They came out at some point and staked the individual lots off. It looks like there’ll be 2 lots along the utility road and 3 along Meadow Green.

An hour or so ago, a guy showed up to prep for the big storage tank. The poor sucker’s got to mix individual bags of cement by hand. It’s going to be a long hot day for him! He put up some informational sign, but we can’t see what it says from the house. If they knew better, they’d have it say something like: Call this number every 2-3 years when this damn well breaks.

Anyway, the good of it is that if this guy fucks up, we don’t care because we won’t be affected by it, nor will we lose a dime over it. Just what is it that makes guys, with the exception of a few, so damn stupid anyway? I mean they are just so incredibly dumb! As opposed to women, there’s just no comparison. I guess it must be something in the way their brains develop that makes them such incompetent idiots. A good 90% of them anyway.

Originally he was going to shut our water off for a while, but when I went out to talk to him he told me he’d let us keep using the water as we always have till we leave, then it’ll be transferred over.

As for the unnerving news, another pig cruised by. I know Arizona’s riddled with bacon, but to see two squad cars out here of all places and in such a short time, makes me wonder if the freeloaders are after me again, though Tom insists they aren’t. What happened was a gold pickup came down from Bitter Root and stopped in front of the house. Not directly in front, but too close to it for my comfort. The pig was right behind them. They both stopped a few feet apart from one another and a guy got out of the truck and went to talk to the pig. I think the pig got out to talk to them, but since they were behind a Palo Verde, I couldn’t tell for sure or if they were gesturing towards this place in any way. This was right after I talked to the well guy, so I knew I couldn’t ignore the door if they came knocking, knowing the guy would’ve insisted that I was indeed home since he had just talked to me minutes ago. I probably would’ve ignored it anyway.

So after about 5 minutes of conversation, they took off with the gold pickup heading east and the pig going up Meadow Green and past the renters.

Speaking of the renters, the horse, trailer and loud truck may be gone, but not all the people. When I looked back there I saw 5-6 adults hanging out front talking. I see them drive by in a white van and sometimes a brown car, but they’re quiet. Either way, if the black bitch and her connections aren’t up to any of their old shit, we should be out of here in just 3-4 weeks, so who cares what the renters do, though I’d prefer the loud truck to stay away.

Tom thinks the pig was here regarding the property straight in front of us that people drive over. But they’ve been driving over that for years now, and I don’t think that property’s even been sold yet.

What is the boy next door doing out riding his bike now? Doesn’t he have school?

Anyway, I don’t understand why the pig would be called out about that even if it was bought supposedly by the cock with the pickup. What’s he gonna do? Stand there and wave traffic away for the guy?

Maybe it was connected to the new houses because they weren’t too far from where they were. I wish the damn tree hadn’t been in the way so I could maybe have gotten some idea by watching them just what they were discussing, but hey, if they come and arrest me because some stranger robbed the freeloaders and I’m the convenient one to blame till they know who really did it, I’ll just bail out and be gone. They won’t get me in no courtroom, that’s for sure. Still, the 7th– 12th can’t come fast enough!

The good news is that the laptop arrived yesterday. Not without some glitches, but that’s just our shit luck since the incompetent fuck-ups at the PO have to crush every other package we get. Sometimes you gotta wonder if it’s deliberate! It was missing a small screw that was preventing it from booting up. Although it took him a few hours, my genius husband figured it out. Now he’s loading software up, but it’ll be a few days before I can use it. From what I have seen of it so far, it looks good, though I don’t like the smaller screen. It’ll also take me some time to get used to operating its built-in mouse, but you can hook a regular mouse up to it. It’s got a big drive for a mid to late-90s laptop, and floppy and CD drives, too. Because the batteries only last 2-3 hours before they need recharging, I think I’ll use the adapter as much as I can.

Later…

We took a walk out in the 100º sun and checked out the stakes together. When I first looked at them, they didn’t seem to make sense according to the diagram the guy showed me as to how the property has been split. Well, I guess I just read it wrong, because it’s not going to be 2 properties on the south side and 3 on the north, but rather 2 on the east (one of them where this house is) and 3 on the west along George’s land. You can’t possibly split it the way I thought they were going to because of where this house is positioned. Doing that would put other houses too close to the edge, especially the one on the northeast corner. So they’ll probably create an easement where the utility road is for the house that’ll be on the southwest corner, and then another easement between the two east side properties for the middle west side house, and then the northwest house which will be closest to the renters can just get in via Meadow Green.

The worker left a while ago and we can’t figure out what the hell he’s doing. The sign has no sign, but just a small section of metal mesh. Then he’s got a long skinny box he made framed of wood that’s full of cement. We don’t know what it’s for.

Huey’s not going to be bringing in the other houses like I thought. He’s just going to sell the land. The only one with a house on it will be ours, of course.

Anyway, Tom’s pretty sure that Freon is slowly leaking from the AC and that if we were to stay it would’ve lasted throughout the summer, but not the winter. At least it won’t be our problem! Yeah, but we’ll have enough new ones to be dealing with. Either way, the next people are already cursed. That’s problem number one they’ll have to deal with.

I’m just glad we beat the bank at their own game. I mean, we got it made now since they’re required to give people 30-day notices. Even if they came out right now and said we had to be out in 30 days, it’d be like fine assholes, we’ll be out in less than that.

Not surprisingly, HUD’s blown Tom off and hasn’t responded back to him. Why should they? He’s a white, non-religious guy. That’s alright, though, because in Oregon things are going to be different. We’re not going to be made to suffer on account of other people’s bullshit. No more of the ‘you hit us, we hit back, we pay’ bullshit. We’re fighting back from now on and we’re not going to pay for it, either.

Other than that, life is good. Tom is slowly but surely making progress with the laptop and he took care of insurance for the RV. He’s also gathering prices and places to get the few odds and ends we’ll need for the RV like new roof vents and a gas cap, and we want to replace the windshield, too.

Tom explained more about why the pig came out. He said that if someone drives over a property for years and no one reports it, it becomes legal. Meanwhile, someone probably bought the property which means that the buyer has to go through various steps to do something about it, starting with having a pig verify it.