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It doesn't take too many of those knocks & rocks on the wall & roof in answer to your thoughts, to get the idea that somebody out there can hear you thinking. Doesn't sound crazy to me.

Hi Guys, I just had to report that at 9pm, I flipped the porch light on and went out on our porch to have a cigarette. As I was playing word feud with a friend, the word he played was "gun." I was thinking about tomorrow's opening day of gun week, and how the deer, (and maybe SSQ if they are still around), would be having a big headache tomorrow. Then in the perfect silence of the night, I heard a BIG TREE KNOCK! It was in our back field / woods area, maybe on the hill. There was no question that it was a tree knock! It was loud and clear. It was no deer rubbing or whatever, it sounded like a baseball bat hitting a big tree. It almost sounded like at a baseball game when someone hits a home run. WOW!!! I went upstairs and woke up my husband and informed him that SSQ is still here. He said that anything could have made that sound, but he didn't hear it. I sent out a little mental message if they pick up on that sort of thing and said, "Good luck tomorrow, there are going to be guys with guns everywhere in this valley. I said that there wouldn't be anyone hunting on our property so if they wanted to hide out here, they could." Then I remembered that my husband said that he might go out in the afternoon. He wants to get two deer for some winter food. So I asked that they not hurt him, and he wouldn't hurt them. I also asked while I was at it, that it would be nice if they showed themselves to him so he could have an experience too. As if, talking to BF in my mind isn't crazy sounding, but what the heck? It couldn't hurt and after all I just heard the tree knock!! Wow, so I guess they are still hanging around here. This may confirm an incident that happened Friday night. We couldn't find one of our cats and we thought that he may have escaped out the door at night. We like to have them in at night so they don't get eaten by coyotes. So we looked all over the house and decided that it must have escaped. It was about this time of night, so I went outside on the porch and called his name and then called "treats, treats treats!" Nothing. After about 20 minutes, I went back out and called him again only louder. I was kind of having fun listening to my voice echo off the valley hills. I went back inside and after awhile the dummy came waltzing into the living room. That's how cats are sometimes. In any case, about 3am I woke up and got up for a couple of minutes and went back to bed. I was reading news on my phone in bed and all of the sudden a rock hit the side of the house near our bedroom window, then I heard a crazy kind of howl. The cat was alarmed and so was I. My husband didn't wake up. I'm like, OK, here we go again. Something similar happened to me in the summer when I called out in the valley and later that night, a rock hit near our other bedroom window with a similar reaction by me and the cat. So, I guess you can add that to the SSQ Soup recipe. Others can say that I am crazy, but I know that I have sympathetic friends here on the BFF. What I know for sure is that I heard tonight at 9pm what sounded like a classic tree knock. Good luck to all you deer hunters tomorrow, I hope you get one. And if you see SSQ in the meantime, please don't shoot it. Thanks for listening. Hammer

I wonder if this "AMA/AAM" that accredits museums, is anything like the FDA that "approves" drugs like Vioxx & "foods" like Aspartame...... I've found that a lot of times "unapproved" may turn out to be the better choice.

Hello BobbyO, One of these days.......oh well. Washington, Washington, Washington........