THURSDAY, OCT. 4[/size]<br />
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Can&#39;t beleve I am beating Mary Lou to the first post of the day, but I am sure she will be along anytime.  As for me, I haven&#39;t gone to bed yet.  I took my pills and was laying here on the couch watching tv, thinking I was getting sleepy so ought to head upstairs.  About that time, which was around 1:15 a.m,  I heard the garage door go up, so I assumed my son was home - he normally does not come thru the garage but does have a remote in his car, so he does occassionally.  Anyway, he didn&#39;t come right in, so I was just getting ready to get up and go check on him when he came bursting thru the front door and asked if I had heard anything.  He said the garage door was up and Greg&#39;s new 4 wheeler was missing.  There couldn&#39;t have been more than 5 minutes pass between the time I heard the door and the time he came in.  He ran upstairs to get his gun and wake up his dad, and me, not even thinking, grabbed my gun, which I keep hidden downstairs and went outside in my nightgown.  I didn&#39;t go right into the garage, I went thru the front door so I could come up behind anyone if they were still there.  My son was back down by this time and was right behind me with his gun and within seconds, hubby was standing there armed also.  I came back in to call the police.  We found his ATV several houses down - it was stashed up against the fence in some bushes.  The officers said they were probably planning on coming back to get it and had a truck waiting nearby but Chris probably scared them when he came down the street.  They called out a canine unit and they went thru the neighbors yards to make sure they weren&#39;t hiding there.  Our house backs to a greenbelt/open space, so they probably went thru someone&#39;s yard and were long gone by the time the dogs arrived.   Luckily we got it back and they did not take anything else that is in there, but now they know the garage is full of power tools, a welder, 2 motorcycles and 2 other atv&#39;s.  We have a 3 car garage - one double door and one single and we normally keep the single one up about 5 inches or so so the cat can come and go, but that isn&#39;t going to happen anymore.  Greg put it all the way down and locked it and backed his pickup right up against the door so they would have no room to roll anything out.  Greg is so easy going, and I said to him &quot;bet you would have been pissed though if you came out in the morning and it was gone&quot;.  He looked at me and said &quot;I&#39;m pissed now&quot;.    I just went and looked and there is still a squad car sitting in front of our house, he said he was going to wait a bit and see if any trucks came down the road and if so he would stop them and see if they lived here and what they were doing in the neighborhood.   Too mch excitement - now I can&#39;t go to sleep.  I hope that hubby can as he has an early morning meeting.  Well, I will check in again later in the day....