Tricked?
On the morning of Hallowe'en, I walked out of the house and noticed there was a car in my yard. Technically, it was nose down in the ditch next to the driveway. GREAT Someone wrecked into my yard and I didn't hear a thing. The hazard lights were barely flickering, and there was no one in the car that I could see. I was pretty sure that it was the neighbors' car and they had already gone to where-ever they could find safety--which was apparently not to our front door.
When I got back home, the car was in the neighbor's yard, and it turned out it was the daughter's vehicle. She was OK other than some soreness where the airbag deployed. They must have pulled the car out with the tractor or the big F-450 they have. I'm just glad I didn't have to call the police and that everyone was OK.
Unfortunately, there was yet another incident the next night. I must have just fallen asleep, because my sweetie kept trying to wake me up. She heard a crash, saw lights outside, and then a car roared up the road, stopped near our woods and then they backed up and did a bootlegger turn in the middle of the road (risking having yet another car nose down in our ditch). The next morning (in the snow and ice!!!) we wandered out to check what happened. Sure enough, there were skid marks where the car spun around....and the other neighbors' mailbox was conspicuous by its absence. Either someone targeted the mailbox, or ran into it and went back to check. Ugh....
Ealdercote Improvement
Progress was made on the closet floor. My sweetie convinced me to go get a full piece of OSB instead of piecing something together from the scraps I have on-hand. The trip turned into a full shopping excursion. One of the local chain stores is liquidating, so we took advantage of the early days of the sale to get a few things. Sure, the bargains weren't as good as they will be. But by the time we take advantage of the great sale prices, the things we want will already be gone--the bones picked clean by people with far more time on their hands to take advantage of the situation.
Anyway. Next step: paint the walls enclosing the chimney with Killz, repaint the closet, and then I can get to work on the flooring while Ealdthryth deals with the baseboards. Keichii decided to be really nosy during my demolition of the old floor, and I kept having to usher him out of the workspace.
Your Fault, Fu
Keichii thinks the water filter in the cat fountain is something he REALLY needs to pull out and play with. The natural consequence is that the water in the fountain ends up all over the bathroom floor when the cover pops off and he knocks the fountain around. I've fussed at him and told him it was all his fault that everyone would be thirsty....
No! No! Bad kitty! Awwwwwww! Aren't you cute!
When I got back home, the car was in the neighbor's yard, and it turned out it was the daughter's vehicle. She was OK other than some soreness where the airbag deployed. They must have pulled the car out with the tractor or the big F-450 they have. I'm just glad I didn't have to call the police and that everyone was OK.
Unfortunately, there was yet another incident the next night. I must have just fallen asleep, because my sweetie kept trying to wake me up. She heard a crash, saw lights outside, and then a car roared up the road, stopped near our woods and then they backed up and did a bootlegger turn in the middle of the road (risking having yet another car nose down in our ditch). The next morning (in the snow and ice!!!) we wandered out to check what happened. Sure enough, there were skid marks where the car spun around....and the other neighbors' mailbox was conspicuous by its absence. Either someone targeted the mailbox, or ran into it and went back to check. Ugh....
Ealdercote Improvement
Progress was made on the closet floor. My sweetie convinced me to go get a full piece of OSB instead of piecing something together from the scraps I have on-hand. The trip turned into a full shopping excursion. One of the local chain stores is liquidating, so we took advantage of the early days of the sale to get a few things. Sure, the bargains weren't as good as they will be. But by the time we take advantage of the great sale prices, the things we want will already be gone--the bones picked clean by people with far more time on their hands to take advantage of the situation.
Anyway. Next step: paint the walls enclosing the chimney with Killz, repaint the closet, and then I can get to work on the flooring while Ealdthryth deals with the baseboards. Keichii decided to be really nosy during my demolition of the old floor, and I kept having to usher him out of the workspace.
Your Fault, Fu
Keichii thinks the water filter in the cat fountain is something he REALLY needs to pull out and play with. The natural consequence is that the water in the fountain ends up all over the bathroom floor when the cover pops off and he knocks the fountain around. I've fussed at him and told him it was all his fault that everyone would be thirsty....
No! No! Bad kitty! Awwwwwww! Aren't you cute!