The Bat Hunter

My husband and I were walking back to our house after a strenuous yet peaceful yoga session.  Our conversation ( borderline bicker over whose flamingo pose was stronger) was suddenly halted as we see our son racing from the house dressed ... peculiarly.  He was wearing sneakers, pajama bottoms, a hoodie, scarf, gloves and googles.  It is nighttime and about 80 degrees.  What the hell is going on?

My first reaction was that he was higher than a kite and we are going to have issues.  I yell out "What the hell is going on?"  So much for that calm serene yoga afterglow.  He screams that there is a giant bat in the house.  Interesting choice for bat fighting gear, but at least i don't have to worry about drugs tonight.

Apparently he was walking past the library and saw it fly by.  He ran upstairs, closed his bedroom door and suited up.  Called both our cells, which of course were not next to us in our yoga class, and then realized he had to act.  Not wanting us to enter the house and be attacked,  he left his room, past the crazy flying monster, grabbed the dog and went outside.

When we got into the house, the bat was going crazy racing from upstairs to down and back again.  My husband trapped him in our son's room.  Our son was behind the door outside the room asking for the play by play.  Just then I hear a little girl screech...no that was my teenage son after seeing the bar squeeze under his door and pass his feet.

Over an 1 hour of chasing, screaming and me hiding, the bat was lead out the kitchen door.  He was the largest bat I had ever seen with what had to be a 2 foot wing span.  This is our first and hopefully last visitor of the season.  Back to Home Depot to get a new low pitch audio device to keep them out!

I only wish I had a photo of my son the BAT HUNTER.  Later that night, our "fearless" bat hunter was searching for rabies symptoms sure that somehow that bat bit him without his knowledge.

Nieces and Nephews

My sister and her kids came into town this weekend and it was two days of full family.  Starting at my mom's house all 20 or so of use had a bbq.  This involved lots of eating, drinking and laughing while the kids ran around with squirt guns, frisbees and lacrosse sticks.

The kids range in age from the youngest Helana at 3 to the oldest my baby at 14.  They played together marvelously.

Then my brother offered to take all the kids for a sleepover at his place.  Trampoline, swimming, late movies and more laughter.  Sunday was my turn. Bring the group to Elmwood to walk, shop and once again eat.  The kids played in the hot tub and ran through all three floors of the house.  It was awesome to see all the cousins enjoying each other so much.

Not forgetting the adults, we spent the time discussing everything from teacher salaries, past indiscretions, kid issues to our futures.  My family may make me crazy on a fairly regular basis but I realize how fortunate I am to have them as a support network and balancing foundation.

Check out these beauties!

Email Virus

Woke up this morning to find that some medical company worm got into my hotmail account and sent ALL my contacts a bogus email regarding pharmaceuticals.   So now I am getting emails from people I have not spoke to in years, asking what the hell I am doing.

I subscribed to this email account back when email first started.  Seriously.  I have used it for something like 20 years.  I have every parent in my son's class in that list,  every person I  worked with or for, every board member from every board I have served on and all my friends and family.  I am so completely embarrassed by this.

Now I will need to cancel my account and create a new one.  Big Giant Pain In the A$%.

If you received such a link from me, I am very sorry and have no idea what happened.