Thing best done while your wife is asleep

[mk162]

Bat removal.  And not a baseball bat.  I come up stairs from the basement from doing the laundry and I notice a bird in the house.  Then it dawns on me that it's a bat.  So I am trying to get it outside without killing it for around 45 minutes.  We have 20 foot cielings that are cedar lined, so this thing is hiding really well.  I dig out the extendable pole and a very soft head and poke around.  I couldn't get him to fly out the doors I have open so I call my dad and ask what to do.  He says...tennis racquet.  So I grab my brand new Volkl racquet since it is headlight and very maneuverable and go hunting.  I couldn't find him for the last few minutes so I am poking around in the drapes.  I push on an IKEA bag and hear some rustling.  I throw a garbage bag over that and a towel over that and haul it all outside.  I unwrap it and a little tiny bat crawls out, crawls around a bit and then takes off.  ALL of this is while my wife is sleeping on the couch in the same room he's in.  Crazy.  But I got him out..alive and able to kill some skeeters outside the house.

It might not be a snake, but it scared the crap out of me...no what I need at almost midnight.

[Fresh Baked Printing]

We've had a few bats in our house and umm...it's my wife who has the courage to go after 'em.
The city actually came out and retrieved and tested the trapped bats for rabies. Negative BTW.
And not to castrate myself too much, while I'm deathly afraid of any snake, snakes don't bother my wife in the least.

[terryei]

Let me get this straight.
The Mrs was sleeping and you were doing the laundry....
What a guy.
OH
good job on the bat, they eat a lot of skeeters.
Terry

[mk162]

If I want my clothes done, I better do them.  And I had tennis tonight and there wasn't a dry spot on me.  I didn't want those hanging around too long.

I wasn't afraid of the bat once I realized what it was.  I am debating when to break the news to her.  I am glad he got out alive, I didn't want to kill him...but at least the weapon of choice was the perfect selection....I didn't grab my wife's racquet since she probably would have never picked it up again.

I also debated using the old Wilson Pro Staff that Sampras used.  I can inflict some damage with that...even with the broken frame.

[Shawn (EIP)]

We had a bat get caught in a box fan we stick in our window along the side of the bed. 3 am clunk clunk WTF was that? Next morning we found a 1 winged bat. I hear that their teeth are so sharp they could bite you without you knowing.

[Shawn (EIP)]

Top 10 things best done while your wife is asleep...

1. tugging the bishop
2. snacking
3. looking at ta ta's on the interwebs
4. counting and hiding your cash money
5. that's all I have so far...   

 

[brandon]

Top 10 things best done while your wife is asleep...

1. tugging the bishop
2. snacking
3. looking at ta ta's on the interwebs
4. counting and hiding your cash money
5. that's all I have so far...

Hahahah! Number 4 all the way. You have to love bands before they hit the bigtime and then have managers, promoters, and labels representing them so everything HAS to be on the books. But before then its "do you guys take cash, man?"

[mk162]

Well, he almost got a tennis racquet to the face.  But I figured he couldn't get me tucked inside a wrinkled IKEA bag, garbage bag and a towel.

You'd think opening the back and front door would be enough for him to find and get through.  After all the crickets were going crazy last night.  That might have been reverberating off the walls though.

[inkman996]

I removed many from my old house in upper tier PA. After going the route you did several times and chasing them all over the damn place I finally just slipped on some heavy duty work gloves and snatch them off the wall or wherever they are roosting much easier.

[Homer]

this. . . is. . . .epic:

He's on My Face! Scene - The Great Outdoors Movie (1988) - HD

[mk162]

That is all I could think about last night.  Man, what a great movie.

[Homer]

your wife falls asleep, house is fine. . . she wakes up -the lamps are destroyed, fridge is upside down, curtains are on fire, carpets are ripped up, windows are broken and your wearing a garbage can on your head sweating like a pig. . .I would love to be a fly on the wall for that explanation. . .

[whitewater]

When I started printing in a basement I had some in the basement..always flying around...I could not stand them!

When I was in Idaho rafting we were driving at night going to another river to run and we had the raft frames up on the roof and the next morning we woke up and pulled the frames down and there was a bat stuck to one of the frames..pretty dead...I thought they were faster than that..

[mk162]

you'd be surprised, it was hard to get him down from the high ceilings.  He wanted to hang up there even though I was shooting rubber bands at him and throwing wine corks.  I know, it was what I had handy.

I opened the doors and the house got hot and humid fast.  I was sweating like a pig.  Actually, I did go in the bathroom and call my dad since I didn't want to wake her up, I could only imagine how awkward that would be..."why are you in the bathroom talking softly on your phone..and why are you all sweaty?"

[whitewater]

 

you'd be surprised, it was hard to get him down from the high ceilings.  He wanted to hang up there even though I was shooting rubber bands at him and throwing wine corks.  I know, it was what I had handy.

I opened the doors and the house got hot and humid fast.  I was sweating like a pig.  Actually, I did go in the bathroom and call my dad since I didn't want to wake her up, I could only imagine how awkward that would be..."why are you in the bathroom talking softly on your phone..and why are you all sweaty?"