Ok, we live in the desert so I guess that exclamation point after the title is more hype than truth. The fact is, lizards in our kitchen are not that rare. Besides, I am talking about our outside kitchen so the lizard is more welcome than an intrusion. For the last few years, we have had what seems to be one lizard who likes to hang out near our atrium and one that stays around the outside kitchen.
Hmmmm. I hate to say it but, they all look alike. Only the distance assures us they are not the same reptile in each place.
These aren't your little old skinny lizards that run away at first sight. Ours are those big fat Mountain Bloomers (both with stumpy tails this year) that merely lumber out of the way when we go near them. The kitchen lizard is especially funny because he does seem to get startled once in a while and "peels out" on the concrete floor to run under the stove or out the open door. He looks like one of those cartoon critters, making his getaway while the bongos play as they take off!
While some of you may be very distressed at a lizard cavorting around your kitchen floor, somehow ours seem kind of comforting to us and a constant stream of entertainment.
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