January 7, 2013

 HEAR KNAWING THIS MORNING... I HOPE IT IS THE PUPS  EATING THE SOFA  AND NOT GIZELLE COME BACK TO SPEND THE   WINTER

ACTUALLY I COULD LIVE WITH JUST GIZELLE  EVEN IF SHE DOES LIVE IN THE FILE CABINET AND LEAP ACROSS MY LAP IF I TRY AND FILE THINGS-

IT IS ALL HER RELATIVES THAT SHE INVITES ALONG...  WE ENDED UP WITH A BAD SCEENE OF HAVING TO "HIRE" A JACK RUSSEL TERRIER LAST WINTER--
NOT WANTING TO USE ANY POIZENS, WE GOT KELLY HERE FOR A FEW  WEEKS-
TINY LITTLE THING-- BUT IN THE 2 WEEKS SHE WAS HERE , SHE CAUGHT 4 SIZABLE RATS WHILE KEEPING THE DANES AT BAY  AND BITING EVERY VOLUNTEER WHO ENTERED THE HOUSE.

SHE WAS AN EXPERT..AND A DEAD RAT WAS HER TROPHY
SO WE HAD TO PUT UP WITH THIS TINY 10 POUND DOG DRAGGING AROUND A 3 POUND DEAD RAT WHILE  BEING WATCHED BY 5 130 POUND DANES .
KELLY DID NOT SURRENDER HER TROPHY'S EASILY--   HENCE EVERYONE GETTING BITTEN..

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE SPEED OF THE TEETH OF A TINY DOG.
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ALL OF A SUDDEN ANNE AND I ARE DUE TO LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA TOMORROW..
THANK HEAVENS SOMEONE SENT ME A VERY NICE SWEATER-- NEARLY DRESSY-- SO I CAN BE 1/2 DRESSED.

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THE DOGS HAVE BEEN BARKING SINCE ABOUT 6:00  I DO NOT KNOW WHY

WE HAVE ONE NEIGHBOR WHO GETS VERYU NERVOUS ABOUT IT.
THE NEIGHBOR CALLED AND SAID SHE WOULD TELL MY HUSBAND
I AM NOT SURE HOW SHE IS GOING TO DO THAT

BUT I THOUGHT IT VERY INTERESTING THAT SHE SEES A HUSBAND AS A CONTROL DEVICE
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HEALTH REPORT---
THESE BUMPY DOGS ARE LOOKING MUCH BETTER.-

AND UNLESS SOMEONE CHANGED DOGS AROUND... THERE IS NO BLOODY WATER  BUCKET IN THE NEW DEAGLE HOUSE..

FOR 3 MORNINGS THE WATER BUCKET IN WITH PATRICK HAS BEEN RED--- JELLO RED-- AND WE COULD NOT SEE ANY SOURCE OF THE BLOOD-
- FEARING AN EHRELICHIA PROBLEM WE WENT TO VISIT GEORGE...    GEORGE HAD DRAWN BLOOD AND IS MONITORING HIM..
SO TODAY THERE IS NO BLOOD-- OR AT LEAST YET .

OPAL HAS A SCRAPE ACROSS TH E TOP OF HER HEAD-- MEGAN THOUGHT LUNA-- I THNK MAYBE LULU  AT ANY RATE POOR OPAL.
IT IS NOT SPURTING.

THESE GUYS ARE GETTING BIG-- AND BY THE TIME WE HAVE NEW PUPS THEY SHOULD BE WELL ACCLIMATED TO THE BARN/KENNEL

SOMEHOW-- TODAY-- WE SHOULD GET THEM  ALL  ONTO THE DECK...  THERE ARE SOOME VERY NICE PUPS IN THIS GROUP...


MEGAN HAD MIA IN THE GUEST HOUSE FOR THE SUNDAY STEW-- SHE ENTERED TERRIFIED -- AND LEFT BEGGING FOR FOOD/ATTENTILON.
GOOD TRAINING FACILITY.
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THIS AFTERNNON- THERE WILL BE A HAIR CUTTING EXERCISE IN THE KITCHEN....I CAN NOT TRAVEL IN THIS SHAGGY CONDITION...
JIL HAD PITY ON ME AND SAID SHE WOULD BRING SCISSORS ABOUT 4PM..

STAY TUNED.

SCHEDULE?? MAYBE OUT FOR THE  USUAL TRAINING ABOUT 10:30

January 6, 2013

I HAD TO SPEND TIME  ALREADY  THIS MORNING  EXPLAINING TO SOMEONE  MY  "EMERGENCY  VOICE" 

 

ANY WELL TRAINED ANIMAL---- PEOPLE INCLUDED---- HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE EMERGENCY "WHOA" 

 

 AS IN   A POLICE OFFICERS.... "STOP OR I WILL SHOOT"

 

AROUND HERE- THERE HAS TO BE AN AWARENESS OF THE SITUATION OF  IMPENDING DISASTER- AND SINCE I AM USUALLY THE ONE SITTING AROUND JUST LOOKING, I CAN SOMETIMES SEE SOMETHING WHICH NEEDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION  BEING SHORT ON WORDS THIS OFTEN MEANS WHEN I SAY "LOOK OUT"---   IT MEANS JUST THAT -

-- I DON'T HAVE TIME TO SAY "I THINK THE PARKING BRAKE ON THE TRACTOR IS SLIPPING AND YOU BETTER GET OUT OF THE WAY" 

 

OR ..MY FAVORITE    "WHOA"  MEANS STOP-- NO QUESTIONS ASKED... FIGURE IT OUT LATER... IN TH E MEANTIME JUST STOP.  THERE IS A GREAT BIG TREE JUST BEHIND YOU 

 OR GLARE ICE IN THE NEXT 3 FEET---

 OR    DO NOT COME HERE WITH BENTLEY BECAUSE BUMPY IS LOOSE.

BBBBBBBBIIIIIIGGGGG PROBLEMS

 

AS OPPOSED TO "HEY"  WHICH IS LESS OF AN EMERGENCY....  FOR THINGS LIKE  "MARY IS RUNNING OFF WITH THE BAG OF CHICKEN FOOD." 

OR

 "DON'T BEND OVER AND PICK UP THAT DOG TOY JUST NOW- THE CAMERA IS AT YOUR REAR."

 

YOU COULD NOT POSSIBLEY DESCRIBE ALL THE POSSIBLE PROBLEMS AROUND HERE...

IT IS LIKE THAT BOOK "PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISYS"  WHERE TH EMOTHER MAKES A LIST OF WHAT TH EKIDS SHOULD NOT DO--- SO THEY ATE THE FLOWERS  .WHICH SHE  LEFT OFF THE LIST. (PEG BRACKEN   I BELIEVE)

 

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ALONG THOSE LINES--- I HAVE  PURCHASD 3 LOCKS FO THE GATES AROUND THE POND... NO ANIMAL SHOULD BE IN THERE TIL NEXT APRIL--  THEY ARE COMBINATION LOCKS--- WITH THE COMBINATION  SCRATCHED ON THE BOTTOM--  THEY AARE THERE TO ESTABLISH A POINT.... AND  JUST LET ME FIND A HORSE HOOFPRINT IN TH E  SNOW THERE AND WE WILL HAVE SOME KIND OF BARN CLEANING.

 

THAT IS ONE OF THOSE  ULTIMATE WHOA'S  ---THAT ICE IS THIN--  IN MY OPINION... ---AND I DON'T CARE IF YOUR OPINION DIFFERS.

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HORROR OF THE DAY --- PAUL AND EARLENE ARE BOTH SICK-- BOTH HAD THE FLU SHOT

I CAN NOT IMMAGINE SUNDAY STEW WITHOUT EARLENE

 

I FELT I MUST WARN EVERYONE--

 

 MEGAN BETTER PICK UP A LOAF OF BREAD AND PEANUT BUTTER.... WE COULD BE SHORT ON FOOD.

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HEALTH WISE---

AS FAR AS I CAN DETERMINE--- WE HAVE 2 SPECIFIC PEOPLE HEALTH ISSUES

THE USUAL FLU- JOINTS ETC

AND THEN THE BELLY BUSTER-- SORT OF 2 EXITS NO WAITING...

 

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I CAN'T SAY I HAVE HAD THE STOMACH VARIETY  YET   -- UNLESS I JUST HAD A MINOR CASE-- I DID NOTICE I DID NOT WANT TO  EAT KLONDIKE BARS... SO SOMETHING IS WRONG.

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BEFORE I FORGET

 

  BLESS  THOSE OBSERVANT CAMERA PEOPLE---  ONE OF THEM NOTIFIED ME THAT THE REAR VIEW OF THE YOUGER PEOPLE WORKING AROUND TH EPUPS WAS DISPLAYING THAT THEY JEANS WERE TOO LOW OR SHIRTS TOO HIGH--- AND THE REAR VIEW WAS NOT FIT FOR PUBLIC VIEWING...

 

I TRY AND KEEP EVERYTHING ON A HIGHER PLANE... LORD KNOWS I DON'T SET TOO HIGH A STANDARD FOR STYLE.... BUT I DO HAVE SOME FEELING THAT CLOTHES WERE MEANT TO COVER MOST OF THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE...

 

WE DID HAVE ONE SUMMER VOLUNTEER  WHO-- BETWEEN THE STRAPLESS SHIRT AND THE SHORT JEANS, ONLY COVERED ABOUT 17 INCHES OF THE MIDDLE-- AND THAT 17  INCHES WAS NOT A 3-D  MEASUREMENT... I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING...

 

WE WERE GETTING TOO MANY VOLUNTEERS-- MALE-- ABOUT 17 YEARSW OLD...

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TRYING TO CONTROL THE 15 PUPS AT NIGHT IS NOT TOOO BAD.. AGAIN THEY SEEM TO SLEEP THRU TIL 4AM---   AND THEN THEY ARE UP

 

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TODAY IS SH#TTING DAY  3PM START OF DROP--   LAST MONTH WE COLD NOT EVEN GET THE SEDCOND CHICKEN OUT BEFORE THE FIRST ONE HAD DECLARED THE WINNER/

 

TIM SAYS THE CAMERA SHOULD WORK... 

LET US PRAY

  WE WILL TEST IT OVER THERE ABOUT 2:00 IF I HAVE ENOUGH HELP...

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THE LITTLE DOGGIE WITH THE BUMPS FEELS BETTER TO TH E TOUCH   SO WE MUST HAVE SOMETING RIGHT.

 

 APPARENTLY THE SINK IN THE FEED ROOM IS WORKING WELL-- AS IS THE SINK IN THE KITCHEN

 

MAY I REMIND EVERYONE... YOU NEVER WANT TO WASH LETTUCE IN MY SINK.

 

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January 5, 2013

KNOBS ON ANTIQUE OAK DESKS ARE IDEAL OBJECT ON WHICH TO CUT TEETH  REPLACING THEM WITH  THE GENERIC 49 CENT KNOB DOES NOT HOLD THE  SAME FASCINATION.

COLLEEN 2 I HAVE DETERMINED TO BE AN IDEAL PUPPY  KINDERGARTEN TEACHER--

 SHE HAS THE CORRECT INTONATION 

"GINGER WHAT ON EARTH IS IN  YOUR MOUTH?"  OR 

 "ALL OF YOU NOW MIND YOUR MANNERS --- GO TO BED"

SHE IS GOOD... IN SPITE OF NOT FEEILING WELL..

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ANNE-- THE ANNE  WHO ORGANIZED WALTER'S PUPPIES IN FLIGHT TRIP----AND----  HAS MANAGED THE REAL WORLD OF EXPLORE.COM... LET ME REPHRASE IT...  ANNE IS AS COMBED ,COIFFED AND PRESSED AS EARLENE  AND  IS GETTING US ORGANIZED FOR TRAVEL.. HER MIND WORKS IN THE TIDY TRAILBEHIND BLACK BAG ON WHEELS...   MINE IS A YELLOW BACK PACK.-- SO SHE IS COMING THIS MORNING TO SEE IF SHE CAN BATTER MY NEEDS INTO A MORE SOCIALLY  PRESENTABLE FORM..

ALONG THOSE LINES... JIL--- I HAVE CLEAN HAIR--

 CLEAN SHAGGY-- IN NEED OF CUTTING-- IN TH EMIDDLE OF OUR KITCHEN PER USUAL -- WOULD BUT YOU ON WORLD WIDE NET.-- OR WE COULD TIP THE CAMERA DOWN AND JUST SHOW THE "CUTTINGS"

I LOOK LIKE ONE OF THOSE CHIAA PET THINGS.

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ONCE AGAIN I AM ORDERING THE ULTIMATE ORGANIZATIONAL DEVICE,

A ROLLINGWIRE BASKET FILE  FROM ULINE.COM.

EVERY ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTION HAS-- SO FAR---- FAILED... AND WE ONCE AGAIN FALL INTO THE DR PARKINSON'S RULE--"CLUTTER WILL ACCUMULATE TO FILL AVAILABLE SPACE."

I ONCE SAID-- "I NEED TO GET THE BED OUT OF THAT DOWNSTAIRS BEDROOM SO WE CAN PUT IN A VINYL FLOOR-- WE GOT THE BED OUT AND IMMEDIATELY FILLED THE SPACE WITH THE CALENDAR PROJECT... 

 WE HAVE A FEW DOZEN CALENDARS LEFT  ( OUT OF 1000)  BUT WE HAVE  MANY MANY DOZEN ENVELOPES LEFT OVER DUE TO A SEVERE MISCALCULATION ON MY PART. 

AS SOON AS THE CALENDARS ARE TOTALLY GONE. I CAN SHIFT THE PUPPY BREATH SUPPLIES INTO THAT AVAILABLE SPACE.. IT SHOULD TAKE UP LESS ROOM.

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I REMEMBER MY FATHER - WHO WAS IN THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT  BUSINESS  NECESSITATING OWNERSHIP OF BIG HEAVY TRACTOR TRAILERS-- HE USED TO SAY HE WISHED HE WAS IN LADIES UNDERWEAR SO THERE WOULD BE  LIGHTER TRUCKING INVOLVED.

HE DID INVENT THE TRAILER RAMP YOU SEE ON EVERY BACKHOE TRAILER KNOWN OT MANKIND-- A RAMP MADE BY ROTATING A RIGHT ANGLE   DOWN TO MAKE THE RAMP..   IF I HAD A PENNY FOR EACH ONE.....  BUT A COMPANY REDESIGNED THE HINGE AND BROKE THE PATENT RIGHTS AND HE DIDN'T MAKE A PENNY  -- BUT HE HAD FUN DOING IT.  --- 1945 IT WAS... I HAVE THE PATENT SOMEWHERE.

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SKIP HAS FOUND THE TABLE OF DANE COLORS I FIND TO BE FAIRLY CLOSE --- YOU CAN NOT GO LITTER BY LITTER-- BUT GENERALLY THIS SEEMS CORRECT.

CASE IN POINT   WE HAD ONE BREEDING OF HARL TO HARL AND GOT 8 HARL PUPS-- SO WE REPEATED IT AND HAD 7 BLACKS AND A WHITE.  WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DANE GENETICS...

http://www.greatdanerescueinc.com/events/genetics.html/title/breeding-considerations-breeding-where-do-deaf-whites-come-from-

SO THE BREEDINGS WE HAVE POSSIBLEY COMING UP ARE 

  NOEL X BENTLEY  WHICH IS BLACK/WHITE  ABD HARL 

BY THAT CHART  WOULD BE  

 33% BLACK/WH    BLACK  33% HARL  16.7% MERLE  16.7% ALL BLACK

AND THEN THERE IS OLIVE  X BUMPY  ( OR WALTER... OR BOTH)

MERLE X BLACK/WHITE 25% BLACK  25% BLACK/WH  25%MERLE 25% HARL.

OR   WALTER

IT DEPENDS ON IF WALTER HAS ANY MERLE ON HIM OR  ARE HIS SPOTS ALL BLACK///

IN EITHER CASE HE SHOULD... SHOULD.. THROW   NO BLACK PUPS BRED TO MERLE...

**** KEEP IN MIND THERE ARE PEOPLE GOING TO TELL US THAT CHAT IS ALL WRONG--  BUT SO FAR I HAVE FOUND IT NEAR RIGHT OVER THE LONG RUN

  ADDING WALTER- WHO IS TECHNICALLY A PIEBALD- WHICH DOES NOT EXIST IN SOME LANGUAGES...  SHOUL D ADD COLOR TO OUT LITTERSW.

WALTER WILL PROBABLY ADD SIZE TOO... HE IS ONE BIG DOG.

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NOT ONLY DO WE ENJOY THE  THINGS COMING ON THE FEDEX AND UPS TRUCKS-- BUT TH EPUPPIES ENJOY CHEWING THE BOXES  TO BITS.

I THINK  PUPS  FIND A BOX  NTO BE  A PORTABLE PRE DUG HOLE-- WHERE  IF THEY GET THEIR  FRONT END IN AND DIG LIKE CRAZY, THEY CAN MAKE IT DEEPER.

PUPPY WATCHING... SUCH FUN.

January 4, 2013

BIG ... WELL ACTUALLY VERY TINY... NEWS 

 

WE TOOK NOEL DOWN TO GEORGE FOR A "FREE  FINGER  FEELIE " PREGO  EXAM-- AND HE ALSO DID AN ULTRASOUND

AS HE CRAWLED AROUND THE FLOOR-- HE SAID "THERE IS ONE PUP"--

 WHAT SEEMED LIKE 14 HOURS OF AGONY LATER HE SAID" THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PUP."

SO BARRING THE UNFORSEEN-- ALONG ABOUT THE FIRST OF FEB-- WE SHOULD HAVE NEW PUPPIES...

 

BUMPY X NOEL  SO DON'T LOOK FOR ALL HARLS... SINCE BOTH  PARENTS ARE BLACK. YOU MIGHT GET SOME BLACK AND SOME BLACK WITH WHITE MARKINGS

 

THE OLIVE ( MERLE) WITH WALTER OR  BUMPY IS MORE PROMISING FOR COLOR

 

OLIVE X BUMPY  (MERLE X BLACK/WH) SHOULD/COULD BE 50% BLACK  25% MERLE 25% HARL

OLIVE X WALTER (MERLE X HARL) COULD BE 25%MERLE 25%HARL 25%BLACK 25% WHITE

 

THAT  25% WHITE COULD BE DEAF IF THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH BLACK SPOTS... WE HAVE TRAINED SOME GREAT DEAF DOGS-- THE ENTIER LITTER DEAF  WOULD NOT BE FUN/// BUT ONE DEAF  HERE AND THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM... AT LEAST YET.. ---- PANDEMONIUM WAS    A LOVELY DOG...

 

SOMEWHERE THERE EXISTS A CHART OF THE  POSSIBLE  PERCENTAGES OF COLORS FROM BREEDING HARLS... A GENETIC STUDY-- FI ANYONE CAN FIND THAT CHART PASS IT ON TO ME-- I HAVE THE PRINTED CHART HERE IN TH EOFFICE...  IT SEEMS PRETTY ACCURATE OVER TH LONG RUN.

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LAST NIGHT'S INFOMERCIAL CONCERNED HAIR LOSS-    THEY  CONSTANTLY MADE THE COMMENT  "YOU CAN SWIM WITH THIS HAIR PRODUCT"

IN MY SEMI AWAKE STATE-- I THOUGHT "BEFORE  SOMEONE SMEARS THIS ALL OVER THEIR HEAD AND JUMPS IN THE DEEP END-- THEY BETTER KNOW HOW TO SWIM IN THE FIRST PLACE."

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HAIR----MY ABILITY TO TRAIN DOGS IS SECOND TO MY ABILITY TO GROW HAIR.  I DID HAVE A 24" LONG BRAID--  WHICH I DONATED TO LOCKS OF LOVE--

 

I HAD TO CUT IT OFF- GRAVITY  BEING WHAT IT WAS - THE FACT THAT IT TOOK THE BACK OF MY NECK 48 HOURS TO DRY AFTER I WASHED IT  MADE FOR GREAT CULTURE MEDIUM... AND FUNNY THINGS BEGAN  TO GROW IN THE FOREST OF THE BACK OF MY HEAD.,  I TRIED TO AIR IT OUT -- AFTER WASHING IT-- TO TIE  IT UP AND OVER THE RAFTERS WHILE I SIT AT THE COMPUTER. 

 JANINE CAME IN AND THOUGHT I 'D BEEN  STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.   THAT DIDN'T WORK-- IT HAD TO GO.

 

SO I NOW HAVE SHORT HAIR- WHICH IS MUCH MORE LABOR INTENSIVE .. IT NEEDS CUTTING OFTEN.  LUCKILY  JIL-- A CAMERA PERSON WHO  WATCHES THE CONDITION OF MY HEAD, COMES ROUND WITH  HER HAIR CUTTING SCISSORS WHEN I BEGIN TO LOOK TOO SHABBY ON THE TV.-- HOPEFULLY TODAY IS THE DAY.

 

EVEN EARLENE JOINED IN THE "CARLENE'S HAIR PROBLEMS" AND GOT ME A CURLING IRON-- MINUS THE DIRECTIONS--  AFTER  I  NEARLY SET FIRE TO MY HEAD, SHE SHOWED ME HOW TO ONLY SLIGHTLY FRY IT INTO  CURVES

 

 I AM SUPPOSED TO LOOK NORMAL BY  NEXT MONDAY.

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AND ANNE IS BLOWING HER NOSE...AND WORRYING ABOUT PRESSURIZING HER EARS IN FLIGHT.

 

IT WILL BE A FUN TRIP

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I SPENT SOME TIME ON THE PHONE WITH TIM ( EXPLORE TECHNICAL PERSON...) YESTERDAY DOING ALL SORTS OF TECHNICAL THINGS ---I FELT VERY SOPHISTICATED.... PUSH THE  RED BUTTON TWICE-   NOW... UNPLUG... PLUG IN...  THINGS LIKE THAT.

 

HE WANTS TO DO SOME OTHER THINGS  TODAY-- IN THAT BOX IN THE BARN--- AND I AM TO CALL HIM ABOUT 9AM TODAY---

I HOPE PAUL SHOWS UP---  BEING HARD OF HEARING- NOT IN STEP WIHT CELL PHONES IN GENERAL AND STANDING ON A LADDER IN TH EPUPPY ROOM IN THE BARN...  MAY PROVE A CHALLANGE  TO ME.  ( AND PROBABLY A BIGGER CHALLANGE TO TIM)

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SHELIA-- A PERSON FROM DANVERS WHO HAS A HOME SERVICE COMPANY CAME BY WITH HER HUSBAND AND AN ELECTRICAL GENUIS WHO WILL GET OUR  DRYING MACHING RUNNING SOON----?THIS WEEK? / THIS IS FRIDAY???

HE SUGGESTS IT DRAWS SO MUCH ELECTRICITY THAT WE  DON'T RUN IT ON HIGH-- SOUNDS REASONABLE...

 

SHE OFFERD TO VOLUNTEER AND I SUGGESTED SHE START IN TODAY- or whenever... she has had danes and is a great puppy patter.

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THE  UPS  SURPRISES OF THE DAY --- INCLUDED  BLANKETS-  13 JUGS OF- DOG FRIENDLY ICE MELT- SOME CUT CARDBOARDS  , SNAPS., CHOCOLATES, MOPS-  MACHINE TYPE  TEA FOR EARLENE--  A COUPLE CHECKS AND SOME REQUESTS FOR PUPPY BREATHS. MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE 

 

I NEED TO AMEND THE REQUEST  FOR  CEREAL BOXES  TO     "OR BEER HOLDERS "

WE ARE GETTING ALOT OF THOSE AND THEY WORK VERY WELL TOO.  MUST BE THE SUNDAY FOOTBALL GAMES....

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FINALLY--- THE PUPPY POO'S ARE ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL-- GOOD FIRM CYLINDARS YOU CAN ROLL RIGHT OFF THE TOWELS ONTO THE CARDBOARDS-

 

SH#T ON A SHINGLE---- IF EVER THERE WAS ANY..

 

 WHAT MORE COULD I ASK FOR ??? 

 

 

 

 

 

January 3, 2013

I CAN SEE HOPE AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL...

 

2 DAYS AGO WITH 15 PUPS ABSOLUTELY WILD TEARING AROUND TH EHOUSE DESTROYING AND .....CAUSING GREAT ODORS,, .PLUS  HAVING THE FLU... I WONDERED IF I WOULD HAVE  STREGNTH TO DEAL.

 

BUT I AM BACK TO FIGHTING STREGNTH NOW.. AND COLLEEN 2  SAID THE DIFFERENCE IN THE PUPS  FROM SUNDAY NIGHT TIL LAST NIGHT IS MONUMENTAL

 

THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS ....

.YESTERDAY WE FED THEM ABOUT 5 AND DID NOT LET THEM INTO THE "TV" ROOM  WHERE THE FLUFFIES WERE ALL LINED UP -- I MADE  THEM STAY IN THE OFFICE/KITCHEN AREA  ( VINYL FLOOR) TO DO THIER THING AND RACE AROUND.. AS THEY BEGAN TO FALL OVER ASLEEP-- WE CARRIED THEM INTO THE TV ROOM AND PUT THEM ON A SOFA.

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I SAT THERE WITH MY WHIFFLE BAT AND BANGED THE FLOOR IF ANYONE EVEN STARTED TO RUN AROUND..  THEY COULD WALK AROUND TO GO GET A DRINK OR CHANGE BEDS-- BUT  THE SLIGHTEST  OFFER TO DISRUPT ANOTHER DOG WAS DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY--- "STOP IT.".. BANG THE FLOOR

 

THEY GOT THE PICTURE  SO BY 7PM WHEN COLLEEN  GOT HERE ALL WAS UNDER CONTROL-- AND SHE SAID IT STAYED THAT WAY ALL NIGHT  TIL 4AM.

 

PLUS WHEN THEY START TO PULL THINGS OFF MY DESK AND I SAY "NO"  THEY LOOK AT ME- AND AT LEAST NOTICE I AM  SAYING SOMETHING..

THIS IS PART OF SERVICE TRAINING-- ANY PUP WHO DOES NOT STOP AND THINK WOULD MAKE A BETTER PET  THAN WORKING DOG.

 THIS IS ONE POINT WHERE WE CAN BEGIN  TO AIM THE PUPSAT  THEIR BEST DESTINY.

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*NOW THE PROBLEM OF TH E NIGHT

 AND IT WAS I BIG ONE.

HAVING RUN THE CHAOS PUPS UP FROM THE BARN-- AND MOVED THE MOXIE PUPS INTO THE HOUSE  THEN THE TV ROOM  ... JAMIE TRACY AND DEVLIN ALL LEFT-- AND I SAT WITH MY YELLOW BAT---

 

SO I COUNTED----    14-----  AND RECOUNTED  14  AND THOUGHT  16 MINUS 1 IS NOT 14  SO I COUNTED... MANY MORE TIMES... THEN  I GOT OUT MY POLICEMAN'S FLASHLIGHT AND MADE THE ROUNDS OF EVERY CLOSET ETC ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF THIS HOUSE.. NOTHING---  ABSOLUTE PANIC---- I NEEDED HELP QUICKLY - WHICH WOULD BE TRACY ABOUT 2 MILES AWAY - WHO STARTED IN THIS DIRECTION  - AND TEX'D JAMIE---  WHO REMINDED ME  HILLARY TOOK ONE BUMPY PUP  HOME TO HAVE A GOOD BATH/SHOWER--  ----AND 16-2 IS 14

 

- THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND ALL THE DOGS I EXPECTED TO FIND-- AND IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED WE HAVE A SIGN OUT LIST--  BUT I WAS SO BUSY CRAWLING AROUND THE FLOOR LOOKING UNDER SOFA'S WITH THE HUGE FLASHLIGHT THAT I NEVER LOOKED AT THE SIGN OUT BOARD

 

YOU COULD SAY IT WAS MY AGE.... BUT I HAVE DONE THIS KIND OF THING BEFORE I GOT THIS OLD....--- WITH BIGGER THINGS  THAN PUPPIES.

.. "JANINE  HOW MANY HORSES  AM I SUPPOSED TO HAVE IN THE BARN?"*

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APPARENTLY I AM NOT GETTING ANY BETTER.

 

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 YESTERDAY'S OTHER DISASTERS....

 

1. WE WERE OUT OF DOG FOOD-

2. IT WAS THE FIRST OF THE YEAR..

 

FOOD SIMPLY MEANT A TRIP TO SAMS- ( FOR FOOD NOT MADE IN A DIAMOND FACTORY) --

 BUT WE COULDN'T DO THAT BECAUSE IT SEEMS EVERYONE'S HORSE TRAILER PLATES EXPIRE ON JAN 1ST-- AND JANINE NEEDED OUR TRAILER --- OR ANYONE ELSE'S ---- SHEWAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE THAT EXTRA HORSE FROM OUR BARN TO CONN.. AND GO FURTHER AND PICK UP 4 MORE RESCUES   IN PENNA..--- TO COME HERE...- ONE BEING RESCUED IN THE NAME OF THAT LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS KILLED IN THE SCHOOL SHOOTOUT.-- APPARENTLY A BAY 6 MONTH OLD FOAL??

 

WHY DID I NOT GET HER INTERESTED IN RAISING HAMPSTERS?

 

WE GO THRU THIS TRAILER PROBLEM  YEARLY-- COMBINATION OF CIRCUMSTANCES-

 

THE DURANGO (CURRENTLY MINE)  IS  INSURED  WITH--- GEICLO-- WHO  DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO SELL HORSE TRAILER INS IN MASS.

 JANINE-S LITTLE BMW WILL NOT PULL A HORSE TRAILER- BUT SHE IS INS WITH COMMERCE  WHO DOES INS HORSE TRAILERS.

 

SO.... WHO OWNS THE HORSE TRAILER  AND WHO  SHOULD OWN THE HORSE TRAILER?  AND  WHERE IS THE TITLE ANYWAY

 

EVERY YEAR WE GO THRU THIS. 

 EVERY YEAR THERE IS SOMETHING TO DISRUPT WHAT WOULD BE NORMAL--

 IF WE WERE NORMAL..

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I WAS TO MEET JANINE AT THE INS COMPANY--- THEY ARE NOT MY FAVORITE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD-- THEIR VERY OCCUPATION BOTHERS ME..  REGARDLESS OF WHAT I HAVE FOR PAPERWORK-- IT IS NEVER QUITE RIGHT...

 

SO I WAS VERY PLEASED -- AS I WENT UP IN THE ELEVATOR TO NOTICE THE ELEVATOR PERMIT HAD EXPIRED IN  -- MAY OF 2011--   SO WHEN THEY TOLD ME-- AGAIN.. I /JANINE  NEEDED SOME OTHER PAPERS..

. I COULD SAY "BY THE WAY.. YOUR ELEVATOR PERMIT IS EXPIRED."

 

THAT GAVE ME GREAT PLEASURE.

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MEGAN....THE DOG FOOD IS IN THE BACK OF THE COA VAN..  WE HAD TO TAKE TH E BIG VAN BECAUSE WITH 14 PUPS IN THE HOUSE   THE EXTRA 5 ADULTS MIGHT BE THE STRAW THAT CAUSED THERESA TO COLLAPSE...

 

AND IT IS STILL IN THE VAN--

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LORI MANAGED TO GET CHICKEN FOOD WHILE THERESA SEARCHED FOR THE

TRAILER TITLE

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LEAVING THE TV ON ALL NIGHT WHILE ASLEEP CAN GIVE  ME SOME REALLY STRANGE NOTIONS WHICH I HAVE TO FIGHT.  LAST NIGHT THERE WAS A LONG "INFOMERCIAL" ABOUR SPRINKLING STUFF ON FOOD SO IT DIDN'T MAKE YOU FAT.

 

I WONDERED IF IT WOULD RUIN THE FLAVOR OF THE CHEESCAKE....

 

 

 

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January 2, 2012

PLEASE DO NOT EXPECT ANY ASTUTE OBSERVATIONS TODAY... I HAVE THE FLU---OR WHATEVER

 

 

ABOUT THE SECOND WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN... MEGAN HAS  TH E FLU    !! 

 

WE HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE COMING IN TO FEED AND DO CHORES  BUT ANY OF THE REGULAR'S  WHO CAN COME AND TALK TO THE DOGS  AND GIVE THEM ONE ON ONE  IT WOULD BE VERY NICE--

 

OTHER THAN THAT---- I HAVE IT.../  EARLENE IS DOWN ..AND THERESA DIDN'T LOOK SO GOOD EITHER

 

HILARY DID OVERNIGHT AND IS FEEDING THIS MORNING...

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AND WE HAVE TO BEGIN TO SPLIT UP THIS BUNCH OF DOGS--  I CAN NOT MENTALLY THINK OF 7 DOGS AT ONCE  SO IF WE CAN GET TO 3'S THAT WOUD BE A BIG HELP

 

FIRST STEP IS TO SPLIT CHAOS BUNCH 3  3  2     AND ROTATE THEM THRU THE HOUSE.... NUTT HOUSE.. AND KENNEL 10  - THEN THE CAMERA PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CHASE THEM AROUND. 

 

MOXIE'S ARE 2 WEEKS BEHIND-- SO THEY CAN DO HALL/DECK AS LONG AS THE MILKHOUSE HEATER CAN STAY AHEAD OF THE COLD-- IN WHICH CASE THEY HAVE TO COME IN HERE.

 

THE NUTT HOUSE WAS 70 DEGREES AT 5' OFF THE GROUND... AND THAT IS WITHOUT A WOOD FIRE..  I HAVE NOT CHECKED TH E DEAGLE HOUSE BECASE WE NEED MORE FENCING BEFORE WE USE THE PUPPY END OF THAT  BULIDING.

 

THEN TO KEEP THE CAMERA BUSY IN THE BARN  PERRY AND WILLOW CAN SLEEP IN #10  FROM 5PM TO 8AM  ****WHEN THEY WOULD BE REPLACED BYU 3 OF CHAOS PUPS..

 

 

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I AM CERTAINY GLAD WE DID NOT  WANDER OFF SOME CLIFF OR ANOTHER-

I CAN NOT GET TOO CONCERNED ABOUT WASHIGTON POLITICS

 

NOW IF OUR TRASH COLLECTOR SHOULD PERFORM AS POORLY AS THE CONGRESS-- THEN I REALLY WOULD BE UPSET..

.. AND IN  ONE HELLOVA MESS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 1, 2013!!

WE MAY HAVE A FEW DAYS OF MINIMUM EFFORT

most everyone here has some version of sniffle cough and SNeeze- but we are still on our feet.

****I REMEMBER THE MYTHBUSTERS TESTING THE DISTANCE THEY COULD SNEEZE- AND IT WAS OVER 10 FEET.

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maybe today is the day-- to get these crazy pups out of here...

 

if we split the group and have 2 bunches maybe we can get them onto the deck..   which would mean the house dogs can get back in here...  they need some paw holding...  and these pups need one on one...

 

these pups-- it is like too many rats in a cage-- they bicker-- so we need to spread them out.

 

and the need to shuffle them on to bigger things is mandated by the 2 who might be preganat..

 

and i have to qualify that-- neither female behaved in a typical manner----  could be neither is pregnant.

 

noel who was bred last year and did not conceive-- THEN THIS YEAR  accepted  the male on about day 9  and was still accepting him about day 15-- not normal

then olive  accepted BUMPY  about day 8 - wanted nothing to do with him for the next week and all of a sudden  walter got in the act at about day 16 --2 FATHERS 1 LITTER IS POSSIBLE-- THEORETICALLY THE AKC CAN TELL -- WITH DNA-- WHICH THE FATHER IS. 

 

HOWEVER THE  $40 DNA TEST THE AKC  HAVE EVERYONE DOING JUST PROVES IT IS A DOG--- IF YOU WANT TO KNOW PATERNITY  IT IS ANOTHER $120  EACH

 

IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT WALTER HAS FOR PUPS... HE IS SOME BIGGGGG  DOG.  AND HIS SISTER IS A FINE LOOKING BEAST TOO... NEXT YEAR FOR HER.

 

the next fact is that george says he can feel for pups between day 25 and 30  AND GUESS-- OR HE COULD DO AN ULTRASOUND ($$$) AND WE MIGHT HAVE A BETTER IDEA....

BUT KNOW ING DOES NOT CHANGE A THING SO IT REALLY IS A WASTE OF MONEY  --- IF WE JUST WAIT ANOTHER COUPLE WEEKS IT WILL BE OBVIOUS

 

MEANWHILE MEGAN THINKS NOEL HAS A DEPRESSION BETWEEN HER  NIPPLES--  WHICH MEANS THEY ARE GROWING DOWN

 

AND HOW FAR DO THEY GROW DOWN????

 I MEASURED MOXIE'S MILK BAR AND  THE BACK ONES WERE 8" BELOW HER BELLY WALL,,

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THE FOOD AND FUEL BILL FOR JAN I S PAID--- WONDERFUL--   WE WILL SH#T ON SUNDAY AT 3:PM...

 

WE CAN TRY AND GET THE EXPLORE CAMERA WORKING IN TH E GUEST HOUSE AND DO THE SH#TTING THERE...   IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE.

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AND THEN THERE IS THE END OF YEAR  BOOKKEEPING  ALWAYS SUCH FUN...  ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS NOT ONE SURFACE ON WHICH TO SPREAD BANK STATEMENTS ETC..

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NO WAY DO I WANT TO STOP TH E INFLUX OF EQUIPMENT ETC  BUT WE NOW HAVE 2 OVERFLOW ROOMS ON THIS FLOOR ALONE

 

THE MOP WE GOT YESTERDAY WORKED WELL  AND THE HATS  AND THE SNAPS  AND THE FOOD.. IT IS WONDERFUL 

 

THOSE DOUBLE ENDED SNAPS TAKE TH EPLACE OF THE TYE WRAPS-- WE CHANGE CONFIGURATION SO OFTEN .-- NOTHING IS PERMANENT.

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I AM TRYING TO INSTILL ON THESE PUPS THAT THEY MAY NOT CHEW ON EACH OTHER STARTTING TODAY

 

I HAVE MY HANDS FULL