Last night someone walking down the street got shot in our neighborhood. Luckily a passers by gave him a lift to the hospital. 

This morning I found three hypodermic needles in the shrubs at my garden stairs. I carefully disposed of them by dropping them in an empty plastic water bottle. Then I started trimming the shrubs to make my garden stairs more visible and less like a cave for hiding. 

I went swimming and when I came home I made salmon cakes for the first time and they came out great.