Thanksgiving Holiday
"Dinner" was at my brother's home, as is all our family holiday get-togethers. I say dinner, but it's actually very informal with the buffet style where everyone fills their plate and then either sits at the nook table, the dining room table or scattered around the rec. room.
This Thanksgiving, Marty's parents joined us. I was glad to see them enjoying themselves and feeling comfortable. With Rusty in California visiting Jayne, mom and dad in-law would have spent Thanksgiving alone. I am very happy that they came to dinner and had a holiday surrounded by family. Yes, in-laws are family.
Heard disturbing news from my parents about their past next-door neighbor. This person was a single mother, raising two small children on her own, was a city bus driver, very nice woman. She was a good neighbor renting the house, no wild parties, no problems, kept the yard looking nice, kept the house in good shape, took excellent care of her children, had only her boyfriend and her 19 year old male cousin visiting.
The cousin stopped showing up and was reported as a missing person back in the mid 1990's.
The neighbor moved several years ago and two guys moved in. The guys did nothing, didn't leave the house to go to a job, did no yard care or house maintenance, but had visitors at all hours. Mom thought they were drug dealers. They had a not so friendly dog in the backyard and opened the crawl space underneath the house where the dog went for shelter.
One day Mom noticed the dog chewing on a large bone. Later that day a county sheriff's car was at that house. Shortly afterwards, three sheriffs were there. Mom figured it was a drug bust. But then a Coroner car and Forensics van drove up. Mom thought someone overdosed and died. It turned out to be much more serious than that.
The bone the dog had was a human bone that he got from the crawlspace. Yep, it belonged to the missing cousin. The cousin was buried in the crawlspace.
Mom and Dad are very alert to what happens in their neighborhood, but their neighbor, the nice woman, somehow buried the body of her cousin without anyone seeing or sensing anything different.
Freaky for sure. What are your neighbors doing tonight?
To get your mind off that, here is a photo of Bordeaux enjoying life even with his broken pelvis, which is mending very well.
This Thanksgiving, Marty's parents joined us. I was glad to see them enjoying themselves and feeling comfortable. With Rusty in California visiting Jayne, mom and dad in-law would have spent Thanksgiving alone. I am very happy that they came to dinner and had a holiday surrounded by family. Yes, in-laws are family.
Heard disturbing news from my parents about their past next-door neighbor. This person was a single mother, raising two small children on her own, was a city bus driver, very nice woman. She was a good neighbor renting the house, no wild parties, no problems, kept the yard looking nice, kept the house in good shape, took excellent care of her children, had only her boyfriend and her 19 year old male cousin visiting.
The cousin stopped showing up and was reported as a missing person back in the mid 1990's.
The neighbor moved several years ago and two guys moved in. The guys did nothing, didn't leave the house to go to a job, did no yard care or house maintenance, but had visitors at all hours. Mom thought they were drug dealers. They had a not so friendly dog in the backyard and opened the crawl space underneath the house where the dog went for shelter.
One day Mom noticed the dog chewing on a large bone. Later that day a county sheriff's car was at that house. Shortly afterwards, three sheriffs were there. Mom figured it was a drug bust. But then a Coroner car and Forensics van drove up. Mom thought someone overdosed and died. It turned out to be much more serious than that.
The bone the dog had was a human bone that he got from the crawlspace. Yep, it belonged to the missing cousin. The cousin was buried in the crawlspace.
Mom and Dad are very alert to what happens in their neighborhood, but their neighbor, the nice woman, somehow buried the body of her cousin without anyone seeing or sensing anything different.
Freaky for sure. What are your neighbors doing tonight?
To get your mind off that, here is a photo of Bordeaux enjoying life even with his broken pelvis, which is mending very well.
posted by Stephanie @ 12:27 AM
1 Comments:
At 5:25 PM,
Jaynespace said…
Whoa.
On another note, thanks for inviting my parents!
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