Batman Returns

So, the animal control guy returned (finally) to check things out. We haven't seen our friend in a few days now...so we're assuming he's gone (either flew out the open window or dead somewhere inside the house...still waiting for Malcolm to find it and pick it up).

ACG (animal control guy) checks both fireplaces (which involved having to move lots of toy bins). They're locked up tight.

He checks the attic. No sign of bats.

So maybe this was a one time fluke thing.

He starts looking on the outside of the house. Apparently these little fuckers can get in between siding, shingles, etc. So ACG shines a flashlight all the way up the side of the house into a space at the very corner at the roof line (you have to be standing right up against the house to see it). He points out three dark spots. To me they look like knots in plywood...until he gets his binoculars and we look "closer" and one of those knots has moved about three feet away.

We got bats in our belfry ;-)

There are a few other spots outside the house that also show signs of bats. ACG guestimates we have 10 to 15. Natasha hears this and I can tell I'm going to be late for rehearsal because she's already freaking out (she'd rather we had rattle snakes...she can handle any animal but bats).

ACG then tells us that 10 to 15 isn't a problem. He just went to a house where bats had gotten under the siding and you could hear them in daytime. He said it was like that wall of the house was alive. He figures there were about a thousand or so when they were done cleaning the bats out (which sounds like it should involve a giant vacuum, but is actually much more humane).

So it looks like we're shelling out money to get rid of our dozen or so guests (this is in addition to new tires on the Quest...which we just discovered we were sold a bill of goods on with "run flat tires"...I'll get into that some other time)...this way maybe people will get back to sleep around here. But I kind of doubt it.

Next time...a theater update...haven't done one in a while and there's a LOT going on.

Be seeing you.