Blue Tongue Lizard

I like to sunbathe in the garden.  But autumn is very tricky.

Sometimes there's sun,  so I get my UV.

But sometimes it's cold, when there's a cloud.

I'm thinking maybe I should brumate soon.

That means I go to sleep a lot and don't eat.  Not quite hibernation, but sort of.

The human employees worry that I might not ever wake up.

Hmm, I worry too.  I've never done it before.

Anyway, I'll see.

When I was basking on my rock this morning, a blue tongue lizard appeared.

Mr Keeper found him walking in through the garage.

He hurt his legs falling off a tree, he said.  Trying to escape a cat.

There's just no end to these roaming cat tragedies.

So he came to our house, since word got around FLIP Headquarters are here.

He said he wouldn't trouble our human employees.

He's happy to just help himself to snails in our backyard.

Mrs Keeper was happy about that.  Snails bred like mad after the rains.  And ate her succulents.

We chatted for a while.

Then he walked off to look for snails.

And I went back to basking.

Yawn.

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