Code Neon Blue!

Well, you could go to a meeting. Some of the Prowers Dems got together last night to make plans for upcoming events like the Cinco de Mayo celebration on May 3, and then the Lamar Days Parade the following weekend. We’re getting more and more new people active, and I think this year’s parade entry will be our best yet!

Once I got home, I ate the dinner my family saved back for me and then started trying to catch up on my internet reading. Around midnight, a strange noise distracted me — cop car sounds. I thought my son (Big Sterling, not TrainBoyMike) must be playing a new game on his laptop, but then he said, “Hey, what’s that?”

Being closest, he looked out the main living room window. Being a temporarily dirt-side trucker, he instantly recognized the lights pattern of an annoyed officer of the law, coming down our isolated rural road.

Said officer was in hot pursuit of a vehicle proceeding rapidly, without benefit of headlights, right past our house! Naturally, Sterling and I jumped up to find a better viewpoint, particularly since we both know the good part of the road dead-ends just past our neighbors to the east. The next section is a field road. Except when the irrigation water has been running. Then it’s a pond.

Sadly, I forget to grab my camera as we ran for the back porch, so I have no COPS!-like footage to astound you with. It was quite exciting for a little while. There was some shouting for the driver to come back out of the house — apparently making it inside did not count as plausible deniability — and then another flashing police vehicle joined the party. Followed by two more of the non-flashing variety. (Our guess was that those were Sheriff types backing up the municipal cops, since we are outside the city limits.)

By the time it all settled down, I felt like I was too tired to write a good blog post. So that’s why you are seeing Tuesday’s entry today.