One Day at a Time

We had a surreal experience around 2am this morning. First, take the noise of a scolding squirrel. Now, hike it up two or three octaves. Finally, add in a range of sounds sort of like that, but somewhat different (add density). For additional fun, take your final sound and fade it in and out as though whatever is producing it is running/flying around the neighborhood in the vicinity of your backyard.

That's more or less what woke us up this morning. The husband has a point by thinking it was some kind of bird because of the way and speed at which the sounds moved. But it really sounded mammalian to me. The sounds were so surreal, though, that it's hard to believe we even heard them; I really wish we could have gotten a recording. It sounded like a cat was dragging off a raccoon, but we never heard another animal, which I would have expected from a true brawl of that nature.

I hope someone doesn't have a nasty surprise in their yard this morning....