Diana
Final Approach
True story that happened on the farm a few nights ago:
So, it was 10:00 at night and we were in our pajamas and the driveway alarm went off. My kitties were outside, so I went outside with the spotlight (the big light on our pole was burned out, so it was dark out there) to check on them and found that the neighbor’s dog was scaring them. I ran around trying to shoo the dog and tried to herd the cats and was out there for several minutes with the spotlight running around. Finally one cat went up a tree and the other cat ran inside.
Still using the spotlight, we loaded up the dog in the old pick up to take him back to the neighbor’s (two miles down the dirt road). As we were loading the dog, an airplane flew over our farm really, really low! We couldn’t believe it! We just hoped it wasn’t some nut-job trying to land on one of our grass runways at night!
Anyway, we drove off down the dirt road and the airplane climbed a bit and kept circling over the area. I wondered if he was screwing up an approach to the local airport and was getting off course. We kept driving and he kept circling.
We left the dog off at the neighbor’s and drove the other way home on dirt roads. And that airplane kept circling and circling. We couldn’t figure out what they were doing! Man, we hoped they weren’t planning to land on our airfield! They just kept circling. It seemed so odd.
About a half-mile from the farm (as the airplane kept circling), the red lights came on behind us! It was a conservation agent who stopped us! He thought we were spotlighting and the airplane was actually following us! 
And we had the spotlight in the truck (but no guns). They thought we were bad guys (in pajamas 
).
I'm sure there's a moral to this story.
We can laugh about it now.
So, it was 10:00 at night and we were in our pajamas and the driveway alarm went off. My kitties were outside, so I went outside with the spotlight (the big light on our pole was burned out, so it was dark out there) to check on them and found that the neighbor’s dog was scaring them. I ran around trying to shoo the dog and tried to herd the cats and was out there for several minutes with the spotlight running around. Finally one cat went up a tree and the other cat ran inside.
Still using the spotlight, we loaded up the dog in the old pick up to take him back to the neighbor’s (two miles down the dirt road). As we were loading the dog, an airplane flew over our farm really, really low! We couldn’t believe it! We just hoped it wasn’t some nut-job trying to land on one of our grass runways at night!
Anyway, we drove off down the dirt road and the airplane climbed a bit and kept circling over the area. I wondered if he was screwing up an approach to the local airport and was getting off course. We kept driving and he kept circling.
We left the dog off at the neighbor’s and drove the other way home on dirt roads. And that airplane kept circling and circling. We couldn’t figure out what they were doing! Man, we hoped they weren’t planning to land on our airfield! They just kept circling. It seemed so odd. About a half-mile from the farm (as the airplane kept circling), the red lights came on behind us!
It was a conservation agent who stopped us! He thought we were spotlighting and the airplane was actually following us! And we had the spotlight in the truck (but no guns). They thought we were bad guys (in pajamas ). I'm sure there's a moral to this story.
We can laugh about it now.
