Helloooo Hellooooo! It's getting dusty in here.

It's time for somebody to sweep it out .

Wanna see my metal bra? I was Hippolyta in Midsummers Night Dream which was performed in the meadow behind my barn.

Spare me , please !!

There's a dusty wind blowing through TK. Where are all the regulars?

I agree with WebRover but would never have the courage to come right out and say that there seems to be some folks posting here who are irregular - and it shows.

Thanks to my fiber bars I am always regular.

Not sure what is worse....

A dying TK...

This pouring rain on my canceled Starbuck walk Saturday morning....

or...

watching my niece get handcuffed by police in front of my house last night...

humm....

OK Gary, tell us more. you know we are nosy.

I guess I shouldn't have kept you hangin'

Briefly ~

16 year old niece, being raised by my brother (she is the daughter of our brother that passed away) who lives across the street, is feeling like it is her right to do WHAT-EVVV-ER she wants...go figure

Is causing trouble at my brother's house and when she goes to visit her mom on week-ends...mostly because she wants to go to BF's house...his mom is also trying to keep them apart under unsupervised conditions as they have been known to put themselves in compromising situations

Her mom allowed her to go see BF last night...he threatened to kill himself because they had a fight...his mom had cops come get him...niece "drama queen" caused enough commotion to cause her mom to bring her back to my brother's...and that's where the real trouble began....

stood in front of moving cars in front of my house, screaming at my bro and my sil, ran up the street...by then cops came cornered her...she had your basic COPS Bad Boys yell down with them before they put her in their squad car handcuffed ....

if she learned anything it might be she can't win taking on 3 squads of our city's finest!

Not the first issue with my dear niece and surely not the last.....

Gooooooooooooooooooood grieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeef!!!!!

My heartfelt sympathy to all relatives of sixteen year olds.


BTDT

Just recently asked my adult DD, who has a friend in drug rehab, why she hadn't taken that path. She assumed that it was because she just didn't have an addictive personality. I don't know . . . there's a lot of rolling of the dice when it comes to raising teenagers.

I remember when I was a teen, and I was , once, back in the ice age I think it was. I thought I knew it all, I did miss out on being handcuffed and hauled off to the pokey. Whew !

Crummy parents can have great kids and vice-versa....

To be honest I think a lot of kids are fence sitters when it comes to teen-age "stuff"....

I personally saw, growing up in a tract of homes, how "life" just might depend on the street you grew up on sometimes! I grew up on a good street but boy those kids on .....whew!!!

I did plenty of things that others got way in trouble for...their circumstances turned out different than mine...

Kids are not perfect and parenst aren't either but I think you can increase the odds of good things out weighing the bad if you give a damn and keep trying...my brother will not give up on her....but he also has her mom to deal with....complicated.....all I know is raising her brother was no piece of cake for me...God love him....wink...but when he found out today what happened he said....

"Uncle Gary, aren't you so glad you raised me?!"....yep..."Now get your huge freakin' spare flat tire out of my garage that has been there since Christmas Day!"....lol...

I think those two kids are lucky to have you and your brother in their lives. PS I think girls are harder to raise than boys. My brother didn't get into near the trouble I did. I had two boys and they didn't give me any more than the normal growing up problems.

225, 275 to go!!