20201231 - Cold Blodded

20201231 - Up in the am and got some things done at the desk. In the afternoon Adam, one of our neighbors, came over rode with me to the lawyers' office downtown. The other two neighbors met us there. We discussed everything that had happened and what we could do about it... Home and worked a bit more. L drank lots of water and then tried to squeeze some blood out of her ice cold fingers for her Everlywell test she got for Christmas. I ran out and picked up dinner from Rusty Bucket. L&I Watched some TV, J at friends and G up on the Xbox. 

Silver car showed up next door at 11:45, revving their engine, yelling and hooting up next door. They were in the car smoking something with smoke just filling the car. This went on for about a half an hour until I called the police and they sent a cruiser by slowly. It took the idiots in the silver 8 seconds to get out of the car and in to the house after they saw the police :-)  G down around midnight and we watched the ball drop. The idiots next door continued the noise and moronic activities until they left at 2:11.

20201230 + Surveillance

20201230 + Up in the am and on a couple of calls. I spent most of the day at the desk with few breaks. J got a new key for his car today and L ran G and Owen to basketball. I ran over to the neighbor's across the street to install a camera for them to keep an eye on 115 Heil... L's friend Steph stopped by to drop something off. I built an app to record the activities at 115 Heil and L brought me so dinner at the desk. Out for a bit and played with Hazel and then I ran G to hitting lessons. G did good and we made plans for next week and headed home. Home and G&I played with hazel a bit before he headed upstairs and I got a snack and watched some football.

20201229 - Stretching Out

20201229 - Up late, got something to eat and jumped on a call. Lots of emails from the neighbors to the Mayor and Chief of Police overnight. Chief replied with a realistic timeline that I didn't like so much. Texting a lot with the neighbor guys... Got a bunch of little things done for work and lined things up for finishing all the year end and new year tasks. L&J ran to a dentist appointment for J, everything is fine. G&I picked up Owen and dropped them off at basketball. L home and took Hazel on a big walk that tired her out.

20201228 - Changing & Sweets

20201228 - Up and got ahold of Chris first thing to come up with a game plan on the neighbor shooter... Chris wants me to go down to the courthouse tomorrow and talk to the Prosecutor, take as many facts and neighbors as I can so he knows this is serious... Well that raised my heart rate and blood pressure considerably...  L ran G to dentist, all good. G had never changed a a tire before so he helped me take the sliced tire off L's car. I ran to Dr to get second Shingles shot (OUCH!!!) and dropped off sliced tire at Tuffy. I got home and sent emails to Mayor and Chief of Police and hand delivered printouts of the shooting event to our immediate neighbors. I got replies from both the Chief and the Mayor. They are going to contact the Prosecutor for me. I let Chris know and he said that's perfect and now I don't have to go down to the courthouse tomorrow morning! YIPEE!!!

L ran G and Owen to basketball. I finished up my day and L&I hung out in watching TV and looking for home security systems and biometric gun cases... J got home and found a package on out front. It was a box from Aunt Mary full of Chinese noodle candy! YUM!!!  Later that evening the neighbor's dad called offered to pay for tire. Told him that was the least of my concerns. His kid is CRAZY and rather than paying for all of his son's mistakes, maybe he should get out of the way and let the legal system take care of this one...  I called GpaW and his Dr. visit went good today, going to do more test in a month. Uncle Johnny is in the hospital again with a blood clot in his leg. I stayed up too late looking for home security things.

20201227 - Fencing Slice

20201227 - Up in the am and G at baseball practice and then to Trent's for most of the day. J helped me finish up the majority of the fence dog proofing before he headed to work. I finished up dog proofing a couple of the gates and there are just 2 little sections to go. L ran and got G and then I ran him to pitching lessons. Exhausted but need to get the garage cleaned. I consolidated all the paper and boxes into only a couple to make trash day easier. During the cleanup I notice L's car had a flat. I tried to pump it up, wouldn't go, figured the bead had been broken so I jacked up the car and tried again. I felt air coming out of the sidewall, someone had sliced my tire!!! I called the police, they came out, we looked things over and filed a report. I checked my video but had parked my car right in the direct line of sight so I didn't have any footage of the event... I moved a camera in to the garage window so I can watch the Neighbor's house 24x7. This is getting ridiculous…

20201226 + Gma&paW Christmas

20201226 + Up late after the long night of chaos... L, Hazel and I headed to the Farm to exchange gifts with Gma&paW. We got things moved over and then spent some time helping get GmaW's new iPad and laptop set up. We gave GpaW a fitness tracker for Christmas so we got that set up too. L walked Hazel a bit and Gma&paW liked her. We got the gifts exchanged and then we got back on the road and drove home. When we got home J had left with some friends and D was here with G. J home and we all opened the presents from Gma&paW on facetime with them. It was a nice 2nd Christmas.

20201226.0035 - Shots Fired!!!!!

20201226 - So I get up for whatever reason in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. In the quiet of the night at 12:35am our neighbor decided it would be a good idea to take his AR15 gun out in his backyard and fire 5 shots towards the elementary school behind our houses. Neither I or the Police thought this was a good idea and 5 cruisers showed up, arrested him, found a bit of cocaine on him and took him to jail! Later I found out he shot 9 more times into the kitchen cabinets inside his house! CRAZY TRAIN! G stayed up with me and we watched the events of the evening. The police called me back at 3am and asked me to send the vidoe to him as evidence.

20201225 + Merry Christmas!

20201225 + Up LATE (for Christmas), finally not up at 6am to open presents, I think we got up 9:30 or 10ish, this made me VERY HAPPY! First time we have had snow for Christmas for a long time too. The boys came down, got along, were happy to have others open the things they got them. Boys opened their things, D got his bed (early) but got sheets and stuff for it. J got an iPhone 11, G got a gaming recliner. We did a zoom meeting with Gma&paB and the Coles and open the presents we exchanged last weekend. It was a very pleasant morning.

D ran and got DGF11, L made a bunch of food and I grilled some steaks out in the cold with Hazel's help. We had a big late lunch and all were stuffed. We hung out a bit and then D&DGF11 headed out and LJG&I headed to the basement and watched the new Wonder Woman. Pretty good movie. J&G then retreated to their rooms and L&I headed to bed after a very nice Christmas

20201224 - Quiet Christmas Eve

20201224 - Up in the am and pretty rough morning. I things settled and headed out in the afternoon and picked up some auction wins. I had never been to this place before and it was a colossal sh!t show! Took 2 hours to get my 2 things... Won't be bidding there often... Got home through a pretty hard snow, backed the car up to the garage (I would later realize this was a bad idea as it obstructed my camera's view of the white car...) and unloaded some stuff. In and D showed up with a load of stuff and the boys headed upstairs to set up a gaming room. They came down to decorate some cookies and J spent a bunch of time in the basement wrapping presents. Pretty quiet night and L&I got the presents set out in good time and got to bed at a descent hour. Boys up yelling and playing video games together.

20201223 - Hit the Mark

20201223 - Up in the am and L and Hazel we busy cleaning and on walks and all over. J headed to work and L got G up to go to Nicole's with her. I got on the PC and got some things done. D&DGF13 here to play with Hazel and hang out. I had D run and pick up dinner @ La Navona. It was an ok meal. J home from work for 2 min with Larson while we were eating and then left for Larson's for the night. D&DGF13 headed out. I headed to home Depot to buy fence to secure the yard to Hazel doesn't escape. Home and G&I went to his hitting lessons then picked up some booster stuff and delivered some presents on the way home. Home and G's buddy Trent over for the night, we played Trouble and I got beat. Headed to bed, couldn't sleep so wrapped presents. Finally went to bed at 3am

20201222 - Manger Manager

20201222 - Up in the am, L working with Hazel, J&G up late. J putting new shelves together in his closet, G went bowling with some friends. I took Hazel on a walk in the afternoon while L was running errands and we came in through the back gate and inspected the fence for escape routes. Come to find out Hazel can fit right through our picket fence so we need to secure things a little better before she can be outside on her own. In and finished the day at the desk. I ran to pick up auction wins and then home and had dinner with LJ&G and the J&G vanished upstairs. I got the auction wins out to inspect and L had asked for a manger scene so I bought all I could find in recent auctions and she went through them to create one she liked... L&I watched some TV while I surfed auctions and gave GpaW a call to check in and plan a gift exchange.

20201221 - Dog PJs

20201221 - Up in the am and everyone home today. I got my am stuff done and then in to the office for calls. Pretty quiet day. J ran out to sell some of his clothes but only got $4 for 4 trash bags full, he was a little mad... In the evening D&DGF11 stopped by for a visit and Hazel tried on som Christmas PJs I got for her at an auction. L&I headed out to pick up some auction wins. True to history G called with a tragedy... Hazel went #2 in his room while he was 'watching' her and needed instructions on how to clean up after her... L&I got our items and swung past Target on the way home to pick up some shelving for J's closet. Home and L cleaned things up. G&I headed to the basement to watch His Dark Materials and finalize which cards we want to send out for grading. I was up late looking through auctions.