the cabin

a week ago i was up at my family cabin at lake cavanaugh (sp?), and it was so intense! I think the highlight of the most exciting moment was me taking care of this bat that was in the house!
My mammy (grandma) was getting dressed in the laundry room when she noticed something was on the ground, she thought it was a leaf at first, so when she bent down to pick it up (to throw it away) she realized it was a bat! *I wasn't there when this happened, but she told me later and i bet she screamed when she found out the "leaf" was a bat!* After that mammy called me over to come to the house (i was on the dock fishing), once i was there i could see she was very startled about something, I asked her what was wrong and she wouldn't tell me all the details so I kind of had to guess what happened, our conversation went something like this...
Mammy: I saw something in the laundry room while i was dressing and it freaked me out
Me: was it a spider?
Mammy shook her head
Me: a mouse?
Mammy shook her head again
Me: a rat?
She shook her head
Me: a raccoon?
Another head shake
Me: small pause, and then i ask if it was a bat
Mammy: yep

She left the laundry door open just a crack so I could see where it was. We weren't sure if it was dead or alive, although it looked like it was dead to me. After all, it was lying on the ground (with its wings tucked in) next to the washing machine. Mammy (in her underwear still) poked it with the end of a broomstick to see if it was dead and it didn't move so obviously it wasn't alive. We then had to get "prepared" to get it out of the house so we put on rubber gloves, grabbed a bunch of paper towels and then we were ready! lol! I opened th edoor and i picked it up with the paper towels all by myself! I felt so brave! My mistake though, was looking at the bottom of the bat's body, it was SQUIRMING WITH MAGGOTS!!!!!!!! IT WAS SO DISGUSTING! i couldn't stop shivering (i was totally spazing out)! Mammy told me to throw it out in the garbage(outside) can, even if i thought it was kind of wrong. i wanted to bury it somewhere. But i did as i was told. I'm still proud of myself, because i felt i did something exciting!