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As anyone who reads my LJ regularly knows, L and I have been working like crazy, sometimes with help, on renovating the house for sale, and packing and moving stuff. As time goes by, we're getting more tired, less able to bounce back. But things are getting done, thankfully.

Good news: final negotiations have happened, and buyers signed the Purchase and Sale agreement last night. That doesn't mean we're completely in the clear, but it's a good sign. We still have work to do on the house, including the mason is here to work on the chimney top and on the basement pillars today, and the termite guy will be here next Thursday morning.

Bad news: We were so tired last night, we didn't hear a person break into our house, sometime between 11:30 p.m. last night and 6:30 a.m. this morning.

Good news: Nothing was taken, and the only damage was the window needs new pins, a basket got broken, and some apples got bruised.

We have a pedestal dining table, which was tipped over. We figure the thief got the window open (in a way that suggests familiarity with how these windows are constructed), then stepped onto the table, not realizing it was a pedestal-style. The table tipped over, spilling the basket of apples and sundry other items all over the place. The thief panicked at the noise he was making and left.

Of course we called the police, and detectives dusted for fingerprints and such. Looks like the thief wore gloves. He/she is a smoker (put cig out against the outside wall of the house), but we couldn't find a cigarette stub. Might have been a fresh one, so the thief put it out and stuck it in his/her pocket.

We've put in a call to the people who originally installed these particular windows, to get it repaired. Also, we'll be pointing out to them the theory one of the detectives had on how the window was opened.

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So, a bit unnerving. Our neighborhood rarely has any crime on it. There've been three other incidents that I know of, in the past 11 years. We expect having the For Sale sign and having taken down the curtains to be factors. L's going to look for shades that will fit the two front windows. And we'll have the porch lights on at night for a bit.

I'm tempted to put up a note telling prospective thieves that all of our tech is outdated....

We'll definitely be moving more things up to the farm this weekend though, and possibly sooner as well.

Ah, well. It's sunny out, no one was hurt, and there's work to be done. We have much to be thankful for!