Well, I know I already sent an email with a picture of one of the new roomies, but as I was looking through all of my recent pictures, I decided a post might be in order. So here are my new roommates:
This is Jasper. He is around 10 years old, and he likes to come up stairs after his real owner has eaten dinner and settled in to watch the news in his bedroom. He (Jasper) will often come up, and go out on my deck (like in this picture). He will then lay down in the sitting room just outside my office, and wait for me to go downstairs and cook. He will follow me back up to lay at my feet while I eat and watch TV. When he realizes that I am done, and there is nothing for him, he will go down to the second floor, and sleep on the couch, something I guess he only started doing after I moved in. With one person asleep on the first floor, and the other on the third, I think Jasper likes to be right in the middle. Does that remind you of anyone?
I haven't named this guy, but he roams the house at night, running away from me whenever I get near. He cruises the wall that runs from the second to the third floor (here, he is in hiding where the wall meets the roof on the third floor), and after being here for a few days, he relocated to the bathroom at night. I scared him (and he scared me) a couple nights in a row as I went in to brush my teeth before bed. My heart stopped as he ran up and down the wall trying to find a place to hide. Although you can not tell, he is about four inches long. A little bigger that the newts. On more than one occasion I have seen baby geckos, about an inch long, on the ceiling. So maybe this "he" is really a "she." Buster II, anyone?
Haven't named him either. Hope I don't have to. I saw him one night crawling on the ceiling way above my head. The third floor has a peaked roof that is probably 15ft high at its highest point. He was way up there. The next night, I saw him in my office, about five feet from my desk, bur hidden between a beam and the wall in a space about three or four inches wide. I could not reach in there and kill him without fear of missing him and scaring him away. I left him alone, keeping one eye on him for a few hours. He never moved. So I closed my office door when I went to bed, and in the morning he was gone. I haven't seen him since. As you can see, he is mostly legs (long hairy legs), but the area he covered on the wall was about 3/4 the size of a playing card (or a yu-gi-oh card, if that is a better comparison). I am told they are called huntsman, and that they are harmless. They eat bugs, don't make webs, and do not have the tendency to hide in clothes and such. They are wood spiders, and like hiding in nooks and crannies of the house or the woodpile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider
According to wikipedia, they are found all over the world. I keep finding them in my living space. Creepy!
In a final note, the 'Oprah in Australia' shows have begun airing here, and are on four nights in row. I watched last night (The cat is out of the bag), and I learned this much- I don't really like Oprah, but the rest of the world seems to. I find particularly annoying her "Let's get Ready to Rumble" voice that she uses several times on camera while here, speaking to a large crowd. If you see the shows, you will know exactly what I am mean.
However, to be clear, Oprah is NOT one of my new roommates.
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