Posts Tagged ‘neighbor’
What Would You Do If A Guy In The Alley Behind Your House Had A Gun?
I had the strangest thing happen today. Let me start by explaining how my house is set up. Behind my house, there is an alley. There is grass that most of the people don’t mow, and it’s more of an easement for the utilities than anything. I also have an alley on the side of my home too. That alley has gravel on it. My garage faces this alley (no I don’t have a driveway) and so does the neighbor behind us.
So Will and I get home from school today, and we were in the backyard admiring my handwork of putting up an American flag (by myself). Then I hear “click, click, click”. I turn around and there is a guy in the back alley holding a gun (a gun that looks like a riffle). I’m like okay Will let’s get in the house. The guy never said anything to me nor did he even look at me. So I called Bill. My first thought was to call the police, but Bill figured if he was up to no good that he wouldn’t be so open in the alley back there. So his vote was to do nothing and if I felt nervous to look the door. So I called my mom. She’s like hang up with me and call the police! I was about to do that and looked out the window again. Guess what I saw.
Now, I still see the guy with the gun. But now I notice that there is guy standing on the garage that is not directly behind me, but the next one over. The guy on the roof has a pitchfork looking rake and is hitting the roof of the garage with it. At that point, I figured I was safe. 
I thought it was strange but still not sure what the heck was going on.
So when I took Will to the doctor today, I back out of my garage and go past the alley. Then I realized what they were doing. There was a hole in the fascia (which is just below the roof). It was about 6 inches longs and 3 inches wide. I’m guessing some animal got in there. The guy on the roof was pounding trying to get whatever creature in there out. The guy with the gun was going to shoot said animal? That’s my best guess. I’m still not sure if it was a real gun, a dart gun, or just a BB Gun.
So if you saw a guy in the alley with a gun, what would you do?
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Worst Week Ever
I’ve been busy, so I’ve not gotten a chance to post this. However, here we go . . .
Our worst week ever start on June 25th. We were heading to Wisconsin for our first camping trip as a family. Everybody was excited. Except for the car. We go to turn on the car and all we heard was “click click click”. Now, remember that our other car is a Prius. A hybrid. Let’s just say you can’t jump off those (actually, if you look at the owner’s manual you can, but to replace a Prius battery it’s like $5,000, so we weren’t about to try it). I found a neighbor home (which is amazing in the middle of the day), and we tried jumping. No can do. Nothing worked. Now, at this point, we are all in the van and its packed. We are screwed. I took Bill’s car and ran and got a new battery. While I was gone, Bill took the old one out. Luck was on our side at the battery store, and I bought the last battery they had and drove home. Bill puts the battery in and the radio and most of our electronics in the van were out. Bill figured it was a fuse, so we got and in the car and went.
We weren’t even driving an hour, and Madison had to go to the bathroom. We stopped at a gas station and I took the kids to the bathroom. Since we were there anyway, Bill filled up the car with gas. That ended up being a good thing. For some reason, everything worked after that. We thought we were in the clear. Little did we know –
Friday night it stormed. That wouldn’t be so bad except we were in a tent. And there were 50 mph winds. At one point, Bill and I were holding up one side of the tent. The good news is that the tent didn’t tip over and we stayed dry. Saturday night it stormed. However, Sunday morning was the whopper. Here are a few pictures:
Good times. At one point, we were lifting the tent, so the stream could go underneath. Sooo you’d think this was the end of it — not quite.
We get home and Madison is covered in mosquito bites. It’s about 8:50 pm and I ran to Walgreens to get some AfterBite. What I didn’t know was that they had mopped their floors and didn’t put up a wet floor sign. You can guess what happened next. I didn’t fall but I twisted my ankle (and ended up at the dr Monday to make sure nothing was broken). But my week got even better on Tuesday.
Bill and I were sitting at dinner and he goes “Lisa, your eye is really red”. Well, I ended up at the eye doctor that night, and I had pink eye too!
Thankfully, the rest of the week went better!
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Where’s my neighbor?
As I have discussed before, I have lots of luxury homes being built by me. More importantly, I have one being built next door. When I found this out, I was excited. Now, I can’t stand it. Why? The builder is an idiot. This property was bought almost 2 years ago, and they still haven’t finished the house. They haven’t even closed the house up. Last winter, they poured the foundation before it snowed and then just left it all winter. Now, we have a host of creatures that live in there, since they have not closed up the house. I can’t see how they are ever going to sell this house. There’s mold growing on the walls in the basement. As I said, my neighbor are critters like possums, cats, and who knows what else. I know if I was spending the big bucks I wouldn’t want to move in there.
However, I have seen a ton of these houses, and when they are done correctly, they are gorgeous. I know I definitely wouldn’t mind living in them when the builder does what they are suppose to. I have been considering calling my trustee to see what they can do (not much, I am sure). I have called animal control several times, but they don’t ever call back. Any ideas?
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