I once lived in a house that had two large date palms in the back yard. This of course was a major attraction for the local bat colony and most nights there were 20-30 bats happily munching away. Many un-ripe half-eaten dates would fall from the palms and at the end of the spring I was moving out and discovered that half the back yard was three inches deep in rotting dates. Oh my what a lovely smell! What a lovely task it was for 2-3 hours cleaning them up so that the landlord wouldn’t dock our bond for cleanup fees!

-S