At 10:08 a.m. and with little in the way of fanfare (or reaction from Buster), our beloved Russian tortoise was tranfered from the 3-square-foot indoor aquarium she’s long resided in to her new 25-square-foot playground where she promptly sat still and probably won’t move for the next hour. Maybe two, which is what tortoises often …
Ranger put on her special bark this morning to alert us that there was something besides a squirrel up in the loquat tree. Sure enough, there was: Video clip is here. YouTube version is here.
Susan and I took our inner children to see Wall•E — LOVED it. But in lieu of an unecessary review or anything substantive of any sort I hereby only offer links to the following vidclips made yesterday, of the dragonfly I photographed that afternoon and a quick game of fetch between Susan and Ranger:
This fine specimen allowed me to get my cam almost to its wingtips for this late-afternoon shot that I’m very pleased with (click to hummongify):
Since I’m still pretty much punked out and recovering from me being a poor hydrater during the latter half of my 64-mile bike ride yesterday there isn’t a whole lot happening around here other than I’m wandering around the backyard with my cam complaining about how hot it is to no one in particular while …
The early afternoon run to Home Depot Sunday was a success in procuring the materials I’d need to build the lid to cover the main part of the tortoise hutch begun and completed Saturday. By the time I got home it was hot and I wasn’t really planning on commencing construction, but with Susan still …
It’s funny, when you think about the materials involved in putting together a 5′ x 5′ outdoor pen for our Russian tortoise Buster — four boards, four legs, slats, screening material and some brackets it seems like putting it all together would take hardly any time at all. Four hours later, I finally was done …