Lizards, cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers!  These days we are returning to the second hot season of the year. This one is the humid hot season as rains have recently finished. So, I am experiencing lots of hot sweaty moments or one may say flushed.  Well, I am taking that word flushed literally.   The past 12 hours I have shared my bathroom with lizards, cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers, and they have all been flushed away.

Generally, we don’t have lizards in our house. We do share the house with salamanders but not lizards. Lizards make bad house guests. They have no boundaries and pop everywhere unlike salamanders which have the decency to hide when people are present and to come out after dark. They both eat mosquitos and other bugs which is beneficial, but lizard grow large, unlike salamanders.

Just when I was going to wrap up this little rant I entered my work space and discovered 4 more lizards in my window casing and the stench of a dead one somewhere in the room! I quickly closed the window tight and will figure how to remove them later! Grrrr, walking back to the living room I glanced in the spare room and there lounging out on the top of the bed was 2 more, What! Really! Response: Husband bring the broom!!! It was like wrestling a slippery pig, one more gone, the other MIA for now.

Today we pick up a new door screen system we ordered from Canada. Here’s hoping it will solve the problem. The lizards are most likely coming in through the bottom of the front door drape and cannot find their way out once they entered. These days there is hundreds of new lizards being hatched daily, and the young ones are fearless.

Regarding the other critters, cockroaches are normal, we see them daily. There are many points of entry, and the way the water and sewer systems are set up it is to be expected. However, not particularly used to stepping on them in the shower. Grasshopper and crickets tend to cling to our cloths unaware when outdoors and come into the house with us.

Speaking with a friend today, she was telling me that a cat would solve the lizard problem like they do with mice. Trust me that would only add to the dynamics around the house. Buddy, our house dog thinks cats are for chasing away!