critters and creatures....

Yesterday I wrote about the tarantulas, scorpions, and snakes one could encounter here in the desert.  Marilyn has been here countless times and hasn't had any show up.  The thought, the consciousness that an eight-legged hairy being too big to squash, or something slithery and coiled, or...a scorpion, which to my north-eastern mind seems almost ridiculous, untrue, made up, COULD be in the yard (or the corner of the bathroom!  Or on my extra pillow when I pick it up after dropping it off the bed in the night!)...just the knowledge that it's possible, makes me a little wary.  (Remember the movie Annie, with Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan: Now, have I ever spanked any of ya?  Annie:  No, but you've threatened, and that's worse.)

Anyway.  Yesterday we didn't go on any adventures, we had two nice outside swimming sessions, the afternoon swim...ahh, 102 degrees and nice cool pool water, so refreshing.  I got out to bake in the sun for a few minutes to dry off, Camille was still floating around...when she abruptly got up and marched out of the pool...there's a lizard in there, swimming towards me!  It's interesting how one person gets freaked out, so the other person HAS to be calm-cool-collected, and I'm not the very best candidate for that.  But.  I'll just get the skimmer, I said, and scoop it out.  It was struggling in the water, but I was hesitant, because if I got in there, it might just swim towards me.  I wasn't afraid it would hurt me, but rather that I'd hurt myself by trying to get away from it ha.  In any case, I got in and scooped it up with the leaf skimmer...then took it over to the edge of the patio blocks and dumped it out.

I took a pic using my Seek ap, I usually use it to identify plants.  It's a Whiptail Lizard, and it can run 17 mph!  It's not poisonous, but can bite.  (I didn't tell Cam that).  We were done being outside at that point, so in to the nice cool lizard-free house we went...I checked a bit later, and it was gone...we questioned why I hadn't dumped that net over the fence, but I wasn't keen on walking across the yard carrying the net, because if it crawled out and went up my arm or down my suit, it might have been heart attack time.  

Yes, I do make a big deal about everything.  :)

Are we all excited to go back out into the pool?  One of us has more hesitancy than the other, I told her the chances of that happening again...she said don't say it.    She's not superstitious, just a LITTLE stitious, ha.  

Anyway.  I've enjoyed this:

Imagine just pushing a button and voila, a double espresso!  You have to fill the water tank, put the coffee beans in it, empty the grounds...but not every time, just when the indicator tells you to.  You can make other things too, but I like my Americanos.  

Camille's dessert from last night.  I had a sugar free Greek yogurt with some strawberries, and some chocolate.  Our dinner:  bacon and eggs, and leftover meatballs.  Meatballs are always better the next day, or two.  

Nothing exciting is happening here, so bye for now...and let's hope nothing exciting happens, right?