October is for scary stories.. Let’s go.. A flashback to another year…
Only in a Stauff life…so most people know our town house is haunted…we have made “friends” with whatever lives with us and all has been well…so last night about 11:30 Wyatt comes in my bedroom and yells “mom!!” As a phone flashlight is flung in my face. I am shocked and scared out of a semi deep sleep. Squinting at the spot light I say “geezus. What the hell is wrong, you scared the hell out of me!” He is spinning a story 100 miles an hour..”Well. You know when you get that feeling that there is someone in your room? Well I had that and I thought it was you. I said “mom, is that you?” And it ended up being J. I asked her what she was doing and she said dad told her to come into my room Then she sat down on my bed. I asked her when did Dad say that? She said last week. Mom I was so freaked out I pulled my feet up to ease away from her. I shined my light at her and she was just sitting there staring at the wall.” I am laughing so hard by now…part of me was secretly proud of his flashlight skills…I asked him where she was. He says “up there I guess, I told her I had to go get a drink of water, and I RAN down here. Something isn’t right with her” I told him, “she is talking in her sleep, you know she gets that way” he says.”Mom this is frickin freaky you have to come check on her”.. I say “Magee, come on, she does this when she gets tired” . He says, “uh yea, she has never gotten up and walked into my room and talked to me”… he had a point…I tell him, “true, but just go back to your bed”, I get a flashlight stare…so I go upstairs to see if J’s head is making circles..she is back in bed looking like she is sleeping.. I whisper “J” she says “uhhuh” , I say “whatcha doing?”, She says “I don’t know”, I say “go back to bed”, she says “ok”..I look at Magee “all is well chief, go to bed”. He stares at me “yea right, I get the crap scared out of me and I am supposed to go back to bed” . I am on my knees laughing…”Get some sleep tonight!”. It took about 15 mins to convince him to go to bed… I finally let him be and go back to my bed. all curled up, then I got that feeling someone is there…I looked up and there is Magee with his phone flashlight..looking for a blanket..camping on the couch. I asked him… “so…couldn’t do it huh”…he says a matter of factly… “nope…I am sleeping on the couch” I giggled my way to sleep…while repeating the Lord’s Prayer..
this am J comes stumbling downstairs rubbing her eyes.. she says “Why is Magee on the couch?” I laughed “he was afraid that we were living the conjuring last night and your head was spinning.” She looked at me and says, “hmm, I thought that was a dream”. Ummm what?
as they sat there staring at us.. 
they finally opened a door and I used my arms and hands to point directly behind them and I said a little louder, âthere is a coyote over by the creekâ.. and I 
quietly shut the door and smiled at them. They looked at each other with a raised eyebrow.. J says, âI donât think they believe usâ. I shooed my hand to them and they grabbed their guns and turned around. The coyote popped up into a little knoll. They both hit the ground quickly and attack mode was set into place. Magee got to the garbage cans and laid his sites on him. Pinker and I were in the kitchen watching it all go down.. all of a sudden something black darts towards the coyote. Pinker says, âyo, is that another coyote?â.. I studied the new object that entered into the picture. âHoly shit! That is a badger running after itâ. The coyote is looking back at the badger and âboomâ. Magee fires off the lethal shot.. the coyote falls over the hill..the badger looks around, turns and runs his ass off back to his hole. I can only imagine what was going through his mind and I died laughing. When The Stauff got in he looked at me and laughed, âI couldnât imagine what in the hell you were doingâ.. ahh life on the ranch.. never a dull moment.
