Our master bedroom is on the top floor of our house. There is a window over the jacuzzi tub, with wood blinds. I usually keep the blinds open to let light into the bathroom, since there are no windows on the house next door that face my bathroom window.
When we first moved in, over 20 years ago, Hubs asked me about not closing the blinds. It is a bathroom, after all, where we're naked when going in and out of the bath or shower. I told him he was welcome to close them when he's in there if he'd prefer, but teased him that the only way anyone would be able to see him that high up would be if their hovercraft was way off course.
Apparently, at the time, there was a second scenario. I learned that the hard way a month later when, wrapped in a towel fresh from my morning shower, I went to the mirrors opposite that window and caught sight of workers on my neighbor's roof.
Who hopefully did not catch sight of me.
Fast forward 20 years, to a time when the privacy I held dear pretty much does not exist anymore. Companies track my every mouse click online. A psychopathic billionaire has access to all of my personal, supposedly private banking, voting, medical, etc information on line. The cable company requires me to send a selfie or a copy of my license in order to allow me to get into my cable account (umm, no, I'll stay out).
My life is an open book. And I decidedly did not open it.
And now . . .
. . . one recent night after dinner, we'd settled down with our Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Bars for dessert, intending to spend a quiet night in the den.
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Bars
At one point I got up to walk around a bit and when I looked outside, saw something I couldn't explain.
There was a light in the sky. And it was just sitting there. I watched it for some time, even got out the binoculars. Every now and then, I thought I saw a tiny flash of green or red. And sometimes it was just a circle of light, other times it looked like there were short rays coming out of each side. But it didn't move from that spot.
Huh?
Hubs looked at it. College Boy looked at it. We couldn't figure it out. It couldn't be an aircraft, nor the only star in the whole sky. We thought drones made noise, but we stepped outside and it was absolutely silent.
An hour or so later we looked out and it was still there. So probably a drone, but what would a drone be doing sitting over a quiet Midwest neighborhood for hours at a time?
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A few hours later, curiosity got the best of me and I looked outside. It was pitch black out now, still no stars, and it remained deathly quiet. But it was still there. It had moved to the right, and lower, at some point (I wish I had happened to see that), but it was just sitting. Now, in a different spot.
We can rule out rogue hovercraft, aircraft, star, and UFO, 'cause if it was a UFO it would have beamed up a fine specimen like me by now. So it's got to be a drone, right?
What was it doing? Peeping?
Seriously, I haven't felt this exposed since coming out of the shower to find workers on the neighbor's roof.
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I gotta tell you the truth. I feel seen.
And not in a good way.
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Bars
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Ingredients:
25 dark chocolate filled sandwich cookies, divided
6 TBSP melted butter
1 cup Butterfingers baking bits
1 cup dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter baking chips
6 mini Reese's cups, quartered
1/2 cup Reese's pieces
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup crunchy peanut butter
3 TBSP chocolate syrup
Directions:
*Grease a 9 X 13 baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
*Grease a 9 X 13 baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
*Crush 18 of the cookies to crumbs. Mix with the melted butter and pat into the bottom of the prepared pan.
*Chop the remaining cookies and sprinkle over the crust, followed by the dark chocolate chips, then peanut butter baking chips, then quartered mini Reese's cups, then the Reese's pieces.
*Whisk together the sweetened condensed milk, peanut butter, and chocolate syrup. Pour evenly over the top of the other ingredients.
*Bake for 30 - 35 minutes, until the center is set and the edges start to brown. Cool completely before cutting.
Drones are everywhere! Several of my neighbors have drones that they fly over the neighborhood. The police have drones, the news agencies have drones. I see them flying around all the time. We are always on camera no matter where we go these days.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I don't like the idea of them flying around, somehow seeing them sit in one place near our house for hours is way more creepy.
DeleteYes, that would be really creepy.
DeleteI would find that more than creepy, downright disturbing. However Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars, I find just too tempting. Donna
ReplyDeleteI definitely find it disturbing, just like how I find companies tracking what pages I look at and items I buy online disturbing.
DeleteAggravating, and Google, Apple and my cable company claim they protect us from this.
DeleteThere are laws and restrictions for drones, especially flying on and around private property.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't on my property, and my major concern was what it was doing sitting in one place for so long. But I doubt I could get anyone to do anything about my concerns, even if I did call for help.
DeleteAfter reading your recipe I had to wipe the drool off my keyboard :-)
ReplyDeleteHA! Good for me, maybe not so much for you.
DeleteI keep telling the teenage Grands, you’re on a camera everywhere, so don’t misbehave. I bought a bag of chunks of Reese’s pb cups and Reese’s pieces that would be perfect for these bars. I might have to make them some family night! TY
ReplyDeleteI love it, use it to your advantage, never thought of that. And these bars, if you try them, will be to your advantage, too.
DeleteAnother reason to never do anything you shouldn't, but it's still disturbing.
ReplyDeleteSomehow a whole lot of people do all kinds of things they shouldn't, wonder why they don't get caught so easily.
Deletewith any luck, it's extra terrestrials rather than our own nefarious governments or another nefarious one. It's obvious that ETs mean us no harm or they would've destroyed us long ago. As far as those others? Not so sure.
ReplyDeleteOh good, something to hope for. Thanks for that.
DeleteI've pinned the recipe for later. I would have been creeped out by that drone, too, whether or not I was eating some of those bars.
ReplyDeleteIf you're a chocolate and peanut butter lover, this one's definitely for you.
DeleteFirst of all those bars look so good! A couple of months ago multiple drones were spotted around New Jersey.. there were plenty of conspiracy theories out there.. have no idea what they were doing out there but it had everyone a little spooked.
ReplyDeleteThere really is no such thing as privacy any more, online or in our homes.
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