Lets review shall we?
Weather in Minnesota: We now have 5 official seasons up here. Summer, Fall, Winter, Sprinter and Spring. All of which seem to happen in the month of May. It has snowed, thawed, heated up, dropped back down, torrential rains, snow again etc. All in one month mind you... It is now June 3rd and I have heard a rumor there is supposed to be a frost warning.... WTF
I don't know whether to bring out the lawn mower or snow shovel!
So that's weather now onto other news.
Those who have listened to the Sit a Spell show on Jackalope Radio most likely know that we are all about helping people. Well, for the most part I help others out in little ways that mean a lot. My Father in law past away in September and my husband received a small inheritance. My husband and I made a decision about helping one person out in a HUGE way. I have a neighbor who is 52 yrs old with two kids living at home ages 16 and 19 and she works her tail off at a job that doesn't appreciate her nor gives her enough hours to make a decent life for herself. She has never taken any kind of public assistance and I have no idea how she stretches a dollar as far as she does and yet she would give you the shirt off her back or her last dollar to help you out. Well, she lives in a mobile home that has seen better days. The roof, horrible and it rains down inside her house. The ceilings are starting to fall in the mold from all the wet is messing with their health and she is just plain overwhelmed by it all.
So...... I have her come over one day and we were all chatting and having a grand time when I pulled out two plastic Easter eggs. I told her to pick one of the eggs and look inside. So she picks an egg and starts to open it. Held inside is a small piece of paper with a message on it which she squints to read...(she never remembers her reading glasses)
At first their is confusion on her face that moves onto disbelief into shock into the words... "no, no, no, you can't do that, no, really you guys can't do that, OMG, OMG, REALLY?" I'm expecting heart failure at any moment and have the cardiac paddles nearby. You see written on that piece of paper were the words.... YOUR GETTING A NEW HOUSE.
After 20 minutes of convincing her that, yes, she was actually going to get a new home her face lit up with joy through the tears. She called her son at college and told him. He was shocked and over joyed and thanked us as he had been so worried about his mom that he was considering quitting college. She called her daughter who also had a mini heart failure exploding with joy. That was 6 weeks ago and today she is in a newer mobile home and the joy on their faces brighten our days.
There are people out there that have said to us like we are crazy, "Why, would you do that?" Quite a lot of people actually ask that and our response is..... "Because we were able to and it was the right thing to do." People need to stick together more than ever in these crazy times. Even little things can mean so much to someone from a smile to an ear willing to listen and sometimes when you are able....do something really big just once.
Now onto the crazy crap...........
I have another neighbor..... He asked me if he could dig up some of my Tiger Lillies for his garden. I said, sure! Dig em all out. (I have tried everything to kill them buggers off, they should be called Cockroach Lillies) This was 2 months ago..... Haven't seen nor heard anything further on the subject. I was beginning to think he decided against it TILL............ At 2:37 AM today he was outside with a headlamp on starting to dig those damn things up. I repeat.... 2:37 AM
We promptly told him to stop.... who in their right fucking mind starts digging up Cockroach Lillies at 2:37 am! We told him to come back when normal people are fucking awake. He obviously had way to much beer in him (it was bonfire night) and most likely some other illegal substance that made him super hyper... And this is where the title of this blog comes from. I sometimes look at him and have to wonder. Good Lord, we have all kinds around here!
So, I'm off... Be good and if you can't be good name it after me.
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Do something nice for someone each day and lets make this a better world to live in!
