Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 74
30th May 2020
It was a good day for working on the garden.
I needed more mulch to continue covering the flower beds, so a trip to Menards was on the cards.
With my list and mask we headed off.
Whilst I was there I wanted to get another pack of solar lights for the front of the house.
We worked our way around the store keeping away from other shoppers, most of which I’d stay away from even without a mask.
Kelli picked up things on the way that she always does whenever we get to the store.
She wanted to get a few plants for her mother’s garden, I scurried off to get my mulch.
When I got to the racks everything was gone, every colour, every size had been taken.
I looked up in disbelief as these racks reach to heaven, not even the split bags that nobody wants were gone, I was so disappointed.
We drove back home with our measly purchases, Kelli had an appointment to cut her mother’s hair, so she collected up the implements needed, including some old sheep shears and a scythe and went off.
Left to my own devices I did a couple of jobs before tackling the front lawn.
I was encouraged to see some new grass coming through, so I had to be careful.
Kelli came back, so we got ready for a bike ride. It was a bit cooler than the past couple of days that required long sleeves.
As we were on our return leg of our ride, Kelli spotted something in the road that turned out to be a bat.
We spent many minutes trying to coax it on the nearby lawn, with no success. Of course we didn’t bring our bat retrieval kit, so we had to make do with a stick, which didn’t work.
In the end we used my cap to cover it and try to move it. This worked really well, so well that it didn’t want to let go. It must have thought that it smelt like a musty loft, which is exactly what my head smells like most of the time.
Faced with a bat gripping my hat like it was mating with it, we decided to wrap it in the cap and carry it home in Kelli’s bike basket.
We got a little way before the bat decided he had enough of my hat and was now hanging upside down in the basket. This sudden movement freaked Kelli out, so we had to stop, and try to get it back into the hat. This was not easy, but after prodding it with a stick it climbed back in, so Kelli was able to place it under a shady tree, and the bat eventually crawled into the dark area, this was our chance to escape.
Bat girl Kelli and I then rode as fast as we could just in case the rest of the bat’s family came searching for it.
Another Lifetime to go 