[AG-EQ] Guideon

[Jody ianuzzi]

Hello Jewel,

I think your dog is a genius! I could never figure out how he can do all the things that he can unless he’s actually a little boy in a dog costume



JODY

To Boldly Go  🖖🏻 


thunderwalker321 at gmail.com 

"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik Weihenmayer

> On May 17, 2020, at 10:02 PM, Jewel via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I think that I might have worked out how it is that Guideon, without removing it from the table, can 
> get a, firmly, screwed down top off a plastic jar.
> I reckon that he has figured out that if he grasps the jar * just below the top and clamps his 
> spread jaws together, he can spring the lid off, thus leaving it, undamaged, on the table, while he 
> makes of with the jar.
> 
> From: Jewel
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 1:38 PM
> To: kirstanm1 at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [BlindLikeMe] Guideon
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> From: 'Jewel' jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz [blindlikeme]
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 1:27 PM
> To: deidreandlouise at gmail.com ; kirstanm1 at gmail.comm
> Cc: nzbg
> Subject: [BlindLikeMe] Guideon
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> 
> You will be getting, heartily, sick and tired of my saying how, devilishly, clever he is, but I *
> thought that I really had him licked: note that I said * thought: past tense!
> I would love to be able to put anything that is, vaguely, edible back into the cupboard: more of
> that in a moment: but there is, simply, no room, so I have to rely on my remembering to keep
> everything on the table screwed or tied down; and in this instance, the * everything being my
> screwtop pot of honey.
> Here entereth the past tense of think. I looked on the table for the jar of honey of which, I was,
> absolutely certain, I had screwed the top on, and screwed it on, very firmly. However, of honey
> there was not a sign, but it was possible that I had missed it in my search, and as you are well
> aware, when one is blind and misses something by a zillionth of an inch, one might, just as well,
> have missed it by a mile, so when Pearl came in, I asked her if she could see the honey on the
> table, and what she handed me was the screwtop lid, but of the sticky stuff, there was not a sign:
> not even a chewed up plastic container on the floor! How in the blue blazes, had he got the
> screwtop off the jar! Of course, I am sure that, at some time, I will find it out in the
> backyard!!!
> and to expand on putting things in the cupboard for safety: a few nights ago, I roasted two chicken
> pieces and some potato slices for my evening meal, but only eat one of the chicken pieces and a
> portion of the potato slices, so I put the one that remained in the cupboard under the kitchen
> bench, leaving it in the roasting pan with the untouched portion of the spuds.
> The next night, knowing that all I had to do was to reheat the chicken and roast potatoes, but when
> I opened the cupboard, I found an empty roasting pan: well, empty that is apart from the oil.
> If it had been Guideon who had found the cupboard door open, and devoured the chicken and potatoes,
> he, most assuredly, would not have left the oil, so it was obvious that one, or a horde of
> free-living rodents had come in from outside! my
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> From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 1:27 PM
> To: <deidreandlouise at gmail.com>; <kirstanm1 at gmail.comm>
> Cc: "nzbg" <nz-blindgardeners at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Guideon
> 
> You will be getting, heartily, sick and tired of my saying how, devilishly, clever he is, but I *
> thought that I really had him licked:  note that I said * thought:  past tense!
> I would love to be able to put anything that is, vaguely,  edible back into the cupboard:  more of
> that in a moment:  but there is, simply, no room, so I have to rely on my remembering to keep
> everything on the table screwed or tied down;  and in this instance, the * everything being my
> screwtop pot of honey.
> Here entereth the past tense of think.  I looked on the table for the jar of honey of which, I was,
> absolutely certain, I had screwed the top on, and screwed it on, very firmly.  However, of honey
> there was not a sign, but it was possible that I had missed it in my search, and as you are well
> aware, when one is blind and misses something by a zillionth of an inch, one might, just as well,
> have missed it by a mile, so when Pearl came in, I asked her if she could see the honey on the
> table, and what she handed me was the screwtop lid, but of the sticky stuff, there was not a sign:
> not even a chewed up plastic container on the floor!  How in the blue blazes, had he got the
> screwtop off the jar!  Of course, I am sure that, at some time, I will find it out in the
> backyard!!!
> and to expand on putting things in the cupboard for safety:  a few nights ago, I roasted two chicken
> pieces and some potato slices for my evening meal, but only eat one of the chicken pieces and a
> portion of the potato slices, so I put the one that remained in the cupboard under the kitchen
> bench, leaving it in the roasting pan with the untouched portion of the spuds.
> The next night, knowing that all I had to do was to reheat the chicken and roast potatoes, but when
> I opened the cupboard, I found an empty roasting pan:  well, empty that is apart from the oil.
> If it had been Guideon who had found the cupboard door open, and devoured the chicken  and potatoes,
> he, most assuredly, would not have left the oil, so it was obvious that one, or a horde of
> freeliving rodents had come in from outside!  my 
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