Where the Wild Things Are

During this time we saw lots of creatures, like this herd of javelina just off our porch.

One day, Gerald reached into a box of screws and felt a pain. I found him in the utility room looking for what he thought must have been a metal splinter. His whole thumb was in pain. I told him I thought he must have been bitten by something. He looked in the box and found this scorpion.

Then he found another.

Here's his poor thumb. It was the same one he cut the tip off of on the table saw.

Not long after that, this scorpion just walked out into the middle of our living room. We couldn't believe it. We thought scorpions hibernated in winter and only came out at night. But here was evidence to the contrary.