Demdamneighbors

Saturday morning the girls and I met at Panera Bread for brunch on their way out of town to go mow grass in Kentucky. My job for the weekend was to finish painting the hallway and to repaint one wall in the living room. I wanted to make it an accent wall, two shades darker than what I just painted it. I was unhappy with the way the red elephant picture looked. All afternoon Saturday I painted until I ran out of the trim color.

I pulled a bottle of wine out of the fridge and a couple of wine glasses and walked around the yard to find Rick. We sat on the porch talking until the bottle was empty. Seems he had an encounter with Nick the nuisance next door.

Rick spent the better part of the day spraying sealer on the deck and privacy fence. While he was standing in Nick's yard spraying the outside, Nick was talking to the little juvenile delinquent who lives on the other side of him. While staring Rick in the eye, Nick told Mitchell, "I ought to go in and get my gun and shoot that bitch for draggin' me into court all the time." Then when no reaction, "I'll shoot her husband too. He probably don't even know what's going on." Rick just finished the fence and moved on.

I think the point of this was to entice Rick into a confrontation of some sort. I told Rick he ought to make a police report. Rick said he's thinking about calling Mr. S. The landlord and telling him the dude's gotta go!

Did you read that Tylerann? I know you said that Nick made some sort of attempt at an apology last week but it's not genuine. I had a hard time thinking it might have been. Don't go getting to chummy.

Oh yeah, the wall I repainted turned out lovely. I think the new color is the color I wanted all along. Maybe I'll get a wild hair and repaint the other walls.