Wildlife

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that this is a big ol' southern roach, but they do get bigger, especially the water ones. It's been many years since I've seen one this big. We've seen some smaller ones inside the house here.

Mikey and Faith were playing outside and found this one, and they were having a blast with it, screaming and carrying on everytime it started to crawl toward them.

I remember growing up that we had them so bad in our house, when we would come home at night and flip the light on you could hear them all scamper away. Since I grew up with it it didn't bother me much, but thinking about it now it seems kind of creepy, wondering where they went and exactly what were they doing. We knew they were out hunting for food, but what were they actually finding and eating, was it something we were planning on eating later ourselves? Well I survived it even if I did share food with a roach, in fact I didn't get sick much at all growing up, and we were not clean people, though I've seen dirtier, even while I was growing up.

Denise