28 September 2012

It was funny, but Bonnie was not too pleased.  It happened yesterday.  I felt sorry for her after I laughed, and when she saw the whole thing she was sort of pleased but then again, not.

I was in the kitchen.  I saw a lizard all of a sudden scurry across the top of the wall, right next to the ceiling.  I said, "Wow, there goes a lizard."  Bonnie was in the other adjoining room and immediately jumped up on the couch.  She was scared and afraid and didn't want to see it.  She started to panic and ask how long it was.  I said about six inches long.  I grabbed the broom and went after it.  She was still standing on the couch, sort of like Barbra Striesand in Hello Dolly.  Sort of funny, at least to me.  I chased the little guy to the front door, opened the door and brushed him out.  She finally  came down off of the couch and started to breath again.  She asked where he was, how long he was, if he had fangs, (sort of) and finally started to calm down. 

I had to stifle my laugh and console her.  She doesn't want anything in her apartment, especially a lizard who climbs walls, walks on ceilings, and runs fast, anywhere they want to run.  I calmed her down.  I took out the garbage and continued to make sure  the couch was going to make it, no I mean, she was going to make it through the sudden scare she experienced.  Then there was a knock at the door.  She was wondering if the lizard was knocking at the door asking for entrance again.  I assured her I knew it wasn't the lizard.  It was our neighbor. 

NOTE:  We were told that all we had to do with our garbage was put  it out in the back of the apartment, and someone would pick it up.  We are on the second floor so there are steps to get there to get rid of the garbage.

Our neighbor said that from now on, we had to take the garbage down the stairs behind our apartment to the bin at the bottom.  The reason was, the last couple of nights, there were large rats mulling around the garbage where we put it.  Of course, Bonnie climbed on the couch  again, seeking something higher than a couch to stand on.  The nieghbor said that if we take the garbage down, then  perhaps the smart rats won't climb our stairs and be waiting ourside our back door, knocking at the door.  So we have to take our garbage DOWN to assure that rats are not outside our back door. 

Bonnie then was grateful for a small, insignificant lizard, compared to large rats.  Oh  the blessings of being on a mission down here.  Oh  the joys. 

When we first arrived, I blessed the apartment using  the Priesthood, and thus  I know we won't have Rodents Of Unusual Sizes come knocking.  I hope that helps Bonnie come  down off the highest place in our apartment.