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Operation “Get Out of the Kitchen” had another setback today.
It’s a warm sunny day in Florida. The perfect day for brown anoles to be frolicking outside.
The perfect day for Pat to leave.
I unlocked the window and pulled out the Anti-Burglar Dowel. I was just starting to slide the window up when a small flickering movement caught my eye. What the hell? I slammed the window shut.
I stared disbelieving. There he was. Lounging between the screen and the window… another brown anole.
I am not running a Brown Anole Boarding House on my kitchen window sill. Okay, technically I am, but that’s not my point. There’s no more room at this inn.
I slid the window back up a notch and stared at him. He stared back. Unmoving. This was a tricky moment.
How to get him out of the window and not into the kitchen.
My experience with Pat has taught me one thing — at least one anole doesn’t like the flash on my camera. And because of said photo sessions with Pat, the camera is sitting right there on the kitchen counter. Keeping one eye on George (I’ve decided that all lizards that are not Pat, are called George), I reached for the camera.
I snapped one picture (shown below) and George didn’t move — no flash. Blast it to firckity frickin firk! I started to push buttons on the camera and George started to make his move. Into the kitchen. I dropped the camera and reached to block George’s path.
George did not like that at all and (thankfully) skittered off via the gap where the screen is popped out.
George was gone — and gone via the exact escape route I want Pat to take. But Pat, who had been calmly lounging on the window frame appears to have been upset by all the commotion. He moved from lounging to perching precariously on the very tip top of the aloe plant. No way he was going to choose to leave today.
I sighed and slid the window shut.
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