working from home – special guest

I’m working from Home-home this week, in warm southern California.  It’s been a toasty 80-85 degrees since I’ve been here. 

Today, I had a little visitor to my bedroom-office.   Good thing I noticed him scrabbling across the carpet, or he would have been stuck and starving!  Pretty docile once I picked him up.  Then again, if you held me up at 20x my body height, I wouldn’t really want to move either.

 

I’m not sure where he came from, but it reminded me of a similar visitor, when I was little, and we lived in a Whittier.  Mom was freaking out, and screaming “SNAKE!”   I think I was playing outside, and I came back in because she seemed kind of stressed.   When I got back inside, there was this thin tail whipping around underneath the piano.  Quite exciting.

We’d move the piano by inches (heavy thing, the piano) and I would be poking at it with a ruler to get it OUT from under the piano, but the little guy was pretty smart. Wouldn’t budge. Except to sneak under the piano by the precise amount whenever we moved it.

At some point we figure out it was just a lizard, at which point…Expert Lizard Catcher (moi) jumped in with fingers, and escorted the offending visitor outside. 

Poor mom.  She seems to encounter a number of these lizard/snakes.   At least she hasn’t encountered any actual snakes IN the house (yet).

…that I’m aware of. :)