WHEN WILD ANIMALS ATTACK

My Mom and Bebo came yesterday to stay with me for a few days. Since they were coming, I made sure that the house was nice and picked up. Everything in its place.

Babygator was in town and going to come by and eat supper with us. We were sitting around in the living room watiting for her when Bebo got quiet and whispered to us "Be really really still and look over there at what is peeping out from behind the bookcase."

Nothing freaks you like a 14 year old boy saying....be really really still.

Of course my mom and I whipped our heads around just in time to see a lizard looking out at us.

This lizard usually lives under my front porch. He has for years. And he is a long lizard about 10 inches long. Well, he looked more like 26 inches but that is beside the point. It may not be the original lizard but I feel sure that it has been his children...then grandchildren....great grandchildren and so on and so forth. It has been a literal lizard legacy played out at my place. He has always lived there in peace and I am happy believing that he is eating all sorts of little creepy crawly bugs that I do not want to see anyway. At least I hope that is what he is doing. He and I have only had one previous altercation when he can across the top of my foot while I was out watering my plants. Oh what stories I am sure that the neighbors told when they saw me screeching and dancing along the lawn that morning.

Then there was last night.

Bebo and I promptly went into hunter mode. Armed with our trusty lizard extrication tools, we began to track the lizard. He was fast! And I have a whole lot of things that make the most excellant little lizard hiding places. Who knew that I was practicing lizard fung shue?

Anyway, before any time at all, the living room began to look like this.


We had moved the bookcase and the TV cabinet from the walls because he kept running up under them. He also was able to run across pillows that were used as a barrier. Well, he outsmarted us.....ran across the room and behind the couch.

So the couch then was pulled out from the wall.

Lovely mess for a lizard. Bebo and I actually got really cracked up while trying to chase down the lizard. We kept giggling and had to stop and catch our breathes.

My mom saw no humor in the whole adventure.

Cricky look at the size of that beauty!

This is him as he slowly came from behind the couch and I CAUGHT HIM!! Well, he may have just been giving up but I prefer to think that I was channeling Steve Irwin.


Important lizard extrication tools. No home should be without them. Baby gator finally got there and she and Bebo were in charge of lizard relocation. I told them that he had to at least go across the street so that he did not shoot back in the door before we could get it closed.

The lizard whisperer

Then the damned thing did not want to leave! I am thinking that he thought he had just aquired a new condo or something.

Rachel pointed out that he was probably just there to sell me some insurance.

My mom was a really big help in the capture. We really think that her yelling the words, *PUT THAT DAMNED CAMERA DOWN AND CATCH THE THING!!* from her lofty perch was just what we needed to get the job done.