Birds and bad guys

Here's a cute video taken last evening of my bird bath and hummingbird feeder. Busy time!

Well, at least I hope you can view it. I've never uploaded a video before. It's only about a minute long.  Speaking of birds, my chickens still have no eggs layed, LOL.

Our little town/county is falling apart. We haven't had a jail in like a year, they had to close it down because they can't find enough people to staff it (well, seriously who would want to be a jail guard for $11/hr?!!). Then 2 weeks ago our under sheriff retired and then the sheriff resigned for health reasons. At the same same 2 (out of 5 deputies) quit and 2 dispatchers quit. Add to that some in the county aren't liking how the 3 commissioners are handling a replacement sheriff, as it's an elected position.

Then throw in a guy who is a total 100% troublemaker to everyone (everyone except all the town partiers/bar goers). His neighbors, the fire dept, the police dept (except one deputy he is buds with), the county commissioners, the town mayor and council...the list goes on. He uses community social media to air all his gripes. Just tried to get one of the commissioners to resign because he didn't like something she did. She was wrong what she did, but she apologized to all involved and said she was wrong. Can't ask for much more than that and it wasn't like she did something illegal or corrupt. He recently got charged with disorderly conduct and pled not guilty on a technicality and now has a court date next month. He and his wife have a B&B type place they are trying to fix  up. In the meantime it is literally a party there every weekend as they have a "BYOB bar" that is apparently legal. His neighbors are beyond sick of him, but if they complain he just does more. He put up a fence on one side and since his neighbors had complained about something, he painted their side of the wood fence rainbow colors.

Then there's the guy that now wants to be sheriff, one of the deputies. Kind of a newer guy who came from another county. Well, our neighbor found out neither the sheriff or the commissioners did a background check on him when they hired him! (we found most of this info from our neighbor). So, neighbor (who works for little county newspaper) did a background check yesterday and was like "oh geez, ya, he's not good". He was charged for being part of a poaching ring or something. He came from a nearby county, which just so happens the guy that did all our insulation work, was until recently, a commissioner for that county. DH just called him up to ask him what he knows about this deputy. As soon as DH said his name he said "oh god - your county needs to get rid of him! We did!". Among other things he sued their city/county 5 times while he was a deputy.  This does not sound like someone we want as a sheriff, that's for sure. (not to mention he's the deputy who is buds with the town/county troublemaker mentioned above). It will sure be interesting to see how this all shakes out over the next month or two.

Then yesterday (and it's happened a few more times since I think I mentioned it awhile back) we had another small plane fly low right over the river in front of our house. I was sitting upstairs in my office and the plane was almost literally eye level! They are supposed to be up 500 feet according to FAA, not to mention 500 feet from any structures on the ground.......so right at this very minute I'm typing this the guy who oversees our little county airport returned DH's call.....he says it's 1000 ft!
Anyhow, yesterday dh got in the car and drove the 6 miles to the airport and the guy was just getting his little plane starting to go in his hanger. DH stops and takes a pic of it, so he gets the tail numbers. Then gets out and nicely asks the guy if he could stay up the 500 feet while going over houses. The guy says "oh, do you live in such and such neighborhood?" (about a mile past us, where there are quite a few houses along the river) and dh says no. Then the guy kind of smirkey says "well, I was 500 feet from something". DH says, well, not from my house. The guy then says he was just flying low to let my kids know he was back. He said he wouldn't do it again, so hopefully he won't.  I really have no desire to look out my upstairs window and see a plane almost level with it! DH is also pretty sure this is the same plane who was flying low the other day with what looked like he was trying to do "tricks" and dh thought he wasn't going to make a sharp turn he did and get over the mountain across from us. DH said he suddenly made a sharp turn towards the mountain and then had to suddenly increase his altitude quickly.