Tales from the Farm

Strange Noises from Within

Yesterday, I decided to treat myself to a delicious chocolate chip banana muffin for my morning snack. As I’m closing the container, I hear “Auld Lang Sign” start to play. It’s soft, but sounds near, and quits before I can discover the source. I start to think it was like the time I thought someone was knocking at the door, but no one was there and I thought I was when it turned out to be a wood pecker, I think that Errol has left his phone in the house, or a neighbour has planted a signing toy, to try and drive me insane.

After trying the cell phone, and not hearing it ring at home, I search the kitchen, the suspected location of the music, and come up empty handed. Dejected, and thinking I really am going insane, I give up my search, and return to work. Puzzled and bewildered.

That night, just before supper, Errol was thumbing through our mail, and tossed some onto the table. Again, the mysterious "Auld Lang Sign" music starts up again. I had told him about it at dinner time, so when it happens again (and he hears it) we frantically looked around for the source. Again, it quits before we can find it.

Very mysterious. At least I don’t have to worry that I’m losing my grip on reality. Or at least, if I am , that there’s 2 of us, and we’ll lose it together. We’ll become that crazy, eccentric wilderness couple.

Hours later, we're sitting in the living room watching TV, and it happens again. Errol races for the kitchen, ears peeled for the source of the sound. This time he acutally finds it. Turns out, it was our clock/thermometer/calculator pen holder that is in the kitchen. The battery was dying, and as a means of signifying the end was near, it was singing that classic New Years song to us. Rather clever way to remind one to replace the battery, if you ask me.