I suppose I should mention that when Mother's phone line came back on line, so did her Lifeline service. It triggered an alarm, and since "she" was not in residence the intrepid Georgetown First Responders came tearing up the driveway, emergency lights flashing. It was nice to see Rosemary and her crew, and Mother reassured them that she was fine and explained what had happened. And the cheered crew went off to monitor a house burning down on another part of the Island. We called Lifeline when we got back inside the farmhouse.

However, there are still problems with some of the phones in the house. Apparently the mobile phones need to be re-set because they're acting weird, ringing only once. Mother has a conventional phone as well but it's hard for her to reach with her walker and if she can't get there within 6 rings callers give up. So we'll try to re-set the mobile phones, take out their little batteries so that they really shut down. If that doesn't work I guess we'll have to buy another set of them.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble