I always wonder what goes through the heads of animals… they do the strangest things. I have three that live in my house and they’re all varying degrees of stupid and hilarious, that’s why we keep them you know? But we also have a ton of wild ones all over the place. The Mojave desert is just full of critters, a lot of which are able to kill you if you aren’t vigilant. But there are a fair few that are a match for like… ants?

For example, the wee tiny lizards we have. We have lizards in various sizes, but these bitty ones are kind of a personal favorite of mine. Especially since I know kind of like to imagine them as secretly petty and spiteful. We have this one that comes to visit our front door. For context, our front door is part of an addition that they put a security door on and made a little vestibule between the security door and the interior door that goes into the house. When the weather is nice in spring and fall, I keep this open all day bc we love a bit of fresh air. It’s about 5×5 and faces east, so the cats love to hang out in there most of the day.

Now, the lizard. Since the weather cooled down finally a couple of weeks ago, this little dude shows up every single day at approximately the same time. I know exactly when he arrives bc Mr. Black-n-White assumes his poised stance of “I want to fucking eat that!”