where's clyde????

 

mar 25 2021

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I had the daily doggy all written and it wiped out the first paragraph about the hey problem so I can quickly dictate it again probably without correction so it may have some really interesting misspellings .hey in this area is getting to be in short supply this is critical to anybody with horses they have to have it I prefer Timothy hay there is a bit of alfalfa hay around but I've always thought of that as cowhey at any rate Janine thought maybe we should try splitting a whole load as we used to do when we lived in Lynnfield so I started calling around 1st place would be Dodge drained and they have loads about 20 tons at 4:15 a ton but at the moment he didn't have any and he would have to look for it for me he's got Contacts so I started in with my hey contact Lynn Cashman and at this point I say land Cashman is Wayne Cashman number 12 Bruin she is his WIFE. and aand I went on to explain in the what got wiped out that I really don't like saying that by way of defining who she is and at one point in my life I ended up introducing him to someone by saying this is Wayne Cashman you know lynn's husband because she in a horse world was much more famous than he however back to my hey problem

I had a dissertation on hey well written things like currently we are using 2 string bales meaning that the bales have two pieces of hey string holding it together and they are about £35 each somewhere in my life they were called women's Bale of hay because there were more women taking care of of horses the men however there can be 3 string bales which are considerably heavier at 45 pounds that does make a difference and after that there are the really big bales done up with two wires and those can go up to 70 pounds .. the other numbers you need to know are the average 1000 pound horse needs about 20 pounds of hay a day in a little bit of rain and things ..

donkeys will live very nicely on hay and water and carrots and bagels and a lot of other stuff however   

the reason jeanine and I got into a discussion of Hay was that there is a Humane situation somewhere not too far away where there are 40 thoroughbredMARES  that would just turned loose in a huge area last fall in addition there were four stallions thrown into the same field or enclosed area or whatever with damn little food so the Humane Society right now has 40 bMARES  with her probably bred BY  stallions and they're all been confiscated or whatever at any rate I guess Janine gets her pick as equine rescue network and sometime in the next week we may be getting some extremely skinny probably pregnant mayor's here so I was told to get the back bar N and ready   which is how she and I got into a discussion about hey-------- thoroughbreds are not known to be easy keepers so probably they're going to need a BALE A DAY EACH !

so going back to the truck of hay the 20 tons would be very close to 800 bales .. Sounds like they might be slightly heavier than £35 at any rate when you buy a truckload you basically buy the scale weight from when the truck was weighed when it came across the border .

 

THE PREGO DONKEY DID NOT “POP’ OVERNIGHT.. SO WE CONTINUE THE CLASSIC “ANALYZING EVERY PHART

 

----  AND THEN I HAD TH ECHICKEN EPISODE AND THE  FARMER EDUCATION... LINDA CAME UP WITH.. THIS

but that’s really rare.

 

A hen will produce fertile eggs for up to 21 days after just one mating. A hen can retain a roosters' sperm in little pockets inside her egg canal for up to three weeks

When a rooster mates a hen, his injected semen is stored in numerous sperm storage tubules (SSTs) located in the area where the hen’s uterus joins the vagina. That is, provided the hen likes the rooster. If she doesn’t, she can squirt out the semen to avoid hatching his offspring. Ed:  GOTTA LOVE THAT ONE

Assuming the hen approves of the rooster, his semen is stored in her SSTs. The sperm is then periodically released in response to the hormone progesterone, which is triggered when the hen lays an egg. The next ovulation won’t occur for about five hours, giving released sperm plenty of time to wiggle through the oviduct, without interference from a descending egg, to fertilize the next developing yolk.

Since sperm is released shortly after an egg is laid, and each egg takes approximately 25 hours to develop, an egg produced on the day of mating will not be fertile. An egg laid the next day may or may not be fertile, depending on the timing. An egg laid on the third day definitely should be fertile.

The amount of time during which the hen will continue to lay fertile eggs depends on how much sperm fills the SSTs, which are capable of storing semen from multiple matings and multiple roosters. Highly productive hens generally remain fertile longer than hens that lay at a slower rate, and single-comb breeds remain fertile longer than rose-comb breeds— possibly as long as a month,

My opnly related story I can come up with on that is that there is a micro dirty jobs show where he had to impregnate a bunch of girl turkeys----

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ODD BITS OF THE DAY-- DAUGHTERER GWEN ( north carloinq)NEEDS TO COME TO BOSTGON ( FOR WORK)  BOUGHT A TICKET ASHVILLE TO BOSTON. $33 I COULD NTO BELIEVE IT... THEN SHE TOLD OF A SEATING PLAN WHERE THE BACK SEATS WERE AN ADDITIONAL $2. AND THE FRONT WITH  THE LEG ROOM WERE AN ADDITIONQAL $23. SO BY THE TIMESHE HAD A BAG ETC. TEH FARE WAS $97.  

i did not get permission but  you can not see the face----i am sure the kiddo is grinning as lyn engineers the up hill pull.

MAR 24 2021

 CESAR  SALAD  !  NOW THAT I AM SHOTTED WITH 2 WEEKS BEHIND ME.... I CAN DREAM....

I REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN RALPH.... TEH OWNER OF A LOVELY RESTAURANT IN ROWLEY, WOULD APPEAR AT TEH TABLE WITH A HUGE WOODEN BOWL.. DRIBBE;LE   IN A SMALL QUANTITY OF OLIVE OIL ,, THEN MASH A FEW GARLIC CLOVES IN THE BOTTOM BEFORE CRACKING A RAW EGG IN THE MIX , SQUEEZING A FULL LEMON IN....AND WHIPPING AT IT FOR A FEW MINUTES  WHILE MAKING PLEASENT CONVERSATION.. IN WOULD GO A NET  OF WASHED ROUMAINE LETTICE-- ONLY TH E  "LOWER MIDDLE"  PARTS OF THE  STALK. ADD  A HEFTY GLOB OF PARMESAN CHEESE.. AND ALL HE HAD TO SAY WAS "? ANCHOVIES?" FOR THE BEST CAESAR SALAD ANYWHERE..  NO CONTAMINATION OF MUSTARD  OR STEAK SAUCE ...

I USED  COOK... WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT;......AND. MAKE THAT SALAD  32  TIMES A WEEK- WELL IT SEAMED LIKE THAT... WITH A BLENDER-- THAT WAS BEFORE PEOPLE GOT NERVOUS ABOUT TEH RAW EGG.... AND BY THEN I HAD MOVED HERE- AND PUT TEH KITCHEN STOVE DOWN ON TEH CURB AS AN UNNECESSARY COMPLICATION  IN MY KITCHEN/.-- I STILL HAD TEH WOOD STOVE IF THE GOING GOT ROUGH....

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But now having been  COV cooped up for such a long time I began to have dreams of Caesar salad---- other people may dream of going on ocean cruises---   not me you won't get me floating around the ocean on a bunch of hardware----  but I wanted to make a Caesar salad so I had to wait until even with a mask I dared go to the store which I did one morning-------- the problem is by the time I get everything else done and go to the store and back again with the makings of a Caesar salad. it  IS nap time and I'm too tired to do anything about it .. so all of that sits on the kitchen counter this morning and as soon as I get the daily doggy finished I intend to go make a Caesar salad for breakfast    why not .

 

I have these gastronomical fantasies .. I'm already one project behind because I do have the makings of.  NANN. the very simple INDIAN  yeast bread would you then just sort of fry a piece I've never made that before but the concept seems interesting , not complicated and different  THEN  eating leftover Chinese food for breakfast ..

 

 the MAKINGS  of the NANN project ---namely fleischmann's yeast flower oil tiny bit of yogurt and maybe an egg I forgot but those are all refrigerated in preparation for tackling theNANN  project I better do the Caesar salad first

in spite of our chef for seniors who will cook almost anything at his home and deliver it to us .. There are a few things I do miss    one is  boiled onions with velveeta cheese ..  what I'm used to I the one inch size onions boiled bend put in a pan blobs of velveeta ... every time we request that of the chef he does the half inch size onions and somehow it's just not the same  even if he does take the fresh ones and peel them ..

for those of you  who might not know how to peel 1/2 inch size onion you can plunk it in hot water. for ffor just a few seconds and then just squeeze out the onion whereas the one inch size onion you've gotta peel the hard way

This chefs for seniors is some sort of franchise out of maybe Iowa and we are quite happy with it he has a huge menu to choose from or we can ask him to cook anything ...  He charges a set fee to cook these twelve meals and the grocery bills is added to his fee .. so there's never any skimping of anything if we happen to want to as whatever we pick has nothing to do with his fee---  he did a wonderful Saint Patrick's Day boiled dinner which I'd never had before anyway ... continuing on If on Monday and Thursday we pick three items , he will shop for them on Friday and Tuesday at 6:00 AM then prepare them in the mornings and deliver them to us around 1:00 o'clock .. there will be 12 really double meals which landed our refrigerator to be picked out by the volunteers and staff who have refrigerator privileges ..  then on Tuesday and Friday morning dama we'll split those double bills into individual containers and put them down in the T TENT for all to eat for either lunch or supper ..these are all dated unrotated with great care and if there are any left on Tuesday or Friday that goes to the chickens .it's a rare situation that there are any left it's very good food . we are very careful to include one of the three dishes vegetarian style with either fish  or no meat at all . It turns out to be very economical for the 24 meals .. and it's a big help particularly too many of our volunteers as it saves the whole process of shopping and cooking or calling for pizza how much pizza can you live on a lot ..

That concept of one person making a business of shopping and preparing meals is really a very interesting and useful idea although I much prefer to be on the buying end of that one ..The first time we ordered food from him he did appear in our kitchen with a rolling toolbox of all his cooking utensils and incidentals including a white coat which was very impressive will have uh coped with being surrounded with great Danes while he's trying to cook we decided maybe it would be better if he cooked at home and just bought the food but at any minute if anything was happening we could probably request him to appear in the white coat again ..

 

The reason for my nocturnal fascination with food is certainly caused by all these people trying to sell frying pans or little ovens the last night after the Colorado shooting there was an extraordinary number of interviews of people who were going to do something about it sometime so I thought about it old alternately with the Caesar salad it is very possible for any government to tax the fun out of everything . that's not critical the government does need money to run and I do like to depend on them for things like freshwater but I would certainly redo the tax system ..

 

that concept started with my concern that all the damage DONE BY CARS  carrying one person IN  individual cars .. I remember that when gasoline was $5 a gallon a few years ago that made 2 3 OR 4 people ridE  in one car so I started wondering if you could change behavior with taxations .. certainly in Massachusetts if you buy a car you cannot get behind the wheel until you have paid a significant sales tax and then an excise tax ....

connected to that thought was the fact that 100 years ago before  personal computers I bought one of the very first RadioShack computers it was a cute little thing with an adding machine type tape and I started keeping my magazine returns on it -----my point here is that I got a tax bill from the town the real estate bills I get two of them because there's two lots here PLUS  a bill for $26 and I called him up said what was the $26 for and that was for. -- personal PROPERTY ---- which they said was  the damn computer .. that was maybe 1980 .. and even to this day I get 2 real estate bills and a bill for $26 ..

since we can't seem to outlaw guns of war why can't we allow THE  guns and tax  THEM big time------ for instance tax them $100 per bullet that the gun would produce in five minutes---   you have a lot of guns which would be one or $200 to register but boy would we make money on these rapid fire things that were bAsically meant for soldiers  WHO really couldn't shoot very well in the first place .and if you didn't pay your tax on THE FOOL THING...It could be removed for lack of paying taxes .   

MY other concept there is if we CAN  implant a piece of rice on a turtle the track where it goes then these rapid fire things should also have a similar piece of rICE attached to it somewhere   RFID’S

 

also connected to that thought was wondering if the voting on what to do about GUNS WAS anonymous how would they all all these  CONGRESS. people vote –  ONE slip of paper each- NO  NAME...-- thrown in a bucket --that is about as far out as my idea of making these Democrats and Republicans all sit at alternate tables so they wouldn't know IF  they were all supposed to stand up or sit down

it will never happen

mar 23 2021

 MY OLD TECH TRICK....UNPLUG AND PLUG IT BACK IN---  AND I HOPE  THIS FOOL MACHINE IS BETTER TODAY..

MY KINGDOM FOR A SLIGHTLY GLORIFIED TYPEWRITER WITH INTERNET CAPABILITIES....I DO NOT WANT A MACHINE THAT WILL TRANSFER EVERYTHING I TYPE  INTO ANCIENT GREEK AT THE PUSH OF ONE BUTTON.... MOSTLY BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET OLDER.... AS MOST OF YOU PROBABLY WILL, ALL YOU NEED IS A SLIGHT TREMOR AND YOU HAVE AUTOMATICALLY SET YOUR COMPUTER TO  GO  TO  GREEK EVERY TUESDAYS AND  SWEEDISH ON ALTERNATE FRIDAYS...MEANWHLE PAYING SOME COMPANY YOU NEVER HEARD OF $2.47  THE 11TH OF EVERY MONTH  THAT HAS A  "Y" IN IT.

I THINK IT IS AN AMERICAN NATIONAL EPIDEMIC.. JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN.. DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD.. my problem is  not only with the internet, but nationally...

.I CAN GO TO FLORIDA ON SPRING BREAK, SO I WILL. NO ONE CAN TELL ME   TO WEAR A MASK... SO I. WON'T...  I CAN BUY AND CARRY AN  AK47 AND NO ONE WILL BE UPSET UNTIL I SHOOT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WITH IT. EVEN THEN THEY WILL ONLY BE CONCERNED FOR A WEEK OR TWO.

AND I REALLY NEED THAT KIND BECAUSE I AM SUCH A LOUSY SHOT THAT I MIGHT   ONLY KILL ONE AT A TIME WITH A "NORMAL' GUN.

  THERE ARE ALOT OF THESE THINGS.... IN N.H  YOU DON'T HAVE TO WEAr a motorcycle helmet-- so i have seen riders stop at the border and remove them... how about saying if they don't wear a helmet, they will have No medical insurance?  -- same with the struggle about seat belts...  I  am an american  and you cannot tell me i have to  wear a seat belt...

somewhere along here is anyone willing to apply the darwinian bit about survival of   the scientifically correct? 

 or is this a super plan of one GROUP  to reduce the numbers of voters by encouraging the untidy looking   mobs of rioters or spring breakers not to wear masks... or helmets... or seatbelts.......

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moving on....

i sent out those charts of litters for amusement-- and i think mark was sending out better coppies-- more readable.... i did have a few correctons .. i forgot OZ  and you revearsed.....   Thoreau is a boy with a red outline, Charlotte a girl with a blue outline.   that is backwards...  

 i need to get these indoor projects out of the way....

the other project is..... i did promise all the people who bought chicken bricks on th e  board over new years that i would send them a bentley paw print.... that has taken considerable organization.... bigger ink pads.... rolls of white paper.... bentley was super--" they lift  right foot up  then down on an ink pad --- left foot up for right foot pressure and tehn down on second ink pad... now lift and place right, left, right ,left  until they put the pad under my feet again. " and  we have abotu 150 good paw prints... but bentley is on holiday since tigger is here to date paula.... 4 masculine appendages on the same property is not the easiest situation.... so that project is on hold til tigger is done and goes home.. then bentley can come back and make more paw prints..  

i do have a photo. of the process....