R.I.P. Mr. Lizard

Angela, Paola, and I have been busy moving some of our rooms around; it is what we did for the entire afternoon today and our house looks great! We had quite an adventure in one room though. We moved around our living room first and now it makes us all smile. Next we worked on the guest bedroom, and finally we moved around our prayer room/other guest bedroom.

We moved the furniture around so the whole floor could be vacuumed. Angela was doing just that when all of a sudden this thing was moving across the ground! We thought it was a large bug at first. Angela started shrieking, and then Paola and I started freaking out and got our legs off the ground. Angela attempted to suck it up with this small vacuum cleaner, but that wasn't working and it ended up underneath the bookcase. It took us a little while to devise a plan of how to capture this thing and Paola also said it was probably a lizard because it was the color of the carpet (kind of speckled gray).

The plan: To get the little creature to come out of hiding and trap it under a plastic container, slip some cardboard/paper underneath it and then release it outside. Well, this little guy was scared for his life so he attached himself to a corner of the bookcase and hitting the wood didn't make him want to move. We got a broom so we could poke at it to encourage it to leave the bookcase. Angela attempted first, armed with a broom, flashlight, and plastic container while I was on the other side in a ready stance with my weapon of choice: a garbage can. She was not having success of moving him, so I took over. And by the way, after seeing the tiny reptile and how cute he was made it a little less frightening. He was perhaps an inch and a half long.

I got him to move and he escaped the way he thought he would, on the opposite side where Angela and Paola were. There was a lot of excitement and shrieking and then some moaning and wailing when Paola realized she had accidentally killed it. The garbage can squished his head and his tail definitely came off as well. Angela courageously scooped up our short-term friend and we laid him to rest in the front "garden." Talk about community bonding time! Hopefully he will be the last little creature inside this house. We've found one dead cockroach and Paola found one in the upstairs bathtub today, but as long as they plug the drain when it is not in use there should be no more problems.

Hope y'all are having adventures at your new houses as well!