Beneath the Wraps

           I dragged my family to the high school last night.  I understood the meeting to start at 5:30, but it must have started at 5:00 as we walked into a mass production that had already obviously started.  It seems that the focus was mainly on just one school, though the elementary next to it had been mentioned.  There were parents there for both group.  I saw several youth but not a huge number.  The meeting was at the high school library and it was filled and overflowing.           Three separate events had taken place.  The first was a threat made by a person that was being bullied.  The threat made was toward the bullies and not the entire school.  On October 23 a "prank" phonecall had been made to 911 about a shooting.  Two youth were arrested.  Last week there a note had been left in one of the bathrooms lea...

            After we had moved my mom into assisted living, we gutted out her house and set aside things for ourselves and the rest for a massive yard sale.   Corey had returned from Las Vegas to claime what was his and took a lot of what had once been hers.  He said he wanted all the photos.   There were many that I wanted to scan so that I could have digital copies, but I really didn't have the room for all of the hard photographs.   Corey and Joh had more room than any of my mother's other children.             It was in September of this year that Corey and Joh came to Oregon for a brief visit.   Unfortunately, when they returned home to their house in Las Vegas, they learned that several parts of the house had received water damage due to a flood caused by a broken pipe.   They have since undergone renovation and have been forced t...