NIGHT VISITORS

I woke up to a scurry of footsteps this morning. Something had happened during the night and by the reaction of Lindsay and Allen, I couldn't tell if it was good or bad. As I turned the corner to the entry way of our house, I saw them staring out the window with a look of disbelief. Well, I looked out the window and there was WHITE everywhere. No... it was (thankfully) not snow...yet. It was toilet paper. Lots of it. We had night visitors...and I don't think it was just one or two. Our front yard was hit pretty hard. They did a beautiful job on our front yard and porch (including our door handle). The disturbing part of this is that we had our windows open last night and our room faces the front of the house. Our guard dog Bernie, didn't hear a thing (and obviously neither did we!). We also have motion detectors which usually scare unsuspecting criminals away. It kind of creeps me out to think that some teenage boys (I'm pretty sure they were boys) were running around our yard last night wreaking havoc on our lawn and we didn't have a clue! It makes me believe that these people were professionals and knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

The trees were tee-peed. There were words written in the grass, forks in the lawn, rubber bands all over the driveway. Our cars were wrapped with cellophane and there was Vaseline on the door handles. Actually, to be quite honest, it was kind of pretty and reminded me of the first snowfall. The good news in all of this is that we came away with 9 partial rolls of TP and lots of rubber bands (which I will definitely use)! It took a little effort to clean up the mess, but we appreciated how thoughtful the culprits were for using high-quality TP. We found enough clues to help us to solve this mystery, but given the magnitude of this offense, retaliation will be highly discouraged.