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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who hopefully did not catch sight of me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My life is an open book. And I decidedly did not open it.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

. . . 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Bars<\/span><\/p>\n

At one point I got up to walk around a bit and when I looked outside, saw something I couldn’t explain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Huh?<\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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?<\/span><\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What was it doing? Peeping?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, I haven’t felt this exposed since coming out of the shower to find workers on the neighbor’s roof.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I gotta tell you the truth. I feel seen.<\/span><\/p>\n

And not in a good way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Bars<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ingredients:<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

25 dark chocolate filled sandwich cookies, divided<\/span><\/p>\n

6 TBSP melted butter<\/span><\/p>\n

1 cup Butterfingers baking bits<\/span><\/p>\n

1 cup dark chocolate chips<\/span><\/p>\n

1\/2 cup peanut butter baking chips<\/p>\n

6 mini Reese’s cups, quartered<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup Reese’s pieces<\/p>\n

1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup crunchy peanut butter<\/p>\n

3 TBSP chocolate syrup<\/p>\n

Directions:<\/u>
*Grease a 9 X 13 baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.<\/p>\n

*Crush 18 of the cookies to crumbs. Mix with the melted butter and pat into the bottom of the prepared pan.<\/p>\n

*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.<\/p>\n

*Whisk together the sweetened condensed milk, peanut butter, and chocolate syrup. Pour evenly over the top of the other ingredients.<\/p>\n

*Bake for 30 – 35 minutes, until the center is set and the edges start to brown. Cool completely before cutting.<\/p>\n

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