Since my husband travels a lot, I have had to spend too much time by myself. It gets me into trouble so I have been taking my own short trips here and there lately. We live n a relative small town and we don't have too much crime going on here, but still, we didn't want to leave our home empty and unprotected. We searched high and low before trying out the latest in security gizmos and gadgets. Motion detectors that will turn on lights when they are tripped, security camera's, not only through every nook and cranny of our house, but around our property as well. We even did some custom remodeling and created a safe room, where we can control everything, kind of like that movie with Jo die Foster, Panic Room. Solid stone with a steal plate in between another solid stone wall. The only thing different from the one in the movie and our place, is that it use to be our basement, so it is quite large, nearly spans the whole underside of the house. It took us almost a year to convert it, but it was worth it.
All this expense and precaution was good, but if you weren't home, you just weren't home. So we started looking for house sitters. We tried with the local security companies, but after a few months we found a couple of young people that lived in our own town to watch the house when we were gone. Not only was it cheaper, but we new where they lived and with their parents stopping by to check on them, it seemed perfect. My husband travels year round, but I have managed only to travel during the summer, which made it easier for the kids to watch the house. I say kids, because they were. One guy was 19 and the other was 18. I know, who in their right mind would trust their house to kids this age. We didn't let them watch it together, we traded them off and hell, the 18 year looked 25 or more and was the preachers son for pete's sake. He was usually the one watching it, since the other was always out with his girlfriend and didn't want to be away from her for too long.
James, the 18 year old, was great, he even did most of our yard work during the year, so we knew him pretty well. He knew we were converting the basement, but we didn't let him in on exactly what it was going to be, no sense in giving away all our new toys....lol. Any way, I had planned a trip for a week, going out to spend some time in the sun by the ocean. James came over the night before I was to leave and spent the night, since I had to get up and catch a flight at 3 in the morning. We had fun really, ate pizza, and watched a movie before I excused myself to take a shower and get some sleep. We had cable and I told him to watch whatever and I would see him when I got back as he would most likely be asleep when I left. He gave me a little smirk when I threw him the remote. I quickly caught on to why, we didn't just have cable, we had a satellite that got almost 300 channels from all over the world. I smiled back and told him if he was going to watch "those" kind of movies that I didn't want to know and to keep it down. His smiled widened and his face reddened, but he said he would be alright.
I turned and headed for the shower, with a smile on my face, knowing he was going to be whacking off in no time at all. I could only hope he cleaned up his......mess. Shutting the door of the bathroom behind me, I wondered for the first time if he would be "looking" in on me later, intrigued, I went to the panel that ran the system and punched in the code to start recording. I also knew that I would be on camera, so I thought I would do a little extra cleaning for my hubby when he got back.