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Jan. 4th, 2003 03:20 amthis picture shocks me with its depth. i get very very quiet at the thought of all those galaxies out way past Coma Berenices. So many possibilities for solar systems, for other worlds. So vast.
Jan. 4th, 2003
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Jan. 4th, 2003 06:57 pmboy rescued a bat today. we think it was an eastern red bat, but we're not sure.
he was walking down the driveway when he saw it on the ground. he thought it was dead, so he nudged it with his foot. it spread its wings and grimaced. "uh oh."
he ran back to the house and started calling vets, got an emergency vet number, called that, and they gave him the number for The Wildlife Center of Virginia. the nice lady there told him what to do. when i woke up, he showed me the bat and asked how far waynesboro was. i told him it was less than an hour, just over the mountain.
so off we went. he had the bat resting in a box (the tomcat mouse trap box, oddly enough) with paper towels for bedding. i closed the box and put it beside me in the car, under my cloak.
okay, warmth + darkness = awake bat. awake bat + box = scared bat. it started scratching. i felt horrible--i didn't want it to hurt itself (we were halfway to waynesboro), so i crooned to it and lifted the box so it was in the sun (it was still cool). the bat calmed down in the light.
the wildlife sanctuary is the only wildlife hospital in virginia. how luck that we live so close by! they took the bat and gave us a reference number. i made boy put money in their donation box, then i took his wallet and put in more.
on the way home, we wanted to stop by 20-minute cliffs, but the BR parkway was closed due to snow and ice... i could see ice and snow on the peaks of the higher mountains, but i figured the roadway would be clear right now, seeing as how it was WARM for so long.
we stopped in charlottesville at whole foods for potatoes and other things. came home, and made potato-leek-broccoli au gratin. yum.
now, i should call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xiane and see if i can come visit.
i hope the little bat was only suffering from exposure (it was warm yesterday, but a COLD COLD front moved through just after dusk, so all the bugs went bye bye... i have a feeling the bat woke up, went hunting, and got hungry and tired). i hope it's not deathly ill or evil or something, but that's pretty likely, since a well bat wouldn't have collapsed on our driveway. of course, it was well enough to get pissy once it was warm.
he was walking down the driveway when he saw it on the ground. he thought it was dead, so he nudged it with his foot. it spread its wings and grimaced. "uh oh."
he ran back to the house and started calling vets, got an emergency vet number, called that, and they gave him the number for The Wildlife Center of Virginia. the nice lady there told him what to do. when i woke up, he showed me the bat and asked how far waynesboro was. i told him it was less than an hour, just over the mountain.
so off we went. he had the bat resting in a box (the tomcat mouse trap box, oddly enough) with paper towels for bedding. i closed the box and put it beside me in the car, under my cloak.
okay, warmth + darkness = awake bat. awake bat + box = scared bat. it started scratching. i felt horrible--i didn't want it to hurt itself (we were halfway to waynesboro), so i crooned to it and lifted the box so it was in the sun (it was still cool). the bat calmed down in the light.
the wildlife sanctuary is the only wildlife hospital in virginia. how luck that we live so close by! they took the bat and gave us a reference number. i made boy put money in their donation box, then i took his wallet and put in more.
on the way home, we wanted to stop by 20-minute cliffs, but the BR parkway was closed due to snow and ice... i could see ice and snow on the peaks of the higher mountains, but i figured the roadway would be clear right now, seeing as how it was WARM for so long.
we stopped in charlottesville at whole foods for potatoes and other things. came home, and made potato-leek-broccoli au gratin. yum.
now, i should call
xiane and see if i can come visit. i hope the little bat was only suffering from exposure (it was warm yesterday, but a COLD COLD front moved through just after dusk, so all the bugs went bye bye... i have a feeling the bat woke up, went hunting, and got hungry and tired). i hope it's not deathly ill or evil or something, but that's pretty likely, since a well bat wouldn't have collapsed on our driveway. of course, it was well enough to get pissy once it was warm.
