April 25 2005
So, Sunday night I was relaxing in the living room, with all
of the lights off, laying on the couch and watching Dawson's
Creek DVD's. All of a sudden, I see Charlie go FLYING through
the air! Obviously he is chasing some sort of creature, but
I can't tell what. He is RILED UP. Then I glance towards the
ceiling and in the light of the television, I see a dark shadow
swooping around and around! I think to myself? "Butterfly?
Birdie? Yeah right. BAT! EEK!" So I ducked under the blanket
and prayed it wouldn't land on me.
Adam was in his studio, which is relatively soundproof, mixing
music rather loudly. I yelled "ADAAAAM????" But he couldn't
hear me, so I pounded on the wall. "ADAM!!!!!!!" He opened
the door and said, "What?" I said "THERE'S A BAT!" And he was
like "Ahhh! Get on the floor and crawl to the bedroom and shut
the door!!!" So I did that. But I couldn't stay in there for
long because I was dying of curiousity. I actually think bats
are pretty cool. I took a bat class once in Project Challenge
when I was little, and I got to pet one! As long as they're
sitting still, they're cute. Like little hamsters with wings!
You know, like a pegasus! Except a hamster instead of a horsie!
Right? Anyway. When they are flying around super fast with
seeminly no direction in mind, they are not quite as cute.
After awhile, it swooped down the basement stairs and perched
on the wall overhanging the staircase. Adam took this opportunity
to run around and open all the windows up wide in the hopes
that the bat would swoop out one of them. Right as he was done
opening them, the bat took off again. Adam ducked and I dove
between the open dishwasher and the counter, and huddled in
that little area. The bat flew AROUND AND AROUND for ever and
then finally disappeared again. We both thought it went back
downstairs, but from our angles we couldnt' really tell.
Eventually we went downstairs and looked all over for it,
quite carefully in case it swooped back out at us. After lots
of searching, we gave up. The bat MUST have flown out the window.
Whew. We could sleep peacefully. I don't want rabies, man!
So today I come home from work and Scott is over. He says,
"I heard you had a little bat problem!" I was like "oh, haha!
yeah!" and he says, "It's still here." I was like "WHAT?!"
and it WAS! It was perched up on that wall above the staircase
again! It never left! We slept all night with a bat just hanging
out down there! I'm not THAT afraid of it, but I was really
terrified that the kitties would attack it and get sick! So
Adam called Dad to see if he had any good tools and he sent
over Elliot with some long nets.
Adam used a small net to knock the bat down from where it
was perched sleeping into the bigger net. It grasped onto the
wall pretty hard and screeched and screeched! Finally it fell
into the net, and Adam tried to set it free out the window,
but it was stuck.
He shook it out, but it grasped onto the net. Elliot went outside
to grab the other end of the net. After awhile, the bat was
calm enough that it took off and flew away.
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