When Flying Saucers Attack!

[sdreid]

Opossums around here like to tear into my garbage bags and make a big mess.

Snotty Kleenexes seem to be a delicacy to them so I wouldn't want to eat one.

[Mike Covell]

Opossums around here like to tear into my garbage bags and make a big mess.

Perhaps they have been watching their big footed cousins, I remember a report many years ago from the states were a gent had been awoken by the sound of his bins being thrown, he left the house and was confronted by two big hairy creatures.

[Celesta]

My dog cornered one ( possum, not Bigfoot) in the backyard a couple of nights ago, then didn't have a clue as to what to do with it. The look of surprise on her face was priceless. She was lucky the thing was confused because I had the spotlight on it. Possums can be nasty when cornered like that. They also have a smell. I hadn't been able to tie down for certain what the smell was until that night. Hmmm. Bigfoot stinks. Possums stink. Bigfoot=possum?

Did yall know that possums don't carry rabies? No salivary glands.

Stan, I didn't know you guys got possum way up there in Lincoln land. We have two wild persimmon trees in the yard and they come for those. How's the little granddaughter?

Best,

Cel

[sdreid]

Stan, I didn't know you guys got possum way up there in Lincoln land. We have two wild persimmon trees in the yard and they come for those. How's the little granddaughter?

Yes, we have them here. One in my front yard once didn't even act like it was that afraid of me. It just ran about ten feet away then turned around and gave me a dirty look then slowly walked off.

My granddaughter is doing fine. I got to see her for the first time last week.

[Celesta]

Yes, we have them here. One in my front yard once didn't even act like it was that afraid of me. It just ran about ten feet away then turned around and gave me a dirty look then slowly walked off.

My granddaughter is doing fine. I got to see her for the first time last week.

I don't think they see very well, being nocturnal critters. Any light will throw them for a loop and they get confused. I saw two dachsunds corner one on a fence once and he was hissing, growling, and showing some very nasty teeth. I don't know if it could see them but it sure knew they were there, and had its head turned to them, as they were barking like mad. One came up on our deck one night. He had to have been lured by the smell of grilled meat, as we had grilled out early in the evening. I caught a glimpse of something out there through the glass doors and when I turned on the light, it thoroughly confused him. He knew I was there, but he couldn't see me that well, I don't think. He just froze on the spot. He was quite large. I just turned out the light and when I looked a few minutes later he was gone.

You guys don't have armadillos up there, do you? We don't have them here but they do down in the southern part of the state. Weird-looking critters.

[sdreid]

Hi Cel,

We aren't supposed to have armadillos here but I did see one run-over on the road about 20 years ago. Must have been a stray.

[Vila]

An armadillo is just a possum who has joined the Society for Creative Anachronism and thinks that a full suit of plate armor is a major babe magnet.

Vila

[sdreid]

Yes Vila, they didn't get the memo that scales were supposed to stay with the reptiles.

[Celesta]

An armadillo is just a possum who has joined the Society for Creative Anachronism and thinks that a full suit of plate armor is a major babe magnet.

Vila

Hi Dan,

Isn't it clever how they disguise the duct tape? It barely shows!

[Celesta]

Hi Cel,

We aren't supposed to have armadillos here but I did see one run-over on the road about 20 years ago. Must have been a stray.

Musta been. I know I saw a dead one earlier this year and I'd never seen one around here until then. Also, they found a 6 foot alligator in the Chattahoochee River here and a smaller one, 3 feet maybe?, in Lake Lanier! They're all migrating, Stan. It's global warming!

Saw a documentary on WGN this afternoon about Harry Caray. What a likable fella. It was doubly sad though because Skip Caray, our Braves announcer died week before last. They are father and son, and Chip Caray, also a baseball announcer is the grandson.

[sdreid]

Yes, Harry was funny. I don't think i heard about his son dying.

We had an alligator sighting right here in the Illinois River several years ago but there are a lot of taverns down there.

[Celesta]

Yes, Harry was funny. I don't think i heard about his son dying.

We had an alligator sighting right here in the Illinois River several years ago but there are a lot of taverns down there.

Gotcha! We got a few floating taverns on Lake Lanier. When it has water in it!

[Mike Covell]

I was in a second hand book shop yesterday with the wife and saw a full shelf of rare books on ufos, ghosts, and other aspects of the paranormal. I bought the lot, the full shelf!

Among them was a first and second edition of John G fuller's "The Interrupted Journey" about the Betty and Barney Hill case. I started reading it in the bath last night and it is a good read.

[Celesta]

Yeah, I would have snapped up the one on Betty and Barney, too, Mike. Congrats on you find.

[Mike Covell]

It is one of those books you cannot put down once you start reading.

I had to nip out earlier to buy more wood to build more book shelves, they are stacked about 20 ft across and 8 ft high!