Punky the Pumpkin Eater

I took Sadie for a walk one morning after I dropped the girls off for school. Actually, I came home and went for a run and heard Sadie barking at me as I ran off down the road. I felt so bad that I had "left" her at home....so as soon as I got back from my run I decided to take her for a long walk.

We were almost home when I saw an enormous spider on the sidewalk. I stopped to take a photo with my phone to show the girls. At the same time Sadie was pulling and pulling on the leash. She had discovered something of her own. A bright orange turtle.

I picked it up, held it out at a full arm's length away from me the entire way home and put it in a box on the deck with some lettuce and grass. I peaked outide and saw the turtle trying to climb out of the box so I decided to put the turtle in the yard under our tree and I placed a laundry basket on top of it so it had room to roam, but wouldn't be able to escape. Sadie tried her hardest to get to the turtle. She started digging at the grass and nosing at the basket. I finally had to send her into the house (where she stood at the door for the next 3 hours waiting to give it another go). I secretly think she wanted to eat the turtle.

When Lilly got home from school we came up with a name for the turtle: Punky the Pumpkin Eater (appropriate considering her pretty color).

Later that night after Sophia had returned home from school and the girls had played with the turtle for a few hours we released her at the lake in our backyard to live with the twenty other turtles that live there. Punky quickly moved on...never to be seen by us again