Oh My

Hubby just left for school about half an hour ago. I was busy upstairs scanning photo’s for an entry I’m working on when I heard the bell downstairs. I couldn’t imagine who would be at our door so I went down to check. I opened the door to find a police officer standing there. He informed me that one of the houses across the street had been burglarized earlier in the day. Needless to say, I was horrified. We were home most of the day but their house sits quite a ways back off the road so it’s no surprise that someone could sneak in without being noticed.

I’m feeling less and less safe in our area. 20 years ago when my father in law bought this property it was safe enough to leave the house with the doors unlocked. It’s going downhill here though, and they’re trying to build a wal-mart just a mile down the road. I fear if that goes in, it will just attract more problems.

Stuff has been stolen out of the barn on our property. When my sister in law and her husband lived here he had a couple ATV’s stolen out of the barn. That’s only been about 3 years ago. Now a house has been burglarized. That’s one of my worst nightmares, not because I fear losing my material possessions but because of my pets. I’d hate for anything to happen to them because of someone’s greed. I’m glad we’re getting new windows installed soon, we had to break into our own house awhile back and heh, it wasn’t hard to do at all, a crowbar under the window and it gave like nothing.

I can’t help but wonder if those creeps have been staking out houses for awhile around here, watching ours and our neighbors every move, peeking in windows to see who has better things. It’s creepy to think about, I hope the bastards are caught. I have a deep hatred for people who do things like this, I also have a loaded gun that I know very well how to use.