This site is currently under extreme stress.  I finally went on vacation after 5 years.  Now I remember why I never go on vacation.  I have a weeks worth of work to do and basically 1 day to get it done in since it's the end of the month and there are reports that must be filed. 

 

I will return with something to say soon and to answer Jeannie's tag.

 

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

 

No sign of the bunny thieves as of yet.    Oooh I wonder if that's who the police were chasing the other night with a helicopter and dogs?!?! 

Have you ever gone completely blank while talking to someone??  It happens to me from time to time but usually I can conceal it by saying that something caught my eye or I was trying to listen to someone that was talking to me at the same time. Unfortunately, there was no excuse big enough to cover my blunder of the other day.

 

We have a problem with our septic lines at the facility where I work and have to have them cleaned periodically.  Most people have their septic tanks pumped every 15 - 20 years.  We have our cleaned every 2 or 3 months.  Normally the office mom takes care of this little problem and I never have to deal with it; however, we allow her to take days off from time to time and it was one of these times that I became tongue tied. 

 

The processing area called and said that the septic tanks were backing up and needed to be cleaned.  Oh Lord, who do we call for that?!?!  Where's her rolodex?  What would that be filed under?  Septic Tanks?  The name of the Company?  It starts with a "D," I think... Finally.

 

I dial the number and just when the gal answers the phone I become Jessica Simpson.  We're talking vast open space up there and all I could think of was what they were going to be doing and blurted out "Are you the people that suck the poop?"  The line went dead and then "Um, yes, we are a waste pumping serive."  WASTE PUMPING!!! That's it, that's what I need.  Okay, well we need you to pump the waste that backing up around here.  I'm glad she had a sense of humor. 

 

To this day, D's Pumping Service is affectionatly known as the Poop Suckers and I get my brain and mouth on the same wave length before picking up the phone.

 

Even today I am still incensed by the audacity of some unknown individual/s who felt that they had the right to walk into my yard and take something that did not belong to them.  I have never had anything stolen from me before and I must say that it is a bit unnerving and extrememly aggrivating.

 

For years, my mother has had 4 ceramic bunnies in her front yard.  A male about 3 feet tall pulling a wagon, a female also about 3 feet, pushing a wheelbarrow and 2 small baby bunnies.  I am not generally one for yard art but since she liked them, I did my best to accomodate and designed a garden area around them.  It took several years to get that area to look like I had envisioned and now the bunnies are gone.  Gone I tell you.  Thank goodness the turtle was hidden beneath the Zinnias!!

 

What disturbs me most is not the theft itself but that someone I don't know was in my yard without anyone knowing.  What else did they see that caught their eye?  Did they wander into the backyard as well?  The bunnies are all that is missing but that doesn't mean that tomorrow they won't come by with a truck and load up everything else that they fancied. 

 

My parents have lived in the same house for 31 years.  They have worked very hard to take it from the dump it once was to the wonderful house it is today.  They did not take a single thing from another person to do so. 

 

I might understand if the thieves had taken food or tools or clothing but the bunnies are of no value to resell so they were taken to place in someone elses yard as a decoration.  I now have a big bald spot in my bunny meadow.  Grandma's going to have to explain to my 3 year old niece why her bunnies are gone and my dad is calling fencing companies to come out and install a 6 foot cyclone fence around the front of the house.

 

Well thank you very much Mr/Ms Thief.  You got what you wanted at no expense.  You didn't have to work for it or pay for it.  You just walked right in and took.  But the people that you took from now have to fix the landscaping that you destroyed, explain evil people to a 3 year old and cough up $5000 for fencing!

 

I hope you dropped one of those bunnies (they must have weighed 30 - 40 lbs each) on your foot and broke it and that you go through life with a permanent limp.