Livin Overseas: Visitors

Hello Everyone!

Well, this entry is about the little visitors that ‘bless us with their presence.’

I came from Colorado to Singapore. Colorado has a dry climate and there are ants, spiders and other bugs that I feel I don't see very often… but Singapore I feel takes the cake. Being in Singapore there are a lot of bugs, Yuck! I am almost convinced that if I can keep our house clean then I can keep down the bug population. Or there is another option. In our house we have visitors and I am not talking about the bugs, although they do like the bugs and I am glad they do. We have lizards and I like when they come in our house, because they eat the unwanted bugs. Granted there have been several times I walk into a room, they scurry and I kind of scream. Haha. They just catch me off guard. When I find a new lizard I have this habit of naming them, who knows if I am naming the same one over and over and over… you get the point. I have a couple of pictures of a couple that I have gotten on camera.

This is Scampers (he Scampers off when you see him). He seems to enjoy hanging out in our hallway and in our room, hopefully he found some (if not all) bugs and spiders to eat! This is him scampering in our hallway. He’s about 3 inches in size.

Scampers in the hallway cruising along

Scampers in the hallway cruising along reaching a dead end

This little guy is Teensy (for Teensy Tiny Tim). He lives in our doorway and guards us from unwanted visitors (bugs). He is about an inch and a half long, hence the name.

Teensy chilling while I was cleaning

Other visitors are not as friendly as the little lizards, we do have large ones that showed up when it was dry - didn’t rain for about 45 days, so they were coming out for water. Yikes… don’t worry we steered clear!

LARGE lizard - steer clear

Here are some of the monkeys. Yeah, when I first came here I was excited to live near monkeys… they are not so nice. One of the first days of us living here I took out our garbage to the trash bins outside of our house. I come inside and the next thing I know there is a monkey climbing on top of the trash bin, lifting the lid, opening garbage bags and throwing the unwanted items on the grass and street and then eating the desired items. What started as one monkey eventually turned into about 7. I stayed indoors yet again. Haha. Below are some photos of some silly monkeys.