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Larry was having a problem with his Multiply. I thought for sure they were censoring him or deleting his blog, I would have followed him right out the door. I sure would of missed my blogging buddies though! I really love reading the posts everyone writes. I like Songcatcher's review of her books, she's very good at it. And I love her family posts about babysitting.
Leveret's posts are very insightful and make you think about yourself and who you are.
I really like Jinxe's because she is diverse, she posts about a lot of different things and I like the Friday Links.
I can't comment on everyone that I blog with, I'll be here all night. But I wanted to say that Boogiegirl is probably one of my favorites, she cracks me up. She sounds so down to earth and she sounds like me sometimes. She seems very aproachable.
Thanks to all that blog with me.
Ohhh...I can't forget about all those horse lovers out there, man, there's a lot! I learned a lot from you guys about horses. Even if I don't comment, I read the posts and comments.
Well, it goes without saying, I like Larry's blog too. :) I'm glad he is back to posting and not deleted.

I think she's moving soon! I'm pretty sure she was moving stuff out today. Now, let's see who will replace this woman in this rental house......worried.

Well, not much happened last night, other than police cruisers going by every once in awhile. I am happy about that, because my house and my youngest daughter's house are only separated by one neighbor's house. Did you get that? :) I have to worry about her getting shot by stray bullets. The house across from her has had a drive-by shooting before and the one next door to THAT house has.
I looked outside and seen the new neighbor next door talking with a long time neighbor across from my house. These neighbors don't bother anyone at all, except a little loud music from the teen that lives there, but not very often. I went over there to warn them about the possibility of a drive-by and got to talking about how loud the neighbor is.
The teen got to talking about how the last shootout at that house(loud neighbors)and how it affected her, I think she said she needed to have counseling or whatever because of the shooting. I told her that I had Post Traumatic Stress after that shootout. It was horrible to hear one or two shots coming from that house, then a barrage of several hundred shots being fired from police guns! It was so loud, that my daughter-in-law that I called, could hear it over the phone, and I was shut up in my upstairs computer room at the back of the house,hiding from stray bullets!
Another person was there visiting with the teen and her mom while I was warning them. The noisy neighbor got home and the comment from one of us was, "well, it looks like it won't be long and it's going to start all over again, by the looks of that brown paper bag they just took in there." *groan*
Through the evening hours and into 5:00 a.m. she was intermittently loud and obnoxious, so by the time the police would of gotten there, she would of been in and out of her house and they probably wouldn't have caught her being loud. Well, I take that back! The cops may have just been around the corner watching and waiting for a drive-by! Shucks!
I heard her say to a person leaving her house at 5:00a.m.......Be careful walking home now, you take care of your mom Stephen, (the kid must have been walking his mom home too) sheeez druuunk. Ummm.... and you're not??
Well, we'll see what happens tonight.
Picture at top was three doors down last year....a misunderstanding....yeah, ok. (click on photo to enlarge, lots of cops for a "misunderstanding".)

Just saw a police car, not black and white. They stopped and looked up at the house. Must know something is up. She's not home and will probably stay gone till tomorrow. Stay tuned.....

Talked with the new neighbors just now. I asked him if he heard last night's fracas. Yep, sure did, we were all laughing our asses off at her, he says. They are not moved in completely yet, just doing major renovations so they can move in. I said, well, expect something to go down tonight over there. Laugh now.

What is it with neighbors? I realize I did some things that bothered my neighbors when my kids were young. Yelling kids running around, arguing, fighting, playing etc. IN THE DAYTIME, PEOPLE!  I didn't have outside parties, loud music, etc. People talking about sexual matters at the top of their lungs. If anyone WANTS to know what kind of sexual matters, private message me, you really can't get the full effect of the language from this post. Yeah, that's what I thought, you don't WANT to know either, right? 
How many times do the police have to be called to this same house before the landlady is notified??
"Yes, could a police officer go to this address?"
What's your emergency?
"Well, this goes on every night, a drunk person being loud and obnoxious ALL NIGHT LONG, I need to be up in the morning to go to work."
What's the address?
I tell her the same one that's been called on time and time again!
Do you want contact?
"No. I just want to get some sleep!"
Well, if you have contact with the officer, more might get done with this problem. You see, by the time an officer shows up, the loud person is quiet because they see the car coming. Maybe if you speak to the officer.....
"No."

I even had to shut my window. I shouldn't have to swelter in the hot bedroom because my neighbor feels that they can do what ever they want to at all hours of the night. When I can still hear screaming and yelling all night long through the closed window, that's ridiculous. Sure, my house may not be insulated enough, I need new sound proof windows..??
Well, I see trouble coming tonight. The neighbor done pissed off someone walking by last night.
We live in a bad neighborhood and can't afford to move right now, so don't say, just move. Not possible at this time. I have lived here for almost 30 years, that's more than half my life. I really don't want to start over. But if I have to, I will.
Anyway, this person just walking by, got a glass thrown at them, into the street. WTF? I hear glass breaking and then a male voice. Getting louder and louder. Needless to say, bullshit talk from both sides, but I really don't think this guy was bullshitting the neighbor. As far as I know, this guy was just walking by. Then the neighbor proceeds to tell the guy, I asked you to move outta the way. What!? Why are you throwing a glass in the middle of the road anyway?
Arrggg! Such nonsense! So, I figure there will be a drive-by tonight. She yells at the guy walking away, "I have three innocent kids in this house!" They innocent, you can kill me, but you won't beat my ass! WTF? I feel I am going crazy sometimes, listening to drunk people. She yells, "I'm TIRED OF PEOPLE DRIVING LIKE CRAZY BY THIS HOUSE, I HAVE KIDS HERE THAT PLAY OUTSIDE!" Like it was this guys fault that a car was speeding, he was walking!
Well, stay tuned and stay in your house tonight. Glad they live ACROSS  the street!

Good morning Larry. Where's my mocha?! Barnes and Noble?

Smiling yet? :)

Damn, you know I think sometimes that you go overboard too on some things, but it depends on who is thinking it's....overboard. That's just their opinion, and you have yours, right? It's funny how I hold back certain things here on Multiply because I don't want to offend some people. (like I said to you before, I'm right behind you, I may be lagging but I'll catch up one of these days and have your courage)

 I have another blog that I maintain, and it's almost totally atheist posts. Some people would probably think, if they read it, that I was this mean ole person that bashes religion. Maybe I do sometimes, but that's where I can totally let go of what is in my head. Kind of like therapy.

People have passions. Some have cats...books....recipes...movies...music....horses...that they like to post. You, you have world issues. Multiply and other blogs you maintain are the outlet for that interest.
I hope you don't have to pick and choose what you need to say, sorry Jarred, I really like you, but it is Larry's blog. I realize that you did what you felt you had to do, by taking him off your friends list.

I know that in our lives we need to be courteous to some degree or another to get along. That's life. I believe that you DO hold back, Larry, what you're really thinking and would like to say, just for the fact that it would hurt people's feelings.

Religion is a touchy subject for some reason, why is that Larry? I'm trying to understand. You make no mention of people's names, just religion.
Maybe if religion were kept out of the public schools and our government, and left in the church setting, things wouldn't be so fucked up. If someone wants to be religious, fine, but we as non-believers shouldn't have to pay taxes that go to fund anything religious.
I was trying to find a "source" for my comment above and came across this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/business/10faith.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/T/Taxation

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/s407036.shtml?cat=1

http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org/news/article.cfm?id=6912

That last link just flabbergasted me. Why not ask all the tax paying members of the church to donate their hard earned money to up-date the church for that ridiculous event that was coming to town? You guys do realize that churches don't pay taxes, right?
I have seen and heard some odd ball stories about my families churches and people that run them.
Donate your time and money people, to something you don't believe in.
I wonder if taxpayers money is funding the atheist camp that kids can now attend?

Okay, that's my little rant, back to my corner. :)

I don't know about you guys, but I have had a few scary phone calls from one daughter in particular.

The first one was very serious. Frantic voice saying, "mom! My boyfriend, (I'll leave out his name just out of respect) wrecked on his motorcycle!"

 WHAT! You were ON the motorcycle with him when you guys left here! Confusion, frantic thoughts! "Mom, it was just him on the bike!"

Where are you at, I practically scream!? "I'm out off Dickman Road!" We get disconnected. Where the heck do we start to look for her?? Panic.

We jump in the truck and go out Dickman Rd. to find fire trucks, two ambulances and volunteer personnel way down a side road. My daughter is distraught, and after watching the rescue personnel cover her boyfriends body with a sheet, she is devastated. She wasn't on the bike, she had gotten off to check out a wild turkey. That was about four years ago.

 

Wednesday night, I get another less frantic but scary call from her. "Mom!"  My stomach turns...

"What's the number for Consumers Power company, she frantically asks me!?"

I didn't understand her at first. I say, "what did you say? Who's number?"

"Consumers Power! There is a live wire that fell on the trunk of my car!"

"Call 911!" I tell her.I hang up.

My stomach is churning bad by now. I figure she is on the phone with 911 so I try her boyfriends number, over and over again...can't get through. I knew she was at his house earlier but wasn't sure if she had left there and was on her way home to her house when the wire fell on her car.

I finally got a hold of her on her phone and say, "where the heck are you, are you IN THE CAR?"

She assures me that, no, they were sitting in his garage when the wire broke and fell on her car. 

You know, she needs to assure me FIRST that she is okay before she makes those frantic calls. I know when someone is scared they don't think rationally, but man!

Oh, by the way, $2,500 for the estimate to fix the car. The wire tried to weld itself to the metal on the trunk. Melted her spoiler, burnt the side of the back quarter panel, gouged parts of the trunk, burnt her back window defroster, etc.

I found a VERY NICE person that is going to foster the kitty till we look high and low for a good home for her to go to. I have my two daughters asking at their work and Larry is asking the seniors that he transports around.
I had about 22 cans of extra cat food that my kitties refused to eat that I gave to this VERY NICE person. She said, "do you need some money for this food?" What!? I looked at Larry and said, "is she crazy?" She said I have ten bucks on me. I said, " I planned on giving you some money for fostering her!" (I should tell my son that he owes me some money!)
She said that she hopes we keep looking for a home, I told her we would. She said, "I hope I don't fall in love with her before you find a home."

Okay, this VERY NICE person is my VERY NICE daughter-in-law's sister Steph. It runs in the family I guess. Larry's a very lucky man to have such nice in-laws.
Sooo...that's less stress on me. Now, the other thing I mentioned in the last post...........

My, what a day I had yesterday, let alone my husband.

My son's landlord that he rents a room from, kept calling me to ask me when my son was coming back to check on his cat. It was driving him nuts, meowing all night and day. My son has a lock on his room because he doesn't want anyone going into his room and taking anything. So, it's not like the guy can go in there and get the cat out. The cat had been in there for five days! I didn't know it till the fourth day. The landlord called and told me he was worried about the cat, he wasn't sure she had food and water. So, I got a hold of my son, he is out of town! WTF! I was so pissed!
You see, the kitty was a stray about 5 months ago  from around my neighborhood. I gave it to my daughter first, but her, her boyfriend and son all have allergies. So my son said he would take her. I explicitly  told him, if you are going to be gone all the time out of town to your girlfriends house then you need to take the kitty with you. Otherwise I would find another home for her. That's just neglect if you ask me. I could see being gone and asking someone to check on her.
So, it's understandable how I would feel a little responsible for the kitty. I was pissed. I contacted him on the fourth day and said, "YOU NEED TO GO HOME AND CHECK ON YOUR CAT."  He said, oh crap, I forgot to bring her with me....WTF! That really pissed me off.
So, I said, your landlord said he doesn't mind you having a cat, but you need to take it with you when you plan on being gone for long periods of time. Then he proceeds to tell me that the cat has plenty of food and water.....he said, lots. I said, why would your cat have lots of food and water if you didn't plan on leaving her in your room?? Talk about disgusted.
So, I assumed he would be getting home that night because it was Sunday. Oh, hell no! The landlord called me early on Monday and said, is he coming to get his cat? I said, what the hell, he didn't come home yet?? He said nope, and the cat is driving me nuts! So, I contacted my son, AGAIN, and said, COME GET YOUR CAT, NOW!
No response on the instant messenger....I was so pissed, I couldn't get a hold of him. I called my daughter at work and asked her to text him to tell him I was getting the cat and taking it to the Humane Society. He instant messaged me with the combination to his lock so I could get into the room. He said yeah, just take her to the pound, me and my girlfriend talked about not wanting anymore cats anyway, hers ran away too. Well, that ticked me off too. I had given the kitty to his girlfriend from a litter that my cat had. I told her, if you can't keep the cat and have it be an inside cat bring her back to me.
Well, him telling me to go ahead and get his cat just pissed me off more. I babysit all day till 4:30 sometimes and have no vehicle here, my husband takes the truck to work. Plus I don't have car seats for either one of them yet. So, I wouldn't be able to get to the cat till later oin the day. I worried about that cat all day. My messenger went out and I didn't get the combination to his lock wrote down so I had my daughter text him AGAIN! Asking him the combination. He said, well, if you guys can give her away to someone besides taking her to the pound then do that. Alrighty then!! Get your freakin ass home and take care of her yourself! He said, I don't have money to take her to the pound. WTF! And he never gave her the combination, probably thought I was going to take her to the pound and tell him he OWES ME FOR IT!
Can ya tell I'm pissed?? So, I said Fu#$ it! Let's go and cut the lock off his room and take the cat. We left but forgot the cutters! Oh well, I said, I'll just climb through his window and take her. The landlord was there and slid the screen out for me and the cat came right to us. The landlord is kind of afraid of my son's temper so he didn't want to take the cat out himself. Don't blame him one bit.
So, we get the cat home and let her out into our bedroom. Jackie, you are going to say, WTF! to this.
I have a male cat that sprays everywhere if there is a new cat in the house, he is currently staying in my computer room so he doesn't. But he is not neglected in any way. I have four female cats that have the run of the house. An outside male I had neutered for free because he's a stray also. NOW, I have another female in my bedroom. Well, this morning I get up and carry my dirty laundry that was laying on my bedroom floor and take them downstairs to the laundry room. I see all four of my cats on these clothes like flies on shit! Aw oh. I pick up my clothes and my sons kitty had pissed on them.....Are you laughing now Jackie??
So, into the cage she went till the new owner I found for her can come and get her.

Oh yeah, and to top off my bad day, my husband found out that his daughter is pregnant at 17. Nother blog in the making. Her mom wasn't even going to tell him!

Just weird....umm..weird.

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080713/NEWS01/307130003/1002

I know this is a touchy subject and I'm sure someone, *ahem* will get very animated when he reads this. But that's ok, he's my son. 
But I was curious about how other people view this that are not Vegan.
I don't like the idea of people eating dogs, but I still eat (not very often anymore) cow, turkey, chicken, pig and fish. Dogs to me, are pets to love and take care of, but don't people have those other animals as pets also? And I bet they are grossed out about people eating them.

I am unsure how to react to this news of taking dog off the menu in Beijing, to appease foreigners that will dine there.  Would we take those other animals that I mentioned, off the menu for others that might be offended? I seriously don't think so.

Here is my husbands take on this topic:

 I'm not for eating dogs but it's what they as a people or society does, if I don't like that I don't have to compete in the Olympics.
I don't consider a dog and a cow to be the same.
My point is, who the fu#* are we to tell them? Some countries have people starving to death but won't eat a cow, but if they were coming to visit, we wouldn't stop serving cow for them.
Different rules for some of the people some of the time.
Team AMERICA, world supreme police. (sarcasm)
If everybody nit picked everything that gets done that hurts or pisses off someone somewhere else nobody could do anything, of course that would piss off a different somebody somewhere else!
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE dogs. Guess I better stay away from those places that don't share my opinion.

So, what do YOU think?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080711/lf_nm_life/olympics_dogmeat_dc

Not sure if that's me saying, "Ohhh Shit!" or Chissy! :)Worried about her pool! Chrissy (in red shirt) and her boyfriend spicing up the grill a little...YIKES!

Ok, did you see my hair in the storm and painting photo's? Pretty dismal.

Breezee cut and bleached my hair today for the Holiday. Looks MUCH better! (click on pic to enlarge)

Man, we had a hell of a storm pass through yesterday. Breezee and I were at K-Mart, a few blocks away. We went in about 5:15 or so and it was daylight still, we came out at 6:00 p.m.  and it looked like someone pulled the shades down. It looked like 9:00 P.M. Very dark and weird outside.

I pulled up to the ATM and started to make a transaction and Breezee said, "hey! I'm getting wet!" I looked over and her window was up but the back ones were down, the rain was pouring down and blowing through the back windows.

I got soaked waiting for the ATM to spit my damn money out! Just when I grabbed my card....the machine went black and shut down. What good timing!

We sat there for a few minutes, and decided to just head for the hills! We live in the city but up on a hill. I could barely see through the windshield and had to dodge limbs, debris and garbage cans! Breezee's garbage can jumped her small wall and flew into her other yard by the farthest driveway. The 20 ft. ladder we had standing up to her house was laying on her fence gate. If she hadn't thought to move her car away from the ladder before we left in my truck, it probably would of hit her car.

Large limbs were laying all over her back yard and side yard. Her old cultivator was knocked down, her fan she had in the window was laying on the floor with the window shut, slammed down when the fan wasn't up there, so did the other smaller fan on the other side of the house. Bet that scared the crap out of Jeb!

We had a large limb in our driveway but I had the truck so no damage there.

These are some pictures we took the next morning, we drove around town taking pics.

Oh, and THEN we decided we better get to painting!

Check this out Robin, it's a great idea. Maybe you already know about it though.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BCMFN/

..........or maybe this religious person doesn't?

Comment from another blog. (not multiply)

You should repent of your atheism because you have only adopted it so that it would make you feel good. It enables you to avoid accountability to God for your actions.

Sorry about talking religion you guys, but it spills over to here sometimes.
I didn't wake up one day and say, "hey, I think I'll be an atheist so I don't have to live by any laws."
We all do things that we shouldn't, in my opinion, but not only atheists do wrong, so do some religious people. So how can this person make this statement?

Just because this person believes an atheist will burn in a lake of fire for eternity, doesn't make it so.

Couldn't I turn it around and say, " You should think for yourself, you have adopted believing in a god to make you feel good." It enables you to avoid taking responsibility for your own life.

Not taking a pot shot at anyone on here that's religious, but at this comment.

Not as good as Robin's but it's still pretty. :)
I video taped it on my camera while it was fading away.