Or a drone?

Doug Elledge.                                       dba.               Shirewood Enterprises
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On Oct 26, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM> wrote:

> You sure that wasn't a hummybird?
> 
> Karl Wolz
> Sent from my electronic umbilicus
> 
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> I know there isn't much time left in the day to discuss this important
>> topic, but here goes:
>> 
>> For years, I thought the worst thing that ever caught fire in my Westy was
>> a down sleeping bag. While it only burned for one or two seconds, the heat
>> from the fire made the down rise instantly through the air and festoon the
>> inside of the Westy in a snowy wonderland that took two rolls of packing
>> tape to remove.
>> 
>> But this past weekend, I think the down bag episode was surpassed by a
>> gigantic moth, its body the size of a man's thumb and a wingspan of about
>> 3.5 to four inches. It flew in through the sliding door and careened toward
>> the fluorescent light over the stove before it hit the raised stove lid and
>> thudded to the stove deck next to the burner, where it instantly caught
>> fire. Whatever it was it could fly about 35 miles per hour pre-ignition,
>> twice than when aflame. I was busier than a pair of jumper cables at a
>> trailer park funeral trying to catch it and get it out of the camper before
>> it flew into a pile of clothes or a roll of toilet paper, or worse as I
>> knew, my down sleeping bag. It burned for an amazingly long time, flying
>> out of the stove flame again and again and threatening to set fire to
>> everything it collided with in its fire-stoked death troes, with me being
>> about two moves behind it during the perilous half-minute of its life. It
>> came to an ironic final rest near the burner that literally started it all.
>> 
>> 
>> Jim