I suppose the title I chose for this post isn't exactly descriptive of what I am about to write about but rather is symbolic of the strange events occurring at our house this week. Full moon, gremlins or coincidence I am not sure but I do know my co-worker and friend Carol says something odd is going on with me this week. I have to agree.
Monday night I was on the Apple web site in anticipation of purchasing the MAC laptop that Bill gave me for my birthday/wedding anniversary last week. He didn't know what to order so had told me to pick it out and order it. I can't say that I typically do a lot of late night shopping on the Internet nor do I think I have ever made such a large purchase on the Internet which is why I imagine it created a "Red Flag" to my credit card company who promptly (but unknown to me) put a "suspected fraud" hold on my card. I placed the order and anxiously awaited a confirmation email that never came. I gave up and went to bed. The next morning I checked my order and discovered there was a "problem with payment." At the same time a message was left on our home phone from Visa alerting us to suspected fraudulent use of our card. Fortunately I was able to clear up the confusion and get my purchase with Apple through. And in all honesty I really wasn't upset with the credit card company because it was a minor inconvenience meant to protect me and my credit rating.
Tuesday as I was leaving for work I opened up our large chest freezer in the garage to grab a frozen meal for lunch. As I opened the lid I heard the strangest noise of running water. Puzzled I peered into the freezer only to discover that somewhere between Sunday night and Tuesday morning our freezer had become more of an oven. This was not good. The freezer was PLUM full of food - frozen pizzas, meat, french fries, vegetables, egg rolls, pizza rolls and because it is summer lots of frozen treats for the kids. EVERYTHING was thawed. What a mess. I rolled in our large garbage can and started the task of removing everything only to get to the bottom and discover a rainbow of colored sticky water. Yep you guessed it — those frozen treats for the kids (push pops namely) had thawed AND leaked to the bottom of my freezer. There I am — it is hot and humid and I am wearing a dress hanging over into the freezer trying to clean the mess. Glad no one happened by with a camera because what a sight I am sure I was!
On Tuesday afternoon Bill and the kids swam. Afterwards Bill cleaned the pool thoroughly and then put the chemicals in to shock it (treats the water and you should not swim in the water while it is being shocked because it will cause great irritation to ones skin and eyes) and put on the solar cover. Now this is our 4th summer with the pool and not once in all this time have we had the solar cover blow off or even blow so that it folds over itself. It sort of sucks itself to the water and just stays put until we pull it off. Bill headed to bed around 12:30 that night and looked out the patio door at the pool as he does every night and all was good. Per insurance requirements our pool is completely fenced and has locked self closing gates. When Bill let the dog out on Wednesday morning he noticed that our solar cover was neatly rolled up and pushed to one end of our pool. The pool was also noticeably dirty. It appears there was a pool party at our house sometime during the night Tuesday night but unfortunately while it appears we hosted the party, we were not invited to attend. Then Bill tells me that last week one morning he found a similar thing only the cover was folded over rather than rolled. This bugs me on several levels - the nerve of a stranger swimming and doing lord knows what in our pool; someone trespassed on our property by coming up our deck stairs and hopping over a fence to get to the pool; liability issues in that if this person(s) were injured or worse we could get sued despite us doing everything in our power to protect ourselves from this. The assumption is that this was some kids playing a prank or something but the fact that it appears to have happened twice is disturbing. Last night we left the deck light on and the back door light and we had no uninvited guests.
Don't they say things happen in threes? Well with three under our belt hopefully the quiet uneventful days and nights will now continue.
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Oh golly - fun times at the Lamberts! But doesn't it keep your lives interesting any way. It made me chuckle - not laughing at you, but with you I hope! :)
Sorry for the loss of the food though. :(
As for the pool crashers - perhaps a pirahna or two would keep them away !
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