Tap tap tapping on your window pane....

I am always delighted by my usual "friends" I see when I am out jogging.

There is the old and gray faced golden retriever that always "ruffs" at me in his hoarse voice.

One of my many neighbors drives by waving almost every time I am out.

A tall, eccentric looking older gentleman is out often walking, sometimes alone, sometimes with his four legged friend.

The heron sometimes sticks his head up to nod a "good day" to me as I pass over his bridge.

And then there is the old timer that lives down by the Little River. He always has a smile and a kind word. I look forward to seeing him. At this time of year I don't seem him often, since it is a bit chilly to be sitting on the front porch. This morning, however, as I passed his house, I heard a "tap, tap, tapping" on his window pane. There he was smiling, waving and tapping away! What a nice surprise.

(this is not my "old fellow", but you get the picture...)

That got me thinking as I headed up the hill and home of a few other good uses of "tap, tap, tapping".

The classic Edgar Allan Poe poem, The Raven, of course uses this line:
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

A far less scary use of the "tap, tap, tapping" is in the song "Here Comes Suzy Snowflake". 
This old timey version is Rosemary Clooney's famous rendition (and who hasn't loved her since the White Christmas days???).  Take a look and harken back to olden & seemingly more innocent days.

And look forward to hearing the sound of a friendly neighbor "tap, tap, tapping" on his window pane to send a friendly hello your way!

I am a Putnamaniac because I look forward to a friendly hello, arriving in all forms, such as a "tap, tap, tap" on a window pane!