Not really in a bad mood about it anymore, but as of almost a month ago, mom, the cats, and I had to move out to the country in the house we had just bought a month prior, due to my brother finally flipping out and coming at me with a knife, claiming that I "had assaulted him" by closing his door because he said he was deliberately playing his music to get at me and refused to turn it down.....from what he was saying while grabbing the knife and getting up, he took the fact that in Texas, making one feel afraid that their life is in danger can be legally considered assault, which I told him, and decided that he could try and claim that I had done so....by closing his door. He subsequently told the cops he wanted to kill me, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for around 4 or 5 days, told us that we wouldn't leave the house alive without him, told us that he'd kill himself if mom "abandoned" him, asked mom in a very rude manner if I was out of the house yet whenever she called him, and pretty much treated his stay there like summer camp because people seemed to be listening to him complain about me being a demon and a monster and mom being a "bitch", an "alcoholic" (for drinking a single beer once every few months, I might add), and a "slut".
More recently, and still heavy on my mind, we have hummingbirds around the new house, so mom decided she needed to go and get some cling-stickers for the back porch sliding door. Unfortunately, before she could get around to it, we witnessed one fly up to the window, hover a few seconds, and then divebomb it's reflection (male hummingbirds are unbelievably aggressive towards other males, despite their size). Needless to say, it died instantly.... Thankfully, she found a large one and stuck it up on the glass, and since then they've been hovering it and then going away, realizing there is something there. We're hoping that the one that hit it didn't have a nestmate and clutch yet, because many hummingbirds practice partner nesting, so if one dies the other and the eggs have greatly reduced survival......
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