GOING BATTY

6-7-2011
James possibly wishes he didn't live so close to Mom, though I don"t know what I would have done without him this last year. Yesterday was no exception. He worked hard all day: putting a new (from the old kitchen counter top) desktop on my computer desk so I have more and better space to work in, put a new handle on my front screen door (the old one litterally broke in two!), installed a scanner that works, then did some work on some programs on the computer. I did get him to stop and eat. Before he headed for home he jokingly asked if there was anything else he could do for me and I said that I didn't think so. About 11 o'clock I thought I saw something move in the kitchen and went to investigate then put in a call to James and asked him if he could do one more thing for me and he said "Yes, what was it?" When I said there was a bird or bat flying around the downstairs he said "Get out of here!" To which I said that I hoped it would! He came over and of course it wasn't in evidence then. We flipped on lights and looked until he finally saw it resting and hiding on the wire tomato cage that my big vining philo(?) plant climbs on. When his hand got too close it took off, flitting this way and that throughout the downstairs while we laughed and tried to catch it. I didn't want to try and chase it out the front door for fear it would go upstairs (nightmare) and if we opened the back door Poocharoo would want to come and join the chase! We chased that bat for about a half hour and James finally caught it by fashioning a net out of a dish towel clothespinned to a wire coathanger! He ran for the door with it while I held it open. It didn't take it long to fly away! We had a good laugh before we said good night again. Another thrilling bit of nightlife in Kansas!