Blue Tailed Lizard | Forest Garden

Some people believe that agriculture allowed the Genesis of human civilization millennia ago. I beg to differ…

Actually, it was containers.

Once we humans have a place to put something, and a way to move it from here to there, we begin to collect; and to accumulate. And civilization as we know it is born…

So containers are the basic building blocks of our modern, civilized lives. Think about it-

What is a home, a car, a pantry, or even a shoe… but a specialized container?

I have a special affinity for containers.

Maybe it’s because my mother spent several years as a Tupperware dealer when she needed a flexible schedule for a while. She always loved Tupperware, and selling it gave her the opportunity to add to her collection and set aside a kitchen full of Tupperware for each of us kids to have one day.

I still keep my flour in an ancient Tupperware container inherited from my grandmother.

And the sugar keeps forever in the 70’s era avocado green Tupperware my mother set aside for me all those years ago.

Still, I drive my partner nuts by saving many of the “disposable” containers which pass through our lives.

These frozen yogurt containers have a thousand alternative uses…

Like catching the tiny blue tailed lizard who somehow got into our home earlier today. He was skittering across the living room floor when I spotted him this afternoon.

Fortunately for him, our cat was sunning himself out on the deck.

After several tries, this little guy trusted me enough to cooperate in the delicate task of catching him, lifting him from the floor, and taking him back outside where he can catch his dinner.