sit down over coffee and figure out what we're going to do before we have to do it all in the next 10 minutes which is usually how these things work.... There is a cartoon somewhere about planning ahead we are the personification of that cartoon most of the time... because of full blown group which would be in my case three dogs one donkey and the pony ohh forgive me mini horse could just be handled by three people...   but you have to realize there's how many towels do we need do we have cookies for both the horses and the dogs.. and a bucket for the horses just in case poop pickers the equipment that we that we need to carry it's significant..   and it's getting on my nerves to run around the last minute to try and find the keys to the truck or heaven forbid... 2 leashes....  If we're going to take this job seriously then we ought to take this job seriously..  which is going to include insurance..  I  bad That basic insurance But it is skating on the edge of” “excluded will be xxxxxxx “....So it would be nice at this point if we had some time to deal with “excluded will be xxxxxxx”...   

That's as far as we are with goldies farm his concern 

then there's Elizabeth.. who ended up in the hospital for testing.......  and then returned home with tests so far being inconclusive..

and that's where we are right now 

 out of controll already today.   ! 346 new emails.. i can not cope or read all before writing this...

quick scannnnnn... mostly political    and every time i block something they use different words...

i think we mentioneed  at mailcall last nithght. eliz is having a bunch more tests today

and she has her phone with her wherever she is...

judy is back.. and somehow having the visiting nursje collect and prepqare my pills.. made for qahuge midstwke

this blood thinner is very picky.. and it looks dlike i may hve not hqad the correct  fo the past weej\k that she was setting thm up

i take 2 or 3 every night.. and she had none in the thursday friday saturdaqy bunch

now question is. what did i blindly swallow on mon tues wed???

lackey and sizzle are due for raviesd swhots tioday..and booked at aa day caew cebter at the sams time

it must be the second cudp of coffee that is causing my fingers to self control what i am trying to type...

i better quitr forr the day

spellchexk is drivjng me nuttsw !!

i have noit been drinmking really. !!!

 Dd 10 10,

I always check the heavy penny first thing when I get up yeah just to see whether we're alive or dead happy happy to report we are alive..

 

I am sure that mines greater than mine have addressed the problem of the knife fork and spoon as related to food the only thing I could think of that's worse would be chopsticks trying to pick up rice with chopsticks has to be a talent saved for the very ambitious.. but now in our area bowls are becoming very popular no bowls with basically rice at the bottom and then a bunch of stuff on top and every bowl is different really that really is a good way to mix up food it's like I don't know where the tradition came from but Mexicans certainly did a lot of it and Indians 

 

heyy our big drop of the day is Pilgrim house who seems to like us to come at 2:00 in the afternoon ohh they are mostly nursing home as opposed to drop off daycare Speaking of that last time we were over in Peabody for the woman very nice woman very astute woman who had a conversation with you about the dogs and I realized that she maybe didn't belong where she was yeah in the conversation with her she said she was new to the area and her son had to go to work didn't know what to do with her so she's landed there I hope somebody puts her in another group there's not a group right in that building.. umm I do notice that one of the presidential candidates... .

has mentioned mentioned mentioned the concept of Medicare providing day care coverage which is what we're trying to do here anyway...   at one point we thought having babies was a huge problem... now having elderly parents is easily as big a problem. especially with me being one of them.. OK

 

my husband having been in all the nursing homes in the area wanted no part of being put in a nursing home. OK showed in keeping with his wishes I latched on to bud who would come here first thing in the morning and pick up Tom and Tom's car which was a lovely thing and they'd go driving around for 8 hours or so and then he'd bring him back and Tom would tell bud every ailment anybody had it when they drove by it..  That was a great help and Tom enjoyed it but enjoyed it yeah stereo music in the car and life was great..

 

  I had worried and hesitated from calling Hospice because I was afraid they would want to take him to their Hospice place turns out that was not true once you touch base with Hospice they bring you a cardboard box of all the things necessary to keep them comfortable and they really replaced it as needed if the truth be known I think we still have a bit of morphium in the closet upstairs. I forget those are not no longer my stairs so I'll leave it to Elizabeth to go scratching through the upstairs closets,, there is one funny closet that goes way out under the eaves that maybe she doesn't even know yet let us pray. ...

have at it-- we should be home in time for mailcall !!

 

Dd 10 6

 

If I'm late today it's because of a wonderful video put out by twan. of mo and her very colorful life with us it's extremely worth looking at and I hope this is enough for you to get it what am I doing I have to OK paste ohh ship that didn't work ohh damn now what OK let's start that again tuan made a wonderful video of the life of Mo--- she was a heck of a character and a tremendous addition to our farm and later to Meredith but the way she wandered around our place was hard to duplicate Mary my old donkey was just like that so to have another mule was exceptional and I don't know how it's a it's a YouTube thing and I don't know how to get it on here I will try again but I'm not too hopeful.   

https://youtu.be/WNNDxLimow4

 

If that works it is well worth they 10 minutes or so of credits to Moe which unbelievably involve getting her back on her feet in exactly the same spot that she was in three weeks ago when we had trouble standing her up also interesting.. it's a long video it's also interesting how clean the G10 is it has a wonderfully new table in the middle Can you imagine that..

 

 

The next item in our Can you believe that--- was last night's shatting--Where Carly put her new chicken out on the board that I had just finished doing-- the board being a 10 foot by three foot table covered with paper ---- and all the numbers 756 little squares ---from the henny penny and the hay for the month... the first chicken was pretty prompt and deposited her selection  on #238.. so we went to get the second chicken to see what she'd have to say about the winner for the month   of the hay “board”. and the second chicken pretty quickly deposited her selection on #238--- unbelievable odds... I have yet to go back to the memsic program and figure out who the owners are of 238 and five other numbers Elizabeth has written down for me . 

I had one other note for today's daily doggy ----poor sizzle you OK so yeah tummy troubles -- I didn't mean to dictate that she is very busy throwing up because she has nothing in her stomach from last night's supper and she's very hungry and Great Dane will do that any rate giving her a couple cookies and we'll go onmm..

 

Janine was talking to Gwen about  the flooding and demolition of ashevillle and Janine asked if it would help if she loaded up a trailer full of hay grain and equipment to take care of any of the loose animals and sort of whatever in that town and Gwen said that people have been so generous that the parking lot of the I'm not sure whether it was the Kmart. or Walmart--  but they are currently loaded overloaded with generosity,,

 

I remember this happened in New Orleans a whole lot of help all at once but two months later it was pretty desperate so let's just keep in mind that it's just something to keep our eye on----- when I talked to Gwen she said that FEMA was doing a fantastic job with the helicopters overhead all the time dropping whatever is needed.

 

I hope twans video works it is a thing of beauty.