It can be unsettling to wake up one day and discover you are suddenly at war with an opponent you can’t even see. Your enemy can get aerial without wings, survive for days (weeks) on surfaces without sustenance, stay dormant nearly indefinitely without losing any of their super-scary infectious powers. In a word….ACK. But thereContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Soak for Success”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Grass Grow
You don’t have to be bipedal with a big (and frankly, top-heavy) brain to figure out that sometimes it is good to go slow and let the grass grow under your feet. It is smart to stop and smell the roses (or the hibiscus, or the dandelion greens). It is wise to notice how anyContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Grass Grow”
Resting in Place with Malti: Slow and Steady
Hailing from the most ancient and enduring of species can give you a perspective younger life forms clearly lack. From your unique vantage point, you can see how the temporary ebbs and flows of life can sometimes send hot (oh so hot) molten lava spewing out, only to turn around and cover the whole worldContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Slow and Steady”
Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard
You don’t have to be out of your small round white escape pod for very long before it becomes clear that the planet can be a dangerous place. Predators both enormous and infinitesimal are roaming about night and day, and no matter where you go and who you meet, everyone looks hungry. You would justContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard”
Resting in Place with Malti: Moving the Brick
In the world of the large shell-less beings, when someone is facing a big obstacle, there is such a thing as “raising the bar.” Taking it to the next level. Bringing your “A” game. Being in it to win it. Upping the ante (whatever an “ante” is). Of course, this is easier when your opponentContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Moving the Brick”
Resting in Place with Malti: Redecorating with Watercress
After an extended period of time resting in place, you might understandably begin to get tired of the same ol’, same ol’. Same scenery. Same household furnishings. Same art. Same flock mates (SIGH). This is always the right time to bust out your “inner redecorator.” You might not think you have an inner redecorator. WhileContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Redecorating with Watercress”
Redfoot Tortoise Diet: Calcium, Phosphorus, Oxalates and More
The large shell-less assistant here…. When Malti first joined our little flock as a five-week-old hatchling redfoot tortoise, my approach to her feeding and care was basically the wrong approach. I had the initial thought – “Well, how hard could it be? I kept water turtles as a child and they were all really healthy!”ContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Diet: Calcium, Phosphorus, Oxalates and More”
Redfoot Tortoise Gets Shell Scratches
Growing up can be itchy business. While many other beings may not look at your redfoot tortoise shell and see a living organism, you know differently. Your keratin-covered, bony shell, which is attached to your spinal column and skeleton, is literally what holds you up. When it grows, you grow….whether you were particularly wanting toContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Gets Shell Scratches”
Redfoot Tortoise Makes an Epic Mud Wallow
Everyone loves the tropics. The sun, the warmth, the lush green – it looks as good as it feels and feels as good as it looks. And yet there are parts of living the tropical life that don’t get their fair share of praise. Take mud, for instance. It is so refreshing. So restorative. SoContinueContinue reading “Redfoot Tortoise Makes an Epic Mud Wallow”
Redfoot Tortoise Eats Hibiscus Flower the Size of Her Body
Many beings today are not fans of “supersizing.” But the redfoot tortoise will never join their misguided little club. After all, if small and delicious is good, large and delicious is better. Following the logic, then, enormous and delicious is – in a word – fantastic. Obviously.
Love & Feathers & Shells 