june 7 2019

WITH REGARD TO THIS ROYAL BALL I AM WORKING ON--- WHICH i  HAVE ON CAMERA DURING  5PM MAIL CALL---YOU MAY WATCH TEH PROGRESS...  IT CERTAINLY  MAKES IT CLEAR HOW A MONKEY FIST IS MADE

MY MONKEY FIST IS GROWING--  I STRUGGLED TO FIND A 7" BALL- AND FINALLY FOUND TEH MEDICINE BALLS WHICH ARE LEATHER COVERED FILLED WITH SAND - AS EXERCISE DEVICES...

I BOUGHT THE 7 INCH-- AND AN 8 INCH FOR GOOD LUCK... TURNS OUT---- THIS 3/4 INCH ROPE MEANT  TEH 8" BALL WAS LOOKING BETTER -- THAT BEING THE CASE COULD I USE A REGULAR BOWLING BALL- WHICH WOULD BE BETTER MATERIAL AND ONLY 8.5 INCHES...-- "GROWING FROM  7 INCHES TO 8.5 IS ONLY 2 MORE "FINGERS" OF 3/4 INCH ROPE.  OR I MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK TO FEWER FINGERS  WITH TEH 7 INCH ONE.

WITH ONE FOOT FIRMLY PLANTED IN MID AIR...I WILL PROCEED... AND MAY TRY AND FIND A "USED"  BOWLING BALL AT SOME ALLEY ...

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AN FYI---- BETSY EMAILED ABOUT TRYING TO SHIP[ A DANE  FROM CALIF TO BOSTON  - THE ONLY  MEMORY I HAD -- FROM LONG AGO--- ABOUT A LARGE 1/2 GROWN DANE-- WAS FROM AMSTERDAM TO BOSTON-- WHERE I HAD A 6 MONTH OLD DANE IN A #700 CRATE-- AND THE PROBLEM THEN WAS TO FIND AN AIRPLANE THAT  HAD THAT BIG A C ARGO DOOR...  I HAD TO CHANGE FLIGHTS--- SO I EMAILED TEH EXPERTS-- PET AIR IN FRANKFURT AND ASKED HOW WOULD THEY SHIP A FULL SIZE DANE TO BOSTON...  THEY SAID THEY WOULD HAVE TO BUILD A CRATE - THEY ALSO SAID TEH COST FOR EVERYTHIGN WOULD BE $2800.  THEY DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT PLANE WOULD BE INVOLVED...

SO WHEN YOU ARE SHIPPING DOGS AROUND  EUROPE-- PETAIR FROM FRANKFURT HAS MY TOTAL CONFIDENCE--  ALL THE PUPS (?10?) WE HAVE SHIPPED SINCE HAVE BEEN HANDLED PERFECTLY BY THEM,.

P.S  #700 airline crates are hard to find--- actually i have never seen one in the usa...

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airport massage-- now there is a term i had not thought of.... it is heidi's description of getting on an airplane after teh tsa inspection.  I AM GLAD TEHY FINALLY  HAVE ALL SERVICE ANIMALS REMOVE  ALL EQUIPMENT AND WALK THRU THE SCREENING  ALONE... THAT SHOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF  POORLY BEHAVED FAKE SERVICE ANIMALS/  

Hello Carlene,

Rizz went on her first flight today.  I always tell people that flying on a plane is no big deal for a “good service dog”, because it is not any different than riding on any other form of public transportation - the dog doesn’t know or care how far off the ground their form of transportation is....it is the airport experience that is the challenge.

 For your DD readers that have never flown with a service dog, let me describe it.

When you get to the airport, you have to walk through crowds of people that bump into you because they are in a hurry to get where they are going, then you stand in line at the security checkpoint, where people push their luggage with their feet and again bump into you. Then because you are a service dog team, the dog has to get completely undressed and pass through the checkpoint on their own, at which point, you wait for a TSA agent to be called so that both the handler and the service dog can receive a pat down (again, while people in a hurry bump into you and push you out of the way).  After this lovely “airport massage”, you have to find a corner out of the way for both the handler and service dog to get dressed again.  Next you head back into the crowd of people to navigate your way to the gate, during which time, drivers on carts come up  behind you and honk to have you get out of their way.  When you finally get to your gate and look for a seat to take a breather, you discover that passengers needing extra space to rest their bags have taken all of the handicapped reserved seats, so you have to stand and wait to be called to board.  Then there is the discomfort of sitting in a too small space for several hours with a 120 lb. dog wrapped around your feet.....This is the experience for the person.  The service dog experiences all of these things from the perspective of a height of 30 inches, the floor of the plane, and no idea where they are going, or why their partner chose to do this crazy thing. Additionally, Rizz experienced all of this for the first time after already having put in a full 10 hour work day in DC.

We often hear in the news of airline passengers who get into brawls over their stressful flying conditions and all of us who have flown, have ridden on a flight with a screaming child who has had a meltdown because they couldn’t take it anymore, yet we expect a “good service dog” to take all of this in stride, show no stress, and take care of their partner’s need before their own.  Even though I am going on my 10th year of being partnered with a dog, I never take for granted, or cease to be amazed by the dedication and self sacrifice these magnificent creatures make every day to give their bodies in services to us.....it is a bit of an understatement to say Rizz was a “good service dog” today.  She was a wonderful testament to her breed, her trainers, and SDP!

Thank you to everyone who made this wonderful gift of a partner possible!

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there is a line from a show " if God had intended us to fly, he would  never  have given us the railways." 

I AM VERY GLAD I DON'T WANT TO GO ANYWHERE... 

COURAGE TO ALL OF YOU FLYING HERE FOR DOGFEST. !!

YOU WILL BE HAPPY TO KNOW WE ARE ARGUING ABOUT TEH SHIRTS  THIS WEEK.

I THINK WE HAVE THE FOOD UNDER CONTROL

NEXT THE CALENDAR.

JUNE 6 2019

n a long line of people who have tried to help me organize my desk...  cp..  barbara r. just sent a rolling basket affair whinc just might help

problem is... there is soooo much "in process"  and if it is not on my desk in front of me, i would never remember it.

well thaT IS ONLY ONE OF MANY PROBLMS

THE LARGEST OF WHICH IS TEH ROYAL MONKEY FIST- FINALLY STARTED WITH AN 8 INCH "MEDICINE BALL"-- WHICH I NEVER KNEW EXISTED-- A LEATHER BALL FILLED WITH SAND... IN STUDYING ALL THIS,, I HAVE DISCOVERED-- FOR THOSE OF YOU STARTING TO MAKE THESE MONKEY FISTS.... THE  DIAmeter of teh  BALL INSIDE TO SUPPORT THE INITIAL SHAPE, MUST BE EQUAL TO THE  width of teh "fingers"  involved...

i discovered this  with the golf ball-- which IS 1.6 inches in diameter...  this fits nicely in the 3/8 rope.

teh 3/8  x 4 = 12/8=1.5

those little ones i make withteh  1/2 inch marble... the 4 strings making teh "fingers" is 1/2 inch. 

based on that , i am trying for 8 or 9 fingers of teh 3/4+ rope- i had to build a wooden frame to hold teh ball-- no way could i keep track of each finger with this mess...

so that is one mess.  

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then the calendar with all the various selections-- we ar e going to use some of the old favortie pictures form years ago.... for 2020  by 2021 we need to solve teh photographer problem -- as william has a real job now.  darn...

the piles go  on... irs,adi,akc,ins, along with a new scheme of volunteer management... where everyone thru the gate should sign in... with hopes of getting a better hold on who is on the property,anD WHY...

also to direct those visitors who woul d like to do somethg   but don't knwo wheree to start...  we are trying to get a "quick pick chore"  list going for every building...our generic for new commers is to take a box of purina snap treats and go around and give each dog at least one.

our paid staff should be able to basically care for teh animals--  then teh chore of teh cvolunteers is to give us that extra fluff that makes us super nice.  teh nearly necessay chores.. like walke the pastures withthe dogs aND REMOVE ROCKS SO  BUD DOESN'T HAVE TO REPAIR THE MOWER TOO OFTEN.

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yesterday a huge school bus with 30  not very large kids who had an unbelieveale time with the new  cafe le donk. those fry pans on 3 foot pipes were beautiful- as kids scrounged around for spilled hay and put them in the pan for "delivery"   they all had a wonderful time- and teh staff was thrilled at teh  arraingement.  every kid was "engaGED" AND THE DONKEYS ALL STOOD BEHIND TEH FEEDER WAITING FOR A PANFULL

 I DID NOT MANAGE TO GET AQ CARROT OPERATION GOING. 

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alot of responses to how to see what congress is up to....

opensecrets.org-- has all sorts of informqtion. including the  statement ( i did not purposfully use the word fact becaus it is just an online statement til proven otherwise)  it said that congress has to make an avg of $14,000 per day   for  re election expenses ?   that needs more investigation.

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 i think i heard----( even tho i hoped i had not heaqrd) that one of the survivors of teh normandy invasion was over there today because of funds his neighbors raised to get him there... i would have hoped my tax money would have taken care of that-- and maybe  it did---  the concept of a 97 year old veteran having to run a go fund me to get to france  was annoying.

june 5 2019

i get my ideas for teh daily doggie from late night tv-- or early morning if some might call it.-- last night there was a comment "kids now  are more likely to have heard a gunshot than a symphony.." --and i thought ofr our interns...i wonder if they have ever heard  ANY of what what we might call classical music? which started me thinking---i have some research to do.

that comment was closely related to the  school guard who left the area at  sound of rapid fire...as he was supposed to be the guarding  the kids.. after all he was given the very latest regulation slingshot to take down  the guy with teh ak whatever...and he did not believe teh david and goliath story

whoa-- just one minute... how about those laWMAKERS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN BY OUTLAWING WEAPONS OF WAR ON THE STREETS.  PROTECTING THE CHILDREN GOES WAY ABOVE THE PAY SCALE OF A CROSSING GUARD.- 

it is not just the massive killings-- there has been one a day in boston for teh past week or so tha t i started paying attention-- single murders are hardly newsworthy.. so i wonder--  is  it public record who contributes money to which  politition?   can we not  work the numbers...?? i know there are many very capable readers of this dd-- can we not do some research and make public these donations they talk about so easily -- or am i being naive

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 i am rushing--   to load a tractor ----not giving this topic eh time it needs.. just like teh reest of teh world .. at some point moving on is not going to be acceptable.

june 4 2019

rizz owner sent a great video of rizz doing the public access test.... confident dog doing her job... i wish at teh end she had scrolled up to show she works at the department of aggriculture.  the video is around somewhere....

my "friends"  those usda people- ....who haqd a great deal to do with my starting to train service dogs.....  way back when...... i was "in business" as animal episodes, i needed to be certified by the usda-- i have always had a problem with paperwork as you all know...consequently... i can not tell you most of  the  stories about those regulations which i considered most pequiliar.... inspector #1 was insistant all animals have a number-- i did have one.. a donkey--- his name was Seven-- ( donqui, and seven were the lead team  tehn  omar, and timmy,  parsley and peanut   then  and leroy,and  weenie were teh "wheelers" who did 95% of teh pulling.) they all got numbers and she was happy..\

inspector #2 was a veternarian from teh usda-- from washingtonmn dc... nice man-- that did not make the rules any less absurd....  he insisted that the 6.5 foot horse type fence i had around teh dogs was insufficient and they must have the typical kennel fencing-- chain  link with teh bar at the top--- 

the way he put it - "just do it- or i can write you up as having dust on the windows  in your chicken coop and you would have to vacuum them" 

so  with great  financial difficulty- i bought  teh necessary chain link-- $7000 worth- nearly wiped me out... he gave me my "cert number"  which still is nailed over the  door of the T TENT- and went away.  within a day or two, my stud dog got his feet over that top bar and got out to breed 3 females- so 63 days later i had 23 great dane puppies...  nice puppies, but there is not a big market for selling puppies--

when you have too many lemons... you make lemonaid..- so i got into training service dogs./ 

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so today-- on camera.. you will not see us trying to load teh tractor on the dump trailer---  i don't approve of large objets raised high off teh ground-- too many unknown factors may convince gravity to take over--  janine is needing a bunch of fence post holles to be dug quickly for this "rest home for retired work horses"   -  my dump trailer should hold the tractor easily... .. but the  2 ramps are only 14 inches wide--making me nervous-- i think  to de-stress me for the day, it will be easier for me to hire a  car towing outfit to take teh tractor teh 5 miles  to her project.  that swill geive me time to figure out all about things like "farm plates"  and maybe  then drive it home---  it would be easier if  her project were not on  route 1--- that is number 1 highway in teh whole united states... maine to florida-- so to tie it up at 15 miles per hour  can not  be done quietly

i think i am most nervous because my father told of many workers being killed loading heavy equipment, so he invented teh trailer loading ramp which you see all over..  a right angle which rotates down to make a sturdy ramp...--that patent never made him a dime --- someone changed teh hinge and blew the pattent rights ... but he had great fun making it-- and you see them all over.  i bet i see 3 a day.

so now i havto find someone will let me borrow it to move the tractor...

such is life.

JUNE 3 2019

CAFE LE DONK HAS A ROOF-- AT LEAST IT DID AS OF LAST NIGHT--- BEFORE LEAVING I DID HAVE A DRIP HOLE POKED IN THE TARP AT WHAT SEEMS LOGICAL PLACES WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT RAIN LAST NIGHT...-- IT STILL NEEDS STRAIGHTENING OUT  BUT THE FRAMEWORK IS DONE THANKS TO CHIP AND FAMILY

CHIP SEEMED AGREEABLE TO MOVE ON TO  THE  ROYAL SWING CONCEPT -- WHICH WITH LUCK WILL BE USEABLE AT DOGFEST--- I AM WORKING ON MY END-- WHICH IS TO LOCATE A 7 TO 7.5 INCH HARD WEATHERPROOF BALL-- NOT INFLATABLE-- HOLLOW WOULD BE OK AS LONG AS IT IS FIRM AND NOT COLLAPSABLE-- AS TO MAKE A MONKEY FIST  I WILL BE TIGHTENING ON THE SHAPE TO START.. SO TODAY I WILL SWING BY A LOCAL BOWLING ALLEY - I KNOW  ALOT MORE ABOUT BOWLING BALLS THAN I DID 3 DAYS AGO.   THE BIG ARE 8.5 INCHES -- TEH REFERENCE TO SIZE DIFFERENCE SEEMS TO BE TEH WARYING WEIHGHT-- NOT THE DIAMETER-- CANDELPIN AND DUCKPIN ARE 3 TO 5  INCHES.

THE ONE I HAV NOT TRACKED DOWN IS WOMENS BOWLING BALLS-- I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH GOOGLE-- SO IT IS  --- OFF TO THE LOCAL BOWLING ALLEY TODAY.-  A BOWLING BALL WOULD BE PERFECT-- ADDING WEIGHT /MOMENTUM TO HTE  SWING...

. I DON'T WANTT TO DISCUSS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN WITH AN INFLATABLE INTERIER OF TEH MONEKEY FIST     WHEN I GO TO HAVE TEH INITIAL SWING---

I REMEMBER-- TEH KIDS CIRCUS....JANINE'S SIDE OF IT IS IN HER BOOK...---DOGS DONKEYS AND CIRCUS PERFORMERSS= HOWEVER......... I DECIDED WE NEEDED A SIDE SHOW AHEAD OF THE CIRCUS AND CAME UP WITH TH IDEA OF A ROPE LADDER  CLOSE TO THE GROUND AND  ATTATCHED BETWEEN 2 TREES WITH ONLY ONE  LOOP AT EACH END-- IT WOULD EASILY FLIP OVER-- PILE OF HAY UNDER THAT AND IT WAS VERY POPULAR-

TEH OTHER THING WAS TEH SLIDE DOWN OUT OF THE HAY LOFT- I STARTED WITH 3 SHEETS OF  GALVANI9ZED METAL THAT I HAD FOUND SOMEWHERE-- I AM SURE I NEVER BOUGHT IT...  I CURVED IT UP AND COVERED TEH EDGES WITH OLD GREEN HOSE-- IN GREAT ABUNDANCE AROUND ANY FARM...

TEHN BUILT A STRUCTUR E UNDERNEATH TO SUPPORT TEH  SHEETS- WITH OVERLAPING... IT SHOULD WORK--- AGAIN A PILE OF HAY AT THEBOTTOM AND AN ADULT TO CATCH KIDS TEH DAY OF TEH CIRCUS- I WORKED ON IT-- MOSTLY WITH USED,RECYCLED, ABANDONED PIECES OF LUMBER TAKEN OUT OF A DUMPSGTER AFTER 6PM AT TEH PLACE THEY WERE BUILDING AND  DEVELOOPEMENT.

I NAILED AND SCREWED A BUNCH TOGETHER... AND DECIDED IF IT WOULD HOLD ME I WOULDHOLD TEHSE KIDS...

IT DID NOT HOLD ME-- I HAD TO GO AND BUY A FEW STICKS OF 2 X 4'S TO STURDY TEH WHOLE THING.

IT DID HOLD BOTH ME--  AND THEN MANY REPEATED RIDES OF MY 4-H KIDS --- REPEATEDLY SLIDING DOWN ON  MANY PIECES OF WAXED PAPER-- TO SPEED IT UP.... IT THEN WORKED WELL FOR DOZENS OF KIDS WHO CLAMMERED UP THE RICKETY STEPS AND WERE  CAREFULLY PLACED ON THE  WAXED GALVANIZED SLIDE AND LANDED IN TEH HAY PILE.

IT IS WHERE I BEGAN TO BELIEVE IN THE MAGIC OF TRIANGLES-- AND I HAVE BEEN A BELIEVER EVER SINCE.

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HAHA, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS, BUT THE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF JUST "DONKEY CAFE" IS ACTUALLY: "CAFE D'ANE"!

HOW APROPOS IS THAT?!

 TERI CAN...

june 2 2019

the picking of poop..  as good a topic as any for a sunday morning....-- i've been at this DD for some 18 years now and i am running out of topics.. 

see a problem and addreess it... is pretty much how we operate... and afteer 18 years i must admit whoever is in  charge of presenting the problems  has not run out of material  yet !!

when i am out in public with one of these huge dogs- there are 2 kinds of comments-- hundreds of people - both men and women  will say "what a magnificent animal"  but there is always 1- ( usually a man... i have studied this )  who says  "how big is the  poo pile"-- i don't know if it is because men traditionally cut the grass more often than women-   the concept of mowing the lawn without picking poo, can have a disasterous affect--  the mythbusters ( i miss them) did a study on  how far and fast a walk behind mower could sling small rocks-  the speed and force approached teh speed and force of a bullet...-- teh poo would have less force because the rock would have more momentum being denser.... but the concept is there..

there are 3 factors in  the picking of poo...- i have studied this too... 

teh availability of teh material  sufficient to deal with "TEH PILE" as it can be randomely produced-

teh variety of consistancies it ,ay be called on to  pick up...watery to healthy rocks

the ability to transport the substance and the odor to some appropriate recepticle.

our system of the cereal boxes  cut into 3" x 6" rectangles with a grocery bag sandwiched between a few can be kept in a back pocket  to be available  at teh instant  the situation demands a solution.

there are times with a healthy jack russell where a bag alone could be sufficient-- but the cereal box cardboards make it easy to insert  into the back pocket and withdraw the instant it is needed.  shoud yesterdays ham sandwich go running thru the jack russell-- yo will be prepared.

 so pick the poo, tie a  knot and  you are set to go.;

 my system was deemed superior to the british woman who -- at a convention-- spoke about her "chunky vomit picker" - her's worked but she was faced with a  dirty chunky vomit picker-- and mine was packeaged to go.

there is a real  FYI-- here...  there is one  thing that has caused the injury or ddeath of several dogs-- if you tie a grocery bag to the handle of your leash--- it sounjds like such a good idea-- and sometimes it could be -- certainly it is there at teh right time on your morning walk... however... some doga-- like all horses---  are afraid of somethign dragging behind- dogs will get used to  it with a little training,, horses never do... so if teh owner drops teh leash unexpectedly and the dog moves forward and sees teh grocery bag flipping  around behind him-- it then thinks something is chasing him and will bolt racing around in total fear... totallly out of control.. -  this is why all horses wear blinders so they don't see teh carriage or wagon they are pulling...  in my lifetime  think i have seen one race horse-- a trotter pulling the 2 wheeled racing cart without blinders...  the thousands of other horses wear blinders... personally i would never "hitch" a horse without blinders  regardless of how well trained... you can not obliterate a basic fear with training. people or animals....

donkeys- on the other hand-  have to understand what is going on... and teh 8 donkeys  in my hitch did not wear blinders... a frightened donkey stands still-- which is a lot easier to deal with-- unless you are in a parade with the budweiser hitch behind you--  but that is another story.

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eve and finnegan

This girl! She sure has renewed determination to walk. It’s not too far without taking a break but she gets up and goes again and again! 💛

We had storms this morning then a nice sunny afternoon and now another string of strong thunderstorms are coming through. We got out while it was nice and attended a presentation about butterfly gardens. Luckily we already have several plants butterflies like.  But today we got some milkweed for the catapillars to feed on. I meant to grab some fennel too but forgot it! So we played outside & planted those,  found some flat rocks and a container for puddling water.  I didn’t take any pics but with any luck we will attract a bunch of butterflies and there will be plenty of pictures later - we hear they expect a larger than average migration of Monarchs to our area this year. 

JUNE 1 2019

maybe someone smarter than i could help.... oh this'll be a good one.. there are details.

financially---  i am me, sdp is a charity ---- janine is janine and ern (EQUINE RESCUE NETWORK) is a charity

i drive my toyota sequoia and love it.

i bought teh blue ford truck so janine would stop borrowing my car to pull her rescues donkeys to mass from penna.

----operative word here   "i"  bought it.

janine had to  personally own a car because of insurance on her college age son's car

***** she bought a used ford expidition -- huge and comfortable ---could tow a horse trailer-

teh expidition had a drinking problem-- it got 2.3 miles to a galloon ( obvious estimate...)  

trainers here were using their own cars too much-- and i needed to do something

i swapped teh blue truck for teh expidition-- which still had $14k on her car loan. 

i  personally paid off teh 14k somehow...  sdp also did not like the drinking pproblem of that huge car. and turned  that ford in  on teh purchase of teh 2 rav4's and teh camray...  which sdp bought for the trainers to use 

***then i paid $3400 in a really absurd dribble and drabble of one tiny expense after another to get teh ( sdp owned ) highlander thru inspection-- it had 295,000 miles on it.... and now runs fine... i had intended to donate it to a young volunteer who could use it-- mostly to get here to volunteer....however thaT FELL THRU- so teh trainers are using it,  nice car--- never would expect it os over 300,000 now.  

***janine ... working in boston had a problem parking the blue truck-- too tall for teh parking garage where she works.---she lives on a split second time schedule- and really wanted one of the rav 4's so she could carry hay  to feed the different batches of rescued donkeys she has parked around the county.

teh 2 raV4'S ARE A VERY SGTRANGE -- NOT VERY ATTRACTIVE ORANGE COLOR-- BUT THEY MATCH--- AND I CAN FIND TEHM IN A PARKING LOT...  TEH CAMRY IS A NORMAL GREY WHICH BLENDS IN TOO MUCH--  SO I LET HER USE TEH CAMRY TIL "SUMMER AND INTERNS MIGHT NEED IT" 

WELL SUMMER IS HERE-

 SHE DOES NOT THINK THE BLUE TRUCK WILL MAKE IT TO PENNA AND BACK TOO OFTEN she fears another episode of being stuck on the geroge washing ton bridge with  a load of donkeys in the trailelr at rush hour.( police had her out of there in an exciting 23 minutes) 

***so she --  is thinking of buying a decient truck for teh penna trips which she can jolly well afford-- .. --ERN  is why she needs teh truck.. that puts her back in teh  position of not having a car to commute.

i think the 2 rav4's and camray are reg to sdp as is teh highlander-- the blue truck is reg to ... i think.. janine.

every time you swap arojund cars in this state...you have to pay a whppping $555 sales tax..--- unless between family members

so who owns what car and why???

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all of that made me think...... 

in teh beginning of SDP, megan and i trained dogs, ran teh kennels, we had  very few supporters and bought our purina pro plan at costco and sams every weekend-- a  15 bags at a time on a BIG  cart.

my biggest problem then was to have enough donations so teh irs would let me be a charity-- you can not haVe one person supporting a charity-- you need ? 33% general public--- sometime the only way i could get teh 33% was to not include some of the expenses i personally paid for... but it kept the irs haqppy- and we are now really correct.

and we grew.  as did our benefitting the rest of teh world-- HOWEVER....

teh number of organizations we must now keep happy  ALSO GREW.. --  the list is long

IRS --- ADA ---- ADI----   USDA  ---MA  ATTNY GEN - ----MA EMPLOYMENT ---- INSURANCE WORLD ---- ALL TEH WAY DOWN TO THE IPSWICH -- HEALTH--  BUILDING-- AND ANIMAL CONTROL...  NOT TO MENTION  FACEBOOK AND THE  SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS ON TEH INTERNET WHO CAN NOT POSSIBLY  UNDERSTAND WHY I TEAR MY HAIR,

 WHY DID I NOT MAKE THE CAFE  LE DONK BIGGER?  BECAUSE I DELIVERED 125,000 MAGAZINES AT  4 CENTS EACH TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT THE SIZE THAT IT IS.

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THE GOOD NEWS    I THINK SIZZLE MAY HAVE SWALLOWED TEH WATERMELLON SEED. -- FIRST WEEK IN AUGUST MIGHT BE EXCITING AROUND HERE....

AND TO THE OWNERS OF TIGGER, WHO HOPEFULLY READ THIS.... REMEMBER...   HE NEEDS A LITTLE COLD WET  WASH CLOTH ACTON TO GET HIS EQUIPMENT BACK WHERE IT BELONGS.

HE IS A BEAUTIFUL DOG....