Great Florida Freeze

Here's an update to what they are now referring to as the Great Florida Freeze of 2010. The lizards are all gone!! Gone!! Yes, as in "they aren't out sunning themselves in the 70 degree weather". April is bored. She has nothing to chase around the back anymore. Since the freeze, I haven't seen a single gecko.

I did a little research. It seems in southern Florida, the iguanas (big lizards) went into hibernation from the cold. They were falling out of the trees down there. It must be a bitch to be cold-blooded. People were rescuing them and bringing them inside. Sometimes that did more harm than good. If their body temperature increases too rapidly, they die. You have to know what you're doing and gradually bring their temperature up.

Well, anyways, I figured if the big ass lizards further south where it wasn't quite as cold had a problem, our little lizards probably froze to death. They told us to take our pets and plants inside. I guess the lizards were on their own. I didn't see any frozen lizards laying around. There weren't any piles of them at the back door where they had tried to find warmth in their final agonizing minutes. Or do they get hypothermia and start feeling giddy and start laughing and hallucinating first? Anyways, I figured out how to find them. I just walked around on the frozen grass. Every time I heard a crunching sound I'd look down and .........just kidding. They must have gone into the bushes or under the house trying to survive. It doesn't seem that any did.