Odes to bats
Can be complex
The bat that came daily
And seemed like a friend
I'm trying to write an ode but I'm drawing a blank. My Bat Is Dead!!!!! Why did it have to die?
I liked that bat. It came by every day when the bats were in town and gorged it's little bat self on the bugs in my back yard. There were two, when I first moved in. Lately only one.
I guess 9 years would be a long life. I don't know for sure. I've never looked up how long they live. I think the other one died when I was fumigating my shed. It had tucked itself up under the siding for the day. Not pretty at all. I still feel guilty about that. Now this one.
I put the little body in my dead tree stump. That way it will be recycled by the bugs that live there that are in turn eaten by the pileated woodpecker and the midnight varmints. The cycle of life.
I'm just so sad. I was going to sit out tonight and watch it fly about like a demented ping pong ball. I think I will, anyway. In tribute.
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Gerald, that's horrible! Why does it seem that there are so many viruses these days?
On the first day of school, at the all faculty meeting, a bat flew in (in the morning of all times, we must have woke him up from the rafters).
I learned all I needed to know about the faculty, based on which ones were yelling "KILL IT" vs the rest of us "OPEN A DAMN WINDOW."
I'm sure your bats made baby bats and they will come to visit.
They fly here every evening, and many of them.
Not that big though. Closer to a hummingbird than a crow.
In fact, it's bat-thirty just about now so byeee
Mark, I'm going to try it, and I'll get some really good fertilizer that way, too. Always practical...
I'm really sad for you, and glad you put him in the stump. My little covey of quail haven't come at all this year and I guess they're gone, I miss them terribly. I'd be even more sad if I found their bodies.
I get lots of bats in my back yard every evening around dusk, but I never have got to know any of them personally. RIP, Phyllis's bat friend.
Rated.
Kim, was it Ole Bess? Still cleaning out the cheese sauce, probably.
Rita, I was surprised at how sad I was. None showed up last night.
Cupcake, you should get to know them. It's pretty r ewarding. Although they never stop to chat.
Scylla, they do get a bad rep. Personally I like anything that eats bugs.
cc, I've never known anyone who got wheed on by a bat. Cool, but I guess that ended the festivities for the night.
Keri, no white nose.
V, that's funny. Of course, you'd never seen them before. Did you stay out to watch?
Sirenita, that's what they look like, to me. I've been pondering a bird's life for a while now. Very attractive.
Jonathan, nothing is cute with rabies.
shit.
i will tell you a story to cheer u up.
dont repeat it!
i was in a relationship., and we were doing what couples do.
in the boudoir.
as we were revving up, a bat flew in.
it found a landing spot in the curtain.
it dropped to the floor.
our kitty was under the bed, watching us, as usual,
and the bat crawled by her.
she was utterly flummoxed! frozen! some protector............
the bat was colllected up, we two humans rather
uh, nude,
and the bat was thrown out the nearest window
and we laughed
and
then..
I do not have fireflies here.Speaking of fireflies, Jeff Howe wrote a gorgeous piece about them that I nominated for an RP.
Have a wonderful weekend, Phyllis!
James, lips are sealed.
Emily, did you know that ccdarling also lives in Austin?