My neighbors put a sound-activated ghost on my front porch (in the spirit of Halloween...obviously). It makes loud scary ghost noises whenever someone claps or yells loudly. People strolling around in the evening and joggers running by in the early morning send it roaring away. While some people have spouses, or children or pets to greet them in the morning, I welcome in the day with hollow electronic noise of a sound activated ghost. I have to say, it is a step down from the pigeons that roosted on my porch over the summer.

Just for today, I have yet another reason to embrace the prospect of co-habitation.