It’s Christmas! Even those who’ve been naughty deserve something nice! The holidays are tough inside, for everyone but we organized a little surprise fr the women who have it the hardest.
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Halloween at Perryville- Trick or Treat?
Well, the good news is we all had ready-made costumes- yep you guessed it! We were all dressed as orange pumpkins- which isn’t any fun since we all look like pumpkins every day 24-7. So a few girls decided to turn it up a bit and do some festive face painting since we do have access to some makeup and art supplies. They added little cat whiskers or a few fake stitches like a mummy to their faces, that kind of thing. Unfortunately, the powers that be don’t have an appreciation for creative holiday spirit, because they issued them tickets for ‘attempting to escape’.
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Perryville pests- the birds and the bees…and the bugs
We have lots of birds that hang around here but not the kind you’d see in a Mary Poppins movie- think Alfred Hitchcock instead! These aren’t afraid of people at all- in fact, they’re so bold they come to grab food right out of our hand! If that doesn’t sound a little scary it gets worse. Many of these unfortunate critters are…deformed! The women come outside to comb their hair and the birds hopping around, scavenging for food end up with long strands of hair wrapped around their feet or neck or wings. With no way to get it off. Or they land on the razor wire on the top of the walls and fences and slice off toes or entire feet. Incredibly grotesque and frankly disturbing!
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A funny thing happened on the yard today…(Isn’t that how a lot of jokes start out?) I was sitting outside with a couple of friends and I heard the beginnings of an argument developing. Sure enough, two women were ‘getting into it’, voices starting to raise, uncomplimentary names being hurled back and forth. I couldn’t tell for sure but it seemed the issue was about one owing the other a cup of ice. Trivial perhaps, but in this environment, almost anything can escalate into a fight.
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Haboob!
We got hit by another haboob last night. In case you’re not from Arizona or the Sahara Desert a haboob is a dust storm on steroids, really the closest thing to a natural disaster we have here. As the cloud of dust envelops the landscape, the sky turns almost dark as night even in the middle of the afternoon.
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