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Dear Reader,
Bats, bats, and more bats! Ever since last week's column about the Bat Dance and bat parties, my mailbox has been filled with "I remember when" bat stories. Enjoy the stories, watch the Bat Dance and enter today's "batty" book giveaway.
To read last week's bat column: http://tinyurl.com/2g9mon6
From my Bat Email Bag:
"Dear Suzanne, I was at a dinner party at a historical house in nearby Marion and just as we were getting ready to eat, a bat swooped through the dining room and into the living room! It circled through the house a few times until someone opened the front door, clapped their hands and the bat flew out. It worked! The dinner party was not quite as exciting after the bat left."--Martha T.
"Suzanne, you keep stirring up these memories. Years ago when we lived in the country, in a log home with a cathedral ceiling, our bedroom was located on the balcony. One evening after retiring we became aware of a bat flying around us. My husband, who was quite a tennis player at the time, grabbed one of his racquets and managed, after a few good swings, to make contact with the bat which landed on the floor below. (I remained in bed with the covers over my head, of course.) Since I wasn't sure it was dead and I certainly wasn't going to pick it up, I put a glass jar over the top of it, and told my daughter the next morning she could take it to her high school biology teacher."--Betty S.
"During WW II, I worked at the armory plant where they made bullets. It was out in the country and the high, lit, ceilings were full of bats and the men who kept the electricity going. Their biggest fun was catching bats. They got really good at it and really good at putting bats in lunches of designated gals, and watching at lunch time for the reaction--which was fast--and loud! Lots of rules were passed against it. Lots of rules were ignored. Every time I hear a bat story I think of that vast building full of machines and women workers and bats, and my goodness that was over sixty years ago!
Love your column"--Marion L.
"Our daughter was three when she woke up one night (in our lake cottage in Wisconsin) and kept saying 'birdies'--turned out to be a bat in her room. The ceiling was at least 15 feet high, so there was plenty of space for a bat to soar. Turns out there was more than one, 24 to be exact (after a bat-count), and my husband (in his pjs) ran around the living room until dawn swinging a tennis racket."--Anne S.
"Suzanne, my thought about the Bat Dance is...I think it calls for a video demonstrating the lovely moves."--Judie H.
I agreed with Judie, and so I asked my daughter-in-law's father to show us his Bat Dance moves. To enter today's "batty-book" giveaway and to see the Bat Dance go to: http://www.muffinsandmayhem.com/node/5233
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Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
www.MuffinsandMayhem.com
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