Twiggybet1's Blog

*sigh*  I need to share.  I've had a couple of strange days....

Yesterday, my daughter had her first automobile accident.  She's o.k., but it sure gave me a scare.  She was on her way to school, and stopped for a light and the driver behind her hit her.  To make matters worse, it was final exam day.  She calls me and says, "Mom, I've been hit and I don't know what to do!" (crying, and hysterical)  Me: "are you hurt?"  Her: "no"  (thank you Jesus!) Me: "is the other driver o.k.?"  Her: "yes, he's O.K."  (praise the Lord!) Me:  "how much damage?" Her: (cries harder) "I don't know!"  Me:  "Where are you?"  (she tells me where) Me: "are the police there yet?"   Her: "no"  (she's a bit calmer, stopped crying)  Me: "you did call the police, didn't you?"  Her ".....no...."  Me:  "well, hang up with me and call them."   Here in Michigan, in order to make an insurance claim, you need a police report.  And by law, you are supposed to report any accident that happens on public streets.  Since I was at home with NO CAR and she was only a few miles from Hubby's work , I called him, and he met her at the scene, to make sure the car was drivable, etc.  It was, so he went back to work, and she went to class.  She was 40 minutes late for class, but thankfully, the prof. let her take the exam.  The damage is minor, only cosmetic, I'm not even sure we will bother to have it fixed.  So much for that.  After that,  I felt exhausted for the rest of the day.  I guess adrenaline rushes do that to you.

I spent a good portion of today canning green beans.  Daughter was visiting friends, Hubby was at work, I had the house to my self.  I got 2 canner loads done.  So, after those were set to cooling, I decided to stroll around the garden, and check on things, since I'd been inside all day, before I had to start making dinner.  Checking this 'n that, going up one row and down the other.  I notice the next door neighbor watching me over the fence.  This particular neighbor is of the barely nodding acquaintance type.  She doesn't really talk much to anybody, she doesn't spend very much time outside, and never comes calling.  Other neighbors have mentioned having quarrels with her, and that they believed she was mentally or emotionally imbalanced, but I had never had any cross words with her.  So when I see her watching me, I shout out "Hello!"  She shouts back "HI, how is it going for you?"  I reply "Oh, good!  and how are things with you?" (sounds like a nice, normal conversation so far, huh?)  She says something unintelligible, so I ask her to repeat.  I still couldn't make sense of what she was saying, so she screams at me while pointing to my garden "That stuff you got growing back there, that witchcraft stuff, I hope it all comes back on you and your family!!!!!!!!!!!"  Then she stomps off into her house.  I have no idea what it is she thinks is "witchcraft stuff."  Maybe it's the corn.  I don't know.  About 3 years ago, my neice and her boyfriend both were out of work, so my husband told them he would pay them to help him put a new roof on the garage.  This neighbor saw quasi-nephew working on the roof, and asked him to repair a shed roof she had that was leaking over her kitchen.  So neice and quasi-nephew got a little side job repairing her roof.  (Hubby helped, free of charge, just to make sure the job was done right, to avoid friction with the neighbor)  Well, she had security cameras and motion detectors all over the roof, aimed at every corner and span of her yard.  She told hubby she needed them because her ex sent people to spy on her all the time.  What did we know, sometimes ex's are strange, we thought maybe she had a reason to be worried.  So we started paying attention, but we have never seen anyone suspicious hanging around.  But she has said and done a couple of weird things.  If she does have mental problems, (and it seems evident that she DOES) Lord, I don't want to be the focus of her delusions!  Now I am going to be just a bit nervous every time I go out to my garden, wondering if she's watching, and hoping she doesn't try to act on any delusions she's been having, like, oh, say, burn me at the stake or whatever.