Marsha's Daughter

 When Sarah Barbosa moved from Massachusetts to Texas a couple of years ago, she planned on retiring from wildlife rehabbing to concentrate on her growing family. 
 
But recently, Barbosa saw a post online. A construction worker had knocked a bird's nest with eggs inside off a man’s roof. The homeowner felt horrible and was trying to get help.

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Dog Laws

 Dog & Animal Laws

Woonsocket Animal Shelter: (401) 766-6571
Emergency (Police):
(401) 766-1212
RI DEM (Wildlife):
(401) 222-3070

Address:

Woonsocket Animal Control Shelter

9 Cumberland Hill Road

*Behind the Fire station*

Woonsocket, RI 02895

United States

See map: Google Maps

Dogs Running Loose
Leash your dog to go outside.

• 1st Offense: $50 Ticket
• 2nd Offense: $100 Ticket
• 3rd Offense: $150 Ticket

Dog Barking Law
Don't tie your dog outside between 10 pm & 7 am.
If your dog is barking for more than 15 minutes straight during the day, that is considered "Disturbing the Peace".

• 1st Offense: Warning
• 2nd Offense: Court: Judge can assess a fine between $100 - $200

Dog Population Law
Single family home: 3 dogs
Apartment: 1 dog

• 1st Offense: $50 Ticket
• 2nd Offense: $100 Ticket
• 3rd Offense: $150 Ticket

These fines are for each day that you have the extra dog. It also costs $45 to turn in a dog or a cat to the shelter. If you are caught trying to abandon the dog, there is a $250 fine.

Pooper Scooper Law
Pick up your dog's poop.

• 1st Offense: $25 Ticket
• 2nd Offense: $50 Ticket
• 3rd Offense: $100 Ticket

Dog Bite Law
A dog cannot bite any person, even the owner.
Dog bites can cause people to get sick.

• 1st Offense: Court

Dog License
Licenses are available at City Hall for $5.

• Every dog must licensed by six months old.
• A new license must be obtained every year by April.

Farm Animal Law
No farm animals are allowed in the city (rabbits, cows, goats, pigs, roosters, sheep, etc.) because they can pass diseases to people.

• 1st Offense: $50 Ticket
• 2nd Offense: $100 Ticket
• 3rd Offense: $150 Ticket

This information was compiled by the students in Woonsocket Middle School Rooms 214B & 112, with assistance from the Woonsocket Animal Shelter.

Pandemic Pudge

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Swimming in Soup

The pool was warm today! I was a slug in the water SLOWSLOWSLOW maybe because I had black tea before bed. Sometimes I can't resist. I was able to swim my 2+ miles, 80 laps.

Here's something gross. The three early bird retired guys who like to exercise in the pool get all sweaty because they are standing in the shallow end, half out of the water.  I gag when I am swimming next to them (like today) because it was the only lane. The scent of  stinky sweat travels up my nose. I try to block it and breathe on the other side. This used to happen at the old pool with one lady who never got  her head wet. I am prone to gagging especially in the early morning.

That's the news. 

 I am making banana waffles from the overripe bananas and whole wheat flour, cornmeal sourdough starter and buttermilk.

Seafood Salad

 We purchased a 2.5 pound block of frozen imitation crab meat from Price Rite last week and defrosted it today. I added a whole bunch of chopped celery, two red onions chopped, mayo, wine vinegar, salt and pepper. It is delicious.

Successful Tenements

 The tenement complex next door that has managers as residents does very well. Whereas the complexes that do not have anyone overseeing the property have problems with drugs and other distressing activities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tiogue Lake

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Introverted

 An Advocate (INFJ) is someone with the Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Judging personality traits. They tend to approach life with deep thoughtfulness and imagination. Their inner vision, personal values, and a quiet, principled version of humanism guide them in all things.

Mooncakes

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919228835/the-meaning-behind-mooncakes

Fall Mania Guide

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Bibliotherapy

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Dream

 On Saturday night I dreamed that I was in New Hampshire woods with two people seated at a table holding shotguns. I have a fear of NH woods. It's all guns and trees!

Sunday Morning

 Sunday morning screaming neighbors.

 We are past the fan season so perhaps I can drown them out with some music. But I prefer silence and my snoring dog.

This is the young mother next door in the house 4 feet away who only shouts and screams at her 2 toddlers day and night. 

There is a father but he is a quiet man. He takes off on his motorcycle.

75+5=80

 I swam 80 laps in an 80 degree pool this morning.

Amy Covid Barrett

 Superspreader Event in the Rose Garden

What Is the Large Intestine?

 Your large intestine is about five feet (or 1.5 meters) long. The large intestine is much broader than the small intestine and takes a much straighter path through your belly, or abdomen. The purpose of the large intestine is to absorb water and salts from the material that has not been digested as food, and get rid of any waste products left over. By the time food mixed with digestive juices reaches your large intestine, most digestion and absorption has already taken place.

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Kimberly King Parsons

 After the birth of my second child, I was exhausted and feeling like I might never write again. I was complaining about this to the brilliant writer and teacher Victoria Redel when she calmly but firmly told me, “Get back to work. Or don’t.” Something about the clear binary of that decision moved me to action. Those are the two choices—pick one! Over and over and over again I choose to write.

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Mood Meditation + Exercise

Exercise+Mood

Meditation+Mood

Philip Roth

Many of the writers I know have a stand-in. Bellow has Herzog. Mailer had this character named Sergius O'Shaughnessy. Céline had Céline. Gombrowicz had Gombrowicz. They didn’t have stand-ins but they were stand-ins indeed labeled with their own name. A stand-in both frees you to draw on your own experience and to invent off of your own experience. It’s a mask. And in masks there is freedom.

PHILIP ROTH