The Flight Home.

 The Flight Home.

 

Just received the message that Jenn and Gary had boarded their plane at Heathrow. Will be glad when they get home. Think they missed their bed most of all. But sitting here smiling when thinking about those three dogs and how they will react when their “parents” get home! They love Shelia, but she is not their “mom.”

 

Just finished feeding my two yayhoots! Pork steak (reduced price, of course) with Purina lamb and brown rice. Made some rice for myself to go with veggies and one piece of the pork steak. Breakfast of champions, don’t ya know!

 

Sent in an order for mostly veggies from United this morning. Supposed to be ready by eleven to be picked up. Maybe it won’t come a freaking flood about that time. Yesterday was pretty shocking with the high winds, hail, rain, and just mainly blowing tree branches. The backyard did not get it too badly, but everything feels soggy and stuck to the ground. It would be a great day for pulling dead flowers out front, but not sure the old woman could do much before giving up. We will see in just a bit how much can be done before tiring too quickly. The bluebonnets and poppies have gone to seed now, so those are the ones that need to be kept and cut off into a box to share the seeds with Jennifer.

 

Quite a few folks lost their electricity yesterday from the downed electric poles and wires in tree limbs. Wish we had underground lines for electricity, but that would take some planning and some expensive digging in this horrible clay and rock soil. Even the water lines break when the soils heave in winter and then back to rock hard in summer. Nothing is perfect, for sure.

 

Patty has decided that she wants Gregg to walk her fence line and find the places that the dogs and such are getting in. She caught one guy walking down her driveway and crossing the fence where the gate goes into the lake side, but even though she hollered at him to put the gate back up, he did it about like my dog would have—kicked it. Have a feeling it may take a post or two, but have some extras around here from the last fencing Jerry did for me.

 

The silly hen laid her egg out in the iris bed again. Not sure just why that seems like a good place to lay eggs, but she is determined. Hard headed hen! Oh well. The dogs and the old woman can eat eggs, too.

 

Read something today that just about shocked the socks off me. It seems that “retail crime” is up 93%. One judge said that the stores, the loss prevention folks, and the courts need to work on the problem together. “On her first day in office, O’Neill Burke said prosecutors would pursue felony retail theft charges in accordance with state law, when the value of the goods exceeds $300 or when the suspect already has a felony shoplifting conviction.”

“Before her taking office, retail theft felonies were charged only if the value of the stolen goods was $1,000 or more or if the suspect had 10 or more prior convictions.”

To basically IGNORE the theft has been just an inducement to continue the thefts. If there is no penalty to getting caught, why should these people not just continue to steal? In my mind—feeble though it may be—the cattle rustling deterrent used to work pretty well. Maybe a big screen TV is not as valuable as a cow, but steal three or four of those suckers and it might as well be a grown steer! Our nation has left off the commandments again. About time to renew our vows starting with the main ten.

 

A person familiar to me made the statement that he thought President Trump had made a terrible mistake by pardoning or whatever it is called—getting folks out of prison. This business has been going on for the longest. It seems to be a matter of perspective. When Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, everyone seemed to think that she deserved to serve time. Not sure that it is equitable for her to serve time when some of our congress people do the very same thing quite often—or worse. And then there is Biden saying that his son was pardoned before he was ever brought up on charges. What really seems bad to me is the propensity to “throw the book” at someone who stole something, while allowing a killer to go back on the street.

 

Someday our system of justice will not be the mess it is today. God’s justice will prevail. Man’s stupidity will no longer be the rule of thumb.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.