Our Neighborhood!!!

Sunday I was out gardening in the flowerbeds outside of our fence and had occasion to introduce myself to a new young guy who is renting the garage across the street from us. Seems like a nice guy ... said the "kid" who purchased the property (which has been vacant for almost a year) is attending school in Walla Walla but expects to be finishing up and moving into the house within this next month. He has no need of the garage/shop so he had placed an ad on Craigslist and this kid made the connection and viola! we are neighbors.

I've seen them over in the shop a few times over the past week. Several times with a really nice Belgian Shepherd ... who minds his own business and stays where he belongs without leash or fence ... meaning a dog who is truly part of their family. I was impressed especially when they left the dog and went away for a couple of hours and then returned. He got up and walked around a bit but mostly stayed right in front of the garage, even when our girls were out in the yard talking to him :)

After this casual, friendly encounter it was quite a surprise to walk into the kitchen yesterday morning about 11:30 and open the blinds for the first time of the day. I had been working steady at my computer and getting all kinds of things accomplished, but obviously in my own little world mentally.

Check out the pic I took through the kitchen window ... count the cop cars ... 7 !!! ... and there were uniforms everywhere, one walking around with bolt cutters doing ??? ... I was on my way out to an appointment, and it makes me uncomfortable to watch someone else's misery ... but it was definitely something. Ryan said they were all still here and very busy when he got home about 3pm. They were hauling a stripped down car body out of the shop.



Of course I looked on the local news channels but either I'm incapable of searching correctly or no one was interested enough to report it.