up on top you are seeing great sights

This afternoon, I went home for lunch to take the dogs out, and there was much snuffling around the base of the deck stairs, which meant something! Interesting! Was! Happening! And when I finally managed to corral them away from the spot they were snuffling, there was a turtle there. Not moving, which I guess I'd hunker down, too, if two enormous alien creatures were poking at me with their cold wet appendages (that really does sound unpleasantly Lovecraftian, does it not?), and he didn't move when I took the dogs back inside, nor when I came back out to snap a couple of pictures with my camera.

He's okay, though! I'm pretty sure he is, because when I picked him up to check, he shot me this look and pulled further into his shell, which I took to be an invitation to fuck off, and I set him back down and fucked off, and I'll check again when I get home to make sure he eventually continued on his merry extremely cranky way, but anyway.

( Anyway. )

I said I'd try to remember to share my bale of turtles. And so I have. :)