Sunday January 30th 2022

Sunday morning at around 9:30 and I’m back from my walk through the Arboretum, I had walked over to the Visitors Centre with Miss Laurie as she was helping out in the store this morning, and I think we need to start walking in the park a little more often, and at that time of the day it is so serine and there is so much more wildlife around. Here are a few photos of this Sunday mornings walk in the arboretum.

As you can see being the first human on the arboretum trail in the morning has some advantages, because no one has had a chance to disturb the residents of the park, and some of the views at sunrise are stunning to say the least.

As the NFL football playoffs are underway I’m hoping to watch the Bill’s take on the Chiefs this afternoon after the Rams hopefully beat out the Buccaneers. But with NFL football you never know what will happen as this year even the Bengals are still playing football this late in January, and who would have foreseen that?

Miss Laurie thought we should go for a hike today after she was done work, she was looking to explore Arnett Canyon, which is located just one ridge over, but she wanted to try to get there from the arboretum, let’s just say it was well and good, but a somewhat strenuous hike for this old fart, three hours later we made it back to the coach.

We seemed to spend a lot of time on the hike back, walking up the Queen Creek, as Miss Laurie found a couple of pieces of River glass, which is very similar to Beach glass but apparently different.

On the good side of today’s football game outcomes, both Brady and Rogers are on the playoff sidelines, so I’m thinking this could be absolutely any teams Super Bowl to win this year, from here in, I’m cheering for the underdog. We spent a couple of hours at Tom & Kathleen’s site having a couple of adult beverages and some snacks, it was another sunny day but the temperatures drop off quick, so as the sunset we headed to the coach to watch, the Bills take on the Chiefs, and get some dinner.

Ok now let’s have a moment of silence for the failure of the The Bills, this was a great season, lost by an overtime coin flip, as some might say. But the reality is that Buffalo lost the game in the last 13 seconds of regular time, maybe difficult for fans to hear but true. But what a game to watch, certainly one of the best NFL games that I have watched in many years, so once again congratulations Buffalo on a great year!

Monday, we started this morning with a walk in the arboretum, before the gates opened, and while we didn’t see as much wildlife today, the sunrise was beautiful, and the arboretum was quiet until the people landed, but Miss Laurie had a cardinal and a rabbit pose for photos. One of the things we hear a lot from visitors is “I didn’t see or hear any birds” and after sitting while a couple of groups walked by, I can explain why, your all too darn noisy, and the other issue is the quantity of dogs. I’m not a dog lover or hater, but well behaved dogs seem to be few and far between. I don’t blame the dog, I blame the dog owner, please just teach your dog, to sit, to heel, and then control your dog as you enjoy the arboretum. We watch a steady stream of dogs dragging their owners around the arboretum, just like we do at most campgrounds, Miss Laurie would tell you there are no bad dogs, but there’s lots of bad dog owners!

This afternoon we are going to kayak the lower Salt River in the Tonto National Forest with Ray & Karen, this is a down river adventure, about 4.5 miles (7 kilometers), but there needs to be a certain water level to make this trek possible. It also requires two vehicles, one at the exit point and one at the entrance point. The entry and exit point from the river are also very important, being not too steep, not too many rocks, not too much mud, and of course not too far to carry the kayaks in or out, this adventure was quite acceptable. There was a little fast moving water, with lots of gentle floating, with a little bit of paddling at the exit point, part of the lure to this area is the opportunity to see the wild horses which frequent the area, and are often seen near the river. And today was no exception, ahead of us eleven horses came out to the river, but before we could get near enough to them for good pictures something spooked them and they ran off before we could get any real good photos.

We made it back to the arboretum before the gate was locked, and settled in for some dinner, and to catch up on some YouTube videos, the “Big Tent” is up in Quartzsite and the “Tampa RV Show” are both happening this month so lots of YouTubers are getting their content from the shows, some good, some not so much. I have been to both events and neither one was what I had hoped it would be. They both bill themselves as RV shows, but there is a lot of crap at both of them, I have purchased items at both, there are deals to be had, but you have to to your homework and know both your prices and the exact product your purchasing, and in some cases it’s just easier to buy it at the show and carry it out rather than having it shipped, because of weight, size, or simply fear of it being damaged. But the shows are as different as night and day, Tampa midpoint on the gulf coast of Florida in a metro area held at the State fairgrounds, Quartzsite in the Arizona desert, in a tiny town on Interstate 10, it is held in a tent larger than two football fields. Quartzsite offers free parking and you can park within a hundred feet of the tent, while the Tampa show was $20 to park and you better have your comfortable walking shoes with you.

People have asked who we watch on YouTube? And the answer is not nearly as many people as we once did. We started watching when we were deciding to make this lifestyle change, so any one that was full-timing was of interest to us, and there seemed like a long list at the time, but as time has moved along we now realize how many full-timers there are out here, and a number of the people we were watching has changed, for a number of reasons. Here is a list (in no particular order) of YouTubers that we originally started watching, the list is much shorter today, but each one of these served a purpose at some point in our journey.

• Nomadic Fanatic
• The Motorhome Experiment
• KYD (Keep Your Daydream)
• Gone with the Wynn’s
• Less Junk More Journey
• Love your RV
• RVer TV
• RV Love
• CheapRVliving
• Outliers Overlander
• We’re the Russos
• Camping With The Kelly’s
• Rufus and Dufus
• Drivin’ and Vivin’
• Long Long Honeymoon
• Morton’s on the move
• Paddy Wagon
• RV Geeks
• The Deprey’s
• Tiny Home Tours

Many have had channel name changes, a few have passed away, some have just quit producing content, and a few have taken their channel off into directions that we have little or no interest in. Many YouTuber’s are making a living producing content, they are paid by how many subscribers, how many views a video gets, how long viewers watch the video, how many ads their viewers watch, as well as many have Patreon or Membership accounts, where viewers donate set amount of money each month to help support the YouTuber, and in return they may receive some extra or some early content, or special YouTube live events, or maybe even actual met and greet events. Some of the YouTube channels we watch have around a half a million subscribers, but it seems that once they reach over a hundred thousand subscribers they seem to fall into a different return rate on their content. As many YouTubers are making a very nice living from their channels. So I totally understand them changing their channels to best capitalize their channel viewers, and if that direction is not of interest to me than I unsubscribe and move on.

Tuesday, and it is brrrr out this morning it is darn chilly, 39°F (4°C), the price we pay for those big blue skies with warm sunshine. The cute part of this story is as Laurie gets up a 7am, and the first word were “we aren’t walking this morning, it’s too cold for that”, and maybe she was right, because until that sun pops up it is cold, so no early walk through the arboretum today.

We are still looking for a work-camping position on Vancouver Island for the summer, and we sent out another resume this morning. I will get into more details as the process unfolds but, some of the responses we get could best be described as weird, but we received a phone message from one yesterday while we were kayaking that we are going to call them back this morning. Today I’m working on video taken on the Salt River kayaking adventure from yesterday, these projects take a lot of time to edit, GoPro, Drone, and iPhone video plus photos and a map, an intro and an ending and a little voice over, so far I’m still getting everything gathered up, next is the editing.

My editing got cut short, as we have some visitors stopping by for a cold beverage, we spend a lot of time outside of the coach, so many people just stop by, its great but it makes working on videos or writing blogs a little difficult, at least that’s my excuse. After our visitors left the decision was make to go to Porters for a beverage or two, this is a bar and grill in Superior just three miles up the road. There was a live music, the beer was cold, we ordered some snacks, actually an order of nachos that were excellent, and made for a good appetizer, we got back to the arboretum after the gate was locked, Miss Laurie made dinner and we settled in for the night with some television before turning in.

Wednesday, 1:15 this morning the smoke detector / carbon monoxide sensor decided to go into alarm mode … it is located in the ceiling over my side of the bed. Let’s just say it is one hell of a wake up call, and from a dead sleep to fully awake enough to remember how to silence it seemed like hours … and then to try to get back to sleep after walking the coach to check all the controls to confirm it was just a false alarm … let’s just say it wasn’t my most restful night.

Ok it’s now 5:50, and I’m up again, no the alarm never triggered again, this was more of a nature call, and now I’m watching Mars rise on the eastern horizon, it has been popping up ahead of the sun for the last few days, gaining a few moments each day, it shows up as a bright star and with one of my iPad apps I have I’m able to identify planets, constellations, and most satellites even the space station.

Today we are meeting up with Ray & Karen, for a little shopping adventure, on todays list of stores is the “Pork Shop”, Costco, Trader Joes, and Total Wine, throw in a little lunch at a Mexican restaurant and all of a sudden the days gone. So let’s talk about the ”Pork Shop” just a little shop on the outskirts of town, but what it lacked in size, it made up for with choice and variety, I will let you know on the flavour a little latter, but I’m thinking this may become a new regular stop.

A quick stop for a couple of beverages with Ray & Karen in Gold Canyon before returning to the arboretum just at dusk, a little dinner, and some television before turning in for the night, seems like it has been a long day, and we found out today that our shifts have changed, so no work tomorrow!

Thursday, morning after an uneventful evening, at least no alarms, but we woke this morning to a chilly 36°F (2°C) under clear skies, Mars is well above the the skyline and we are still almost an hour until sunrise. Normally we would be preparing to go to work today, but they have changed our work schedule, so this week we start Friday at 8am till 4pm, then Saturday 8am till 4pm and finish with Sunday 8am till noon.

We are here to volunteer, and will work whenever and wherever we are needed, we do what we are asked to do, and if we don’t think we are busy enough, we will look for things that need to be done, or ways to make the visitors experience the best it can be. So I guess we are being shuffled to cover some different times, and working the weekends is ok with us, we would rather explore and shop during the week, when crowds are lighter. Although this will mess with my scheduled publication time, so no more Sunday morning last minute cramming, and that’s likely a good thing, but it could mean a few late Saturday evenings.

I know the cold weather is gripping the east coast of the continent, and to be honest I occasionally post a photo to emphasize the weather of the desert, but because of the recent rain, and the warm weather, we are truly seeing spring in the desert, the photos below are a few of those photos

With this unexpected day off, I’m going to try to work on a few videos, as well as sorting through thousands of photos as I try to improve my editing skills, I’m working to get to a place where we can view different photo or video selections on a television. So I start by gathering all the photos and videos in one file then I find it easier to rename each video or picture, then it is easier to keep everything in the right order. Now the difficult part is taking the videos and trimming them to all fit into thirty minutes or less, then add enough information that anyone watching gets enough commentary to appreciate the views.

I believe that an upgraded editing program would help a lot, but I don’t want to spend a fortune either, but right now I’m thinking that a twenty minute video has between ten and twenty hours of work involved to produce. I know that there are some YouTubers that do a lot of one take videos but they are difficult as well if you are doing on the fly commentary, one slip up and it’s all ruined. The next problem is where to do the editing and then the final step is the voice over or music to make it complete … stay tuned.

Friday, morning which is now our Monday morning, and it is another sunny morning in Arizona, we have a wind advisory and are only expecting temperatures in the low 60’s (teens) but if it’s sunny it’s all good. Miss Laurie is helping out in the store first thing this morning and I’m manning the admissions booth.

On these early morning starts, we normally only have a bowl of cereal, a cup of coffee maybe with a little blessing, and of course a few (old fart) vitamins to try to keep us healthy. Today we have two bus loads of students at the arboretum, these were high school student and some of the best behaved students we have ever seen. No screaming, or shouting, just ninety well mannered young people, a rare commodity in this world today.

Today was a slower day, possibly because of the wind, but admissions were down today, and when your not busy it can make the days drag on a bit, so I watered the sale plants in the morning, then Laurie weeded the sale plants, then later in the afternoon when the volunteers in the store went home, Miss Laurie helped Chris in the store, until our shift ended at four o’clock. There was a little excitement later as there was a vehicle left in the parking lot, so the staff suspected that someone was in the arboretum after closing time, the staff had been through the park and couldn’t find them. Which most likely means they were not on the trails, there are close to 5 miles (8 kilometres) of trails in the arboretum, there are also paths and roads for staff use, so I suspect they were somewhere that they shouldn’t have been.

After an eight hour day there was not a lot happening in our world, I watched some golf, some dinner, the news, shark tank, some 20/20 then off to bed with the wind now gusting strong enough to rock the coach a little.

Saturday, morning and it’s a much warmer start to the day, with temperatures near 50°F (10°C), at six o’clock, a little morning television, some breakfast, a coffee and off to work, with the hope for a busier day than yesterday. The weather forecast is showing nothing but sunshine for the day, and there should be some cleanup after the winds yesterday.

The arboretum was busy today, by noon we had doubled yesterday’s admissions, the days just are so much better when we are busy. And today we processed over 800 visitors, so not a lot of down time today, after our shift a beverage with Tom & Kathleen, some leftovers for dinner and a couple of movies from Prime and Miss Laurie is off to bed.

I on the other hand am trying to finish this blog for its scheduled publication time, and I most likely have an hour or so to finish then if I’m not falling asleep a quick proof read to make sure it flows reasonably well. Because I’m adding to the blog continually it can some times gaps that need to be filled or occasionally some duplication that needs to be trimmed.

Sunday, well if everything happed to plan this blog published at one o’clock mountain time this morning, before I have even dragged my sorry butt out of bed, have a great day and Go Bengals Go, and those are words that I never expected to ever say!

Take only Pictures, Leave only Footprints – Good words to live by I think!

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Sunday January 23rd, 2022

Sunday afternoon 72°F (21°C) an amazingly sunny day in Arizona, the next week is showing nothing but sunshine for our little piece of the desert. Just published last week’s blog and for a quiet week there was a lot of stuff going on and this week right now nothing is planned but I do need some repair time so I can work on some projects, but this afternoon I’m kicking back in the anti-gravity chair to confirm the results of last week’s beer tastings.

Well, the afternoon group on the patio grew with Tom & Kathleen, Lincoln, John & Karen, Rob & Twila and Miss Mary stopping by for a beverage. Miss Laurie rolled out a new version of last week’s whiskey sour, using lime juice and prickly pear syrup, it was a cocktail that she had seen on Facebook to celebrate the Arizona Cardinals football team as they prepare for Monday night playoff football game, I assume because of the red colour from the prickly pear syrup.

Monday, and I may have a bit of a fuzzy head this morning, just possibly I may have had a couple of beverages too many, so there is not going to be a lot happening in my world today. So here in the States, today is a federal holiday to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, who was assassinated for demanding the right to vote for everyone regardless of colour, which seems so strange now as so many Republican States are passing laws to restrict the very thing he was killed trying to secure. But to celebrate his sacrifice the entrance to all National Park is free for the day, and here in Arizona state parks offer free entrance today as well.

At one time the arboretum operated under the Arizona State Park flag, but has not since 2019, but this morning as we watched the NBC weather, they reported todays weather for all the National parks in Arizona such as the Grand Canyon, then the next screen was a list of Arizona parks and tucked into the lower right corner of the screen was Boyce Thompson Arboretum, and it was right then that I said to Laurie that it would be a shyt show at admissions today, and it was, as hordes of people descend on the arboretum expecting free admission, a good day not to be working.

For lunch today Miss Laurie made Southwest Egg Rolls, in the air fryer, and while just her first attempt, I think they were a winner, great flavour, and not greasy at all. I had picked up a small roast of beef that was on sale to make a pot roast, and today was the day to make that happen, so after searing the roast on the barbecue, I put the Dutch oven on the induction plate and roasted it all afternoon, and while not a good cut of meat it turned out yummy, with some leftovers.

Tuesday, and the clouds have again rolled in, the temperatures today are cooler and we are under a possible rain event, they are forecasting less than a tenth of an inch, and only scattered showers possible. Not like our friends back on the east coast who are digging out after a snowstorm with more storms forecast for this week.

I ordered some glass frames from Warby Parker to try on, they let you pick five frames from their website and then they send them to you to try on at home, and if you find a suitable frame, their hope is that you will order your prescription glasses from them, in the mean time you send the five frames back with a prepaid return label. I broke my only recent pair of prescription glasses about a week before leaving Canada, so I have been wearing a pair of earlier prescription glasses, which have caused me some grief while trying to read books. So today I’m going to try the frames on, and anyone who has prescription glasses will know when trying on frames by looking in a mirror, knows that you can’t really see how they look until you have purchased them with your prescription.

So todays plan is to try each pair, and take a selfie, and look at them afterwards, I have not decided if we will venture to Mexico yet, where my last pair of glasses came from, as glasses are so much less expensive there, and usually ready the next day. So, which of these samples do you think looks best? Then the next major issue with ordering online, I’m concerned about not receiving the final glass fitting that you receive when you purchase glasses in store.

Sorry but I have to mention the total collapse of the Arizona Cardinals football team who got handed their butts on Monday night football by the Rams. This team has not won a recent game, and every week there is a long sad story (excuse), but I think the reality is that they are as bad as they have appeared, they are a young team and a lot of their earlier success was more luck than anything else, and the news casts this afternoon should be entertaining to watch, so “Go Bills Go“, and I will leave it there.

So, I decided to reseal one of the roof vents on the coach, and I knew it would be a major undertaking, but one that needed to be done, so the first stage which involved the removal of the Dicor, and then removing the attaching screws to allow removal of the vent from the roof for cleaning. That first little step consumed nearly three hours, then after cleaning the roof and vent surfaces, new butyl tape was installed then all the attaching screws installed and slowly tightened in sequence over and over again until the new butyl tape appeared to have sealed the two pieces together, after close to five hours kneeling on the roof, I made the corporate decision to wait till tomorrow to apply the new Dicor lap sealant.

Wednesday, and another cloudy morning in Arizona, today we are getting our booster vaccines, we made the decision to get the Moderna booster, as it was readily available close by (Gold Canyon) and now here in the States, they are saying it a good choice to mix and match vaccines. Miss Laurie booked our appointments at the Walgreens approximately a week ago, and unlike back in Canada there was certain no line up of people waiting to get our shot. After all there were only 23,000 new cases yesterday with 170+ deaths here in Arizona yesterday, and remember that less than half of the people in stores are wearing masks, because Governor Duffuss (Ducey) is against any type of prevention, to slow the spread, and as the Arizona Covid case count is only up 300+%, from the week before, and with only 58% (as of today) of the population fully vaccinated, and only 92% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated … so I guess that whole “right to choose” thing is working out well.

Thursday, and we got off to an exciting early start as Mr. Sam caught a mouse that we have been trying to trap for a couple of months. We could hear Sam chasing something while we were in bed, but it is not unusual for him to play for a bit before we rise for the day, the only difference was it was a mouse this morning instead of one of his favourite plastic springs … I picked a good morning not to be the first one up.

Back to work this morning, and my left arm is a little tender after my booster shot, but not nearly as tender as my knees and hips from my little vent resealing project from Tuesday. The sky is clear, and we are expecting another 70°F (21°C) sunny day here in Arizona, as we watch another winter storm roll through the eastern side of the continent, fresh on the heels of last week’s storm.

Well, another day struggling with equipment at the admission office, couldn’t seem to get the credit card machine to work, so only cash and membership entries today. You know I’ve worked at a number of places, but this was the first place I have worked that when there was an internet or networking issue, the upper management just went home, like seriously, hello people, if there is an issue you stay and help until it is resolved, going home would not have been in any management vocabulary in my life as a manager, still shaking my head on that one.

I checked the seal around the vent this afternoon, and while the Dicor looked fine, it was still too soft to install the new vent cover, will have to check again tomorrow. Now Miss Laurie seems to be having a few side effects from her booster, having some chills and the sweats. So she was not just messing with me, when she decided we should have burgers tonight instead of the regular Friday night schedule. I have had no side effects other than a tender arm, and it was still no worse than my knees and hips … jus’saying.

Friday, and the forecast is for a few clouds and possible rain overnight into Saturday, but the forecast is for less than a tenth of an inch, but here in the desert every little bit counts. But as I sit watching the sunrise, the skies are mainly clear, it’s a cool morning but nothing like on the east coast. Our start time is 9am this morning, and we hope they have the systems repaired from yesterday’s network failure, but whether it is or not, we can only do what we can do with the equipment we are given.

Well everything worked and we had a good day, Miss Laurie spent an hour or so sweeping and cleaning around the visitor Center, then I spent most of the afternoon explaining the arboretum and some of the highlights to see, there were a lot of first time visitors today and a number now are members of the arboretum. I explain the arboretum as being Arizona’s best kept secret, and after that first viewing, so many fall in love with the gardens. We explain that they are not manicured like the botanical gardens, the arboretum is maintained and irrigated to keep it alive but it is a very natural setting, there was a report of a large cat in the garden yesterday, as reported by a guest but staff did not see it, it was reported as a lynx but there are no lynx this far south, we have bob cats and mountain lions. The arboretum is a sanctuary for many species of creatures and we do receive some damage from time to time, but being a research facility, it is understood that nature will effect us from time to time, and it’s not as much about preventing nature as how to respond to nature, as we are only 400 acres in a very huge desert.

Saturday, morning a cloudy grey morning, today is our possible rain day, but there is no expectations of any quantity of rain, just a few sprinkles here and there. Remember the cloudy nights are warm nights as the heat doesn’t escape so we were over 50°F (10°C) at 6am this morning, and the clouds make for some amazing sunrise photos.

Today is our long day so in the admissions booth at 8am, it’s not crazy busy in the mornings but there are a number of visitors out early before the crowds hit, I’m in the booth, and Miss Laurie is helping in the store, unwrapping merchandise, we have been amazed by how much product is sold every day in the store. But after our recent visit to Scottsdale, we know our pricing is very reasonable in comparison. So Miss Laurie is unpacking turtles, a very popular purchase by many guests, it has been a subject of many a conversation but every day dozens of these turtles disappear, it’s like a great magic trick.

I have been staying on top of the blog this week and in fact I’m typing on my phone in the admissions booth this morning. I realize that I haven’t been for a walk in the arboretum this week as I have added nothing to my park highlights for over a week, so tomorrow morning I will be going for a walk to check the gardens to better be able to answer the most common question, what’s in bloom? And right know the aloes are the main blooming feature, although with most days being over the average temperature for January, I expect that a number of things will be blooming in the near future.

The arboretum offers discovery tours of the Wallace Garden, The Arboretum, or the medical tour. The first two tours are no charge and there is a five-dollar charge for the medical tour. The photo below is of one of the host volunteers starting this morning’s Arboretum Discovery tour, which is a recommendation i would make for any visitor, you sign up for online up to a couple of weeks in advance and are done by docens, who are trained to give qualified tours.

As Saturday morning comes to a close, the visitor flow seems to lighten at noon, so we take turns sneaking to the courtyard to grab some lunch which Miss Laurie has prepared, the courtyard is located behind the store and is usually one of the quieter areas in the arboretum, many tables and chairs where we can usually find a seat in the sunshine. Today’s lunch is some left over pot roast sliced up for sandwiches, with some horseradish, mmmm good.

Admissions has been busy today, I always find it amazing how the visitors seem to arrive in waves, you look up and think some bus must have pulled in but, NO BUS. And don’t misunderstand me, we like to be busy so the more the merrier, when busy the shift flies by, it is the slow days that drag on so bring on the bus! Today we have had periods of sunshine, followed by the occasional gust of wind, then around our quitting time the sky turned dark, and we are seeing the occasional rain drop, as we cash out our tray, and again our work week over.

This is our long day and by the end of the day, you are exhausted from repeating the same welcome or introduction over and over again. So Saturday nights are usually pretty calm in The Buchanan coach, a beverage or two, a little dinner, and some mindless television before an early evening. This evening Miss Laurie is off chasing rainbows, and I’m watching some golf on the golf channel, because it’s a windy cool evening some spaghetti will hit the spot, the days are stretching out a little longer each day, so I have been watching the storm roll by just north of the arboretum from my lounge chair in the coach.

Sunday, and Miss Laurie is off to help in the visitor centre as there is a group of birdwatchers coming in at 8am, and the other volunteers don’t start on Sunday till 10am. And I’m heading into the gardens for a walk through and get some photos, for the blog, and it has been over a week since my last walk about. Not sure if the photos will make this week’s blog as I worked hard to close it out on schedule today

Now I have sat on this for a day and have debated whether to go here or not, but I just can’t let it go. So here is the story, at a school board meeting somewhere in Virginia, imagine if you can a mother threatening the school board that if they bring in a mask mandate for the students, to try to protect her offspring, that she will bring her loaded guns to the school on Monday morning. Now just pause for a moment to let that sink in. Covid is presently hospitalizing hundreds of children daily, some with serious consequences, so here is a school board trying to protect the students, just to have some “whack job” parent threaten to bring loaded guns to the school. There are a couple of issues here first this “whack job” would seem to be part of the special group that still most likely believes the pandemic is a hoax, secondly now the world knows she has threatened the whole school board on video, I personally thinking it is time for child services steps in to remove the children from her before she is able to do any more harm to them. And I pretty sure you can’t threaten to shoot up a school without some consequence even in Virginia. The question that comes to mind is what the he!! is wrong with people, how can they be so out of touch with the real world that anyone can think this kind of behaviour is OK.

As always be well, stay strong, and avoid the “Special People”!

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