Somewhere a Butterfly Flapped it's Wings

Last week, Clint and I were at a lovely B&B in Napa when we got a phone call from our alarm company that the motion detector had gone off in the living room....3,000 miles away. We were pretty sure it was a false alarm (problems with this before) so we didn't think we were being robbed; just annoying our neighbors at 11:30 at night. The bad news is we can't turn the thing off from anywhere but our house, but the good news is that the alarm stops sounding after 10 minutes and resets. We were too late to prevent the police dispatch (visit number one from WSPD), so we hopped all was fine and went to sleep. Unfortunately the alarm went off again an hour and a half later and the company called us...in Napa. It's now 1:00am EST and our neighbors are probably getting ready to cut our electricity or egg our house, but again, we can't turn it off unless we are IN the house. Argh!
We tell them not to call us again since we can't do anything, and that we'll take care of it in the morning. We both worried about it all night long, but at least I have no idea how many times it really went off, so I can pretend it was only two. Right?
After much debate, the solution we went with was to have the Club's superintendent break in to our house (yep) and cut off the alarm. He was worried that somebody would call the police, but we assured him our neighbors were well past that and would probably cheer him on even if he was robbing us blind. Somehow he got his small son into the house and silenced the alarm. Hurray!
Last night, I came home to two notes. One was from the Police (visit number two) and the other from an angry neighbor. From what I can piece together, the dogs got our of the backyard and boisterously greeted a lady from down the street who was walking her two dogs. She was not pleased. Another neighbor, who doesn't hate us yet, put our dogs back in the yard. Since they were no longer loose the only thing the upset lady could call us on was a barking complaint which is why the Policeman came to the house. He didn't hear them bark (amazing!) so he just left us a note, as a nice little FYI.
How did this all happen you ask? The alarm went off becuase a wasp came down the chimney (see BLOG post from 11.2.08, this must be a seasonal thing) and flew in front of the motion detector, setting it off repeatedly. The man who "broke-in" to our house to silence the alarm came in through the back gate and did not properly secure it allowing for the dogs to escape.
What luck!!