After my show went off at 10:00 PM, I stayed up for a bit, updated this site, then went to bed. As I'm laying in Bed, I see what seemed to be a sort of lightning outside, except there is no storm anywhere near here. Then, I remembered, TONIGHT we get to see Aurora Borealis in many northern states!
So I throw my pants back on, put on my slippers and head to the sliding glass door in the back. Sure enough, I see strange flashes of light in the night sky. So I grab my cellphone for the camera, and head out the front door. The sky was flashing ! ! ! ! ! !
I try to take video, but I left my glasses inside and couldn't see the darn buttons on the phone. I __thought_ I was taking video, but turns out, I wasn't.
I'm watching this thing in the sky and am totally amazed at the beauty of it. I've never seen this in my whole life.
So I tell my phone "Hey Siri, call wife, mobile, on speaker." The phone calls my wife. I tell her, go outside right now in the backyard (at our NJ condo) at look at the sky, it's Aurora Borealis!!!!!
She says, I'm going to sleep. I said "Honey, you've never seen this before in your whole life, it's beautiful." No deal.
So she and I hung up and with that, I hear "crunch" in the blackness of the front yard, over by the hill that comes up from the lower half acre. This wasn't something small making that crunch in the twigs and brush, it was something big.
Bear in mind, I left the porch lights off, so it's pitch black out there. I couldn't see a thing.
No deer would come up that hill - that I know of. It wasn't one of the feral cats; they're all under the porch sleeping.
A fox would be too small to make that kind of sound.
Soooooo, my guess is it may have been a bear. I didn't stick around to find out. I growled, loudly, and stomped my way back toward the house with deliberate heavy stomping on the wood walkway to my front door and got inside. I didn't run, but I did move briskly.
Not taking any chances; I'm up here all by myself.
If I get eaten by a bear, that wouldn't be cool.
Anyway, I'm pretty certain I got see see Aurora Borealis for the first and only time in my life. WOW!
YOU can see it tonight too, between 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM your local time. Just look at the night sky toward the north. Can't miss it if you're in the northern USA.
