The rains have stopped falling…now the critters have come out to play…

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This morning I woke up to blue skies and the birds singing. This is the first day in the last 16 days this has happed. But when you wake up to such a beautiful morning you’re sure to find some critter playing in and around your home. A few wonderful critters like cockroaches, slugs, and centipedes crawled deep into their holes and closed their doors so the rains wouldn’t flood them out. But now the birds woke them up around 5 this morning and they all started to dig their way out. When I walked in my kitchen this morning you’d never imagine what I saw. I was greeted by a giant red centipede curled up in the middle of my kitchen floor. Normally the giant red centipedes are older and have lived a lot longer than the black ones we find around here. Normally where I live I don’t see a lot of them but this morning I found one in my kitchen. These things are fast with their 100 legs and can out run me in no time at all. So I had to be extra quiet and not wake it up. I got around it and closely examined it to make sure it would wake up and move too fast. Lucky for me it was sleeping right in front of my cooking pots. I grabbed one of the bigger ones and came down on this old guy. I ended up smashing him and grinding the pot around on top of it. I needed to make sure it was dead. I took him out of my home using a dust pan and broom to sweep him up. I gave it to the chickens to eat. They fought over this poor guy and in no time he was gone. What’s funny is the amount of slugs that slimmed their way into my home this morning. I had to go get a garden bucket and a spatula and start scooping them off my kitchen floor. I threw them in the river so the eels could feast on them. Now the major clean up. The wonderful cockroaches, with winged backs. Yes our roaches can fly. No joke this is true. They can’t fly far but they can fly. These things are hard to kill because it seems like they have some sort of armor protection on them. Lucky for me my sister in laws kitten had found her way into my kitchen. She was running around and playing with them. Once she had them turned over on their back she lost interest and went to find another one. I had to smash all of them and remove them with a broom and pail this morning. Yes it’s wonderful to see sunshine again here on the islands. It was nice to hear that all the topical storms in and around Tahiti have finally moved away and left us blue skies, singing birds, and a lot of fun creatures in our home. How was your morning? Image source – sorry guys don’t take photos of centipedes so I had to borrow this one from Wikimedia creative commons.