Earlier today I was modeling for Heidi a "new" pair of pants that I bought at Goodwill. As I shook them out and began to put my legs in them a baby lizard came flying out. It was brown and no more than 2-3 inches long. Naturally it freaked me out, I fell back yelping, Henry started screaming and crying and Heidi came running in as I explained a lizard just jumped out of my pants.Let me back up a bit. I bought these pants yesterday and tossed them behind our love-seat. The weather was really nice so we had out patio door open and later in the evening I saw something run across the floor and underneath our love-seat. I only got a glimpse and thought it was a cricket. Well, the hapless lizard crawled in my pants on the floor and waited to be discovered. Heidi told me not to leave them on the floor but come on, how was I supposed to know they would become a lizard-house?
We know these lizards, their actually called Green Anoles and we have about a billion of them in our complex. We've caught several of them and one even jumped on Henry during a walk traumatizing him for life. Seriously, the kid will walk up to a dog 10x his size that he does not know and grab it's tail but a small reptile really freaks him out.
Green Anoles are green of course but if they are cold they turn brown like the poor baby in my pants. Man, I gotta give it to Texas, there is no shortage of wildlife here, it's pretty cool for an animal lover like myself. Except for the skunk that sprayed Myla in the mouth, that was just bad for everyone.
P.S. Speaking of animals being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Check out these poor dolphins.
2 comments:
This one had me laughing! I wish I'd seen you freak over the lizard in your pants! We miss the lizards, frogs and turtles. But I am so glad we don't have june bugs, love bugs, or cockroaches.
I had dozens of Green Anoles as pets when I was a kid. They were pretty cool, they would change from green to brown all the time and I had to hand feed them live crickets. I even had a male and a female one time and the male would always puff his neck out for attention, some how the female eventually laid an egg (it was a dud).
-Brian
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