Interrupted Sleep

We had a run of about 2-3 nights without interrupted sleep, but that ended with Friday night and last night. Last night we woke up to some sort of dog fight. There was a lot of snarling and growing and then quite a bit of yelping. I was expecting to wake up to a dead dog on the property - it was that bad. Belle (the black one) is in heat so that may have attracked some testosterone attention to the neighborhood. Perhaps the dog that came wasn't very healthy and couldn't take the dogs here at the mission. The mission dogs look small, but after having our Great Dane Tifi back in the States everything looks small.

Then at 5:30 this morning Belle started barking. They like hanging out at our front door, so we hear the brunt of the noise. We tried to get her to be quite by feeding her sticky peanut butter and crackers but that lasted only a couple minutes. She was back to barking quickly. I went out to pet her for about 5 minutes and that worked. I am so sick of dogs barking. Do dog whistles stop dogs from barking or keep them going? If it stops them, it will be my next purchase.

Today will be a little less hectic than last Sunday. We are going to only one service. After service we'll be going to the grocery store again, but buying less because we just went last week and we are going to camp next Saturday and will be away for two weeks.

I pray that you all are well and that you have a great Sunday! Our Lord is good! Here is a shot of the sun shining through a hole in the clouds that I took after football last night: