8-5-12

11:00am

Today I'm working on laundry and going 

through more things in the basement.

My saying is this,

It's easier to throw out things than it is to 

find a place to store it all. 

I'm trying at the moment to set up

designated areas for certain things.

-Holidays

-Mementos

-Kitchen supplies

-Seasonal clothing

-Blankets

-Books & Magazines

-Crafts

-3 to 4 large totes of Barbie stuff

I have collected over the years.

Once I can get these areas set up 

then I think things will go a little easier for me

because right now they are all in my way,

some mixed with others.

2:00pm

4 loads of laundry almost done.

Got 5 boxes of stuff ready for the trash

and hauled up out of the basement.

Also decided that we won't be using

an over the stove microwave that's been

down there for 4.5 years!

Need to haul that out also.

Got some things moved around in 

my storage room so I can try to add

a couple more tall bookcases.

This is what I want to use to store

blankets and seasonal clothes on. 

Just going with the flow while I feel good.

I never know when to expect a Crohn's flare up

and it could happen at any time without warning.

I do have a digestive doctor check up

appointment this coming Wednesday.

 3:40pm

Still in the basement.

Got another box of crap hauled out.

Been working on clearing a space

to move a couple of bookcases into 

my storage room. 

The tow truck is supposed to come

sometime tomorrow to pick up my truck.

I am hoping they have the transmission

rebuilt in about a week and it'll be ready to go.  

I really really need

my truck at the moment for hauling

all this crap outta here!

For the moment I'm gonna have to use

some of the carport area to store junk

boxes until I get my vehicle back.

So fair warning.  You come to my house,

don't use the driveway, use the front door for now!

11:20pm

Damien stopped by around 7pm with his girlfriend.

We decided to all go to the pool.

Before we left and I was walking out to

the car to put pool stuff in the trunk I noticed

three kids hanging out on the side street

that I had never seen before.  They looked

to be the ages of my boys maybe younger.

My one child even said he thought the

one kid went to his school.

I'm making several trips from the house

to the car watching these kids and notice

they go sit beside the neighbor's garage

behind our house.  It looks like they light

up a cigarette and are smoking it

and they are sitting on the ground facing the 

direction of the backside of our house.

I didn't get a good feeling about them

and neither did Tony.  We really did not want

to leave but already had made plans to.

I tell Tony to get in his car parked by the side

fence and act like he was leaving and me

and the kids were staying home and told him

to go around the block and pick us up out front.

He yelled bye to me and I did to him so the

kids out back staring at us could hear us.

He left and I acted like I was doing something 

in the yard then went in the house.

I wanted them to see that it looked like

someone was still home.

Well we should of went with our gut instinct

because that whole act didn't work.

We came home around 9?pm and found

the lock on our shed cut off and 2 bikes stolen.

The police left our house after doing a report just now.

Those kids were seen on the security camera

only 15 minutes after leaving making the first attempt

at using bolt cutters to cut the lock off the shed.

They did not enter the yard through the gate but

once again jumped the neighbors fence to get

into our yard.  It took them 6-8 times of messing

with that lock and getting spooked by something

before they finally cut it off.

A couple times they were so spooked the jumped

on the hood of our blue trans am

and hurled themselves over a 6 foot wooden fence!! 

And of course someone in this household

didn't set the cheap alarm on the shed door.

I think if it was set and had gone off

it would have scared them off permanently.

It pisses me off and disgusts me to no end

to sit here and watch the recorded security

cameras to see it all take place.

I even found out that they cut off the lock

to the garage at the neighbor's house

behind us but didn't steal anything.

While I met the owners for the first time

today I don't think they live there just

yet.  Only stop in to work on the place.

I knew we should of just stayed home

tonight.  When your gut instinct tell you

something you better listen to it!

It's probably right.

Even the cop said to listen to your instinct.

Well while the bike criminals were not caught

the theft of my tomatoes has been solved, lol.

As the cop was walking around our backyard

in the dark with his flashlight he says,

is that a possum?  I said where?

He shines his light on him again and I say,

there's the little stinker that's been stealing my tomatoes.

He puts his hand to his side on his gun and says,

you want me to get 'em, LOL

I said yeah he's been stealing my tomatoes.

He was only kidding and we watched as the 

possum slowly waddled around the fence

and into the alley area.

I told the cop that the thieves have been 

coming into the yard over the chain link

fence and what can I do to keep them out.

I don't have money to buy more wooden

privacy fence to do that area of the yard with.

He told me if it were him he would put

barbed wire along the fence.

I said isn't that illegal?  I read online

that it was if you were intentionally setting

a trap to hurt someone even if it was a burgler

that it was and even the burgler could sue you.

He still made it sound like I should do

it so will consider it.

Might as well run it along the tops

of the privacy fence after seeing these

kids jumping over that this evening.

They even went as far as standing on top

of our trash can out by the side street, in the daylight ,

out in the open,

to look down to see what was beside the 

fence and shed area! 

How would they even know what was in that area

to look there.  You cannot see anything back there

from the backyard or side yard.

I think someone may have tipped them off

of where we keep things.

I asked the cop if I saw our bicycle what should

I do if someone is on it.

Can I just go knock them off to get it.

He said no don't knock them off it.

Just go up and grab and hold the bike

til they get off.  Yeah right I say,

if they are running around with bolt cutters

and breaking into places, then what's to

say they aren't carrying weapons on them.

Then he said I should call the police instead.

Hmmm, so I cannot knock them off MY stolen bicycle

which will do little damage to them

but I can put up barbed wire to keep them

out of my yard that will tear the hell out of them.

Just doesn't make sense.

I gotta go to bed.

I'm still wound up but gotta get some

sleep.  It's 12:21am.

Oh yeah, didn't expect my evening to turn out this way!