Last night we had our second set of uninvited guests for the year. At least these well less nefarious than the last set who stole my Cruzbike – a recumbent, front-wheel drive bike that will be expensive to replace. Following this we had some motion detectors and lights to shine on the dock beside our houseboat and on to the deck near the KatieG.
Last night around 2:30am, Alice awoke with a start to say there was someone on the deck of the houseboat. She ran upstairs, while I ran along the side deck to cut them off if they tried to escape back down the stairs. It was a drunken young couple who were happily sitting in our deck chairs. Alice gave them quite a talking to ands I reiterated her lecture with a few choice swear words as they were leaving down the stairs, quite chagrinned.
Afterwards we decided we did a couple of things wrong in the heat of the moment. Alice should have had picked up her phone to call the police, we should have turned on the outside lights and next time I’ll pick up the baseball bat and take that with me. We will also need to adjust the motion detectors and lights or add some more.