A miserable night - and lately there have been many - will go something like this
Telly on the blink so I read a book and fall asleep in the chair.
Wake up and decide to go to bed but first let the mutts out.
Priscilla refuses to come home.
Wake up with the mosquitoes launching full frontal attack. Get up and start a spiral ( an incense like nasty smoke and anti mosquito thingy )
Back to sleep.
Priscilla barks in the street to be let in. Get up, let her in and go back to sleep.
Mosquitoes defy the spiral smoke. Get up and turn on the ceiling fan. Back to sleep.
Toby does his woof-ing to be lifted (don't ask ) up on the bed. Trying to go back to sleep.
One of the Worthless Ones jump on the bed to show affection by licking my face.
Now I don't even try to go back to sleep anymore.
The time is about 6:45 and I get up to start the day.