Okay, so it starts with buying a foreclosed house that had bats roosting in the enclosed space above the front door.
After I moved in, I tried to discourage those bats by hanging up CD's, and by leaving the lights on, and by poking at them with a long stick from the ground... None of that worked.
So, I just put up with their peeing on the walls, and having a small pile of bat "guano" which looks similar to mouse s**t, on the floor in front of my door for a long time.
Then I made a sign that says "Leave My Loneliness Unbroken", and hung it from the front door which I had previously painted orange........but those two things are entirely unrelated to the bat story, so I'll just go on telling that one.
One day when I was sweeping up the bat crap, a light bulb went off in my head that said, "If you can't beat them, join them!".
So I made a simple bat house, painted it their favourite colour, and hung it near where they'd been roosting.
It looked so handsome hanging above my front door that I felt the need to "add" to it.
I'd recently been thinking about cutting a fire extinguisher up, and turning it into a bell. Actually I wanted an oxygen tank, but since I didn't have one, a fire extinguisher it was.
It turned into my doorbell.
It got all finished off with some bike sprockets and chain.
and I give you,
"Bats in the Belfry", or at least my interpretation of it!
LOL
http://youtu.be/674LRjI32hQ
01 Jan 2014, 12:34 pm
