Not so long ago our evil neighbor complained that Duane left his squad car parked in front of OUR house too long without moving it. They called his boss and the LaCrescent PD. So...Duane moved his car every 48 hours (this only mattered on his long weekends, twice per month) to alleviate this problem. In order to do this, he'd park in front of our house 48 hours and then drive the squad around the block and park it in the nearest available space to our house, just in front of the neighbors yard for the next 48. They didn't like that either. It doesn't go without notice that they have all 3 of their cars in garages in the back and never need parking in front of their house on a public street, they just didn't like anyone else parking there either.
Now...Duane has grown tired of having to move his squad on his days off. I now park in front of the house, he parks his personal car in the driveway (bike is in the garage) and the squad gets parked out back in the lawn as out of the way for Brandi as possible. They don't like that either. The old lady yelled at Duane calling him names I won't post here. She thinks he should park it on the other side of the lawn (despite the neighbor we like...and our GARDENS on that side). She and her husband went to the PD again to complain. The PD told them what they were full of, except in a polite and professional way. They said he was on his property, the car is not broken down, he can park where he wants to.
Next step, Duane and I are looking at putting in a 3 space gravel lot in the back for parking. We are also pricing out fences. Eventually we wanted to do this anyway, but we figure we can start NOW with the fence on the side of the evil neighbors. Fun, Fun!
Now, just for fun...other evil things they have done to others.
1. When we were having our gutters replaced they chewed on our contractors to make sure that the old gutters weren't landing on their property when they were coming off (they weren't).
2. Old lady has been seen walking the property line picking up the twigs that fall off their bushes and our trees. She would sort the handful of twigs...and those that she thought fell off our trees she would toss back onto our property (not legal to throw debris that fell by nature onto neighboring properties).
3. The neighbor across the alley from us has a sleek, small, black composting bin that she used to store on the back corner of her property near some plants and bushes she had. This corner of her property was directly across the alley from the evil neighbor, so they (the evil ones) decided they didn't like it and supposedly called the police (about what I'm not sure!). Eventually, they complained so much that she moved it to the other corner of her property (now directly across the alley from our house). OOOOOooooo, there is a black compost bin sitting by a garden across the alley from us...HOW TERRIBLE! LOL!
I could go on, but I don't want to. I expect better language and behavior from a "proper lady"...so her behavior and demeanor just disgusts me.
That's my vent. It's ok to laugh!
She first found a stick to play with... 
...and went swimming to get it back after I kept throwing it in the water (silly me).
Then she found a football to play with too. She wouldn't give it up.
...and then rested up on the cool tile before heading back to the car.
Of course she also hammed it up for a picture with her prize.
So, this isn't one of the posts that I had planned on, but that supply is running low. I was recently told that I seem to go "in spurts" on blogging, so I thought I'd do my best to make this recent burst continue until I had nothing left to say (Ha!). So anyway, SNAP Fitness...I stopped going regularly in the middle of April. I wanted to, but the end of the school year wore me out so I didn't push it. The funny thing is...since I STOPPED going, I've lost weight. Specifically 5.5 pounds last month. Not a lot, but darn it, more than I was losing while I was there!
I do think I need to go back though...not for intense workouts, but for a little cardio when the weather is icky and I can't walk Brandi. And maybe some strengthening work for my knees and back...
Last Tuesday was the last day for students at school. Teachers had inservice left on Wednesday but I worked hard on Tuesday afternoon so that everything was done and I had nothing but puzzles and prep work for next year to do at inservice. I had the best intentions of making dinner Tuesday night but when it came time...I was just to beat to clean up the kitchen, cook, and clean up again. 
