Adventures With Wildlife

I meant to post this back on December 6, but got sidetracked. It was still fairly warm when this event occurred.

I have had some interesting experiences with critters in the basement—toads, salamanders, 

  and a giant spider—

 The board that the spider is touching is 4 inches.

And in the house—snakes, 

 

chipmunks, opossums, and the giant spider from the basement (I guess it decided it wanted to see how the other half lived).

 For a number years, a bat roosted every day during the summer in the stairwell leading from the garage to Richard’s office, and

 occasionally on the smoke alarm in front of the door. 

Today, however, was a first. I was in the middle of washing dishes, and suddenly, there was a five-lined skink swimming in the soap suds. I didn’t have time to take a picture of it, but this is the type of lizard.

 

I have no idea how it ended up in my dishwater.

I let it go outside near the “crack” between the porch and the house where the other reptiles go for the winter. 

Never a dull moment.  But I guess that is what makes life interesting.

“Lizards—you can catch them with your hands, yet they find their way into kings’ palaces” (and humble Ozark houses) (Prov 30:28).