Lizards and Logs

I worked the Forth of July this year. I was supposed to work a seven hour shift, but we ended up closing early. That was fine with me, because there was hardly anyone in the store all day long.

While I was sweeping the aisles, I saw a plastic lizard on the ground. I leaned down to grab it by the tail and move it to the toy aisle, where it belonged. When my fingers touched it, the lizard jumped straight up in the air and landed back down where it had been before, in the same position. I also jumped. ‘Hm,’ I thought to myself, ‘I must have bumped it.’ This time, when I went in to grab the lizard, I got it by the head, and it started to squirm.

The live, baby lizard, made it safely outside.

I put my log in my fish tank a few days ago, and the tannins from the log are leaking into the water, making it look like tea. This delights my fish, because he is from a part of the world where the waters are very murky. He didn’t like having the water be super clear; it made him feel vulnerable and weak. I am going to do some heavy water changes over the next few days, and then I’ll be ready to add new friends. I think I might go with these fat bodied, red-eyed little tetras instead of the glo-lights I was thinking about before.

I also want to buy a large snail.