1.Busy looking for a good local carpenter to do a weeks work here. Should be no trouble getting one since the housing market dropped through the floor and there won't be much building.The building money will be going to roads which of course includes bridges. 2. Have to have some surgery done on my right hand this month. Am not looking forward to it. 3. Am finding it interesting to see how little has really changed here. In the 1940s when we first came here the local country club did not take Jews. My dad wanted to become a member of the Golf Club at the Cragsmoor Country Club in 1949 and they turned him down for that reason.Well Dad joined two other local Golf Clubs and eventually they tore down the Cragsmoor Country Club and broke it up into lots. They never learn . Despite the fact that we spent the fifties and sixties integrating everything, up here they are still trying to keep things segregated only now its orientals they do not want. Evidentally nobody here likes it in Hawaii. 4.My Uncle Albert )Allie Hakam) was a cop. In fact he was a Police Chief in Miami. Everybody knew him and he knew all the Hotel Keepers both here in the Mountains and on The Maimi COast. The Canadian Mounties taught me how to really drive and all the Police departments have always been friendly. Anyway. We have had some small vandalism here so I reported it to the State Police. This past weekend a stranger drove onto the property did not ring the bell andbanged loudly on my door, Did not identify himself and woke me from a sound sleep. The dogs rushed to the door and when I mistakenly very sleepily opened it they went right out and nailed him. Got a call from the health dept to find out how the dogs were. I said they were fine evidently the guy was not poisonous. The insurance company lowered my rates for having security guards on the premises, and is including the dogs in the policy. And no it was not Melody. It was Jack and Tiara.Some people like German Shepherd s. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================