On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 12:19:14 PM UTC-10, Mike Duffy wrote:
> On 2022-10-06, dsi1 <dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
>
> I'm more interested in the glowing ball you
> spoke of earlier. Did it actually give off
> discernable light, or was it simply a white
> area as bright as you would expect from a
> white mist? Was it fairly spherical or
> was it oblate? Did it make any sound?
> Did it move away, or did it fade from
> view when it left?

This happened at night and was a bright ball of light. The way she described it, it floated like a balloon through the air. It made no sound and simply disappeared. I assume it was some kind of electrical phenomenon yet she heard no sound nor did she smell anything. My understanding is that ball lightening tends to disappear with a loud report. Probably it's the air rushing in to fill a void left by the hot plasma. My guess is that we'll be seeing more cell phone videos of this odd occurrence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd2i_yfETYo

On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 4:12:59 PM UTC-10, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2022-10-05, dsi1 <dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
>
> > That's an interesting predicament. Good luck in finding that thing. My guess is that your cat will find it. They're natural born killers. My co-worker had an interesting thing fly into her house - a glowing ball of unknowable material. It floated around from room to room in her house for a while and then vanished. My guess is it was something generated by the power line transformers outside her house or an obake i.e., spirits of the dead. The spirits of the dead are strong on this rock.
> It could have been ball lightning. It's real and scientifically
> unexplained. Or it could have been an obake.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning>

I agree - ball lightening.

On 10/5/2022 17:54, jmcquown wrote:
> On 10/5/2022 5:45 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2022-10-05 4:29 p.m., Michael Trew wrote:
>>> On 10/5/2022 11:22, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> No, I was tired and near delirious. He wasn't "flapping" he was
>>> soaring through the air. I looked up photos, it was certainly a
>>> northern flying squirrel. Cute, almost looks like a poofy chipmunk,
>>> but keep it OUT of my house.
>>>
>>
>> Time to buy a tennis racquet.

> LOL or pick up a used one. ;)
>
> Jill

Now y'all are learning!

On 10/5/2022 16:31, Michael Trew wrote:
>
> I'm glad that it wasn't a bird, as Hank said. I figured that the cat
> would leave him as a "present"... she has done that with battered field
> mice, on at least three occasions... Always on the carpet. No flying
> squirrel this morning. Hopefully it got out, and hopefully it learned a
> lesson.

Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
when I found him running about, again. Cat caught wind, and pinned him
in the corner on an opposing side. Smart little critter rolled belly-up
and froze... "play dead". Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
container. It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
sheers, he luckily fell into the container.

Photographic proof that I WON!! https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr

I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside. So help me,
if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
silly Canadian spelling goes) idea. No need to buy a new or used one,
there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
schlep to a swap meet this summer. I have hockey sticks also.

On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:05:53 -0400, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

>Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
>when I found him running about, again. Cat caught wind, and pinned him
>in the corner on an opposing side. Smart little critter rolled belly-up
>and froze... "play dead". Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
>a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
>container. It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
>sheers, he luckily fell into the container.
>
>Photographic proof that I WON!! https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>
>I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside. So help me,
>if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
>silly Canadian spelling goes) idea. No need to buy a new or used one,
>there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
>schlep to a swap meet this summer. I have hockey sticks also.

Well done for not killing it.

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

On 10/7/2022 2:07, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:05:53 -0400, Michael Trew
> <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
>
>> Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
>> when I found him running about, again. Cat caught wind, and pinned him
>> in the corner on an opposing side. Smart little critter rolled belly-up
>> and froze... "play dead". Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
>> a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
>> container. It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
>> sheers, he luckily fell into the container.
>>
>> Photographic proof that I WON!! https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>>
>> I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside. So help me,
>> if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
>> silly Canadian spelling goes) idea. No need to buy a new or used one,
>> there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
>> schlep to a swap meet this summer. I have hockey sticks also.
>
> Well done for not killing it.

I won't think twice about crushing a spider or a thousand legger, but
not animals. I just hope that he doesn't find his way back in, again.
I accidentally ran over a baby duck on the road once, years ago, and
that was scaring. I think of the poor thing any time I drive along
river road.

On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:25:31 -0400, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

>On 10/7/2022 2:07, Bruce wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 02:05:53 -0400, Michael Trew
>> <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
>>> when I found him running about, again. Cat caught wind, and pinned him
>>> in the corner on an opposing side. Smart little critter rolled belly-up
>>> and froze... "play dead". Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
>>> a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
>>> container. It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
>>> sheers, he luckily fell into the container.
>>>
>>> Photographic proof that I WON!! https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>>>
>>> I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside. So help me,
>>> if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
>>> silly Canadian spelling goes) idea. No need to buy a new or used one,
>>> there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
>>> schlep to a swap meet this summer. I have hockey sticks also.
>>
>> Well done for not killing it.
>
>I won't think twice about crushing a spider or a thousand legger, but
>not animals. I just hope that he doesn't find his way back in, again.
>I accidentally ran over a baby duck on the road once, years ago, and
>that was scaring. I think of the poor thing any time I drive along
>river road.

Yes, it sucks when that happens. I had to break hard for a snake 2
weeks ago.

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

On Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 2:38:09 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 7:29:05 PM UTC-10, Michael Trew wrote:
> > I don't know why these critters like my house so much, but I have a
> > fucking flying squirrel flying through my house!!! This is just what I
> > need after one in the morning. I thought it was a chipmunk at first,
> > until I saw it soar off of furniture with the arm flap things. I
> > thought I had the chimney stuffed solid, but I guess it needs to be
> > capped, because I think that's how he got in.
> >
> > I'm at my wit's end trying to find him. Him and the cat battled for a
> > while, and I tried to catch him from the cat to set him free. I should
> > have let the cat finish him instead, because now he's gone off in here
> > somewhere, and I've torn apart the first floor looking for him. I'm not
> > going to sleep well. Maybe the cat will catch him tonight. Ugh.
> That's an interesting predicament. Good luck in finding that thing. My guess is that your cat will find it. They're natural born killers. My co-worker had an interesting thing fly into her house - a glowing ball of unknowable material. It floated around from room to room in her house for a while and then vanished. My guess is it was something generated by the power line transformers outside her house or an obake i.e., spirits of the dead. The spirits of the dead are strong on this rock.

Joe Biden tells donors in 2020 that Margaret Thatcher is concerned about the United States under President Trump.

Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, died in 2013.

Perhaps he is more in touch with dead people? 😁

He also quite often walks around with his hand out stretched.

Perhaps to shake the hand of those who have passed on?

Nor is he alone

House Speaker Pelosi wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving on Valentines day 2019

On 10/7/2022 2:05 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 10/5/2022 16:31, Michael Trew wrote:
>>
>> I'm glad that it wasn't a bird, as Hank said. I figured that the cat
>> would leave him as a "present"... she has done that with battered field
>> mice, on at least three occasions... Always on the carpet. No flying
>> squirrel this morning. Hopefully it got out, and hopefully it learned a
>> lesson.
>
> Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
> when I found him running about, again.  Cat caught wind, and pinned him
> in the corner on an opposing side.  Smart little critter rolled belly-up
> and froze... "play dead".  Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
> a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
> container.  It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
> sheers, he luckily fell into the container.
>
> Photographic proof that I WON!!  https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>
> I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside.  So help me,
> if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
> silly Canadian spelling goes) idea.  No need to buy a new or used one,
> there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
> schlep to a swap meet this summer.  I have hockey sticks also.

This is a food and recipe group. Why not request a good recipe and have
him for lunch? That is sweet revenge.

On 10/5/2022 5:53 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 17:45:20 -0400, Dave Smith
> <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-10-05 4:29 p.m., Michael Trew wrote:
>>> On 10/5/2022 11:22, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No, I was tired and near delirious.  He wasn't "flapping" he was soaring
>>> through the air.  I looked up photos, it was certainly a northern flying
>>> squirrel.  Cute, almost looks like a poofy chipmunk, but keep it OUT of
>>> my house.
>>
> Not that I'd want them in my house, but they're quite beautiful:
> <https://cdn.britannica.com/90/81290-050-80E5B060/flying-squirrel-North-American-mammal.jpg>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_the_Flying_Squirrel

On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 09:17:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

>On 10/7/2022 2:05 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
>>
>> Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
>> when I found him running about, again.  Cat caught wind, and pinned him
>> in the corner on an opposing side.  Smart little critter rolled belly-up
>> and froze... "play dead".  Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
>> a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
>> container.  It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
>> sheers, he luckily fell into the container.
>>
>> Photographic proof that I WON!!  https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>>
>> I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside.  So help me,
>> if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
>> silly Canadian spelling goes) idea.  No need to buy a new or used one,
>> there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
>> schlep to a swap meet this summer.  I have hockey sticks also.
>
>This is a food and recipe group. Why not request a good recipe and have
>him for lunch? That is sweet revenge.

LOL, Ed!

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 1:05:54 AM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote:
>
> Photographic proof that I WON!! https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>
> I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside. So help me,
> if I find him again, I'll use Dave's tennis racquet (or however that
> silly Canadian spelling goes) idea. No need to buy a new or used one,
> there's one down in the cellar with other sports stuff that I forgot to
> schlep to a swap meet this summer. I have hockey sticks also.
>
He'll be back, your house/attic is familiar territory to him now. You
should have taken him 10 miles down the road and released him.
Most likely he was starting to store food up there.

On 10/7/2022 19:25, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>
> He'll be back, your house/attic is familiar territory to him now. You
> should have taken him 10 miles down the road and released him.
> Most likely he was starting to store food up there.

He came in the chimney; and was trapped behind my fireplace insert. I
was afraid of him coming back in, but I think he was pretty traumatized
of my house from the experience. I left him in a small plastic hamster
cage overnight, with the intent of releasing him far away the next day.
He kept beating himself against the enclosure, so I tucked it away in
a tight spot in a kitchen cabinet, left him a tiny water dish, and went
to bed.

The next morning, he was soaking wet, and not even moving. Alive,
blinking, and twitchy, but he didn't react much when I poked him. Maybe
completely overwhelmed from stress? I dried him off with an old towel,
and laid him on the ground outside before work. He was gone when I got
home. He might be smarter than me, and pulled a fast one, hard to say.
If I find him back inside, I will let the cat off him this time.

On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:24:44 -0400, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

>On 10/7/2022 19:25, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>>
>> He'll be back, your house/attic is familiar territory to him now. You
>> should have taken him 10 miles down the road and released him.
>> Most likely he was starting to store food up there.
>
>He came in the chimney; and was trapped behind my fireplace insert. I
>was afraid of him coming back in, but I think he was pretty traumatized
>of my house from the experience. I left him in a small plastic hamster
>cage overnight, with the intent of releasing him far away the next day.
> He kept beating himself against the enclosure, so I tucked it away in
>a tight spot in a kitchen cabinet, left him a tiny water dish, and went
>to bed.
>
>The next morning, he was soaking wet, and not even moving. Alive,
>blinking, and twitchy, but he didn't react much when I poked him. Maybe
>completely overwhelmed from stress? I dried him off with an old towel,
>and laid him on the ground outside before work. He was gone when I got
>home. He might be smarter than me, and pulled a fast one, hard to say.
> If I find him back inside, I will let the cat off him this time.

"I will let the cat off him" seems to mean "I won't let the cat touch
him", but something tells me you mean the opposite.

I sometimes get bandicoots (rodents) out of the pool. They then sit on
the tiles, either too tired and shocked to move or pretending to be
dead. The first few times, I thought they were actually dead, but an
hour later they're always gone.

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

On 10/7/2022 21:38, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:24:44 -0400, Michael Trew
> <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
>> If I find him back inside, I will let the cat off him this time.
>
> "I will let the cat off him" seems to mean "I won't let the cat touch
> him", but something tells me you mean the opposite.

Think gangster/mafia style "off him".

> I sometimes get bandicoots (rodents) out of the pool. They then sit on
> the tiles, either too tired and shocked to move or pretending to be
> dead. The first few times, I thought they were actually dead, but an
> hour later they're always gone.

This "northern flying squirrel" played dead several times. He was as
skilled as an opossum.

On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 22:07:48 -0400, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

>On 10/7/2022 21:38, Bruce wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:24:44 -0400, Michael Trew
>> <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
>>> If I find him back inside, I will let the cat off him this time.
>>
>> "I will let the cat off him" seems to mean "I won't let the cat touch
>> him", but something tells me you mean the opposite.
>
>Think gangster/mafia style "off him".

Oh, of course. "Off him", kill him.

>> I sometimes get bandicoots (rodents) out of the pool. They then sit on
>> the tiles, either too tired and shocked to move or pretending to be
>> dead. The first few times, I thought they were actually dead, but an
>> hour later they're always gone.
>
>This "northern flying squirrel" played dead several times. He was as
>skilled as an opossum.

Maybe it can outsmart your cat. Cat gets bored, falls asleep, squirrel
sneaks off.

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

Bruce wrote:
> Michael Trew
>> If I find him back inside, I will let the cat off him this time.
>
> "I will let the cat off him" seems to mean "I won't let the cat touch
> him", but something tells me you mean the opposite.

In Americanized English, it means he will let the cat kill him.

On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 12:35:15 -0400, Gary <g.majors@att.net> wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>> Michael Trew
>>> If I find him back inside, I will let the cat off him this time.
>>
>> "I will let the cat off him" seems to mean "I won't let the cat touch
>> him", but something tells me you mean the opposite.
>
>In Americanized English, it means he will let the cat kill him.
>
Yes, I read it wrong. I read something like "I'll keep the cat off
him".

--
Bruce
<https://emalm.com/?v=SQqZJ>

On 10/7/2022 2:05 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 10/5/2022 16:31, Michael Trew wrote:
>>
>> I'm glad that it wasn't a bird, as Hank said. I figured that the cat
>> would leave him as a "present"... she has done that with battered field
>> mice, on at least three occasions... Always on the carpet. No flying
>> squirrel this morning. Hopefully it got out, and hopefully it learned a
>> lesson.
>
> Well, I spent yesterday evening tearing my doggone house apart again,
> when I found him running about, again.  Cat caught wind, and pinned him
> in the corner on an opposing side.  Smart little critter rolled belly-up
> and froze... "play dead".  Just as the cat was getting bored, I slammed
> a small box over him, and somehow corralled him into this little plastic
> container.  It wasn't pretty, most details spared, but as he scaled my
> sheers, he luckily fell into the container.
>
> Photographic proof that I WON!!  https://postimg.cc/gallery/KcN60dr
>
> I felt pity on the little arse, and set him free outside.

Wait, do I see a can of cat food in that container?!

Jill