Are you familiar with the tv series - Man vs Wild? Well, I don't know much about it but I adopted the name for this post because I thought it to be very fitting for my experiences while in my yard and garden. Now for a person who enjoys being out in nature so much, I am such a scary cat!! If a leaf moves too quickly, I'm jumping and flinching. If something buzzes by my ear, my neighbors probably think that I am doing the latest dance move. Well, because I live in Southern California where it can get quite warm, we have lizards that come visit our yard during the spring/summer months. Since last week I have been seeing a couple of lizards hanging out on the side of the house where the trash cans are stored and also where the side entrance door to the garage is located. I was about 20 feet away as I approached the side of the house one day and I saw a lizard, I stomped my foot and noticed he moved towards the fence that is draped with ivy but his tail was still sticking out. I threw rocks towards him and he did not move. I decide to go through the back patio door to enter the house and then go through the garage to lock the side door. When I open the door there are now two of them!! I decide to spray one of them and he barely budged! I gave in, locked the door and decided it wasn't that important to dump the recyclables that day.
So now comes the hysterical part, I'm doing my thing in the front and back yards this morning; it is June gloom overcast weather so more than likely I won't see a lizard. I go into the garage to get my rake and dust pan. (Now, has anyone ever seen that post office commercial where a family is standing by their front door talking to the postman about the need to return an item? The camera pans over to this clown sitting in the living room, the postman just casually tells them basically that the process of returning is simple and then all of a sudden he looks down and the clown is standing right there in the doorway and startles him!) Well, that's the way I felt when I turned to leave out of the door and there standing in the doorway is this lizard! He did not budge!! I ended up slamming the door in his face!
I don't have an actual picture of this evil lizard but I googled an image of what he looks like.
I feel you sis! I could see you slamming that door now..lol. Reminds me of when there was a small snake in my house, and I called the patrol guys to come get him! They laughed at how small it was, but it frightened me just the same. Thank God no others ever appeared. Can you imagine?
ReplyDeleteDon't be discouraged. I'm so enjoying reading about the garden.