As I lay in the bed reading, Chico is chewing on a dog toy. Two sounds fill the night, a humidifier and the tinnitus in my ear.
A dull thud gets our attention. Chico lunges from the bed barking like a dog possessed. Someone could have thrown something and hit my house? People throw trash in my yard all the time. Someone could have knocked on the front door? The wind could have blown my wreath around?
Chico runs to the back of the couch, leaping to the window. I go to the door, to turn the porch light on. Nothing! It’s 33 degrees outside. Better not go out in my shorts. After I bundle up, flash light in hand. Might as well take out the mop water since I’m going to survey the scene anyway.
A look around my house shows me no one threw anything at us. Mop put up, bucket empty. Back in the house, door secured and draft guard back in place.
I turn to see the cause of the thud. My purse fell off the chair into the floor.
As I turn off all the lights, Chico is walking past the humidifier. The moment I flip the bedroom light off the humidifier gurgles. I hear nails rapidly clicking on the floor. What I assume is poor Cheekie running for his life.
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tinnitus sucks rocks. Sorry you suffer with it too. If my purse fell from its perch, I’d be freaked out about what made it fall. But it’s rather far onto the table, so there’s that. ^_^
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Thanks. I got a hearing aid for my worst ear. We are trying sound therapy. Can’t say that it’s helping much. But 🙏🏻 here’s to trying. My purse was sitting on a chair. It just plopped right off. 😂
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When our dogs go crazy in the night I usually ask them if there’s a puma in the yard. (We do have mountain lions in the area, and someone caught a bobcat on their doorbell camera a couple doors away last week.) I will keep the belling and know that nothing’s ever gonna get close to the house without our knowing about it. Best security system ever.
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Amen. There are some dogs and cats that roam free in my neighborhood. They have owners but….. Chico loves to sit on the back of the couch and bark at all of them.
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Domestic horror we can all relate to.
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Amen
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