I was out and about and came across large white acorns fallen from a tree in a parking lot. I picked up a few and brought them home to the squirrels. It didn’t take long before the nuts were discovered and carried off. I love the enthusiasm the squirrels have when I give them white acorns. We have post oak in the yard and the white oak acorns are ten times the size of the post oak acorns.

I went to take a shower and someone was already in there. She was a small someone, a house gecko, but we were both surprised.

I assume a cat brought her in, but it is getting colder and she could have found her own way to the shower, since she seemed undamaged, just cold. The shower glass and tile were too slick for the gecko to climb, so she was stuck. I took her back outside and put her into the deck box, since it is a protected place where I’ve found geckos before. I give the pronoun “she”, but honestly I didn’t ask preference, or check. She was much too cooperative and polite to be an “it”.