Reaping

Nabal had to attend to our rental property this week. A ditch was dug and a hole made in the wall to the dry room under. Work was done, good. No complaining from Nabal about what annoying tenants they are, or how expensive the work that went into the ditch was. Case closed, right? Wrong. Two days of heavy evening rains and the dry room is filled with mud and water. So of course there was a drainage ditch leading directly into the hole to the interior. Nabal hit the ceiling. "They are always complaining, that's not a living area, they are going to try and use that to get out of paying me..." On and on, I have learned. I said nothing. Any and everything not to say he screwed up. The tenant said he offered to fill in the ditch. Nabal always bragged about the room under being a dry room- he built it... In the old days Nabal would never have made a mistake like that- leaving it all open for 3 days. Nabal would have also in the past have felt some remorse, realized and copped to the error or forgetfulness.

This past year Nabal wanted to throw tenants out after their well and air conditioning had problems. No fault of the tenants, just happened. He tried to tell me that since the house was in the mountains there was no need to fix the a/c. He wanted to throw he people out for being complainers...

I don't recall when he became openly like this. Maybe he was always like this and I was just seeing a figment of my imagination.

He went out to pray for someone in the hospital. Good thing they caught him before he got any further that his first 24oz... He's been in and out all day long. He never says that he is going or where he is going. I don't have a clue where he is working from one day to the next.

He quietly went to the rental property today and fixed the hole. The crazy neighbors who take advantage of him and have taken his money when he thought he was going to get something in return. He paid lots of money for a broken refrigerator, he gave them almost $10,000 in their scam to sell their house. Our realtor and I finally convinced him not to give the last amount they were asking for, which would have brought the amount to ten thousand... They are grifters and he is a perfect mark. He thinks them dumb hillbillies and they know he has more money than sense. Correction- had. He thinks the laws don't exactly apply to him and that when he is ready things will happen. They screw with our things and he does nothing. I don't want him to fight anyone. He heard from tenants that they were moving our things in the garage around to use par of it. He said you know those people if I go up there there's going to be a fight. I told him if he had to take the police with him.This is the same man who fights and argues with everyone when he is drunk...