Another Excellent Mom and Becky Adventure

And it happened right at home too!

I was making some "fabulous" bowl 

candles yesterday....

(featured here)

when out of the blue my Mom and her

dog, Bear, showed up at my door.

Not unheard of but I knew that she had

completed her morning walk and was headed

home...my front window and Bear's love of 

barking as he walks had let me know that.

So, to have her turn around and come over 

caught me by surprise.

Turns out the handle on her storm door had

broken and she was completely locked out of 

her house.  I felt the adrenaline kick in as we joked 

about breaking and entering.

I gathered up some tools, including a metal nail 

file that I had noticed out of place the day before

but had not put away.  

It seemed nearly as good as a credit card. lol

Well, it turns out that unless we were willing

to do major damage to a window Mom's house is

pretty much like Fort Knox.  That is good to know.

However, when you are trying to get in one hopes 

for a chink in the armor.

Nope.

We had to get that door open somehow!

We removed screws.

That didn't do it.

We took the pins out of the door hinges.

Nope, we couldn't budge it.

We laughed....a LOT.

Mom's new neighbor is a police

officer....just as the last one was.

  I could just imagine what he 

would think if he happened to come out

and see us with hammer, long screwdriver and 

other implements of breaking into a home.

Thankfully she introduced herself to him last

week so he probably wouldn't have thought 

too much about it.

Finally, I took that metal nail file and pried

one more time at 

the completely stuck handle.

It was a no holds barred last 

move of desperation.

Thankfully, it opened.

Of course we weren't exactly home free

because it was broken and once closed 

would be locked once more.

Ask me how I know this...

or on second thought, please don't.

So....we set into removing the handle completely,

restoring the pins to the hinges and putting the 

screws back in that we had taken out.

What a mess we were.

But it was kind of fun.

Mom and I....we specialize in getting

into crazy unexpected situations.

All completely unintentional I assure you!