Well it was a beautiful morning with cool(almost cold)temp, Nancy had sweats and a flannel. After our quiet time and once again no deer damage we settled down to a good breakfast of buckwheat pancakes(with a banana in the batter). YUMM!!!!We got a load of clothes in the washer and I got ready to stuff some steel wool into the edge of our tin roof.
Its amazing how such a large looking creature(bat in flight) can get its body into such a small space. Bats can squeeze into a space between a 1/4" to 1/2" width crack. I first held a bug fogger in the crack hoping to flush them out but to no avail so I plugged the crack line. Well tonight after the sun went down I could hear the bats crawing around inside the roof and they crawled completely across the roof and exited the roof cap. I got the ladder out and Nancy held the flashlight while I plugged the roof cap hoping they won't be able to re-enter the crack in the morning. Last year I plugged all the seams in the roof with canned foam. Rat and Audiene are also having trouble with bats in their roof.
We had a great hike and on our way ran into John and Shirley with their grandaughter and a friend. We also met an older couple Leo and Wanda Hardy from Elkin who were out looking for their property located above our's. They had managed to get their car up the washed out and grown over road leading to the top. I told him to blow his horn 3 times if he was unable to get it back down. He wanted no help at all even those they both were very elderly.
We had to go to Cornerstone to take orders for the Angelfood Ministry at 3PM so we decided to eat our large meal at 1:30PM and just have a snack when we got home at 6:30. Nancy fixed oven spuds, brocolli, salad and leftover brats. We had a home grown tomato(Eddie and Kimberly grew)sandwich for supper. Thank guys it was delicious.
Well after supper we worked in the yard, Nancy pulled more grass from around the fire circle and I watered and weeded in the garden and kept a lookout for those bats. Finally we spotted them exiting the roof at dark. Later missing our family and grand kids, Ava and Annsley.
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I want some of these pancakes your always talking about when ya'll get back down here. Every time you blog about them my mouth waters! I gotta have them
Jerry, watch out for those Vampire Bats.
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