Early Thursday, October 23rd, we drove to Tempe/Phoenix to spend 24 hours looking at furniture.
We did find some nice bookshelves and an outdoor table - but the table and chairs were out of stock so my sister and brother in law, Bev & Cliff, picked them up yesterday on Halloween and are bringing them down next weekend.
So, we'll have at least one REAL table and chairs, albeit it will be outside.
When we returned midday on Friday Michael dropped me off up at the mailbox, started down the driveway and noticed that one of our garage doors was open.
He opened the door we use, parked the car and then realized that the door to the house was propped open.
He and I entered our home (probably not smart in case the burglars were still here) and without touching anything found closets opened, drawers opened, some things moved all around and the window in the breakfast nook smashed and all over the tile floor.
We went back outside and checked the exterior shutters and the burglars had damaged two of them trying to get in.
In one case they also sliced the UV screen and broke the window mentioned above - not an easy task as it is pretty thick glass, coated and double pane.
We called 911. The Pima County Sheriffs came, drew their guns and did a thorough search of the house then they brought us inside to have us see what was missing. At that time we didn't see much missing but later found that my camera, case, lens, memory, tripod, etc. was missing and a pair of gold earrings were missing. Since then we have found that our 2 GPS's are also gone along with other items.
After the Sheriffs left the Forensic's officer arrived and found good sets of finger prints on the window and some on a crate the burglers left outside the garage. He also took an earpiece with him that was in the window sill that he thought they could find DNA on.
Since then we have been compiling a list of all the people who have been here since we bought our home and trying to find what is missing - a harder task than we imagined.
Thursday the exterior shutter company is coming to fix the shutters - they had to order parts or they would have done it sooner. After that we can have the windows replaced and proceed with fixing the other items that they damaged.
Interesting time.
The Sheriffs all thought our home looks like Fort Knox and they cannot figure out how the burglers got it and neither can we.
Our neighbors all say this has never happened in this neighborhood before - we got to be the first!
