I need to complain--just a leetle bit...

At 5:15 p.m., it is still 55 degrees outside. It is a bright sunny day with just a nice breeze. In other words, it is simply a beautiful day!

It just seemed ridiculous to spend a day like this, indoors. Stan was having to work but the girls and I decided that we needed some fresh air and sunshine so we decided to work in the yard.

Keep in mind, that the last time that I had been able to do much work in the yard was last Fall. Since then, winds have blown and snimals have brought all kinds of trash into our little piece of the world. That is why I need to sound off. I don't know how many paper towels, pieces of toilet paper, paper plates, styrofoam cups, beer cans, pop and water bottles, cigarette packages, foil and plastic bags we picked up. Evidentally, our neighborhood keeps Dollar General alive and well in Leoti! I cannot tell you how much I DETEST their yellow bags!!! I yanked them out from under our hedge, in our lilac bushes, on our patio, in our pond... That was just the GOOD stuff! I haven't even told you about the poopy diapers, sanitary napkins and used tampons and tampon applicators we found! Of course, I absolutely refuse to let my daughters pick up anything like that. I do it. Then, of course, we had a nice array of animal parts around the area.

Why is it that my family and I are able to get ALL of our trash, wonderful or not, into the trash dumpsters so that no one has to look at it again except for the City trashmen and the County junkyard personnel??? It really ticks me off that others cannot do that as well. I took the liberty of calling City Hall a couple of months ago to complain about all of the animal bones, jaws with teeth still attached, spinal columns, ribs, leg bones, SKULLS that we find regularly in our yard. Their response? Well, there is not anything that they can do about it. I did not expect them to send people over to clean them out of our yard. I just wanted to know if they could make it clear to people who live within the city limits, that butchering any kind of animals in town is illegal. I later learned that my complaint became the fabric for much laughter in their office. They also advised me to drive around the neighborhood and make sure that I had my camera with me at all times so that I could FILM neighbors in the act of killing or cutting up animals. Yeah, right. Can't you just see me out there in the middle of the street, camera in hand, taking pictures of the activities??? I can definitely tell you that I did NOT appreciate my problem being turned into the town joke!!!

Those bones did not just fly and land in our yard. They were brought here by neighborhood dogs including one of our own. I am happy to say that as of today, our dogs' pen is FIXED again!!! There should be no reason now for any of our dogs to be roaming the streets of Leoti.

Yesterday, I received a non-expected phone call that resulted in a heated exchange of words. A neighbor of ours called me and yelled at me because two of our dogs had "fought" with her 2 dogs. After the phone call, I went out to seek more information on the fight. Come to find out, there were two eye witnesses. Our little pomerainian was in her own yard when the neighbor's two dogs came over and rolled her. Our dog who is a terrier cross intervened. He managed to chase the other two dogs back into the street. Neither of our dogs even came close to biting the other two dogs.

I take full responsibility for our dogs not being in the house or in the fenced in backyard. If they had not been in the front yard, there would have been no problem.

Now, the neighbors who made the phone call have a real problem with just bagging up their household trash and putting it out on the front porch. This is a daily activity for them. Then, along come all of the area dogs, cats, raccoons and possoms to scatter it around the neighborhood. (Yes, we do have raccoons and possoms in our neighborhood. Last summer, I accidentally left a window in our Buick open one night. The next morning, I went to the car and found the headliner destroyed. Fortunately, the rest of the upholstery was undamaged. The evidence that the police and body people produced proved to be either a possum or raccoom had done it because of the distance between the fingernail of the culprit. Originally, I had thought that a person had shredded our headliner. I was glad to hear that it was a wild animal. LOL!!!)

Anyway, thanks for letting me cry on your shoulder again!

Have a great weekend!!!

VLE-B