Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Moving


We received ginger snaps from one kind new neighbor and now this from another--strawberries from their garden! What a sweet gift!

Other new neighbors include ants in our living room, a lizard on our sun porch (what?! we live in the North!), and now a bat in our basement. Sigh.

7 comments:

Miss Self-Important said...

Lizards are better than squirrels though. This is an argument for a cat. Our cat has "eaten" all these creatures when they've been found in our home. (Actually, he brutalized them until they gave up on life. But kind of the same thing.)

Emily Hale said...

Ah, we are allergic. But I don't find living with one animal to get rid of others to be a good bargain, anyway.

Although to get rid of a bat, it would be tempting. I think I heard the bat in the middle of the night in the boys' room, so I moved them out, geared myself up, and took a look in the closet (it wasn't there). Then it took a while to clear out the adrenaline and fall back asleep. One tired mama today.

Emily Hale said...

(I think it's in the wall. Or that I'm having trouble connecting with reality. Not sure which.)

Miss Self-Important said...

The sad thing is that bats are very cute little mammals, like winged mice, but truly scary when they're infesting your home.

Emily Hale said...

Or when you discover their presence because they're flying at you! So scary that I have no concept of size. (Same with a mouse we discovered at our other place--I saw it out of the corner of my eye and assumed it was either an enormous mouse or a rat. It was a tiny mouse.) But yes, things inside become far less cute than they would be at say a zoo. Although I feel like if I encountered a monkey in my house I would still find it cute. But maybe not. One jumped on me in Gibraltar and peed on me and I didn't even mind! Maybe because it looks a bit more like a person? Anyway, this is just a ramble.

Miss Self-Important said...

I hope you do not find a monkey in your house.

Emily Hale said...

:)