Voice

After church my wife and I decided to take a drive in the country. Our little schnauzer loves to bark at the livestock we see in fields along the way. After we returned and had supper we were kind of tired and I went upstairs to the master bed room to lay down a bit. My wife decided to catch up on her E mail on the Library computer. Our dog, who was rather barked out, I think, came up stairs with me and laid down at the foot of the bed. Keep in mind the master bed room is on the second floor in the very front of the house. The computer room is actually our Library which is on the first floor, just east of the center of the house. The walls are all brick, 3 and 4 bricks thick. Sound does not carry well in our house. I was laying on top of the covers, reading a book with my dog laying at my feet. I heard my name called. It sounded like my wife and it sounded like it came from downstairs. My dogs ears went up and she appeared to be listening. Frankly, I was not absolutely sure I heard right. Then again, I heard my name called, more clearly now. As my wife has a serious leg problem and a broken wrist I figured I'd better see what was up. She knew I was upstairs and she knew it would be difficult for me to hear from the Library. My dogs ears were erect but she hadn't reacted any further. Ordinarily she would have gone on down to see for her self. I got downstairs as quickly as possible came through the Dinning room and into the Library. My wife was sitting at the computer. She looked up and said "What's the matter?" I replied that I thought she had called me. "Nope", wasn't me, are you sure?" At that point I wasn't sure of anything. No radios or TVs were on and because the Air conditioning units were going full blast the windows were closed. It was hot and humid out side. The village playground had no one on it, not even sitting under one of the shade trees. I know what I heard and my dog obviously heard it too even if she didn't react normally. This is not the first time my name has been called while I was in this bedroom; actually its the third or fourth time over the 40 plus years we have been here. I think I'd like to know, just once, what this voice wants.

Mumbling

I have, upon several occasions remarked about nondescript mumbling driving me batty. Last night. as I was reading my E mail, voices began. Not quite like previous mumbling, these voices were a bit louder, but still not loud enough to actually tell what was being said. The mumbling was more sporatic as well. As I sat at the computer, listening all would be quiet then suddenly a sound, like a voice would mumble something. I sat there trying to determine where the sounds were coming from. The best I could determine they seemed to emanate from the big bookcase on the south wall. I really tried to concentrate, to hear what words were being used; but I could not quite make out anything clearly. Was someone talking outside? I seriously doubt it. This wall of the library has the library on one side of a thick brick wall and an open porch where I have many plants on the other. As I have said before, my wife and I have been in and out of the hospital several times this summer. Because of this vines and other obnoxious plants have taken over my porch. I'm going to have a major job cutting my citrus trees free from the invading vines before I can move them inside for the winter. I really don't believe anyone was close enough or loud enough to be heard. If I had had my tape recorder handy I would have attempted to record the sounds; I think they were loud enough to register on the recorder. Unfortunately, my recorders (both) are upstairs and I figured by the time I got them and returned the mumbling would have stopped. Besides the mumbling seemed to be coming from the westernmost most corner of the bookcase (bookcase facing south, but the westernmost corner). This corner of the bookcase also sits just east of the back stairs and rear bathroom. As my wife was not at home at the time and my dog was asleep in the dining room, they can be ruled out.

More problems

When you get old life tends to get complicated. Seems my wife and I cannot stay out of the hospital. This a.m. as my wife was leaving the house she caught her shoe on something and took a bad spill that resulted in a bruised shoulder and a broken wrist. My wife is far more knowledgeable about computers than I am. I need her to transfer photos from the camera's chip to the forum. Looks like that's not about to happen for a while. We've been in that hospital so many times over the past year or so they know us on sight. As far as happenings, that is," things that go bump in the night", the house has been rather quiet. On the other hand, we haven't been here much during the daylight hours lately. Perhaps once we can get back into some kind of routine we'll have more to report.

The camera now has 289 shots on it. A lot of black blanks. a few of me coming down the stairs. Nothing on the monitor unusual. I put a new chip in the camera and aimed it up the stairs. Anyone have any suggestions?