We were awakened with an unearthly howl coming from Rex at
4:30 a. m. It sounded like something the wolf man would do
just before he made the transition to a an evil wolf. It was
not your normal howl in response to a siren. He appeared to
be ok and not in distress.
Rex is very sensitive to atmospheric changes. We have had
a number of minor earthquakes recently. The worst one was
3.0 on the Richter scale. We had one last week that rattled
the windows and Rex was frightened all day long. He stuck
to me like glue. I have noticed some hairline cracks in the
ceiling from all this activity.
We live six miles from a fault line. I am attributing all
these small quakes to drillers trying to squeeze more oil
and gas out of old wells. They frak these old wells trying
to get all they can out of them while gasoline is so expensive.
There was definitely something going on this morning. The
wind was unusually high and the air just smelled wrong. I
hope it doesn't brew up a tornado.