Brutus, Lucius, Hermes, and The Yellow One

I still haven’t seen Brutus. He is ever illusive; I guess that’s why he is still alive and still growing. I have however caught three other visitors.

Hermes: cute little lizard who really likes Bekah’s backpack. I have caught him in there twice now, and released him twice. He isn’t the brightest, but since I saw him eating a spider, we decided to keep him around. He isn’t much thicker than my thumb and no longer than my hand. I think each time I catch him he gets so scared he goes into a coma of sorts- so I just open the bag where I want him released and let him come out after I leave.

Lucius: kind of bigger lizard who has a weird love of our black slip. Likes to hang out there and chill with us. Has NO FEAR of Bekah and I, we can be walking around our room and he will be casually crossing the floor, climbing the wall, and chillin’ on the clothes we hang up. (no respect, I tell ya!!) Lucius has blue dots along both sides. He is crazy territorial though, and hence we meet: “the yellow one”.

Yellow One: Let me give you a little background- Lucius uses the wall pathways like Brutus does. Only he seems to be more of an adolescent daredevil; he likes to jump (or tries to at least). Bekah was washing her hands in our black basin one dusky evening when she was startled by Lucius trying to climb up her arm. I was proud of her for not screaming bloody murder! Seems our daredevil Lucius was trying to jump from one side of the “bathroom” to the other; one partial wall/road to the next. He fell into our conveniently placed basin. The very next day I was sitting on my bed reading when I heard a thud.I thought Bekah had fallen or dropped something. Only Bekah wasn’t there… cautiously I walked to the “bathroom” and looked around. Lucius was trying to bite the head off “the Yellow One”. He had YO by the throat and was wrestling around in the basin, totally unconcerned that he and YO had just fallen from the ceiling. I yelled at the two fighting critters and told them to knock it off. Bekah came in to see the show and we decided to evict them for fighting.

I put a pair of socks on my hand since we don’t know if they are poisonous and carried the basin outside. I unceremoniously dumped the fighting lizards out on the grass and said good riddance. By the time Bekah and I had gone back inside and began settling in, I heard the “oh so familiar” scurry…. Lucius was back. Our eviction was short lived.

The next day (and no, I am not kidding) I came home from school to find YO and Lucius back in the basin. Seems they had reached a stalemate and were on opposite sides working hard to ignore one another. Since they weren’t fighting I decided to let them go on the floor. (and for those of you who are freaking out about me letting two lizards loose in my house, let me remind you about the spiders, bed bugs, and other biting things…lizards are way easier to deal with)

At least life isn't boring...