Now on a happier note. To all those who gave me helpful suggestions for Sparky, my Scottie. Thank you for all your words of encouragement and helpful suggestions.

I am going to look into a kennel a 20 miles city to the north of us. Someone said they were pretty good when I when Sparky was in obedience training at PetSmart. ( we left our cat at a vet here and the day we picked him up he was howling like a banshee. I didn’t realize what had happened til about 3 mos. Then it was too late to prove. When we drove up to pick him up I was going to video tape it to add to the video of our trip, but I was so excited to see him again I had forgot the camera in the car. That would have been the proof we needed. But….)I do plan to leave something with my scent on it with him when the time comes. I hadn't thought of that and have heard it works well.
The fence is almost complete. We just have about 7-9 feet to go where the gate is. But the part where the neighbor can reach over is too tall for him to reach Sparky (I hope, crazy people can figure out he impossible at times) Anyway, we have done what we could so far and I don't know yet if it will be worked on at all today. We 'old folks get sore muscles'. I still can't believe 'I' set the posts. If I hadn't it would most likely be a pile of lumber setting in a pile still. So now Sparky can go outside and run and if he barks, I bring him in when I hear him, which to date is always when he is out, letting him know that is a "NO, NO". Hopefully it will have some impact.
To try to reprogram him, even though he seems true to his breed and doesn't forget if someone hurts him or scares him, I have started a new routine that I hope I can do 2-3 times a week. I have started taking him to a park, not a dog park. I have to drive 15 miles for that, but a park 4 miles from home with 'doggie poo bags' so I know he's allowed and hundreds of feet of interwoven sidewalks within it so I can walk on the sidewalk and he can kick up his back feet and let the grass fly. The first time out I couldn't believe how excited he was. He has only gone twice so far when I went to pick up prescriptions. It has done wonders. He didn't like the car before, he would try to crawl in my lap (thank God for doggie seat belts), now he lays calmly on the seat. There is a dog yipping outside right now and Sparky is just calmly laying by my feet, ordinarily he would head out to help the other dog. I am working on trying to keep him from barking at the neighbor’s motorcycle when it comes and goes. I know it will be a toughy to do because ALL dogs seem to go crazy for sirens and motorcycles. Just now the neighbor came home and Sparky started for 'his' door and I said 'No' and he came back...I found his weakness, scratching his back for about 1-2 min. and I do mean a good backscratching that no 'man' could resist. I started that and he started to respond better. I had been giving treats...but they didn't work. Hey, I can't complain..backscratching is free.
With the few changes so far maybe it will be calmer here until I go in for surgery. I’m pushing this hard to try get as much accomplished just in case I start feeling worse.