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That’s One Scared Bat

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We only have one bat in the cave at Glenwood Caverns. And he likes to sleep next to the light in the cave.

I think he’s afraid of the dark.

When he was a baby bat his older brother probably told him stories of humans hiding in the closet ready to jump out at him if he got up to go the the bathroom, or run to the freezer to grab a pack of blueberries to eat in bed.

So he sleeps next to the light right where the noisy tourists go in and out the door.

“A BAT!” yells a little girl as she points to the ceiling. The bat wakes up, and looks around, his big ears rotating like radars. No wait, they are radars.

When his buddies return this fall they probably will ask him, “How was your summer in the cave?”

The little bat no doubt will reply, “I didn’t sleep a wink.”

Nighty night bat. Set your snooze alarm for this evening.

How to Sleep When You’re Tired

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If you are tired enough you can sleep under almost any situation.

Take my son Joshua, for example. I went to tuck him in one night, and found him laying in bed with a 2×4 board on top of him. It was no small board either. The thing was almost 5 feet long.

“Whose 2×4 is that?” I asked.

“What 2×4?” he replied.

“The one on top of you,” I said.

“I don’t know,” he yawned as he drifted off to sleep. I kissed him goodnight, and left the 2×4 on him, thinking that the next day he would say to himself, “Wow, I slept with a 2×4 on top of me last night!”

The next night I went to tuck him in and say good night, and what did I find? He was almost asleep with that same 2×4 laying on top of him.

“Why do you still have that 2×4 laying on top of you?” I asked.

“Is there a 2×4 still on top of me?” he replied as he drifted off to sleep.

I guess if you are tired enough, you can sleep under ANY situation. That is if you are a kid…and you haven’t had an 18 hour layover in Istanbul, Turkey.