Ok so yesterday I got home from work. I’d been planning all day to lay down and take a nap as soon as I got home because I swear I STILL have not caught up on sleep from Dragon Con.
So I lay down and turn on a podcast (which just happened to be a true crime podcast, episode about a girl killed in her house…). And then I hear a weird noise.
It sounded like something dragging (which I can say now — but at the time I had no clue). I decided it was the ice maker in the freezer. We rarely use it so everytime we do and it refills, it always makes a grinding noise and scares me.
So I laid back down and a few minutes I heard it AGAIN and it was LOUDER and it was DEFINITELY NOT THE ICE MAKER.
I sat up and looked over at Luna, who was sitting at the back door, hackles up, tail all puffed out. She was staring out the back door window — our back door has windows in the center of it, from top to bottom. And out that back door, I could see a shape moving. And my brain interpreted it as a person crawling around outside of our back door.
And then I saw a tail. It was A DOG.
I went over and looked out at it, it was some kind of boxer-ish dog. Clipped ears, and dragging a HUGE heavy chain (which was the noise I was hearing). That chain was not a standard dog chain, that was like, a drag-your-dead-dragon-out-of-the-ice chain and so not appropriate to have attached to your dog. I could tell he had tags on, but the minute he saw me he went into alert mode and backed up and started barking at me, so I wasn’t about to go out there. Probably somebody’s “guard” dog they keep outside. (Poor dog).
But how did he get in our backyard? We have a fully fenced in yard, with two gates that are both kept padlocked. I went around out front to check both gates and the main side was locked, but the side we don’t ever use was unlocked. (Chase said it was from when we got the new AC installed, tho)
I went back in and couldn’t see him anymore from any of the windows. So I carefully went back there and he was gone. Discovered the problem — couldn’t see this from any of my windows:
Looking into our neighbor’s yard, they have fence boards down, too. We know our neighbor doesn’t have a dog, so he must have come through several yards. He’d dragged out porch mat back over to the gap in the fence, also.
ALL of the houses in our neighborhood have this fencing put up – it was installed when the houses were built 20 years ago. And they’re all falling apart. When Chase got home we went out and fixed this one, discovered another one coming loose – and Chase ripped one off the gate while coming in and out, so had to fix that one too LOL
So yeah. We want to get out of this house before we have to replace the entire fence. Blech.
That was my excitement from yesterday.
Tuesday and yesterday I went through my costumes for this weekend and got everything ironed and repaired and ready for photoshoot Saturday.
Also got all of my Leia costumes out. I’ve been wanting to do this specific little shoot using all of them for a while and while I have the buns in for Medieval Leia Saturday, we’re going to do it!
Having Boushh costume pieces out made my whole sewing room smell like 2007. Haha.
I’ll leave you with a crazy Luna selfie
