[Maru]

Sad to say I have not posted as much this series because it's in such bad shape. What's there to say really? Half the people getting camera time are about as deep as a puddle.

Kirk, you are so right about Bear. For me, my local Bear are the idiots on the street corner firing off fireworks and "neighbors" firing off weapons in the woods at odd hours of the day. You can't say anything, they will make your life a living hell. There are several in the neighborhood. I have another neighbor whose hoodlums have physically threatened her, called her job and tried to get her fired after she called the cops on them for a noise complaint.

I took my dog, who is a rescue, for a walk for the first time in many months while I was working on her anxiety and she flipped out when they started with the fireworks. Thankfully I had a good grip or she would've ended up running through 5pm traffic. Now I'm having to look at the possibility of medicating her and am having to take other measures to work on her. My other neighborhood was quieter and we used to walk every single for several miles. The idiot kids popping off fireworks, having to walk the dogs around broken beer bottles, slamming sticks and throwing rocks at other animals. She has very bad memories of this type of abuse and it terrifies her. It's a nice suburb otherwise, but can't wait until school is back on and summer is over... at least it will get rid of some of it.