This morning right after waking up, I stumble downstairs, wife's milling about the kitchen, "oh, hey, you're up."

(small talk, how did you sleep, etc)

"Oh, I wanted to ask you. What is that?" *points at wall by back door*

I'm still groggy from my mini-hibernation, so I bend over to take a look. "Oh, I think I've read about these. You didn't touch it, did you?"

"Oh @#$& no."

I grabbed a card-stock junkmail out of the mail basket and a rocks glass from the cabinet and carefully extracted this thing from the wall (without touching it) and then dumped it onto the paper towel for photo shoot.



URL here confirmed my suspicion: https://www.southernliving.com/garden/pests/southern-flannel-moth-caterpillar

First time I saw one of these, having been in Texas for 22.5yrs. We didn't have these in NE Oklahoma or SE Kansas.