Go for a Walk?

Big news: I got to go outside today. First time since September. Dr. Johnson said I could start going outside for a little while on warm days. Well, I was just playing with my favorite yellow box when all of a sudden I got scooped up in my soaking pan by my tortoise mom. The next thing I knew she put me down on GRASS!!! I was so surprised! I put my nose on the grass and then looked up in utter amazement. I almost forgot what it's like to sit in the grass and just be OUTSIDE.

But I sure didn't forget where my burrow is. In less than 20 minutes, I marched over to it three times. My tortoise mom kept carrying me back to the opposite side of the yard, but my internal GPS pointed me back to the burrow each time. I would love to crawl in beside Tortellini and say, Hey, scoot over, you're hogging my side of the burrow.

Well that's not going to happen for a few more months. First I have to put on more muscle and weight so I won't need this feeding tube anymore. I sniffed the globemallow today but I didn't take a bite. I sniffed the grass too. But you know, my body has an internal calendar so it knows that I should be hibernating and not eating yet, and it might take a lot more sniffing over the next few weeks before I start getting signals to eat outside again. But if I keep marching across the yard like I did three times today, I might work up a good appetite anyway.