Last night, I added a fern to the water dish, hopefully to help shade it from the sun, then planted the grass in the little annex, where the torts like to hide. The whole area is really a good hiding spot now. :)
See?
Wailey still tucks himself into weird places...
Kitten likes to come sniff around in the enclosure. Plus, it's a good place to observe the fence, an endless source of lizards and interesting noises (from all the critters on the other side).
The best is when the rooster makes a noise and Kitten hauls her little furry butt back into the house, then peeks her head out the door. "Whatwasthat?" It's happened more than once.
And look, pineapples!
As uncool as it may be to admit it, I sure do love living in the suburbs. :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
