We don't really have changing of the seasons in the desert, at least not where I live. This tree outside my mom's window is so pretty. The picture does not really capture the deep burnt orange color. My dad came to visit today too.

Let's see if the system works....

My mother is taking me to court.

She had left her landlord/roomate's house. They were lovers at one point but for many years they have had seperate bedrooms and were basically just roomates. He was around through my childhood and was like my dad.

She left and then stole his things- multiple times. And why she would stop by and take things that she then tried to give away, I don't know. Why everything was suddenly hers, I don't know that either.

I DO know that somehow I got stuck as mediator. Probably because she tried to get me to lie and say the neighbor stole part of his belongings. Or when she tried to get me to spy on him... and I wouldn't do it. That kind of got me involved to.

Long story short- I took his stuff back more than once. I never did get it all back. One of the things I took back she is really mad about. It is an old civil war letter. It was only appraised at $125 or $150 but they think it might be worth more than that.

So she is taking me to court for theft. Even though she KNEW she needed to give his stuff back. And even though she had given me permission to be in her home to get his things back. The day I took his letter back (it would of been considered his) I was using her computer. The letter was beside the computer so I took it back. How simple is that???

Now I go to court on the 3rd at 2:30. I am not being charged for everything. Just the letter. This is so pathetic. It is slowing down our trip down south. Oh wells. Let's just hope the magistrate is level headed. :)  

And to make it worse, she and my brother can break into my home while I am gone on vacation and the police can't do anything because they don't have forensics. And they can break into our other house, that used to be her lover/landlord/roomates because the house deed wasn't in our name yet. It doesn't matter if WE were the ones that paid all the years of back taxes on it. Whatever.

Brandon and I made it to WA after a 4 hour plane delay. Sigh.. For those who don't know, about a week ago my mom fell and broke her ankle. She had surgery on Monday. They put in some hardware and she is not to put any weight on it at all for many many weeks.She is wheelchair bound for now.  Brandon and I came up to help take care of her and the house. She is doing much better than last week.  

My dog hates to have his collar off. I took it off because it appeared to be  tight. As soon as the collar is off he will obsessed over it till I put it back on. The first picture is after 10 mins of him staring at it.

Finally I let him take it off the bed..

 He's happy now, I put it back on him.

Rick has learned to build windmills for green energy!

Now he is considering having his cousin build him a website to make that his business. I think that is very neat! His cousin and his wife are inspiring because they are both self employeed and doing well in Pittsburgh, Pa. If they can do it then we can too, right? She is the photographer who took really nice photos of our girls and Gabe when he was born.

Since he is getting laid off on the 25th of November he figured that starting a business would be a good idea. The question is what to do. He can build just about anything and is especially good with a welder. Do should he build things for jeeps??? Green power seems to be a good business to get into too.... we will see. God will show us what to do.