Heidi's Hell Hole

My inlaws are off camping this week, taking Granma to Yellowstone and asked us to house sit for them.

Basically, feed the dogs, the birds, and make sure the horses are okay. We'd stay out there until Thursday night. We agreed, and Bryan said he'd figure out someone to watch Kiera while we were gone.

Last night was my first night out there, Bryan had spent Sunday out there, while I stayed behind. We got there rather late, around 9 or so. After stopping at our house, dinner, and making sure Kiera had her Kibbles N Bits, we arrived.

Bryan put the birds "to bed" meaning he covered their cages. The bigger bird, Gizmo, was silent. The smaller bird, Woodrow, kept chirping "NIGHT NIGHT" for what seemed like an eternity, even after we went to bed.
After a while, I wanted to march right up to his cage and say, "Yes, Woodrow. Night night. Night. As in sleep. Go to SLEEP!"

When we did go to bed it just felt...Odd. Part of it was laying my head where my MIL lays her head. Don't get me wrong, she's an amazing woman, but it felt weird sleeping where she sleeps. Also, the mattress is a Temper Pedic, and very firm, and a queen size. Bry and I sleep in a King sized bed, with room to sprawl. Even though I've only slept on this bed for like a month, it felt like I was sleeping in a kids bed.

The horses, it seems, have an internal alarm clock that is unreal. Five AM rolls around, and they are up and ready to go. Making noise, that at first made me think Pooker was crying, and then just irritated the hell out of me. Every thirty minutes or so, they would whinny and wake me up and grrrr.

My inlaws dog, Sadie, also was there to remind my happily sleeping self to wake up. (In all fairness, Bryan did warn me.) At six AM, she sat in the doorway of the bedroom and whined. Apparently, my MIL wakes up with her. If you don't acknowledge Sadie, she will not let up. Bless her for her tenacity. She just gets louder, and louder, and LOUDER.

That didn't work, (silly dog, I can sleep through a plane crash), so she just came right up to my side of the bed and whined directly into my ear. OKAY! I GET IT! GAH, I'M UP, ALRIGHT?! Geez Louise.

Between the bird, the horses, the new bed, and a very persistant dog, I didn't sleep much. When I got to work I literally downed half a pot of fresh coffee in ten minutes.

Here's to another 2 days of chirping, whining, and whinnying!