I walked out of the front door and started down the steps when I suddenly realized I had a visitor. My visitor had brought its own home with him (how convenient...have house; will travel!)....the original RV life.
I was rather amazed to see this turtle on my front step so I sat down and watched him. Gradually, his head, which had been nearly completely retracted into the shell, began to emerge until it was fully exposed. We sat there, he sunning himself in the bright warmth and I just watching him with great curiosity.
There is no real point to this story except that I was absolutely delighted to have him. But the funny part was to come later. My daughter and I decided to release him somewhere in the wild where he would be safe from dogs and cats and other creatures ie neighborhood kids. We carefully put him in a box with a loose lid on top of a chair that was on the raised ramp to our back door. Then we each decided to take a nap before we set off to free him.
A couple of hours later we went to get the box....lo and behold, the box was empty and he was gone!!
Clever little turtle. I have no idea how he managed to get out of the box but somewhere lurking in my neighborhood is the new Houdini. Good luck to you, little pal!!
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