A little note about bats :)

There’s a bat in the house!

After my rather somber letter yesterday, I thought it would follow it up with a new short letter that features a funny memory, which I was reminded of this morning.

Joshua and I were over your house playing outside with Phoebe.  I was going inside to get a tissue and the garage door opened… Dad stopped home to pick up something for work, and then he said “Do you know what’s in there?” [Pointing to a bucket container covered with a dark blanket].  I said “no, but I was curious”…”Well, it’s a bat we captured at work –I’m going to put him in my Bat House!”.  Of course I wonder if it’s a queen bat/female.  Maybe we can name her Alexis. :)  Dad might think that’s a little weird.  Naming the bat was a private thought.

Remember I bought Dad a Bat House for a Birthday gift several years ago and it’s hanging up on the side of the shed, but he has yet to have a bat occupy it.  We haven’t seen as many bats around as we used to.

The funny memory I thought of on the drive home was the evening many years ago that a bat somehow got inside the house from the outside/garage.  You were yelling and screaming for Dad to get it and you flew into your bedroom and closed the door, only cracking it a small amount to look out.  I ran into the foyer and closed the double doors.  And, Dad turned off all the lights, except the garage light to lure the bat back out.  After the bat left and we all came out, Dad and I continued to tease you saying things like “Look out there’s the Bat!”, or, “the bat is back!”  You would freak out screaming for a minute and we would cry laughing at your reaction.  You were worried the bat would get caught up in your hair.  hahahahaha :)

 

Dad wants to put his captured bat into the Bat House.  I’m not quite sure how he’s going to do that, but I hope the time has come for a new resident. 

I found a picture of Dad opening the Bat House gift, March, 2006.