Do you ever wish you had that extra sense? You know, the one that tells you some­thing just isn’t right,  you see things, feel things, dream things. I do. Life can get just a lit­tle monot­o­nous so get­ting a vision every once in a while just sounds like fun to me. Being a firm believer in an after­life, ghosts, any and all things para­nor­mal, and vis­i­tors from other places, you’d think I’d be the per­fect fit for some sort of “read­ing” thing. But alas, I am not. If you asked my hus­band, he’d say I THINK I can tell what is going to hap­pen and that I act like a mind reader all the time but he’d be being just a wee bit sar­cas­tic. Imag­ine that.
Don’t know why this has been on my mind lately. Could I be hav­ing a vision? Hmmm. And where did the whole “crys­tal ball” thing come from any­way? I believe my youngest daugh­ter had “the touch”. She used to do Tarot cards and such. She met a woman, and I have for­got­ten the how or why, but this woman could con­tact the spirit world. She told my daugh­ter, who will cor­rect me if I am wrong, that she needed to be really care­ful in the how and where and why when she approached the spirit world as she had a strong con­nec­tion with it. Spooky to say the least. And I am not sure if this all came about because we had a ghost in our house or not. Our ghost was a he. Some­one had died in the house at one time, so I am not sure if this was their ghost, or one that just thought we had a nice house. Inter­st­ingly enough, we all knew there were strange occurences but it took a while before we started ask­ing each other if they had expe­ri­enced what we had. What a relief to know oth­ers had heard or wit­nessed what each of the other ones had!! Our ghost liked heat. It could be the mid­dle of sum­mer and we would come in to find the house hot­ter than hell, with the heat turned up, or the oven turned on. After one such inci­dent, I asked him to knock it off or leave because it was harm­ing the cats. It quit after that but not his sil­ver­ware rat­tling or his stomp­ing on the floor. I can­not count the times the kids would be with their dad for a week­end and I would be sit­ting down­stairs watch­ing TV and he’d go stomp­ing across the kitchen. A quick check to make sure I really didn’t have a vis­i­tor, but no, doors and win­dows all locked. There would be nights when the cat, who slept on my bed, would  bolt up and stare for min­utes out into the hall­way than lay calmly down and go to sleep. I liked hav­ing a friendly ghost. He did not go with us when we moved so I hope the new own­ers liked him as much as we did.
As far as my own crys­tal ball this is what I know. We are going to have an early and very cold win­ter. The birds around our house left a few weeks ago. I have been watch­ing for robins and they are gone. The bugs are com­ing into the house fast and furi­ous. (Don’t worry kid­dos, they will be gone before you visit). I have not seen the fuzzy catepil­lar whose stripe tells you if it is going to be a cold win­ter or not. I never can remem­ber if the thick brown stripe means a cold win­ter or not so even if I did see one I’d only be guess­ing. The squir­rels are very active gath­er­ing nuts. Now around our place this could be a defense against hav­ing to come down to the ground to get them and chance a meet­ing with the dogs, but I think it has more to do with win­ter. Leaves are turn­ing yel­low and red already.  And, I don’t know, it just “feels’” like it. Maybe I am more intu­itive than I knew.
Have a good one.…and watch out for ghosts!!