In the summer, in my rural home, ladies would cover their heads, when bats swoop to catch the mosquitoes that the carbon dioxide of your body attracts.
I have an old home, the wood that bats are attracted to, like old barns, the wood is 100+ years old.
When I replaced windows, I had to go around and manually gather the bats and put them out before the new window. That was 2008. I bought a bat hotel for them. Never saw one since. One year, all our #bats disappeared.
@Susan60 In this case, not specifically environmental related, but likely spreading globally due to climate change. It's like Bird Flu. Once it hits, every bat gets it. It smothers them, wakes them early, they die. I've read up on it before. Any bats we had, died in one year from the virus, and they never recovered
@gparenti I only found out, because like everything else I learned since I retired, I had to know everything about it once I learned. I asked what made the simple bat house the bat-guy builds, different from a wooden bird house. He collects his supply wood from barns being torn down, the older the better. There's years of bat houses in just one beam
@Snowshadow I know, plus, they are super cute. Unlike bushy squirrels, NNM (No Names Mentioned) they are just a rat with a bushy tail, they will destroy your home if they get in, but they look cute, that's why we don't set rat traps for them LOL But Bats. They are like Spiders they harm nothing, they do good, and they are really cute. I miss them
@gparenti The house I had to put them out of, every time I pulled a window, has an A frame roof (very steep to shingle) and they got right up in th V peek and were hard to spot. In those old roofs, there's balls of dust bigger than bats. But they become active at dark. You can pick them up at noon and probably not wake them much
@That_One_Guy I was still up. I woke at midnight, fever broke again and I drenched the bed, so I got up , took a shower and listened to tunes until daylight, then I thought, I could get another hour, and just like that, I did. That doesn't happen often. Yesterday, in a 24 hour period, I had 2 x 5 hour sleeps. This sickness slowed me down and as I get better, so does my sleep.
@eshome it's very nice. I've not been out to test the temperature but if it's decent, maybe my wife and I can get a walk in today. I want to see if any mushrooms have popped up around here, Crocus sure have
@LALegault And an ordained Baptist minister said they shouldn't send aid, they should NUKE Gaza, they were all unworthy.
That's why you have Baptist on the same list as cults and hypocrites. There aren't any good Baptists, or they'd be offended and call him out. But they aren't
@LALegault I'm shocked at how stupid the world has become. Run by evil people in powerful places. Nothing they do is about the people they represent. They just want to live in peace. Bibi wants to kill everything that moves, they won't even be able to rebuild Gaza for anyone with the bombs and residue left behind. A barren land now
@HailSatan I've heard similar Idiomatic expressions like that.
When we need a pee, we might say, "I need to see a man about a horse" Those things don't translate well