Farm Days

We crossed off some of Ethan's summer wish list this weekend. We went to the farm Saturday and camped out. We got to spend a great weekend with Gramps and Uncle Bill, Aunt Jean, Billy and his family. We rode in the ranger, picked berries, hunted for bugs, checked out the workshop in the barn, toasted marshmallows and even had our own wild kingdom adventure. We went in the tent about 9:30 and that was about when the show started. No northern lights or shooting stars but an array of sounds I haven’t been treated to before. There were lots of coyotes, and a few other things I couldn’t identify. I got to sleep and about 5:15 we heard quite a rucus. There was some animal sounded a little ways off making the strangest very loud high pitched sound. Then we could hear running. Sounded like more than one thing running. Not long after we heard something run right by the tent into the tall grass, then we heard whatever was chasing it panting and stiffing around trying to find it. It did not sound small. Maybe we should have set up some recording equipment and made our fortune documenting the Yeti. Or at least someone who knows about these things could have told me what we heard. James and I were just laying there trying not to make a peep. Needless to say it was not the most restful night but you should have seen how big Ethan’s eyes got when James said “Do you want to sleep in a tent?”