March 27, 2012

March 27, 2012

When going to the bathroom meets the Wild Kingdom!!!

I am not sure if I have gone into any detail about our bathroom situation. So here is more information than you probably want to know. As I told you before, the house we are staying in is two stories. The ground floor is unfinished…there are walls separating what would be 2 bedrooms and a bathroom from an open living kitchen floor plan. There is a stone sink in what would be the kitchen area and a sink, toilet and shower in the bathroom. It was absolutely disgusting when we first saw it, but my amazing husband has swept and re-swept and mopped the floors as well as he could without an actual mop. So it is now clear of debris and we can walk in without too much problem. You may wonder why we would even bother as the stairs are on the outside and we do not have to go through this space to get upstairs. The reason is, the upstairs bathroom is usable for #1 only (told you this was TMI) Anything more serious must be done in the downstairs bathroom, which means a daily trip downstairs.

Well this morning my husband comes back upstairs and makes the statement that I should be glad that he was the one to go downstairs to the bathroom first. I just look at him and wonder what else could he have found down there? So far we have about 8 bats that live down there that like to do fly bys when we enter, we have a small frog that has been living under the bathroom sink, of course there is a gecko of two. And a couple of days ago I had been totally freaked out by a huge tarantula sitting in the middle of the living area floor. I kept looking around the corner of the wall while I was busy in the bathroom to make sure it wasn’t coming for me. And finally ran upstairs to tell the husband. Like the good man he is, he went downstairs and killed it and found another smaller one in the bathroom and dispatched it as well. I wish he had not told me about the second one as it had been in the bathroom with me just moments before.

Anyway, back to this morning. David had his light with him and saw something roundish under the bathroom sink. At first he thought it might be a scrunchie but could not imagine where one would have come from. He got the broom and poked at it and it turned out to be a 2 foot long snake. Well not knowing the snakes in these parts, he felt snakecide the better option. So with what he had with him, a broom and dustpan and rake he manfully took on the snake and dispatched it. I am sure pictures will be on his facebook eventually.

We have had critters in the upstairs bathroom as well. There is a big hairy spider that runs like a crab and super fast that David killed, termites that run up and down the walls but not as many as when we first got there, and a big roach was found last night. Something had been eating on it…we are going with the option that one of our many gecko friends had been snacking…do not want to imagine anything else could take it on.

I want to end this section of the Wild Kingdom by thanking my husband for being so great through this whole time. He has killed for me and I have never loved him more.

PS Just found out from a guy who has lived here a couple of years that was not a tarantula. But a spider that can jump about 10 feet is very aggressive and its poison can kill a horse. It doesn’t usually kill people but you hurt like crazy and get very, very sick from its bite. Glad I did not know that then as I was about 10 feet away when I kept looking at it from around the corner and David said it had jumped straight up several feet when he went after it with the broom. This was information that both of us wish we had not learned until after we had left Costa Rica.