Hi everyone
Finally home, sitting on the couch with my feet up. Sounds like everyone has been busy...hope you're taking care of yourself Incubus...that sounds very painful.
Scoote is right, I have a crazy story...
My mother is terrified of bats...and lives in a big old farmhouse in the country. I woke up early this morning and went downstairs to use the bathroom...only to see a sheet wadded up along the bottom of the door and a sticky note on the door that said "Do Not Open Bat Inside."
Went to find my mother...who told me that the bat had gotten inside about 2 a.m. and she had trapped it in the bathroom and, rather than open the window and let him find his way outside, sprayed the room full of Raid bug killer. She said the bat was in the shower, laying on the floor...and was waiting until a decent hour to call the man down the road to come remove him.
I offered to take care of it for her (cuz I'm not terribly worried about bats). So...I tiptoe into the bathroom and find a tiny brown bat huddled on the floor of the shower...about as big as a mouse with wings.
I folded up a hand towel, tossed it over him and scooped it under so I didn't have to touch him...walked down the road and went to toss him into the grass. Well...he wasn't dead, and grabbed onto the towel so his wings were spread out, but he wasn't moving. I laid the towel on the grass in the shade, just in case he could make his way to a safe spot. Meanwhile, my mother is halfway up the road jumping and shrieking.
Well...at breakfast I hear the whole story...evidently there were 2 bats that got inside. One found its way out the door, but the other got trapped in the bathroom with her and she sprayed him, put the sheet and the sign on the door....and then went out and spent the rest of the night in her car...leaving my son asleep on the couch and me asleep upstairs.
Yes, that's my mama.
I went back to check on him later, and he was gone...hope she didn't poison him completely. Poor thing was probably just looking for a mosquito snack
