Oh my gosh!
It’s the middle of February. In Iowa. There is a foot of snow on the ground. It has been "unseasonably" cold for weeks now, or so I’m told. (This is not a great "first year experience" for those of us who have just moved to Iowa.)
A fly has suddenly appeared on the lampshade in my study, not four feet from where I’m sitting. Out of nowhere I tell ya.
What could this possibly mean?
~ Connie
Planet of the Blind 
Global warming? Got too hot in summer?
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Well, I called my friend Poindexter, who is an etymologist and not an insect specialist but he knows all about flies in winter because he used to live in a trailer park in the upper peninsula of Michigan with Pee Wee Herman right next door. Poindexter sez that a mutant fly in winter means that your next door neighbors are “up to no good”–“It’s Science gone awry in your neighbor’s bath tub, I’m sure of it!” I simply add here that Poindexter is never wrong about these things. He isn’t however much of a fashion guru.
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Or in our case it might mean the dog’s poop we scooped didn’t go out with the rest of the trash and sat around too long. But in this instance, neither scenario is the case.
I could claim that I think it’s an omen. “Worst winter in years (in Iowa) leads to coldest, wettest summer ever in recorded history”…
but I’m choosing to be optimistic. Perhaps a mutant fly on the lampshade in February means there are only three more weeks of winter!
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In my house it would mean the trash in the garage was rotting.
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