Chuck-a-turtle
The other day, during my daily walk with Raina to get the mail, we saw something strange.A car stopped in the middle of the road, and a woman jumped out of her car, ran to the back of the vehicle and picked up something on the street. After a little flinch, she hurled the object way up in the air and it landed in the side ditch. "What the hay?," says I. Raina and I took a little walk to see what it was. There we found a little turtle. "Wow, what a humanitarian. She tries to save the turtle by chucking it as far as she could throw. Weird." And then the pieces fit together as the little turtle, turned it's body slowly around, as gave us a determined SNAP!
posted by Matthan @ 8:12 PM
4 Comments:
This reminds me of a gardner snake that Matthan "saved" down by the Scioto river one summer.
hmm...ultimate turtle. Sounds like fun!
That brings back a couple memories. The first was when we found a large snapping turtle on Concord Road and I used a shoe to 'test' it. Yep, a Snapper, alright! We said 'goodbye'. This must have been about 1984-6.
The other memory was of a turtle a little smaller, but on our property by the big tree at the edge of the 'run' below the bridge - where Adrian had his Court of Honor. Dexter, Preston and I were cleaning up the stream a little and I found this 'rock' partially buried in the mud which didn't look completely like a rock so I tapped it with the handle of a hoe. It came around and showed itself. The boys went and got the whole family and then Todd saved the day by taking it back to Twin Lakes (in a cage!).
Did you take that photo? Love the chucking motion involved! I narrowly missed a baby turtle on the freeway. I didn't even realize what it was until I was so close to it, all I could do was swerve. I was on the off-ramp, so fortunately I wasn't going super fast.
Post a Comment
<< Home