A little surprise …

in my house this morning!  My living room is a little dim in the morning and I had not turned the lights on yet.  Here I was walking from the bathroom into the kitchen going through my living room when I caught something out of the corner of my eye going underneath the edge of my couch!!  I only caught a glimpse but thought I had seen the tail of a mouse.  I am not afraid of mice but I do not want them in my house.  I finished getting myself ready for the day.  I had bought – several days  before – a box of 4 bug bombs as we had been gone for a month and I had found several bugs in the house.  I wanted to de-bug the house, maybe I could kill a mouse at the same time?  I decided to try it out and see but to also make a stop at the store to get some mouse poison.

I turned off the air and the fans and got the bug bombs going and left the house.  When I got back home of course I didn’t see a dead mouse laying in the middle of the carpet or anything     didn’t really expect to of course.    One of the first things to do for the day was to open up several boxes of mouse poison and put them out for the uninvited guests.

In the middle of the afternoon I came back in the house for a little bit and low and behold as I walked from the kitchen to the living room there on the living room carpet is a blue-tailed lizard heading to scoot under the couch!  I snuck up on it and caught it by it’s tail — I have done this before (but outside) almost any child can catch a blue-tailed lizard if you try and I had helped my girls do this when they were kids and occasionally catch one just to look at it.  They are harmless.  Have I ever mentioned I was a tom-boy when I was a kid  grow up with 8 younger brothers and this might happen to you too!!  LOL

The proper name for this lizard is a Five-lined Skink.  They are small creatures, the blue tail marks the young.  This one was about 5 inches long tail included.  This photo comes from the link above that tells you about Arkansas lizards.  I have a feeling this lizard got in the house while we were bringing things in from the camper on Thursday.  I was going back and forth to the camper to the house that I wasn’t always taking care to shut the door all the way.  These lizards and another one called the Eastern-Fence Lizard or Gray Lizard live on our deck and all around our house for the warm months of the year, which means they lounge around within our view and run here and there in front of us and past our feet on the deck for about six months of the year.   We have caught both kinds over the years and are pretty neat to watch them.

I have never had one get in the house though that I know of – maybe they have and figured out how to get back out?

Catching a lizard I could do – now if it was a mouse the poison would have had to do the job for me although I can dispose of those after they are dead without having a hissy fit.

I did get 3 squares of Dear Jane sewed together today for the beginning of the 7th row and I have another square prepped and ready to go.  That’s as far as I have gotten with my sewing.  I have been too busy outside.  I have a feeling this summer might be slow going for quilting and piecing.