Howl in the New Year
The evening with our friends had been a delight and a success, so when I woke to hear Aidan cying in the next room, it was a shock and a disappointment. Still, I walked down the hall to her friend's room where she was sleeping (a big girl NYE's sleepover!) expecting to see tears and ready to comfort her. But she was sleeping like an angel. And the howling cries continued.
It was then I remembered the coyotes Reuben and Kathy had mentioned earlier, the ones their daughters called to each night before bed. I've heard coyotes before, snurfling outside the tent camping in the U.P. with my dad, but you don't expect a pack of 'em in suburban Chicago, just down the road from the mall-and-chain-store paradise that is the nearby stretch of Randall road. But there they were, hooting and calling and resoundingly welcoming in the new year.
It's a good m.o., and perhaps a challenge for the year ahead -- leaner, hungrier, louder. Time will tell. Thanks R+K for a great night. Happy new year to all.
The girls give a few hoots and howls out the back door to the suburban coyotes 'round midnite to welcome in 2008.
It was then I remembered the coyotes Reuben and Kathy had mentioned earlier, the ones their daughters called to each night before bed. I've heard coyotes before, snurfling outside the tent camping in the U.P. with my dad, but you don't expect a pack of 'em in suburban Chicago, just down the road from the mall-and-chain-store paradise that is the nearby stretch of Randall road. But there they were, hooting and calling and resoundingly welcoming in the new year.
It's a good m.o., and perhaps a challenge for the year ahead -- leaner, hungrier, louder. Time will tell. Thanks R+K for a great night. Happy new year to all.
The girls give a few hoots and howls out the back door to the suburban coyotes 'round midnite to welcome in 2008.
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