Salad is so delicious. It is also very nutritious. All those fresh greens, packed full of phytonutrients and chlorophyll and nourishment – what’s not to love? But sometimes the presentation can be a bit…lacking. You order yet another salad and yet again it arrives limply lying there on this boring round dish – you haveContinueContinue reading “Day 51: Salad for Box Turtles”
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Day 50: Tortoise Clover Chomper
It is a well-kept secret that feathered beings aren’t the only species who love the color green. Shelled beings love green too! Not only is green a lovely color to look at, but often green things are also delicious. Here, the fresher the green snack, the better. True shelled gourmands know that freshest is tastiest.ContinueContinue reading “Day 50: Tortoise Clover Chomper”
Day 49: Serenading Your Sister
There is something so magical about wings. Everyone wants them. If you have wings, other beings are always studying you, trying to figure out how you grew yours and if they can copy you and achieve lift-off. Of course, most beings are not, well, aerodynamically inclined. Take your shelled sister, for example. If ever thereContinueContinue reading “Day 49: Serenading Your Sister”
Day 48: Box Turtle Free Climbing
Free climbers are quite amazing. There is this vertical structure, and then there is this being scaling right up the side of it using nothing but what nature gave them. No wonder everyone who sees a free climber stops to stare! While it is true most documentaries and instruction manuals made about free climbing featureContinueContinue reading “Day 48: Box Turtle Free Climbing”
Day 47: Malti Hangs Out With Flash Gordon!
You can always count on the drawing power of “cuteness.” When you are very cute, other (often less cute) beings are helpless to resist being drawn in by your gravitational pull. But what happens when two very cute beings encounter each other? This is what we call a “cuteness vortex.” If one of the veryContinueContinue reading “Day 47: Malti Hangs Out With Flash Gordon!”
Day 46: The Crinkle and the Crackle
When you are chock-full of natural musical talent and singing ability, sometimes you have to audition backing musicians. While you can keep a beat very well all by yourself, having a rhythm section can add more depth and drama to your musical selections. Of course you have to audition your backing musicians personally, meeting themContinueContinue reading “Day 46: The Crinkle and the Crackle”
Day 45: Box Turtles Wearing Beards
Beards are very manly. Masculine. The ladies love them. In fact, beards are all the fashion rage these days, and sure can improve your odds with the ladies. Nothing says “I am so manly and masculine and virile and I will make the best-looking, strongest, smartest eggs you’ve ever seen” like sporting a beard. SoContinueContinue reading “Day 45: Box Turtles Wearing Beards”
Day 44: Tortugan Broccoli Hunter
Just because you are slow and small doesn’t necessarily mean you are not fierce. Being slow and low to the ground also has its advantages. As a stealthy, stoic hunter, you can sneak up on your prey so slowly they literally fall asleep waiting for you to arrive. This provides the perfect moment to strike!ContinueContinue reading “Day 44: Tortugan Broccoli Hunter”
Day 43: Pasta for Parrots
Living with an interspecies flock can bring up some delicate dinnertime issues. For example, let’s say you have been tracking a herd of delicious prey all afternoon. Finally, the right moment arrives and you pounce! So there you are, noshing away on your fresh catch. Then suddenly a hungry flock mate appears. There is theContinueContinue reading “Day 43: Pasta for Parrots”
Day 42: A Perching Box Turtle
“Perching.” It’s not just for feathered beings. Of course, since no one ever tells the large shell-less beings facts like this, you can feel sure your personal large shell-less assistant is going to overreact the first time she sees you. Perching. Like a bird. Up high in your plant just like your feathery brother. JustContinueContinue reading “Day 42: A Perching Box Turtle”
Love & Feathers & Shells 