Bill - You crack me up! Don't worry, Diane Sue will protect you.
We've had some weird things in our house. And it's a new house - about 4.5 years old. But we live in Wyoming outside of town on the plains. Lots of things may have happened back in the wild west days. Our dog Gizmo sees something quite regularly. One night he was curled up next to me on the couch and he saw something come around the corner from the kitchen. He watched it as it approached us on the couch. It got closer and closer and he was growling and looking up - like you would be looking at someone approaching you. I swear I thought I was going to go into cardiac arrest! "It" got right in front of us on the couch and Gizmo's tail started wagging, like that scared sort of wag - the "please don't hurt me" one and he was looking straight up like it was standing right above us. I think I was ready to pass out. Then he just stopped. It must have gone away.
I see things out of the corner of my eye a lot, but I always think my eyes are playing tricks on me. The other night I saw something bigger than normal. But it was quick. It went from our computer room to my sewing room. Later that night I mentioned it to DH. I'd never mentioned any of the other things. He told me he had also seen the same things, but just flashes and never a whole image. Weird we never mentioned it to each other.
A couple of weeks ago I was in the shower and when I turned off the water the faucet in the sink was on full blast. Now there is a chance I could have left it on b/c I was rinsing off a hair clip after coloring my hair before I got in the shower.
Oh, and we have parrots. Since we've lived in this house, one of them, in the middle of the night, will say "Hi" as clear as a bell. She normally doesn't say this unless she's talking to somebody. Most words she'll say just to say. But "hi" is a word she uses to address somebody. And they sleep through the night. The other weird thing is that I wake up just in time to hear this. Hmmm...
That same night I thought I saw something larger than usual, our parrots all freaked out in the middle of the night. Parrots can have "night frights" and ours are no exception. They don't have them very often and usually it's only one of them. Sometimes one will set of another. But this night I went out to try to calm down the one and all three of them were clinging to the side of their cages. After I tried to calm their little birdie nerves I went back to bed. About 30 minutes later they all freaked out again. Somewhat (but not totally) unusual for them.
Who knows? Could all be coincidence.
Suz
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France
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