Bat day

Not baseball (though today was our last T-ball game), but a real, flying bat -- a surprise visitor on our second floor last night. Still haven't figured out how it got in (through the fireplace?), but once an unscreened window was opened, it headed right out.

Which led by a rather convoluted path to the question of what the French word for bat was, and then why such a strange name. The word is "chauve-souris", or "bald mouse". What a weird feature to seize upon: of all things, baldness.

Posted by David on June 15, 2006 9:46 PM