In just a couple of weeks, we've met so many neighbors. People are often in their yards, and there are dogs everywhere, which means we encounter a lot of people on each walk.
Because we have a new puppy, we've been consistently logging five to seven miles of walking each day. We take a really long one in the morning, another long one in the evening, and several short ones between. This way, the puppy (and our other dog) can expend all of that juvenile energy :) and be fairly calm. Usually, we're out of the house for the first by 6:30am, and the last outside visit is around 11:00pm. The late walks have been really nice, since the houses around us have good landscaping/lighting and lots of people jog at night.
Last night we were up kind of late, so Dan gave the dogs a final pit stop before bed around midnight. While he was outside, I heard four gunshots really close (and spaced out). When he came in, he said it was close enough for him to have heard someone say, "Don't move!" before the shots.
Scary! It was hard to get to sleep after the 911 call (we were among many to call) and subsequent half-hour of helicopters directly above our building and the two houses next door. (It didn't help to think about a neighbor's recent warning that thieves have broken into a few cars on our street in recent weeks--and the observance of someone easily jumping the gate of our townhouse.)
This morning, I tried finding some information about the shooting, but there's nothing yet. The stuff I did find sort of reinforced our perception that this neighborhood is generally safe... in fact, the last article I could find about something similar was from a couple of years ago. Is it weird to be hoping that last night's activity was a domestic situation rather than random violence?
Because we have a new puppy, we've been consistently logging five to seven miles of walking each day. We take a really long one in the morning, another long one in the evening, and several short ones between. This way, the puppy (and our other dog) can expend all of that juvenile energy :) and be fairly calm. Usually, we're out of the house for the first by 6:30am, and the last outside visit is around 11:00pm. The late walks have been really nice, since the houses around us have good landscaping/lighting and lots of people jog at night.
Last night we were up kind of late, so Dan gave the dogs a final pit stop before bed around midnight. While he was outside, I heard four gunshots really close (and spaced out). When he came in, he said it was close enough for him to have heard someone say, "Don't move!" before the shots.
Scary! It was hard to get to sleep after the 911 call (we were among many to call) and subsequent half-hour of helicopters directly above our building and the two houses next door. (It didn't help to think about a neighbor's recent warning that thieves have broken into a few cars on our street in recent weeks--and the observance of someone easily jumping the gate of our townhouse.)
This morning, I tried finding some information about the shooting, but there's nothing yet. The stuff I did find sort of reinforced our perception that this neighborhood is generally safe... in fact, the last article I could find about something similar was from a couple of years ago. Is it weird to be hoping that last night's activity was a domestic situation rather than random violence?
