So last Monday (January 17) Dare had his first obdience class. And he is the class deliquent--he kept fighting with a Husky puppy (who totally instigated it!). After a brutal drive home (the roads were awful being Snow Week and all) we discover that our garage had been burgled. They took my expensive mountain bike ($800 ten years ago) and a chainsaw and a leafblower, neither of which worked. It looked like they were about to take the lawnmower as it was in the middle of the garage but were interrupted. The police came out quite quickly which surprised me, but the damage was done.
The next day Dad and I repaired the large door that they broke and double checked all the other locks. I suggested that we move the lawnmower to Dad's garage but we figured that hey, lightning doesn't strike twice and since we fixed the locks, whats the worry?
You can see where this is going, can't you?
They came back Tuesday night and took the lawnmower and the hedge trimmers. This time they used a crowbar on the small door instead of the big one. They also did a number on the passenger side car door as it wouldn't open at all (this brings the usable car doors down to 2!).
The police responded quickly again but said we were the only ones hit in the 'hood. Andrew took a quick informal survey of the neighbors to find that many people were hit over the previous 2 nights but didn't bother to report it. It made us feel a little better...
...until the front room window started leaking.
The record snowfall caused a lot of roofs to leak but again, safety in numbers only makes you feel better during a shark attack. The ice dam over the dining room roof is growing and soon will be scalable only by expert mountaineers. No one will let me go on the roof (like its dangerous or something) to break the ice so we ended up throwing salt tablets at it in hopes that it would melt.
At least the car only got stuck 3 times this week. Well, 4 if you count this last time on Saturday when the car decided it had enough of the roads and refused to budge backwards.
Yep, the transmission went on strike.
To look on the bright side, at least we do not have to register the car this year: a savings of $70!
If the past month is any indication 2011 is gonna hoover (or dyson for the youth).
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