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An Alarming Nightime VisitorA black bear has been sited in our immediate area by 2 different people. Almost every night we hear the yip-yipping and howls of coyotees from the south woods area on our farm (until our old dog and pup raise their barks in protest). We have sited a skunk on the farm, raccoon, as well as the chicken-slaughtering mink.These past few nights have been extremely sauna-like hot. The climate is quite sultry up here in the northern country (?). One night we left the back door open and put up a make-shift screen in order to let some kind of relief of cooler air in. We lay on top of our covers to go to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night, my dear husband jerked and jumped atleast a foot off the bed. I rolled over, looked at him. He lay asleep (I learned later he was awake and laying still trying to figure out what just happened). I thought it surely must have been a dream. (Much later he told me it felt as if someone was sticking needles in his leg...) Not much later, it was my turn to jump about a foot off the bed in fear out of a deep sleep for it seemed as if something of significant size was moving the mattress on my side of the bed... I was so sleepy and disoriented, I pulled a sheet over me thinking that would protect me from whatever "it" was. In the meantime, my dear husband jolted upright in response to my jolting jump. I mumbled that it felt like something was moving the mattress. He immediately went into protective mode, turned on the light and looked around the bed... He gasped and jumped back a little. With that I gasped and my heart skipped a beat. My dear husband never gets scared. What could it be??? In a split second, my thoughts covered the possibilites. Sleep left me quickly as I thought of the black bear, the coyotees, the skunk that could have easily and quietly broken through our screen.... He sighed, "The cat." Yes, our cat made it in. We don't allow animals in the house, but she made it in through our "screen". John put her outside with her purring quite loudly the whole time. As he returned, I lay in bed replaying what must have happened. I pictured this cat squeezing in through the screen, massaging her claws on John's leg with John jolting and jumping and later the cat coming on over to my side rubbing along the mattress very aggressively (you just gotta know this cat for that's her way of doing things) while we are being half-scared to death. That's when I laughed and laughed and snorted and laughed and cried and laughed. Couldn't stop. Nose dripping, tears running down my face. Dear husband so tired and trying to sleep while the bed vibrates with my laughter. We're just a bit tired today. Can't seem to handle all that comedy in the middle of the night. The Farmer's Wife 11:00 - 2006-Jul-17 - post comment
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