Some scary stuff going on for sure. Sometimes we go through a period of chaos before things improve. Let's hope the improvement comes soon.
On a different note, as I was talking to they guy who brings me hay today, a Praying Mantis jumped onto my arm. It stayed there for a long time, while I talked to the hay guys. They had never seen one before. We looked at it for a long time and it just stayed there. After they left, I thought I'd try to get a picture of it, so I went inside the house, and it crawled up onto my head. I got the camera and went back outside and took a picture of it aiming the camera where I thought it might be. I got a pretty good shot of it on my head, so then I put it on a tree and took some more pictures of it. He was a friendly ol' chap.
Yah, I know, not much hair left up there any more.