I heard a big "BLAM" last night, upstairs. Trudged up to see what it could have been, but saw nothing. It was raining.
Didn't think anything of it. Sometimes the kids will throw rocks at the side of my house as they are walking up the hill. So I just thought that must have been what the noise was. It was after 9PM, though, so it was unusual.
This morning when I went up to get my coffee, I looked into the living room and glass was everywhere. And I do mean everywhere. How the heck can glass fly eight feet? And, be so infintisimal. EVERYWHERE.
Rather then get excited, I got my cupa coffee, sat down and contemplated the mess. Surprise was my number one emotion. I've been here ten years and so few little things have happened that I was truly surprised........still am.
And a perfectly round hole. Even with the rain last night, no water in the house. Thankfully it was a soft rain.
After enjoying the coffee, I began to clean up. Folded up the zebra skin rug full of glass shards and took that outside. Picked up the big pieces and dusted those on the furniture into a bag. Swept and mopped. It's clean now.
I never found a projectile of any kind. I looked downstairs in the lower patio. Nothing.
The mystery is why and what was used? I'll probably never know. I assume kids being mischevious. They were probably shocked that their target practice was so accurate.
Now to call Sr. Luna to come replace the window. Viva Mexico!
11 comments:
Wow. That one is a mystery. I suppose a flying animal could also have been involved. But you would have expected a corpse -- unless it was harvested during the night. There is a short story buried there.
The mystery is probably the most disconcerting. These kinds of things are never fun to figure out.
I read your comment on Steve's Blog - sorry to read about such things as that which happened to your friend in Oregon - grrrrr.
I had a similar hole in a window years ago, it left evidence , that of a dead bird. Depending on the glass and the size of the bird, etc, it could have been dazed pretty good and later flew away...
Oh my gosh Steve, I think you're right....could it have been the nightly bats? Or any one of the zillion birds flying around here. Or the resident black squirrel? I don't know. There is nary a trace of a rock or anything so it could have been something that flew away.
Awesome thought......
Sr. Luna's son came earlier, measured the window and returned, removed the old window, the ancient caulking stuff and replaced the whole thing. Cost, 120 pesos.
Great to hear from you Calypso. Haven't heard from you in waaaaaaay too long a time.
Tancho, I think you and Steve are right on! Some of the shards of glass were still attached to each other as though there had been impact but maybe not going through....GLAD whatever it was didn't go through. Yikes, I would have freaked out. Like the time that darn coatemundi was in here.
Glad you weren't in the room when it happened. Could a bird or a squirrel leave a perfectly round hole in a window? Could an impact that hard just leave a critter stunned? Que misterioso!
Yes, 1St Mate, me too! I would have jumped out of my skin. I cleaned and moved everything as did the maid. Nary a pebble or rock or anything else was found inside or out......Who knows? But all is well that ends well........
A hawk diving on a dove took out a window at my folk's house last summer, both animals flew away-the window was history.
Wow, Norm that must have been a sight. I'm convinced now that it had to be something flying. I remembered, after the fact, that I did clean all the windows the day before........whatever it was, I bet it had a headache the next day. Ha.
It most likely is a black hole.
Check to see if chairs, tables and lamps are being sucked into an inescapable black vortex, that is always the clincher.
Todd
I wouldn't mind getting rid of some chairs........but,unfortunately or fortunately with all the rain, the glass was fixed that day........
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