October 27, 2006
Superman Has Dropped By
This is a repost of the last message I posted before the server went down.
A few nights ago, Pepper went out the doggy door into the backyard. Suddenly she started barking. I can recognize the different tones to her barks. This one meant, "There is an intruder in the backyard. An intruder can mean anything from a red squirrel up to a human. I figured it was the red squirrel. During the day, he has made the powerlines that run over the backyard his personal freeway. This agitates Pepper to no end. However, her barking continued. Whatever was out there was not intimidated by her. I felt I better go check. I peered through the doors into the dark backyard and tried to get my eyes to adjust. I followed Pepper's field of vision and than I saw something! It looked like a person with several blankets draped over thier head was dipping his hands into our above ground pool. How did he get in here? Both gates are padlocked shut. Why isn't he reacting to the dog? Is he crazy? Then my eyes adjusted to the dark. It wasn't a real person. It was a Superman mylar balloon. Someone must have had a party and the balloon got free somehow. As it lost helium, it drifted down. And ended up floating just above the water line on the pool. In fact, it looked like Superman was dipping his toes in the water. I brought the balloon inside and let Pepper sniff it so she would quit barking at it. He is now inside the living room drifting around, just a few feet off of the floor, watching us.
Posted by Valkyre at October 27, 2006 08:17 AM