stealing pavers

I fully painted both exterior door frames of my house yesterday after work. The heat wave had already reached to Minnesota, but it wasn't terrible yet. I finally removed the newspaper covering the doors before the potential storm front that would arrive later. I didn't want newspaper ink on my doors if they got soaked.

I got up from bed about 5:30am today, as usual, when movement caught my eye from my bedroom window. It's raining today, so it's darker than usual this morning. I watched someone in a traditional yellow raincoat come to my backyard then go back into the alley. I thought at first that maybe it was a diagonal neighbor taking my paving stones to lay down a dry spot for their garbage cans. Today is garbage collection day.

But they kept returning again and again. I couldn't see a vehicle (it was dark because of the time and the clouds). I know people steal firewood from my backyard, and that's okay considering Minnesota winters, but I never thought anyone would steal brick garden pavers. I tried to record video or at least a single photo from my phone, but it was just too dark.

Eventually, after many more trips back and forth, I opened my bedroom window and said, "Don't you think you've stolen enough of them already?" They closed a hatch on a vehicle, started it up, and drove off. All I could tell is that the vehicle was black and large, like an SUV.

After work today, I'll need to go move that pallet of pavers to lay them on the ground at their intended paths. Even though the heat is supposed to be bad today. I don't want to lose more pavers, though.