april 20 2023

i wish this was a judy day so we could go to somewhere with pasta in the pram... he is soooooo good... but also heavy... i really need another body with me.  you don't realize what judy does until she does not....  i think she is in minesotta vacuuming her brothers appartment..... remember she has free flight anywhere -- husband pilot....

after a few days off, the judy list is loooooong.

we had a big dog fight last night-- i knew it was coming.... lachey and jiminey--- and i think it was over  possession of  the couch.   when lachey is on the couch by the mail call desk.   jiminey has been known to stnd over him and stare at him til  lachy moves... i have a feeling he didn't move last night...  no big blood bath.... actually ther was no obvious so i didn't look-- if it ain't spirtin'  it aint worth  vet care.

digging around for things like legal papers ... we have found my old "portfolio" of adds i  have done--  the one with the first cell phone is there... paul revere on a horse--- and it was  brief case sisze.  so i don't think the one  that new york talked about last month as the "first".  just wasn't because thiers was shoe box size---ours was bigger since they grow smaller... ours might have been first????? photo to follow.  :(

mark found the old one 

 april 19 2023

ok... now to get running off on some other tangent-  

if atzeimer patients can remember thing s like old songs--- how can i get my "alexa" to play  broadway songs in these dismal rehab daycare centers...  

then judy and i could be "the cheerful notes" 

  if properly inspired my voice has been compared to ETHYL MERMAN.

FOR THOSE youngsters in the group. -- ethyl was famous for not needing a microphone even if she  got off a bit. she would bash on---and most important--------Merman amassed over 6, 000 performances in fourteen Broadway hit shows and Lloyds of London once said she had the highest rating for health and dependability of any actress in the American theater. In her role in Call me Madam, which spanned over six years, she never missed a performance.

Gotta love her...there's no business like show business--

The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk

Get paid for what they do, but no applause.

aint that true ??????
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so maybe judy and  i can have some fun with that. and you all know i love broadway music----- what better gig than to sing at beverly home for the deaf???-- i am on it !!~
all of that is closely related to trying to get explore cameras on all those "smart "tv's... more tech help needed... any suggestions???

these places are  at best... grim....reaping very little upbeat---- you can't blame anyone really--- try it yourself.... set your alarm  to ring every 53 minutes... and when it goes off stand there and be creatively amusing for 7 minutes.
it is tough to impossible- yet this is the kind of thing the activities directors are expected to do...
it is not unlike trying to entertain a 3 year old child//....  i pitty some of those mothers too..
especially mothers who only have an appartment for source material.
i was exceedingly fortunate to have purchased a very nasty rooster who gave my children something to think about constantly as he guarded the door to our barn .  i could. send the kids to the barn, knowing it was going to take them 1/2 hour to get past him.
the activities director yesterday had some screwup to deal with--- and we ended up in a very small library until the crowd heard  the danes were there... and the hallway filled with walkers and wheelchairs--- and larkey at one point was totally out of sight of both me and judy--- the pup and jiminey had  our attention... but he was super-- just absorbing all the pats he could til we could break thru..  it was one of those times. if he had been dragging a leash we could have had a major disaster....------bless him !
the good Lord looks out for damn fools and drunks.

 this is how i took  litters around to nursing homes so long ago

this was my old british pram 

 i wonder where it is now...

 it was good..

 april 18 2023

a funny  email. to start the day----- remembering......

Hi Carlene! This is Rebecca Welsh! Hope all is well with you! Barbara Lee from the Herrick House in Beverly, MA will be contacting you for a visit with your Great Danes. My mom is 97 and resides there. She would love to see you and the dogs! I will never forget all the amazing times working for you: taking Mayor Menino around Boston on a sleigh driven by the donkeys! Herding swans in the Boston Public garden for the movie Good Will Hunting, driving the animals to North Andover in a blizzard for the nativity scene, trying to get a photo with you of a bull in a field for Merrill Lynch…and so many more! All the best! Rebecca

and there is more to the story than that.... she was one of janine's friends who would just dig in and get done whatever needed doing---and in the movie business you just never knew.... that episode with robin willliams and the swans was typical...leaky canoe and all

and----- i had just thought of her lately because..........she got into the business of making hats.... felt hats-- and if you can not imagine a funny felt hat costing $800 that is because you never saw one of rebecca's hats-- what she can do with a bunch of ?wool? is shocking.... and betsy-- with her super jewelery /gift store in ipswich----- rebecca is the only person i know of the artistic quality of betsy's store... and i wanted them to get in touch with each other...and now will....BETSY !!!!! PAY ATTENTION.

( SHE READS THIS) 

so judy ... "we must away to the herrick house". behind the beverly hospital...

it is odd... but there are some people... and dogs... that just ring some bell.... the job at the rehab at 62 and 128--- about 40 people. but there were two men in the crowd.... one stayed behind to specially thank us for larkey's attention to him.... and another guy- came in late absolutely dismal is the only word i can think of... sizzle took to him and made him smile. which the attendent said she had never seen him do before= he landed in a chair near me and struck up a conversation as much as he could with ? parkinson's very subdued voice and my poor hearing.  he was tall---extremely tall maybe 6'8" if he straightenbed out.....-- i wanted to ask for details about him--which of course you can not do...

damn. 

our people patters last week was 41 + 47+ 67 for a 155-- there is no end to what a nice dane can do  to make people smile.  and there is no end to the need--

"and the lord protects the barber and he makes the stubble grow." ( i forget which broadway show) 

thanks to Polly of Woburn for the donation of a volvo to ERN

it has now landed at country motors Topsfield.

 

 april 16 2023

having survived the vicious  attack by my reclining chair -- believe it or not... i am still sore from the struggle to get out of those puffy arm rests.....still here ... not fixed. got to invert it to. get the remote unplugged.  i am getting a lesson in Golden chairs... it is very hard to figure out  just who is what  online...

   it is a nice chair-- so everyone wants in on their name for repair parts etc.... so what else is new.? 

the photo is of  Pastas first real run with the. big dogs   mine plus carl and wanda. over those beautiful meridith fields.. he got about half way around and was happy to get  in the car---  how wanda lasts i do not know.  she can run jiminey  flat... and ....FYI lesson here--- those tiny legs just go at a steady trot  and last much longer than jiminey and larkey's galloooooping ,,,

wellll......  i am told.. by them as puts out miscellaneous information..... the fastest animal over a 30 mile course is a donkey.. other people have different renditions "slow and steady wins the race...." 

 speaking of meridith.......pocket is there..... and the photo is of her coming to my window  to have me scratch the bug bites from her ears ( a big delight for most equines-- grab an ear and scratch with a wad of hay string)

it is the grab an ear part that is significant..... so many times a donkey's --- and horses's---ears are used as "handles"  that most donkeys will not let you near them, she came to my window and i  scrutched the one closest to me...and then... she offered me the other ear by twisting her head around.... !!

i am sorry if having a donkey offer the other ear does not sound like much to you folk....but.....i was thrilled.

i do not know how that fits in with "turning the other cheek"