Keb, I'm sorry and angry to read about how your parolee friend is being treated. Having served his time and lived an exemplary life would seem to be the reasons to leave him alone. But the current administration is all about hate and misery. ICE is the modern day Brownshirts.

Helen, you're lucky the house didn't burn or you didn't get shocked! Is your house the tallest thing in the area? Maybe it's time to install a lightning rod.

This morning as I left my house to feed the friend's cats I spotted a skunk running along the next door neighbor's fence, across the street and then up into the grass and trees next to the bridge. It must have spent the night along the creek behind the house. No dogs got skunked today and the skunk lived to tell about it, so if any of these parties were present at last year's Mothers Day skunkfest, they all learned their lessons. Staying out of trouble, indeed!