NewsRadio: Episode "Rat"

Last night we sat down to watch a show of News Radio called Rat. Brett literally had just pressed play when I saw something run toward the kitchen. As I was telling Brett, “I just saw something,” a mouse comes running toward us and then turns and hides behind the kids’ toys. Thankfully the kitchen door had been closed so the mouse was forced to come out in the open. We just sat there for a moment. How ironic that we had just sat down to watch an episode called Rat, and a mouse comes out so show himself to us. I’m so glad, though, that it was a mouse and not a rat. Since I don’t do the best with mice, or bugs, we got our night guard to come in and help Brett catch the mouse. It was kind of funny. He brought in his spear.  I’m not kidding. A 6 ft spear. Brett didn’t want to use it and have mouse blood all over the house. But our night guard got all crouched down on the all the ground, ready to catch the mouse once Brett got him to get back out in the open. He ran from behind the kids’ toy containers to behind the bookshelf, to across the room behind another piece of furniture that for the life of me I can’t remember it’s correct word (but it’s beside our table, holds dishes and stuff). He got behind that piece, but not without some hits from our guard. Finally Brett got him to move again and our guard ended his life with a few blows that thankfully I didn’t see and just carried him out in his hand like there was nothing abnormal with what had just taken place. Gotta love living here.

It seems we live with nature here, or rather nature lives with us. It just comes in through the poorly closed home. I mean, we watch the bugs just crawl in from under our front door which has a rubber piece on bottom to keep them out…and doesn’t. The worst is watching the frogs just slide in under the door. And speaking of frogs, we must not fail to mention our little friends who come in our bathroom every night to say hello. I guess they come from the drain. But they hide away during the day and then come out in the night so when we go to brush our teeth to go to bed, there are the frogs to say hello. I mean, one was actually cute, he came out every night faithfully until I guess his life ended. We always said he reminded us of Kenan. But now it’s a variety of frogs, sometimes just one, sometimes up to three. Just depends on the night. And then there are the lizards that crawl on the walls. There are ones that are inside lizards, flatter and overall smaller. Then there are the outside lizards that are colorful and thicker. Only sometimes do they come inside. Don’t know if I should even open the subject of the bugs that are in our house. Bar far the worst, and believe me we have our pick, are the flying termites. When it rains, which is only during a few months each year- thankfully, they are disturbed and come out of the ground…by the thousands. Thousands. They cover our windows and then just fall in through the cracks and under the doors. We shut off all the lights because this prevents them from coming in as much…so we’re talking only a hundred or so in the house verses a couple hundred. No joke. Then as soon as they come in and move around a bit, they die and the huge ants come in and begin to eat. The frogs and lizards take part of the meal outside, thankfully. It is nasty. I only wish you could see them swarming on the windows. It is like something out of the twilight zone or something. Our guard collected a whole bucket of them after one rain. I mean, they are the size of ants and he had a bucket full of them. They love them here- they eat them. It’s really special to some, they say they taste really good.   Ok, that’s enough on that subject.