Full Moon

Last night Mike and I took his telescope outside to look at the moon. I guess last night was the brightest the moon was going to be for all of 2010. I hadn't had the chance to experience the joys of a telescope so Mike agreed to set it up. We also tried to see Mars but it was hard to see it. I think the light of the moon was making it more difficult to see it. It was neat though. I have never seen the moon thru the telescope but it was incredible!

Mike was able to get some pictures with his camera thru the telescope. Here are some of the best ones...

My Dad and I went downtown today. It was a lot of fun. He first drove past an old house he lives in on 9th East near Liberty Park. He told me all kinds of stories of the trouble he use to get into living there. He even talked about how he would throw all his sisters dolls off the balcony and break them. I told him it is probably a good thing he didn't have any sons because they could have turned out to be just as much trouble as he was as a kid.

Then we went to the State Capitol building. I have seen it but never been inside. It was incredible! I wish I would have had my camera to take some pictures. We also ended up walking around the Front Runner station for a few minutes. Then we got lunch and headed home. It was a lot of fun. It was neat hearing all his stories and memories. I wish I would have had a camcorder so I could have recorded the house and the stories he was telling. It was really neat!

The only kind of cat I am not allergic to...

I did another rock. Sometimes I get ambitious about painting again. It is always very random and the mood doesn't last long. I actually got a new "Painting on Rocks" book which has new ideas. So I decided to try a black cat. I decided that when painting a black animal... its very hard to get the fur and detail without making it look like a gray cat. So anyways this cat was frustrating and there are a lot of things I don't like about it. I also realized after the fact that I painted it on an angle... so when I have it standing up... it leans weird. I haven't yet figured out how to display it so it looks good.

So it was hard to get a good picture... but here it is....

Two Scary Nights in a Row...

So I should start out with Friday Night. My dog rarely makes it thru the night without waking me up to let her out. It's not that she can't hold it... I think she just gets bored in the middle of the night so she decides going outside is better then being couped up in our room all night. So she woke me up at 4 AM Saturday morning to let her out. I got to open the back door and realize it was unlocked. That made me a bit nervous that we somehow forgot to lock it.

Anyways I crawl back into bed after letting her out and casually mention to Mike he forgot to lock the door. He replied that I must have forgotten to lock it when I took Molly out at 1 AM. I told him I didn't take her out at 1. He swears he woke up to me crawling out of bed to let her out and me crawling back in. So I have NO recollection of letting her out at 1 AM. Apparently I did it in my sleep! Which makes me wonder how many times a night the dog takes advantage of my sleep walking and gets me to let her out.

I have crazy sleeping habits. I have been a sleep walker since I was a kid. I talk in my sleep... I do everything in my sleep. It really makes me nervous that I could walk to the door to let the dog out and walk back into bed without waking up once. It scares me that one of these nights I am going to wake up standing in the middle of the road or something! So now I am extra nervous about the sleep walking deal especially now that I know I can unlock the door and open it in my sleep.

On to the scariness last night. So I had just drifted off to sleep and heard someone knocking on our window. I think I have blogged about this before. We will occasionally hear someone knock on our window or on the wall that separates our room from the exercise room. Mike will peek outside but won't be able to see anyone. It is always unnerving. Anyways last night Mike looked outside and couldn't see anything. I was debating waking up my dad to see if he had heard it or to warn him that creepy things were happening. Then Mike came to a realization...

When Molly relocates to her bed (which happens to be right up against the closest doors)... She sometimes bumps against the closet doors which in turns makes them bang against each other. When they bang against each other it really sounds like someone knocking on the window. That also explains why every time we would hear knocking... Molly didn't ever bark. She barks at EVERYTHING. So now we know that the knocking is from her and she doesn't bark because she knows she made the sound.

Mike did point out that that doesn't explain the knocking we hear on the wall between the two rooms. Sometimes Molly does bark at that sound..... and the knocking has gone on while she was laying on the floor by me and nowhere near the closets. So who knows whats going on there... but at least the window knocking is solved!!