Vandalism

In an amazing coincidence that even had the state trooper asking what we had done (in a cosmic sense) to deserve this, we suffered two acts of vandalism yesterday, one on the east coast and one on the west coast.

We are presuming it was not the same people.

At our house in Los Angeles, some kids broke in through the office window. Finding the place empty save for a box of baking soda in the pantry, they sprinkled the baking soda all over the carpets. Obviously not the brightest vandals, because now our carpets smell fresh and clean. However, to get out they used the french doors without unlocking them, and broke the locking mechanism. Our neighbor is going to fix that this weekend.

Meanwhile, in Lancaster, some kids in a pickup truck (we presume) drove into, and knocked down, the little "house" holding our sign. This was not an accident, because then they came up the driveway and did the same thing to our mailbox. Fortunately they didn't do anything to the solar lights I just installed this week. (I suspect it was so late that the solar lights had already turned off, and were thus spared.)

So there you have it, instant karma for something we have no idea what we did. Fortunately nothing that a couple of hours and a little paint won't fix, although now we're going to put the mailbox on a metal post, so next time this happens there's going to be some truck damage as well.

By the way, this Sunday is the "Taste of Britain" car show and polo match, in Rothsville (about 8 miles from us). Features MGs, Jaguars, Bentleys, Triumphs, etc. $5 admission. Dawn went last year and had a great time.