Well, it IS an online journal

Just wanted to remember a strange thing that happened the other day...what better than writing it down?

I actually saw a common fly die from natural causes. Sitting there at my desk, this fly landed on its back at the corner of my desk and buzzed for about two seconds. It laid there dead. Of course I poked it, then gingerly picked it up. Gone.

Minutes before it was flying near the window, then BAM, just died. Bizarre.

I saw that once before with a pigeon near Fort Missoula. It "towered" (flew straight up in the air like birds do when...I have heard...it gets shot in the head.) It landed alongside the road I was driving like a sack of rocks. There was no way it could have been shot, entirely too open for a sniper with an air rifle.

Makes a guy wonder. But interesting nonetheless.