Know how you feel, I scratch my back on doors or corners (sm)

• Does anyone know where to buy one of those SM - Little fingers
  • Use a spagetti lifter! It has - Misha
    • Just dont then use on spaghetti. Knew of MT who - used baby snot sucker to baste turkey. YUCK!! nm
    • I have one of those! That would be great! SM - Little Fingers
      • Sorry for the error. It can be a real SM - Little Fingers
    • Here are some fancy ones, but - Misha
  • Walmart. NM - igeti
  • I once gave my mother ...sm - trose
  • Know how you feel, I scratch my back on doors or corners (sm) - Sherry
  • Got 3 at the local party supply store. I LOVE them. - Have seen metal ones in Miles Kimball etc. nm
    • With my luck you want me to buy a METAL SM - I think NOT! LOL!
      • Actually, was thinkin with aggressive scratching wood ones - can break but metal is forever. nm
  • I just saw those at Walgreens this week nm - MT
    • I'm on my way! Have to wait for break! NM - Little Fingers
  • Perhaps the "old time" drugstore - Fatigued MT
    • Thanks for your help. I am still itching! NM - Little fingers
      • How about a long wooden spoon - Fatigued MT
        • Great idea! I was just using a ballpoint pen! SM - Little Fingers

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I had a very scary experience this morning and wanted to pass on my experience so everyone out there can protect themselves a little better too.

I live in a very rural area that is largely a farming community.  We don't have town police, only county and they have to cover a very large county so if we need them in a hurry, it could take a little while.  It took 27 minutes for them to respond to my 911 call this morning.

My husband left town this morning on business so it was just me and the kids home alone.  I never lock my doors and when I am working, my back is to the front door.

About 40 minutes after my husband left, I was working along, listening to music softly while the kids were still sleeping.  I never heard a car, car door, nothing.

The next thing I know, the dogs are going crazy in my bedroom.  I hop up to see what's going on.  I just thought someone was walking on the road and they were barking at them. 

I walked into the bedroom and there stood a young hispanic male, probably in late teens or early 20s.   He had just walked right into my bedroom through the sliding glass door.  Evidently, he did not see my two pitbulls sound asleep on the bed. 

So there this guy is standing, my dogs have him trapped between them and the door he closed behind him.  I ran out to grab the phone and my gun.  He then opened the door and split with both dogs tearing off after him.

There was an older model white toyota sitting in the driveway with another hispanic male sitting in the driver's seat.  The runner jumped over the retaining wall to the driveway below and the guy in the car then saw the dogs running and he tried to get out of here in a hurry, slamming into a concrete post that our log splitter is chained to. Part of their bumper was laying in the driveway.

Just two weeks ago, someone busted out a plate glass window in a house not too far from here and took a bunch of electronic equipment.

So I'm standing out front, waving my 30-30 in one hand and the phone in the other as they take off up the road, which is a dead end.  I went back into the house because by this time the kids were awake and wondering what was going on.

Two deputies showed up 27 minutes later. One goes up the road and the other takes my statement and helps me round up my dogs, which were pretty riled up still. Those dogs were just running circles around the yard. 

The first deputy finds the car up the road, calls the second, he goes up, they were walking up one of the old horse trails and found the two kids hiding behind some rocks.  Fools. 

Both of them are behind bars now and..... I am no longer leaving my doors unlocked EVER.   I'm also keeping a few shells at my desk in case I ever need to load my 30/30 in a hurry.  I didn't have time to grab any this morning or I probably would have blown a few holes in that car and those kids.

I thought of this question last night while reading. Do you lock your doors at night? Do you ever on purpose leave your car keys in the ignition?

I guess I just assumed everyone locked their doors. I know in the old days people in rural communities didn't all lock their doors, but I figured they do now. But I read a couple of books recently which were set in modern times and they talk about how no one ever locks their doors in their small towns. Do you, or know of anyone, who does not lock the door to their house?

...and if they don't believe me, I can't really blame them.  Several years ago, they had someone return a computer and get another one, and when they opened the boxes later, they were filled with wood and rocks, etc.   I'm still looking for my receipt, but not holding my breath.

My dad used to work at Lowes and he said they kept finding empty nail boxes behind the full boxes. Turns out, people were combining two boxes of nails and only paying for one.  I didn't realize nails were that expensive.  Who knew?

It was awful.  As far as the chickens and the sheep, that really did not bother me at all.  I grew up on a farm. They had had a party a few months ago and never cleaned up.  It smelled of urine.  I still have that awful smell with me.  GAG.  The place looked trashed. There were holes in the walls.  I know you are supposed to look beyond that and I tried and tried.  The fact that they knew since Monday that we were coming to look, I think they should have made an effort to make it look presentable.   Even the realtor agreed with me on that.   I don't feel they took us seriously. The realtor said they already came down from 130k to 125k so the potential buyer could put in new carpet or steam clean it.  I tried not to make a face but Dh said I had rolled my eyes.  My cousin, who knows the owner, said these people do this for a living.  They buy houses, live in them for a little while then sale them for profit.  I don't think they have a clue about their business.  IMO.

DH looked into the attic.  He said he could move the beams with his hand.  He did put his face on the wall in the living room, he said it was crooked.  DH said that our house is better built.  I noticed cracks between the ceiling and the baseboard in the loving room but I thought maybe just the baseboard needed to be renailed.  DH thinks that is an indication the house is sinking. 

The only thing we liked was the living room, sun room and that shop outside.  I liked the backyard but the master bedroom was too small.  The one I have now is small but it is bigger than that.  I want bigger, I don't want to downsize.  The other two bedrooms I thought were too small as well but we could live with those if we had to. 

I guess the reason they did not take us seriously and did not put out an effort was because I had already told them that 125k was too high for that neighborhood.  THe realtor lady said that they had come off but evidently that 125k was their comming off price.  I don't think I would want to pay 70k now, not even 50k.

to school to be an ultrasound technologist.  I started this path back in 1993--graduated from rad tech school in ྛ.  Then I had kids and never worked in the field.  Went back to school in 2000 to become a medical Transcriptionist and have been working as an MT ever since.

Now, I'm finally working toward finishing my ultrasound degree.  I'm really excited about it.  I sometimes worry that I'm too old, but I'm not going to let that stop me.

You can do it!

Chickadee