Man, oh man,

but it's raining here....the pellet stove is set on the second setting AND the furnace is on. What gives? Not that I really mind too much today and let me tell you why.... Just over a week ago, things were looking good in the Hood. The city came in and worked on the roads, laid in some irrigation lines and came to lay curbs. Beautiful, isn't it? My curb. Tee hee. We really thought they were dry when we went out...we really, truly did....but I think it's cute, all the same.

Some of you may not know why curbs would make us so happy around here. This street has looked pretty trashed for quite a while, and people parked up on what was supposed to be curbs, or all the way onto the sidewalks sometimes. Huge mudpits and puddles so deep they could swallow you whole were everywhere...so now we have curbs....

and we have street trees....woot woot!!!

I got a flowering dogwood in front of my house!!!! How rocking is that?!? One of my very favorite trees ever...this one is white and already flowering. I have one planted in the yard that is a pink flower and has not yet bloomed. So cool. Dogwood city right here.

So, yeah...seems like things should be feeling pretty good around here but WHAM!!!!!

Crackheads, dealers and hookers EVERYWHERE!!!!! And they're all new. Like a freaking ferry full of new arrivals and somebody told them all that Victoria Road is the place to be. Literally, I heard a brand-new(used)hooker on the street asking someone walking where Victoria Road was while she was standing on it. What happened? There are addicts in the church stairwell, down both alleys, in the park, yelling at residents, knocking on our door at 11:30pm(yup, it's true)... new cars dealing that we are already sick of seeing, a million and one phone calls to the RCMP, so many new(used) hookers...how many crack hookers can one medium-sized town support? I am sickened by how many this town can support. New(used) faces, same old story...again, what just happened?!?

So I am enjoying the downpour today. It's the only day in the past week where there hasn't been a steady stream of hookers, dealers, crackheads, etc going past my place from the moment I pull back the curtains in the morning til the time I close them up again at night. With the Empire Days Parade coming next weekend and lining up outside against our new curbs, maybe the City should invest in some Majorette costumes for the girls working out there...since they are already parading, that is. But the City will probably round them up and move them out for the day , like usual.

Well, I suppose I better go do something constructive today....I have barely left the general area of the pellet stove's radiant, glowing heat. Man, oh man, is it really May?!?