So I Need To Ask...

Although there are several things that my sister and I absolutely love, such as our passion for fiber, our love for white chocolate and our affinity for shoes (I mean who really wouldn't love to walk around in a pair of Jimmy Choo's or Manolo Blahnik's...try to tell me that these shoes are not absolutely scrumptious)


But one thing we do not see eye to eye on is where to live.  Dori is much more the city girl.  Very much Sex & The City, which I love the fashion but you can have everything else.  I am much more the small town/country girl.  My husband and I currently own 5 acres and we love it.  Dori, however, would go crazy.  And for me, vice-versa.

But there are downfalls to living on larger plots of land.  Like a quarter mile long driveway to shovel, it takes just over 3 hours to mow on a commercial grade zero turn mower (and that's not all the property) and you can run into the chance of someone stealing your mailbox.  Yup.  Stealing your mailbox.

So I leave to pick up my daughter from school from one of her many after school activities and we always check the mail before pulling into the driveway.  As we are approaching, something is amiss.  Or rather, missing.  Our mailbox is gone.  Someone took it, post and all.  Someone lifted the post that is roughly four feet in the ground out, threw it into their vehicle, and took it.  So my question is, how truly boring is your life that you have nothing better to do?  I mean, we live in a rural area.  Haven't you ever heard of cow tipping?  It's frigging Indiana people.  We are close enough to Chicago to get a city fix but just far enough out for the country feel.  Come on, really?

Best part, two days later my neighbor comes over to say that on his way to check his mail, he saw my mailbox, post and all, laying in his ditch along side the road.  Again I say, really?  So on a whim you decide to steal my mailbox and then was like, "You know, this really doesn't fit my decor the way I had hoped, I think I will return it and not worry about a refund."  *sigh*

So I decided that I should redo my mailbox to deter the chance of that happening again and was looking for ideas and here are a few contenders...what do you think?

Go ahead and see if no one notices her in the bed of your truck.

Plain ole' good luck.  If you can get it out, you've earned it.

My husband is a jack of all trades.  I would make it motorized so the neck bends and bites their head off.  Or breathes fire.  Or shoots laser beams from the eyes.  I'm leaning towards this one.

But we have it back now.  Unfortunately that means we still get the bills.  Can't win them all I guess.

My selection from the shoppe today is a headband/bandana set.  Perfect for one whose not a hat and scarf kind of person.  And this set is created from some of the yummiest wool available.    

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