For the large shell-less beings, the older you get, the older you tend to feel….and look. Not so if you are lucky enough to arrive wearing a shell. For starters, shells are not prone to wrinkling, sagging or drooping. They stay lovely and youthful looking….even when the rest of you perhaps does not. Also, withContinueContinue reading “Day 228: Box Turtle Beauty Tips”
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Day 225: Box Turtle Peek-a-boo
The key to successfully training a large shell-less assistant is “measured cuteness.” In other words, you don’t want to hit her with all the cuteness you’ve got all at once. That could be overwhelming, causing her to faint dead away and shirk her contractually stipulated flock care duties. A much wiser strategy is to doleContinueContinue reading “Day 225: Box Turtle Peek-a-boo”
Day 222: Box Turtle Plays I Spy
If you are small and very stealthy and silent and have a large shell-less assistant who is anything but, there is a fun game called “I Spy” you can play to really freak her out. Here is what to do. Let’s say your assistant comes looking for you to do her daily “box turtle safetyContinueContinue reading “Day 222: Box Turtle Plays I Spy”
Day 219: Box Turtle Gets Back to Basics
In the world today, there is a massive movement focused on “getting back to basics.” And when it’s all said and done, there is nothing more basic than a good old-fashioned log. Logs are so functional and multi-purpose. They are also quite manly and masculine (a side perk if you happen to be a soloContinueContinue reading “Day 219: Box Turtle Gets Back to Basics”
Day 216: Box Turtle Meets “The Hand”
Shelled beings are quite cute and compact. If you popped out wearing a shell on your back, you definitely won the design lottery. If you can fit completely inside your box and hinge it shut, this means you are a “box turtle.” (It also means there are modern safes that aren’t as secure as youContinueContinue reading “Day 216: Box Turtle Meets “The Hand””
Day 213: The Box Turtle Selfie
There is such a thing as “selfie culture” today. This basically involves snapping pics of yourself all day, every day, so as to feature all of your good sides (you don’t want to leave any out on account of how they’ll feel, well, left out). This is easier for beings who only have one orContinueContinue reading “Day 213: The Box Turtle Selfie”
Day 210: A Box Turtle and His Crocs
Reptiles, whether box turtles, tortoises or other species, are definitely a breed apart. Even if you look a little (or a lot) different on the outside, on the inside you have so much in common. Take cold blood, for example. Where a good one-half of all the beings on earth are what one might politelyContinueContinue reading “Day 210: A Box Turtle and His Crocs”
Day 207: Box Turtle Makes a Video!
While there are undeniable advantages to be had by choosing life in an interspecies flock, there are also notable drawbacks. For starters, the paparazzi. They just never leave you alone. As a box turtle, wherever you go, whatever you are doing, whether you are swimming in your watering hole, snoozing under your fern, noshing onContinueContinue reading “Day 207: Box Turtle Makes a Video!”
Day 204: A Box Turtle Finds a Friend
When you are an active participant in the daily food chain o’ life, you soon learn who your friends are. When you encounter the same beings again and again, and again and again they seem totally disinclined to add you to the menu, chances are good they are your friends. As a box turtle, whileContinueContinue reading “Day 204: A Box Turtle Finds a Friend”
Day 201: A Big Green Box Turtle
You just never know who you might meet when a new day dawns. This is why, if you are a single and suave manly and masculine 3-toed box turtle who is looking for love, there is always a reason to keep hope alive. You could be out for a bit of a stroll, no destinationContinueContinue reading “Day 201: A Big Green Box Turtle”
Love & Feathers & Shells 