Sunday night Jeremy and I came home from church and found that two lizards had decided to grace us with their presence and take up residence in the living room. Now, these were not huge lizards, but two tiny, dark things. Still, I dread every single moment that they are in the house. It is just plain gross! (FYI-The longer they are in the house, the lighter their color.) Now, I know that lizards are scared of people so they will run away, but what if one gets confused and runs over my toes?! (Jeremy does not understand this about me but maybe someone out there will.) Anyway, after moving the furniture to try to coax them outside, they decided that it would be fun to run up the wall and behind the blinds of one of the windows. After that, I decided to just let Jeremy deal with it because I was getting frustrated with the little creatures! Eventually they decided that they had overstayed their welcome and they ran out the door.
Now, usually my story would be over, but alas! It is not! On Tuesday evening I was home alone and saw one creeping along the wall! This one was a lot lighter in color than the previous two so I knew that it had been in the house for quite some time. When I saw it, I was talking to Jeremy on the phone so he came home to "rescue" me. I kept my eyes glued on that little guy until Jeremy got home. This task was different from the last because the lizard took refuge behind our hanging wall clock. We decided that we would have to use a small bucket to hold over the clock and then try to knock the clock off the wall and into the bucket. Eventually Jeremy got the clock off the wall. Well, what do we do next? Jeremy was still holding the bucket on the wall, so I had to tear some poster board in half so that he could slide it between the wall and the bucket. Well, that's good, but how do we get it down without that lizard slipping out? So, I got packaging tape and we taped the poster board to the bucket and voila! The perfect lizard trapping device!
Okay, still my story is not yet done! Yesterday, Jeremy was driving to work and he saw one climbing up the outside windshield of our car, hanging on for dear life! Then, when Jeremy got to work, he noticed that he had accidentally squished one in the car door as it was trying to stow away in the back seat. Now, I ask you, what is the meaning of all these lizards? Could they be trying to tell us something? No, maybe not. Maybe they just see us a nice people or our house as a nice place to lodge.
1 comment:
HAHA THAT IS FUNNY! I totally understand about the lizard thing! When I was in Banbladesh they were all over my house--kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room! When I came back to the states I was telling everyone, then I realized that happens in Florida too. Dude, you may soon realize that you have to just give up and let in! haha Oh man, I know it can be frustrating. Good luck with the little critters!
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