2am is the best time to do road work, right?

If I had a sledgehammer I would with out a doubt only use it at 2am, right outside my house. This is why I fully understand why the folks in the trucks with flashing orange lights felt that was the perfect time to do some seemingly random maintenance right outside our house last night. No big deal, I am sure it was very necessary to pound those wooden stakes deep into the ground and release the water from the fire hydrant for over half an hour right down the middle of the street. When our house gets swallowed in a 1000m deep sink hole Guatemala City-style, I will be thankful for the peace and quiet and I'm sure the mole-people will make swell neighbours.

             Not the best way to invite guests for lunch, molemen.

I guess we could have slept through the repeated slams of the hammer which felt as if someone was knocking on the side of our house....but our dogs were not interested in that. Munsch, our little alarm dog was the first of all of us to pick up on a change in the ether...and he was quite intense about it. For a 12 pound dog, his strength/stubbornness is always surprising, as is his voice. He is not a high-pitched yapper...his alarm-bark is quite the little bellow. Libby was more relaxed about it, which in turn was also surprising as she usually feels quite at home barking at anything outside our house. Munsch is not the best when it comes to spatial awareness though, or in this case auditory awareness...specifically pinpointing a sounds location without seeing it first. When I let them out of the bedroom he ran to the entrance to the kitchen, then barked and backed off as if someone was there. He was actually barking at the sound from the front of the house bouncing off whatever was behind our house outside and reflecting into the kitchen. For him the sounds from outside must of sounded like an outright attack. I guess I appreciate his reaction though, as the alternative would be a dog who would gladly let a stranger into our home. I guess no matter what the dogs would do, Ariel would gladly sleep through it all....