there are no pictures...
I was "dead to the world"...
I think Molly woke me with her weird...
"Mom... there's something strange outside"...
barking, yipping & yelping...
with a mutter or 2 thrown in for good measure...
I know her,"INTRUDER ALERT !!!" rampage...
reserved for mail persons, solicitors & delivery guys...
and this wasn't it...
it also wasn't the,"GET OUT OF MY YARD, YOU...."
[fill-in : "cat", "dog","pedestrian", "whatever"...]
or the,"Mom...the neighbors are..."
["moving their garbage cans", "getting in/out of their car", etc...]
all of a sudden... right outside[or so it seemed...]
JACKHAMMERS... at 1:04 AM...
short bursts... maybe 2-3 seconds...
with an equal period of silence between...
slowly moving away...until it was a distant annoyance...
instead of an "in my face" experience...
as it had moved away...
I heard a siren[police ?] about where the jackhammering was...
just a brief, get your attention burst...
then nothing...
but the sound moving farther away...
I couldn't get back to sleep until 4 AM...
so this morning...I expected some evidence...
zilch...zero...nada..bumpkus...
no torn-up street... no recent patches...
I'm waiting for the fade to grainy black & white...
with a Rod Serling voice over...
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Sounds like someone shooting an automatic weapon of some sort to me... Couldn't find anything on the Mudville Fishwrapper's web site this morning except for a shooting in an apartment complex at 2:15 am.
Anyway, glad you and Molly weren't out for a middle of the night stroll at that time!
...upon closer inspection of the street... there are several small[8-10" diameter] blue "covers"[think mini manhole covers...] in the circle asphalt that I've not seen before...
and there's water around them...as well as chalk marks...
maybe they were creating drainage system access points...
it WAS some sort of pneumatic drilling device...
I hear small weapon fire[automatic]
[too] often...especially in the hot weather...to the west...
this was NOT gunfire...
I just want to know who the genius was... who decided that 1 AM on a Saturday morning was a good time to make that much noise in a quiet neighborhood...
just imagine the overtime MY taxes are paying for... ARGH...
I ALMOST got dressed to go out & look... laziness prevailed... ;D
BTW...Blogger STILL hates me on your blog... NO word ever appears to "verify"...it worked fine on Katie's...but she's still "old school"comment format...
Brilliant...our tax dollars at work. *snort*
Just for you, I disabled word verification on my comments for the time being. ;)
...thanks SO much...
for ALL your efforts on my commenting behalf... I do so appreciate them...
but it STILL doesn't work...
it must be something I did...although I have NO clue as to what...
*OR*
Blogger must have spies everywhere...
I guess they heard what I said about them...BEFORE...
I translated it into @#$%^&...
[chortle...heh, heh, heh...snort...]
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