Kiss My Knits!

While we were watching LOST tonight, someone knocked on our door. It was our neighbor – and he was standing there with our lawnmower. Apparently he’d been washing dishes and looked out the window to notice that our shed door was open. He went outside and saw a guy dragging our lawnmower up the sidewalk. At 10:15 at night. No, that’s not conspicuous.

Our neighbor, a guy who loves his yard and has surely noticed what our mower looks like, yelled at him that that was our mower. He let it go and started jogging away, saying that he (our neighbor) could give it back to us. Which he did.

Thank God our neighbor was doing the dishes. He’s a good guy, and a good neighbor, even if his lawn does outshine ours by a factor of about a thousand. I imagine us not being able to mow our lawn because the mower was gone would make him nearly as crazy as it would us.

There was no lock on the shed door. The entire assembly which held the lock was broken off by thieves who made off with our weedeater a while back. Needless to say, we’ll be replacing it with a sturdy chain and keyed lock as soon as possible. I doubt the thieves will be back tonight, but until tomorrow, the mower stays inside. Tomorrow, we start beefing up security.