Clan Colby

This is my 200th post. Wow. Thanks, Laurie, for turning me on to blogging! Thanks, family and friends who read my drivel! Thanks to my kids who motivate me to write so they can have an account of our life when they were young.


Found this in the paper this morning. Could I ever be so tough and awesome??

Prison escapees meet their match in Idaho mom with gun

11:59 AM MDT on Monday, July 27, 2009
Associated Press

COTTONWOOD -- The Idaho County Sheriff's Office had honored a Cottonwood woman with a certificate of achievement saying she showed true courage in the face of danger for fending off two prison escapees who tried to break into her home.
Cassidy Lockett was home with her young children late last month when she says two men tried to break into her home. She hid the children behind the couch, grabbed a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol and aimed it at a man who was already halfway through a window, climbing into her home.
Lockett says she pointed the gun at him and told him to get out or she'd shoot. She says he complied, and left along with another man who was trying to get through the locked front door.
The sheriff's department says the two were Richard Nieves and Ben Westley Perez, who are both facing escape, burglary and other charges.