Cold snap

The past couple of days were gray, gloomy and drizzly...it barely cracked 50 degrees yesterday, and with the sometimes stiff breeze, it felt like we were back in February.

The Sandias even got some snow above 8,000 feet! It didn't look EXACTLY like this, but close...



Already warming up again, with clear skies....supposed to be pushing 90 next week!

Cold snap

The past couple of days were gray, gloomy and drizzly...it barely cracked 50 degrees yesterday, and with the sometimes stiff breeze, it felt like we were back in February.

The Sandias even got some snow above 8,000 feet! It didn't look EXACTLY like this, but close...



Already warming up again, with clear skies....supposed to be pushing 90 next week!

Today's big surprise

It's a lovely Friday, marred only by our house being broken into.

I got a call on my cell phone about 10:45 during a meeting, but ignored it. About 30 minutes later, I got another call, which I missed, but checked it. It was the alarm company reporting the alarm going off at the house.

I tried to call Danny, since I thought he might have been at the house, but he was out and didn't answer HIS cell phone. I took off for home, thinking something awful must have happened to Danny.

Turns out that some jerk(s) broke into the house through the small double-paned laundry room downstairs. As soon as they got into the hallway (9 feet from the window), the motion sensor alarms went off. VERY VERY loudly. They hightailed it out the back door, which had a chain bolt, an interior lock and a KEY in the security door. They would have had to fumble around for quite a few seconds to get all of it unlocked. Amazingly, they didn't take the key.

When I got home at 11:30, the police had come back (after the alarm company had called them again when I got ahold of them). They were very nice about it all. They had already been all through the house, coming in through the open back door downstairs. They searched all the rooms, leaving the doors open, just in case there was someone still in the house. They're reporting it as "attempted burglary."

Nothing was taken at all. The alarm worked! Except for the window, nothing is even broken.

It wasn't until the police were about to leave that I realized all the power in the house was off. The creeps had turned all the circuit breakers off hoping they'd be turning the alarm off. Ha! They weren't THAT smart!

Danny got home in a panic about 12:15. He had left for a meeting at about 10. They broke in at 10:35, so someone was apparently scoping the place out. He nailed a board over the broken window after I got back to work. The glass company I had called hadn't called back, so that's just something else we'll have to deal with.

We live in a wide open neighborhood where nearly everyone is at work during the day. A thief's paradise, I'd reckon.

Blah!

Today's big surprise

It's a lovely Friday, marred only by our house being broken into.

I got a call on my cell phone about 10:45 during a meeting, but ignored it. About 30 minutes later, I got another call, which I missed, but checked it. It was the alarm company reporting the alarm going off at the house.

I tried to call Danny, since I thought he might have been at the house, but he was out and didn't answer HIS cell phone. I took off for home, thinking something awful must have happened to Danny.

Turns out that some jerk(s) broke into the house through the small double-paned laundry room downstairs. As soon as they got into the hallway (9 feet from the window), the motion sensor alarms went off. VERY VERY loudly. They hightailed it out the back door, which had a chain bolt, an interior lock and a KEY in the security door. They would have had to fumble around for quite a few seconds to get all of it unlocked. Amazingly, they didn't take the key.

When I got home at 11:30, the police had come back (after the alarm company had called them again when I got ahold of them). They were very nice about it all. They had already been all through the house, coming in through the open back door downstairs. They searched all the rooms, leaving the doors open, just in case there was someone still in the house. They're reporting it as "attempted burglary."

Nothing was taken at all. The alarm worked! Except for the window, nothing is even broken.

It wasn't until the police were about to leave that I realized all the power in the house was off. The creeps had turned all the circuit breakers off hoping they'd be turning the alarm off. Ha! They weren't THAT smart!

Danny got home in a panic about 12:15. He had left for a meeting at about 10. They broke in at 10:35, so someone was apparently scoping the place out. He nailed a board over the broken window after I got back to work. The glass company I had called hadn't called back, so that's just something else we'll have to deal with.

We live in a wide open neighborhood where nearly everyone is at work during the day. A thief's paradise, I'd reckon.

Blah!