Sunday, December 10, 2006



We got vandalized Friday night! Nothing too major, but three teenagers hit the neighborhood and trashed between 15 and 30 lawns. (The number of lawns varies between reports) One of the kids lives just up the street from us, and the kids were caught at the scene of the crime! We had one of the neighbors handing out information sheets in the morning, and three very sorry teenagers at our door in the afternoon. One neighbor said that the estimates were around $60,000.00 for all the lawns. I think that is a little high, but...what do I know? The kids offered either to fix it themselves, of if we wanted, we could have it fixed by someone. Ralph told them he would get some estimates, and get back to them. We both think the kids need to fix the lawn themselves (nothing like manual labor to drive in a point), and since we didn't have a lot of damage, shouldn't be too much for them to handle. For us, they just need to throw out a couple of handfuls of seeds, and the lawn will probably look better! Some of the lawns were trashed a lot worse. They took out a fence and broke a waterpipe at one house the next street over from us. One good thing, we met a lot of new (to us) neighbors! If Ralph was outside, everyone that drove by stopped to talk!

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