Do it yourself

Ron, I've never lived in Michigan, but I had a friend who lived in Ann Arbor for a long time (she just moved to San Fran). I just pick up little trivia items that interest me like the stuff about the "yoopers" ( I can't remember the important stuff when it counts, of course). I actually like bats, since they eat bugs that otherwise might be dining on me or my garden, plus they're just really neat critters. Two summers ago, as I was taking towels out of the washing machine to hang them up to dry, I found a poor, little drowned baby bat in the basket. I figure he had flown into the bathroom and had landed on the towel to rest, and he clung on while the towel was taken downstairs and put in the machine. We quietly flushed it after the kids were asleep; they would've been very sad (and probably a little freaked out too).