Need to get the crystal from the house; but every time I go in the backyard, the dog is barking, indicating that's not the time to go in. I have gone back and forth to that screen probably about 30 times. Even used the flute to fly back up to the rainbow island and fly back down and tried again - same result.

Lord, that's some bad design. It ended up eventually working when I walked into the werewolf screen area and then back ...

That's Sierra for ya.

Heh. I love me some Sierra ... but that was excessive.