August 31, 2011

• Strange sounds in the night. . . . .

  This morning I awakened abruptly around 2:00am to a loud  roaring noise.  At first I thought my shelf stereo had malfunctioned horribly.   It checked out okay.  Then I thought maybe there were  jets or black helicopters circling overhead.  Nope. Then I noticed my neighbor’s porch lights on, and thought maybe something odd was going on over there.  Also nope.

  I finally figured out that the cats had managed to turn on my vacuum cleaner, which I store on the porch of my 10×12 foot cabin.  I pulled on a pair of jeans, padded out to the porch and unplugged the sucker.  Blessed silence.

  And my neighbor’s porch light went off.

  • 2:19 pm
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