Not a Nite like the Other

AHS log---I coerced mom into lettin' us out at midnite. I had been up in my tower an' missed "last call". Against her better judgement, she let us out, but not before sittin' us down in front of the backdoor an' usin' "that voice an' finger" tellin' us to "come right back!!"

When dad went to bed, he handed mom his lil' tactical lite...an' told her to keep her shoes on. He said that since it had been rainy all day, an' we had been sleepin' allllll day....we'd want to go outside allllll nite. Mom said that wasn't gonna happen...once episode a week was enough.

So....out we went. I zoomed to the left corner, where earlier in the nite, we had chased a possum into Ginger's yard (w/dad's help...he says he just went out there to make us be quiet). Lexie zoomed to the right back corner, where we had apprehended the possum earlier in the week.

Mom was watchin' from the backdoor an' had that lite on me. She yelled at me to remember what she said, "RIGHT BACK!". I immediately left that corner (since nothin' was there..not really 'cause of mom) an' ran down the fence line towards Lexie (an outa' mom's sight...just coincidence...really....<wink, wink>).

Then there was a rustlin'....right on the other side of our fence..the part that backs up into the woods. Of course, Lexie an' I began givin' it a warnin'. Somethin' was back there....it could be a cat, a possum, a r'coon, that wild hog...maybe even a coyote. It wasn't givin' us any response...just movin' around back there.

Then.....there was that lite....an mom.

Yep....she had come out, in her words...to retrieve us before we "apprehended anyone...or anythin'.". She shined her lite across the fence, where we were workin'....said she didnt' see or hear nothin'. An' since I hadn't been givin' off my rare, "I'm gonna eat you alive/balistic/serious warnin'", it wasn't a person, mom said that any critter on the other side of the fence wasn't in our jurisdiction. Upon that declaration...she ordered us into the house. After one last sniff test along the fence, Lexie an' I decided that we might as well go in. Whatever was there, wasn't gonna tangle w/mom...an' us.... an' had gone.

We were waitin' in the kitchen when mom made it back to the house. She said we did pretty good an' we got a reward.

We were still pretty amped up an' wantin' to play, so a game of chase an' biteyface were happenin', when mom said she was goin' to bed...an' if we still wanted to do that...we'd have to do it in the dark...then she turned out all the lites.

Geez.....maybe if she napped durin' the day like us, she'd be more fun........