Yes. I confess. I take naps. Protect yours because if I'm nearby, I might take yours too.
Hey, I didn't know this forum existed!
You're welcome to mine.
geee- i've missed so much- hi again thanks for the hellos and sorry to hear about all the flu going around.
Woo Hoo! Thanks Victor!
It's okay Sarah. Just post when you feel like it. If you try to read everything we yabber on about, you'll never get anything done.
yabber dabber doo!
Al yabbers in his doo.
Yes he do yabber.
OMG- I just spent the last ten minutes screaming- (i wish i had been yabbering) a bat was flying all around the living room... i kept thinking i was going to swoosh it away, and then somehow, i'd dive to the floor screaming before i found my senses to open the door-which was hard to do from that position- whew-
Wow - sounds like fun! They're friends of gardeners.
a better friend outside than in... what is it doing awake?? what's it going to eat out there?
They are nocturnal. Probably not much to eat - that's why he came looking for a handout!
i meant- its so cold out- that he should be hybernating- but maybe they migrate...i guess i don't know too much about bats-- but honestly, i consider my self a FRIEND OF BATS- we even have a bathouse.. its just when they are flying right for you.... I'll try harder next time (to be friendly) s.
Ha - just playing. My kids would have been screaming. I have a bathouse but they never used it.
It didn't touch you at all, did it Sarah?
noooo just a swoosh feeling above the head- what a silly thing- my daughter and i were in stitches too- its just funny how uncontrollable that scream is...like it will help (not)!
A friend of mine is neighbors with the girl who survived rabies a few years ago. She said that a bat barely brushed up against her and that's how she got it. She didn't even know until it was too late. She was a miracle.
Welcome Sarah!
Hello Mr. C!
wow! i'm glad she survived, what a terrible thing- this was a very healthy looking bat- graceful even.....and had its navigating wits about it- zoomed right out the door.
Cool, I use bat guano on my philodendrons, they love it! ☺
Here I am in Arizona complaining about the mid 80's heat already and along comes your beautiful picture of the snow and flowers, Mr_Crocosmia. I love daffodils and the picture of them coming thru the snow was so pretty!
Hi Everyone
Thanks for the welcomes
Wow, lots of new people arrived......................
Thanks quietyard, thank heavens the snow is disappearing fast now.
Mark
Mark - I don't think I have met you. I'm old - both on the forum and in age - so I welcome you to the Northeast forum!! I haven't been around much lately cause I'm a grandmother and my grandson takes all of my waking hours and when he's gone I'm exhausted. Glad you're with us!! (Just wish I was with us more!) Eleanor
Hi Mark!
Miss you Eleanor!
Good Morning Mark! I'm fine and yourself? The snow is not disappearing it's actually fallen from the sky at this moment. But it's too warm to stay, it will melt by noon and i'll be BBQing by 3!
Oh Sarah, I would be screaming louder than you! when I was a kid we lived in a house that had a star fruit tree and bats would be there all the time... one day, I decided to get some and a bat flew on me, dropped me out of the ladder and for some reason got stuck in my hair... PTSD for the rest of my life!!!!!
Then one day - 30 years later and in another country I walk into my olf office and a bat got inside of the building and ended up where? stuck in my office... I opened the door , this UFO comes flying at me, I screamed and run like crazy... needless to say my co-workers felt sorry for the bat and not for me... even the executive director came out of his office because of my scream... oh it was not funny!!!! ( I work at the old Avery Dennison Building in Framingham - a building that is soooooo old... and pigeons lived in the building until a year ago... the mice still around... )
Mark, welcome... I don't think I have met you either!!!
Eleonor! good to see you!!! I have not posted as much as I like it either... so I am fooling around right now at work!!!!! oh I am printing tons of documents today...
Quietyard, you had your spring already??? I am not ready for 80's... oh I hope it stays cool so my roses have a chance for a good spring flush!!!! well, come over here for some cool weather!!!!
Hi Kassia- and all other northeasterners plus one uk-er (but that is north east too- from here, anyway...) love the bat/ufo imagery- Also wanted to say that I'm sooo sad I can't come to the RU- I'd like to so much. Its Keene's garden tour day, and I help organize it. darn.. definitely do it again- ok?
I'm trying to finish my taxes- hmmm- that's why i have the computer on... i'm checking daves, playing free cell, answering emails... but taxes will get done!
I love playing free cell!
a good game! beats doing taxes any day..
Hi Grammyphoeb, Debilu and Kassia................. thank you for the welcome!!!
Pixie........... you will be out BBQing at 3...... it will be a while before we can do that!!!
Quoting:
A friend of mine is neighbors with the girl who survived rabies a few years ago. She said that a bat barely brushed up against her and that's how she got it. She didn't even know until it was too late. She was a miracle.
I know, Harper; I used to be scared of catching rabies from the bats who came out at dusk on our street. The statistics show that approximately 1 person per year in the US will die of rabies caught from an infected bat--not a high percentage, but still scary. Rabies can be transmitted through bat saliva getting into your eyes, nose, mouth, or a wound, if a bat is handled or touched, and that's probably how that girl caught it. Bats out in the daytime are much more apt to be infected, since sick bats do not behave normally, e.g. nocturnally.
The normal bats we have around here--little brown bats--can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour! That's why I have a bat-house!
Here's CDC info on bats and rabies. Bites are usually the cause. Other ways such as saliva getting directly into people are very rare.
http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/bats.html
what a miracle I had nothing when that stupid thing was in my hair!!!! gosh I want to scream just thinking about it!!!
Sarah, mostly likely we will do it again in the Fall... but please feel free to come over to see the roses whenever you are around here...
I used to go to Monadnock Bible Conference every may with my church when they had the women's retreat... no more retreats there... so sad! that's close to you right???
Yes Kassia, we have been having spring for quite a while here! Everything is blooming.
... I'd rather have the bats than the mosquitoes. ☺
Me too!! (I always liked Batgirl.)
You should get a batgirl house. ☺
I've been looking...
A few years back, we moved into a duplex in June. The house had no window screens, but it was so hot inside after moving in we left the windows open all night. The next morning, still half asleep, I spilled water making coffee and grabbed a hand towel to clean it up. Imagine the scream when I grabbed something warm and furry instead of the towel!! A bat had come in during the night and was hanging from the towel. I let out a scream the neighbors heard, and threw the whole thing into the empty sink. My now ex DH came and took it outside. I had nightmares for a while after that :))
Janis
Bats are wonderful for the garden. Aside from eating bugs, they are also pollinators of certain plants. Their poop (guano) is a great fertilizer and they're just cool!