Morgan loved yogurt and stuck by her favorites

I am woken at 1:45 by our dog Tessi.  She has started to bark at the front door.  She barks occasionally, but snores loudly far more often.  I feel that if Tessi is barking it is something.  She has not woken Steve up yet so I leave him to his dreams, and go to the front door.  Tessi is upset about something outside, and we peer out through the little beveled glass rectangles together for the longest time.

If I am standing here watching we are all safe.  I quietly look in on Morgan, and she is sleeping soundly.  I return to the door, and sit on the floor with Tessi, and look out into the darkness.  Nothing is moving, and one porch light is on across the street.  Of course our yard is lit up like a used car lot.

I finally say goodnight to our newf and go back to bed.  Almost on cue the motion detector light right outside our bedroom goes on.  It stays on for a minute and then goes off.  I tell myself that when it goes off again I will wake Steve, but it never does.

I write to myself the next morning a question.  How will we know when this is really over?  Just one sentence, because I know it has to be over at some point in time, and we will have to go back to normal.  So I’m wondering how we will know that has happened.  Last night I was up for an hour or two because Tessi barked.  A year ago I would have just told her to be quiet.

That afternoon Steve tells me, with no warning, that he has been thinking about the idea of putting trip strings, tied between the trees in our yard, and has found a black nylon “ballistic” cord sold nearby that should be invisible at night.  He has found a store where he can pick up four spools.  Steve is wondering if we can actually do this as we can’t leave it up, and will have to string it after dark, and remove it before sunrise.  We decide we will figure that part out later, and set off to pick up the cord.

At 8:50 pm I text Morgan, “On your way home yet?” icon of a red car “It’s almost 10.” Morgan answers, “Yeah. I’ll leave right now.” A happy face blowing a kiss  I answer, “Great, I’ll watch for you.”

We have just added an array of little icons to our phones to add to texts, and Morgan uses them in every message, so I am trying to add a few here, and there also.  And in case you did not notice I really did text Morgan just before nine, and told her it was almost ten.  She did not notice until the next morning.  We are all so tired, even after four days of quiet, which has me wondering what was different now.

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