I bought a lawn mower in August of 2006 from Sears with a two year warranty (we will call it Cutty). As luck would have it, in September of 2008 Cutty died, one month AFTER the warranty expired!! We bought another mower about a week later from Sears with a two year warranty (we will call it Nipper). A week after we purchased Nipper we received a letter in the mail that stated we could renew our warranty on Cutty!! I had already used Nipper so I couldn't return him. We gave Cutty to Toni's dad so he could tinker with it. About a month after Nipper joined our family, I ran over a tree stump and screwed up his gas line. It was, of course, not covered on the warranty because it wasn't a manufacturer defect. I paid $168 for Nipper and the repairs were $138!!! CRAZY.
Yesterday, Toni and I left the house around 10:30 a.m. Nipper and the leaf blower were sitting under the carport as they have been for months. Toni's dad came over about 1 p.m. to borrow our shop vac. We returned home about 2 p.m. to find Nipper and blower gone. We assumed it was Toni's dad. I didn't think anything of it until I wanted to mow the backyard today. I called Toni's dad and asked if he had our mower. He said no and that it wasn't on the carport when he borrowed the shop vac. Nipper and blower were STOLEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT!!! Cutty also sat there for TWO YEARS and nobody stole it. I know our economy sucks right now but really??
I have lived in this house for 9 years and I have never had anything stolen. I actually went to South Carolina for 4 days and came home to my door wide open (literally) and nothing was stolen. Now that our economy is all screwy people want to steal a freakin' push mower of all things. It's not even the self-propelled mower. I just don't get it. Believe me when we buy another mower I am bolting it either to the carport or to Sadie (our red-nosed pitbull). I don't think they will come back if they come in contact with her. hahaha
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 21st
Yesterday was pretty normal until I woke up from my nap. I decided at 8pm to take a nap, yes 8pm and I woke up at 9:30. My sweetie pie woke me up with a kiss and drug me out of the room asking "can you help me with something?" All that was going through my mind was "what did she do?" Needless to say she set up a candlelight dance for us in the TV room. It was so sweet, until it was ruined by our dogs of course. While we were chit chatting and listened to music, we look through the baby gate and 3 of the 6 dogs are staring at us through the bars like they were in jail. It broke the mood. The next best thing was chocolate. We decided to go to Walmart for brownie sundae ingredients.
In process of enjoying our tastey sundaes, we hear a knock at the front door. We don't use the front door so we knew it wasn't someone we knew. The dogs didn't bark. Go figure. They bark when there isn't ANYBODY or ANYTHING around but when we need them to bark, they don't. I was the brave one and walked outside to see who the mystery person was that was knocking on the door. This woman, that looked vaguely familiar, was stumbing over to me. She started talking to me like I knew her but I didn't. After a few sentences of her story she decides to tell me who she is, my neighbor. Toni and I only talk to one of our neighbors because the other ones are strange. This was one of the strange neighbors. She was undoubtingly drunk. Her husband left to go to his moms house and took the keys to her car which was a good thing because she couldn't drive if she wanted to. She asked me to take her to the store. Being the nice trusting person that I am, I did.
She was super talkative and hilarious. On the way to the store I heard her life story. On the way home from the store, I heard her life story. When we returned home, I heard her life story. Toni didn't save me from the story telling. She talked to me for another hour. I managed to get her to stop talking for a second so I could slip in that I needed to get to bed. She went on her way but now I guess she thinks we are best buds.
I thought all of the surprises were over but she had another up her sleeve. I had changed into my PJ's and she knocked on the door AGAIN. And of course the dogs didn't bark. She came back over to give me her phone number. She was so drunk I couldn't even read what she wrote on the post it note. Toni and I laughed for a good 30 minutes after all of the hoopla.
In process of enjoying our tastey sundaes, we hear a knock at the front door. We don't use the front door so we knew it wasn't someone we knew. The dogs didn't bark. Go figure. They bark when there isn't ANYBODY or ANYTHING around but when we need them to bark, they don't. I was the brave one and walked outside to see who the mystery person was that was knocking on the door. This woman, that looked vaguely familiar, was stumbing over to me. She started talking to me like I knew her but I didn't. After a few sentences of her story she decides to tell me who she is, my neighbor. Toni and I only talk to one of our neighbors because the other ones are strange. This was one of the strange neighbors. She was undoubtingly drunk. Her husband left to go to his moms house and took the keys to her car which was a good thing because she couldn't drive if she wanted to. She asked me to take her to the store. Being the nice trusting person that I am, I did.
She was super talkative and hilarious. On the way to the store I heard her life story. On the way home from the store, I heard her life story. When we returned home, I heard her life story. Toni didn't save me from the story telling. She talked to me for another hour. I managed to get her to stop talking for a second so I could slip in that I needed to get to bed. She went on her way but now I guess she thinks we are best buds.
I thought all of the surprises were over but she had another up her sleeve. I had changed into my PJ's and she knocked on the door AGAIN. And of course the dogs didn't bark. She came back over to give me her phone number. She was so drunk I couldn't even read what she wrote on the post it note. Toni and I laughed for a good 30 minutes after all of the hoopla.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Friday, June 19th
Since today is the my (our) first blog post I'm not really sure how this will go. I'm not great at sticking with things so we will see what the future holds for this blog.
I woke up around 10:30 yesterday to the bathroom rug drug out to the middle of the living room. It was torn to shreds. We did need a new rug however the dogs could have just TOLD us that instead of tearing it to pieces. I am guessing they were sick of waiting on me to wake up so they had to entertain themselves somehow. The brand new throw rug for the front door was also chewed on. Luckily you can't tell.
While hanging out in the TV room I heard a loud crash and I saw doggie feet straight up in the air. Braxton (all 85 pounds of him) was in his bed and the bed collapsed. It scared the pee out of him, literally. I put it back together and tightened the bolts but he has yet to return to the falling bed.
Toni and I didn't do much yesterday. We are old I guess. We drove around town looking for produce stands for the 3rd weekend in a row!! hahaha We were listening to the radio and every single song we heard was annoying. I really think we are becoming the cranky old couple of the neighborhood. We stopped at Big Lots and found quite a bit of cute items that we wanted. The clientele at the store was getting on our nerves so we left pretty quickly. We drove down 92 to Lakeland Highlands road, up South Florida and back to 92 to Nana's Kitchen for dinner. The crowd at Nana's was ridiculously old but the food was fantastic (again I think we are old).
On our way home we realized the dogs were left in the house with no lights on. We hurried home to find Riley out of the hallway. We have baby gates all over our house to keep dogs out of certain areas, however Riley is our climber/jumper/Houdini. We bought a gate to keep all of the dogs out of the TV room but he jumps over the gate so he can lie on the couch. He only does this when we are not home. We came up with the idea to stack two small baby gates in the hallway so he can't jump over them but now instead of jumping the gates he pushed them down. I think we will be fighting a never ending battle of "how can we outsmart the dogs."
I woke up around 10:30 yesterday to the bathroom rug drug out to the middle of the living room. It was torn to shreds. We did need a new rug however the dogs could have just TOLD us that instead of tearing it to pieces. I am guessing they were sick of waiting on me to wake up so they had to entertain themselves somehow. The brand new throw rug for the front door was also chewed on. Luckily you can't tell.
While hanging out in the TV room I heard a loud crash and I saw doggie feet straight up in the air. Braxton (all 85 pounds of him) was in his bed and the bed collapsed. It scared the pee out of him, literally. I put it back together and tightened the bolts but he has yet to return to the falling bed.
Toni and I didn't do much yesterday. We are old I guess. We drove around town looking for produce stands for the 3rd weekend in a row!! hahaha We were listening to the radio and every single song we heard was annoying. I really think we are becoming the cranky old couple of the neighborhood. We stopped at Big Lots and found quite a bit of cute items that we wanted. The clientele at the store was getting on our nerves so we left pretty quickly. We drove down 92 to Lakeland Highlands road, up South Florida and back to 92 to Nana's Kitchen for dinner. The crowd at Nana's was ridiculously old but the food was fantastic (again I think we are old).
On our way home we realized the dogs were left in the house with no lights on. We hurried home to find Riley out of the hallway. We have baby gates all over our house to keep dogs out of certain areas, however Riley is our climber/jumper/Houdini. We bought a gate to keep all of the dogs out of the TV room but he jumps over the gate so he can lie on the couch. He only does this when we are not home. We came up with the idea to stack two small baby gates in the hallway so he can't jump over them but now instead of jumping the gates he pushed them down. I think we will be fighting a never ending battle of "how can we outsmart the dogs."
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