A friend of mine posted on facebook a post about two strange things happened to him at his mother's house. A man wearing an Army jacket who looked creepy, no teeth and had a look of being freshly out of Meth look sneaking around his mother's car and a nice looking lady showing up at the door.
The first one acted surprised by my friend appearing swiftly at his mother's running car and asked, "Is this where TT and Bones live?"
My friend told him no. The guy left the drive way and went down the street. He turned off the car as he was getting the frost off the windows.
No more than a few hours later, a nice looking lady shows up at the door and asks, "Is this Emily's house?"
My friend said no and the lady walked away.
He thinks nothing odd about the two strange visits he got this day.
I told him to call the cops and give them the descriptions of both people. They're looking for easy targets to rob.
He thinks that the lady was legitimate, but he's not 100% sure. He thinks he should on the guy but neither of them did anything wrong.
I told him take it from a former caser (I was just like that woman would go up to houses asking if Sally was there and when the lady or man of the house would say no, even though how brief a look I got inside the house or around the house, I would mark the house a yes perfect to rob or no skip it), they were casing your mom's place and who knows they might have decided that your mom's place is a perfect place to rob. Call them even with the holiday season, people are looking for easy targets like your mom's house.
Be on the safe side, and call the cops and report it. Go ask your mom's neighbors if they got approached by someone asking if this was so and so's house or approached their vehicle. If they all say yes, tell them all to report suspicious activity done by these two people. Who knows, you might be able to get them to catch these two before they break in and rob someone of their valuables or their own lives in their homes.
Needless to state, my friend did neither.
But the facts are clear, the guy wearing the Army jacket was going to probably steal my friend's mother's car, which my friend prevented by running out when he did, the woman coming to the door, well, my friend is not sure if she was casing his mother's home or not, so he thinks nothing odd about that.
With the holidays fast approaching in another 19 days, thieves are casing people's homes to see which one is ripe for the harvest of their belongings and if the homeowner is there, the homeowner might be killed during the robbery. Whenever someone approaches your home and you don't know them and you see them coming. Go out immediately but look like you're heading out with your cell phone out, don't wait till they come to the door to answer it. Approaching them and without alerting them to anything wrong, try to snap pictures of the person. They may ask if this house belongs to Emily or someone else and when you say no, they would turn and walk away. Follow them to the street and if they get into a vehicle, snap pictures of the vehicle too. Go back inside and use your landline to call the police to report someone strange visiting your home and you fear it may be a person casing your home to rob from it.
Go to your neighbors and ask them if they saw anyone come to their door asking if this was so and so's home and when the homeowner says no, the person walks away. Tell them to call the police and report it to them as the person is possibly casing the neighborhood seeking an easy house to break in and rob.
Also, when you take out your trash after Christmas, leave the big ticket items in your garage and wait till the trash man to come if possible and take it out to them personally, so the thieves don't write down your address as having a new big screen TV or some big ticket item that they would want to steal.
Be aware of strangers showing up at your door around the Holidays.
Keep safe.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Christmas bag line at work.
At my job, we have our Christmas party, along with our holiday bonuses which is funded by a huge Christmas Holiday bags that is sent to two different states' prisons - this year I have been on the line unlike the last two lines, when I haven't been on it very often as I ended up getting sick and had to miss days.
This time, I've been on both the fast line and slower line, which they started to do for this year. I was at the sealing of the bags for both lines, in the middle of both lines and only at the beginning of the slow line, which I hope to be on this coming Monday.
The first set of bags that went out was good, not a lot of items went into them so we got that done within a good amount of time. Our next set of bags, well, we had miscommunications on both lines which resulted in twenty skids being held back as they all need to be redone, which I believe was done today by those who were asked to come in today to finish that refixing job up.
We have only a week and a day to get the rest of the skids done and sent out. I hope we get them all done in time as we didn't last time.
This time, I've been on both the fast line and slower line, which they started to do for this year. I was at the sealing of the bags for both lines, in the middle of both lines and only at the beginning of the slow line, which I hope to be on this coming Monday.
The first set of bags that went out was good, not a lot of items went into them so we got that done within a good amount of time. Our next set of bags, well, we had miscommunications on both lines which resulted in twenty skids being held back as they all need to be redone, which I believe was done today by those who were asked to come in today to finish that refixing job up.
We have only a week and a day to get the rest of the skids done and sent out. I hope we get them all done in time as we didn't last time.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Trouble with stray horses.
This was an old article that I had written and never published, back in 2009.
This deals with horse slaughter and the horses that no one wants.
Trouble with stray horses.
The horses that are now in need is those who are being abandoned by their owners because horse slaughter is banned here in America. Now there are too many horses and with the ecomony the way it is, people are dumping perfectly healthy or sick horses in places hoping that they would go wild. What they are doing is causing a bigger headache for everyone else. If you cannot sell your horse and you have tried lowering your price, consider putting them down humanely instead of dumping them off at locations where you think they would adapt, these horses are not wild horses, these horses are once your friend and now you think abandoning them in the woods and the plains would help them? No, it doesn't help them, it hurts them more than you know.
If you can afford a cup of coffee at Starbucks or a carton of cigarettes every week and then you cry about how much horse feed is, maybe you should stop buying those cups of coffee at Starbucks or those cartons of cigarettes and watch how much money you save by doing that. And if you don't want to give up your precious cups of burnt coffee at Starbucks or your cancer sticks, then you do not deserve to have horses!
Guess what I gave up for my horses! My 24 cans of soda that I would buy every three days for good in 2005, I saved over two hundred dollars in two months. I decided to no longer drink any soda at all. I saved enough money to feed and take my horses to the vet and have their hooves done. The money I saved now goes for my horses.
If you want to keep your horses, you have to give up something like drinking $5 cups of coffee, $3 sodas or a $33 carton of smokes and put the money you would have spent on that into a jar and at the end of the month, count how much money you have saved and then add up everything you give to your horses in food for one month and you probably have in that jar enough for a month and a half of food for your horses.
But if you cannot afford to keep your horses and you do not want to give up your coffee, soda, or smokes, you might as well sell them. If they wouldn't go for the price you set, consider lowering your price to where they would sell or find a rescue that will take them in to rehome them.
But do not trailer them to the woods and release them thinking that they will do better in the wild than with you, that is chicken sh*t of you. They do not deserve to be dumped off like rubbish, they loved you and you loved them, give them to someone who wants them either by leasing them to them or selling them, but for the love of God, do not abandon them anywhere. They deserve better than that!
I saved a throwaway horse who was 28 years old and was destined for a bullet in his head. This guy was that throwaway horse. I kept him alive till he was 35 years old before I had to say farewell to him. This old horse loved me because I cared for him and I gave him my love. I didn't dump him and let him live his life in the wild. I took him in and cared for him till the day he died.
These two photos are of the throwaway horse at age 28. He may have been old but he was well loved by me.
This is his gravestone that I got for him after his death at age 35.
I miss you Red!
This deals with horse slaughter and the horses that no one wants.
Trouble with stray horses.
The horses that are now in need is those who are being abandoned by their owners because horse slaughter is banned here in America. Now there are too many horses and with the ecomony the way it is, people are dumping perfectly healthy or sick horses in places hoping that they would go wild. What they are doing is causing a bigger headache for everyone else. If you cannot sell your horse and you have tried lowering your price, consider putting them down humanely instead of dumping them off at locations where you think they would adapt, these horses are not wild horses, these horses are once your friend and now you think abandoning them in the woods and the plains would help them? No, it doesn't help them, it hurts them more than you know.
If you can afford a cup of coffee at Starbucks or a carton of cigarettes every week and then you cry about how much horse feed is, maybe you should stop buying those cups of coffee at Starbucks or those cartons of cigarettes and watch how much money you save by doing that. And if you don't want to give up your precious cups of burnt coffee at Starbucks or your cancer sticks, then you do not deserve to have horses!
Guess what I gave up for my horses! My 24 cans of soda that I would buy every three days for good in 2005, I saved over two hundred dollars in two months. I decided to no longer drink any soda at all. I saved enough money to feed and take my horses to the vet and have their hooves done. The money I saved now goes for my horses.
If you want to keep your horses, you have to give up something like drinking $5 cups of coffee, $3 sodas or a $33 carton of smokes and put the money you would have spent on that into a jar and at the end of the month, count how much money you have saved and then add up everything you give to your horses in food for one month and you probably have in that jar enough for a month and a half of food for your horses.
But if you cannot afford to keep your horses and you do not want to give up your coffee, soda, or smokes, you might as well sell them. If they wouldn't go for the price you set, consider lowering your price to where they would sell or find a rescue that will take them in to rehome them.
But do not trailer them to the woods and release them thinking that they will do better in the wild than with you, that is chicken sh*t of you. They do not deserve to be dumped off like rubbish, they loved you and you loved them, give them to someone who wants them either by leasing them to them or selling them, but for the love of God, do not abandon them anywhere. They deserve better than that!
I saved a throwaway horse who was 28 years old and was destined for a bullet in his head. This guy was that throwaway horse. I kept him alive till he was 35 years old before I had to say farewell to him. This old horse loved me because I cared for him and I gave him my love. I didn't dump him and let him live his life in the wild. I took him in and cared for him till the day he died.
These two photos are of the throwaway horse at age 28. He may have been old but he was well loved by me.
This is his gravestone that I got for him after his death at age 35.
I miss you Red!
BreyerFest Memories from 2001.
This was in July of 2001, the last year that I went to BreyerFest, it is the annual gathering of Breyer Model Horse fans each year at the last weekend of July in Lexington, KY at the Kentucky Horse Park personally. I had already gone through the store to get my special runs for that year. I got what I wanted and didn't really need my other two tickets. While I was standing in line waiting to pick up the celebration models, I was chatting with couple girls who were trying to figure out the time on their watch as they had just arrived at the park.
I said hang on I'll get the time, and flipped open my phone and called my dad who was parked nearby and asked him the time. I gave the time to the girls and one of the girls cried out we missed the ticket line for the 10:30 to 11:00am! The time was 11:10am.
I was sorry for the girls as they only had one tent ticket and they missed their chance. I had two tickets for other times that day. I pulled them both out and said here use mine. They looked at me shocked that I was going to give them my tickets and they said so too. I told them I already got what I wanted from the tent and these were just going to waste. They were so excited that they hugged me both. I don't know who they are or what they got from the tent but I was very glad that I was able to make their BreyerFest that much more memorable by my gift of my last two tent tickets.
And that is one of my BreyerFest memories that truly stand out beyond my first one with my late brother David in 1999.
I said hang on I'll get the time, and flipped open my phone and called my dad who was parked nearby and asked him the time. I gave the time to the girls and one of the girls cried out we missed the ticket line for the 10:30 to 11:00am! The time was 11:10am.
I was sorry for the girls as they only had one tent ticket and they missed their chance. I had two tickets for other times that day. I pulled them both out and said here use mine. They looked at me shocked that I was going to give them my tickets and they said so too. I told them I already got what I wanted from the tent and these were just going to waste. They were so excited that they hugged me both. I don't know who they are or what they got from the tent but I was very glad that I was able to make their BreyerFest that much more memorable by my gift of my last two tent tickets.
And that is one of my BreyerFest memories that truly stand out beyond my first one with my late brother David in 1999.
Friday, June 19, 2015
My underwear issues have been solved.
Back in March 1st, I complained about what the underwear company Just My Size did with their underwear. Well, a friend told me to look online for underwear companies - well it took me no more than five minutes to find that the place I get my pants and shorts from Woman Within was the company I needed to get my underwear from.
They had what I wanted and liked! Satin underwear that went above my waist, not where they hit my hips and that's it. They had waist huggers not just hip huggers which showed off your belly button, but the type that hid your belly button.
I'm talking underwear of old days like back in the 80's and 90's.
This is what they look like.
The first size I got was size 15, I went for that size since that was what I was going for in Just My Size if they didn't quit making them. Well, the size was too big for me by a long shot, so I returned it for a smaller size, size 11. When I got it back about a week later, I tried it on and hoped that it fit, which it ended up doing perfectly. The panties didn't ride up or bite into my legs anymore. They were perfect!
About three weeks after I got them, I ordered two more so I would not have to wash each pair over and over again as I change underwear every time I shower. I have not been disappointed in the underwear or the company that I now get them from. I no longer look in the underwear department for my underwear as I just go online to get them now.
I highly recommend Woman Within's underwear, pants and shorts for your clothing needs. The returns and exchanges are smooth as silk and the people are great to talk with and they are totally understanding.
They had what I wanted and liked! Satin underwear that went above my waist, not where they hit my hips and that's it. They had waist huggers not just hip huggers which showed off your belly button, but the type that hid your belly button.
I'm talking underwear of old days like back in the 80's and 90's.
This is what they look like.
The first size I got was size 15, I went for that size since that was what I was going for in Just My Size if they didn't quit making them. Well, the size was too big for me by a long shot, so I returned it for a smaller size, size 11. When I got it back about a week later, I tried it on and hoped that it fit, which it ended up doing perfectly. The panties didn't ride up or bite into my legs anymore. They were perfect!
About three weeks after I got them, I ordered two more so I would not have to wash each pair over and over again as I change underwear every time I shower. I have not been disappointed in the underwear or the company that I now get them from. I no longer look in the underwear department for my underwear as I just go online to get them now.
I highly recommend Woman Within's underwear, pants and shorts for your clothing needs. The returns and exchanges are smooth as silk and the people are great to talk with and they are totally understanding.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
What have the underwear companies done to their sizes?
Yeah, in this blog, I'm going to touch on underwear that us ladies wear.
Men, if you do not wish to read this, please pass it by.
For the last two years, I've been wearing the same size 13 underwear from Jenny's Just My Size. I have gotten more packages of size 13 underwear from Jenny's Just My Size at Wal Mart, two more to add to my declining amount of underwear. I have three underwear left from three dozen undies. The reason why? They were all size 10 which I wore since 1998, but no longer fit my waist, hips or butt. I tossed them out in 2007 and got size 12 in Jenny's JMS till the year 2012 when I noticed that size 12's no longer fit me comfortably anymore they were extremely snug to where if I sat down, they would split or rub my legs till they were red and sore, mainly they would rub me red and sore. So I get the size up which is size 13.
I go about opening my new undies, flap them to get the wrinkles out and to check them all out to make sure that there are no rips, tears or any other defect that they may have missed. I place them on my bed and I immediately know that there is a big difference to the sizes. They say that they're a size 13 for people sized 30. That's what it says on the packages. I wear pants size 30. I'm not thin or lightly chubby, but I weigh around 267 pounds. Yes, I am a heavy woman, not proud of my weight but that's a topic for another time. I looked at the underwear on my bedspread and I know something is off in the sizes. I grab one of my three underwear that I know fits me comfortably. I lay it down on the bed and then placed one of the new pairs on top of it for size comparison. I immediately know right then and there that what I have in my hands is not size 13 underwear, but a misprinted set of size 10 underwear. Each one is given the size test to find that each one from both new packages are not size 13 but size 10. There is like about two inches of fabric missing from each one. I repackage them and return them to Wal Mart and tell them that they are returned for being two sizes too small as they claim that they are size 13, when they are not as I wear a size 13 and they do not fit me comfortably but extremely tight to where I cannot sit without ripping them open.
I have decided to go to a size 14 since that might give me the right size as I do not want to go to the specialty bra and underwear stores as they will charge you $40 for one single underwear. I don't want to buy almost three hundred dollars worth of underwear only to have about 7 pairs of underwear. That's a car payment and at least a tank of gas!
I just learned that Jenny's Just My Size is now discontinuing the underwear that I have loved for the last twenty some years. I might just have to take apart one of my underwear that I like add about four inches all around and sow my own underwear myself. The one thing that I do not like about that option is that I don't have a sewing machine nor do I know how to sow by using a sewing machine or by needle and thread. I guess the bottom line is that I better start learning how to.
Men, if you do not wish to read this, please pass it by.
For the last two years, I've been wearing the same size 13 underwear from Jenny's Just My Size. I have gotten more packages of size 13 underwear from Jenny's Just My Size at Wal Mart, two more to add to my declining amount of underwear. I have three underwear left from three dozen undies. The reason why? They were all size 10 which I wore since 1998, but no longer fit my waist, hips or butt. I tossed them out in 2007 and got size 12 in Jenny's JMS till the year 2012 when I noticed that size 12's no longer fit me comfortably anymore they were extremely snug to where if I sat down, they would split or rub my legs till they were red and sore, mainly they would rub me red and sore. So I get the size up which is size 13.
I go about opening my new undies, flap them to get the wrinkles out and to check them all out to make sure that there are no rips, tears or any other defect that they may have missed. I place them on my bed and I immediately know that there is a big difference to the sizes. They say that they're a size 13 for people sized 30. That's what it says on the packages. I wear pants size 30. I'm not thin or lightly chubby, but I weigh around 267 pounds. Yes, I am a heavy woman, not proud of my weight but that's a topic for another time. I looked at the underwear on my bedspread and I know something is off in the sizes. I grab one of my three underwear that I know fits me comfortably. I lay it down on the bed and then placed one of the new pairs on top of it for size comparison. I immediately know right then and there that what I have in my hands is not size 13 underwear, but a misprinted set of size 10 underwear. Each one is given the size test to find that each one from both new packages are not size 13 but size 10. There is like about two inches of fabric missing from each one. I repackage them and return them to Wal Mart and tell them that they are returned for being two sizes too small as they claim that they are size 13, when they are not as I wear a size 13 and they do not fit me comfortably but extremely tight to where I cannot sit without ripping them open.
I have decided to go to a size 14 since that might give me the right size as I do not want to go to the specialty bra and underwear stores as they will charge you $40 for one single underwear. I don't want to buy almost three hundred dollars worth of underwear only to have about 7 pairs of underwear. That's a car payment and at least a tank of gas!
I just learned that Jenny's Just My Size is now discontinuing the underwear that I have loved for the last twenty some years. I might just have to take apart one of my underwear that I like add about four inches all around and sow my own underwear myself. The one thing that I do not like about that option is that I don't have a sewing machine nor do I know how to sow by using a sewing machine or by needle and thread. I guess the bottom line is that I better start learning how to.
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