What about my crazy heading “A lizard in the oven”?  I will get to that.

Our search for lizards was very difficult.  We walked up a the narrow one lane Morrison Canyon road.  A deep ravine borders the going up side and a steep cliff makes up the going down side.  The  lizards love the steep side.  It’s full of rocks and loose gravel.  We did not see a lizard for the first quarter mile.  My boys were too noisy to see or hear anything.  I came up with the idea of “lizard gardens” to get them to shut up and look.  It worked.  We were able to see 9 lizards.  I offered them $1 for each lizard caught.

The boys know that lizards need warm weather to sun bathe in .  This is when Josiah offered to put one in the oven if we caught it to keep it warm.  This got me laughing on the inside!  Can you imagine your wife discovering a lizard in the oven?  Do I hear divorce?  Did I mention that we were looking for snakes too.  I retracted my offer to catch snakes because some are poisonous.

The boys were having such a hard time keeping quiet and catching lizards that I offered them $2 for each lizard.  I did not loose any money.  I only bet on a sure thing!  Lizards are nearly impossible to catch.  American lizards are too fast for my boys.