We have two businesses working out of their home in our area.  If you have issues with mesquitoes, there's Irish Mist, been here a long time and they're a very good family to know.  God fearing type and honest.  Located on the corner of Skillman St and Woodcrest.

Then there's John's Automotive, young man working mobile.  VERY honest, 14 ASEs to his name.  Long history of being mechanic, as in twenty years plus!  ask Irish Mist about a reference if you want.  Integrity is a must with him.  He likes to work locally and not after 6pm.  Mobile is 214.952.5612 and prefers to know who sent you.  One can't be too careful these days.  IF he can't answer, call the other number to leave a message longer. He repairs a lot of school teacher's vehicles and the elderly.  He lives on Somerville Ave with his disabled mother and 4 small dogs.  He goes to church when he can.  Has never been into drugs and was hurt on the job at a school dist so went solo.  Resourceful young man, copeing with the economy, doing what he knows is right.  Another number for leave word is 214-302-9408.  Call if your car is sick.

Then there's Mr Lee Morgan, lives on Somerville Ave also.  Lovely gentleman from England.  Does absolutely beautiful yard work.  Should I say STUNNING?  yes ... artistic is good too.  214-728-1693 you do have to make an appointment with him as his handiwork is in high demand!  His creativity meets the star quality.  When you drive down Somerville Ave, his house does stand out as uniquely quaint, almost ready for magazine picture, just get the camera and blow off a few leaves!  Thank you Mr Morgan for joining our neighborhood!

If I notice any more places worth your time, helpful people, I will post.  These lovely industirous, Americans, try everyday, to make our lives better, investing their knowledge with their expertise and energy.  I, for one, am grateful for the independent American Workers of today.  We are pioneers of a future way to survive.

Enough chatter you all, we're burning daylight!  as John Wayne would say ...

Please call Police if you see this vehicle in our neighborhood.

Dark green, 2 door, 95 Ford Mustang, TX CW5N321.

She is a unstable, female.  48 yr old,  Hispanic.

Suspected of entering homes, stealing, and mainly OURS.

We have had our truck broken into, items ripped out, and suspect her or her son.  She has been stalking my son for over 3 1/2 years.  She's currently looking for a gun because I ordered her off my place via the Police after telling her to leave several times.... she relishes in breaking rules.

Be advised, she can/is dangerous to you physically/mentally.

 Mid last week, about 10:10am, while I was working from home, online, taking inbound calls for products advertised on television, I heard a loud crashing sound.  I went out back to check it out.  I could see nothing without going into someone else's yard.  Our neighbor immediately behind us had planted BamBoo for privacy so I didn't enter.  I don't know them well except for her fussing at my using a blower to keep the yard clean and she hangs out laundry on a line instead of preferring a dryer in the garage.  Just a couple of hours later, my son came rushing in to check on me.  Seems someone had kicked in her  and robbed her with a violence.  Gotten her spare car keys too.  Her alarm company had notified her at her work along with the Police Dept.  This has been very upsetting for all the close neighbors, let alone HER!  This neighbor hasn't been grumpy enough to even "wish" THIS upon her, let alone, have it happen to her.  Since I have a can of Alaskan Bear Maise, if I had gone on her property without permission, just on suspicion, I might have stopped them coming out of the house, but who knows for sure?  I have stopped several burgulars in this alleyway in the past, holding them at bay for the Police to pickup.  I've always tried to set a good example for my own son.  I grew up admiring Audie Murphy, & watching Roy Rogers/Dale Evans movies.

On Sunday afternoon, June 30, 2013, I did see that '95 Dark Green Ford Mustang CW5N321 going westbound on Ravendale, again.  She had been cruising around our block again.  I did call 911 to report it.  This is an unstable female who's been harassing my son over 3 years, trying to drive him over the edge.  She's a 48+yo married female Hispanic with a couple of grown sons and 2 daughters. (One daughter is grown with 2 illegitimate children, the other is ~14 and lives with the father).  She has "friends" with the Garland Police Dept who seem to keep her out of where she should be, so far.  She is unstable, and gets volitile.  btw, I have texts from her as backup, so does my son.  I had to change my cellphone number twice because she is so devious.  He runs an ASE MOBILE Mechanic business (400+ Clients) so he can't, but she tracks him down on the job!  This was another reason this neighbor wasn't happy with us, as this female would demand attention in the middle of the night and he'd try to get her to leave quietly.  He played it down to me how much trouble she was causing him.  He'd had no luck getting Police assistance until I contacted the Political heavy weights.  She's been telling EVERYONE she was his girlfriend.  He almost had no sleep ... and told me not to worry, he'd handle it.  It was pride - well ... not now.  Help will come now and tote her off.  He's talked with a Criminal Attorney about it and feels so much better.  His dark circles and poor health are leaving, so is she.  Stalking is becoming more and more illegal.  Stalkers are sociopaths, seem nice at first, nice looking/shy, and don't have memory of bad things they've done, thus they get violent easily ... but hone-in on prey more like a ferocious animal, than a human.  They cannot accept rejection.  Please be careful.

I don't like the idea, but we may need to put up those ugly signs saying 'Private Property Trespassers may be shot" ...

The property taxes went up but the crime did too.  Just before every holiday, there'll be a rash of breakins, esp targeting cars.  They leave bloody fingerprints on the outter side and are fast with a crowbar or something like that. Your alarm may/may not go off.  The interior of the vehicle will be demolished n gutted in a flash.  The thieves will have a holiday feast on you.  This has been going on for about 40 years in this neighborhood that I know of! If you see a suspicious person(s) in our area, please call 911 and have it checked out.  It could be YOU targeted next.  Btw, in all my family history of owning this home, I've never know of anyone being murdered around here - that's the good news.  Just robbed blind.  Things are replacable, people n dogs are not.

I pray for peace and safety in our neighborhood....daily +

I like being a recluse especially since I work from home, online, and need the quiet.

I'm the old lady with the white fence n little dogs who yell hello at everyone as they go by.  I'm disabled, over 65 now - happy about it. They're great doorbells and I do have a security alarm, n more, but if you see anything unusual, call 911 for me.  I promise I will reciprocate.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Semper Fi

I have a neighbor on my side, on the corner of Ravendale & Somerville, who has been a pain in the rear ever since they moved in.  SHE is a real, sincere, PEEPING TOM.  She harassed the elderly lady across the street, frightening her so badly about black mold, until she moved into an apartment and let her family home sit vacant until she died.  Her family, whom she'd lived with, had just died around the time Judy moved into the corner house, next to me.  My family passed a year or two later.

Judy picks on the elderly and disabled.  Seems to be my turn.  She's harassed me for years about all kinds of petty things while peering over the fence or walking down the alleyway, viewing in, calling Code Compliance. What she is doing qualifies for Adult Abuse harassment. She had a tree cut, which fell and broke a skylight in our garage, then denied any responsibility and they ran off in a flash.  Guess they were illegals.  No clue but the damage was there for US to worry about.  Today, I get a letter from her fussing about a gate we put up to keep out the roaming coyote that's been killing cats and small animals in the neighborhood.  She is threatening to sue me to the full extent of the law along with other demands.  We're not to touch her trees/shrubs/etc without written permission so all you joggers out there will have to use another sidewalk cause it's her bushes and trees preventing you from going down the sidewalk and not getting your top half knocked off.  She fails the good neighbor award real bad.  I had to put up a tall fence to stop her from peeping and she yelled a lot about that.  They have a lot of parties that bring ants and roaches over.  She doesn't control her brush and that alone almost got ME a ticket from coming over the fence.  Don't ask me why, but ... the Iranian Code female stood there forcing ME to pull them off in triple degree weather while she tapped her foot and said "we'll be back" on 09/11 ... I swear to GOD that happened!  A few days later, our vehicles were broken into.  Strangely, it seems connected.  The house across the alleyway had the backdoor kicked in and she was robbed.  The attorney on her side was robbed.... all shortly after the CODE gal was here.  Vandelism is becoming a way of life around here over the past few years so insurance is definitely needed to be upgraded to full coverage on everything!  Back to Judy, her live-in told me when they first moved in, that she was sick and he would try to control her.   Guess he's lost control because she's gone rampant, again.  He's an architect, working from home, he said.  He said he paid for her to get a degree in psychology and she works from home.  Personally, I'd like to see them move, just so I can have my peace and quiet again.  They have no children.  She took their first dog and had it's vocal cords cut when it barked.  I think it died not long afterwards.  He usually walks the dog, I think, but it is hard to tell him from her since they look alike, including haircut.

I never realized being quiet, minding my own business, waving at kids/dogs, would bring on so many bullies!  I guess it's time to call the Police on this neighbor.  I am sorry she cannot stop peeping, whining, partying, fussing, and just take her hormone meds and/or tranquilizers so she can tolerate her own life.  She has robbed me of my privacy and given me a lot migraines I didn't deserve ... I'm ONLY 65 with years to go.

May God walk with you and you be safe!