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As I write this the house has been surrounded by military of Mexico for nearly 24 hours.  At this point the majority are off the property down the street where several police and heavy duty military sit. They’ve moved position repeatedly as we’ve been able to find out from our own surveillance but it seems like they’ve hunkered down and are doing what they can to stay out of our sight even acting a bit  ridiculously to do so.

 As it stands, I don’t know what’s going on. But I do know that there was one hiding under a boulder on private property by themselves for most of the day with occasional visitors.  Those watchers have now moved a bit farther away to sit and hid behind boulders and the wall of a partially build house nearby. 

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They told my neighbor last night they were resting but by that point they’d already circled the property on foot repeatedly.  They seemed to spend the night hours eating and talking and they never left even when we thought they did.  There were two outside my gate for at least 5 hours last night. They’ve only been within view of the gate today. 

When we woke up today there were still military, standing in the boulder area where by birds are and where my dogs use the restroom.  They said good morning and asked us if we eat or sell our chickens.  Seemed like weird small talk especially with the surveillance. Also asked us where we were from. 

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We took some drone footage to see what all was out there and for much of the day the road was blocked by military and police, several heavy duty military trucks and several police cars, seemingly sitting and doing what they could to stay out of direct sight of us. 

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I had ordered a water truck yesterday before this all started and it was scheduled to come this morning.  I warned the water guy and he came anyways, having issues getting past at first.  I think they wanted to know for sure he was supposed to come to us and that we were aware, which was weird, but they let him past.  There were federal police and military by the gate when he pulled up and when I looked at them they moved out of sight.  No one has tried to talk to me, although I have said hola to a few. 


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So They let my water truck through but didn’t leave.  At this point they’ve gone from sitting directly in front of the gate to sitting on sidestreets to back on our street.  The numbers of them have ebbed and flowed but there has been nothing short of a nonstop presence for 24 hours at this point. There have probably been at the peak about 80 of them more than 10 vehicles up here at the height of the day.  

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Please stay tuned to my steemit and to my personal facebook if you’re friends with me there for updates.  If they come in I will go live on facebook to show what happens. 

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I’ve at this point walked through the majority of them in the quest for a coca cola and while I was watched no one approached me although a few vehicles did change location after that fact.  I also did the basic necessary farm work for my birds today, like water, getting some strange looks from the soldiers. 

The photos in this post have been taken today by John as we attempt to catalog these strange events.  Many people have assured us we are likely safe, saying if they were interested in us in any serious manner they would have done something, but in the event we are not I share this with you now so you all have an idea of what happened to us and how you can help, if you’re interested in doing so. 

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Last we saw there were a few gathered around the edge of the property pointing at the house.

My dogs and farm are still up here.  In the event of our arrest or something worse we beg someone locally to come and get our dogs and to hold on to them, even if they need to be separate to be easier on people. My biggest worry is honestly my dogs and my birds, my own freedom coming after that. 

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Don’t give up on us.  And to all of you that told us we were totally safe here, we never have been and and we’ve always have known it. 

At this point we just want them to go away so we can resume our lives.  This is our first situation like this and while some friends have mentioned they’ve experienced similar things, with less property invasion, we can’t help but be a little worried and a little more than ready for them to move on. 

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I love Mexico and my life here, can’t I just get on with it please?

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