Ok... I don't want to be a whiner BUT LIFE IS CRAZY RIGHT NOW...

Rick's last day of work was the 25th of Nov

The court case thing really stunk

That night someone was trying to break into our house when we went to get the kids pizza

Then the dog died (it got sick and died in about 48 hours)

The next morning one baby goat was dead

We think the people tried to come back another night when the kids were playing outside in the snow

Rick was STARING AT THE WINDMILL at the moment it flew off the roof, hit the cement on the ground, and shattered into pieces

The door finished breaking in the truck about 10 minutes later

Our woodsplitter got stolen from the other house we are fixing up... Rick talked to the police about it today

What next............?

This is Savannah, the blog writer's daughter. Hi! I am on here to tell you a funny story, a true story.

Earlier today, as Dad, Ben, Adah Mae, and I, were walking through Walmart, I glanced down at Adah's feet, and gasped. Adah Mae was wearing two different kinds of shoes, and, too make it worse, they were water shoes. I said, "Adah! Why are you wearing those? They don't even match!" She gave me a blank stare, and Dad made a comment similiar to mine. Later, while walking through the store, a small group of old ladies saw Adah Mae and I heard them make a remark on how cute she was. Then, one old lady looked down and saw her shoes. She had a look of shock. She then leaned over and whispered to her friend, and then the friend looked at Adah's shoes. Moral of the story: Check your kids feet before you leave your house.

Remember one of my last posts intitled "Evil Looms?" The question I asked in it was "Does the system work?" I found out the answer today and the answer is NO it doesn't work.

The public defender was late! Then my brother and my mother both lied. They said the letter wasn't appraised, that it wasn't my dad's, and that I stole it because she was the rightful owner. They said that she couldn't visit Joe in jail...  the public defender never called any of the witnesses to testify on my behalf, or showed the notarized letter that I brought. I never got a chance to testify on my own behalf.

You know, the only reason I visited him in jail was because I thought it it was the right thing to do, to visit someone in jail. God wants us to visit people in jail right? I took the letter back because it was the right thing to do. The letter wasn't hers. I have found out today that the system is CRAP and that it doesn't work.

This was a peliminary (spelling) hearing to see if there was enough evidence to move onto a higher court. After it was done the fingerprint order came up. I simply wanted to know if I had to get it done because I have not been convicted of a crime. I wanted a time to talk to somebody about MY RIGHTS. The judge got mad at me! FOR QUESTIONING MY RIGHT TO BE PRIVATE IN MY PERSONS since I hadn't been convicted. (If I had been convicted I would take whatever punishment was thrown at me) So she CHANGED THE ORDER to make me have to be at the state police barracks for fingerprinting by 4:30 OR I WOULD GO TO JAIL> originally I had until the 10th to comply, but she changed it because I ticked her off BY ASKING TO TALK TO A LAWYER OR SOMEONE ABOUT MY RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I wasn't a christian I would be swearing right here.

This is bologne. This is ridiculous.

So on the way to the police barracks (to willingly get my rights violated because my kids are more important to me than this stupid country- otherwise I would of rather gone to jail) we called sheriff Mack and got no answer. There was no answer at our local sheriff's either. So, now that I feel like I have been violated, tagged and raped, my prints are in the system.

And I tried to have a conversation with the cop. His attitude is that there is an order so he is following it. His oath doesn't matter. The constitution doesn't matter. In fact, if they take away our guns (the cop doesn't think it will happen) then he will do that to if it is the law. Whatever.

I have had it with this country. I have had it. I feel like I live in Sodom. The consitution is dead. We are guilty until proven innocent. Our country was great... now it is just dead. When was the last time I heard a story about someone being helped by the system? No, we are only ticketed when we make a mistake, violated when we are innocent, and trampled on when the system can make a buck off of us.

Our cute little puppy Teddy died last night.  He got sick and died in only about 24 hours. Which would not be that bad except for it hurts to see the children crying and so upset. We are just having a rough time lately

The dog died last night, I have the court thing today, we think we found a new home for one of our birds, Pico, Rick lost his job Thanksgiving week... blah! Now we just have a pair of doves, some chickens and goat to take care of and find placement for. We are all upset we have to sell part of our animals but when they are asked if they want to go down south for the winter and sell animals, or stay here and keep them they always choose traveling.

I should be thankful. Maybe after the court thing my mom will leave our family alone and stop harassing us when she learns she can't destroy our family through the system, maybe it will be easier getting through borders without a dog, maybe God is going to do something great with my hubby now that he has a chance to start his own business. We'll see. Anyhow, here is a photo of dd and the puppy that died that we just took in the last week.

I have a difference of opinion with someone I know...

I clean under my couch about ONCE a week and when I do I am amazed at what is under there. Missing slippers, dirt, shoes, socks, pens- you name it. The person I know, that has a different opinion than I do, thinks that we have to know when stuff disappears under there.

So am I wrong? Take my ANONYMOUS POLL and maybe I won't feel so bad.

Take my poll!

Now take this poll and pass it onto your friends and family!

What am I thankful for?

My husband!

He has had a really hard time this year... it started off with a herniated disc (however, it was a blessing that he ended up in Mexico with us because of this)

Now he has been laid off. Yesterday was his last day but he is really not complaining. He is going to have to move for work or start his own business (or BOTH!) and I am sure that he is going to do great. GE was the best job he ever had but now God is moving him onto bigger and better things.

This is him... this is what happens when you leave him alone with your camera and take to long at the store lol-

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.

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.

Things that have changed since I was on here blogging...

1. We got milking goats and they had kids.
2. We got chickens, guineas, ducks and hatched and sold them. Rick made a giant incubator that holds about 500 eggs.
3. We are selling our house and moving into a place that is dumpy and needs everything really replaced. From the floor to the wiring to the walls to the plumbing....
4. Rick is getting laid off from his job at GE with about 200 other people. (well, about 150 layoffs and 50 early retirements)
5. Since Rick is getting laid off we are planning on going back south for the winter. Maybe we will go a little further south this time for a few weeks. There are clear waters and pyramids in the southern part of Mexico along the eastern coast. The Caribbean coast.
6. We are selling a bunch of our animals so we can go south and housing out the rest of them with friends.
7. Savannah, the oldest child, just became our first teenager.
8. Rick is building a windmill. It is almost done. I will blog it when it is complete. The outside is fully done but he still needs the guts and batteries. It is SO cool.
9. We should be able to take the windmill with us in our VW camper van to Mexico. Then we can camp with electricity! Oh, and the point of changing to #9 is that we are getting the VW camper van finally done and painted. (we better get it done while we still have $!)
10. Uuuummmmmm..... I know there is more but I can't think of them right now.

We are back blogging I think....

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