Today I was out in the yard enjoying the beautiful day when my neighbor Kim stopped by. Kim mentioned the neighbors in between her house and ours just discovered an interesting theft that happened sometime this winter.
Evidently someone "stole" one of their really nice pine trees from their fenced in backyard. Kim said our neighbor was out walking in her yard yesterday when she tripped over a stump where her tree once stood. She said they noticed footprints in their backyard before Christmas after returning from a trip, but didn't think much of it until now. I just feel bad none of us neighbors noticed it either, a tree is kind of a big thing, not like a missing sand bucket or a duck planter.
Makes you wonder who would have enough guts to walk into someone's backyard with a saw and cut down their tree? Let's just hope they don't make it a tradition of thieving a tree from the neighbors. Do you think they sit by the fire, admiring the tree and sing, "O Stolen Tannebaum"? Geesh.
You know this whole thing got me to thinking about the very funny book my friend Karen and I have been reading called I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl . It could be much worse, in the book the author has her carport stolen. A carport would be way more obvious than a 7 foot pine tree, but then again a pine tree is a pretty big thing.
Maybe we should all sign up for the Neighborhood Watch and join McGruff the crime dog. I read the home and neighborhood safety page, but there is nothing on there about protecting your conifers.
Evidently someone "stole" one of their really nice pine trees from their fenced in backyard. Kim said our neighbor was out walking in her yard yesterday when she tripped over a stump where her tree once stood. She said they noticed footprints in their backyard before Christmas after returning from a trip, but didn't think much of it until now. I just feel bad none of us neighbors noticed it either, a tree is kind of a big thing, not like a missing sand bucket or a duck planter.
Makes you wonder who would have enough guts to walk into someone's backyard with a saw and cut down their tree? Let's just hope they don't make it a tradition of thieving a tree from the neighbors. Do you think they sit by the fire, admiring the tree and sing, "O Stolen Tannebaum"? Geesh.
You know this whole thing got me to thinking about the very funny book my friend Karen and I have been reading called I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl . It could be much worse, in the book the author has her carport stolen. A carport would be way more obvious than a 7 foot pine tree, but then again a pine tree is a pretty big thing.
Maybe we should all sign up for the Neighborhood Watch and join McGruff the crime dog. I read the home and neighborhood safety page, but there is nothing on there about protecting your conifers.
Comments
The carport story was hilarious (hello? move to a better neighborhood!) but this is just plain mean. You know the jerk that did it laughed all the way through Christmas, and then threw that poor tree in the trash. You had better start a Neighborhood Tree Watch Society...or something with a more clever title...before Christmas this year.
THAT is somebody who needs to figure out what Christmas is FOR.
i hope that tree caught on fire and burned all their presents up :)
;-)
yeah, i figured i would get caught on that comment.
really, tho.