We were blessed with another birth on our farm last night. Our first time heifer Lovely had a beautiful bull calf that I have named "Clive". This name because it refers to a fictional character that we know of who is dead. This helps the children realize that the calf is being raised as red veal. The birth was uncomplicated but the heifer (OK, cow now) was difficult to milk out. With my very bad back, I, on a constant basis say "THAT'S IT, I AM DONE WITH COWS!". She kicked as I tried to gently wash her udder, kicked while I not so gently clipped her udder, and kicked while she was trying to be milked (can you imagine she let the veal calves all nurse on her and one had a weaner ring!). I have given up trying to milk first time fresheners by hand. In the past I have been injured which took many months to recuperate. Then I think of all that golden milk and flavorful cheese and yogurt and well I just keep the cows........Guernseys are a wonderful home milker.
There are things in my life I can count on. A frisky first time freshener, the Sun rising in the East, the weather in New England to change quickly. One thing I also understand and hold to be true is the Constitution of the United States.
In Connecticut every twenty years the question is posed to the voters if they would like to hold a Constitutional Convention. This would allow the delegates to try and change our Constitution. Am I missing something? I believe there is nothing wrong with Our Constitution. What is wrong is that Lawyers and Politicians (who are mostly blood sucking lawyers, shall I really tell you how I feel?) want to change the Constitution to fit their greedy agenda.
It is the same greed that caused the recent Stock Market burp. Greed that brought down the Federal Mortgage Company's of Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac all of which not a single person has been accountable. I know there were "very important people (at least in their minds)" who were in charge that were paid obviously more than they were worth. None will take responsibility for what happened, saying they never saw it coming. The highly worshiped Alan Greenspan is shocked that all these events have happened and doesn't understand how. We let these people govern our lives?
I don't understand how one person can enter Harvard Law School with a 3.3 GPA no honors after two years at Columbia and finish 4.0 GPA Magna Cum Laude. Another miracle must have taken place (information from the Wall Street Journal). Are you sure it wasn't Hogwarts he was attending? Another enters the prestigious Naval Academy to wind up fifth from the bottom. Honesty. It is all I am looking for. Life experience does count. A stable up bringing may now be a thing of the past.
Well it isn't a thing of the past around my house. Be reasonable. Don't try to fix what isn't broken. If it has worked for he past 2oo plus years without too many amendments perhaps you should just leave it alone and grow some common sense and learn how to take responsibility for your actions. This country still has streets made of gold but you may (should) only be able to get there with hard work, honesty and loyalty. Greed shouldn't play a factor. Use your good old fashioned know how, present ideas that will work in new and different ways that can pay for themselves. There are no "Free rides". Like everyone else, follow the rules (don't try to change them) and you too can walk the golden highway.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Just another day
It is very difficult to loose any thing of value.
It is especially difficult if the thing is a living breathing object (most difficult being a loved one which is not the content of this entry).
There are some who say a farmer becomes insensitive or callous when it comes to harvesting or culling herds or flock. I believe that it is the realization that the strong preserve the species (profit) and the weak will die sooner (loss). As any good business person knows it is imperative to stay in the black.
So, what do we really have invested and what investment is it worth into any particular aspect of the farm? There are exceptions to every rule. A favorite dog, cat, cow, goat, sow, horse as you can see there is a point to this.
How much does one invest (spend) to save a pet. Being realistic and with children and high taxes to pay and realizing the replacement costs of the original animal I have in my minds eye a very specific target. Others who have disposable income or little outside interests can get carried away with how much they invest in an animal or pet. I have, in the not to distant past, lost my beloved Rottweiler. The vet suggested (fraud in any other form?) that I have him go through chemo and the such to help him live another 6-12 months. The tune was 5000.00. We will run it through your health insurance. I have children the farm and of course where I live and trying to make ends meet. There was no option, on decision, just the heart wrenching guilt that "I didn't love my Rottie" according to the veterinarians implied remarks and termination of Doctor client relations (oh boy a topic for another rant).
It is even more difficult if you have sheltered your children from the experience of death and haven't let them learn how to grieve. The children expect you to spend absorptive amounts of money to "SAVE" whomever the pet is. How can you say no? When do we realize that grief has a price tag? Loneliness has a price tag. I'm sure it is quality of life not quantity of life all of us reach for. Visit an elder care facility and tell me the drugged limp creatures that need to be rolled so they don't develop sores would think their quality of life was wonderful. This is why we have living wills, (pull the plug please).
Reeves (his first name escapes me) who broke his neck in a horse riding accident had the money (disposable income) to maintain a level or quality of life that he felt was acceptable.......or was it his wife and family? Can you imagine the stess, how depressed he was, can't be good for any care taker. When he died (bedsore infection) she died 18 months later (lung cancer). Do you think stress played a roll?
Back to the animals. If you have animals love them and care for them as they deserve. I would highly recommend that you not spend monies that will keep you in debt to save a life whose quality may not be the best. Learn how to grieve and not to guilt. There is a big difference.
So your saying what the heck is this all about you babbling idiot? Well yesterday I spent three hours digging a very large hole for my neighbors rescued Primerian Mare. An animal who had lived an awful life but who's last year was wonderful. An animal of compromised Constitution but never the less loved and cherished. It was obvious (to me anyway) that there was a lot going on with this animal. I am not say she was neglected but she was a large draft type who was an easy keeper, gentle and had given up her head of herd position. The horse knew, the owner didn't. A couple of incidents and conformation issues I noticed but never mentioned. I have been told I am a control freak, obnoxious, over bearing, opinionated, so I now say "well if it were mine this is what I would do" or "I can tell you what I would do if it were mine" (besides your gonna die). This gives people the chance to ask my opinion or not. These days I prefer not.
So end of story. They didn't ask, I didn't tell, just gave the support asked for (OK, maybe a little more). The mare died, I knew she may not have gotten the treatment I would have given her, but to the same end. They are a 1000.00 in the red after making her spend an agonizing night trying to keep her alive.
I dug the hole and buried her. Careful to move the rock from under her head, place her legs in a comfortable position. Cover her with a tarp and put dirt over her to prevent the rocks from hitting her. Every time I bury an animal it seems I relive all the loved ones I have ever lost. It is not the death that brings the tears it is the absence in my heart and hand that bring on renewed grief.
It is especially difficult if the thing is a living breathing object (most difficult being a loved one which is not the content of this entry).
There are some who say a farmer becomes insensitive or callous when it comes to harvesting or culling herds or flock. I believe that it is the realization that the strong preserve the species (profit) and the weak will die sooner (loss). As any good business person knows it is imperative to stay in the black.
So, what do we really have invested and what investment is it worth into any particular aspect of the farm? There are exceptions to every rule. A favorite dog, cat, cow, goat, sow, horse as you can see there is a point to this.
How much does one invest (spend) to save a pet. Being realistic and with children and high taxes to pay and realizing the replacement costs of the original animal I have in my minds eye a very specific target. Others who have disposable income or little outside interests can get carried away with how much they invest in an animal or pet. I have, in the not to distant past, lost my beloved Rottweiler. The vet suggested (fraud in any other form?) that I have him go through chemo and the such to help him live another 6-12 months. The tune was 5000.00. We will run it through your health insurance. I have children the farm and of course where I live and trying to make ends meet. There was no option, on decision, just the heart wrenching guilt that "I didn't love my Rottie" according to the veterinarians implied remarks and termination of Doctor client relations (oh boy a topic for another rant).
It is even more difficult if you have sheltered your children from the experience of death and haven't let them learn how to grieve. The children expect you to spend absorptive amounts of money to "SAVE" whomever the pet is. How can you say no? When do we realize that grief has a price tag? Loneliness has a price tag. I'm sure it is quality of life not quantity of life all of us reach for. Visit an elder care facility and tell me the drugged limp creatures that need to be rolled so they don't develop sores would think their quality of life was wonderful. This is why we have living wills, (pull the plug please).
Reeves (his first name escapes me) who broke his neck in a horse riding accident had the money (disposable income) to maintain a level or quality of life that he felt was acceptable.......or was it his wife and family? Can you imagine the stess, how depressed he was, can't be good for any care taker. When he died (bedsore infection) she died 18 months later (lung cancer). Do you think stress played a roll?
Back to the animals. If you have animals love them and care for them as they deserve. I would highly recommend that you not spend monies that will keep you in debt to save a life whose quality may not be the best. Learn how to grieve and not to guilt. There is a big difference.
So your saying what the heck is this all about you babbling idiot? Well yesterday I spent three hours digging a very large hole for my neighbors rescued Primerian Mare. An animal who had lived an awful life but who's last year was wonderful. An animal of compromised Constitution but never the less loved and cherished. It was obvious (to me anyway) that there was a lot going on with this animal. I am not say she was neglected but she was a large draft type who was an easy keeper, gentle and had given up her head of herd position. The horse knew, the owner didn't. A couple of incidents and conformation issues I noticed but never mentioned. I have been told I am a control freak, obnoxious, over bearing, opinionated, so I now say "well if it were mine this is what I would do" or "I can tell you what I would do if it were mine" (besides your gonna die). This gives people the chance to ask my opinion or not. These days I prefer not.
So end of story. They didn't ask, I didn't tell, just gave the support asked for (OK, maybe a little more). The mare died, I knew she may not have gotten the treatment I would have given her, but to the same end. They are a 1000.00 in the red after making her spend an agonizing night trying to keep her alive.
I dug the hole and buried her. Careful to move the rock from under her head, place her legs in a comfortable position. Cover her with a tarp and put dirt over her to prevent the rocks from hitting her. Every time I bury an animal it seems I relive all the loved ones I have ever lost. It is not the death that brings the tears it is the absence in my heart and hand that bring on renewed grief.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Election time "down at the Farm"
If you hadn't noticed lately the time to pick a new president is upon us. I have been referred to the ten percentile, the people who haven't made up their minds yet.
So Sue Me! No I don't stand outside when it rains and look up! I am tired of the same old politics. (Hold onto your hat here it comes......)
Why is it that almost a Billion dollars has been spent on an office that pays 400,000.00 a year. One candidate has raised eight times the amount of the other candidate. Am I supposed to be naive enough to think that the cronyism won't be out for those who contributed. I would love to see the breakdown of who contributed what!
Neither candidate has the stand on issues that I feel are important:
First! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WAR IN IRAQ? They have been reporting on the WOMD recovered and the Mass Media has taken a back seat to recording this? What is going on over there, how are our troops doing, when can they come home?
Second! Why are we bailing out a bunch of people who created a catastrophe due to greed? No one is going to jail over this? Let me see if I can get away with it and see where I end up.
Third! Energy. Will someone please take us to the next level and fund and grant monies to American companies that are creating affordable wind and solar power and other alternative types of energies. Lets not drill yet......
Fourth! Why is it that the government elected officials keep granting themselves raises when I can barely scratch out a living? They only work a third of the year and are way overpaid as it is.
Fifth! Abortion. Its a women's body don't let the government tell her what to do with it. Which brings up number .........
Six! Education. No child left behind? Is this why both my children are now home schooled? The local elementry school could afford new paving, carpeting, speed trenches, metal security gates, a front door security lock and yet my daughter who is going into fourth grade can not read or comprehend Math? (yes, I am foaming at the mouth right now!!!!).
Easy now.......calm down.......breathe......in through the nose........out through the mouth.........
It seems we have little control out of our out of control government. Excersice you right to vote. Just do it.
Right about now I will excersice my right to a cool, damp (yet invigorating) afternoon of animal care. Enjoy the spectacular fall foliage. Help those who want to be helped (has that cow calved yet), who give back to our system. Who serve our system and ask for little in return (dairy goats are so non demanding). Those who make our farm work with team effort (yes piggies drink your milk and eat your eggs). I don't have any problem shipping those who don't participate (stinkin ducks).
If only our government could see how lost they have become.
So Sue Me! No I don't stand outside when it rains and look up! I am tired of the same old politics. (Hold onto your hat here it comes......)
Why is it that almost a Billion dollars has been spent on an office that pays 400,000.00 a year. One candidate has raised eight times the amount of the other candidate. Am I supposed to be naive enough to think that the cronyism won't be out for those who contributed. I would love to see the breakdown of who contributed what!
Neither candidate has the stand on issues that I feel are important:
First! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WAR IN IRAQ? They have been reporting on the WOMD recovered and the Mass Media has taken a back seat to recording this? What is going on over there, how are our troops doing, when can they come home?
Second! Why are we bailing out a bunch of people who created a catastrophe due to greed? No one is going to jail over this? Let me see if I can get away with it and see where I end up.
Third! Energy. Will someone please take us to the next level and fund and grant monies to American companies that are creating affordable wind and solar power and other alternative types of energies. Lets not drill yet......
Fourth! Why is it that the government elected officials keep granting themselves raises when I can barely scratch out a living? They only work a third of the year and are way overpaid as it is.
Fifth! Abortion. Its a women's body don't let the government tell her what to do with it. Which brings up number .........
Six! Education. No child left behind? Is this why both my children are now home schooled? The local elementry school could afford new paving, carpeting, speed trenches, metal security gates, a front door security lock and yet my daughter who is going into fourth grade can not read or comprehend Math? (yes, I am foaming at the mouth right now!!!!).
Easy now.......calm down.......breathe......in through the nose........out through the mouth.........
It seems we have little control out of our out of control government. Excersice you right to vote. Just do it.
Right about now I will excersice my right to a cool, damp (yet invigorating) afternoon of animal care. Enjoy the spectacular fall foliage. Help those who want to be helped (has that cow calved yet), who give back to our system. Who serve our system and ask for little in return (dairy goats are so non demanding). Those who make our farm work with team effort (yes piggies drink your milk and eat your eggs). I don't have any problem shipping those who don't participate (stinkin ducks).
If only our government could see how lost they have become.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
In "summer"y
Well now that the summer is winding down it is time to reflect on all that has happened. Reflection about the summer while one tries to harvest and preserve the bounties of a garden that I have not more than just walked through all summer (I know there are edible weeds but really........) I know I planted seeds somewhere. I I mean Canna's that are eight feet tall, pig weed and goose foot at least four feet tall, look at that grass.....where is the machette?
Beside preperation for health papers for so many animals and birds so they can go to fairs, almost all the bird leg bands fall off to prevent them from being shown all summer (one fair will not pay for the testing done, which is all we have left.)and I spent a considerable amount of time trying to get the vet back to reband:
My beautiful daughter breaks a vertebre in her neck in an on farm accident (dealing with the insurance company),
600 bales of hay stored to the loft (do you know the price of hay?),
8 agrucultural fairs (lots of new friends and contacts and not enought premium money to pay for the fuel to get back and forth),
60 square of shingles on the roof and filling a dumpster (Do you remember how hot it was this summer?),
My son's apendectomy (surprise didn't see that coming either!),
five batches of chickens raised and sold (business holding on barely),
six pigs the same ("At The Farm Dinners" a worthy cause and tasty too, Google it, for it is good for local farmers including me),
four veal calves (there is a real shortage of farm calves who would have thought),
one heifer and several goats to auction (culling time for those who don't produce enough to pay for their grain),
the new bee hives giving me greif (one hive decided to swam (as in leave)not once but twice, ungrateful creatures....)
and finally the decision to homeschool both children...........
Yes, it took a considerable amount of stamina to get through. Keeping the farm running throughout the whole process was trying to say the least. My poor home has suffered the most. Thank goodness that it has a new roof and isn't complaining too much. So perhaps there was some moments of sheer exhaustion (What day is it? Where am I supposed to be? What do you mean it's raining again!).
Time for me? You must be joking.........
Beside preperation for health papers for so many animals and birds so they can go to fairs, almost all the bird leg bands fall off to prevent them from being shown all summer (one fair will not pay for the testing done, which is all we have left.)and I spent a considerable amount of time trying to get the vet back to reband:
My beautiful daughter breaks a vertebre in her neck in an on farm accident (dealing with the insurance company),
600 bales of hay stored to the loft (do you know the price of hay?),
8 agrucultural fairs (lots of new friends and contacts and not enought premium money to pay for the fuel to get back and forth),
60 square of shingles on the roof and filling a dumpster (Do you remember how hot it was this summer?),
My son's apendectomy (surprise didn't see that coming either!),
five batches of chickens raised and sold (business holding on barely),
six pigs the same ("At The Farm Dinners" a worthy cause and tasty too, Google it, for it is good for local farmers including me),
four veal calves (there is a real shortage of farm calves who would have thought),
one heifer and several goats to auction (culling time for those who don't produce enough to pay for their grain),
the new bee hives giving me greif (one hive decided to swam (as in leave)not once but twice, ungrateful creatures....)
and finally the decision to homeschool both children...........
Yes, it took a considerable amount of stamina to get through. Keeping the farm running throughout the whole process was trying to say the least. My poor home has suffered the most. Thank goodness that it has a new roof and isn't complaining too much. So perhaps there was some moments of sheer exhaustion (What day is it? Where am I supposed to be? What do you mean it's raining again!).
Time for me? You must be joking.........
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Are you kidding me?
I have heard that the presidential candidates are going to spend collectively about a billion dollars on the election process. Am I missing something? That is over three dollars per american!
HEY! JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T REALIZE THIS YOU BUNCH OF ARROGANT IDIOTS, A GREAT MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN JUST MYSELF THINK NEITHER CANDIDATE IS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN MANURE! BELIEVE ME WE KNOW ABOUT POLITICIANS AND MANURE AROUND HERE!
I understand they are keeping the advertising agencies busy however don't they think that the big donations people need to give to a more worthy cause? With the US population in the avenue of 304 million people I would imagine that the money could be warranted to some much need help to those in need. Starting with our veterans and moving to education and housing?
Perhaps if they were kept in check on spending the debates would be worth watching because they would actually have to answer questions about their stance on an issue rather than skirt it and bombard us with more political retohric. If they were limitied to just the issues and none of the name calling. Vote for me I'm black and a minority and the underdog, vote for me I am a veteran and have values just like you.
I am insulted by this tactic.
How is it that Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae executives get to walk away with a 25 million dollar severance package? Aren't they going to be held responsible? Didn't they put the market in it's current decline to their deliberate acts such as were practiced at Enron?
Holy cow puckies, if I ever dreamed of keeping books like the government I would be in jail for life. I live in fear that the IRS will bang on my door because I forgot to inclued the 40.00 someone paid me for grain or the fair premimum that my children earned this summer. If the money belongs to a goat or a cow, do they have to pay taxes on it too?
I have been saying for he past three years that things were harder for the middle class and our economy was hurting. Now the market goes down a bit and the rich start to feel a pinch so now is the only time the econory is in turmoil?
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Our econony is at it's healthiest when the markets is around 10,000. It all boils down to greed. The rich want to be richer and the middle class would be happy with a little less stress thank you.
HEY! JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T REALIZE THIS YOU BUNCH OF ARROGANT IDIOTS, A GREAT MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN JUST MYSELF THINK NEITHER CANDIDATE IS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN MANURE! BELIEVE ME WE KNOW ABOUT POLITICIANS AND MANURE AROUND HERE!
I understand they are keeping the advertising agencies busy however don't they think that the big donations people need to give to a more worthy cause? With the US population in the avenue of 304 million people I would imagine that the money could be warranted to some much need help to those in need. Starting with our veterans and moving to education and housing?
Perhaps if they were kept in check on spending the debates would be worth watching because they would actually have to answer questions about their stance on an issue rather than skirt it and bombard us with more political retohric. If they were limitied to just the issues and none of the name calling. Vote for me I'm black and a minority and the underdog, vote for me I am a veteran and have values just like you.
I am insulted by this tactic.
How is it that Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae executives get to walk away with a 25 million dollar severance package? Aren't they going to be held responsible? Didn't they put the market in it's current decline to their deliberate acts such as were practiced at Enron?
Holy cow puckies, if I ever dreamed of keeping books like the government I would be in jail for life. I live in fear that the IRS will bang on my door because I forgot to inclued the 40.00 someone paid me for grain or the fair premimum that my children earned this summer. If the money belongs to a goat or a cow, do they have to pay taxes on it too?
I have been saying for he past three years that things were harder for the middle class and our economy was hurting. Now the market goes down a bit and the rich start to feel a pinch so now is the only time the econory is in turmoil?
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Our econony is at it's healthiest when the markets is around 10,000. It all boils down to greed. The rich want to be richer and the middle class would be happy with a little less stress thank you.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
So there we have it.
The Agricultural Fair season is drawing to a close for our family. I must say that it was a difficult (at best) season for me. The children had a good time and thanks and kudos go to the person or should I say persons who watched them while they were there.
The premium monies barely paid for fuel to get them there(my driving back and forth every day to make sure the children are behaving and that they are caring for the animals properly) let alone the food and new clothes to help them look presentable.
The cows were not a total loss but almost. The girls were supposed to keep after them. At last weeks fair the superintendent from that barn had a chat with the girls and explained how the cows should be clean throughout the whole fair. Needless to say that one girl has given up on the cows. I must admit when the cows go un-handled for the entire Fall, Winter, Spring, then Summer rolls around and they get loaded onto a trailer and are expected to preform, well I don't blame the cows for unruly behavior. As someone has said "being tied to a post for three days works wonders on their attitudes" This is very true, and "Just" now behaves better when she goes to be shown.
I don't blame anyone for loosing interest. My son has decided to take on a cow himself. My daughter will continue and I suppose I will harass them both to do as they should.
We have had steady goats at the fairs and have dropped a few from the roster due to condition problems (some animals don't like to be in display). We have some who love being there and can definitely place last. As I have stated in the past someone has to be comic relief.
The roof has been completed and now we get to move on to other projects that have been put on hold while we gave new life to this old house.
I am not sure if there will be three or two more fairs to go to but I am giving serious thought to next years adventures. I may be heading to the outer rim of the vortex and may make a break from it.......
The premium monies barely paid for fuel to get them there(my driving back and forth every day to make sure the children are behaving and that they are caring for the animals properly) let alone the food and new clothes to help them look presentable.
The cows were not a total loss but almost. The girls were supposed to keep after them. At last weeks fair the superintendent from that barn had a chat with the girls and explained how the cows should be clean throughout the whole fair. Needless to say that one girl has given up on the cows. I must admit when the cows go un-handled for the entire Fall, Winter, Spring, then Summer rolls around and they get loaded onto a trailer and are expected to preform, well I don't blame the cows for unruly behavior. As someone has said "being tied to a post for three days works wonders on their attitudes" This is very true, and "Just" now behaves better when she goes to be shown.
I don't blame anyone for loosing interest. My son has decided to take on a cow himself. My daughter will continue and I suppose I will harass them both to do as they should.
We have had steady goats at the fairs and have dropped a few from the roster due to condition problems (some animals don't like to be in display). We have some who love being there and can definitely place last. As I have stated in the past someone has to be comic relief.
The roof has been completed and now we get to move on to other projects that have been put on hold while we gave new life to this old house.
I am not sure if there will be three or two more fairs to go to but I am giving serious thought to next years adventures. I may be heading to the outer rim of the vortex and may make a break from it.......
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Really, Beware
Hey all,
As everyone on my list knows our driveway is a half mile long.
Today a person came to solicited us to buy books and donate them to a hospital so they could earn money to go to London. Never heard of any of the hospitals of choice...
It didn't add up for me, his collage type cloths. He seemed too old. Mentioning a neighbor that I didn't know, his "grand parents"....
He had tattoos on his knuckles and all over his arms and legs. Didn't seem to fit with his Seersucker shorts and knit Polo top.......
I told him that I wanted his name and phone number and wanted some kind of ID. Oh, it was back at his car at his grandparents house.......
Only one order form, a brochure that seemed never to have been handled before, this was his second trip down the driveway? What are you out for exercise?
OK, give me your name and phone number, I am calling the Resident State Trooper to see if he knows anything of you.......or your grandparents.....
Believe me when I tell you by the time I called the local dispatch for the police, Dave was turning the truck around and we went to see exactly where he was..........yup almost gone........
A silver Ford Van Large style with Texas plates......seemed to have helped him get away.
If you want more details feel free to call or message back. Just be so careful. I don't know why he picked us. All I can think of is that my daughter had walked out with one of the dogs to get the mail today and they could have seen her. Maybe not. We will be locking the door and taking keys out of the vehicles for a long time to come.
My daughter has now been lectured again not to open the door to strangers even with the dogs barking by her side like mad. I told her if his hand can fit in the door they can grab you.! Horrible to think about and she is terrified now. All for the best. We must keep the children safe. So sorry to spoil and innocent childhood, better to be on guard than not to have a childhood at all...
He may have been scoping out the houses to see which one looked right. There have been many burglaries in surrounding towns.......
I won't forget his face, the cloths he wore, the "expensive watch".....supposedly, you have an expensive watch? Why are you selling books and magazines? For all I know the watch is a fake......looking him dead in the eyes.........wouldn't write his name on my message book........wouldn't shake my hand........nor look me in the eyes any more.
Yup, I'm scared now.
As everyone on my list knows our driveway is a half mile long.
Today a person came to solicited us to buy books and donate them to a hospital so they could earn money to go to London. Never heard of any of the hospitals of choice...
It didn't add up for me, his collage type cloths. He seemed too old. Mentioning a neighbor that I didn't know, his "grand parents"....
He had tattoos on his knuckles and all over his arms and legs. Didn't seem to fit with his Seersucker shorts and knit Polo top.......
I told him that I wanted his name and phone number and wanted some kind of ID. Oh, it was back at his car at his grandparents house.......
Only one order form, a brochure that seemed never to have been handled before, this was his second trip down the driveway? What are you out for exercise?
OK, give me your name and phone number, I am calling the Resident State Trooper to see if he knows anything of you.......or your grandparents.....
Believe me when I tell you by the time I called the local dispatch for the police, Dave was turning the truck around and we went to see exactly where he was..........yup almost gone........
A silver Ford Van Large style with Texas plates......seemed to have helped him get away.
If you want more details feel free to call or message back. Just be so careful. I don't know why he picked us. All I can think of is that my daughter had walked out with one of the dogs to get the mail today and they could have seen her. Maybe not. We will be locking the door and taking keys out of the vehicles for a long time to come.
My daughter has now been lectured again not to open the door to strangers even with the dogs barking by her side like mad. I told her if his hand can fit in the door they can grab you.! Horrible to think about and she is terrified now. All for the best. We must keep the children safe. So sorry to spoil and innocent childhood, better to be on guard than not to have a childhood at all...
He may have been scoping out the houses to see which one looked right. There have been many burglaries in surrounding towns.......
I won't forget his face, the cloths he wore, the "expensive watch".....supposedly, you have an expensive watch? Why are you selling books and magazines? For all I know the watch is a fake......looking him dead in the eyes.........wouldn't write his name on my message book........wouldn't shake my hand........nor look me in the eyes any more.
Yup, I'm scared now.
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