surfing lizards

Hi,
Well, I'm back down in South Texas. Been here about a week. I've driven madre to the doctor, and run errands for her... HEB, Wal-Mart, etc..  Nothing too exciting. It's hot and dry here. The cicadas are making noise in the yard. I can hear them from inside the house. Sometimes the noise is deafening. And that's just one of the many bugs we have around here... chiggers, june bugs, ants of many sizes and colors, spiders and more spiders, ticks, fleas, wasps, dirt dabbers, and bees. We also have scorpians and tarantulas, but I haven't run into any of them yet.

I had a funny thing happen the other day on the way back to the farm on one of the HEB grocery store run... Got in the SUV and started on my way home, when I noticed a passenger. You know those little green lizards that change colors? We typically call them cameleon lizards, but they are actually a green anole lizard... I think thayt's the name of them. Anyway, on the hood of the car, where the windshield wipers are  housed, was one of these little lizards. It had turned an ugly shade of brown/gray, I assume to blend in with the charcoal gray Ford Escape of my mom's. Well, this lizard looked like it was hood surfing.. remember when we were in high school, somebody, usually male, would think it was funny to get on the hood of the car and pretend to surf while one of his buddies, usually drunk, would drive around a parking lot, hitting the speed bumps and trying to knock his friend off??? That's the hood surfing to which I'm referring... anyway, this lizard calmly walked around the hood of the car, hanging on with it's tiny little toenails, surfing the hood... Me, not being male or drunk, was driving carefully because I did not want to it to fall off and hurt it's little head and suffer traumatic brain injury. So, we made it safely home, and to my knowledge, the little surfing lizard is hanging ten ( how many toes does a lizard actually have??) with someone else.  So, that's my exciting news from South Texas.  More later...