D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

One early morning last week, as I walked up the driveway to deposit my recyclables before going into the house, there was a startled rustling in the dead leaves under a camellia bush, and I glimpsed two eyes glowing green. As the motion detector light came on, the creature jumped noisily to the top of the fence. So I had a look, thinking possibly a cat, and found a young opossum, apparently uncertain whether to run or freeze. I said hi.