There’s Nature in My Kitchen! — July 6, 2009

Ug, my latest harrowing experience with the creatures of God’s creation….

 Several nights ago, David and I got home from one of our adventures.  He went to sit on the couch, and I was getting into the refrigerator for something.  As I closed the fridge door, I looked down to see something wiggling on my floor.  I thought it was a worm!  My thought was, “My goodness, what is a worm doing in my kitchen!!”  So that was a little gross, but next to it was this little brown thing that looked like dirt of some sort. 

 I looked a little closer, and it wasn’t a worm.  It was a lizard and the “worm” was its separated tail.  EW!!!!!!  The tail was writhing around all over the floor.  By this I mean - it was turning flips and getting some serious air!  The lizard was just sitting there, probably in shock.  The realization that a tail was flopping around on the floor was gross, but that was nothing compared to the idea that I had just caused this trauma!  Poor lizard.

 I walked over to the doorway to tell David.  I was about to start gagging at the thought of the tail, but I kind of couldn’t stop looking at it because I was scared it would flop off somewhere and we wouldn’t be able to find it.  It took me several tries, but I finally got it out so he’d know what I was talking about. 

 He came and got the tail, but the lizard got away.  (Gross that the tail was still wiggling when he picked it up!)  Several hours later, out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw something moving along the wall.  It was the tail-less lizard!  Poor little guy!  David put him outside. 

 I really hope I can get this weatherman video to work.  It’s so hilarious.  There’s nothing more funny than watching people do a “bug dance”, as long as I’m not the one involved!  When I was at the cinema, my friend Blake always did the best bug dances.  He would get like, vertical AND horizontal leaps combined.  I don’t know how he could get up AND to the side at the same time, but he did it if it meant getting away from the bug.  One of my favorite things would be when I’d be sitting at the office desk and would see him encounter a bug from the surveillance cameras.  The bird’s eye view would crack me up every time!