OK, SugarMamma, you skeered me...LOL
Actually, this land (as far as I know) was pastureland or cropland before it was developed. I don't think anyone living today that would be able to tell me what it was farther back than cropland. Quite frankly, I think research on this might really skeer me since some of the land in this area were Civil War battlegrounds back in the day.
Tortoisekeeper, that's a great guess but it's our backyard which backs up to another backyard so headlights wouldn't be anywhere near where she's barking unless someone has gone airborne. You do give me a thought though because there is a fence back there where a big cat loves to sun. I wonder if she might prowl the fence top at night. Hmmmm...I hadn't even thought of that...perhaps that is the boogie man she senses. (The cat is easily twice her weight and fearless, it seems.)
I do know her senses are much sharper than mine. (She just alerted me to a pot that was about to boil over. If I'd realized what was distressing her, I could have avoided the clean up...LOL) I so wish she could talk! I daresay I would learn quite a bit from her.
This last week she has learned to spell R-U-N. It got to where I couldn't say the word so I would spell it but now she knows how to spell it, too! (It relates to a laser light that she chases...gives some substance to her zoomies...LOL...anyway, she is on alert whenever we say or spell the word. I just should have chosen a word that doesn't have so many varied meanings! It is quite entertaining as we try to trace back what we've said that contained the word...LOL...For instance, we cannot wonder aloud who's going to run for a particular office! You'd think she had a political preference if you didn't know her love of the word.)
I know our friends think we're paying them back for the years we listened to their children's and grandchildren's accomplishments but honestly...wouldn't you brag on a puppy that could spell? LOL...she's amazing! Plus, she understands money and numbers. (This we know since she ran off with the twenty dollar bill...pizza money that my husband laid on the table...she left the five and one...LOL) |