Neighbor is crazy!

I knew it would come to this one day. I deferred it by cutting her some slack. However, she pushed me to the my limit and I went for it. I had the audacity to ring her doorbell and asked nicely for her to get her dog off my property. She responds by screaming at me, with obscenities and saying everyone in the neighborhood hates me and I should move. Also, saying that if I ever get on her property again she will call the police etc etc. (This was just seconds after her dog had peed and shat on our property.) I said nothing and walked to the sidewalk, and she came and yelled some more. I went into the garage and she was yelling obscenities some more. So I called the police. Meanwhile, she walks by our house and flips it off. Ooh! The cop shows up and we tell him what happened. He asked that did we mind if he talked to her, worried about starting a war. We said no! He goes over to her house and she responds as she did to me, of course. He yells, I've arrested you before! Ha! He gave me his card for future reference. Really, when you buy a house they are supposed to tell you about lead, mold, radon, but not the wacko neighbor? I would rather deal with lead and radon any day, they do not scream at you. Besides stress is a bigger killer than those two put together. Darla

Why Obama appeals to younger crowd

I agree with where there's a Will, there's a way about this. That is one of the reasons I hope Obama makes it all the way. None of the old BS, WWII, Vietnam, 60's garbage. Obama is a modern cosmopolitan intellectual.
Poor me, supposedly on the tail end of the boomer generation, but not that allied with them. More of an eco punk x er something. The year I came of age to vote was the first time Reagan won. Wow, for the next 8 years he was in. Talk about disheartening, although as bad as the Reagan presidency was, it doesn't hold a candle to the evil regime we have now. GO OBAMA! Darla

Goodbye Chief, Finally!!!!

Hallelujah! So long to such a racist baloney junk tradition. Yes, I am an alumnus of University of Illinois at Champaign and many members of my current and ancestral family have attended University of Illinois at Champaign including the time before the "tradition" arose. I have been so disgusted about this thing for decades. Each time I thought about it, I just could not believe it was an issue, as to me it was a non issue. Duh, just a symbol of the oppressors over the vanquished. Would a caricature of a rabbi have worked? A catholic priest? I would like to have seen the chief supporters defend that, not that they would have had a chance. Those symbols would have never been adopted. I am proud to say I never owned one piece of anything with the chief symbol on it and only once attended any over rated corrupt sports event. At half time at that game, I was repulsed by the so called chief tradition. Corrupt sports event? I knew some so called U of I athletes back in the day, football and basketball. Flunkies, druggies, sex crazed ding dongs. Also they got off with all their bad and illegal behavior. This is my true story and long term belief. Darla, thrilled silly.

Day after the BIG SNOW

Wow, have not seen drifts like this in a very long time. It also takes a pretty big snow to close down U of I in CU. The National Weather Service nailed this one. There was a front end loader out here clearing our street last night during the time the city crews were supposedly resting. Contractor?

There are two kinds of people, those who dig the snow, and those than don't. People today were either enjoying it or bitching about it. Also, either shoveling it or blowing it.

I saw one car stuck in an unplowed intersection blocking traffic, and the snowplow. Darla

Kuntzi beats Post Office UPDATE

Our mailman came through, when the storm was at its worst. So Kuntzi did not beat the Post Office today. Our mail was snow encrusted though. BTW, Brady Kuntzi was also in the Voice today, saying he was too busy to date seriously, with sports etc, but he failed to mention that he gets up before dawn every day! Darla

Kuntzi beats Post Office

Brady Kuntzi always comes through. Brady is our newspaper delivery person. Our paper came today, it is buried in the snow in this picture, near lower center and and below left corner of flag.

Day after the March tornadoes, we got our paper but no mail. November Ice Storm, we got our paper but no mail. We got our paper today, we will see if we get our mail. Also, our paper comes early, very early.

Congratulations to Brady and his driver. Darla

Doggone it!

Sally runs free, so fast, so happy, so beautiful. Bounding with joy, a blur whizzing around. I have never known a dog that could run so fast and jump so high. The problem is, she is not my dog. Yet she thinks that my yard and the entire neighborhood is her territory. Her freedom of course is not her fault. It is the fault of her irresponsible owner, my neighbor.

Today I spent nearly an hour trying to corral Sally and had to go over to her house twice as Sally was running loose, chasing all the wildlife, harassing the mailman, upsetting all the other neighborhood dogs stuck behind fences, causing them to bark. I should add that we and many neighbors have not received our mail on occasion as the mailman felt too threatened by Sally. She can be perceived as threatening; barking insanely, growling, baring her teeth, approaching aggressively.

In our immediate neighborhood, there are to my knowledge, some 15+ dogs. Most are little house dogs or are kept inside a fence. One can hear a dog barking usually at anytime when outside around here. Two of my other neighbors have been attacked by dogs while working in their yards, and the mailman has been attacked also by the dog that used to live in our house. Several people in the greater neighborhood carry bats or sticks to defend against roaming dogs when out taking a walk.

There are laws against dogs being unrestrained in the city, the entire county, and the whole state. But ignoring such laws is a problem everywhere apparently. I see loose dogs nearly everywhere I go. There have been several stories this last year in Springfield about people being attacked by dogs, including a barber and a child. Of course, if you see someone letting their dogs run loose and you say something to one of these law breakers, you usually get cursed, threatened, or accused of being a dog hater. I am hoping the dog fad of recent years fades away. Darla