Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > west nile? or east schuylkill.... s > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> > wrote: >> >> >> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/deadbird12.jpg >> >> >> Trillian and I stayed up till midnight watching LOST which is finally >> starting to get strange, we went to bed & locked the bedroom door (as is >> our habit.) The cats couldn't be coaxed into the room because, you know, >> it's hot and miserable in the rest of the house and they wanted to lay >> around like tortured artists. >> >> I woke up at 4:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. Got up, checked my >> email, finally went back to bed around 5:30 and had a series of really >> fast & strange dreams, I'd wake up after each one and immediately fall >> back to sleep and instantly back into a dream. I don't remember any of >> them, but I know they were at least semi lucid. I finally woke up around >> 7:30 in the morning and got out of bed and there, on the night stand, >> next to the lamp was a dead bird. >> >> "Trillian," I said, "there's a dead bird here." >> >> She sat up and looked over on the night stand; at the time I wasn't >> really sure that I wasn't still asleep. The look on her face confirmed >> that I wasn't hallucinating. It looked like someone had carefully laid it >> there, centered on a lace doily. I picked it up -- it was dead, but still >> warm. We checked the windows, they were closed and so were the doors. I >> looked out into the hallway & all the cats were passed out on the carpet >> looking like unfortunate throw rugs. >> >> About four months ago we had a bird come down the chimney -- it drove >> Roswell insane. She could hear it flitting around in there and finally it >> shot out and flew through the house like a freaked out tennis ball, >> frantically banging into things. I opened a window and it shot out. The >> only thing I can figure is another one got in the house through the >> chimney flew frantically around the house without us noticing made its >> way upstairs into our bedroom and ... stayed there quietly (sitting on a >> bust of Pallas?) until seven in the morning and then dropped dead of >> unknown causes without making a sound. >> >> It seems like a stretch, but short of Voodoo priests or >> reverse-bird-burglars, it's the only thing I can think of. I wrapped the >> bird up and took it outside but at the last minute brought it back in and >> took a photo, just in case I wake up tomorrow and can't remember if it >> actually happened or not. >> >> It did. There's a dead bird on my coffee table. >> >> There you go. Hope your Saturday is equally exciting. >> >> Kyle >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information