Geico Gecko Un-Guru

Hurricane Hermine has been causing Texans to batten down the hatches to keep from getting swept away in the rivers made from recent massive downpours. I may have to break out my mud boots to go wading through foot deep mud on farm calls. Yesterday was a particularly long day as I opened the clinic at 7:25 am, leaving my apartment at 6:50 am, briefly stopping at Starbucks for a pre-day pick me up (much needed according to the broadcasts of asteroid attacks impending) and driving north through the downpour. Notice I didn't tell you what time I got up - it's insanity. We had several cancellations and no-shows as the sheets of rain loomed upon us. Just the day before the wall cloud near the clinic beckoned area storm chasers and helicopter newscasters to hover around the FM roads near us. It was a long day ending in a late entrance to a continuing education seminar at Craig Ranch. Let me pause here to say that Craig Ranch is awesome. I don't even have words. I wonder if you can Google it and see it in all its grandeur. And may I also say that during the CE presentation on behavioral issues in canines the Texas Rangers game was visible on a big screen. I love Texas.

I finally arrived home closer to 9:30 pm than not to find the Geico Gecko on my bedroom wall. Okay, so he (?) was smaller (~2 inches) and somewhat of a transparent yellow color, oh okay, and he was non-communicative (ET phone home, anyone?) but he was there. In my bedroom. On the wall. And it freaked me out. What if he crawled into my mouth while I was sleeping and I swallowed him! What if I woke up and he was sitting on my forehead? Or leaving gecko slime on me? I tried to trap him in an Eskimo Joe's cup and free him to the universe outside but the little thing was too fast! He vanished under my dresser and I didn't sleep all night. Alright, I'm exaggerating a little, but I thought about not sleeping all night. The end point is -- he escaped. Where in the world is he hiding??

Kyle says a gecko is good luck. I think that's because he doesn't have one in his house!!

Wishing you all good shelter and strong oars, oh, and prayers to drive in the opposite direction of traffic (what a blessing that is in DFW!).