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3:38:00 AM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing Johnny Cash, "When the Man comes around"
Sleeping under the stars with a skunk
I just made my rounds ,checking on all the wee beasties and my children before I crawl into bed. Tabitha and Shelby are asleep in my bed. Tabitha has stolen my good pillow and the softest blanket, the way she usually does. Shelby is curled up close to her, but will crawl over and sleep on top of me all night as soon as I get into bed.
Atticus, my sweet Furry Man Dog, is asleep downstairs on his pillow. Since he started having seizures, he no longer sleeps upstairs with me. He no longer comes up the steps at all.
Delilah is also asleep in the bedroom. She snores and passes a lot of gas. If it gets too bad, I banish her to the media room.
Notice I said "the bedroom"? We have a five bedroom house, and only one room is a bed room with a bed. The other "bedrooms" are made into a library, a television/media room, an office study, and the third floor room is the playroom. We mostly sleep together in one room. We do have a sleeper sofa in the living room, very comfortable couches in the media room, and a wonderful antique couch in the library. Mandy has her bunk beds in her basement lair, but she does not sleep down there.
Mandy has already moved outside for the year. She said she got cold the other night, but she still is sleeping under the stars with the skunk. This will be our third year with the deck, and she began sleeping on it the night it was completed. It is fifteen feet off the ground, even with the second floor, and there are no steps. It is very safe. For the past two years she has curled up on blankets, but now we have bought a hammock for Big Toe. Everyone loves it so much my husband bought a hammock stand, so now Mandy is sleeping out on the deck in a hammock. The skunk is with her.
I wonder how many teenagers sleep outdoors most of the year nowadays? She loves to sleep out there. If it rains she comes in, and if I know it is going to storm I go fetch her in. I am glad she has had this time in her life to sleep outside, next to Heaven. I imagine someday she will get married and chances are her husband will want to sleep in a bed.
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That is so great. It's wonderful that she has the freedom to do that.
Jackie -
That is so great. When I was growing up one of my favorite things to do was to pitch a tent in the backyard during the summer. I would sleep out there most nights, sometimes even outside. So peaceful. -Kari
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How cool! I used to love falling asleep in the sunshine when I was a kid...but mosquitoes were too bad at our house to sleep outside at night. :-/
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snow!!!! ackkkk!! We've already planted tomato plants!!
4/21/05 8:28 PM