One morning I heard squeaking and chirping noises coming from this place:
What you are looking at is the light/fan above our toilet in our master bathroom.
I do not like hearing squeaking and chirping noises when I am in the bathroom (by myself!)
Then, after a few days, black dust began to sift out from the vents around the light, sprinkling the toilet and floor.
It turns out there are a family of bats living above our toilet.
This is creepy and I do not like this.
We called the bat man and he said there is nothing we can do about it until the baby bats grow up. He said to not turn on the the fan because it might kill the babies and then we would have bat carcasses and that would be worse than live bats, since baby bats eventually fly away and dead baby bats start to rot.
So basically we are raising bats in our bathroom. We are a bat nursery. Bat hatchery. Bat farm.
Sometimes if the light has been off in the bathroom and you turn it on you can hear them flutter around up there. Spooky.
The good thing is that the kids have stopped using the master bathroom.
This is how they get in and out--through the vent on the outside of our house:
After the baby bats grow up and can fly, the bat man will put a special door on this vent that will allow bats to fly out but not back in.
Until then we have to wait, and I have to keep brushing off the bat dust that lands on my toilet. Ew.
On a happier subject, if were standing there, looking up at this vent and you turned around you would see this:
My dragon garden.
We put a fence around it to keep out the deer and rabbits, turtles and moles, dogs and two-year-olds.
The pumpkins, cantaloupe, beans, squash are all doing well.
I had Syrena plant zinnias around the edges just for fun. I will plant more next time.
Look at my lettuce! We've had lots of lettuce already this summer and had enough to share with neighbors.
My corn is not as high as an elephant's eye, but it is as high as mine. I can even "toss the tassels." (Only those who have read my book will understand my little joke...)
Surprisingly I haven't had any insect problems yet in my garden....
...probably because there are a family of bats that live in my house.
