The Chronic Traveler: 2010

Well I can't really tell you the last time I hoisted or shimmied myself onto or into anything, but I can tell you the last time I needed to!

Ummm Today?!

For those that may not know already Sean is back to driving a truck and is gone from Monday night to Saturday night. No problem, except that I locked myself out of the house tonight! I couldn't even believe it, I had been in the house twice after I got home from work, even went to the store and back. But apparently after the last time my habit of always locking the door got me in trouble. I didn't even realize it until about an hour later after I had finished playing with the dogs and the chickens, I went to go take the eggs in the house and...

So here I am locked out with no cell phone, my car keys and house key is on the key ring that I distinctly remember tossing on the kitchen floor when I last opened the door. My mind starts racing to figure out what I'm going to do. Sean isn't due home until tomorrow night. I have to be to work tomorrow after noon. I knew that our bathroom window was open a bit, so I went into the dog pen, where the window is located, luckily the dog house is right under the window, so I was able to reach it. It's a pretty small window though, not sure if this is going to work... I got the screen off and got in to my waist, before deciding this was a bad idea. Not only am I going in head first to a 4ft drop, but there is no way my rear will fit through the window. I tried to get a leg up and go feet first, but visions of when I did that to retrieve my keys out of a bear proof dumpster in Flaggstaff went through my head. That didn't work out so well. I went to my only neighbors house to see If I could use their phone but of course they weren't home. I tried the two living room windows but they were locked and I couldn't really reach any of our other windows. I start to think about either walking to the next neighbors house or sleeping in the car. I didn't really want to do either of those things and was thinking of any other windows. I have a ring of bricks outside my bedrrom window and though maybe if I stood on them I could reach it. The screen was harder to get off that one but I did, and after some creative pushing on the glass managed to get that window open. Standing on the bricks though, my head was just at the bottom of the opening. Yeah right, I'm just going to do a pull up to get into the window. HA HA very funny. I remembered I had a folding chair sitting outside the garage and went to get it, after some strategic brick placement, I put the chair on the bricks and climbed up. Nope still only puts me at neck level. I'm trying to think what else I can scrounge up to get me higher into the window, if only I could get into the garage to get out my ladder...

I went to the garage, side door - locked, sliding door - latched. But - I remembered that I hadn't put the lock into the clasp I had merely put the latch over the clasp. Ah ha! I slammed the door back and forth a few times, the latch came undone and I was in! Yay Once I had the ladder what a piece of cake to get in the window. No hoisting or shimmying required just climb right on in. Of course the dogs were looking at me funny - like hey silly why don't you just use the door!