Brrrrr
It got down to 50° early this morning which didn’t used to happen this early. I unplugged the AC units and turned on the heaters yesterday in anticipation of the temperature, but I’m not a happy camper.
As a result of the weather a small Mediterranean gecko got itself trapped in the sink at my Mother’s house. It came inside to stay warm, but the gecko grip didn’t seem to work well on wet porcelain, so I had to help it out with a wooden spoon. They are very good at keeping down bugs, so I’m careful not to injure them.
Not much news this weekend.
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According to the thermometer in the grill of my Jeep, it got up to 99F when I went to Harbor Freight Tools this afternoon to get a replacement LED light for the back of my Jeep. The humidity was high too. Right now it’s in the high 60’s outside.
Weird weather we’re having, Florida is having SF Bay weather, and the SF Bay is having Florida weather….
Mediterranean Gecko — so that’s what those little grey guys are. I’d never seen them in this area until recent years. For a while they seemed to have completely displaced the green anoles that live here but they seem to have reached some kind of equilibrium — I see lots of both now. Maybe different breeding seasons, as one or the other usually seems to predominate.
They seem to like hanging out around window and door frames, and sometimes the smaller ones make their way inside. I keep finding tiny versions trapped in the litter box, unable to climb back out (why do they go in?). No doubt I’ve saved several from becoming kitty snacks.
I’m not enjoying the early cool weather either, though it’s been very fine during the occasional sunny day between thunderstorms. Going to feel like a cold and lonely winter anyway — the little kitty-girl who’d become the light of my life since I came back to this area died very suddenly just a month ago. It’s hard to take that I misjudged some early signs and got her to the vet too late.
I got the Canadian cold air, Badtux, and you got the Santa Ana from the first Canadian air mass of the season. Hopefully, you will start to get some rain on a consistent basis. Reading about the California drought, I was most shocked about the temperatures in the Bay area and on the Monterey Peninsula. I don’t ever remember not having to wear a jacket in either place. The Air Force summer uniform was not a good match for Monterey.
Sorry to hear about your furry friend, PJ. They are certainly nice to add warmth when it gets cold. The geckos were probably escaped pets, but they have spread all along the northern Gulf Coast. They hunt around lights and lunch on the bugs that are attracted. I agree that the anoles don’t seem to be as prevalent as earlier.
Weather is messed up everywhere, as we all know of course. 🙂 Here, we get a couple cool days, then a pretty warm day, then suddenly a cold ‘heater on’ day! And a LOT of strong winds the past Month! Some rain, and a sudden downpour! *shrug*
Very sad to hear about the kitty paintedjaguar! I’ve always hated loosing my furry friends over the years. Always hated that they have such short lives. 🙁
It’s amazing how fast creatures introduced into new places will breed to fill them! Did you know our rabbit plague started with just 24 Rabbits??! Introduced by a wealthy Brit for sport. They grew to a population of 10 billion in 67 years! 😮 Once I learned that, I truly understood the phrase “breeding like rabbits”!
Yep, you have definitely been have weird weather with rains impeding the grain harvest and drought in large areas. It seems like every week there’s a freak storm that nailed one of your cities.
Summer is on the way, but you can’t be sure anymore what that means, but probably not what it meant when you were growing up.
The thing about rabbits is that they evolved to reproduce in such large numbers because they were a prey animal in their natural environment. Australia doesn’t have the native predators to control the population, so it exploded. We have the same problem with deer in the northeastern US. We killed the natural predators, and then people stopped deer hunting, so there is a surplus of deer.
Actually I would like to have a few geckos inside the house, but they usually end up as ‘cat toys’. 🙁