That damn wildlife! The prairie dogs and rabbits are cute, but I’m sick of them going after the stuff we try to plant. They messed with the Poplars and the Sharons, but they are still alive, so hopefully they’ll make it. At least they can’t mess with the oleanders since they’re poisonous. Still, I don’t understand why enough is never enough for them. I put out food, they have a million other trees and bushes to nibble on, yet they just have to get into everything and anything out there.

Meanwhile, I did get a letter about my early freedom after all. There’s no way I could decipher the scribbled name of the judge, but I can at least see, not at all to my surprise, that it isn’t the one that sentenced me. Yes, I figured a hateful monster like that couldn’t one day up and have a heart. Perhaps it’s a random thing and when a petition is put in by a PO, you never know what judge is going to end up receiving it, and in my case, it was just a matter of getting it to the right judge who’d finally put their foot down and say enough’s enough.

The letter reads as follows:

The defendant has completed approximately two years and five months of her three-year probation grant. Pinal County Adult Probation Officer B has supervised the defendant as a courtesy case since May 2001. According to APO B, Ms. S has a good attitude and has completed over two years of probation “incident-free.” The defendant reports twice monthly as directed and completed 100 hours of community service on September 6, 2001. Ms. S completed a mental health screening on August 7, 2001 and outpatient anger management counseling on October 19, 2001. She has neither tested positive for drugs/alcohol nor had any known police contact. APO B did not direct the defendant into adult education classes. It is APO B’s opinion that the defendant is not in need of such classes. Ms. S has a high school diploma and is a graduate of sign language school. According to the Clerk’s records probation service fees are current. The defendant has little to no supervision needs and appears to be an appropriate candidate for early termination. If the Court deems early termination inappropriate, it is respectfully requested that the probationer be placed on unsupervised probation. It is further recommended that this offense be designated a misdemeanor.