Lake Life

I love living by the lake! When we lived in Bloomington we had lots of critters that would stop by because there were 3 great big pine trees by our front and patio door so there were always a wide variety of birds and groundsquirls that would come and live every year (we even had a mamma with 10 babies one summer). Today, we had an even better visitor! We went to Chipotle to grab a bite to eat before Brice had to leave to go to work. Well, as we were walking from the car to the front door, we have a visitor waiting for us on the sidewalk. It turns out to be a small turtle so of course, we had to get out the camera to take a couple of shots.


So, after putting the camera away, Brice and I decide that he needs to go down to the pond so he doesn't get run over (we have had frogs run over before in our driveway) so I pick him up and we start walking down the driveway. We didn't get very far and he comes out of the shell and starts wiggling his legs a lot I put him down in the grass. Brice still thought that we should take him down to the pond (which, by the way, is completely empty because of the lack of rain) so both of us tried picking him up again but he was not very fond of us by then and started hissing and decided to get up the gumption to walk away from us (he was getting along pretty good!). So, hopefully he stays in the grass and I don't see him tomorrow stuck to the road somewhere.