Ready For The Weekend

Good Morning!

I am trying this morning to take a bit of time to go visit everyone's journals.  I have not read or commented in any journals for about a week now, which is very unusual for me.  But I'm ready to get caught up with everyone now. 

 

Thomas and I are going away for the weekend (our little anniversary gift to ourselves), and I think I just about have everything packed and ready.  So while I'm finishing up I thought I'd drop in and out of journals throughout the morning.  I hope I get by to visit you! [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v679/helmswondermom/MeMe/mz_030406_10012882138.gif[/IMG]

Thank you to everyone who indulged my Posy of Deputies entry.  I just want to assure everyone that I don't take much notice of any grammatical or spelling errors in journals.  I enjoy everyone's own personal style of writing, and so many of you out there write in such a nice conversational style that makes it easy and enjoyable to read.   Yes, I'm picky about grammar and such, but that is just pertaining to myself when I write in my own journal.  (And I do feel horrified whenever I am caught out in a mistake!)  But my sisters like to tease me and I tease them, and sometimes it makes for some interesting exchanges of letters or emails.  (My sister, Barbara, and I used to write one another in Latin as a means of practicing our translation, but, sad to say, it has been so many years now that I doubt I could do that anymore.  But that should give you an idea of how we interact! lol)

I do have a few things I'd like to write about.  We have had several shootings, suicides, and other tragedies in our Louisville, KY/Southern Indiana neighborhoods in the last few weeks, and I'd like to mention a few of the things that have happened.

First of all, one of those 9 firemen who died in that Carolina fire was from a little community near us, so our community felt some effect from that.  Around the same time as that tragedy we had a couple of Sheriff's Deputies in a county bordering ours who, while answering a call to a domestic dispute, were shot.  One of them was killed; a husband and father of a two-year-old girl.  The young gunman, a 15-year-old, straight-A student, then killed himself.  He'd been having an argument with his mother over his marijuana use.  The officer who was not killed is still in rehab right now, but is expected to be going home soon.  Almost immediately following that tragedy there were a series of shootings and murder/suicides in our community and across the river in Louisville, including a father who killed his wife and her daughter, and wounded a stepson before killing himself.  Yesterday or late last night an Indiana State Trooper who stopped to aid what he thought was a stranded motorist was shot and killed by that motorist who then turned the gun on himself.  Why do these suicidal people have to harm someone else before taking their own lives? 

And lastly, a young 4-year-old Hispanic boy who disappeared from the Churchill Downs area of Louisville has been missing now for a week.  I don't think police have had any real leads in finding him yet.  So yes, we have had quite a tragic series of events in our part of the world over the past 6 weeks or so, and unusually so, it seems to me.  Perhaps these things are going on more often everywhere, and it just seems like we're having more of them in our area, I don't know.

I may be back today with another entry, but, regardless, I'd like to wish everyone a very good weekend.  I hope no one is suffering in the areas flooded by heavy rains or in the areas where the temps are topping 100.