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I could have posted quite a few rants over the past three months, but I decided to wait until it was finally over to post. Since we retired and moved to the Ozarks in Missouri my wife's horse has been with our daughter in mid-west Missouri. Our daughter (Heather) is active duty Air Force and she's been living with her "boyfriend". Lets just say my first impression of him wasn't a good one. A few months ago Heather got orders to the Pentagon. Of course she couldn't take the horses with her so we scrambled to fence in two acres, build a shelter and a round bale feeder for them. After spending around $4000 for that, we were ready for the horses about two weeks before she transferred. Heather dragged her feet a bit and the horses didn't get moved before she transferred, but it was okay. Her "boyfriend" (I will keep putting that in parenthesis) said he would bring them in Heather's trailer, a two-horse trailer with living quarters. It has a gooseneck hitch. Well, the "boyfriend" totaled her truck before she transferred and to shorten this as much as possible, he bailed on bringing the horses four weekends in a row. I tried in vain to find a rental truck with a gooseneck hitch and I don't know anyone with a gooseneck hitch on their truck. SO, Friday I paid $900 to have a gooseneck hitch installed on my short-bed F-150 and had to spend another $200 on an offset gooseneck hitch ball because of the living quarters being above the hitch on Heather's trailer. $1100 for a hitch I will most likely never use again. Saturday we drove 4 1/2 hours there and went to hook up to the trailer. Two tires were flat. Thank goodness her neighbor Kenton was standing by to help because Heather's dirtbag of a "boyfriend" cut her out of his life, stopped accepting calls, stopped texting and blocked her on social media as soon as she left. Heather has been an emotional wreck. The "boyfriend" conveniently wasn't there because he is afraid of me now, although there is no need. I wouldn't waste my time or effort on him. Anyway, we lost time taking one of the trailer tires to have a valve stem replaced. We aired the tires up, loaded the horses and started the 4 1/2 hour trip back. On the way another tire went flat. The valve stem on it was also cut, which really raised an eyebrow. I had to change a tire on the side of the road with the horses in the trailer. We finally limped home on the spare after being gone 14 hours. The next morning ANOTHER tire was flat. The valve stem on that tire had a cut in it also. Anyway, I backed the trailer into the woods and it can sit there. The horses are here and they're adjusting to their new living conditions on the rocks. I am going to have to adjust to having to constantly get hay and take care of horses again, although the day to day care will fall squarely on my wife unless she's not here. I'll just do the heavy lifting as needed. I've never really cared for horses. Now I'm pretty sure I hate horses.
Man, I really wish you'd have called me. I know too many people with haulers that live up there. Hell I could have called in a favor and had a couple people help out.
That would have been nice, but I would have hated for them to have to deal with the flat tires and delays.
After all that, I hope they are young horses... lol You had to have stacked a cabinet full of hunting season brownie points one that trip.
On a bright note, it's only the Circuit Court and that is only 10 minutes from the Van Buren camp. All I have to do is take along a nice change of clothes. Then again, if they call me during the hunt I should just show up in full camo.
3 months of on call jury, no thank you. That seems excessive. Luckily here in MD its only a week long, and get selected every 2 years or so. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
Oh so sorry. I believe they have me on a list. I was getting them every 3 years then they sent one that would require my going downtown Rochester. Well that was the "straw" as it were, and out came the pen and paper. By the time I was done writing I had covered multiple issues. It's been many many years since I've gotten another, I'd lay odds on never getting another
3 freaking months on the hook for jury duty AND through the best whitetail hunting months?!? That's some straight up BS right there.
Little chief I straight up told them They had zero legal right to put my safety on the line to do jury duty. That if they wanted me to travel to Rochester that they would have to send a police car to take me to the court house , officers to escort me to the court room then drive me home. That I do not drive in cities and I do not go to Rochester because I was attacked as a young girl by two spanish speaking males in Rochester, on the street in broad day light. It was my youth and fight that saved me after they threatened me with a knife. That I'm an older woman not willing to risk another confrontation. I added several other things but thats the basic of letter People are told you cant fight the system , I call BS
