Friday, September 15, 2023

I am NOT your darlin’ … unless I know you

 Have you ever had something happen that normally hits you the wrong way and makes you bristle up but when it happens this time it doesn’t barely register…..


To explain……something you may or may not know about me is that since I was young (like 4 or 5 years old) normally that hits me wrong is when someone who I don’t know calls me sweetie, darlin’ or hun…..mind you I don’t his&spat to the person directly but after they leave or I leave them I start hissing & spatting either to whom I’m with (as Lover can attest to) or just to the universe if I am alone…..and to answer your question NO to me it doesn’t matter the sex of the person saying such things be they Male or be they Female (or in current reality…neutral) I don’t care…..if I don’t know you then stick to Miss, Ma’m or just nothing else. I can only think of maybe 3 or 4 people so far in my life who I didn’t know who started off calling me Darlin’ or sweetheart or sweetie or hun that did not immediately hissed me off.


Today tho at lunch I was at a local-chain restaurant and my server after the introduction & taking of my lunch order started called me the following when asking the usual questions can I get you more iced tea….<food items chain specific> are you all done…any boxes….and this server didn’t single me out the other 2tables in this section got the same treatment (so not just me which would open a whole nother door I prefer to leave alone & hide from….)


delivering my tea “okay sister here is your….” the other ones were dearheart, sweetheart, sweets, my dear, dear one, lovely, beautiful, sweetie, girlfriend …. I’ve lost track of all of mine….

BUT it didn’t hiss me off infact it took me to the middle of my meal to realize hey this isn’t hissing me off I wonder why. 🙃


Now yes while I’ve been to this restaurant and yes had this same server on other trips I don’t remember the names before because I’m sure I would have been ruffled as I am usually here with Lover, and this server is one that has never really made an acquaintance or friend leap as I have made with some servers in the past so I can’t attribute the names to that 🤷🏻‍♀️maybe just having an awesome day. 


Although for lunch they are SUPER busy and I didn’t expect it to be busy at all. So maybe a coping mechanism for being so busy one can barely think or breathe between tables being sat in your section.


Just an interesting thing that happened to me and I decided to share…..carry on with your day.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Why have you come?

 Dream the morning of  09/09/23

It’s fading so…..


Thru most of the short dream (from 5:40am-just before 7am-short dream time) I was walking around the up stairs of this huge house that I knew was my house trying to find something I had no clue what while I was talking with Scotty about something I don’t remember what but it was something to do with some event happening at the house that day, then I found this little kitten or it found me no mewing or anything just came stumbling, as kittens do, up to me I picked it up and went back to the room Scott was in he was still getting ready for what ever was happening and I showed him the kitten and he sighed and I felt him say not another animal but he smiled and we kept talking about what ever we were talking about before. We (Scotty, the Kitten & I) then went down stairs to get the rest of the preparation for the event going and still holding the kitten I told Scott that I was going to have to break away and give the poor thing a bath and maybe ask Jenny (my best friend from high-school) if it’s from her wing/area/room but as I said that I looked over a stair railing which was odd because it already felt like we were on the ground floor, as I looked over I saw at first just like 2 or 3 stumbling kittens and as I said oh look there is more my view then turned in to a massive amount of baby kittens in a V formation RUNNING to get under a sofa, it reminded me of how in the movies they CGI a mass of rats 🐀 running they are in a V formation but that V dodges this way & that not in a straight line. Now all I could think was no that’s to many we have to get them out of the house.  So then we went down there and I found Jenny and as I was trying to figure out how to ask her if the kitten I held was hers and if she just saw that V of them she shouted “oh thank goodness you found her.” And grabbed the kitten out of my hand/arm I was holding it to my chest with one arm because it had started to go to sleep sprawling on my fore arm like it was hugging a pole. It did not like the abrupt awakening and spat and tried to use its claws to hold on to me but couldn’t get them out in time, but then settled as it realized it was Jenny who was holding it.

Then I turned around to see the rest of the area I was in and all of the sudden it was full of people milling about, the event was happening, they all seemed to be people I knew in one way or another so I said my hello’s as I moved around the room no one really stood out as a connection to my real life, no one that I can remember, and then I happened to be near the entry door and the wall was clear and you could see people standing on the stairs talking as well as arriving, well trying to arrive the stairs were full of people just standing and chatting just like the rest of this level of the house as I was looking at the stairs and thinking how do I know this many people because I could hear and see many more in the next room/kitchen and outside in the yards, when I heard excited greeting exchanges from guests on the stairs and a guarded greeting response back so I pushed my way to the stairs to see what was going on and there was Griffin his two assistants leading the way down the cramped staircase they barely acknowledged the people they were waking by effectively pushing people aside with out touching a thing just their energy, the guarded greetings were from Griffin (in real life as I’ve gotten to know him I have often wondered why he chose this path if he doesn’t like the recognition) as they moved closer to me I smiled & nodded a hello to the assistants then as in real life the one assistant Ebb who ALWAYS is dismissive to me eyed me up and down and just turned her body towards Griffin basically saying ‘go away & I don’t want to be here’ all at once. The other one Anne greeted me with open arms and a bubbly hello, just as she does in real life, though in this dream scape I didn’t feel anything in her hug just like the rest of the dream so far no tangible feeling. Then Griffin made it down the last stair, had a very worried expression and reached for me saying ‘oh good I’ve found you…’ as he pulled me in for a long bear hug, like you would hug a family member who you’ve missed dearly, I don’t remember what else he said as we hugged hello because I was shocked at the force behind his hug even though he seemed smaller than usual and fragile, I don’t want to say fragile but I don’t have another word; in other dreams he appears just like he is in real life 6’5” or so and a healthy “normal” weight(or if he’s on project a bit overweight as he says) and usually even in dream scapes has that same feeling he does in real life like a kindred soul, like a close loving brother, but this time he felt smaller not so much in height but girth. As we moved away from the stairs he put an arm around my shoulders as we walked I apologized for how messy & full the house was but it was like I didn’t say anything, he started talking about what ever his problem was, I don’t remember what he said as I was mentally also trying to figure out why he was here in the dream and why he said he had been looking for me but that hug felt like there was something else, and how messy my house was on top of being full of so many people.

Then it was like I blinked and I was suddenly walking along this road in a small small town toward bench that faced a mall like area I sat down because I wanted a moment to think about what the heck happened I had just been at my house & event now I’m here???? I also somehow had in my arms the kitten from before with me and then a cat that I figured was way to young to be a mama came up to me and I felt, well what I should say is she “told”(with thought) me that was her kitten, so I told her she is welcome to come with me and have a home….but just as I was reaching down to pet mama kitty there was a commotion in the parking lot across the street in front of me I looked up to see this vehicle come racing towards where a lady was standing, it was like I was watching a movie, I winced, closed my eyes and turned my head so I would not see her be hit and then there I was staring next to all of it and this guy grabbing my shoulders and shaking me he didn’t speak English but motioned that he had called 911 and needed me to talk to the 911-woman on the phone I nodded and took his phone, but then I was walking thru part of a hospital/PT front desk area/place trying to find the door out, To try to help. I was so frustrated because every door I walked thru kept putting me back at the front desk of the PT area and I couldn’t help anyone let alone myself to get out of the building.


Then I got woke up by what I’m not sure, but I was humming a new to me song Come To The Water and had a line from an audiobook I’ve been reading at work ringing in my ears “merciful Tehlu” (Tehlu is like saying God is to us) ….and as I turned my head to my husband Scotty, who was awake also but he was occupied by Koa (our cat) who was busy making kitty bread because Scott had in Kia’s favorite thing Scotty’s robe, as I turned my head to face them and say good morning I could smell fresh apples in only that one part of where my head lay, I even turned my head back to how I was laying to see if the smell was from outside or somewhere else in the room and it wasn’t.  So I asked Scotty because it was near him so I thought maybe when he went downstairs to let Abby & Siri (our dogs) out maybe he decided to have an apple, and he said he didn’t smell apples and that no he had not eaten any apples, that he didn’t smell anything out of the ordinary at all he said. Side note: I can tell you my morning breath didn’t smell like apples, not terribly bad mind you but still NOT fresh apples. I bet you’re thinking softner scent on the robe but no, sorry laundry scent wise I keep it either unscented or something like the “fresh rain” scent because where I work we have to be scent free…no perfumes, no essential oils, no heavy fabric softener scents tc. I shrugged and said humm that’s odd as I turned my head back to center because even tho I was enjoying the smell my neck is sore, he said well it could be worse things and I said yes and told him about how lately it’s a super powdery heavy perfume vail that comes & goes sometimes here at the house but usually at my desk at work and in the car. He didn’t reply because over the years he has gotten used to what I am sure he & others feel is the oddness of me.

Monday, September 11, 2023

Dream talk

 Okay so my question today is two fold…

1) Do you have a person who shows up in your dreams recurrently?


2) if you do has that person your dreams ever been MIA for extended periods of time only to pop back in out of the blue?

Ever wonder what all that is about?  I do.


So for me as I’ve said before, it is not often that I remember my dreams but when I do I try to figure out if there is some meaning or connection to the waking/real life. I have yet to figure out just who this person in my dreams represents, it is difficult because all these years I have been assuming this person is just who they are to me in waking/real life. The roll in my dreams this person has been in, that I remember, though have been odd and since I don’t know if anyone reads these post or ever will read these posts and I have spoken about him before (Dale/Griffin) I’m going to continue to use the pseudonym of Griffin. In my past there have been times where what dreams I remember Griffin has been the one normally in the lead roll of the dream be it as a family member, a friend or more than a friend but the dreams usually feel different not fully different like my premonition ones but not fully different to the “just a dream” ones either more like a 1/2 & 1/2 which leaves me trying to interpret the dream like I do the premonition ones.

Like the one yesterday, which I will be putting on a different post as this one is already long, in this one Griffin seemed frantic and said he had been looking for me and was so happy he FINALLY found me….

Now this left me wondering okay so in real life I’ve not thought of Griffin in about 3 months I’ve seen his FB posts but other than the half a second it takes to hit like or scroll that’s about it not like before when I was actively trying to make the friendship happen. Mostly because of other personal work I’m doing and realizing that MY time is just as valuable and reflecting on things in real life that he has said and done leaving me to wonder why I am trying to MAKE the friendship happen. With Griffin in real life I am trying to leave it as if you reach out to me then I welcome it but I’m done trying to make connections happen.

So that’s a long way of getting to …. makes me wonder if the sudden reappearance in dreams means maybe in real life Griffin actually does miss my texts/calls etc.? Well universe then in real life HE is going to have to step up and reach out to me.

Monday, April 17, 2023

Dreams … as promised

 As I’ve said before I don’t usually remember my dreams but I’ve decided recently that I will put the ones I do remember on here, so……

What I remember is:

I was in this family not mine but a blended family, maybe a home there were lots of different aged kids and I didn’t see a mom just a dad.  I think I was maybe late teens, but felt like I do now, an adult.  We were at the family dinner (I remember chicken like fried chicken but don’t remember any other details) at home at the dinner table, we were asked to share 3 things and to be honest.

They started with me and though I asked to have someone else go first I was told no it was my night to go first. What are you thankful for, What are you overcoming, I don’t remember the 3rd thing in the dream I didn’t really get to it.  I said I was thankful for the people who try to pull me out of my slump or sadness.  I started to tear up and said I forgot what the other 2 where and I was gently reminded and started to say what I am struggling with is feeling like I don’t count, I don’t matter, that I just shouldn’t BE. At that the dad got up was repeating what I said and finished with a few other feelings I was feeling that I had not yet said & said that is a classic case of <I don’t remember the term he used> I got frustrated and said “ I thought we were supposed to be honest and could let our guard down why are you analyzing me” we had some more back and forth heated/frustrated/angry words I don’t remember all of it but then I was sitting on a couch/loveseat and one of my housemates was sitting next to me just holding space not trying to sooth me or help just letting me BE, when all of the sudden this little person in a business suit walks in he was maybe 3’ tall very handsome making direct eye contact with me, from the entrance of the room to where I was sitting. As he walked up to me, it felt like I knew him but I couldn’t place how or from where or think of his name, but I could see how excited and pleased he was to see me and that made me happy.  As he introduced himself (sadly I don’t remember his name) he said that he remembered me from when I was younger and he was so happy for the opportunity to see me again that he rushed right over, about that time my housemate had gotten several looks from him to get off the sofa because he was gonna sit next to me, with a look I told her it was okay too, there was so much love, joy & happiness flowing off him I felt very safe like seeing a close friend you’ve not seen in years, so she finally left. About then the dad came around the corner from the room he was in behind me and said she has <term> at the same time the little man said it I looked at the both of them realizing he was not what I thought he tried to hush the dad up and keep eye contact with me asking me what we had for dinner because it smelled so good and as I blinked to try to get my brain to work he somehow turned into a long haired dachshund and was still talking to me about how yummy I smelled, I giggled a little as he tried licking my cheek & breath but then quickly snapped “wait is this what you do, this is not fair I thought you knew me and liked me” as I was getting up of the couch and I said to the dad who at this point was Wayne my step dad, I said how I felt it was wrong to do what they (Wayne & the little man) had done and now the little man had changed back to his human form and was saying how he was sorry, how much he was truly happy to see me and that is why he changed to a doxie, and how he just wanted to help they both did. I said the form change didn’t bother me but that I had felt betrayed and I started walking out of the room and calling someone on my phone. As I went outside I could hear them talking about the term but quickly they were out of earshot.  As I was waiting for the person on my phone to pick up I had flashes of how my mom died we all did the things you do have a funeral etc but now she is not dead and everybody is okay with her just coming back, I was having trouble with it though I wanted her back but I didn’t like lying to other people about it. Finally the person I called answered and the road I was walking turned form an easy road to now a cramped with people & things and snow filled road I had to struggle to talk and walk.  I told her what happened as I did someone in a house I walked by was in their old (70’s-80’s) truck revving the engine and my phone changed to silly-putty, she said she could hear anything but the truck. I got past the truck and kept walking and talking I was telling her about what had happened and saying how I didn’t want to be analyzed by a psychologist or a psychiatrist or a psychoanalyst or anything.

Then somehow it seemed after some time I ended up in a car and driving myself back to the house I was in and out of nowhere I saw a person walking towards me but in the middle of the road, I slowed down to a crawl thinking they would move but they didn’t as I got closer I could see it was a man dressed as a woman with heels and everything, as I passed they looked at me like I was in the wrong and an attitude of “what are you gonna do punk?”

I just smiled and kept going the opposite direction to the house.

That’s when I was woken up by Scotty, time to get back on the road.

Friday, April 7, 2023

It only takes a few moments but it can mean so much!

It’s a little thing doesn’t even take a full minute, but some days it is a HUGE thing 😍 

This morning when I went in to pick up my order I was met with the usual greeting “hi thanks for coming in today” or “hi how can I help you” they give everyone but it quickly changed to something that brightened my morning and instead of just one crew members voice soon it was everyone behind the counter joining in…..

“Hello, thanks for coming in today   OH HI NAPUA.” (Then like popcorn the others chimed in)

“Good morning Napua” “HI NAPUA” “oh it’s NaPua HI” “NaPua great to see you”

I was present in the moment and let the chorus of joy & love wash over me and it felt GREAT! I said hello & good morning back, picked up my waiting coffee then I said “thank you all. have a great day.” Then everyone replied in popcorn fashion… “bye NaPua have a good day” “bye NaPua happy to see you today” “bye NaPua” as I headed out the door.

I wish I could tell the crew or some how show the crew how wonderful it feels to hear in their voices the joy and love they give. 

💚☕️My crew it was much needed today MANY THANKS💚honestly if I could hug each of you I would!!

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Dreams….do you remember yours, think about them, analyze them, ignore them????

Dreams….do you remember yours, think about them, analyze them, ignore them????


Now I know that not ALL dreams MEAN something, but as a person who rarely remembers her dreams the ones that I do remember I tend to pick them apart, try to find meanings. 

Also with the work I’ve been doing with a brilliant wonderful person who actually listens to me ( I selfishly kinda don’t want to say who she is because she is so booked & I still want to be able to have my appointments with her, she is Ashra with Harmony's Heart LLC ( link here: https://www.harmonysheartcoaching.com )

The work Ashra & I have been doing I actually had a profound dream that I remembered and we got to pick it apart, quite insightfully. Yea ME growth😎🥳.


Anyway what put me on this post/blog path is how I found it funny the other day that I so quickly dismissed a recent remembered dream but then started actually thinking about it and tried to pick it apart.  Also how I wish other than the notes app, I had another way to “write down” my remembered dreams, and no actual writing is not really an option for me I’m to impatient and my handwriting sucks😜. Also I don’t want to have to pay for them to be stored somewhere (app wise).


The other day when I woke up I remembered the dream I was in and I thought meh 😒 doesn’t mean anything it was odd both in the people in it and what it was, but I’m sure it doesn’t mean anything, yet as I went about getting ready for the day I kept revisiting the dream and remarking to myself how odd it was & how I’ve not dreamed of that friend, we will call him Griffin, in a while, and how yet again in a dream that friend wanted my help in yet another odd way and in the dream I kept saying how I didn’t see how I could help but finally I gave in and went along with what he was wanting me to do. 


Just odd how some dreams I pick apart and others I just dismiss because they seem so off the mark. 

Maybe I should go back to my blogging the dreams & thoughts in general.


Maybe I’ll put up the dream I am speaking of with Griffin, tho I didn’t retain as much detail as I did of the dream Ashra & I got to analyze.

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Flashes of a breakthrough

 Okay this is only in flashes not linear per say…Also I am not a hunter nor do I like the idea of hunting.  For separation when I am speaking of real life I will italicize & underline that part.  

All of the below took place from 5:53am-6:03am I know this from my fit bit because I had just gotten up to pee and went back to sleep.

It is dark like night time, I am looking around me and I am in a group of people in a rather large circle, but in the edge of the group, no one in this group looked like anyone I know in real life and from what I remember I wasn’t particularly connected to anyone in the group like by friends or mates. I know that I am a man, the group is talking about the animal we are hunting tho when they say the name of it it’s like my hearing stops and I don’t hear the name. I know in my brain the animal but I don’t remember the name I know it’s in the hoofed family like an Elk or Deer but not as big as a moose, if you could combine all 3 that would be close. The area around us is deep snow but when we start our trek for the animal we walk in the snow with no effort, we are in a high elevation but not on the side of a mountain but there are patches of big tall pine and other evergreen trees around us, as well as clearings with no trees or brush visible, and I notice that the group didn’t stay together everyone went the way they thought was best to get the game we are after, I do not like to hunt but I help the group because it is needed. I and another man are walking together there is an understanding that while we are both skilled hunters I am to take the lead as far as where we walk etc. He and I don’t really talk like the others are because we know that just by walking we make to much noise, the rest of the group tho we can’t see them we can hear them & feel them. I noticed that there are all these paths in the snow like you would see in a cross country skiing place about the width of  3 or 4 people and groomed it resembles a big city side walk or a one car lane road . I stop to survey the area we are in and I said to the man with me said but with out talking or gesturing that we needed to get off these paths our game doesn’t follow them and neither should we, also we needed to get away from the rest of the group they are to noisy and their energy is intrusive. He agreed and we set off to a patch of trees we saw with no paths leading to or from them.  Then as we are walking we round this corner we’re we couldn’t see around it and I almost step on the hind part of what looks to me to be a yearling moose that has been killed. I reach up to turn on my head lamp like the ones we have a head band with a small flashlight but when I do instead of the light I am expecting mine is so dim it is like it is not even on. I ask the man with me to turn his on he dose and starts saying in a whisper to him it looks like a goat (to explain these “goats” are big like a Ram and all white like a Ram but their heads and body shape are like our domestic goats but with kind spindly legs like an Elk or a Moose). As we are looking over the body it appears to me that it is a trophy kill (we have a different term but like the name of the animal that escapes me now) because the animal still has everything except from mid neck up to the nose all of that fur and skin have been peeled off and all you can see is the muscles & tendon’s that are under the skin and what ever antlers and the eyes are also gone. There is no blood anywhere, I have no idea how they killed this animal I see no gun shot wounds, or knife wounds. I can also see why he says it looks like a goat to him because it is all white fur like the snow. As we stand there I am aware to look behind us and around a snow mound I see what looks like a female “goat”with 2 little ones behind her I can feel her fear I “tell” her we are not here for her or her young and we would never do what was done here we only take what is needed and that I was sorry if this was her mate. That calms her a little but she can also sense the group we are with so she remains where she is and is on alert but doesn’t run. The man I am with and I decide it is best to keep moving to get away from the group, we don’t take the meat because the kill was to long ago and the meat would not be good for us to eat or share.  The we have set up our tents and built a fire we are in a clearing like a meadow, about 20’ next to the camp is a lazily running small river but by looking at its banks you can see that in the spring it runs high and fast and about 20 yards from us is the face of a flat topped mountain. I am in the tent and I am some how ME Eve, and I am thinking how I find it strange that we are in snow but are not cold or tired from walking and the mountain face I am looking at has now snow just dirt and no trees. I hear Scotty and another man’s voice, I don’t recognize but am aware we are in a group together so I am not afraid, outside the tent and the campfire popping and cracking.  They are talking in whispers and I know we are to be quiet so I stay where I am looking at the mountain side and listen to them talk, they are talking about <name of the game we are hunting> and the other man says he is wondering if we are maybe in some kind of simulation, Scotty softly chuckles, I start to notice that the part of the mountain I have been looking at starts to move like vein with a heart beat, like how veins do on the back of peoples hands who are elderly & really skinny I watch and think how odd that is because there is no sound other than the campfire, the man & Scotty.  I say to Scotty “do you see that?” Scotty reply’s “yep” and as he says that the movement/ heart beat grows faster in the mountain vein and just then the vein part explodes out toward us with a huge rush of water and reveals an extremely fast moving white water “new” mountain side stream/river not like a waterfall but a stream/river but that eruption has also now reached our little river near the camp and it is running so high and fast I notice that the rocks that I used to see in the river are now creating a mound of fast moving water in almost a reverse wave, I am apprehensive and I look to Scotty and “ I say should we leave, that water is rising fast.” Scotty calmly replied “nope it’s fine, we are fine.” and he and the other man continue whisper talking. I turn back to the water with a calm knowing that I am fine and think how odd there is no sound of all this rushing water.  Then I am the same male I was before the campfire & river event and the other male, same from the beginning, but different from the campfire river event, we are walking again in search of <animal name> we come up to a part of the group that like us split from the bulk of us for some quiet and relief, they speak to me like the male I have been with, with out words or gestures I would say telepathic but it’s more than that the only I can think of is a combination of KNOWING & telepathic, less of a “thought” of telepathic more of just knowing/feeling, they say they have seen <animal name> and that they were following it and that we should combine for a better advantage, I agree. As we are speaking I feel I need to look behind me but up on the rock/hill side.  When I do I see a HUGE wolf/elk-ish animal it is not hunting us but it notices us and leaps down to the ground we are on it lands about 10 yards from us as it lands I see it is not whole, it is “injured” on part of its face, it is gone not like blown away or ripped away more like the program didn’t finish loading to build up the rest of it, a frame work is there but easy to see, and I feel that I need to help it but I “say” I don’t want to kill you, it “says” should I attack would that be easier for you? I “say” no I raise my arm toward the wolf/elk, my arm has a shotgun all of the sudden I say “sorry” and I try to pull the trigger I have the same hesitation and the same apprehensiveness sometimes when I am checking my blood sugar I know the pain of the poke lasts for only a second or so it some mornings it takes me forever to push the button to get the poke. I sigh relax my shoulders and “say” I please forgive me I am sorry; and then I turn my head away from the wolf/elk I pull the trigger and turn back to see the bullet travel and I notice that the animal is also watching the bullet come to him and just before it touches his fur he looks at me and I feel/hear relief/thank you I’ve been waiting so long, and then as the bullet enters the fur at the front of its chest the animal turns into/explodes into leaves & glistening bits of light like glitter in the air.  

Then I woke up and was laying there thinking okay so 90% of the time I don’t remember my dreams, but that was odd. As I laid there I looked at the clock to see if it was worth getting up or if I should just wait because we are getting up early to go grocery shopping I looked at the clock 6:03am,ugh, and I hear a rooster crow it’s not our neighbors rooster but sounds like the one I have nicknamed Old Man, this past week I have been trying to decide if a “wild” or a dropped off rooster has taken up roost in our trees because he heard Little Man (the name I gave our neighbors roster).  I would say a dropped off rooster but his crow sounds like he is an old old bird so I hate to think who ever owned him dropped him off, but any way he made our neighbors rooster crow I smile thinking ‘hey hey Little Man you are sounding like an actual rooster instead of the squeaky voice breaking crows you had in the summer congratulations good morning Little Man, good morning Old Man.’

Then I hear my wolves okay not MINE but they are in the woods next to our home so I call them mine and I have missed hearing them for about a year or so and my heart jumps and I am so happy and my smile grows, as they howl sounds like 4 or 5 of them.  Then I hear the old rooster again as if to say ‘hey did you hear that young feller?’ and our neighbors rooster crows back and then all of outside goes back to the quiet calm of the morning and inside Koa realizes I’m awake and starts the Kitty Bongos…..about 1/2 hr later Scotty’s alarm goes off. Hello Sunday.