Recorder is back

     The missing tape recorder, lost since early March, reappeared today beside the kitchen telephone. The kitchen telephone is the most used phone in the house. I now have two recorders to use this fall when the house, once again, becomes active. June and July and the first half of August have been very quiet. Except for the reapparence of the recorder, this has been a quieter summer than usual. Activity usually picks up in early November. I played the newly found recorder to determine if anything new had been added to the tape. Nothing had. These disapparences and reapparences  are not that uncommon here.