Since I posted about the fireflies on Friday, going out and dancing with them after we are all ready for bed has become part of our nightly routine.
Until…..
Tonight Eric was watching them dance with the fireflies from the living room window and I was ….hmm, what was I doing? Probably folding laundry. I do that a lot. Anyway, next thing I know, I hear Eric saying rather loudly, “BATS” and he rushes to the back door telling the girls to come inside rather quickly. What the heck? Well apparently someone tipped the bats off about the fireflies dancing in our yard, and they were swooping all around the yard! Skimming the pool, darting about the yard, grabbing the bugs! Eric says that bats will bump into you and think you are food and bite you, so he didn’t want the girls dancing with the bats…..
maybe our nightly routine of dancing with the fireflies has come to an end?
YIKES!
I had a bat appear in one of my classrooms one time. It was terrifying! It was swooping down on my students. One brave guy chased it out the door and slammed the door shut. (It was a huge classroom with high vaulted ceilings and a projection system, where I guess the bats lived). Still scary!
I want to see bats! We have a vacant bat box.