Thursday, September 25, 2008
Gunshots?
As I was going out the door to pick up Maggie for her morning walk at 7:ooAM, I heard what sounded like gunshots and the dog next door was barking and barking. I noticed the time because I watch crime shows on TV and the thought that came into my mind was that someone was shooting someone in the house next door and I was ready for the questioning. I looked around the house next door as I was walking over to my daughters. Every thing seemed normal. The shots came again. My daughter had left for work and I picked up Maggie and our walk began. We have to pass between my house and the neighbors to get to the walk behind the house that I take Maggie on. I tried looking in the windows, but I couldn't see anything. We walk around the soccer field the shots continued. I thought maybe what I was hearing was fireworks but that would seem unlikely because we were not near The Fourth. Then I thought maybe it was some mad person who was going into all the homes and shooting. Why hadn't anyone called the police? Of course I hadn't. Would I find dr. john shot when I got back,{ you know he wasn't shot because he blogged.] A flock of geese flew over. Could the farmers be shooting to keep the birds from landing in their fields? No police came. That evening I told my daughter. She said that happened every Saturday and it upset her because she would like to be able to sleep in and Maggie was also upset. This was not on Saturday, but the middle of the week, but I hadn't heard the shots before. Pennie thinks the man across from us, who has a business is shooting in the back of the building. There is a field back there. We have no idea whats going on.
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Living in the country where I do, we hear gun shots ALL the time -- but they get extremely "busy" this time of year. Hunting season is coming and many hunters are getting their rifles ready (making sure the sites line up) and doing target practice. MY bet is that you have a hunter in the neighborhood! (WHY they have to practice early in the morning is a mystery to me though!)
melli: I think your right. It was the move from country to city that confused me, and in the country they practiced farther away. Maggie would not go out for her walk when she heard the shots this morning. I guess she will not be used for hunting where guns are used.
May be a gun range near by. We have the Army airfield across the marsh where they do their field training a few times a month. Gunshots aren't anything, we're talking ba-boom!!
A few blocks down is the Police officer firing range.
Margaret: They are building a Army training center a block from here but I don't think anyone is living there yet. I think it is just construction workers. Big booms come from the quary behind the where we think he man is practicing. The big bangs come later in the day not early morning.
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