We’ll this spring we’ve had a great amount of rain, including yesterday and today. Joe’s roads are trashed with boulders sliding down into them. He’s moved most of them but one appears to be ready to block the road and it won’t be easy to move. From his description, it would be a several ton boulder.

The weatherliars will consider the drought broken when the reservoirs are filled and all the waterways are running. The Pecos River is running strong. Many of the arroyos are showing water in them and are considered dangerous at this time.

TODAY

Heading to SFH-D today to take the staff photos. I’ll be taking the Jeep because of the rain potential. The pictures are supposed to be from above, so I hope they have what’s needed to get me above the crowd.

Tomorrow should be nice enough to ride, but today promises too much rain to risk taking out the bike for a local ride.

Yes, it;s back and we can’t shut it up! She started in on me around 6:00 to replay that old story of how Shirley tried to kill her when she was just a baby. I thought I’d shut her up by telling her “my mom taught me never to speak ill of the dead” and she apologized and said she’d never talk about it again . . . and then she continued talking about it. After another 5 minutes of that, I asked her what happened to her not talking poorly of Shirley? That shut her up for now.

I swear, Nina’s gonna kill her.

I miss our time alone already.

• Saturday I will be taking staff pictures at Santa Fe Harley. This is the second time they’ve asked me to take pictures for the store. I guess they like my pictures.
• Today will be a sad day. ML returns from our vacation from her. We’ll see if she’s improved her attitude and if not  we will send her back permanently.
• While at the home, she fell out of the wheelchair and received a golfball sized knot on her forehead and some bruising. She was looking down the hallway and looking for the train that was going total her back to Chicago.
• I passed on going to lunch with the Old Fartz yesterday. While the ride to the restaurant would have been nice, going home would have been a 2 hour ride that would cut into my nap time.
• Catherine just started taking Ambien for her sleepless nights. She’s going to give me a couple to see if I’m interested in getting a script for it too. She took her first one the night before last and said it was wonderful! I’m thinking of making the trip to Santa Fe topic up the pills and see if it helps me.
• Grabbed me a Sig a couple days ago. Very nice. 1911 style in a smaller package.  Birthday present from Nina.
• Erin leaves today.
• I hate my schedule.
• Once again I’m glueing tiles back on the counters in the kitchen. I guess it’s time to buy another tube of the adhesive that I use. It works when the original shit didn’t.

Sometime yesterday I realized that I missed a court date. Granted it was only a hearing and nothing much happened, but I wanted to be there! It was my fault. I entered the date in my calendar, which syncs across all of my devices, but I listed it as an all day appointment instead of an hour long one. All day appointments don’t allow for same day alerts. Live and learn.

What happened was that he turned down the plea agreement, but since I haven’t been able to talk with my advocate, I don’t have details. He asked for another bond reduction and to be placed in the ankle bracelet monitoring program so he could live with his mother, who lives just a couple of miles from us. The judge changed nothing but he did schedule another hearing to address these issues. I will be notified and I will make sure to add the info correctly.

When we got home, we were both pretty beat and were looking forward to hitting the sack early, but that was not to be. Andy called upstairs and told me that there was some guy that fell in the parking lot. By the time I got down there, the cops were there with him. He was smashed. He also had a banshee with him, although I think most people would call it a girlfriend.

While talking with the cops, it turns out that they dropped them off at our place at their request! We don’t know these fools and I don’t want them on the property. The cops told me that they said they had no family and then they left, after telling them that I didn’t want them on the property. That didn’t stop the drunken fool from trying to come into the store.

After a bit I was able to get them a ride to San Jose where they claimed to be staying with a friend that the cops told me kicked them out. They claimed they needed to get all their stuff. Prior to getting them the ride, the banshee was screaming at me about how they’re not animals and why won’t anyone help them. After about 5 minutes of this she started crying for her mommy. At that point I asked her “I thought the cops said you told them you don’t have any family?” That’s when she called me a bunch of names in a very loud manner, hence the nickname “the banshee”.

After she the banshee started screeching at me, the drunk came to defend her honor. Since I felt threatened, I pushed him to the ground since he had exhibited quite a bit of difficulty getting up previously. The banshee kept screeching at me and threatened to kill me. I make friends easily and I’m sure she and I will be lifelong friends. She wanted me to buy her cigarettes too.

Well, the guys in the pickup were waiting for them to board and the banshee wanted to ride in front, but they said no and she started off on a whole new tirade about being human and not animals. Once they were gone from my place, I started getting calls from people in the village complaining about them. They were going door to door looking for help. I had called the cops to inform them about the progress of their actions and they came back about an hour later to deal with them. I have no idea what the end result was, but I will be stopping at the cop shop and explaining to the commanding officer there that I don’t want homeless and drunk people dropped off at my place at any time in the future.

Oh yeah, we have a carload of Mexicans sleeping in front of our store because they broke down there and have no money to fix their Chevy Suburban that has $3000 of wheels and tires on it. They just got them. Can’t afford an alternator, but DAMN those tires are bitchin’ BRO!

Shit, I wish I was still hauling garbage.

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