Wow, it is cold today. Mostly because we aren’t used to it. But even still, 8 degrees is cold to wake up to. I went running, as I always do Saturday morning, and my legs got so stiff and sluggish from the cold. I don’t think it got above about 12 all day, although it was nice and sunny. We worked in New Auburn and I made a big fire outside, burning scrap lumber, and that was nice and warm for a while. But I spent most of the time watching the fire from inside the house, since it got cool quickly as it burned down. I also did a lot of cleaning up and organizing and measuring spaces. Dad worked a bit on the heat runs that have to go under the dining room floor. I actually don’t know what else he did, but he kept busy.
The day began with bat-eradication. There had been two bats in the house all week. Dad described them as HUGE, but they looked so small and cute hanging up in a corner of the room this morning. Dad wanted to try to shoo them out of a door, but I suggested that they might be asleep and that maybe he could just catch them. Which he did. Quite easily. But one woke up just as he was tying up the bag outside and he said its wings spanned the entire width of the big black garbage bag. Hard to believe, but who am I to doubt my husband’s word? And it was biting the bag with an evil grimace on its face. Pretty gruesome, I guess. Glad I didn’t see it! But now we are rid of them and, hopefully, no more will find a way in.
Yikes! I’m glad they are gone now!
Ack! I would have locked myself in the car until the bat situation was taken care of!
The temperature has dropped here too. It’s the same temperature here today as it is in MN.
In all honesty, I had stayed away all week because of the bats, but since it was daylight, I really believed they would be sleeping, which they were. In the evenings when Don was down there, they were quite active. And I stayed far away!