Day 26 -Bats

Did you know that a quiet weekend is never quiet, and that a bat found in the house in the morning is bad. Especially if you don't know when it came in. Apparently bats can bite you while you are asleep and you may not even know it. Apparently bats are one of the animals that routinely carry rabies. Apparently where I live there have been 6 animals identified with rabies in through April 2012. Fortunately the local emergency room has plenty of vaccine for it. Unfortunately it takes a lot of shots to get it done. Our Saturday started quite enough until my oldest said that we have a bird upstairs. Great. More of a pain to get out but nothing too dangerous. I go to investigate and decide it isn't a bird but a bat. I manage to isolate it to one room, which turns out to be the messiest room. I close all the other doors and have my wife google catching a live bat. I change into long sleaves and jeans, hat and leather clothes, and with a painting drop cloth in hand go on a bat hunt. I enter the room and can hear but can't see it. I start picking stuff up, shaking it out, open the door and throw it into the hall. I open the windows to allow it to fly out if necessary. Now I have to find it. I hear a scratching noise behind a painting. I moved the painting and saw it. I put the painting back, take a deep breath, and take the painting off the wall, hopping to shake the bat out the window. No such luck. It drops off onto the dresser. I throw the drop cloth over it but realize that the drop cloth is too big. I call out for somebody to get me a pillow slip. As it turns out they are all hiding in the basement. I tell my wife that it is safe to get me a pillow case. After getting the pillow case I return to the capture. I lift the drop cloth and the bat takes off across the room and lands under the dek behind a book. I move the book, throw the pillow case and it is caught. I pick it up and put in in a box outside. In the meantime we have called animal control for our township which is closed on the weekend and it is diverted to the police, who say do do nothing. We check with the kids pediotrian who at first says do nothing, but changes her mind ten minutes later and sends us to the emergency room. 5 hours in the emergency room, 23 shots later we are free to leave. I end up with 7 shots, my wife 5, the boys 4 each and my daughter 3. We have to go back 3 move times in the next 2 weeks to finish the remaining 3 shots. I'm not looking forward to the next quiet Saturday.

Hump in sales as Sydney gets camel burgers

Hump in sales as Sydney gets camel burgers

Day 2

Church - Sermon on being sorry and forgiveness. No baseball for the kids. Out There Outfitters -20% off sale. Black North Face Fleece and Black Padigona Jacket. Pool - Beautiful Day Devon Horse Show - Rode the Ferris Wheel twice with he linger too kids. Sat in the Chairman's box to watch a couple of events. Ate a chicken salad wrap which was just ok, and shared a small bottle of Pinot Grigio with the Mrs. It was bad although I did finish my half to a least remind me n to drink that brand again.