Shadows, My Foot!

"Aaaahhhh,"  MyGirl screamed as she jumped up and down then ran from the dining to the kitchen.

"Aaaahhhh!!!!  Aaaahhh!!!!,"  she kept screaming.

"What is it?  What's the matter?"  we asked frantically.

"I saw something!  There's something there!"

"Where?  Where did you see it?   What was it?  What did it look like?"

"It looked like a lizard.  A big one!  It was there!,"  MyGirl shrieked and pointed towards RD's chair.

MacGyver looked around the dining table.  He checked under the chairs where MyGirl had pointed.  He moved RD's chair outside to clear the area then he shook the rug a little bit.  Seeing nothing, he gathered up the rug and tossed it outside over RD's chair.

"I don't see anything."  he said.

MyGirl was still kind of hysterical.

"Maybe it was just a shadow,"  I said, trying to calm her down.  "You know how sometimes you see something moving and you imagine it is something, but there really is nothing there.  It was just a shadow of something or another."

I pointed out how there were so many moving shadows on the floor created by the leaves from the trees outside because of the wind.

She calmed down a bit and we asked her if she wanted to eat her piece of toast in the dining room now that the coast was clear.

"No, I think I'll stay here."

We asked her how big was the thing she thought she saw.

"As big as an iguana,"  she replied.  

"About this big?"  MacGyver asked, holding his hands about a foot apart.

MyGirl nodded her head.

I didn't give it a second thought but was greatly relieved that it was a false alarm.  I was thinking butiki (house lizard)  but she just said iguana.

I went upstairs to do some overdue cleaning and clearing.  I had just started when the commotion downstairs resumed.

This time it was MacGyver who was doing the shouting.  

"Open the door, RD, quick!"   "Get out of the way!"

I went downstairs and found everyone on alert mode.

There it was by the glass, an unwanted visitor that had considered the open door as an invitation to enter the house.  (It is a warm day so we had opened the glass door, but someone must have accidentally left the screen door open at some point in time.)

MacGyver opened the screen door to provide a clear path for our far-from-little lizard.

Eventually, our reptilian intruder found its way back to the outside world.   (Thank God!)

I didn't do any screaming at the time so, in the exact words of MyGirl, "Aaaahhhh!  Aaaahhhh!!!!  Aaaahhhh!!!!"    (plus a deep sigh of relief) 

Do you see its tail in the corner, right behind the blinds?

Wrong way, lizard! Turn around!

That's right, the exit is this way.

Just to prove this is no house lizard, here it is close up.

I think it is more than a foot long.

Keep moving.  Keep moving.  Your freedom is near 

(and it coincides with our relief.)

MyGirl took this last one and she immediately posted it on Instagram.

"I walked past this and I screamed. and mum thought I was imagining things..."

Whew!  I'm glad that's over.

I'm sorry I doubted you, MyGirl.