The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and every atom of my being was on high alert. There was something inside my washing machine making a noise. Not just any noise but a kind of organic yet electric circuit shorting out kind of noise,
I carefully opened the lid of the washer with a piece of 2x4. Clinging to the side of the washer bin was a bat!
I dont know how she got in there but she had to go. I got a plastic, see-thru cup and sheet of cardboard from the kitchen and carefully fit it over her. Slipping the cardboard between bat and washer I trapped her and walked her over to the basement door to freedom.
Bats are good and a necessary part of our ecosystem and dont deserve to be washed away with my damn dirty bluejeans.
I'll be posting more aural descriptions of this event in a few minutes.
This was not the first bat to find its way into my basement. More to come...
