I was sitting happily in our bedroom, listening to Baby Einstein Mozart CD (very soothing!) and writing in my baby journal when this thing WHOOSED in. (The balcony door was open cos it's so hot)
It zipped around like crazy! So fast that I couldn't really see it clearly. But because it was bigger than a moth or a bee, I thought it might be a HUMMINGBIRD. I had seen cute little hummingbirds before around the lilac bushes near the pool. Always wished I had my camera, but usually I was swimming at the time.
Suddenly the creature flew up to the ceiling and into the hole at the base of the light fixture. (Yes, til today the gaping holes made by the useless people who installed the lights more than a year ago have never been fixed! HMMMMMMPH!)
Anyway, I quickly closed all the doors and windows and rushed downstairs (as fast as a 6.5 month pregnant woman can waddle!) to grab my camera and zoom lens.
When I got back into the room, the creature was hiding in the hole and REFUSED to come out. I think I waited about 45 mins but it didn't budge!
OK nevermind, so I go downstairs again to Google HUMMINGBIRDS. Didn't I read somewhere that they need to eat every hour so they don't die? Cos they have the highest metabolic rate in the world. (all that fluttering about flowers).
I came across an article called HUMMINGBIRD RESCUE and it described how to rescue hummingbirds trapped indoors. Also I thought it might be a good idea to hang a cup of sugar water out so the poor thing wouldn't starve.
Armed with my sugar water, I get the ladder and climb up to hang it on the light. Waited 10 mins but the creature still didn't emerge. Suddenly I got the idea to tap the ceiling with a mop stick.
Sure enough, it flew out!! Grabbed my camera and started snapping! On closer look, IT WASN'T A HUMMINGBIRD! It was......this!
What in the world is THAT? My overactive, pregnancy hormone-driven imagination tells me it's an ALIEN SPY SCOUT sent to monitor us earthlings (So I recently finished reading The Host!)
Or could it be Oberon in disguise? Come to survey my mortal baby?
Anyway, the THING flew back into the hole and IS STILL THERE!
Aaaah the musings of a very pregnant, rotund writer. :)
3 comments:
WTF! OMG! LOL!
(attack of the MSN abbreviations)
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Is it a moth?
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