1. Of Mice & Bats
From the Frontier
By Glenda Stoldt
My sister's cat brought me a present in the form of a live mouse and left it under my bed. I’ve been trying
to find it and let it out for 3 days. It's been eating at the rubber seal under both the front and back doors,
so I left the front and back doors cracked open all night long. I thought for sure it had escaped. No such
luck, I found the little bugger in my washing machine this morning all snuggled down in my clothes. Sister
came over, plucked it from the clothes for me and put it outside. Her cat is out there torturing it as I type.
Night before last I get a call over the two-way radio (no telephone lines out here) from my sister in a panic
- there's a bat in her house and it’s hanging from the trim along the ceiling. So I went over and got her
broom to guide it outside. Sister got a towel and was waving it around when she wasn't covering her head
with it and screaming. I was laughing so hard! I finally got the bat out after chasing it around for 5 minutes.
More fun to follow, I'm sure.