So here’s the Human: loafing in its easy chair, swilling coffee, and munching chocolate. And there’s the Dawg: squirreling around with something on the floor.
Human takes a swiggle of coffee and a closer look, and…and…
HOOOLEEE maquerel! That something is a SCORPION.
Incredibly, it hasn’t yet launched its defenses against the Dawg.
IS there REALLY never a dull goddam moment?
And why th’Hell NOT????
Human leaps up, chases the dog off, grabs an old jar and a piece of stiff paper.
Into the glassware with the little guy, lidded in with the paper slab.
What an amazing and wonderful creature! Looks like something that came straight from some Age Before the Dinosaurs.
So we carry the little guy through the garage and out the door, way into the front yard. Down by the street, as far from the Shack as possible. Gently, carefully let him out into the gravel beneath one of the trees.
Now, if you were God, what on earth (or in Heaven) would persuade you to create such a strange little beast?
Kinda mystifies me: I could never imagine how to put such an animal together.
Presumably, that’s why I’m not God, eh? 😉
My mom used to tell the story of our move to AZ from NJ. She had to put the legs of the baby’s crib in juice glasses to keep the scorpions from crawling into bed with the little one. I guess it worked. We are all still alive – well, the kids are.
Ironically, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in “the wild.” Gila monsters, rattle snakes, roadrunners…but no scorpions.
Interesting wildlife we have here in the desert, eh? Now, yes, I have spotted a roadrunner in the wild. But never a Gila monster. Or even a truly wild, unleashed rattlesnake. Occasionally you’ll see rattlers down around South Mountain, but…weirdly, they seem almost tame.
Yes! Setting the legs of a piece of furniture in a glass or bowl is a classic maneuver to repel marauding bugs! 😀
We do have the occasional scorpion here. They don’t seem to be very interested in socializing with humans, mercifully. And truth to tell, I’ve never seen one inside the house. The garage: once or twice. The yard: yeah. But inside a human dwelling: not yet!
Eek indeed! That’s pretty scary. I’m glad you had the presence of mind to evict the intruder with no injuries to human, dog, or scorpion!
Do you get them often in Arizona?
They’re native to Arizona, I believe.
People scare themselves about such creatures. Leave the little guys alone, and they’ll leave you alone.
Imagine, if you will, what a human must look like to a beast who’s two or three inches long…. Eeeek! The’ve got to be even more terrorized by us than we are by them.