Exhausted

[juthwara]

Don't let her fool you - the angelic appearance is definitely a sham.

Updated pictures here.

And I may never sleep again now. I was just about to post this when the cats came rushing into the room, chasing a bat. It flew around in circles while I yelled for longstrider. longstrider, a long-time camper, handed me the baby and sent me to wait in the bedroom while he attempted to catch it. After chasing it for a while, he realized he had to wait for it to get tired and land since he's not quite agile enough to catch a bat mid-air. And so it landed.

And he couldn't find it.

He called me out of the bedroom after searching for a while, partly to see if the cats could find it. We wandered around for a while and resigned ourselves to waiting it out. I was heading back to my laptop when Olwen suddenly perked up and started pawing at the door of the back bedroom. We opened the door, telling her that there couldn't be anything in there as the door had been closed. And there was the bat, doing laps around the room.

longstrider captured and released the bat, so I may have a hope of getting to sleep tonight (btw coeli, you left your bathrobe here. It was used as a bat-capturing device. It is unharmed, but will be laundered before we return it to you). But now we're left with the conundrum of how it got into a closed room. I had briefly opened the door when we were looking around earlier, so it could have decided to fly over us unseen, but that seems unlikely. Even more unlikely is that it decided to squeeze under the approximately 1 cm crack under the door. Could it be a radioactive super-bat that has teleportation powers? It seems the only reasonable explanation.

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[coeli.livejournal.com]

Ha, I had just realized that I'd left my bathrobe. (I only use that one for travel, so I didn't miss it right away. I'm glad it came in handy!

Thankfully, it's been a good long time since our cats had anything more exciting than moths or Junebugs to chase.