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[aroraborealis]

I woke up this morning to find the pocket doors to the living room closed. Normally, this indicates that someone has a guest sleeping on the couch. Today, there was a note on the door:

Fly problem:
SOLVED
[Beware of BAT]
-eveandodd

Comments

[folzgold.livejournal.com]

How ominous. :P

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

So.... what's the story???

[mr-privacy.livejournal.com]

roar's parents were murdered in front of her when she was very young. She fled to a tibetian monastary, where she learned an ancient form of martial arts, and is now using her fortune to fight crime throughout boston Gotham.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Or the bat came in the chimney, or through a window, or had gotten in weeks ago and just wasn't active. Who knows?

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Well, that's basically it. Apparently, we have a little flying mouse visiting :)

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Clearly, now that you have a bat, you need a belfry.

But, then, doesn't everyone need a belfry?

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

The Bat? Everyone knows that's an urban myth. There ain't no bat.

[sconstant.livejournal.com]

Heh. A few years ago, I noticed that there was a wooden dowel on one of the valences that we inheirited from the previous owners of our house. Weird, I thought, since valances don't open or close. Also since it hadn't been there the day before. Also it was breathing. We panicked, then knocked it into a bucket, slipped some cardboard over it, took it outside and let it go. It was unhappy during the whole process. We still don't know how it got in, and we haven't seen any since.

I went to work and told a friend of mine who lives out in the boonies. You'll never believe what happened! A bat! In the house! She was very blase. "So what's the unbelievable part?" Apparently, it's not that big a deal for her. She had some sheet technique - you hold up a sheet, capture the bat in the sheet, and bring him outside. I can ask her if you need advice.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Yes, if you have any advice on finding the little guy, that would be good.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

I'll show you my belfry!

Er. Wait...

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

YAAAAY bats!

[sconstant.livejournal.com]

Well, for us he was hanging on a valence, and my understanding is that's not unusual. Curtains, backs of sofas, houseplants, on hanging clothes - they like places they can hang, not be exposed, and take a breather. So look carefully at such places.

[ghislaine.livejournal.com]

heh!

You've heard about our bat experience upon waking the first morning at our new house in 1998, I think. :)

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

oh, see i would have figured that it meant:

"[beware of Big Angry Tarantulla]"

or something like that...