Exciting Times When We Lived in a Neighborhood
It's been awhile since we lived in a city or a real neighborhood--but I was thinking back about some of the excitement I remember from back then. One night, while I was asleep in our back bedroom--with the drapes open, after all we had a six foot high fence all around the yard--a police chase ended right outside the sliding glass door. I never woke despite the fact our dog, a German Shepherd, cornered the suspect right there. The police, one of whom was my son-in-law, arrested and hauled the guy away. My dear son-in-law told me that my nightgown had hiked up and I mooned the whole bunch. Dear hubby affirmed this. (Why on earth didn't he come inside and cover me up?) Another time, our whole family was sleeping and my middle daughter ( a teenager at the time) came in to tell us someone was on the roof. Once we were good and awake, we could actually hear someone clomping around up there. At the time hubby slept in the all together. He leapt out of bed, dasjed out the back door, gr...