super wal-mart, drunk daycare owners, and a smelly dog

Ah, the Ohio life. A Super Wal-Mart opened in BG this week, and a "gazillion" people appeared from the countryside. The traffic on main street has been non-stop, and the entire parking lot, along with Burger King's parking lot, has be nearly full almost all day long. Will this revitalize the South side of BG, or simply create congestion and low-wage part-time jobs, thereby increasing the number of trailer parks? I assume the latter, but only time will tell.

Next topic please:
Some of you may know that we live next door to a daycare. Well, this weekend, the owner and her best friend moved into the apartments above the daycare, as the nice Russian couple who used to live there had had enough. Well, they sat outside on the front porch all day Saturday with a couple of hill-jack looking guys, and once they were all drunk, they started screaming "Fu&k you a$$hole!"..."Oh $crew you b!tch!", etc.
Luckily, they quieted down by about 10pm. Well, I will still make sure to tell the two sets of parents I know who take their kids there, and if it happens again, I suppose I will call the cops. Maybe once we fix up the basement of this house and replace the carpets and the remaining windows, we will spend about another year here and then buy a house closer to Toledo (Maybe in Northwood or Perrysburg) so that I can start taking the bus...it used to be so nice here. It was our little downtown, and we had the good fortune of living on one of the few quiet, family filled streets in downtown BG...I guess change is the only constant...

And today's last topic: We took Bouffer to Petco to be groomed, because he was kind of stinky and the local groomer we usually go to was booked for another 2 weekends. Big mistake. I don't know what they did to him, but when I got there, he was standing alone on a tile floor with nobody around and he had gone to the bathroom on the floor (#1 AND #2). I called out and the teenager working there was like "my, you made a mess." then to me "I was only gone for a couple of seconds." All day long, he acted really weird, like when he has gotten into the trash and yelled at... and by the look & feel of his nails, they didn't even cut them. That's what we get for using a chain store instead of our local business. We should have known better, but I guess sometimes (sadly) laziness is the ultimate persuader.