you never gone to the high desert? or even globe or flagstaff to see it snow? thats pretty wild, trust me it looks nice as long as you dont have to shovel it

I have seen snow, I just have never seen snow fall. I have never seen a snowflake.

I have tried to snow ski a few times, never went down on a sled though.

I have slipped on ice...that hurts!

yeah ice hurts ice is not a nice thingy , maybe some day you will be able to see it snow and catch a snowflake on your tongue

For Aarcyn

Isn't this beautiful??

I was just working on our pop-up camper, set up in the backyard. That reminds me of something different that happened here a couple yrs ago.


I was in the house one morning & it looked like rain. So I went out to zip up the windows in our pop up. I opened the door & there was some guy sleeping on one of the bunks. I went in my house & talked to my DD. I thought maybe it was Donny, her BF, but nope. I told her to get out of the shower...I didn't know what was going to happen. I called 911 & two or three cop cars came & the cops went & took the guy away. I later went out & cleaned the pop up. It smell like cigarette smoke & he left his cigarette butt on the floor. But the worse thing was the poop he left on the counter. Luckily it was on the little dust pan that I kept in there. I threw the whole thing away.

Lor, let me see if I read this right!!

Some guy stayed in a tent on your property, he smoked a cigarette and he left his feces on a counter??

Did I read this right??

Melody

Melody, Yes, we left the camper door unlocked cuz we didn't ever think anything could happen in our backyard. Really... it never occured to me. I hate the smell of cigarette smoke so had to unzip all the windows & air it out. Of coarse I disinfected that counter he left his 'gift' on. The one cop told me he had 'left something'. We don't live in a 'questionable' neighborhood so any of you readers might wanna remember that ANYTHING could happen in your own neighborhood.

I know exactly what you mean when you say it can happen in ANY neighborhood. I really don't think there are any more GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS (unless of course you live in a high crime area), but I'm speaking generally. Any neighborhood will have it's share of hooligans, criminals, it's just to what degree they are.

I personally know an ex con who served 19 years for beating a guy almost to death. He was in a drug frenzy, he was 18 years old. They would not give him parole until he served 19 years. He was completely rehabilitated, released 2 years ago, has a job (a good job), he just got married and his wife is pregnant. That, to me, is a success story.

There is also a guy (on my block), who, when he was 17, committed assault and armed robbery but because he was only 17, he was treated as a youthful offender, served 9 months upstate, was released on parole (or probation, I'm not sure), refused to work, promptly got re-arrested, and is now in a drug treatment program (his second). He isn't even 19 years old yet.

So I don't know what's happening to the world. It's a much different world and society than the one I was a child in.

And I live what would be known as A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD.

Well, that might have been applicable 50 years ago, but from what I see in the papers, etc. well, I kind of lost my faith in the young people of today.

Very sad.

Where do you live, Lor?