I'll Try This Again......

The visit Continued.  Refer to previous post for background.

The perfectly peaceful and quiet day promised a night of catch-up-on-sleep.

Promise unfulfilled.

Stopping here to give a little layout of the bedroom.  Large bed parallel to he outside (looking on the back yard/forest)wall.  Nightstand between bed and wall.  Wall has tall window.  So...

A little before 9 p.m. am crawling into bed.  Almost immediately fall into a deep sleep.   ZZZZZZZ-ing away when - not a foot from my head -- a VERY LOUD BARK.  Now you have probably experience that startled awake thing when your body levitates 3' off the bed and the adrenalin practically shoots out your ears.  Luckily it only takes your brain a nano second to process whether or not this is really a fight or flight kind of thing.  This was obviously neither.  But you are awake.

Remember those non-human pests?  Well the raccoons were in full pest mode.

I won't bore you with an actual blow by blow of the rest of the night but to say that it kind of went on like this till I was up -- again -- at 4:30 writing the blog.

There are motion sensor flood lights at several points that light up the back yard and it was like a d....
light show all night!  All accompanied by LOUD BARKING from the resident large dog.  Just doing his job protecting us from mean pests.  But.  Folks.  So much for catching up on sleep.

Going to my world where the quiet is only broken by ambient traffic noise from the freeway.

zzzzzzz