NOV 4 2021

 SLIGHT PANIC WHEN I SAW SIR RICHARD'S FAMILY HERE TO PICK HIM UP..... AND THEN CEE CEE'S--I USUALLY HAVE HER SNARL AND BITE  THE BOYFRIEND TWICE.  BEFORE. I SEND THEM ALL  HOME...BUT LYNN SAID CEE CEE WAS QUITE DEFINITE WITH HER "GET LOST.. NO INTEREST" AND ANY HALF INTELLIGENT MALE DOG GETS LOST VERY QUICKLY.. BENTLEY WAS THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN-- AND HAS THE SCARS TO  PROVE WHERE HE GOT HIS EDUCATION...

I TRIED TO GET IN ON LAST NIGHTS ZOOM MEETING BUT HAD COMPUTER TROUBLE, LYNN AND LINDA. ARE THE TWO WITH THE ANSWERS TO ANY NORMAL QUESTIONS..... MY ANSWERS WOULD PERTAIN MORE TO ESTABLISHING  THINGS LIKE THE  SUNDAY CHICKEN STEW--- POT LUCK ATMOSPHERE OF CRAZY ACRES...

USTABEE. BUD WOUDL GET A GOOD FIRE GOING- AND WE WOULD PUT A LOT OF STUFF IN A POT  FOR ALL TO EAT... CHICKEN CARROTS POTATOES SOMETIMES CELEREY .... A FLUID... BROTH...AND ANYTHING ELSE LOGICAL... INCLUDING MOST OF A BOTTLE OF HONEY MUSTARD SALAD DRESSING.   SEARVED OUT OF A PAPER CUP???? AS WITNESSED IN THE PHOTO.. IF I CAN MAKE TEH PHOTO ATTACH..... IF SOMEONE BROUGHT BREAD, THAT GOT DUNKED....  WHATEVER..

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 THE WOOD HAS BEEN CUT AND  SSPLIT- THANKS TO BUD... AND TH COLD WATHER IS HERE.. THANKS TO FATHER TIME -- I FOUND TEH TRIPOD AND A COOKING UTENSIL ( NOT THE OFF ICIAL IRON POT..  YET TO LOCATE THAT STILL) 

BUT THE BIGGEST THING IS ...... READY....???????  5 GALLONS OF RICHARDSON'S STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM.  LEFT OVER FROM  DOGFEST.  ( ALSO 5 GALLONS OF CHOCOLTE). I BET SOMEONE SHOWS WITH WHIPPED CREAM ON THIS SUNDAY ( SHATTING DAY)

WRAP UP IN YOUR WINTER GEAR  SUNDAY    AND COME ENJOY THE "FRIENDLY FIRE FOOD" ----    WHILE WE DO THE SHATTING THING PROBABLY IN THE T-TENT...

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NOW THAT IS  A SUNDAY STEW !!!

AND YOU ALL KNOW WHAT 5 GALLONS OF ICE CREAM LOOKS LIKE...

nov 3 2021

 THanks to  sir richard's efforts we now may may the official announcement--- cee  cee really ought to be "with child"----- hopefully with lots of child's.  this  will allow us to trend back to our origional training with trips to the fairgrounds and spoonfed snacks.. on a more regular basis... i think  it does make a difference in the final service dog.. watching these pups we have bought during  this period of mother nature being on strike....has made us realize it is not the  same as a dane. home raised...  oh. we will get there... but it is more work....  the work that it is ----- is separating the pup from the sibling. and then sitting at starbucks talking to the pup til he/she. begins to turn to you because he   realizes  you are his only hope for amusement . they are strong. on leash.. and not nearly as adaptable off leash....  freedom is such a healing thing...  when you see photos of our recipients.  they often aren't even holding the leash--it just hangs--- especially bella--- this is one reason i make the leashes so short...  when they drop them , they do not hit the floor.  sir richard will be goin ghome for a rest the second day she refuses his advances...

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 the "neighbors across teh pond'. ( not the atlantic ocean... but hood pond.). .... cut up more patio. with a huge ?18 inch saw for concrete--- of course i went and got it...  i think i can make it prevent the muddy mess outside the dog's kennel at the icu building,,,   i figure teh back hoe-- scrape away 5 inches of dirt and plunk those ?24 inch chunks of patio to form a mud free crossing of teh deluge off the barn roof....once again i am faced with   water will not run uphill, and those people ( men mostly) who do things like set grade for water to run ... are exceedingly talented.... which i am not... part of teh reeason is the controll handles for teh back hoe part are set too close to my  expanding mid-rift -- and furthermore it is not in the nice cosy heated cab....  got to sit outside...  also not my speciality.

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the students will be back today--- and the male student is a brawney guy  who can roll these rocks around and onto the bucket  of the tractor--  after they roll the 3 wagons  into the arena.. maybe i can get the girl to play with syphoning.. and eventually get her to set up aan artrlantic pacifid. panama canal deal. for the kids in her school...

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 i am very pleased with our 95 bales of hay which we can use right off the trailer. i really can't go anywhere til i get that trailer parked where best we can use it..... and then there is that bathtub......

tiffany.... mabeline(HARL) leaders

dotty--- feisty 

ellei  pebbles

jack---  xxxx i forget--- purchased male with tiffany

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please don't forget the chicken bricks !!!

NOV 2 2021

 

kenny did a great job driving to ny to get the wagons from CP anita-- i don't even know exactly where.... but NY-- he did a great job.... and anita commented how delightful he had been thru the whole project......   you all know my advice to job seekers.......... figure out a need and fill it. well kenny could have a full time job driving around the country with his beautiful truck, pulling whqtever trailer necessary....i don't think that is kenny's specific goal in life-- but i certainly will keep it in mind.... janine is constantly schleping animals around. - and i think i have heard $600 to get a couple horses from Louisiana to Virginian then to mass--- that is when she sometimes needs me to go to lincoln.... to the livestock transfer barn-- never knew there was such a thing...------  not the most gracious upscale well manicured barn, but adequate for animals in transit.... there is one in Lincoln and Middletown..---- i heard janine say something sunday about lincoln,....donkeys... and "could matt?????" it is about an hour away.... i am not sure exactly what goldie has in mind with these 3 carriages..... but my mind is ALWAYS working.  I DID HAVE  HITCH OF 8 DOGS. ONCE....- BUT NEVER ACHIEVED ACTUALLY STEERING THE BUNCH...  PERFECT AT PICTURE TAKING. ------- THO SOME OF MY MIND WILL ALWAYS BE PROVIDING SERVICE DANES TO HELP PEOPLE -- my personal challange. for A HITCH OF 8 ANIMALS  PULLING THAT small buckboard is more like. 2 mini horses, 2 donkeys. 2 dogs and the 2 cows ( OXEN). -- I SEE THAT ONE WILD COW AS THE ONLY REAL IMPEDIMENT TO AT LEAST A PHOTO.... BESIDES LACHY IS SOLID ENOUGH AT 14 MONTHS TO PULL THE WHOLE RIG HIMSELF.   let it be known... i see driving a horse in carriage far more dangerous than riding on top of one... you see horses working perfectly all the time...true... those are always horses who have spent hours doing just that.... not a couple horses that are used to hanging around some pasture and just because their owner decides to tie some stupid collection of wheels and wood to their harness...... to add excitement to the ride THE HORSE CAN  drag it at high speed into trees.... -- but i am sure janine can find a nice tired amish horse that would consideer pulling a a carriage around the block slowly....  a virtual vacation.....  however my personal challange. for A HITCH OF 8 PULLING THAT small buckboard is more like. THAT CCOLLECTION.....  WE OWN MOST ALREADY,,,  ??LACHEY AND JIMINEY AS THE WHEEL PAIR???????? GOTTA START WITH 2...... ----- HAY------- IS CURRENTLY LIKE TOILET PAPER-- ONCE A RUMOR STARTS HOARDING GETS ROLLING... AND I TOO AM ON A ROLL... AS OF YESTERDAY--- DODGE GAVE US 25 BALES ( ORDERED LAST FRIDAY). 22 PICKED UP IN MIDDLETON ( THE END OF THAT TRAILER FULL--- THEY EXPECTED MORE LAST NIGHT... JANINE'S CONTACT. ) AND 4 FROM THE COOP -- WE ARE USING 3 TO 4. BALES EVERY DAY---  I WOULD LOVE A FULL BARN TO KEEP US TIL NEXT CUTTING SOMETIME IN JULY. .. 8 MONTHS X. 30 DAYS. X 3.5/DAY ---  ABOUT 1000 BALES. -- BIGGGGGG TRUCKFUL.  -- FROM CANADA. STRAIGHT TO OUR BARN..... THE ONLY PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WE DON'T HAVE IS ONE OF THOSE "? HAY ELEVATOR". THINGS WHICH IS RUN BY A WASHING MACHINE MOTOR-- WHICH IS ONE REASON I HAVE TROUBLE SEEING WASHING MACHINES IN THE DUMP.... AND A REASON I HAVE  A DRYER IN OUR REPAIR  DEPARTMENT-- HAVING PICKED IT OFF THE STREET  -- ALONG WITH A BRAND NEW BATH TUB-- BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL WANT ONE.... SITTING HERE I AM THINKING.... IF WE TOOK ALL THE INARDS OUT OF THE DRYER... SOME NOT TO O LARGE KID COULD POP OUT THE TOP---  HALOWEEN STYLE????---  IT WOULD CERTAINLY A HAVE COMMERCIAL VALUE THERE....NOT SURE WHO COULD USE THAT ?SURPRISE? CONCEPT IN AN AD.... ?BIRTH CONTROL?

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DONKEY HITCH WITH RONALD REGAN JR. ONGOOD MORNING AMERICA SHOW... FILMED HERE..... I CAN'T FIND TEH DOG HITCH PICTURE.... now remember the new chicken board........

NOV 1 2021.

 IWE (GWEN JANINE AND I ) DID THE YEARLY STILT WALK --FUNNY THING IS THAT MY CHILDREN ARE GETTING TO BE THE AGE WHERE THAT IS AS SIGNIFICANT AS ME WALKING ON THEM.-- ONCE UP ON THEM.    I. COULD PROBABLY WALK WAS FAR AS I COULD WALK WITHOUT THEM... THE PAIR JANINE WALKS ON ARE MY ORIGIONAL PAIR-- PROBLEM IS NOW. STEPPING DOWN OFF THEM IS A BIT MORE OF A JAR THAN THE LITTLE ONES--- WHICH ARE LIKE STEPPING DOWN STAIRS....GWEN - ON THE TALL ONES HAS ALWAYS HAD THE BEST BALANCE OF ALL OF US,

I CAN REMEMBER......... BACK WHEN -----THE KIDS PUT ON THAT BACKYARD CIRCUS AT MAYBE 10 YEARS OLD????  (AMAZON... DOGS DONKEYS AND CIRCUS PERFORMERS) I TRIED TO COME UP WITH SOME FUN YARD THINGS FOR PEOPLE TO DO WHEN THEY FIRST ARRIVED... ONE WAS TO MAKE A ROPE LADDER- AND TIE EACH END AT ONE POINT BETWEEN 2 TREES-- SO WHEN YOU TRIED TO CLIMB IT, IT USUALLY WOULD FLIP OVER LANDING YOU INTHE PILE OF HAY UNDERNEATH... TYPICALLY GWEN PRACTICED THAT SO WHEN WE WERE TRAVELING AROUND LOOKING AT COLLEGES IN OHIO, WE WENT TO THE FAIR-- AND FOUND THE TYPICAL ROPE LADDER WHICH SHE COULD DO...-- THERE WERE A FEW MORE-- STILTS WERE ONE OF THE THINGS TO TRY... -- AND THEN THER WAS TEH SLIDE... WHICH TOOK 3 SHEETS OF GALVANIZED METAL( 4 X 8) AND AN AWFUL LOT OF WOOD....SO KIDS ( AND I) COULD SLIDE DOWN FROM THE HAY LOFT AND LAND IN A PILE OF HAY. -- CAUGHT THERE BY A NERVOUS PARENT... THAT WAS SUPER GOOD AFTER I SLID DOWN A FEW TIMES ON WAXED PAPER...----- THEN THERE WAS TEH 2 DISKS OF PLYWOOD- ABOUT 3' DIAMETER-- WITH A CAR SPRING BETWEEN THEM-- OBJECT TO STAND ON THEM FOR A PHOTO.... THAT WQAS THE YEAR WE JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE WAYNE CASHMAN'S( BRUINS... BOBBY ORR TEAM BRUIN)LEFT SCATE - SO WE STUFFED I T IN A SLIT ON A PIECE OF WOOD AND AUCTIONED IT OFF....  WE MADE OVER $1000 FOR TEH HOSPITAL SHIP "HOPE" -- AND ENDED UP WITH SOME PRETTY STRANGELY TRAINED ANIMALS WHICH STARTED THE ANIMAL EPISODE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING ANIMALS FOR MOVIES...... FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS...

GWEN IS HERE FOR BREAKFAST-- WE HAVE FISH TO FRY... SO TO SPEAK