Room Service

I'm just a tad spoiled rotten. My tortoise mom has been providing room service so I can eat any time I climb out of the burrow. Now that's pretty nice!

The weather has been wild this week. We got such a huge storm on Tuesday that my tortoise mom had to wade through water to rescue me. I thought I'd sleep next to the fireplace chimney where it makes a good corner to tuck into for the night, but the rain started pouring down hard, and then it hailed on me too! I tucked into my shell but was suddenly so cold and miserable that when my tortoise mom waded out to check on me, I just looked up at her like "help!" So she grabbed me and waded back to put me in the house. Tortellini was already tucked in where she was high and dry, but I got caught out and then I was too cold to walk through the cold water. So I got to spend the rest of the storm in my travel box in the house. I never even moved as I was just that cold and tired from the storm.

The nights have really cooled down lately, so we finally get to sleep out in various corners of the yard and patio. But then we have to warm up in the morning before we can walk around like usual. Here's Tortellini doing her warm-up routine for the day. She sure likes to soak up the sun on her tootsies.



We've been acting different all week. It's like there's a calendar printed on the inside of our shells and we know exactly how many days have passed since autumn started. So we're eating more aggressively and at different hours of the day, plus we're exploring every inch of the yard, including the fence. Well, of course, we are. We know it's only a matter of days before our metabolism slows way down and we'll start hibernating so we're doing last minute preparations, like packing for a long trip.

I haven't figured out how I'll blog during hibernation. Maybe I'll have to send up messages like those poor miners in Chile.... They are not meant for hibernating so I hope they get out soon, all safe and sound, like me in the storm.