JULY 14 2014
SUNDAY WAS A LOVELY DAY   STARTING WITH  TRASH DUMP--

 NOTHING BROKE , FELL OFF , OR MALFUNCTIONED.... A  GREAT DAY..

A TRIP TO THE TRASH DUMP  CAUSES THE SAME RELIEF AS HAVING A LAXATIVE FINALLY WORK.

THE TRAILER WAS PILED HIGH WITH A SOFA OR TWO, A BATHTUB.  UNKNOWN NUMBER OF DAY CARE BEDS ( THE PRE KURANDA KIND) AND THE  CONTENTS OF THE NUTT HOUSE......  ALL CAREFULLY TIED DOWN.. I TRAVELED TH EBACK ROADS TO AVOID RT 95 WITH  THAT MESS...

THE HYDROLIC LIFT WORKED SO WE COULD UNLOAD IT MINUS ANY REAL EFFORT-- 

THEN TO HOME DEPOT TO GET THE PLYWOOD FOR GRACE'S ROOM..  BECAUSE I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO TIE IN THE SHEETS OF PLYWOOD, I BOUGHT 4 POSTS AND CONCRETE FOR THE BIRD HOUSE PROJECT TO WEIGH THE PLYWOOD DOWN.

NOW THE PROBLEM WITH  WHERE, HOW HIGH, FACING WHICH DIRECTION-- ALL STARTS AS WE HAVE ALL OF THEM IN THE T TENT.

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 WE HAVE 4 CP'S IN THE TEEPEE--

DYING TO GO SEE HOW THEY FARED.

I TOLD THEM THEY COULD GO SLEEP IN ANY OF THE OTHER BUILDINGS ( SOFA'S ) ALSO

BUT I HOPE THEY ARE PURISTS AND TRY LIFE ON THE PRAIRE STUFF.

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SCARLOTT  RAN OFF YESTERDAY CAUSING FAR MORE CONFUSION THAN IS NECESSARY..

PROBLEM WAS  SHE WAS WEARING AN ELECTRIC  UNDERGROUND FENCE COLLAR-- FOR WHICH  ( IT IS MY CONTENTION ) SHE DOES NOT HAVE THE TRAINING OR TEMPERAMENT TO DEAL WITH THE ELECTRIC SHOCK.

PROVEN BY THE FACT THAT SHE RAN OFF.

STARTING A LARGE PROBLEM HERE WITH ----WHO ... HOW... WHEN... AND WHY... YOU  START LOOKING FOR A MISSING DOG...

YOU START BY NOTIFYING THE POLICE AND ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER-- ( PAID FOR BY YOUR TAXES-- SO PUT THEM TO WORK...)   THEN YOU  HAVE SOMEONE WALK YOUR USUAL DAILY PATH WITH ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER AND DOG IF AVAILABLE..

THEN CRUISE AROUND IN  YOUR FAMILY  CAR-- OR 2 CARS IF AVAILABLE...-- THE SOUND OF WHICH THE DOG IS FAMILIAR... AND AS YOU CRUISE, YOU ASK ALL EXERCISING JOGGERS AND CYCLERS TO NOTIGY THE POLICE IF THEY SEE     XXXXXX ----IN THIS CASE A HUGE GREY DOG.

AS WORRISOME AS IT IS, IT HAS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE THAT LOST DANES ARE INCLINED TO LAND ON SOMEONE'S FRONT LAWN AND JUST  WAIT TIL SOMEONE CALLS THEM A TAXI.

"BROWNIE"  A HUGE MERLE- WALKED OFF ONE DAY AND I GOT A CALL FROM THE TOPSFIELD POLICE

 "  WE JUST HAD A STRANGE CALL FROM  THE RESIDENT AT BLUEBERRY LANE ABOUT A MOOSE  LYING IN THERI FRONT YARD... IT HAS TO BE ONE OF YOUR DOGS."

IT WAS BROWNIE.. LOVELY DOG.

THERE ARE MANY TIMES I ABSOLUTELY PANIC-- THE WORST IS WHEN TH E ICE ON HOOD POND IS  NOT QUITE THICK ENOUGH-- AND I WORRY THE DOGS MIGHT GET ON THE FAR SIDE AND TRY AND CROSS THE LAKE TO COME HOME. 

I REALLY DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD TRY AND STEAL A 150 POUND DANE.. BUT THAT DOES CROSS MY MIND TOO...

SCARLEOTT CAME HOME AND ALL IS WELL-- I STRONGLY SUGGESTED THEY  NOT USE THE  ELECTRIC COLLAR ON HER EVER AGAIN

 PROPERLY USED THEY ARE INVALUABLE-- BUT NOT DONE CORRECTLY YOU CAN END UP WITH AN IDIOT OF A DOG.

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I HAVE TO GO SEE IF THE PEOPLE IN THE TEEPEE SURVIVED...

THEY COULD BE ON CAMERA.TOO

july 13 2014
PROBLEMS WITH AOL-- APPARENTLY AOL HAS NOT BEEN DELIVERING THE DAILY DOGGIE TO THEIR ADDRESSES SINCE JULY 1-

I HAVE HAD THIS PROBLEM ONCE BEFORE AND IT HAD TO DO WITH AOL DECIDING  I SENT IT TO TOO MANY PEOPLE SO I MUST BE SPAM... AND I HAD TO DO SOMETHING LIKE APPLY TO BE A  ??WHITE EMAIL?? FROM THE AOL POSTMASTER...  WHICH IS WHY MOST OF  THE DD ARE SENT OUT BY CONSTANT CONTACT  WHO GUARENTEES... FOR A FEE... THAT THEY WILL NOT HAVE PROBLEMS LIKE THIS.. 

RIGHT !     THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON IT.  IN THE MEANTIME IT SHOULD BE ON THE  SERVICEDOGPROJECT.ORG  WEB PAGE 

EXCEPT IN THOSE CASES WHEN I PUSH THE WRONG BUTTON.

  CAN'T WIN  'EM ALL

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 THE 2 HOBBLERS FROM YESTERDAY'S  BREAKFAST LINE UP SEEM CURED.. ROMPING AND NOT SCREAMING...... AT LEAST SO FAR...

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TESS IS DOING VERY WELL-- COMFORTABLE WITH SUNDAY SANDY'S TREATMENTS-- SHE IS HERE FOR A FEW DAYS WHILE SANDY WENT SOMEWHERE.  NO BLEEDY TOES - NO OTHER COMPLAINTS...  I DID SEE HER STAND ON THE TOP OF HER FOOT YESTERDAY-- AND SHE DID NOT SEEM TO REALIZE IT-- THAT SMACKS OF SOME NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEM...  BUT IT DOES NOT SEEM TO BOTHER HER.  AND IF IT DOES NOT BOTHER HER........ WE CAN COPE.

THAT OLD PHYSICIAN'S SAYING... "FIRST DO  NO HARM" IS GOING TO HAVE TO APPLY TO HER... IF WE STARTED IN WITH THE MRI'S ETC... SOMEONE WOULD TELL US SHE COUDL BE 85% CURED WITH SURGERY.  TO ME IT SEEMS THAT THE RISK  OF 15%  WORSE. IS NOT.. AT LEAST AT THE MOMENT.. WORTH IMPROVING THE "STANDING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HER FOOT TWICE A DAY"   PROBLEM...  SHE IS A LOVELY DOG.

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  IT IS 6:39 BY THE CLOCK....  WHICH IS WHERE I USUALLY GET THE TIME ( ALONG WITH WHICH DAY IT IS... I HAVE ONE OF THOSE TOO)

THE DUMP-- AKA TRANSFER STATION-- IS OPEN AT 7AM EVEN ON SUNDAY-- SO THE PLAN IS TO TAKE THIS FIRST LOAD THERE ( 5 MILES NORTH OF HERE)   THEN GO 5 MILES SOUTH OF HERE TO HOME DEPOT TO GET PLYWOOD FOR THE FLOOR OF THE LOFT.. MAYBE SOME NAILS ..PAint... and come back here and sit.

all that driving might wear me out.

i am thrilled to finally have 2 trailers registered...  i have one small worry-- i have not yet pulled it with my car... but the wiring should be standard.. the thing is soooo loaded i have to go to the dump on the back roads... i would not dare get on rt 95 with  these sofas, bathtub  , 12 daycare cots an d other goodies..

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everyone is supposed to be up and working at 7  so i will get out and hitched  and be ready to go at 7am 

with steve -- in case the hydrolic dump part does not function...

still a few unknowns even if i think we are fully functional.

p.s.  steve (bb)  and shiela-- you should get 2 dd's if aol corrects the problem... let me know.

july 12 2014

today's project is to go buy pineapple juice. 

  i am told by an un named camera person- it will cure my cough..my personal opinion in this matter is that the pineapple growers association of hawaii sets this rumor on the internet just at the start of allergy season-- this gives the thinking public a chance to drink 3 weeks of pineapple juice before mother nature shuts off the reproductive system of the  various trees and grasses ----so less pollen = less alergy=less cough and the pineapple growers profits from the profit  and takes the credit .

they hopefully make enough to carry them thru til flu season when  the previously trained pineaple drinking cough-ers will pass their  wisdom along to a new generation of sneezers..  and on it goes.

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most exciting news so far ... is ....i did get a license plate for the dump trailer

 ( since i seem to be minus my horse trailer)  this is an added luxury ... in my previous life i had a farm plate which went between trailers   --- consequently if it wasnt missing, it was frozen on to the wrong trailer  with rusty bolts and the wrench was no wheres to be found---   

 but dumping is good...  now i can take that load of old sofa's to the "transfer station"  -- get weighed in-- unload--get weighed out- (a  pay by the pound exercise) and go to home depot for the plywood for the hayloft  all before the end of the day-- so tomorrow anyone caught standing around will be encouraged to  line the hayloft floor with the extra layer of plywood...  just in case i gain any more weight..-- i already have a n extra layer in the middle where we dragged hay in and out.... now i need to do the whole floor-- and apint it with tough paint.

add a few lights and grace should be in business.

i was shocked to  hear about the  trash situation in the washington dc area..  i was told such a thing as a t ransfer station does not exist...   that is where the smaller trucks unload and it all gets smushed into a huge 18 wheeler and trucked to maine  ( nor penna if you are in ny)..

with ye olde american ingenuity  i bet they have found a new word, having had our officials outlaw  dumping  or transferring.   trash happens.

i have several books on the topic in the guest house..  "new york garbage" is one of them

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melissa  who lost annie to old age mostly... is needing another dog... rogue..... not to replace  but to go at  a different life again...  i hav not had a chance to start teh deaf training-- but saw no reason to interupt the bonding which has started to take place..  with luck she will train her and we can get the credit.

Hi just wanted to update you. Rogue arrived and was soo excited!!! She has done wonderful with the kids. She has been very focused on me but really loves kissing the kids and loves their hugs. She reallly loves my daughter and goes to her often. (My daughter has adhd) We walked around my neighborhood and rogue was great! She is very gentle with the baby! She has been great and just follows us everywhere. She finally peed but has yet to poop.. she has lots of ripe gas but hasn't pooped yet.. i will try again soon.

Thank you so much.. we will see you Tuesday morning. I will update you again tomorrow!

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apparently we are having troulble withthe bulk mailing company constant contact  who sends out this email-- aol was a problem because my list is so large they thoutghti  it was spam.. 

speaking of bulk quantities...would you all please go to clearspan.com  and like th epicture of our arena  then thank them for helping with our building project...

it will help me convince them to cntinue with our 50% discount on  the odd things i get from farm tek...

july 11 2014
off to a great start... 

i read the directions to some medicine i am taking... and i discovered why i don't read direction s too often... there are too many details left out..

in this case "your urine may stain your contact lens."

next trueism..

you often forget who made you sad... but you never forget anyone who made you really laugh

and in this case -- it was sheila and steve last night at mail call... mailcall became a "play on words"

most of which i can not remember-- we ended up singing n unison 

hello mother hello father here i am at camp granada- and if you don't know it-- it is well worth googling it.

and sheila suggested the next tuesday trivia--- spraying me with a hose and seeing how many of those cornstarch packing peanuts would stick to me.

having sheila and steve in the same room reminded me of  episodes at the university of edinburgh  where we had "conversation episodes" where people would sit around and just talk.... no liguor... no agenda

just words-- and it was extremely funny.

there was a cp here from washington wh o was some newspaper writer  -- he agreed  you could not make up what just happened with that  mail call.

thankfully the sound is nearly on again...  a few  details o work out  but plan is for it to be on 100% and me control the sound with the volume control on the wireless box...

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bizzarre  medicine....  again...

 sunday sand y just came in with tess

the dog who was so unstable  she was immediately retired and came here to the farm ?10 ays ago??to ride out whatever was happening to her nervious system... top of the paw on the ground is never a good sign...  bleeding toenails from dragging is another bad deal...  so sandy- being a hospice nurse took her home and began supportive care-- which we decided to try doxycycline also--  that was ??? a week?? 10 days ago... and the wobbling dog just walked in this house looking 78% normal----

couple that with priscilla's dog --cookie -- with the seizure lookng symptom absolutely cured by draining her anal glands...

that is why they call it the "practice of medicine"

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i don't know if cathy is around  for another day of absolute labor.. she is a worker of the first degree... yesterday i set her to turning over the compost pile with the tractor... in aiircondition comfort...  she did that. while her friend on crutches wandered around the yard filling the mailboxes and pipes with grocery bags..

thanks to her start  with vacuum the hay loft, steve and wayne made huge progress with the tyveck on the cieling...  it will be a very useful area for grace to work--- and strange things to be stored.

i wonder if home depot delivers.. we need alot of plywood for the floor.

and my horse trailer seems to be missing.

i did register the dump trailer insted of getting a bigger dumpster...-- which could be  called into service fpr plywood hauling/.... 

 megan  should pick up th e plates late this afternoon .

farm tek has shipped the materials for the meat shack and kennel walls...

and we have to get the clearspan banner on the building....-- i do not understand the why or how of this... but the person from clearspan was hoping lots of people would "like" the photo they posted of us using the arena-- i think on thier website?? clearspan.com ???

so if y ou would all figure that out and go do that-- he was very nice to give us a bunch of building stuff

we are off and running... finally

JULY 10 2014

YESTERDAY THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ON LINE ABOUT THE KIDS  ON PUPPY HILL. AND CLOUD MADE A VIDEO --WHICH I WATCHED  -- AND WROTE...

THANK YOU FOR  THE OBSERVATONS-  AND I WATCHED IT-- I CAN SEE WHERE SOME PEOPLE MIGHT INTERPRET THE MOTIONS DIFFERENTLY.. AND THE CAMERA ANGLE CAN DISTORT SOMETIMES...

COUPLE THINGS...

MOST OF THE TIME I WAS NEAR THE TEEPEE ON MY GOLF CART-- SO I WAS AWARE -

THE MOTHER WAS THERE- OFF CAMERA-- ACTUALLY SITTING BENEATH THE CAMERA  MOST OF THE TIME...  SHE HAD ANOTHER CHILD WITH HER.

THEY ARE A GREAT DANE FAMILY--- THEY JUST LOST THEIR DANE LAST MONTH-- SO THE KIDS WERE USED TO DANES.

I SAW THE MOUTHING WHICH SOMEONE THOUGHT WAS YELPING OR BITING...  THAT LOOKED TO ME THE NORMAL MOUTHING... ESPECIALLY WHEN TH E PUP JUST STAYED THERE WITH THE KID FOR QUITE A WHILE BEFRE GETTING BACK IN THE SHADE OF THE FIRETRUCK.. THAT INDICATED TO ME THE PUP WAS NOT THE SLIGHTEST UPSET.

IF I WAS THERE AND WANTED THAT PUP OUT FROM UNDER, I WOULD HAVE PULLED THOSE LEGS JUST LIKE THAT.  WHEN THEY OBJECT IT IS USUALLY THAT THEY DO NOT LIKE YOU MESSING WITH THEIR FEET-- OR SQUEEZING THEM IN ANY WAY..WHICH  WOULD BE THE CASE IN PULLING ON THEM.

I WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE CHURCH GROUP THAT CAME THRU--- ONE OF THEM STARTED TO PICK UP A PUP BY THE FRONT LEGS WITH THE BODY DANGLING AT RIGHT ANGLE...-- 

THAT IS THE BIG NO...

ON TO THE NEXT

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ANOTHER CAMERA PERSON  WROTE THAT SOME  PEOPLE ARE THROWING THE MILKBONES IN THE KENNELS INSTEAD OF HANDING THEM TO THE  DOG .   TOSSING TREATS AT DOGS IN NOT POLITE NOR  IS IT ACCEPTABLE.

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FARMTEK HAS SHIPPED THE  MATERIALS FOR THE MEAT SHACK WALLS-- AND THE KENNEL DIVIDERS-- SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET BACK IN MOTION   GETTING STUFF DONE...

ALSO THEY ARE DONATING 50% OF IT  WHICH IS WONDERFUL..

I HAVE BEEN VERY PLEASED WITH ANYTHING TO DO WITH FARMTEK-- THEY HAVE SOME THINGS NOT EASILY FOUND ELSEWHERE. OR CERTAINLY FOR AN AWFUL LOT MORE MONEY ELSEWHERE-----.. LIKE SHADE MATERIAL-- OR POLYMAX WASHABLE WALLS--AND ONE OF MY FAVORITES-- THEIR CLOSEOUT SECTION WITH THAT VINYL STRIPS THEY USE AS REFRIGERATION DOORS IN SUPERMARKETS-- THOSE  MAKE GREAT  DOGGIE DOORS.. AND THE ODD ENDS ARE VERY CHEAP...

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BIGGEST NEWS OF THE DAY... HOPEFULLY SHEILA HAS RETURNED FROM THE WILDS OF FLORIDA.. WELL I KNOW SHE GOT AS FAR AS THE MASS BORDER BEFORE I WENT TO BED...

SHE ALSO REPORTED THAT THERE WAS A ZIP TYE HOLDING THEM TOGETHER SINCE CONNECTICUT.  

 HOPEFULLY SHE WILL BE AROUND TODAY.. AND NONE TOO SOON...

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CATHY DID AN AMAZING JOB GETTING THE HAYLOFT READY FOR GRACE'S ROOM ( AND STORAGE)   SHE WORKED SO HARD AND SO HOT THAT TODAY I HAVE FOUND A MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE CHORE.... TURNING OVER THE MANURE ( COMPOST) PILE   -- SHE CAN PLAY WWITH THE TRACTOR  WHICH IS AIR CONDITIONED...  SHOULD BE FUN.

WAYNE HAS VOLUNTEERED TO HELP US WITH THE HAYLOFT PROJECT.. HE SAID   AFTER IRAQ THE HEAT WILL BE NOTHING....

AND THE KENNELS ARE UP FOR OBSERVATION PURPOSES... GOT TO STAND AROUND AND LOOK THEM OVER TO SEE IF WE WANT ANY CHANGES... THAT CHAIN LINK IS LOVELY-- YOU JUST KEE TING IT TOGETHER WITH HAY STRING TIL YOU LIKE THE PATTERN-- THEN PUT ON THE CLAMPS EASILY.

WHERE WOULD  I BE WITHOUT HAY STRINGS???, NOW IF I COULD ONLY MAKE REAL HORSEMAN OUT OF THIS BUNCH...

 WHEN  YOU CUT THE HAYSTRINGS  TO FEED OUT THE BALE, YOU SHOULD CUT NEXT TO THE KNOT...  OTHERWISE-- WHATEVER YOU TRY AND USE IT FOR , THE KNOT IS ALWAYS IN THE WAY--  AND  YOU WILL BE USING IT FOR PLENTY OF THINGS.

I THINK HOME DEPOT IS OPEN AT 6AM-- I NEED TO GET SOME STUFF FOR THE HAYOFT PROJECT.

I DID SEE A SIGN AT HOME DEPOT ---  NO LOITERING---  I THINK THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS WHERE YOU CAN GO PICK UP  DAY HELP  AT 6AM    WITHOUT GOING THRU THE USUAL EMPLOYMENT  CHANNELS.  

JULY 9 2014
BEFORE I START ANYTHING TODAY.... I NEED TO MAKE IT CLEAR,  I DO NOT  LINK, TWIT, OR FACE... AND WHEN I GET THESE REQUSTS ABOUT LINKING FACING OR TWITTING-- I JUST DO NOT RESPOND--  SO DO NOT BE INSULTED-----ONE REASON  I DON'T , IS THEY ALL HAVE PASSWORDS-- AND  PASSWORDS CAUSE ME MORE MELTDOWN THAN ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE AROUND HERE...

SIMPLE EXAMPLE???? WE NEED TO GET A DOG  OR TWO READY FOR HEARING STUFF... I CAN NOT FIND MY REMOTE BELLS I HAD WHEN I TRAINED ANNIE-- SO I WENT TO EBAY  AND FOUND 2 SUITABLE REMOTE NOISEMAKERS-- AND THEN  I TRIED TO CHECK OUT... HOW FOOLISH OF ME TO THINK I COULD JUST CHECKOUT WITH  PAYPAL AND GET ON WITH LIFE.

FIRSTLY-- I WASN'T CARLENE- BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE HAD BEEN USING MY COMPUTER WHICH HAPPENS OFTEN-- MANY TIMES IT THINKS  I AM  THERESA ---SO IT IS SEVERAL GO- ROUNDS OF  MY MOTHER'S MIDDLE NAMES TO CONVINCE THIS MACHINE I AM ME... 

THAT HAS THE ADDED COMPLICATION  OF MY MOTHERS MIDDLE NAME WAS FRANCES... OR IS THAT FRANCIS??   WITH THE I OR E??? ANOTHER BINARY CHOICE OF 2 , I CAN NEVER REMEMBER.

ONCE I AM ME- THEN IT STARTS.. IT TELLS ME 

NOT RIGHT,

 NOT RIGHT, 

NOT RIGHT--- 

 OK SO YOU FORGOT??  ENTER A NEW ONE.

NO -YOU CAN NOT USE  THAT OLD ONE  WHICH I ALREADY TOLD YOU WAS NOT RIGHT. -- (THAT LOGIC BLOWS MY MIND)

THEN INTO  THE ----USE NUMBER,S, AND LETTERS, AND CAPITAL LETTERS, AND 8 LONG  ETC

FINALLY I GET THERE- I WRITE IT DOWN AND I MOVE ON  TO PAYING-- WITH PAYPAL-  THEN I AM REALLY IN TROUBLE BECAUSE IT THINKS I AM THERESA SELLING CALENDARS-- SO WE GO THRU THE "WHAT IS YOUR MOTHERS BIRTHDAY"  AND THEY GET ME AGAIN  BECAUSE MY MOTHER HAD 2 BIRTHDAYS--  WHEN SHE WENT FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND HAD TO PRODUCE HER ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE.... SHE FOUND OUT HAD BEEN USING THE  INCORRECT BIRTHDATE FOR 65 YEARS.  ONCE PAST THAT, I AM INTO THE SAME SEQUENCE AS THE EBAY PASSWORD DEAL

TO BUY ONE BUZZER YESTERDAY TOOK 8 CHANGES OF PASSWORDS BY ACTUAL COUNT.

TO GET A SECOND BUZZER  , TRACY BOUGHT IT FOR ME.

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IT IS NEARLY THE MIDDLE OF JULY HOW DID WE GET THERE???  I WAS GOING TO HAVE GRACE'S  WORKSHOP I N THE HAY LOFT DONE BY JULY... AND I AM STILL STUCK IN NEUTRAL....

ONE REASON IS I WAS WAITING FOR HOME DEPOT AND FARMTEK TO DONATE THE MATERIALS...   YESTERDAY FARMTEK CAME THRU BEAUTIFULLY WITH ABOUT $1500 WORTH OF THAT WHITE /WASHABLE STUFF THAT LINES THE DEAGLE HOUSE.. AND WE NEEDED FOR THE MEAT SHACK AND WASHABLE  WALL IN THE NEW KENNEL AREA...

I ASKED HOME DEPOT  FOR THE PLYWOOD AND INSULATION TO DO THE HAYLOFT-- AND THAT IS NOT HAPPENING... SO GOING TO PLAN "B"  I JUST SPOKE TO PAM WHO THINKS SHE CAN GET THE HAY LOFT VACUUMED BY SUNDAY WHICH MEANS WE COULD LINE THE RAFTERS WITH THE WHITE SIDE OF TYVEK -- OK THERE BECAUSE OF THE ANGLE  ... THEN ADD  A THIN PLYWOOD LAYER  TO THE 3/8THS WHICH IS THE  NORMAL HAYLOFT FLOOR WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BIT SPRINGY-SO  25 YEARS AGO WHEN IT WAS BUILT, I ALREADY ADDED A LAYER DOWN THE CENTER.. FILL THAT  AND PAINT THE FLOOR AND WE ARE HOME FREE... GOAL?  BY  THE CLOSE OF SUNDAY STEW ON JULY 20TH-- SO VACUUMED BY THE END OF SUNDAY STEW JULY 13TH AND FINISHED PAINTING THE FLOOR BY JULY 20TH-- PUTTIN G UP TABLES AND HER STUFF ON THAT MONDAY .

THAT IS THE GOAL.. I WILL BE VERY UPSET IF WE CAN NOT GET THAT DONE. 

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WE HAVE 2 COMMERCIAL VACUUM CLEANERS.... PLUS A FEW SHOPVAC TYPES... START AT THE ARENA END AND QUIT ABOUT 20 FEET FROM THE FRONT-- WHICH WILL BE FOR HAY.. 

SO GO TO IT-- I SUGGEST EARLY IN THE MORNING BEFORE THE HEAT OF THE DAY .   THE AREA WILL BE 30 X 50 FEET

AFTER THAT IS DONE, WE HAVE 2 ELECTRIC STAPLERS TO GET THAT TYVEK ON THE  ANGLED CEILING..

GETTING GRACE'S SUPPLIES AND ALOT OF OTHER STORAGE UP THERE WILL BE A MONUMENTAL STEP FORWARD.  

AND WE NEED A MONUMENTAL STEP AT THE MOMENT...

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JACKIE ARRIVES TODAY  FROM INDIANA FOR A WEEK... SHE IS ALWAYS A GREAT HELP FREEING ME FROM "STUFF" LIKE PUPPY  OR TELEPHONE SITTING.

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PAM MENTIONED TODAY GETTING HTE VOLUNTEERS BETTER ORGANIZED-- SHE HAS SET GOALS ETC AND PLANS A MEETING OF EVERYONE ABOUT AUG 3RD... WHICH WILL BE AS WE ARE SITTING AROUND ANALYZING  MERLOW'S EVERY PHART... PROBABLY....

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TO THAT END....... I WONDER WHY WE CAN NOT HAVE VERIZON GET A PHONE IN THE T TENT... THERE ARE CURRENTLY SO MANY WIRES AROUND HERE NOW, THAT WE SHOULD SOMEHOW MANAGE THAT  WITH MAYBE A WIRELESS OUT OF THE GUEST HOUSE???

HISTORICALLY THERE HAE BEEN AOT OF "YOU CAN'T'S"  BUT NOW LIFE IS DIFFERENT AROUND HERE AND THEY OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT... MY PHONE BILL IS CERTAINLY  DIFFEERENT... DON'T GIVE ME THE WE CANT'S

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SO THERE !!!~

JULY 8 2014

SHEILA IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE LEFT FLORIDA AT 5AM...   32 MINUTES AGO   -- BUT WHO'S COUNTING...ETA HERE THURSDAY  SOMETIME...  AND NONE TOO SOON... I THINK I HAVE AGED 14 YEARS WITHOUT HER HELPING WITH THIS PROJECT.

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FOR ANY OF YOU CROSSING THE HUDSON, AND ALOT OF PEOPLE COMING HERE DO JUST THAT.....   DO NOT BELIEVE THE GPA'S WHICH TAKE YOU ACROSS THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE ON RT 95  AND LAND YOU IN NYC---- I SUGGEST THE RT 84  BRIDGE AT NEWBURGH IS A GOOD CHOICE--- NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT AVOIDS THE RT 95 GENERIC MESS, BUT THERE IS A VERY GOOD DINER ON THE NEWBURGH SIDE-- LAST EXIT BEFORE THE BRIDGE..  THEY EVEN HAVE BEEF STROGONOFF ON FRIDAYS....   FYI...

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I NEED TO PUT SOMEONE IN CHARGE OF OFFICIAL PAPERS I AM SUPPOSED TO FILE-- AND WHEN... LIKE THAT   &*^%&*  990FU.   IT COULD CERTAINLY BE KEPT TRACK OF OFF SITE.. THERE ARE CORPORATE PAPERS IN MASS....THERE IS SOMETHING WITH THE ATTY GENERALS'S OFFICE... AND  A RAFFLE PERMIT- THO I DO NOT THINK WE NEED ONE OF THOSE, I USED TO GET ONE ANYWAY.  ALONG WITH CAR REG..   BUSINESS PERMIT WITH THE TOWN???... 

ANY VOLUNTEERS TO KEEP US GOING STRAIGHT??? A COUPLE OF YOU TOGETHER??  THERE IS ALOT OF READING TO DO- TO SEE WHAT IS NECESSARY.

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HEALTH NEWS.....

LOVELY STOOL REPORT FOR THE PUPS IN #10  - PERFECT CYLINDAR SHAPE-- TO BE VIEWED ON CAMERA---  UN-SMUSHED- AS OF 5:36AM--

LYNN REPORTS MERLOW SHOWS ALL SIGNS OF BEING PREGNANT ( SHE IS TOO FAR FROM GEORGE'S  TO HAVE DONE  AN ULTRASOUND-- BUT LYN HAS SEEN ALOT OF DOGS- AND IS PROBABLY CORRECT--- FOR ABOUT AUG 3RD  -- A BIT OVER 3 WEEKS--- 

ARIOT HAS A SORE FRONT LEG--- POSSIBLY LYME-- GETTING DOXY

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 NOW FOR THE SOCIAL ISSUES.

OPAL--- AKA CURVY---SPENT QUALITY TIME WITH MORIAH WHOM SHE ATTACKED TWICE ON SUNDAY-- ALSO IN ATTENDANCE WAS CAW- WITH THE WHIFFLE BAT.  ALL WAS PEACEFUL

  UN SPAYED  FEMALE DOGS --- AKA B#TCHES-- ARE WELL NAMED.

AND MORIAH IS A GREAT DOG...

I MUST WORK ON HER...

REMEMBER THERE WERE 3 IN THAT LITTER... MEGAN HAS MAGNUS. , MARIA HAS MURPHY, AND I KEPT MORIAH-- WE WERE GOING TO EXPERIMENT WITH TRAINING METHODS AND SEE WHO'S DOG TURNED OUT BEST...ALL OF A SUDDEN I REALIZED NONE OF US WOULD WIN ANY PRIZE LET ALONE PASS THE ADI PUBLIC ACCESS TEST..

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 TRAINING.... I NEED TO GET SOME SOUND EQUIPMENT HERE  

MELISSA  CAN NEVER REPLACE ANNIE=-- BUT SHE IS NEEDING  TO MOVE ON...AND TRAINING FOR THE DEAF PERSON IS NOT IN OUR USUAL ROUTINE..  WHAT I DO-- OR DID--- IS TO  TRY AND TEACH THE DOG TO RESPOND TO A REPETITIVE NOISE..   I NEED TO SIT AT MY DESK AND BE ABLE TO PUSH A BUTTON AND MAKE A BELL RING  .. I START WITH

1.RING THE BELL AND CALL THE DOG AND FEED  SUPER TREATS-- LIKE GREASY HAMBERGER-- SOMETHING REALLY GOOD...

2. RING THE BELL AND HAVE THE DOG COME WITHOUT BEING CALLED

3.  MOVE THE BELL A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY

4.  MOVE THE TREATS  TO WHERE TH E  BELL IS AND HOPEFLLY THE DOG WILL COME TO YOU WITH A "COME GET THOSE TREATS DOWN OFF THE SHELF FOR ME."  

 MOVE FROM STEP TO STEP SLOWLY-- AND IF YOU GET TO  #4 YOU ARE HALF WAY HOME..

PERFECTION IS -- WHEN THERE IS A REPTATIVE NOISE  ( WHICH  WILL ADVANCE TO AN UNUSUAL NOISE) ---THE DOG HAS TO COME   TOUCH  ME THEN GO TO THE NOISE SOURCE. ...

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99 PERCENT OF YOU HAVE TAUGHT YOUR DOGS TO DO JUST THAT ALREADY-- WHEN SOMEONE KNOCKS ON THE DOOR  -- YOUR  DOG BARKS AN D THEN RUNS AD GETS YOU TO HURRY UP AND OPEN THE DOOR SO THEY CAN REALLY BARK AT WHOEVER IS THERE...

ALONG THOSE LINES... WHY DO POSTMEN GET BITTEN?   THE POSTMAN COMES TO THE DOOR, LEAVES THE MAIL AND GOES ON TO THE NEXT HOUSE..

FROM TH E  DOG'S STANDPOINT... "HERE COMES THAT GUY AND I HAVE TO CHASE HIM AWAY" SO THE DOG BARKS AND THE GUY LEAVES...  AND EVERY TIME THE DOG GETS MORE BOLD...

HAVING A VACUUM CLEANER GO FORWARD AND BACK SOMETIMES PRODUCES THE SAME CONCEPT-- BITE IT AND IT MOVES BACK.

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BUSY DAY AHEAD-- AND A HOT ONE I AM TOLD...