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Tanner and Nanner
Sep. 22nd, 2022 12:03Today was Dog Ranch day. There is one dog who tears up everything in his room ('Please take off her harness') and who viciously growls and barks and bares his teeth at the bars on his room when other dogs are barking. I long ago leaned to just put my hand in the lion's mouth and tell him to calm down. He immediately goes to 'Ok, I was just making some noise' and licks my fingers and looks at me, 'so, now I get a treat?'. It is funny. One day I'll get a shot of the vicious Nanner. I've taken her on a walk before. She is cool and gentle as she can be. And very treat driven so she is pretty easy to control.
I checked the list today and there was only one dog who had not yet been for a walk. His name was Tanner. He's what they call a village dog from a DNA perspective. Some sheppard, something in the husky or malamute family, who knows what else. I'd never approached him so I was a little apprehensive not knowing his background. I said hi and offered a treat. He gently took the treat from me and I put the lead over his head. Turned out that gentle was his norm. He is also a sweetheart, gentle as he can be and not hostile to any of the other dogs or the goats.
He's got that wolfish look. And this tail:
He's got a permanently floppy ear:
Good time at the Ranch today. Everyone is well and happy. There were two additional volunteers so everyone got at least one walk.
I've found a great podcast that takes up a lot of time so it is perfect for this kind of thing. It is called 'A history of Rock Music in 500 songs' . I've linked the associated web site. Today's song was "for what it's worth' by Buffalo Springfield. I jumped around. Yesterday's was a song by a Benny Goodman Sextet. Today's story goes back to the high school days of Neil Young and Stephen Stills and all of the people they knew back then and all the people they worked with over the years (Neil Young was in a Motown band in Detroit with Rick James who, at the time, was playing under a pseudonym after having deserted from the Navy) in excruciating and fascinating detail. The narrator has read the biographies of all the relevant people and compared their stories pulling info from other archives to verify or dispel the stories. It is just amazing to hear how things came together but it takes a lot of time. Walking the dogs and listening to this is a perfect combination.
I think I've figured out my long term care stuff. I've got to call them again today and then put it in writing but it works out to save us a lot of money without impinging much on the result should we ever need it. If I can get that managed today it will be a load off my mind, something I've been trying to figure out for a couple of years now. And it will all be documented so I can refer back to it in four years when things change again.
The rest of the day is a quiet one. Reading "The Burning" by Jane Casey both on Kindle and Audible depending on what I'm doing. And watching a couple of episodes of Yellowstone which is a lot like watching a wolf set a trap, step in it, chew off its leg, and set the trap again. Good acting and production values. Not sure how they are going to retain the level of angst for 5 seasons. Same thing 'Billions' tried to do and it just became tedious. For the moment, though, it is fun.
I checked the list today and there was only one dog who had not yet been for a walk. His name was Tanner. He's what they call a village dog from a DNA perspective. Some sheppard, something in the husky or malamute family, who knows what else. I'd never approached him so I was a little apprehensive not knowing his background. I said hi and offered a treat. He gently took the treat from me and I put the lead over his head. Turned out that gentle was his norm. He is also a sweetheart, gentle as he can be and not hostile to any of the other dogs or the goats.
He's got that wolfish look. And this tail:
He's got a permanently floppy ear:
Good time at the Ranch today. Everyone is well and happy. There were two additional volunteers so everyone got at least one walk.
I've found a great podcast that takes up a lot of time so it is perfect for this kind of thing. It is called 'A history of Rock Music in 500 songs' . I've linked the associated web site. Today's song was "for what it's worth' by Buffalo Springfield. I jumped around. Yesterday's was a song by a Benny Goodman Sextet. Today's story goes back to the high school days of Neil Young and Stephen Stills and all of the people they knew back then and all the people they worked with over the years (Neil Young was in a Motown band in Detroit with Rick James who, at the time, was playing under a pseudonym after having deserted from the Navy) in excruciating and fascinating detail. The narrator has read the biographies of all the relevant people and compared their stories pulling info from other archives to verify or dispel the stories. It is just amazing to hear how things came together but it takes a lot of time. Walking the dogs and listening to this is a perfect combination.
I think I've figured out my long term care stuff. I've got to call them again today and then put it in writing but it works out to save us a lot of money without impinging much on the result should we ever need it. If I can get that managed today it will be a load off my mind, something I've been trying to figure out for a couple of years now. And it will all be documented so I can refer back to it in four years when things change again.
The rest of the day is a quiet one. Reading "The Burning" by Jane Casey both on Kindle and Audible depending on what I'm doing. And watching a couple of episodes of Yellowstone which is a lot like watching a wolf set a trap, step in it, chew off its leg, and set the trap again. Good acting and production values. Not sure how they are going to retain the level of angst for 5 seasons. Same thing 'Billions' tried to do and it just became tedious. For the moment, though, it is fun.