[Magdalen] Thanksgivings Past.

[James Handsfield]

Good idea, but it takes a couple of years before the bats will occupy it. 

Jim Handsfield 
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> On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Judy, I wonder if you've considered putting up a couple of bat houses outside near the eaves? They'd probably prefer that, since they could pack in tightly there and be warmer.
> 
> On November 30, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To head back to the original topic, Thanksgiving remembrances, for several
> years our family was to big for our house, so we borrowed the church parish
> hall, had Thanksgiving dinner there and invited friends.  Twice that
> celebration was interrupted by bats.  Once my son John caught a bat in his
> jacket and ushered it outside.  The parish has consulted an exterminator.
> He reports that unless we close every opening in the church, even very
> small ones, the bats will return.
> 
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I like our blacksnakes. They hang around the workshop mostly but
>> occasionally I see them on or around the porch. Now and then we startle one
>> another. As long as they eat mice and stay outside, we're cool.
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 11/30/2014 2:34:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com writes:
>>> 
>>> "there  are no bats in this church", >>>>
>>> 
>>> There have been several epidemics of the fungal disease that
>>> mimics tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, in groups that have participated
>>> in bat guano removal from church attics and steeples --- a true
>>> "Bats in the Belfry" situation.
>>> 
>>> A fair proportion of USA Midwesterners test positive for endemic
>>> exposure to histoplasmosis fungi.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David S.
>>> 
>> 
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> 
> -- 
> Judy Fleener, ObJN
> Western Michigan