In the Quiet of the Night

I sit here waiting for sleep to find me… it’s late, DH has been in bed asleep for hours. He has no trouble falling to sleep. I think he wills himself to sleep. I almost have to be drugged in order to get to sleep. Sometimes, I can go to bed and if DH doesn’t try to talk to me, I can fall asleep and stay that way for a few hours. If he talks to me, it wakes me up and I may as well get up and stay up for a couple of hours. <sigh> I usually wait until he’s fallen asleep before I creep out of bed and make it to my computer or to the couch with the lamp turned on so I can read until I get sleepy. Over the years he’s become resigned to the fact that I have very strange sleep habits (non-existent sleep habits if you will).

Tonight, as with most other nights, I watch the traffic on the highway outside my window and the occasional train rolls through the dark valley. It’s all just headlights, tailights and the sound of the wheels moving on the rails. I enjoy the quiet of the night, even though it makes for a very tired ‘me’ in the morning. I see the lights of the trucks and right now there are highway patrol lights moving down the hill with a stream of cars and trucks slowly moving along behind. This is a sure sign of a special load being escorted down the hill. Loads that require a highway patrol escort are moved at night–less traffic to deal with. Sometimes the loads have lights all over them, and others are shrouded in dark fabric so you can’t see what’s being carried. We see all kinds of things moving up and down the highway, and on the tracks. Two days ago we watched a UP freight train hauling cars full of rock ballast, heading North. The next day, another UP freight train hauling concrete ties–again moving North. I asked our son about this and he said they were probably going to a track job somewhere up North.

A friend sent me this link to a video of a baby elephant. It has some great banjo music playing in the background. It’s really cute:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/bu_E2f0mQmI?rel=0

Not much else to write about so I’ll close with blessings to all, be safe, be well and please be happy. Be sure to tell those you love that you love them.