An Unexpected Visitor
This morning at around 6:45 AM I woke up to a strange sound... kind of a swish, scratch. This was rather loud and it woke me out of a deep sleep. Swish, scratch. I listened for a couple of seconds... nothing. I closed my eyes again and nearly drifted back to sleep when there is was again: swish, scratch. This time I was able to tell it was coming from outside. It sounded like it was something brushing against our bedroom window (we sleep on the lower level and the ground level window is less than four feet away from our bed). Ah, the wind. Obviously the wind is blowing snow against the window. But it didn't sound windy outside. Swish, scratch. Then faithful ol' Grace stopped snoring, perked up her ears and started to growl. Something wasn't right. So I crawled out of bed, leaned over and pulled up the blind. And there I found myself, quite literally eye-to-eye with a deer. Less than a foot in front of me. Pawing at the ...