Just a quick one tonight to show you my little friend.

My pets have been obsessing over an area in the kitchen for about two days. Scratching at the floor, growling, circling, pacing. It had me a bit freaked out to be honest. I don’t mind a good old fashioned haunting but I had a feeling this had more to do with something roaming around underneath the house.

This afternoon, we found whom I believe to be the culprit.

The dogs were in the backyard barking and barking and barking some more at something they had chased behind a pile of paving stones. I went over to investigate fully expecting to find a lizard, hoping not to find a snake and completely stunned and surprised to find this little hissing face staring up at me.

He looked young but we could not locate the mother. One of my more knowledgeable friends whom I sent a picture to remarked that he looked old enough to survive on his own if the mother was not around. My husband was grateful to hear that as I was already offering him half eaten peaches, naming him (Opie) and preparing to raise him as my own.

Opie was last seen about twenty minutes later squeezing himself under the fence and into the park on the other side. And nobody has been interested in that spot in the kitchen….