I should start by saying that Fall in Alabama is prime lizard catching season. It's warm so the lizards are still out, but it's cool enough that they are pretty slow so that the kids can catch them, and that's good news to the Caffee children. You see the Caffee children will get up and get all of their school work done early (without complaints) just to get outside to catch lizards (and whatever else that they may come across). These crazy kids have caught up to 34 lizards in one day, they affectionately refer to that day (often) as "The day we caught THIRTY FOUR lizards". LOL!
They head out early with a five gallon bucket and start their day. They each have their own job during lizard catching season too- I'm tellin ya, these kids are serious, you would think they were getting paid $5 a lizard by the way they act. LOL! Tim is the lizard finder, Molly said he is the best "finder"; Molly is the actual lizard catcher, because she is the fastest; and Maddie is the lizard holder, think, nursery worker. (What with the hard-core lizard catching and the five gallon bucket, I think this post deserves to be filed under the "
Confessions of a Hillbilly category".)
I asked Molly "You only catch the green lizards right?" and she replied, very seriously and emphasising with her hand on each word, "We will catch any kind of lizard... as long as it's not poisonous".
They also catch the occasional frog (above) or turtle too, but lizards are their favorite.
On one fine lizard catching day, I was happily working in my loft and talking on the phone to a friend, when Molly ran up the stairs screaming and laughing with a lizard hanging off of her nose! She said that Tim stuck the lizard on her nose while it's mouth was open. Silly boy. Well I grabbed the camera, took a few good pictures for her future husband, and promptly told her that she was on her own getting that lizard off of her nose. LOL! Mama don't do lizards. She eventually pried it off and let it go along with the rest of the the day's catch, feeling that it had been tortured enough for one day, and lived to continue her lizard catching career the very next day. So there is our lizard story...I hope you enjoyed it as much as these crazy kids did!
Next up, my new bag! I'm going to get Molly to take pictures of me wearing it today, this should be fun!
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Oh, and I love that you took pictures for "her future husband". lol
We have lizards here too but neither of my girls has ever caught 34! Your kids have to go into the lizard catching business for sure. Maybe a reality show or something! Heehee!!!
And, for the record, I would totally freak out if I had a lizard on my nose.
Thanks for such a great smile to end the evening!
What a fun family you have!