After Dark
 

Because no one else does, I slept in the front bedroom last night rather than the master in the back of the house. This place never sleeps. I laid down about 10:15 or so and read for awhile. I had just fallen asleep when a mosquito spraying truck came through. Jump forward to about 3 and this place is hopping. The newspapers are delivered. Multiple cars (like 10 or so) doing who knows what. Who are all these people? This is not a rhetorical question.

I am sure some are early job workers. Amazing what happens at night when we are safely tucked in.

Last spring, I thought it looked like our mail station had been painted. I go past it a lot, but I never saw anybody painting.

I was not wearing rose-colored glasses.

Once I got up really early (around 5:00 a.m.) and went some place (I don't remember where) and there were all kinds of people out walking and jogging. It was like a whole new world I had never seen before since I usually don't go out of the house before 9 a.m normally.

The older you get the less sleep you get, or so I have been told.

Pretty quiet here in Sanibel...sounds more like you're having sleep issues than anything really happening that's interrupting your sleep...even if you had a place 100 miles from anywhere there are noises all night long...use a sound machine...we do...

Once in a while I get up really early :shocked:, but I can't imagine willingly doing it daily.
I notice there are many, many activities geared for early risers. Obviously people have very different circadian rhythms.
I sometimes envy early risers, but not really! :mornincoffee:

The Villages, the city that never sleeps?

About two months ago I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep so I started looking at totv. There were more than 300 people on line. I thought well.....I guess I'm not the only poor soul that can't sleep

The Villages, the city where someone is always sleeping.

You may be right. On my first long term visit after flying into Orlando and driving over to TV I stopped by the Publix on Colony about 9:30 pm to pick up some breakfast fixings for the next morning. They were closed! I just could not believe it. In the residential areas in which I have stayed in TV activity died down and it got quiet after dark, at least compared to suburbs in which I have resided.

Did you ever see The Truman Show?

But unlike NYC, it's due to insomnia here

You take 1ooKpeople, mostly of mature years from all different backgrounds, you're going to get many different sleep patterns. The joke is that everyone in TV goes to bed at 9 p,m, but that's just not true. They may not be dancing in the squares at midnight but they're up, some of them are watching the late late show . Some are reading and posting to TOTV. some are taking a walk. Some are calling friends in a different time zone. And just as many,maybe not the same ones, are up again at 3 a.m. Or 5 a,m.
Actually older adults don't need to sleep for 8 hours. 5 hours wil do just fine.

When it's too hot I run between 3 and 4am. Depending on where you are workers are going to golf courses, spraying something at the pond across the street from us. Community watch checking to make sure I am safe (yes as they drive by ask if I am doing ok). Newspaper guys, garbage trucks. And don't forget those pesky coyote's trying to get my heart rate a little faster.