March 5, 2012

March 5, 2012

I thought I would share with you today the iguana that lives on our roof. Or at least he seems to spend most of his time up there. I can tell you that the first few times I heard him scrambling about up there freaked me out. You have to remember we were without electricity the first couple of days, so it was black at night, plus we have a metal roof like everyone else around here. So early in the morning before the sun would be up we would hear, not the pitter patter of little feet, but thump, thump, thud, slide, scramble, scramble, thump.

The first time I heard it I thought the drainpipe was going to completely fall off the roof. And needless to say I would jump every time I heard the noises up there. Of course it didn’t help to have bats living in the downstairs back room.

Well I have finally gotten used to the noises on the roof and the other day it was particularly loud and kept going on and on. I had realized a day or two before that it was an iguana making all the noise. But this day it was just ridiculous how noisy he was. I had just stepped out onto the porch when WHUMP! The silly lizard had fallen off the roof onto his back in the palm tree next to where I was standing. I started laughing at how ridiculous he looked. I must have hurt his feelings, because he immediately tried to right himself and fell the rest of the way to the ground. Once there he scurried off into the bushes.

I decided then and there that we had the clumsiest lizard around. And when I would hear him up there I would just laugh. Well today we found out why he is so clumsy. It seems that our roof has not one but two iguanas that call it home. I guess they don’t like each other or maybe they like each other too much. And that is why there is so much scurrying going on up there.

They both landed in the tree that hangs over from the neighbor’s yard today. David got some pics of the second one and they will be posted later.