One of our dogs cowers whenever my husband carries a flashlight into the yard. We've had her since she was a wee pup so we wonder if someone came into our yard and hit her with something like a flashlight at some point when we weren't home. It's possible since the electric meter is on our house and the meter readers have been known to leap over the fence and come in to read it. (Now they just use binoculars to read it from outside the yard.)

When I was riding last week I was on a bike trail passing by a small pond when I saw a herd of geese all gathered on the trail ahead of me. Some were laying down; a few were standing and stretching their necks (not at me) and none were really looking at me. I've always heard geese can be agressive so I regretfully got off my bike and walked it around them, giving them a wide berth.

But boy did I want to just sail through the middle of them yelling and watch them all flapping and honking and lying away in a tizzy.