26 hours later

Now that it's all over the news....the final information is that a 23 year old girl/woman was shot, "execution style" in her pick-up, mere feet from here. It was in fact, "gang" involvement and she was known to the police....which still doesn't make it any more "acceptable"...she was somebody's daughter. The last police car pulled out at 8:30 this evening and now...everything is dark and quiet once again. Let's hope it stays that way.

Did I mention we have a cougar in the neighborhood? And coyotes...lots and lots of coyotes....and have you ever heard a pack of coyotes "screaming" in the middle of the night? It's as though a multitude of people are having their teeth pulled out, one by one....without anesthesia. It really is an awful, awful sound.....and they stop....weird.