Around 4:45 a.m., I was woken by Powerhäus barking and realized someone was at the door. It was VERY strange, as you might imagine! I couldn’t figure out what was going on and would never hear over him barking, so I said I would be right there and then grabbed PH by the scruff (he doesn’t have a collar on at night) to put him in my room. I was still by the door and it suddenly opened and some guy I have never seen just starts to try to come in and all I could do was say, “my dog WILL kill you”, and he looked down and saw the dog (he could presumably hear barking the entire time!), went, “whoah!”, and stepped back enough for me to close the door, again.

I did take PH to the room and close him in and walked out to the stairs, but the guy was gone. I locked the door in front of PH, who was not satisfied and continues to huff and growl. The man was tall, maybe in his thirties, balding. Caucasian. I find describing him difficult, although I’m sure I’d recognize him if I saw him again. My mom thinks he was most likely a confused drunk. (One time when my brother was very drunk, he went to a stranger’s house across the street from a friend, knocked, and then told the person to get out of his house!) She also suspects he was a burglar, but I doubt it. The timing is poor, and she had a couple of inside lights on because she had just gotten up to go to the restroom.

I think I’ll just keep the door locked, for now!