holy $hit!!!

[rainbabies]

i was just reading to ds...his nightime book. im chillin...reading...discussing the day today, tomorrows events...and i feel something on my hand.

im thinking spider...which is bad...nope a little tiny blue skink. OMG! it freaked me out....*hebejebes* *shudder*

after i caught it and put it outside i felt better, but OMG! i hate little creatures and insects too.

[Momo]

wow we just had a post about a skink running into someone's home... 2 skink posts in such short time what are the odds??

[GrayMatterWife]

A what? What the heck is a skink? Sounds bad...

Is it like a skank? I would be pretty mad if one of those crawled over me in bed...

[rainbabies]

http://blog.dianechamberlain.com/wp-con ... /skink.jpg

just like this...a baby skink...NOT a skank...that would be paris hilton.

[GrayMatterWife]

http://blog.dianechamberlain.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/skink.jpg

just like this...a baby skink...NOT a skank...that would be paris hilton.

OOOOh!! It's so cute! (the skink, not Paris Hilton). My DH would LOVE it (again, the skink, not the skank). He's had a ba-zillion lizards (and turtles and tarantulas and...) since we've been married.

But cuteness aside, I also would have a freak-out it crawled across my skin unexpectedly!

yeah. see ... before I met you people, I'd never heard of nor seen a skink. If I actually encounter one, I will lay the blame totally and completely at your feet.

and if that sucker had landed on me I'd STILL be washing my hands. I don't deal well with stuff like that. Not at all ...

[SuzySunshine]

Jenn, I don't think KS has skinks. Other lizards, crawly things and snakes - but I'm pretty sure no skinks.

Jenn, I don't think KS has skinks. Other lizards, crawly things and snakes - but I'm pretty sure no skinks.

thank you Cheri. I'm still freaking about the recent stories about rattlesnakes in residential areas, and how you're not supposed to kill them b/c they're on a protected list.

[SuzySunshine]

Jenn, I don't think KS has skinks. Other lizards, crawly things and snakes - but I'm pretty sure no skinks.

thank you Cheri. I'm still freaking about the recent stories about rattlesnakes in residential areas, and how you're not supposed to kill them b/c they're on a protected list.

They're not protected here. I run over them on a regular basis. PETA be damned.

Rattlesnakes protected? Are you sure? I'll have to ask my dad.

Rattlesnakes protected? Are you sure? I'll have to ask my dad.

It's a certian species of them. I can guarantee if I see one I won't be getting close enough to tell if I'm allowed to kill it or not.

[GrayMatterWife]

There's only one thing rattlesnakes are good for: snakeskin boots.

I'm the person who collects spiders and relocates them outside. But I can't STAND snakes much less rattlesnakes. I would probably run over them too.

Are skinks like geckos? I don't mind them too much but don't like the surprise factor.

[MDPhDWife]

Pretty sure they're not protected here either. Snakes would be up there with my top phobias. I accidently ran over one the other day and was shuddering all day at the thought. When I was kid there was a snake in the driveway and my dad went out to kill it by chopping it's head off with a shovel. It was nasty, the snake was still opening and closing it's mouth after it had been decapitated. EEEW!!!

That skink is very pretty, and blue at that! I haven't seen any of those, but we have a non-blue version about 2-5 times that size which sunbake in multitudes in the garden.

It's pretty common in our area to find gecko communities living with the humans. There seem to be quite a few living with us - and as long as they eat the bugs, I don't complain. They have cute toes. I wasn't keen to find one had made it into bed with me recently, though!

[Mrs. McPads]

Gah! Ew.

I might have puddled myself if that had happened to me. I am not afraid of many things, but something creepy crawly unexpectedly on me would make me lose bladder control...

Eileen