Wildlife update: Put up a bird feeder for the finches (those things know how to sing!) and got some kind of small bird of prey as well. I think it was a peregrine falcon (common in the city) but my brother swears there's no chance. Also, earlier this week while I was watering, I flushed out an alligator lizard friend! Missing a tail, this one was, and I think he might have been the one who was around last year, although I could have sworn I found that one's skeleton under the sage last winter. Maybe it this is that one's interdimensional twin, who has traveled back through time and space? Suffice to say, delighted to have him, vendetta and all...