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The Office Cat
Animals B-Gone, an animal control outfit from Winder, was contacted. Workers came and spent a couple of days preparing to rid the building of the unwanted creatures. They closed up all the small entrances where the bats were getting in and out and fixed those that appeared to be more highly traveled by the bats so that they could get out but couldn't get back in. It worked, so the bats had to go elsewhere for their daily snooze in preparation for their nighttime forage. While the bats were out the workers secured all the entrances. The building has been unoccupied for quite some time and I had seen hundreds of bats coming back in very early in the mornings on many occasions. Meanwhile, the Washington Little Theater Co. has had a bat problem for many years. Members had tried every recommendation that anybody suggested but couldn't get rid of them. When Buzzy Randall found out about the Animals BGone outfit he contacted them on behalf of the Little Theater. They investigated the situation and made hundreds (maybe thousands) of bats homeless overnight. . . . While they were getting rid of the bats, Animals B-Gone also re-located hundreds of bees from the northeast corner of The Playhouse. If the bees had all been in one location, estimates are that the hive would have been the size of an old microwave oven. . . . You might want to check your attic to see if these homeless bats have moved into your house! More Washington-Wilkes lookalikes have been confirmed for the Washington Follies set for the first weekend in October at The Playhouse on North Alexander Avenue. These are Groucho Marx, Kenny Rogers, Paula Dean, Morgan Freeman, Hoss Cartwright, Col. Sanders (of chicken fame), and Scarlett O'Hara. . . . I think it's going to be a fun entertainment presentation. The Little Theater Children's Playhouse is presenting "Jack and the Beanstalk" for hundreds of Washington-Wilkes, Lincoln, Greene, and Warren county school children this week. Libby Foster is director of the program. The Memory Lane Cruisers Fall Cruise-In will get underway Saturday on The Square in Downtown Washington with lots of vintage cars to view and lots of good things to eat. The home of Mark (Dr.) and Emilie Waters on East Robert Toombs Avenue will be the featured picture for the month of December in Early American Life magazine's 2008 calendar. Two interior pictures will also be used -- Mark and Emilie's spiral staircase and formal dining room as they are always decorated for Christmas. Stephanie Macchia, president of the Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation, received a telephone call from the publishers of the magazine requesting pictures of Washington-Wilkes homes decorated for Christmas. She sent several pictures and the Waters home was chosen. Stephanie also learned that Early American Life magazine plans to feature Washington in its 2008 issue. Stephanie called to tell me that the correct name for the DVD production sponsored by the Washington Wilkes Historical Foundation is A Narrative of Wilkes County, and not Memories of Wilkes as recently reported. Interviews are currently being edited and will probably be available to the public in late October. First, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution discontinued circulation in Wilkes County. It's not delivered to our homes nor is it available in boxes around town. Now, as of September 1, the Athens Banner-Herald has discontinued its service to Wilkes County. The papers are available in Union Point, Greensboro, and Crawford, but not in Washington. I don't know about Elberton. We did get a same-day publication of the Banner- Herald in the mail Saturday, but won't know until after the holiday if that will continue. . . . The Augusta Chronicle is the only one available in boxes and for home delivery. This is hard to believe! Last Thursday when we got two inches of rain (and more in some areas) here in town, I jokingly said, as we watched the rain cover the street in front of The News-Reporter, "I hope we're getting this rain at my house," -- just up the street from here. On the way home I noticed that the rain had stopped at the Golden Pantry. When I got home, there was not even a sprinkle on the shrubbery. Everything was still dry as dust. Norris says that for Thursday and Friday he recorded 2.15 inches which made a total of 3.2 inches for August. . . . I've heard tales of it raining in somebody's front yard, but not in the back yard; and of rain on one side of the street, while across the street didn't get any rain. Linda Echols at Ashford Court Apartments says that she doesn't have any hummingbird feeders at her place but that she has lots of hummers feeding on various plants in some of the yards of residents. I don't watch much television -- just the Braves, and I've about given up on them. Consequently I don't know much about what programs are on. I sometimes watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy.
Lloyd Johnson III told me about a show which I findhard to believe, too. He received e-mail last week from Molly Sebastian who
said that she is the producer of ABC's reality show "Wife Swap." The show takes
two different families, swaps the wife in each family, and tests the families
for two weeks or so to see what happens. Families must consist of two parents
and at least one child between six and 17 years old. Families featured in an
episode receive a $20,000 honorarium. The subject of the e-mail which Molly
Sebastian sent was "tv show casting for taxidermist family $20K." "I do not know
how this producer found me but my kids are too old, not that
Bobbie wants to be traded," Lloyd said. "I did
send them a couple of names of other full-time taxidermists with younger kids."
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