The other night we were sitting down to dinner when I saw our night guard, Ondiak, sprint to close our gate. Odd, I thought. Until about 10 seconds later I saw a pig in our yard. He was just enjoying himself, snorting around as pigs do. Ondiak had mistakenly thought we'd bought a pig and it was trying to escape. So now the pig was locked in. Brett went outside and soon our neighbor's son came over, realizing that their pig had gone missing, and the three of them ran around the yard trying to get the pig to go out. Highly entertaining.
Two days later, I got a call from a Tanzanian friend whom I'd given a ride the previous day to our English class, telling me she'd left her fish in our car. A fish. Overnight. In our car. Fantastic. I boldly go out to the car and open the doors, hit immediately by waves of dead, been sitting in the car for 18 hours in the heat, fish, and find it wrapped in a bag on the floorboards in the back. Gross. We left the doors open the rest of the day.
Friday Baylor was crawling around and I saw her pick up a little something in the corner of the living room that looked like tissue paper.
Upon closer inspection, it was actually a piece of the skin of a reptile. Again, so excited. Who doesn't want a snake molting in their house? Brett called Carson and they slowly took apart the living room, armed with brooms for the killing. No snake found. Nor did they find the rest of the skin. We tried to decide if we should continue to systematically search the house or assume it left when Carson posed the question, "Do lizards shed their skin?" Hmm, we'd never thought about that. Like everyone here, we have an abundance of small lizards calling our house home. Brett looked it up on the internet and it turns out that yes, lizards do, in fact, shed their skin. We assumed the little piece of skin was just the tip of the end of a small snake, but analyzing it further, we saw what was clearly the shape of a leg, exactly where a little lizard's leg should be. So happy.
Okay, this is hilarious. Mostly the part about the pig and the fish. I certainly would not want a snake in my house either, but the whole discovery that it was probably a lizard is hilarious. Thanks for sharing these little jewels!
ReplyDeletethis has got to be the most entertaining and interesting blog on the net. I love it! Don't tell brett.
ReplyDeleteNice save there at the end... I was well on my way to having a heart attack at the thought of Baylor tossing around snake dandruff. A lizard is SO much better!
ReplyDeleteAh, what relief that it was a lizard! :)
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