it's a bird, it's a plane, its a WHAT?

Fun story... well, not for me, not yet anyways.

Friday night I was sitting at home solo (Dave was at work) and I heard a noise come from the stairs. It sounded like Jasper had fallen down the stairs, so I got up to check it out. Well, I look up the stairs, and Jasper is jumping up at something, and I just see a little flash of whatever it is, so I start to walk up the stairs, and then I see it. A bird. And I think what the heck, followed by "how the heck to a bird get into the house?" So, I open up the front door (the stairs are right by the front door) hoping the bird will find it's way out. I'm not exactly sure what happened next, but the bird ended up on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. So, I look at it, and it's not a bird. NOPE. It's a BAT! I kid you not. I obviously immediately went into freaked out mode. It was small, but still a bat. And it wasn't moving. I had absolutely NO idea what to do. So, until I could come up with something I ran to the kitchen, got a plastic cover to put over it. I didn't want that thing flying around the house. So, I covered it and then just stood there looking at it.

At this point, I called Dave at work, just to talk to someone and hopefully calm myself down. He was able to find some humor in it. good for him. so, he asked me if I needed him to come home, and I said, "no, I can scoot it outside, but I'll need to you finish getting rid of it when you get home in the morning." And while I'm talking to him I'm slowly scooting the plastic cover towards the door.

I get off the phone with Dave and still VERY slowly am scooting the cover... then... it comes back to life! aghhhhhh! I needed to put something on top of the cover, so I found a heavy bible close by (this also served as protection in case it was a vampire) :D

Then I called Dave back and asked him if he could come home. I was really almost in tears at this point... I don't like rodents. They freak me out. And I realized, I know nothing about bats... How many deaths in the US are caused by bat attacks? Would garlic kill it? :) So, yeah. Dave heads home and while he's on his way, I'm just staring at this poor bat trying to get out from the cover.

Anyways, Dave comes home and saves the day! Yeah. One of those moments when I'm so glad we live on post. We figured out (we think) how the bat got in. We have a smoke detector that the cover is currently off, and we're thinking it came through that way. So, yeah. That's my horrible story. I'm still a little freaked out by it. And it's not like you can spray for bats.... or can you? Hmm.

I'll just make a very fashionable garlic necklace, and bracelet, and earrings.... and ring... and .....