No matter how much I tried I couldn't wake up this morning. I couldn't get myself out of a groggy mist and nothing got done until well after 9 am. By 8 am the temperature was already heading towards 90 degree's and I kept looking at the 78 degree of Ruidoso with a great deal of envy.
When sweat starts to pour off your face before 9 am it's not a good feeling. Seeing the numbers of readers on this blog hit 30,000 made my heart sink. I assumed that this family would be moved by the hardship they are causing. I was 100% wrong.
I dropped the bute from Honey's diet yesterday, and this morning she returned to a serious limping. Which wasn't a good sign. This morning I gave her a dose of bute with her antibiotic - just in case. In another 10 days she should be 100% sound again ~ I pray.
You can hardly tell that we had rain last night. The dry parched ground is a stark reminder that in the midst of the worst economic depression we have ever experienced since the 1930's, we are having the worst drought since the 1930's. This is really frightening.
As I drive down the road I am seeing farm crops wither and die, and dead leaves fall from tree's as if it's late autumn. I came all the way from New Mexico to Missouri only to walk out of one quagmire into another. The result of homelessness leaves you floundering unable to weather any adversity.
But I no sooner made the decision to return to Ruidoso than I had a call from a prospective client, and a large contract at that.
The internet connection is simply giving me fits. Last night and this morning I was sorely pushed as I tried to get on-line, keep on-line and load pages. I wonder why this region of Missouri has such a difficult time providing a service almost all in the USA take for granted.
Mid-day I drove to Pea Ridge to meet a vet, and try to find employment, but by late afternoon the heat was unbearable again. But as nighttime fell.. the thunder rolled.
Half Of US Counties Considered Disaster Area's
Nearly 220 counties
in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S.
government's list of natural disaster areas as the nation's agriculture
chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and
ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's addition of the 218 counties
means that more than half of all U.S. counties — 1,584 in 32 states —
have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the
vast majority of them mired in a drought that's considered the worst in
decades.
Counties in Arkansas, Georgia,
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming were included in Wednesday's announcement.
The USDA uses the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor to help decide which
counties to deem disaster areas, which makes farmers and ranchers
eligible for federal aid, including low-interest emergency loans.
To help ease the burden on the
nation's farms, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday opened up
3.8 million acres of conservation land for ranchers to use for haying
and grazing. Under that conservation program, farmers have been paid to
take land out of production to ward against erosion and create wildlife
habitat.
"The assistance announced today
will help U.S. livestock producers dealing with climbing feed prices,
critical shortages of hay and deteriorating pasturelands," Vilsack said.
Vilsack also said crop insurers
have agreed to provide farmers facing cash-flow issues a penalty-free,
30-day grace period on premiums in 2012.
As of this week, nearly half of
the nation's corn crop was rated poor to very poor, according to the
USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. About 37 percent of the
U.S. soybeans were lumped into that category, while nearly
three-quarters of U.S. cattle acreage is in drought-affected areas, the
survey showed.
The potential financial fallout
in the nation's midsection appears to be intensifying. The latest weekly
Mid-America Business Conditions Index, released Wednesday, showed that
the ongoing drought and global economic turmoil is hurting business in
nine Midwest and Plains states, boosting worries about the prospect of
another recession, according to the report.
Creighton University economist
Ernie Goss, who oversees the index, said the drought will hurt farm
income while the strengthening dollar hinders exports, meaning two of
the most important positive factors in the region's economy are being
undermined.
The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
Thursday's expansion of federal relief was welcomed in rain-starved
states like Illinois, where the USDA's addition of 66 counties leaves
just four of the state's 102 counties — Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will, all
in the Chicago area — without the natural disaster classification.
The Illinois State Water Survey said the state has averaged just 12.6
inches from January to June 2012, the sixth-driest first half of a year
on record. Compounding matters is that Illinois has seen above-normal
temperatures each month, with the statewide average of 52.8 degrees over
the first six months logged as the warmest on record.
"While harvest has yet to begin, we already see that the drought has
caused considerable crop damage," Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said. In his
state, 71 percent of the corn crop and 56 percent of soybean acreage is
considered poor or very poor.
In South Dakota, where roughly
three-fifths of the state is in severe or extreme drought, Vilsack
earlier had allowed emergency haying and grazing on about 500,000
conservation acres, but not on the roughly 445,000 acres designated as
wetlands.
Vilsack's decision to open up
some wetland acres in a number of states will give farmers and ranchers a
chance to get good quality forage for livestock, federal lawmakers
said.
"The USDA cannot make it rain,
but it can apply flexibility to the conservation practices," Sen. Tim
Johnson, a South Dakota Democrat, said Wednesday. The USDA designated 39
of his state's counties disaster areas.
There has to be someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins and get them to return ALL of the money they stole from us so that I can buy a home and get our lives back. I am begging anyone in this family for help.
I don't believe I have EVER witnessed any none violent crime that can be as devastating as stealing someone's home. I am walking in Dorothy McKeevers footsteps, day by day, month by month, year by year.
Liam Griffin, I sat in your law office with two witnesses as you gave me your promise, your guarantee, that our money would be returned before harm came to us.
Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins you were present the day I signed contract with your son. You walked out of the kitchen with Sylve Huckins and your son introduced me to you. He told you that I was the British horse trainer he had told you about, the one he was going to build the home and barn for. Why didn't you say something? There may be a rational and reasonable explanation but I have spent over 3 years, homeless, not understanding it. I understand it even less knowing that though I was a total stranger, both Dorothy McKeever and Sally Canning you KNEW, and you knew what your son had done to them and others.
Dr. Kenneth Ogilvie, I contacted you and simply asked for a reference, not knowing that Robert Huckins was your cousin. Robert Huckins had just stolen over $30,000 from the domestic violence shelter, HEAL, yet everyone was trying to hide it. There was a history of stealing large amounts of money. $65,000 PLUS from Nancy Canning. $89,000 PLUS from Dorothy McKeever, $45,000 from Francis McKinney. The list just goes on and on and on.
Because of Robert Huckins I ended up paying $140,000 to be homeless.. sat in the cold, emotionally, physically and financially broke. In the middle of a recession, with no way to recover the stolen funds.Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.
Women are not banks or loan institutions. Women should
not be the
source of a
retirement fund
for
people
who
don't want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Holding women hostage while playing with the judicial system, a horrendous game of cat and mouse
extending YEARS,
with the
victims
whose very
homes,
families and
stability are
in
jeopardy is
cruelty,
as cruel
as a
physical
beating.
It is financial and emotional RAPE. Homelessness is not justice. It is a slow, painful death.
Please, I beg with everything I have within me, please convince Robert Huckins to stop this torture and return the building fund he stole from us so we too, can have a home.
Relevant pages:
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/12/white-nothing-but-white.html
My Response To:D-1226-CR-200800062
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-response-tod-1226-cr-200800062.html
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in
others. ~ Cicero
The day started out as another cool breezy day and I was excited to see that rain may be heading our way. Trying to come up with the funds and arrange for help with my pets so that I can return to New Mexico for the court hearing is stressing me to the maximum. Yesterday I had 3 dollars to my name and not one bill has been paid for the last month and a half.
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