At 3:15 Saturday morning our driveway alerter dinged a couple times and I just happened to have the bedroom TV monitor on. The view showed us a vehicle turning around in front of our garage. No one in any of the ten houses on this road but us so what the hell, I mean, what the heck is going on? In an effort to find out I jumped up, threw some clothes on, grabbed my camera and cell phone and under my control, allowed our pickup to carry me down the road.
The vehicle was long gone but I drove slowly past each home and saw no footprints in the snow to any of them. Drove on out and down Y19K noticing new tracks going down Memory Lane and then on the way back saw some tracks going down Sassafras that I had missed going out. This all created a somewhat worrisome state.
Come daylight, with the two dubyas (wonder and worry) hanging over my head and interrupting my normal thoughts....well, normal for me, I began my walk wading the snow up Memory lane. There, I saw the vehicle tracks had come to just above our garage then turned around and left. Did not see anywhere that a person had gotten out of the vehicle. Checked the tracks going down Sassafras and discovered they stopped mid hill and left no human footprints.
After I got home I called the Morgan Count Sheriff Department to ask if a deputy might have been patrolling in our area. Only one deputy in the county on duty Friday night and he was in the office in case of an emergency. Budget constraints had temporally ceased their nightly patrols but that was being lifted.
Not knowing who was doing what that early on a Saturday morning I thought that it might have been someone casing these neighborhoods out for a future no good. He tended to agree of the possibility so is going to have someone cruse our area for a few nights.
I forgot to mention that Dory was pretty aggravated at me when I got back. Seems I also took her gun and failed to lock the door as I left. Leaving, as she says, her and the pets in a pretty vulnerable state.
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I'll keep my eyes wide open all the time, and when I have spare time, I'll walk the line. Err, at least during my wakened hours. Lw
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