Being born with a shell means you are naturally very stealthy. The fact that you are also born low to the ground and slow and steady is just icing on the proverbial (tortoise-sized) cake. But sometimes you find that you want or need to add even an extra layer of stealth. For instance, maybe thereContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Super Stealth Shell”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Soak for Success
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”
Resting in Place with Malti: Grazing with Grandma
Choosing to live in an interspecies flock is not for the faint of stomach. It doesn’t take long to learn that some of the large shell-less beings are “delicacy whisperers”….and some are not. You need to learn quickly whose victuals are actually edible and whose are not….at least if you want to enjoy the averageContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Grazing with Grandma”
Resting in Place with Malti: Nature and Nurture
Into every life a little good news….and a little bad news….may fall. Good news, of course, is for basking in (and eating, if it looks the least bit edible). Bad news is a whole different matter. Some types of bad news is particularly….um….infectious. Sometimes you may get a really big, bad batch of it -ContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Nature and Nurture”
Resting in Place with Malti: Bring a Friend to Quarantine
It’s one thing to rest in a certain place because you are choosing to rest there. It is quite another thing to have someone else tell you that you can only rest HERE and not THERE. There is a word for that. (Several words, in fact.) Annoying. Uppity. Bite-able. They could at least bring youContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Bring a Friend to Quarantine”
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: Bask Your Troubles Away
Being born with a shell on your back can look like being born on easy street….and for good reason. Winded after a long hike? You can be enjoying all the comforts of home in the time it takes to sit down. No worries about getting lost, either – not when true north sits right aboveContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Bask Your Troubles Away”
Resting in Place with Malti: Accessorizing with Hibiscus
After you have been resting in place for some time, it can be easy to let certain aspects of personal appearance, well…..go. In other words, if you keep bathing, you do it because you love it, not because those around you demand it. But sometimes it can also feel good to get decked out, justContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Accessorizing with Hibiscus”
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”
Resting in Place with Malti: A Basking Redfoot Tortoise
Learning how to rest in place with ease is harder than it looks. Would you believe some beings actually get, well, restless after they’ve been sitting still for some time? When you see this, it is a dead giveaway you are looking at an amateur rester (a technical term). Serious professional resters who are inContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: A Basking Redfoot Tortoise”
Love & Feathers & Shells 