THE WEEK FROM HELL

You may have noticed that I haven't posted anything for over a week. There is a reason...or several reasons...for that, some of which I will share with you.

It all started a week ago Thursday when, while on the way home from work, the alternator in the truck decided to take a shit on me. Just a wonderful thing when you have eletronic fuel injection...which most everything (except "old" vehicles) has. Kinda hard to keep the fuel flowing without a juiced battery. This is just one thing in a long line of things that have caused us problems with all the vehicles since November. Four flat tires, each on a different vehicle, and all on the side facing the neighbor's house....with whom we have had repeated problems. We have no proof that she, or one of her kids, is doing anything but her track record makes both of us very, very suspicious. We don't have much "extra" money, so it gets very expensive to keep replacing tires.

Most of that is the past...onto the here and now.

Like I said, the alternator started the ol' ball rolling. It was all downhill after that.

We have a shed attached to the back of our garage. It was broken into and things were pulled out. We have no idea who may have done it, if it was a prank, or if someone was trying to get under our skin. I know what you're thinking, and so did we....the neighbor. But instead of making wild accusations, we decided to wait and see if anything happened again. I know, that was foolish...but with the "politics" in this little one-horse town, aka Bum Fuck Egypt, you have to mind your "P's and Q's".

Two days later someone broke into the same shed, again. This time things were removed and left in the neighbor's yard....yeh, same neighbor. The free-standing shed in the yard was also broken into at the same time, possibly by the same person or persons, and there are things missing.

After this second incident the police were called. When the officer arrived we informed him what had happened without accusing anyone of the break-ins. The officer said he would make a report and would also inform the other officers of what happened. He also said that he, as well as the others, would start flashing the squad car search light at the area whenever they go past at night. I felt comfortable with this....not any safer, just comfortable.

The next day a different officer stopped by with an envelope. Inside the envelope was a letter from the building inspector saying that we have 30 days to remove the garage because of it's condition. We went through this last year shortly after Mary started going thru chemo. At that time, because of our money stituation and the treatments Mary was getting, the building inspector worked with us and postponed the tear-down. He said he would make contact with us this year to see if things, financially, had improved.

We both feel that the neighbor turned us in for the garage thinking that we reported her to the police for something, which we didn't. The reason we think this is because we have had problems with her in the past....repeated telephone harrasment, road rage to name just two....and whenever we have reported her she has tried to cause us problems one way or another.

There are other things that have had a hand in this, all of which I am not at liberty to mention here at this time.

All of this has done nothing but cause us more stress....along with Mary not being employed yet and orders where I work being slow and working only 3 to 4 days a week. We are both getting very stressed out.

I really, really want to get back to blogging on a regular basis. I will take a stab at it again today....blogging that is, not the neighbor....and if not today, I promise Saturday.

Sorry I've been MIA, folks. But, you all know how it is...sometimes SHIT HAPPENS that we can't control.

I thank all of you for your patience.
Peace my brothers and sisters.