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Subject: [Leica] weird things afoot at castle cassidy....
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:24:09 -0700
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On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> west nile?

or east schuylkill....


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> 
> 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
>> 
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] weird things afoot at castle cassidy....)
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