Too Much Excitement For One Afternoon
Yesterday was interesting. After Mike and Kathy left, I headed to town to run errands. About halfway there, however, I had this niggling feeling that I should turn around and go home.
I do not ever ignore my gut instinct about something. I may not have an explanation for why it’s happening, but I’ve learned to pay attention. I circled around and went home.
I was working on some sewing projects and stopped to check Facebook around 2 pm. Someone further up our road had just posted on the Kalispell 411 group that the cops were chasing someone and had deployed spike strips in front of her house. (I did not know the exact location.) A few minutes later, three sheriff’s deputies sped past our house.
Five minutes after that, one of our neighbors texted me and asked me if I knew what was happening because the helicopter was circling over our houses. I told him what I knew. A few minutes later, he called and said that he had found out that the cops had surrounded a house about a mile south of us and closed the road. The helicopter was still circling.
He and I started calling around to make sure everyone knew something was happening and to stay inside. We have a solid communication network in our neighborhood because of wildfire risk. I was listening to the police channel on the scanner. It got a bit tense because we were hearing that someone was on the loose and another neighbor came home to find a door open. That turned out not to be the problem—the suspect was still barricaded in the house. The police brought the SWAT vehicles out. The husband had to come home from work the long way around because the road was still closed.
We finally heard, around 6 pm, that the suspect had been taken into custody. Apparently, it was someone from elsewhere in Montana who had violated probation and panicked when the cops tried to stop him for a traffic violation.
Whew. I am not sure why I felt like I needed to be home while all of this was happening, but I am glad I was there.
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I sewed, but not on anything that required great focus. I made another star patch:
I still don’t have my color selection and placement quite right. I am using scraps and perhaps need to be more thoughtful about my choices instead of grabbing what is handy. I am learning more about the machine, though.
I also finished one of my Kaffe tops that needed hemming. I want to wear it next week.
I’m still at loose ends about the next big sewing project, which tells me I need to wait for things to settle down a bit. These are the times when I focus on finishing and organizing.