Strangest Thing Happened

This gives you a good idea what it looks like when the hounds and dogs want to come inside. They don't bark. Henry or Watson might scratch on the door window, otherwise they will sit quietly until I show up. In this case they saw me walking to the door and they came running from different directions. Is there a dog missing?

I needed to change my camera angle. There's Ava, which moved closer and in view when she saw me on the other side of the door. They are a good crew ... I never thought I would have dogs different than a hound but 2020 changed that when I bought Walter, on a rainy pandemic Saturday afternoon in Arizona.

I guess you could say within six days, Ava and Cletus have become great friends.

Walter was pretty active today, going outside multiple times today. I was planning on getting photos this afternoon while they played but as I was cleaning the yard something so weird caught my attention. Something that needed to be fixed, so the photo shoot of them playing was canceled.

From the backyard I saw something lying in the side yard and at first thought it was a vent up by the roof, but that vent was not missing. I didn't have any kind of vent that size on the house. But as my eyes moved along the wall of the side of the house, a shutter was missing !!!!! It was filled with water do it was down before the rains the other day. 

Over the 3.5 years I have been here, as you know, we have had some severe winds. Storm damage from those winds with two tornadoes this summer on two different occasions. One was 18 miles to the west and the other in July was 15 miles northeast of us. We had some 16mph winds the other day while it rained but there was nothing blowing hard enough to tear a shutter out of a brick wall. Previously there were no signs of that shutter being damaged or weakened. I was just out there a couple of weeks ago cutting back hydrangeas in front of that window. 

There are a total of six holes there to hold the long plastic screws, that hold the shutter on the wall. All the holes except the bottom right corner have a wire coming out from inside the brick helping those screws to grab onto to so they keep then inside the brick. That bottom right hole did not have a wire that was exposed.

I scraped off all the mud daubers with a putty knife, wiped the dirt off the wall and looked at each hole. I could not find anything that would cause that shutter to come off. This is just to weird. 

There was only one way the shutter could go on by the way the holes lined up with the screws on the shutter. Five out of six that I tapped in, the holes held the screws firm and were in fact tight as I tapped them with my hammer. There is a reason that bottom right hole would not grip the screw.

With damage like that the only thing I could figure out, it would look that way if I had tried to pry that corner off with a screwdriver and breaking that piece of shutter. I had never tried to do that. I have never tried to take the shutters down. That is what makes this all the more confusing.

How can a perfectly good shutter break like that and then fall out of the wall when the five other screws would hold it in place ???? I had to squirt some adhesive into the hole for that long screw to hold firm and hold the shutter up flush to the wall.

If you have any ideas what may have happened, leave your ideas in the comments section. They will now instantly post when you send them unless the posts are over 14 days old. I have no idea what happened.

I cannot remember if it was last night or Monday night but while I was at my computer I did hear a weird sound just outside my window. Loud enough for me to get up from my chair and look out both windows to see what it was. I didn't see anything out of the norm but I do remember hearing something strange ... which now I see it was when the shutter broke loose and came out of the wall. 

The good thing is tomorrow I can go outside and look inside the large bush that sits below it, find the missing piece and then glue back with some of that good Gorilla Glue and I should be good to go. It looks like a standard design for a shutter and I might find a new replacement with the same design but it is the time of year I am not into outdoor painting ... so gluing the missing piece will have to work for the winter.

I have racked my brain with all different strange possibilities and cannot come up with an answer.

Cletus had another good day here in "the tropics" of Southern Indiana.