A visitor.

A little while ago, Seth accidentally left the sliding door open to the backyard. When Matt came home a little while later and headed out to say hi to Seth, I heard Matt call out to me: "Hey, Auburn, is that a toy lizard or is it real?" Which sounds scintillating to me.... If he has to ask, it MUST be something cool-looking, not your ordinary lizard! And I knew there wasn't any toy lizard. Matt and I get up close to it about the same time. He (the lizard :)) was AWESOME. Haven't ever seen one like this before....

Our favorite thing about this guy? We had just had an infestation of ants inside, which he promptly took care of. Ran around for a little while eating all of them. Gone. The whole three trails.... You go, Lizard!!

He also moved like a snake! Super-fast, as lizards are, but not a darter—he was a slitherer with legs under him. This whip-like side-to-side thing going on. Totally cool.

We chased him around for a while, trying to capture him (hard to do when the tail is so long...) to help him back outside. The harder it got, the more tempted we were to keep him around. Maybe he eats silverfish, too.... ;-)