Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Campers, shooters and money

We and our neighbors are still trying to find out if the people/person camping down the road about 3/4 mile from us has a permit or when exactly their 16 days start, if they don't. We drove past it on Saturday and quite a bit more junk and garbage spread all over his campsite. It seems ridiculous that the 16 days starts when the Forest Service gets around to "making contact". It should be when someone first reports them there, in my opinion. He's already on day 12 since we all first noticed him. After I called last Thursday, Mr. Neighbor followed up with an email to the FS lady, cc'ing us and another neighbor down the road. She never replied, so this morning I sent an all reply email asking her for an update on the campers status. Her reply back was that they still needed to send their "LEO" out there and she will let us know. Typical. DH had also talked to the deputy about it, with his chat about that and the gun shooter and let him know of the suspicious amount of very slow driving vehicle activity late night since that camper moved in. Deputy said they'd put some patrols through there and they did, right away, and since then there have been no more suspicious cars driving by at midnight.

While the gun reloader guy continues his ways across from us, the shooting that had been going on 1/2 mile down river from us has not resumed. It's looking more and more like maybe the shooter there was that pilot guy who did the ill-fated motorcycle jump.

There was a nice house on the river, about 5 miles from us, that just recently went for sale for $1 million dollars. I see it already has a pending sale for it now. Was only on the market a couple of weeks. While the house, a mile from us, that has been for sale for same price, off and on for years, still has not sold.  

I realized I need to adjust my subscription monthly purchase of dog food and treats. A 40 lb bag of dog food lasted about 1 month and we have a full bin inside and 2 bags in the garage. I went online to skip the late April shipment, and then realize I can skip it for several months now, as the 3 bag supply we already have is now going to last 6 months instead of 3. Same with everything else, I guess. 

It's been sunny and nice the past few days. Warmed to around 60 degrees, but tomorrow is predicting snow. Just a tease of spring we've been having, I guess.

I need to contact the assistant broker lady who does the administrative work on my mom's retirement $. In the past it looks like her RMD (required minimum distribution) was split up into two transfers, first of March and first of Sept. Last year she got her first of March and then I realized due to Covid changes, she didn't have to take the RMD, so I had them turn it off for the Sept payment. This year it is back to being required and nothing has been transferred yet. Though she did get a letter from them early in the year telling her what her RMD amount for this year is, none of it has transferred yet. So, I need to find out what the plan is and make sure her distribution got turned back on for this year.

I need to run into town at lunch break today. Out of milk and might as well pick up a few others things. I haven't been to town in like 3 or 4 weeks, LOL. I had been to the city enough the past month to get what I needed there, but milk always seems to be the thing I run out of.

8 comments:

  1. Our weather is out of whack too. I do miss the mild nice springs of my childhood. Nowadays, we seem to jump from winter to summer directly.

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    1. pretty normal for here, though, LOL. Winter tags along long into spring and then suddenly it's summer.

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  2. You would think they wouldn't want the junk & trash that the camper brings. Who's going to clean that up? That 16 days business is screwed up!

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    1. You would think! especially as this camper is not back where you can't see him, he's right along the main road. It's 16 days from when the Forest Service decides he's been there, not when it was reported. It's been 13 days now since it arrived there. I'm sure us that live near it will end up cleaning it up.

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  3. I suppose there is no "getting away from trashy people" when the trashy people keep coming in your area. I am quite sure no one would be upset if people just picked up their trash.

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    1. that's what just about everyone here has said. If they just took care to keep their campsite area clean no one would have much problem with them. It looked worse there when I drove by yesterday.

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  4. I does look like the shooter and the guy who died recently were one and the same doesn't it!

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    1. it's sure leaning that way. I hope it's the case.

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