Slow as a Turtle Monday

This is the visitor we had overnight in our home over the weekend!  He was discovered taking up residence next to the sandbox at the farm.
Our little cowboy is famous for finding live "things" and putting them in a box to take to school to Mrs. Clover's classroom for show n' tell.  Now that school is out he stills love to collect things from nature ~ hence the Young Science Award at Year End.

George Lopez as the turtle was so lovingly named arrived at Arkansas Street via Mimi's car Saturday evening. 
It seems Mimi didn't want to keep George Lopez at her house either! 
My husband whom I call "Cliff Claven" informed us that George was actually a Georgette.  You can tell the difference between a male & female Western Box Turtle by the color of the turtle.  A female is red (look at Georgette above) and a male is yellow.

Georgette was housed in a box on my kitchen countertop and was scheduled to be released back to the wild behind our house on Sunday afternoon. 
Georgette had other ideas.  
While my head was still on my pillow this is what I heard 
(very, very, early Sunday morning).
"Georgette Lopez, you are a very bad turtle". 
My eyes flew open and I'm not sure how fast I sprinted from the bed but I arrived in the living room in record time. 
Our little cowboy was holding Georgette by her bottom outer shell and he informed me that he had found her on the living room floor!  My husband groggily wandered out of the bedroom and explained to us that Georgette had probably crawled over the side of the box and landed upright and then began her exploration of our house sometime in the night. 
Georgette had an early & quick release to the wild in our backyard before we had anymore turtle antics at the Henry household!  

My exercise time over the weekend was spent outside working in the yard and planting my new trees & shrubs in the front & side of the house.  If you want to work up a good sweat just work in the yard!!  Sunday night after two days of digging and planting I decided it was me that was moving slow as a turtle.  The other thing Georgette and I have in common is that we both will go over, around, or through any obstacle to accomplish our goal!

Zumba class will be held tonight from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Erie Library!
With love & appreciation ~ Stephanie