Prepper's Blind Alley

I’m going away for a few days to celebrate my guide dog school’s eightieth
year in business…since 1929. This is a great affair, and there are about
three hundred registered…and registration closed on July 31st. So this is
the final count, with about 150 guide dogs in attendance. There will be
several workshops for us to attend, plus city tours. Friday we all go to the
banquet where there will be entertainment, a musician has written songs
about our school. There will be demonstrations in the front parking lot of
hybrid cars used to train our dogs due to the silence of those and that is a
concern for the blind community, bills going through Congress about adding
noise not just for the blind, but for other pedestrians as well. Then
workshops for hints for travel from a friend of mine who runs the computer
company who writes software for our gps for the blind, and he has been all
over the world with his guide dog. . Another meeting is a trivia game for
questions about our guide dog school and we will be divided onto teams.
Wonder if there is a prize. Saturday night is karaoke. That session is
called, “howling hounds”. It all sounds like a blast…and this is my second
family since I have been a grad for over thirty years. I’m looking forward
to the whole thing and meeting some people I have corresponded with for the
last months on a list. The hiking pack is all packed, and heavy as I didn’t
have cash to pre-order dog food so that adds weight, but will get Red Caps
in Amtrack stations to help me. After that going to take couple of limos to
get me to and from the school and from where I live…been saving for months
for this whole thing. So hope my transportation works well. Finally, there
has been one bite on the present house, and that was too low in cash, so
figure maybe if this lady wants it, there will be some negotiating. If not,
well, the market is slow, but the realtor feels it will sell sooner or
later. And I haven’t found a place to go yet, and continuously looking for
that even if it’s a mobile home. The problem my own limited income makes it
hard. Well that is all until my return since I’m not dragging this computer
down there although it would be fun…not going to do it…the pack is
enough on a train and through stations since my left hand is occupied by the
harness handle while walking around. I like to have my right hand free for
doors and so forth so the pack is the perfect thing…used to use this one a
large pack, for carrying groceries a couple of miles, or for carrying
laundry back and forth to Laundromat…very handy but heavy once packed for
me.. Well wish us luck…It will take us about six hours to get from here to
New Jersey where the reunion will take place. Bye for now, friends, and keep
cool….(picture of Alleycat packing a hiking pack in front of an air
conditioner, and a wolf looking on sitting by looking on) P. S. put Harpo as
the wolf since all German shepherds are descended from wolves and I call
them my little wolves joking of course since all of mine have been gentle
souls.