Kathryn S Walker

Dogs walked. Neighbor's dogs taken out. They have two Chihuahuas and a weimeriener.

The smalles Chi pees on the floor, but is contained in a space. What a pain, he is plenty old enough to be housebroken, but she doesn't know if he ever will be. The other two are fine. They also have a fenced yard, so not a big deal to watch their dogs.


Guy working for the mortgage company on the house across the street came by yesterday to see how long the neighbors have been gone. They just took off and did not even notify the mortgage company. It must be at least 10months ago or more. After 8 months they persue it in court. I can see why people would walk away in this economy, but they should do the right thing and notify whoever holds the mortgage.

Roy is at the neighbors down the hill on the lake mowing his grass. This is the neighbor that lets Roy use his dock, and even gave him a tiny boat when we moved here. This neighbor is in his 80s and almost died last week. He just got home from the hospital and tried to mow by himself. He also goes to dialysis every other day. Anyway, yesterday the neighbor's wife called Roy to come down and talk Ralph out of trying to mow himself and get him in the house, which he did.

Roy moved the boat and his deck box down to our other neighbors. He was afraid something would happen to Ralph and the son's would not let him get his stuff. I hope Ralph lives a lot longer. What good neighbors they are.

Well they just mowed and weed eated the place that was abandoned across the street. Guess it is close to being sold under foreclosure. That is a couple on this road that were foreclosed. I have to say the bank takes better care of the yard than they did.

Remember the crazy neighbor who finally moved out? Sign is up on property that it is for sale and is a foreclosure. Newer mobile home, cheap price.

Also, we think the neighbors across the street have skipped out (the ones who left the dog tied up). It looks like they have also abandoned their house. They have lived there for 5+ years. . Both places are larger mobile homes than ours.

We had ours appraised a few years ago, but it was too low in our opinion. The foreclosure is about $11,000 less than what ours appraised for. Good buy for someone. Ours is really up graded and does have a shop, storage shed, car port, metal roof, covered decks, etc.

Oh, well, ours is not for sale, I don't want to think about moving. This trip we just took was kind of like moving into a new apartment every day.

It is raining again, but we need it, I think.

The neighbors asked us to watch their dogs for them while they go visit their kids. These neighbors are really in financial difficulty, due to some health problems and imho, his laziness, but that is another story. They are pretty good neighbors and their kids paid for them to come visit and babysit for about 12 days. Now one of their dogs is not housebroken, so is crated but they let her out on the porch during the day. They do not have a fenced yard. The other dog, who is crazy, but sweet, is only let out 2 times a day. I have some issues with this. I told her I felt funny leaving one on the porch while I am not there, but I also can not crate her 24/7 and I don't think 2 times a day is enough for the other one.

I can not bring them here since I doubt they have had their shots and I don't want my dogs to be around them. I guess we will just do the best we can for the dogs.

One is a beagle mix and the other is a small boxer/pit or something.

They have helped us out in the past, so we want to help them, but... It is also right in the middle of the time we planned on leaving, but we can be flexible on that.

Today it is 28 degrees. I can not remember the last time it was so cold for so long.

We are having company for dinner New Years Eve, but it will be an early night.

More neighbors, this time Roy's goofy fishing buddy.

I am going to make Yorkshire Pudding and Rib Roast. Hope the Pudding comes out good, I have not made any in years.

The crazy neighbor who calls the sheriff if you look at him cross eyed, told his direct neighbors (our friends) that his girlfriend left him. I hope she took her kids, too.

They were shocked that he even talked to them. One less crazy person to worry about. Hopefully he won't be able to pay for the house himself and get foreclosed on.

Walked the dogs. Not a bad morning, still too warm, but not as bad as it could be.

Got a scanner at radio shack yesterday. Has emergency weather, too. Seems to work. Now I question why I wanted one. I guess to keep tabs on the crazy neighbor.

I found the court records yesterday. They had a domestic violence incident in January that stretched through the court until May. He brought charges against her, lol.

It cost over $500 for court costs and fines and she has to attend anger management, plus she can not be involved in any incidents for 6 months. There was also a fine for their dog from animal control. Hopefully the fines will keep them from being able to pay their house payments.

A can of mace costs about 8.99. We had a keyring size mace we took to keep dogs away when we walk the dogs, but it would not have been very effective and we would have to be way too close to use it effectively.

Now we have two good cans for our walks in the morning.

Sadly, I am thinking we probably should contact a lawyer and find out what the best plan is for us to follow to keep this nut away from us. An injunction which is what I call a restraining order I think we need, but they are not that easy to get.

Anyway, we need a sensible answer from someone who knows what the score is. I will call tomorrow. It pisses me off that this will cost me money we don't really have for having a nut move into our neighborhood.

We are going out to dinner with our 'good' neighbors tonight. Prime rib at the only decent local restaurant.

I think I will have a drink, too.

Someone broke into the house across the street from us. She told me that she and her mom had gone to town and when they got back the dog was whining by the fence. They went into the house and the perps ran out the back. The sheriff called the K-9 squad, but who knows if they will catch them?

I sure hope they do. We have not had any problems in the past.