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Episode 1: look before you slap
*** I have an ant phobia***

A few days ago I sat happily in my bed watching a movie. Out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the giant red ants that takes over the bathroom floor once night falls, crawling on the wall by my face. I panicked and asked Jeremiah to kill it. He slapped it and said it was dead. To my horror I saw  that it was very much alive and now on my bed, after several more swats he killed it. I sat back down and tried to be calm, then I felt a tickle on my arm. I jumped up in terror sure an ant was crawling on my arm, I brushed myself only to feel the pinch of a bite on my arm. Someone turned on the light to stop my hysterics, I looked to my arm to search out the offending ant only to find a large spider sitting on my chest looking me in the face. I froze still and Jeremiah hit it off at my pleading.

24 hours later I felt like I was constantly receiving a shot in my arm, my lymph glands had become painfully swollen and a trip to the doctor confirmed I had an infection which at this moment has become a very painful but healing abscess under my skin.

Episode 2: Princessa

On the Quinta in the time that we have lived there 2 new puppies have come to live there too., Princessa and Pandi. Puppy Princessa isn’t the first princessa on the Quinta however, the woman who runs the quinta has a pet sheep, also named Princessa. The sheep hangs out with Duke and seems to believe she is a dog. When she is scared or angry she chases and stomps people. A few nights ago when the cook Theresa put food out for the puppies, Princessa the sheep came and began to eat it, when Theresa came out to shoo her away Princessa head butted Theresa and gave her a black eye.

 

Episode 3: Shake your clothes

Given the wide variety of insects and arachnids that live on our walls, in our walls, under our beds, in our packs, in the sink, in the toilet….. Us girls have taken to shaking out our clothes prior to putting them on. After some clothes shaking and tooth brushing Carin and I went out to collect Jeremiah from his new little house in the medical clinic, for our morning walk.

He walked out looking groggy. Carin took one look at him and jumped in the air mumbling gibberish. Carin is fearless and for her to react that way I was sure something was very wrong. I looked to see a huge spider resting on his pant leg. What looked to be a hostess ding dong size tarantula was just resting nicely on his jeans. He looked an froze. I took off my sandal to smack it off. He looked at me pleadingly and said don’t smash it, which would have no doubt caused it to bite him. I swatted it with my shoe. It landed on the ground by Princessa the evil sheep and unrolled itself. It wasn’t a tarantula it was a large scorpion that had been resting in a ball.

 

We took pictures and let it go in peace.

Episode 4: Polly want your finger

I don’t like birds on a good day but the parrot at Casa Mateo tries to break out of his cage and will snap and nip anyone who gets too close to his cage. Some of the parrokeets have chomped Lili with their crazy red eyes.