june 17 2018

hot asphalt awareness..

also=---   when entering or exiting a car with your  dog... open drivers door AND  teh back door-- load dog in th  back.. close that door....  if at this point you faint... the front door will still be open so if they carry you  away in an ambulance you r dog would let thmne know to take him too... YOU NEVER WANT THE DOG  BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN A PARKIN G LOT...--IT  ALMOST HAPPENED TO ONE OF OUR DOGS... LONG AGO-- SHE PUT THE DOG IN THE CAR AND THEN FELL--- LUCKILY SHE WAS COHERENT ENOUGH TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE DOG.  SO WE HAVE AN OPEN DOOR POLICY -- AND I SEE NO REASON NOT TO DO IT HERE IN LOADING AND UNLOADING

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BONDING...... MY LATEST KICK.... WE ARE VERY NICE TO OUR DOGS-- OF COURSE, BUT WE  WANT THE DOGS TO  DECIDE THAT THEIR NEW OWNERS ARE THEIR REAL PARTNERS....  I KNOW ALL THE DOGS LOVE MEGAN  AND WHEN TEHY COME BACK THEY ARE HAPPY TO SEE HER---  BUT THEY ALL TURN AROUND AND GO BACK TO THEIR PARTNER--  THIS IS SUCH A CRITICAL THING... IN MY OPINION.... AND IT IS WHY I COULD NOT GO IN FOR PUPPY RAISING  WHERE ONE PUP "HAS A FAMILY"  FOR  A LONG   ?18 MONTHS? TIME----THEN IS TAKEN AWAY FOR TRAINING AND THEN WORKING--- I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SOLUTION IS... EXCEPT TO KEEP THE PUPS HERE ROTATING Amid interns and trainers...  there is some kind of lesson in watching chaos-- who basically sleeps unless earlene or linda is here... she gets special attention from them and doesn't really care too much about the rest of us.

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i have given teh interns teh dane color charts to study---   the way they note colors  black  and blackh- made me think maybe i could  illistrate my shoe problem like that...

i was wearing  one  Right  and one  Left-  both  WT  ( really worn tread)   aka RWT  and LWT-- which -- because of puppies became  RWT and L/slipper for 4 hrs---- until --- there appeared... GOLDIE style     just one shoe---- LNT (new tread) to replace the Lslipper--the day was spent slightly on the bias with RWT and LNT  as the difference between  the NT and WT was 3/4 inch.- but my feet had coverings...maybe 3/4 an inch is significant to a person selling lifts for shoes, but hardly noticable in my world...i was pretty well set...until  after mail call when the  missing LWT appeared under a sofa- i was all excited -- except teh LWT never made it to the bedroom nor has teh missing RNT been located... some might say  they were  unfortunate to have to wear mismatching shoes, but with puppies in the house i think i am lucky to have 2--  one R and one L-- matters coudl be worse.

you laugh?---- well maybe you didn't... but i can tell you where 1/2 inch on the shoes nearl,y got me killed...  i have for years bought 3 pairs of shoes at a time--- ustabe --- new ballance sneakers -- all look vaguely the same... except......... one day... the transition from an old pair to a new pair, i did not notice the difference in the  "footprint"-- for some reason this pair was designed to stick out behind my heel another 1/2 inch-- that didn't make any difference until i started down the cellar stairs per usual, but  caught that 1/2 inch on the  step - i grabbed for  teh handrail and did not go far --- luckily falling  into the laundry chute which takes up  alot of the space there---i threw those away that day--  they were dangerous.

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SOFA's--- megan has me trained to pick up sofa's that i see along the road-- this can get out of hand-- for a while there we weere throwing out one sofa a week in the trash ( we are allowed one piece of furnature a week...)-- yesterdeay i came to a very nice love seat and sofa in an expensive  high rent  neighborhood..  -- i knew jessica was moving into t a new house-- steve and i had already found her a dining room table and chairs---- i came roaring home to go get it... and   no truck ( janine has swapped her nice car for the blue truck) and she had teh horse trailer....- all i had was teh dump trailer which was 1/4 full to go to the dump--

but that was a nice sofa--- someone said "lets unload teh trailerl and get it"   -- i could do that at the push of a button  so i pulled to the middle of the area and dumoped the load..  we wnet back and tom and haley tehn loaded teh sofas-- so it is now covered- still on the trailer  waiting for jjessica to come tell us where to put it... in the meantime there is a strange pile of trash in front of teh ice house  which looks pretty strange... but is very logical;.

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HELLO CARLENE AND SDP. I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY SEEING HOW SDP HAS FORGED SOME SERIOUS FRIENDSHIPS. THIS IS DEBI CANNON (GA), PAM SAROSY (GA), SHEREE ANSLEY (SC), NANCY KNUVEN (OH) WHO ALL MET AT DOGFEST 2014, GATHERING FOR A TRIP IN ALASKA. WE ARE IN THE 30% THAT ACTUALLY GET TO SEE DENALI, FORMERLY MT. MCKINLEY. 

SO SDP NOT ONLY AFFECTS THE LIVES OF THE RECIPIENTS BUT ALSO THE SUPPORTERS/CPS.

DEBI

june 16 2018

typical morning ....    i have 2 feet and one shoe-- with pups around all i ask is  one right and one left--- hopefully teh same type shoe.  i am not that fussy about matching -- as people have noted in my past....  with one shoe and one slipper it is going to be a rough day.

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BEING BLESSED WITH SO MANY DONKEY FEEDBAGS   -- REMEMBER I HAD TO BUY 500 FROM MR MOON IN CHINA.... I HEARD OF SEVERAL DONKEY RESCUE OUTFITS,( one in germany) SO I PACKAGED SOME UP AND SENT THEM--- KNOWING DONKEY FEEDBAGS MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO STOP TEHM AT THE GERMAN BORDER, I SENT HER A $25  CK OF MINE  JUST IN CASE.... AND HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED.....

Dear Carlene,

it is done, I’ve got the package! Whoa, that was a story, worth to write down in a book of fairytales. I sent my hubby to fetch the parcel at the customs office. I have given him an authority and the mail which you have sent me, to check the value of the product and the donation. They made him so mad, that I had to take a day off from my work and went personally to the customs office. And I was prepared, oh Lord I was!

Officer: “You would like to fetch the parcel, can you identify yourself?”

Me: “Yes, of course I can.”

I showed him my passport.

Officer: “Do you have a calculation about the product? How much is it worth?”

I gave him the note you wrote for me.

Officer: “Can you open the parcel?”

I opened the parcel.

Officer: “So many nosebags? Nevertheless, you want to sell them. You have to pay duty and import sales tax.”

Me: “No, at the moment we have more than 35 donkeys in care and we need the nosebags for these animals. And this is a donation.”

Officer: “Can you prove that the Noteselhilfe is a charity association?”

Me: “Naturally, here is the original-exemption answer of the tax office.”

I showed him the paper.

Officer: “Are you authorized to sign for the association?”

Me: “Yes, I am authorized to sign as the manager of the association.”

Officer: “Can you prove this?”

Me: “Yes, of course I can.”

I gave him an extract of the charity association register. (In Germany the board of directors of a charity association must be registered in the association register.)

Officer: “Then I need one more signature and a stamp of you.”

(Thank God I took the stamp of the Noteselhilfe with me.)

Me: “Here you are.”

Officer: “Okay, so you have only to pay the import sales tax.”

I had to pay 20,60 €, which are nearly these 25 USD, you had sent me per PayPal. And he gave me the parcel. 

You see: 100% pure Germany. This is not always funny, but if you know how Germans tick, you get further.

Thank you so much again for your donation. Including the shipping the value of your donation is more than 200 USD. That means a lot for us, because there is a person, thousands of miles is away and supports our work. That makes us so proud and we will ask all people we meet to buy Chicken Bricks.

In Germany you have to prove that you have a checked official service dog if you want to buy a harness with the official label for a dog.  Now I see you at the computer, I’ll quickly sending my letter.

Dog Bless. I’ll pray for you, the staff and volunteers at SDP.

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GOD BLESS THE GERMANS !  THEY INSIST ON DOING EVERYTHING CORRECTLY- SOMETHING TOTALLY FOREIGN TO ME...  I BET THEY EVEN OUTLAW DUCT TAPE !!

but if you waant something engineered properly, germany would be a good bet

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that reminds me--- gettiong away from teh normal news- and i could not find dr pol amid all the lions eating things in africa.... i turned to eht science channel-- which ustabe mythbusters...  it was engineering gone wrong-- and i did find that aMUSING--  EVEN IF THEY WERE EXPENSIVE.....there were some biggies... namely

1. teh building in london which is curved very artistically, no one realized that all that curved glass was going to reflect the sun onto focal points-- like the floor  mat just inside a barbershop doorway  that started to smolder and burn---  one other store set up a fry pan outside thier window where the focal point allowed people to fry eggs.

2. a prefaB WALKWAY BRIDGE THAT WAS 4 INCHES TOO SHORT

3. teh german airport- huge place lovely runways and treminals  all  unused because of a problem with the fire prevention/detection--- somehow teh smoke eliminators are in the floor, drawing smoke down into the crowd...and teh fire brigade is withholding permission to use teh huge facility... they implied it  has been over a year  empty.

in the usa someone  would be out there with tin pipes and duct tape and have the problem "covered " in 4 days or less.

  the sci channel  had many films of buildings which did not collapse on command-- or went the wrong way....

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i feel like i should start a society  of jerry rigging souls  which could have the leaning tower of pisa  as a logo.

does anyone know the story..... that there is a second bend in the leaning tower, because it had already started to lean when they were building it.... i am told....

i was in italy once-- during college--- and took a picture of the tower-- problem  was i instinctly leaned  making teh tower straight in my pictures.

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from eva and finn..... and their lemonaid project-- a note from facebook....

 TWINKLE TOES BUTTONS AN D BOWS--- MUST BE EVE AND FINN AN DTHE LEMONAIDE STAND   $344

way to go !!

JUNE 15 2018

THERE IS A VIDEO AROUND LABLELED CHICKEN PECKER-- WHICH IS AMERICA'S GOT TALENT ( I THINK) AND A CHICKEN PLAYS AMERICA...-- IT IS VERY WELL DONE.... NOW.... HOW????  MY GUESS IS SOMEONE IS BEHIND THE SCENES WITH A COMPUTERIZED   LIGHT/LASER  ON  THE CORRECT KEY--CHICKENS PECK At  strange things....like ... maybe  .. lasers???  WHICH IS STILL A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT....  BUT  I THINK  WITHOUT TOO MUCH TROUBEL GRACE SHOULD LOOK INTO THIS.  I WILL SPRING FOR TEH TINY PIANO.... any othere cp's out there with chickens... try that???? ***  THAT TV FLYER ABOUT SWIMMING IN FISHY AREAS RESULTING IN HAVING TO PUNCH SHARKS  IN TEH NOSE SO THEY DON'T BITE... IS AKIN TO THE REAL NEWS ABOUT RIDING ON  ROLLERCOASTERS WHICH THEN SOMEHOW "FAil" causing people to "fall 34 feet and get carried off to the hospital...."-- i am not sure abotu the mentality of someone who says   " oh good lets ride one of thoswe roller coasters  and see if we can survive..."  somewhat aKIN TO THE GUY WHO Altered  teh contents of his motorcycle muffler and flew by judy and i  yesterday - must have been going 100 miles an hour....-i don't think they show enough  respect for all the tiny little pieces of metal- on which their  life depends.   i was a motorcycle rider for a long time--- my muffler was  normal quiet and  i too enjoyed teh thrill of whipping by cars----teh only weaving i did between cars was done happily at 10 miles an hour while the cars all sat still in some traffic jam...   i was very haPPY At 30 - 40 mph mostly off highway-- or even in the woods mapping out some 4-h trail ride for a bunch of horses...  my other critiera was  i had to be able to pick it up myself and get it back on it's wheels ---- teh 250 cc  size was nice - i enjopyed that-- ---somewhere alont teh way it was decided i should have a 600cc- which i found could go as slowly as teh 250 that  i liked... i  rode that 600  at West Point one day and was so busy waTCHING  all those cadets that i came to a stop  sign and forgot to put my feet down- and it fell over- i had managed to step aside as it fell- but there i stood like some foolish hunter that had just slain a wild boar..  luckily 2  cute cadets came over and set it back on it's wheels..   and suggested i get a sticker for my handlebars to say " when stopping put  feet down" -- see.... it is not just aGE....I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A MEMORY PROBLEM- *** MORA  WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT MOST OF MY adjustments from caPS TO SMAll letters  has to do with the use of  the letter "A"  when my fat pinkye finger  hits the caPS LOCK AT TEH SAME TIME. **  then there is teh faCEBOOK PERSON  WHO GOT TO RIPPING me    "DOESN'T SHE KNOW About spell check?"-- you all maYBE SHOCKED TO KNOW ... I FIX ALOT OF TYPOS MYSELF---  BUT IF I DID THEM All , i would never get the dd written. **** ? TRAINING?  i am very neaRLY ABLE TO GET PENNY AND PAULA'S DISHES IN TH EHOLDEERS BEFORE THEY CHArge ahead and spill everything.....  we aRE  ALMOST AT THE FINGER IN THEIR FACE ROUTINE... ALMOST... AND THA TIS GREAT PROGRESS. *** COMMUNITY ACTION? JUDY AND I WENT TO A SCHOOL YESTERDAY--- ONE OF THOSE BBBBIIIIGGGG  BRICK SCHOOLS INSIDE 128 ( LIKE CITY STUFF--- NOT AIR CONDITIONED) CLASSROOM WAS UP TWO VERY LONG FLIGHTS OF STAIRS-- THEN 14 MILES DOWN TEH  LONG CORREDORS--- BENTLEY  PLUNKED HIMSELF IN FRONT OF THE ONE FAN THERE ...KIDS WERE CUTE-- CLASSROOM UP TO PAR ON THE ELECTRONIC STUFF-- THEN I LEARNED IT WAS A CLASS FOR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE..  THEY WERE DOING VERY WELL **** JUST TAKE A MOMENT AND LOOK AT THOSE PICTURES . CAN YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE? SHE USED TO HANG ON GEORGE LEANING WAY ON HIM ALL THE WAY LIKE IN THE LAST 2 PICTURES. THE FIRST 2 PICTURES IN THE PINK SHIRT ARE FROM TODAY! HE DOCTORS ARE SO IMPRESSED WITH HOW WELL SHE IS DOING 5 MONTHS POST SURGERY. I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE HAD THE BIG SURGERY 5 MONTHS AGO ALREADY! SEEMS LIKE JUST THE OTHER DAY. MAYBE TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE HAVING FUN?  BUT THIS KIDDO IS MAKING HUGE STRIDES! VERY IMPRESSED WITH HER. ENJOY THE PICTURES! LOVE BELLA AND GEORGE

june 14 2018

WHEN  3 GOOFY DOGS CAN MAKE 30 VERY BORED PEOPLE SMILE AND LAUGH, IT IS CRIMINAL NOT TO GET ORGANIZED TO DO THAT.. "THAT "    BEING  volunteeer  MORA organizing a trip to a "home for people of my advanced age.."---- i certainly don't want to tempt fate.. so i should quit and discuss shoelaces or something-- however....to do the theraqpy dog thing and walk a dog around on leash for people to touch does not have the fascination of 3 dogs loose  wandering around  greeting everyone in wheelchairs and then getting  into a wrestling match in the middle...bentley,sizzle and mayhem were super at teh project-- if we had one more person with  us we could have taken penny and paula with us-  these people were sooooo happy to have us there...    the biggest problem which must be addressed instant by instant ..... people of my ADVANCED  age have skin thaT IS PAPER THIN-- AND TAKES EONS TO HEAL-- SO DOGGIE TOENAILS ARE NOT CUTE....  YOU MUST APPROACH THE JOB WITH DOGS WHO KEEP THEIR  4 FEET ON THE FLOOOR... THIS MAKES SPENDING HOURS TEACHING THE DOGS TO STRIKE AT THE YUPPY PUPPY WITH THEIR FRONT FEET A QUESTIONABLE PURSUIT.. EVEEN WITHOUT THAT INSPIRATION, PENNY AND PAULA ARE  FRONT FOOTERS... WHICH MEANS TEHY WOULD HAVE TO BE IN HARNESS/ ON LEAD... AT LEAST TIL WE GET A BETTER  IDEA HOW THEY WOULD ACT. THANKFULLY SIZZLE AND BENTLEY ARE INSTANTLY CONTROLLED IN THIS SITUATION...  Mayhem not quite so-- especially for people in wheelchairs who wear their lunches on their laps and feet...- she needs a little work... so we left her harness on. leaving harness/ collar  on is another issue... generic people, if a dog has a collar on- they will grab it "to control the dog"- which is amusing because a collar on bentley and he could drag most any 200 pound person around teh block without a problem-- there was a door from the room we were in and other staff by the dozens were stoppiong by to look at teh dogs... every time the door would open.. sizzle would go toward it-(to see if teh newcommer had any treats)  i could -- and did  stop her  from going out that door with a "sizzle  whoa"--  people coulld not believe it-- for the general public, teh conceopt of a dog  who is well trained  is a mistery... teh rest of that story is----- when we first got  to the nursing home,  it was said there were no other dogs in teh place... so we went in with bentley and sizzle  off lead-- it was a long walk form the handicapped parking lot , so i headed straight for teh collection of wheelchairs usually  by the door of such places-- and plunked myself down in teh nearest one--- not realizing it must have been for some 6 year old child or 93 year old person who no longer ate alot of whipped cream--- in lowering myself quickly, i had to angle my rump past teh arms of teh chair, but i landed and was comfortable...-- with that someone came thriu a door with a black lab on leash- sizzle being close to  it darted-- fortunately to play- but i lurched instantly in her direction- fortunately she turned quickly back to me---  now how i detached that tiny wheelchair from my rump is  yet a mystery.  lesson there is don't believe anyone about dogs til you visually check- and beware tiny wheelchairs. i suppose this is teh place for that astory about tiffany--  the first dane i  ever bought-- wonderful dog 100,000's of people patted that dog in her career at things like topesfield fair  or boston common 4th of july concert...- we were at such an event at the pru tower-- tiffany was loose in teh  crowd -- per usual-- she was ok with other dogs-   suddenly she came to me  with that growl/ grumble that danes do and turned to look at a young girl in a nice dress- maybe 10 years old- as teh girl approached tiffany's growl turned serious and i grabbed her jowels and explained to her  that hse was not to bite that little girl--- she stood stiffaned but  allowed the kid to come and go...  i let her go and she went back to "working the crowd- per usual" -- i forgot about it ---  til next year, same kid, same reaction- i have no idea why out of teh thousands of people she met, she wanted to fight that one.  someone will say .." see you can't trust animals" to which i will reply.." you can trust animals a bit better than you can trust people" -- which still doesn't say a thing. i think it was president bush senior, that got the law passed  "if you are going to be around equines, it is y our own fault if you get hurt"-- i think we have that sign in our barn.... generally if an animal  "turns bad" they injure one person at a time  with humans there is no limit to the number of people one person can kill or maime. so there !

june 13 2018

1. to have a cell phone you need tremendous background information- it may be beyond me--- period..

i just got a jiterbug.. and loved how it buzzed  me  to let me know i had hit a letter.  as i carelfully entered my phone list- and even texted twice.. once was successful... BUT 50% FOR ME IS NOT BAD...

then i went to bed/asleep... and so did it... neither donna or i could turn it on in the morning... we had to wait for pam wh e came and said "i knew that little hole was there and you need to poke in a paperclip to reboost it"  I HATE TO THINK OF ALL THE THINGS I WOULD HAVE TRIED  BEFORE I GOT TO A PAPERCLIP IN THAT HOLE-- A HAMMER WOULD HAVE  PREFACED TEH PAPER CLIP.

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mass general hospital is running this program- and i signed up--

Thank you for participating in the Partners Biobank and providing information and samples for research studies on health and disease. 

We are contacting you today to send you our 2018 newsletter (https://biobank.partners.org/news-detail?id=470) and to invite you to be among the first participants in a new, historic research study, the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is a health research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our goal is to help researchers better understand why people get sick or stay healthy. 

with 80 years of various ills gwen thought i'd be a good subject... 

i did tthe computer stuff yesterday and very  soon got a call to make an apt for  the " measuring/and sample stage-  i must be one of the first... because----they said they were having aptw only on wed and friday 9 to 12 and they just happened to have 9:30 available today..

it involves access to my electronic med record- which i have no problem with... except that  the electrocution accident with that  Kone elevator is listed in my records as a dog bite- i am sure it got that way because in the busy emergency room- the secretary went for a medicare code she   could find quickly .

so there is a small factor in me that says... take the video with  you  --- because  an 80 year old lady with a big dog and a pocket full of poker chips might not fit the norm.... they might assume the record correct and 80 year old just nuts.  maybe the video will help... but then ... maybe not.

i am loading up a donkey feedbag with necessities--- not sure which dog i will take-- that will depend on which one moves their bowels promptly after breakfast. this assembly mall where i will be going is within a block of where linda lives--aside from new on ramps and off ramps i shoudl have no trouble finding it... i used to deliver magazines there...

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tht magazine business really financed alot around here-- eventually  i made 4 cents a copy for all sold in teh 16 routes in the  northern 1/2 for doing the computer programming and distribution management.  but i started out delivering  and that made 4 cents a copy for those i sold on my route. if a avg  store sold 10 books, that made me 40 cents- and teh most stores i covered in one day was 57-- that was good money 50 years ago..  in my yellow vw bug with teh rolls royce nose..

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while in commuter traffic wiht gwen the other day, i commented i had never had to "commute" -- first job out of college satelite traciking in cambridge so i got an apt near it and rode my bike...---- $98 a week- because i was a math major... my roomate made 1/2 that as an english major.- same college degree... tehn still living in cambridge i worked on 128- so that meant i was against commuter traffic- after that it was magazines on tuesday and animals  all over the place..  so   no commuting experience...

 you can see why i like mike rowe's line of logic... i worked for teh magazine for 19 years before they knew i had a college degree...  

 i can remember my faTHER COMPLAINING Abotu colby's  $300 per semester tuition--  and cigatettes were 18 cents per-  pack  -- or 20 cents in a machine which gave you back 2 pennies undeer the celophane wrapper...( there was no cancer warning then...)

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TODAY I GOT TO SIGN ON AS CO-COUNSEL FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER AND CONDUCT MY FIRST HEARING! ASHER AND I WERE IN FRONT OF THE HEARING OFFICER TODAY (THE "JUDGE" OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING) DOING THE OPENING AND CLOSING STATEMENTS AND EXAMINING OF THE WITNESSES AND AS USUAL, ASHER MADE FAST FRIENDS. HE MADE IT ONTO THE RECORD SEVERAL TIMES WHEN THE HEARING OFFICER REFERRED TO MY "ASSISTANT" AS "MR. ASHER," AND I IMAGINE THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME CONFUSED PEOPLE OVER AT CORPORATE OF THE OPPOSING PARTY WHEN THEY SEE THAT THE LEGAL INTERN APPARENTLY BROUGHT ALONG HER OWN SUPPORT STAFF. I DON'T THINK THEY'LL GUESS THAT HE'S A GREAT DANE! IT WAS A WONDERFUL FIRST EXPERIENCE, GOT SOME GREAT FEEDBACK FROM MY SUPERVISOR, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WILL BE MANY MORE OF THOSE IN OUR FUTURE!

ASHER ALWAYS ATTRACTS SO MUCH ATTENTION WHEREVER WE GO THESE DAYS, WHETHER WE'RE AT A SCHOOL FOR AN IEP MEETING, A STATE OFFICE, OR THE COURTHOUSE, AND HE'S ALWAYS COMPLIMENTED ON HIS BEHAVIOR. IT DOESN'T HURT EITHER THAT HE OFTEN SOFTENS THE STIFF ATMOSPHERE IN THE ROOM AND BRINGS OUT THE DOG PERSON IN WHOEVER WE'RE IN FRONT OF EVERY DAY - THE HEARING OFFICER TODAY BECAME A LOT LESS INTIMIDATING AS WE SAT AROUND CHATTING ABOUT DOGS BEFORE WE BEGAN.  I COULDN'T ASK FOR A BETTER PARTNER TO GO THROUGH THESE MANY FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH!

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WELL IF YOU THOUGHT YESTERDAY WAS A GOOD UPDATE TODAY IS EVEN BETTER! 3 DAYS IN A ROW FIRST OFF AND .........
DRUM ROLL PLEASE 論 論

BELLA DIDN’T USE HER WHEELCHAIR AT ALL TODAY AT SCHOOL!!!!!!

I AM SO UNBELIEVABLY PROUD OF HER STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION. BUT 5 MONTHS AFTER MAJOR SPINE SURGERY AND SHE LASTED ALL DAY AT SCHOOL WITH NO WHEELCHAIR! SHE IS ONE AMAZING DETERMINED KIDDO!

SO LET THAT SOAK IN AND THINK HOW AMAZING THAT IS!

THANKS FOR CHECKING IN AND SHARING IN OUR EXCITEMENT. LOVE BELLA AND GEORGE 

june 12 2018

1. today's problem IS    --- route one--one of the nation's biggies-- from maINE TO FLORIDA--  DARN ROAD IS PAVED ALL THE WAY TOO !  IT WAS THERE BEFORE THEY PUT IN ROUTE 1A so THE TOURISTS could   SEE TEH OCEAN-- OR ROUTE 95 FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO SEE ANYTHING , BUT JUST GET SOMEWHERE.... OCASSIONALLY TEY MERGE WHEN THEY GET TO SOME OBSTACLE... LIKE NEW YORK CITY.. OR WORSE.. TEH GEROGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE OVER TEH  HUDSON RIVER..HOWEVER.... IN PEABODY MASS...RIGHT BETWEEN SDP AND TEH AIRPORT THERE IS A STOP LIGHT.

I AM TOLD IT IS THE ONLY  STOP LIGHT ON RT 1 FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA..WHICH I KNOW IS NOT TRUE-- THE ROAD WAS DESIGNED ( HISTORICALLY) TO "BE DEVOID OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS" ---- WHAT I Am sure of is that the one in peabody makes no sence and is the most annoying.  

it is  in operation so that  a very few cars can make a U TURN INSTEAD OF GOING ANOTHER 1/2 MILE TO  A PROPER CLOVERLEAF....as i was  COMING BACK FROM THE AIRPORT AT COMMUTER TIME, THERE WAS 3/8 MILE OF 3 WIDE -- STANDING, IDLEING CARS ON TEH SOUTHBOUND LANE, SO THAT ONE DUMP TRUCK AND 2 CARS COULD MAKE A U TURN. 3/8 of a mile is about 2000 feet- and if i allow 20 feet per car(including compacts a dn tanker trucks,)  THAT IS 100 CARS  3 CARS WIDE--- 300 CARS IDLEING  FOR  WHAT SEEMS LINE 2 HOURS 45 MINUTES WHILE 2 CARS AND ONE DUMP TRUCK COULD MAKE A U TURN..JUST THINK OF TEH GAS CONSUMED AT THAT ONE , UNNECESSARY TRAFFIC LIGHT.

WHITH ALL THE IDIOCY I TEH WORLD WHY SHOULD I TACKLE MY CONCERN... FOR  THAT LIGHT.?

WELL... WHY NOT?  

I HAVE ARGUED A CASE  WITH THE MASS TRAFFIC BUNCH BEFORE-- USTABEE-  (used to be) WHEN YOU WENT OVER THE MYSTIC TOBIN BRIDGE  THRU 6 WIDE TOLLGATES, YOU COASTED  DOWN A HILL INTO 3 LANES, THRU A TUNNEL AND WERE THEN FORCED INTO SINGLE LANE ON THAT UPHILL.. DOESN'T SOUND LIKE MUCH,  BUT I  OFTEN DROVE THAT TRACTOR TRAILER LEGNTH HORSE TRAILER INTO BOSTON FOR PHOTOS WITH ANIMALS-- AND  ARGUED IF THEY forced  US INTO ONE LANE ON THat half mile down HILL, IT WOULD SAVE GAZILLION GALLONS OF GAS-- WHEN THE RESULT OF ONE LANE OF traffic would not be changed .   i would go thru  1/2 tank of gas stopping and crawling  up that ramp onto the highways. so i went to the big fancuy  state office of traffic .  made absolutely no difference.--------however i am older now and more time on my hands-- i may go see them again....

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this is teh guy from weat coast getting into danes...  brave man  doing well i am told.

OUR FIRST DOG JUST WENT THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AND WAS A ROCK STAR.  SHE HAD HER OWN CAP AND GOWN FOR THE CEREMONY.  SHE WAS AT EASE WITH THE APPLAUSE OF 2500 PEOPLE AND EVEN WHEN SHE GOT SPRAYED WITH A SODA TO THE MUZZLE SHE NEVER FALTERED.  THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP ALONG THE WAY.

CHUCK HAMSTREET 

 i am sending him a hunk of teh wire i have around the "V" pen... it has beed great and inexpensive compared to other solutions...  it is galvanized chicken 1"hex coated with poly something-- farmtek.com... good stuff.

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bella and george

 SHE IS GETTING SO GOOD AND REALLY STRONG. TODAY WATCHING HER WALK JUST HOLDING ONTO GEORGE’S LEAD ROPE AND NOT HANGING OVER HIM WAS PROOF IN ITSELF. IT’S ALMOST LIKE SHE WAS WALKING HIM, SHE CAN STILL GRAB HIM IF NEEDED BUT SHE HAS BEEN DOING REALLY GOOD. IF I CAN SNEAK A VIDEO I WILL. GEORGE WAS KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON HER DURING PT THOUGH. HE’S ALWAYS WATCHING. UNLESS HE’S NAPPING OF COURSE AND WE KNOW HOW MUCH HE LOVES TO SLEEP.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN WITH US! LOVE BELLA AND GEORGE

june 11 2018

WALTER  ZERO-- LACK OF INTEREST---

BENTLEY ZERO - GREAT ENTHUSIASM- LACK OF STAMINA( since that elevator accident ) 

GROMMET- NO PROBLEM  19 MINUTES. 

AND JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW... THE RECORD IS 51 MINUTES-- LINDA SCATURO   MY VERY ITALIAN religious  friend  WHO USED TO RAISE BLUE DANES IN (MILTON) NEW YORK, SAID "  I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE GOOD LORD HAD IN MIND WHEN HE DESIGNED REPRODUCTION  IN DOGS" 

THERE would be  sooo many interesting photos if the topic was not taboo....my favorite---   megan in the  pouring rain with a big golf umbrella trying to keep the 2 tied  dogs from sliding into the pond.-- then there was OUR OLD GAL...Chaos- out on donkey hill- she got bored and decided to walk home dragging her beau behind her...until he got on the other side of a metal fence post.- next day he was fine and back at it.  there are sooo  many stories...and alot of false rumors- involving buckets of cold water--- might work in some species, but not dogs.

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moving on  to air freshener--- as related to dog training.... 

 one of the biggest hurdles to training a dog is the fact that  people get one idea in their heads and it stays lodged there-- and it is usually some  concept solely human in origin...like what smells good.  just because we like the smell of  xxxx in no way means a dog would like that smell too...-- esopecially when you get adveritising involved--- what have we been trained to "like"?  ---

i have tried  to stop the use of spray on teh bedding of dogs--- how do you know?   thay might hate the smell of xxxx- and every day we come along with that #$%^&* can of stuff and spry it all over where they have no choice but to sleep. how do we know ?  they might find it far more interesting  if we sprayed urine all over the bedding. 

especially since urine is one of their ways of communicationg with each other....

 URINE IS  teh dog equivalent of "post it notes" .

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so baCK TO AIR FRESHNER--- SPECIFICALLY FABREEZE ( WHICH WE HAVE HERE AND LIKE  )... AND MY ITALIAN FRIEND LINDA ..,,LONG LONG AGO... WHEN FABREEZE WAS NEW  THERE  WAS A RUMOR AROUND THAT IT KILLED DOGS.. LINDA LOANED HER STUD DOG--"  EARL  " TO SOMEONE FOR AN OVERNIGHT TRYST-- AND HE DIED--  SHE WAS CONVINCED IT WAS TEH AIR FRESHNER- AND COULD NOT EVEN CONSIDER THAT HE COUDL HVE GOT WOUND AROUND A METAL FENCE POST WITH UNHAPPY RESULTS.

IN MY OPINION--- BECAUSE OF A  FALSE RUMOR...  YOU WILL ALWAYS SEE A DOG IN THE COMMEERCIAL FOR FABREEZE...  USUALLY A CUTE LITTLE JACK RUSSEL--- WANDA TYPE DOG--- JUMPS UP ON HTE COUCH SOMEONE JUST SPRAYED.

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SMALL FYI--- LINDA'S STUD EARL  IS RELATED TO ALOT OF OUR DOGS

  EARL WAS PIPI'S DAD AND PIPI was bitsy mom - and bitsy was thumper's mom--  thumper was related to almost everyone that was not imported....

Just a Pandora Update. GREAT NEWS, NO TREATMENT IS NEEDED. She still has the staples and they should come out Wednesday. Pandora can't wait to get the cone off. She has never knocked over so many people before. Thanks for all your prayers it's great to have good news to share.

Love Debbie and Pandora

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E-MAIL FROM A FRIEND OF MINE: "WE WERE AT DINNER AT THE 99 IN LYNNFIELD AND A MAN WAS THERE WITH A SERVICE DOG - A GREAT DANE. HE WALKED BY OUR TABLE AND THAT WAS THE CLOSEST I WAS EVER TO ONE OF THOSE DOGS. MY LORD, EVEN THEIR HEADS ARE GIGANTIC." THINKING I COULD FIGURE OUT WHO THEY WERE, I ASKED HER TO DESCRIBE THE DOG AND THE MAN. HER RESPONSE WAS: "THE DOG WAS BLACK AND WHITE. GEORGE CLOONEY COULD HAVE BEEN THE MAN, BUT I NEVER WOULD HAVE NOTICED. IT WAS THE DOG THAT GOT MY FULL ATTENTION."

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 WAYTA GOOOO