Sorry I haven't been in touch lately I have been temping. Well my first job was a receptionist at a TV stations sales office. The phone rang all of a dozen times, it was totally boring. In the reception they had a TV which was playing their TV channel. Well I can honestly say in that one day I heard the same commercial for funeral insurance about 30 times. I eventually found the volume control and turned it down. Now that job only lasted a day so I guess as a receptionist I just didn't have the legs for it (badump bump).
Last week and this week I am at a company, at reception again. The phone ring about 4 times all day. Here I am reformatting word documents, so I've learned a bit about word. But other than that it's pretty boring. But I was smart I brought some of my own things to work on. I can't complain the pay isn't bad for what I'm doing but they get paid really good out here because of the cost of living.
Our replacement lily also croaked and we lost the receipt so we couldn't take it back for a replacement so L bought a different plant. We also moved it into a shadier place thinking that maybe the plant was getting too much sun. Well it was also probably too hot for the fish, during the day they would not come to the surface. Now it's moved they frolic all day, every time we walk by they think it's feeding time.
Since it's spring here, we are still on Canada seasons in our head, we have noticed many changes with the lizards. Some come out onto the patio at night and do some sort of sideways slithering walking. These guys are just little, about the thickness of a pencil, but it's fun to watch. We still have the geckos on the wall that I love to watch eating all the moths. I think we have another one in the house again but they seem to hide quite well some I'm not going to try to throw this one out. Although I doubt there's much to eat in our place other than sugar ants, which I don't think they eat.
But last 2 nights we've had a quite large lizard visit. The other night L fed it some steak and some rice which was completely eaten. Last night it got really brave and walked all around the patio even getting up close to our chairs. I mean it's not a huge lizard, about the thickness of a sausage, but we both had our feet up so it wouldn't eat our toes. Last night we were prepared and we broke up a cooked shrimp. It must have a good nose because it pretty much found them without wandering around. We also fed it mango and some more rice but it didn't eat everything we put out so I gather rice and mango are lower on it's list of favourites or we just over fed it on shrimp. Hopefully we'll see it tonight, maybe we can get a picture.
Things are obviously changing, we've had more rain and this morning we came to work in rain, nothing brutal like what is forecast to come but enough to slow traffic down. With the rain things are starting to get a lot greener.
With the on coming wet they will be closing the Mindil beach market, which is a market that runs Thursday and Sunday during the dry that has food and stands that sell or sorts of stuff. L has a place she likes to go and get earrings but we now know that the lady that runs the booth will be at some other location on Sunday mornings. If you look at our pictures you'll see some sunset pics we took at Mindil beach. In fact the background to our blog is a picture taken at Mindil (or it was as of this writing).
