There are a few things I really enjoy seeing in Texas that I never saw in Minnesota. One is the endless number of hawks circling the skies at any given time. I could watch them for hours. I saw lots of ducks and geese in MN but hardly ever a hawk - at least not in the city.
I also really like the little geckos that grace our front entry porch. Most nights you can find a couple of adults and two or three babies hanging out on the bricks, but they’ll quickly scurry into the eaves if they see you looking at them for too long. We also have at least a couple that hang around the back patio in the evening.
Yesterday morning as I was walking through the family room, I caught something out of the corner of my eye. Couldn’t figure out what it was - something on the wall, near the ceiling. We have a lot of hornets around our yard, and I thought perhaps that’s what it was.
I actually had to get my camera out and zoom in on it to find out that it was a teeny baby gecko. Poor thing! He was on the wall above the patio door, so he must have wandered in during one of the thousand times a day I let the dogs in and out.
I decided to leave him alone and wait for him to come down. Then I could worry about trying to get him outside. No point in scaring him before it was necessary. Throughout the day I would check on him. He barely moved an inch from his original position. I figured he must have been pretty terrified.
I don’t know how old he was, but if size was any indication, he must have been very, very young. He probably didn’t have a clue what to do about his predicament, so decided to just stay put. I’m sure coming in the house was just a freak accident, cause as you know, I have FOUR DOGS!
I was gone for a couple of hours in the afternoon, and when I came home, you guessed it, he was in the same spot. My husband said that he would die up there if we didn’t get him down. So after everyone went to bed, I found a fluffy thing on a pole used for dusting ceiling fans and decided to try to coax him out the door. It was actually amazingly simple. I just opened the door, nudged him in the right direction, and out he went. Wah-Lah! Gecko Gone! Yea!!!!! Good luck, little guy!!
It’s surprising how much I worried about that tiny lizard. Sometimes it’s the little things in life that make all the difference!!
