At 8pm last night there was a loud knocking at our side door. After struggling to get it open (the door is swollen from humidity and lack of use) we were face to face with THE BAT GUYS. Marshall and Andy Hanks are a father-son team from Door County, and they are experts at bat-proofing your house. They were at the end of a long day of work and wanted to let us know that they would be by early in the morning. Door county is a good 2-hour drive from here, and they had a long list of clients in the Marinette area, so they were heading to the Comfort Inn to get some sleep before another full day. Marshall (a lean, soft-spoken man in his 60s) wanted to know "how early do folks get up around here?" which was his way of asking how early they could come back. We -- being so completely happy just to see them after week of waiting -- said they could come as early as they needed to.
So, at 7am we were outside greeting Marshall and Andy as they pulled ladders and equipment from their trucks. There was a big storm brewing to the northwest and they were concerned about getting rained out. So they worked incredibly quickly, methodically surveying the roof-line and looking for any openings. They installed six "eliminators" which is bat-guy talk for a bat door that allows bat out but not back in. Apparently the roofers responsible for our roof never attached these plastic caps at either end of the roof peak. This baffled Andy who said they must have just forgotten to do this. (Imagine: hot summer day, roofers are weary, they want cold beer, they say to each other "let's go to the Packers bar down the street," they forget to cap the roof...) So, within an hour they were done. They guarantee their work for a full year, and Marshall promised: "by tonight at 10pm you will be bat free." Hallelujah!
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