A View Or Privacy ?

The day started really early ... like 2am early. I had just woke up to the noise of Heidi's tags as she was shaking her head. That is not only an alarm to wake me up but to start the walk down the hallway to the patio door so she can go outside. All lights are turned on along the way so she can see better. Yes, I can tell the difference as she gets older. She needs the lights on. About the time I was closing the door, Stella and Walter walk into the kitchen wanting to go outside for their short trip ... no problem.

From 2:10am until 3:15am Walter was snoring at loud volume. Loud enough that I could not get back to sleep. Then from the computer room I hear a notification which turned out to be a text from a friend three hours ahead of me. I figured that since I was wide awake anyway, why not get up. The daily routine started around 3:20am after being awake for over an hour. When the sun came up, the sky was full of overcast clouds ... no rain is in the forecast today.

{Blogger is acting weird today}

 

 

A lot of news to read online plus a few things I was thinking about here at home. Of course after the hounds were fed, they wandered into the computer room and went back to sleep. It did not matter to them how much earlier I had gotten up to start the day or what led me to that. I had no real plans for the day but I did have the urge to hit the local roads for some possible photos. Maybe a hike and definitely a trip to the store to resupply the kitchen shelves. {I only accomplished the trip to the store today plus a siesta}

I am not sure what Walter was thinking about in this picture. Could it be that Stella wouldn't play with him because she was asleep? Or was it me not wanting to wrestle with him for the hundredth time yesterday? Whatever it was, he looked like he was in deep thought. I thought he was sleeping when I took the photo but saw his eyes were open after I downloaded it. 

I have too many good watch dogs in this neighborhood. A German Shepherd down the street always barks when it sees people walking on the sidewalk across from his house. It's on a cul-de-sac so it's a little further away than just across the street. I can hear him bark throughout the day or night when somebody is getting their walking in. Across from him are three to four tiny dogs in the backyard of their house that attack every walker that passes their house in front ... even when I walk by with Stella and Heidi you would think they are coming through the fence after us. The must go inside once their owners return home from work.

Add in the watch dog right next door, that does his job so well that if anything moves 24/7 that he feels is near his yard or house, he goes into the barking attack mode. He is the one that stands up on the garden ledge inside his fence then jumps over my concrete fence into my yard. I have a feeling that he has claimed the backyard of the hounds as his yard.

It raises the question ... Which is more important? A great view or privacy and quietness?