Last year we had our landscaping rocks stolen by the guys who did our new roof. My aunt and I were sitting in her front yard, watching the roofers finish up the roof on my house.

At one point, I saw this guy pick up a couple of rocks from our landscaping and put them in the back of the van they arrived in. My aunt and I got up and walked into my house, looking in the back of the van as we walked by. Couldnt see the rocks...dont know where he had hidden them.

Didnt realize till after they left that this guy had stolen almost all of the same colored rock. The rocks were river stones, about the size of small loaves of bread. Think each rock weighed about 4 or 5 pounds apiece.

I'm glad he stuck to one color of rock (the yellowish colored ones) because we have a ton of different types of rock in our yard. A lot of obsidian, some geodes (rocks sliced in half and neat looking crystals inside them) pieces of marble, some mica, and a lot of river rock. From what I can tell, he only wanted the yellowish colored river rock.

I would LOVE to have a video camera system in our yard. I'd want it to record onto a DVR. (digital video, like a Tivo) I want to know who it is that's stealing from people in our neighborhood. My aunt suspects her next door neighbor's wife. (the next door neighbor also happens to be the association president of our homeowners association) The neighbor's wife had divorced him about 3yrs ago, when we were having problems with things disappearing all the time before she left in a big huff when she left her husband. (right around the time my dog died too...that's a different story, but she's a suspect in Tiny's death)

Before she left, things were disappearing all the time...after she left, the thefts stopped, for almost the entire 2 1/2 years that this lady was gone. Now that she's been back for several months, things are disappearing again. I dont know if it's actually her taking it, but I would love to have video proof of who's been stealing things.

My aunt seems to have things disappear more often than we do. Plus, my aunt has seen the neighbor lady in her yard, looking at things and moving stuff around...in my aunts yard. She was on my aunt's patio last night, picking up and rearranging things. My aunt said she's got to go out and see if anything disappeared off of her patio.

We know that my aunt's next door neighbor has stolen stuff from her before. 3yrs ago, on Easter, my aunt put Easter baskets on the patio table on her porch for my cousins and their husbands/kids....baskets disappeared off of my aunt's table and mysteriously reappeared in the hands of the neighbor lady's kids. Neighbor lady let them do it, and pretty much let the kids flaunt that fact the entire day.

The neighbor lady is a whackjob. Back when she lived in the neighborhood the first time around, she was allowing her two dogs to run loose every night. (against city regulations and having 2 dogs is against our homeowners association) The dogs broke into my aunts house TWICE and attacked my aunt's pug. Those dogs are the reason my aunt's dog was put to sleep last year. She'd been injured in both attacks, and was having serious back and spine problems that were a result of the two attacks from those dogs when my aunt had her put to sleep. Poor Pudge...she was a great pug.

When those dogs attacked Pudge, and my aunt said something to crazy neighbor lady, she told my aunt "well, they must have been trying to **** your dog." and basically laughed about it. Didnt apologize for Pudge being injured, or the mess the dogs made of my aunts house. (they always seemed to do it on rainy days, after the dogs had been running around in the mud of the pond behind my aunt's house) This lady seems to be a narccisistic sociopath.

My dad and I are going back to Costco tonight and getting another flower pot arrangement for my mom. This time we're putting it in the front yard and will be checking everyday to see if it wanders off like the other one did. I might actually put it where I can see it from the front room, and will sit and watch out the window. (we have tinted windows, cant see in during the day)

I'm really peeved that the first flower pot got stolen. It's just irritating that people will do that. It looked really nice too.