I'm TICKED!

When I was packing up orders today, I had one for the last travel trailer ornament and when I went to get it (it was hanging in the front of the store), it was GONE!   I looked EVERYWHERE for that ornament and it's nowhere to be found!  If I had accidentally "oversold" them, my inventory would have said "-1" instead of "0" for how many we had left.  There's only ONE answer to why I didn't have one to ship.  It was STOLEN!      

I'm sure that whoever stole the ornament doesn't read my blog, but if you do, this message is for you!

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and that ornament looks lovely on your tree!  Obviously, you needed that ornament more than the person who actually PAID FOR IT you creep!    I'm thoroughly disgusted by your behavior and pray you never darken our doorways again!  
As Corporal Klinger would say:  "I hope the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!"

Now that I have that off my chest, I feel better.  Well, not really.  I'm still REALLY ticked!  I'm ticked that some creep had the nerve to steal something from us, and I'm ticked that the creep has made me feel this way!  I was in a GREAT mood today and was happily filling orders until the last one, when I discovered the stolen ornament.   I'm not going to let this fester, but I DID have to get it out.    Thanks.

OK, on to better things!   I've been putting in so many hours at the store that I don't have time to do my OWN holiday shopping!  Seeing as I don't have to pack any orders up tomorrow, I'm going to spend some time shopping on-line and ordering my OWN gifts!   I'm kind of pleased at the thought of someone else having to pack up MY orders and shipping them to me!  LOL  

Yesterday, Greg went to check on the sump pump in the basement, and it turns out it's fried!   Apparently, the hose outside froze up, so the pump kept trying to pump and couldn't do anything.  Fortunately he caught it before anything flooded downstairs, but he had to get a new sump pump.  Not only that, but he had to go into the backyard into the snow and get a new hose out there that won't freeze up -- one of those big black 3" around plastic ones, instead of the smaller 1-1/2 inch flexible blue ones that we normally use.   So, there's more money down the drain (literally)!   Like I said, at least the basement didn't flood!    

It's gotten very cold here, and we've had more snow in the last few days and there's more in the forecast, so we're pretty much assured of a white Christmas.  This weekend is going to have some of the coldest temps of the year, with wind chills well below zero most of the night.    One of the lights in the chicken coop is burned out, so I have to get another one tomorrow.  With this cold weather, they really need that extra light in there.  

Our newest addition, Quagmire the Duck, is doing fine.  She makes herself a nice little nest in the chicken coop, although I don't think she's happy about the cold temps!     She doesn't even know that she's the "Queen of the Coop" as Aaron calls her!   She's bigger than all the chickens, so they let her do what she wants.  If she wants water, she gets it.  If she wants food, she gets it!  LOL    She's very sweet and wouldn't "peck" at the chickens, but the chickens don't know that, so they give deference to her!   LOL     We haven't been able to let them out since all the snows came, as it's just too cold out and they won't walk in the snow anyway.  However, the one day we DID let them out, when Erica went to put them away (about 4 p.m.), a bunch of the chickens were hiding underneath our deck.  Not only that, but Quagmire was there, too!    ;)   Apparently, she just followed the chickens and did what they do!    About 30 minutes later, they all walked back to the coop and Erica was able to close them up.

So, that's all that's been going on here lately.    Hope everyone's well and ready for the holidays!

Julie