Dog ears

Yesterday I worked in our attic making room for more stuff too good to throw away but not good enough to keep. The attic is large, has fairly high ceilings, is made up of two rooms and smells like bat. After an hour or so the heat and smell tends to drive one out of the attic into cooler, fresh air, zones. I needed to take a box of small stuff to the attic but noticed some items I figured I'd be using shortly, so I took the box into the master bedroom and layed across the bed with it, under the ceiling fan, to sort it out. While I was laying there I distinctly saw a pair of fuzzy, floppy, ears come up over the edge of the bed. But I was busy and figured it was my older dog the ears fit. After a moment or so, I realized that neither of my dogs should be upstairs. I looked a second time and still saw the ears. I started to call him on up on the bed but I had several items laid out and figuring my wife must be coming upstairs (how else could he get through the downstairs gate) I got up off the bed and there was no dog. I looked all over, there was no dog. I looked under the bed, no dog. He couldn't have gotten far in the few seconds it took me to get up. I went downstairs and my wife assured me the dogs were both with her and the gate hadn't been opened. So what did I see? The older dogs ears are characteristic; they are folded over, grey fur. I didn't just see them once, but twice. Of all of the dogs I have owned only three of them had the floppy ears. Two of them are the dogs I presently own and one of those two has black floppy ears. The other three dogs that I have had here, one had cropped ears and the other two had ears that were generally straight up (both occassionly carried one ear up and the other flopped, but never both down). I had a dog for almost 18 years that was grey and had two flopped ears. I wonder if I was seeing him? If not? What?

Repaired TV

As I reported on June 2, our TV set was smashed onto a stoneware jar with enough force to break not only the TV but the lid of the jar. We had only had the set a couple of months. On a chance, I called the company and explained that I realize the warranty was negated by the "accident". I asked if the TV could be repaired for less than the cost of a new one. Much to my surprise I was told that $50 could fix any set. I sent it back and it came back in working order. But I still think something owes me $50. Since my last blog the house has settled back into the common humdrums. I really see very little action here, normally, in summer. The house seems to become active in early November with short bursts of the weird and strange into April and then quiets down, mostly, until November again.