December 22

Yesterday morning, before get up time, our 'now working' driveway alerter dinged four of five times to alert us that something was passing in the night. We don't usually arise to the occasion unless it just keeps at it which it didn't so neither of us did.

When I left the house at 5:00 a.m. to begin my walk I pushed the 'now working' garage door remote, went in picked up my spotlight then headed out leaving the garage door open.

On my first trip around the horn, as I neared the garage, I noticed that the light on the side of the garage was on. It is a motion fired up light and so I knew something had passed just a short time before. I also remembered the dinging of the alerter an hour or so earlier. With all that I was on my toes when I came around the front of the garage. I walked over to the block wall to check things out peering down into the yard and front porch. I saw nothing out of the way but as I passed the open garage door I heard a not loud growl like sound. Trying to figure out what the noise was I started into the garage and the growling sound grew a lot stronger.

Let me tell you, when that brown thing exploded out of the garage at my feet it sped up my heart beat to such a degree it required all my resources. This huge sudden resource drain flat locked up my mind. There I stood frozen with my mouth hanging open and my eyes so wide open I think I could have been able to see in the dark. When some of me got back to near normal I was able to Realize the animal had ran down the road a short distance and stopped. I used my hand held spotlight and was able to determine that it was nothing but a cat that I see pretty often on my walks. Sure got a lot closer this time than I ever wanted to.

I will say too how happy I was that I had done my daily earlier or else this could have been a very nasty scare!
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"Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst." - Francis H. Bradley