Hi Don!!!! If you like our stories, you will DEFINITELY like it here in "Uncle" Rick's virtual kitchen, were we talk about, well, hey cuz or rather "Uncle" Rick! Tell everyone new the rules of this list :o) Thanks! PLEASE share your stories!!!!! And, welcome to all the newcomers, or those who just came out of lurking :o) It's good to be a lurker at first, for those of you who were. Then you get to know the personality of the list, and can join in the fun, and we have FUN, FUN, FUN! :o) Lynn PS And, Richard Emlin Reed_I was picturing you jumping up, getting the cat, and hightailing it into the house :o) Don wrote: I just joined this list this evening, and so far I find it quite interesting. The stories of bats bring back memories. When we lived in Taiwan (I was military) I opened the back door one night and a bat flew in. He kept flying from back to front, and would not land anywhere. I asked the maid (no, we were not rich, a full-time maid cost $30.00 a month) to get a broom and I grabbed a mop. We tried to swat the bat, but it would fly around the mop and broom. Finally I went outside and got a board. I stood under where the bat was flying, and, after a few passes over my head, I waited until it got almost to me and quickly shoved the board up in front of the bat. It hit the board and then hit the floor. I was able then to pick it up in a towel and get it outside. I grew up in Castlewood (between New Castle and Ellwood City) in western PA. We now live in Arizona, just about a half mile from the edge of the desert, and we have lots of wild animal tales to share later.

Lynn says, "And, Richard Emlin Reed_I was picturing you jumping up, getting the cat, and hightailing it into the house :o)". More like staggering to my feet, clutching the cat, and stumbling into the house. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: "Don Churchfield" <dctrk@c2i2.com>; <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Animals in our homes! Yikes it was a bat!! > Hi Don!!!! > If you like our stories, you will DEFINITELY like it here in "Uncle" > Rick's virtual kitchen, were we talk about, well, hey cuz or rather > "Uncle" Rick! Tell everyone new the rules of this list :o) Thanks! > PLEASE share your stories!!!!! And, welcome to all the newcomers, or > those who just came out of lurking :o) It's good to be a lurker at first, > for those of you who were. Then you get to know the personality of the > list, and can join in the fun, and we have FUN, FUN, FUN! > :o) > Lynn > PS And, Richard Emlin Reed_I was picturing you jumping up, getting the > cat, and hightailing it into the house :o)