This guy is about 15" or so long, including the tail, so not terribly big. I saw him when I came out the back door, and of course, he promptly ran away. I followed him, as quietly as I could, but evidently, I’m still loud enough that I spooked him. When he reached the...
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A few days ago, Fahim called to me from downstairs, telling me to hurry and bring my camera. He wouldn’t say anything else, though. So while I didn’t run, I did manage to hurry and reached the door in time to see this chameleon, just standing there on our doorstep. Although, really, “in time”...
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This guy was smallish. I say small-ish because, at about 2 1/2 feet long, this lizard isn’t all that large. We’ve had four foot and longer lizards invade our garden and even our house, so this one, not so big. But there are lizards that are much smaller than 2 feet, so… How to...
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It started at 3:04:35 pm and continued until 3:08:52 pm and will be indelibly imprinted on our brains until the end of time. Or at least until the next giant lizard entertains us. Enter the lizard. At least five feet long. He (while we don’t actually know that he/she/it is a male, we’re calling...
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Borax and sugar kills the ants so incredibly well, it’s delightful! Except that the big brown ants don’t like it, won’t touch it, and so it doesn’t kill them. But it’s killed every other variety of ants we have here. Yep, I’m delighted. I did a 1:1 mix and it worked just fine. You...
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It tried climbing up our living room window. Course, it didn’t work well, being glass and all. *roll eyes* Um, big strong hairy husband, aka Fahim, is doing nothing. He’s working, and that’s his excuse. In reality, he’s a big strong scaredy cat. :p Seriously, as far as he’s concerned, it’s no big deal....
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So*. One suggestion that came from a forum where I’d posted about this was to catch the thing and have a barbecue. BBQ!!!! Yay!!!! Oh. Ooops. We don’t have a barbecue. *hangs head in shame* Those things are notoriously difficult to acquire here, and locals just don’t understand what barbecue is. Although I could...
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We’ve now figured out what all the commotion was earlier. See, what first alerted us to the lizard being in our backyard was the huge noise it caused when it landed on the ground. Not once, but three times before I finally looked. A few minutes ago, I watched it try to climb up...
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A lizard fell off the roof of our house. What was it doing on our roof? Living there, along with two other lizards, its lizard family. And the lizard landed in our back yard. He’s been wandering back and forth back and forth, all over the small little yard space, trying to find a...
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It’s up to 36 Celsius today. Ugh. In other news, we had a bit of a lizard incident today. And no, it wasn’t Lizard of Odd, a character in the novel I’ve been writing the last week, acting up. No, this was a real lizard. You remember that lizard I mentioned that lives up...
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