A wee night-time visitor. El Eeeeko!
Posted: Tuesday, 28 August 2007 |
Ok, so, my ankle was keeping me awake the other night and as I tossed and turned I heard a really ODD noise outside of the window. I peeked my head out and just as I looked down, something looked up with glowing eyes! I just about died! And whatever it was was making a wacky fast-breathing sound and moving the big rocks away from my flower patch. I dove back in bed and landed in a ball of terror on top of poor Erlend who sprang up with a "Wha? Who? Where??"
"THERE'S AN ALIEN ON THE LAWN!" I shrieked. And of course Erlend being Erlend he wasn't phased. An alien on the lawn? Big deal. He rolled over and went back to sleep while I sat there on the bed for half an hour! I was so horrified I couldn't sleep. Then, the next night we watched "Transformers the Movie" and so I had twice as many imaginings going through my simple little mind every night. And like...when I went out on the lawn the morning after the alien visit I saw all my big rocks moved and UGH! It was freaky.
So anyway last night was a calm night (it was windy for a few nights there...) and I brought a huge flashlight upstairs and forced myself to stay awake and wait for the alien. I had to figure out what was going on because now it gets dark at night (we get 24 hour daylight in summer) and Erlend has the barley harvests coming up which means he's out till 3am working and I'm all alone with a dog growling at the dark window because he can hear the alien too...**Gasp** Wow I said that all in one breath.
I waited and I watied and just when I thought I couldn't pry my eyes open any longer I HEARD IT! I sprang out of bed and with shaking hands I illumiated the lawn and began my search. I almost screamed when the flashlight beam hit the lawn mower (when did Erlend put it THERE?) and then...what was that?? Something zoomed out of the light...I followed it and...IT WAS AN ADORABLE HEDGE HOG EATING SLUGS!
Our wee night visitor - a slug eating, totally friendly non-alien hedge hog! Go figure.
ISN'T HE CUTE?? I watched him zoom around my flower bed for a while. Then I dove back into bed (on top of Erlend again) and announced, "ERLEND THE ALIEN ISN'T AN ALIEN IT'S A HEDGE HOG!"
Erlend murmured something about roast chicken and peanut butter so I uh...let him stay asleep. But I did tell him this morning and we had a good hoot and howl fest!
I'm sooooooo relieved. Because tonight I'm alone and it's pitch black outside and Erlend is off harvesting barley...
"THERE'S AN ALIEN ON THE LAWN!" I shrieked. And of course Erlend being Erlend he wasn't phased. An alien on the lawn? Big deal. He rolled over and went back to sleep while I sat there on the bed for half an hour! I was so horrified I couldn't sleep. Then, the next night we watched "Transformers the Movie" and so I had twice as many imaginings going through my simple little mind every night. And like...when I went out on the lawn the morning after the alien visit I saw all my big rocks moved and UGH! It was freaky.
So anyway last night was a calm night (it was windy for a few nights there...) and I brought a huge flashlight upstairs and forced myself to stay awake and wait for the alien. I had to figure out what was going on because now it gets dark at night (we get 24 hour daylight in summer) and Erlend has the barley harvests coming up which means he's out till 3am working and I'm all alone with a dog growling at the dark window because he can hear the alien too...**Gasp** Wow I said that all in one breath.
I waited and I watied and just when I thought I couldn't pry my eyes open any longer I HEARD IT! I sprang out of bed and with shaking hands I illumiated the lawn and began my search. I almost screamed when the flashlight beam hit the lawn mower (when did Erlend put it THERE?) and then...what was that?? Something zoomed out of the light...I followed it and...IT WAS AN ADORABLE HEDGE HOG EATING SLUGS!
Our wee night visitor - a slug eating, totally friendly non-alien hedge hog! Go figure.
ISN'T HE CUTE?? I watched him zoom around my flower bed for a while. Then I dove back into bed (on top of Erlend again) and announced, "ERLEND THE ALIEN ISN'T AN ALIEN IT'S A HEDGE HOG!"
Erlend murmured something about roast chicken and peanut butter so I uh...let him stay asleep. But I did tell him this morning and we had a good hoot and howl fest!
I'm sooooooo relieved. Because tonight I'm alone and it's pitch black outside and Erlend is off harvesting barley...
Comments
LOL, Michelle. So funny! I myself only ever had one close encounter with a hedgehog. It was walking out of a field towards a road, so I tried to turn the little timid woodland creature back by nudging it very gently with my foot. The ungrateful little b****r opened its (surprisingly wide) jaws and sank its teeth into the edge of my shoe. So be careful out there...
Jill from EK
That last snap is a perfect illustration of the hedgehog's potential as a sporran.
Annie B from the usual
Could be nasty, Annie B (read my earlier comment). The spines and fleas (I understand hedgehogs are hoaching with them) could be a problem too, especially in the normal location of a sporran.
Jill from EK
now there's an itch that shouldn't be scratched in public!
mia from purrondering at the pc
So...I traded my quiet cabin in the Alaskan woods for the howling winds of Orkney and life on a farm. 
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