Little critters

Todays theme is bugs and reptile type critters. When I arrived here, the house was very clean. No sign of any type of critters. This is what I expected because a friend recommended this place and I had seen pictures that gave me confidence that I would be living somewhere decent.

And it is. But it is still the tropics and there are lots of openings to the house, without screens.

On day two, there was a cockroach in my bathroom. I wasn't pleased. Fortunately, Alfredo was here and he killed it for me and cleaned it up. He explained that the place had been fumigated the day before my arrival. And this accounted for the fact that the cockroach was very slow moving. It was.

That night I slept a bit poorly because of the timeshare stupidity (as you may recall) and because I pictured other critters walking across my bed at night. Major YUCK!!!! But there were none and the one roach seemed like an exception.

So far it has been, there have been no other roaches. But, I'm a bit concerned. In the last day or two, there has been more "wildlife" in the house than before. A few teensy ants in the kitchen, a few flies in the bathroom, and the cutest little gecko in the bathroom too. I can live with all of these critters, no problems at all. But, is that a sign that the fumigation effects are wearing off? Will there be other roaches?! When will the landlord fumigate again? Please tell me its sooner than later!

I had a picture of the gecko, but I accidentally deleted it. It turns out there is a way to delete all of the pictures in my camera at one time, I just did it at the wrong time. But I thought you might like the picture of the iguana I saw in the old part of PV. It was one of two that i saw. They were each about 1 meter long. Very cool!!!