Clean Lawn Club

I'm trying to look ladylike here, but really I've been an eating machine for the past week. If there's even one raindrop, I come out to look for water and then I eat until it's almost completely dark outside. What can I say, I'm a slow eater. But I am eating!! And it shows too.



The muscles on the top of my head look a lot better, without the big dip on one side, so I'm more "level-headed" now (my little joke). In fact, when I was playing peek-a-boo under the reed shade on the new burrow yesterday, my tortoise mom didn't know it was me at first because my head looks so much better now. It must be from all that serious munching on my leafy greens. AND -- drum roll, please, I weighed 3521 grams today. Woo Hoo! That's a new record since my surgery last September. But I've been working hard, eating every chance I get, climbing up and down over hill and dale....



I'm a tortoise on a mission to be strong and healthy enough to hibernate this winter. Dr. Johnson, I think you'll be proud of me when I come in for my pre-hibernation check-up next month. In the last eight days, I have been coming out to eat at least once a day and sometimes twice. And I stick around until I've joined the Clean Lawn Club. Truly, I don't leave a speck of food that my tortoise mom gives me.

I know it's still 110 degrees, but I can tell the light has changed and it reminds me to chow down before winter. So all of a sudden, I am really hungry. I also remembered my old trick of thumping my shell on the patio by the back door to get my tortoise mom's attention so she'll bring more food. I always dump the dirt off my shell when I do it, leaving a shell-shaped outline of dirt on the patio. Pretty funny. And Tortellini is really good at it, so they keep a little broom by the back door to sweep away tortoise leavin's. We leave other little calling cards too, but I'll be ladylike and leave it to you to figure it out.

All in all, I'm getting downright perky now, feeling more like myself than I have in YEARS!! Life is Good!!!