We have a plan to head for Shaver Lake for a long weekend.  We packed up the van tonight after the VBS show and plannned to get an early start at 6:30a on Saturday morning.  We were well on schedule when Toby and I went to bed ato 10:30p.  As usual I fell right to sleep.

BOOM! BOOM! “Sheriff’s Department!”.

What a crazy dream.  I must have kicked Toby in my sleep because she was rolling out of bed, gasping.  Maybe not a dream.  Toby was saying something about a fire.

BOOM! BOOM! “Sheriff’s Department!”.

I was fully awake now.  It was 1:30a.  I went downstairs to see what was going on.  Through a stairwell window, I saw a Deputy at the back (alley side) office door.  I barely registered the fact that the back door was wide open.  How did he get that door open?

It turns out he didn’t get the door open.  That was why he was on site.  They were on patrol, driving thru the back alley and noticed that our van had almost all of its doors opened.  When they stopped to investigate, they saw that our back door was wide open too.  They were making sure that the van and house had not been broken into.

After checking things out, I thanked them for doing a good job, and did what should have been done 4 hours earlier : locked things up.