Introducing Ralph

Well it isn't news that we have our fair share of wildlife out in our backyard. But a few days ago we had a different visitor a really big lizard with short little legs. We have fed him things like rice, mango, shrimp, eggs, steak, pork and chicken. Needless to say I would say he doesn't like veggies or carbs that much. But he sure likes meat. Usually he shows up just when we are about to go in because the mozzies are getting bad here, but tonight we got a pleasant surprise he was under L's chair with his head poking out. We fed him some chicken which of course he gobbled constantly. He even took it from my hand. This guy doesn't seem to be as scared as the other types of lizards that are around the house. He moves pretty slow and wanders around getting under the chair and table, I don't think he likes the light. We were afraid the other night because he didn't show up but he seems to be pretty regular now. He/she is a welcome site at dinner when we eat outside, which is every night. Here are some pictures we took he is pretty cute the poor guy has very little legs. You probably think that we have overfed him but he was this chubby last week. We worry about the him because he's kinda slow and their are cars just on the other side of the fence which he crawls thru to get to us. See his pics below. If you can't see the pics go to the blog (link below).


The weather is getting a lot hotter lately and the humidity is up. It has been raining and one day we got 100mm. Some people say it can rain for 2 weeks, not sure if that's constant rain of every day for 2 weeks. I guess we'll see.

We also got our power bill which works about to $100 a month and that was without aircon running, just fans and the fridge. It could be an expensive summer (our summer not your summer).

Well I'm in the 2nd week of my part-time job. They said they want me longer than the 4 weeks so that'll be good. The money I earn will be that gets us back to Canada for next June so maybe I'll be able to afford to bring L back as well (haha). I guess not many receptionists are very good at image editing, but I'm still lousy at answering the phone. But it's a lot of fun the people are pretty cool and that's what counts.