Day 487

This is becoming my log of bats. About 2:00 a.m. I wasn't completely sleeping. Then Merlin jumped off of the bed loudly, which woke me up even more. So I got up to get a drink. When I came back to bed, Merlin was laying up by my pillow. As I laid down, he jumped down again. He stayed on the rug beside my bed in what I felt was an attack position. Now the cat and I have issues...Merlin has decided the best way to get us to do something or maybe just when he feels like it, he will attack us. Sometimes it is playful and sometimes he actually bites. So I rolled over a bit away from the edge of the bed to give him less of a target. (If he can see my hands, legs, ect. he is more likely to attack.) But even with my move it was just moments before he jumped back up on the bed. But instead of stopped there on me, he ran right across me and over Jonathan. Now I am laying on my back and fully awake. And what should I see above me, but a black shadow circling the room. Bat... Merlin hadn't been attacking me, but the bat. So up again. We closed the bat in our room. Got the girls out of bed and in the dining area. And closed off their room and the tower room. Jonathan feels it is easier to get the bats in the bigger room. (and he would know...he had gotten bats in all the rooms here on 2nd floor except the bathroom.) He was hoping to get it out of our bedroom and into the big room. But it didn't turn out that way, they stayed in our room. Jonathan says that Merlin was actually a big help in catching this bat. He knocked him out of the air a couple of times. One more dead bat, one hole in the plaster wall, two tired people.