Thumper AKA fuzzy butt!

[whitelop]

You could still do the tunnel around his room, even though his room is broken up by doors. The tunnel could just be on the walls and then not where there are doors. He would still probably like that. If your hub does make a town out of wood, that would be awesome! haha. Would you make it like a town in the middle of the floor or like a town that goes next to the wall?
I looked back at the pictures of Thumper and I can see his molt lines. Isn't it just starting? hahah. You're probably in for a real treat! Is it easier because you have carpet in his room? So you don't have many fur tumble weeds rolling through the house? haha.

I would probably never pick up my snapping turtle. I thought about it last year, trapping her and putting her in my in-laws pond. haha. But I was scared that she would come back because this is her home and her territory and she's picked this spot to lay eggs(that we then dug up and threw into the woods because we don't want baby snappers in the water!) But I was afraid that she would die trying to come back here and I didn't think that was right. Now, if I ever decide to make the pond into a real swimming hole I'll probably have to move her! haha.

I'm glad you have a peaceful morning! How great! haha. Sometimes rules are a good thing. Too bad you slept bad though, its always terrible to wake up in the morning and not feel rested at all. That happens to me a lot. Those are two pot of coffee days!
Relax for a few minutes before you start your daily things!

 

[Pipsqueak]

My older brother in Kansas saw an enormous snapper last year, it was probably about the size of a car tire as well, and it had insane claws on it too, the one we have here is tiny compared to it.

 

[PaGal]

If we made Thumper a wooden town I have no idea how it would be built. I haven't thought of it much although I do know I'm not crazy about all of Thumps boxes right now being so close together. It is just a jumbled up mess to me. When I started I had no idea I would wind up using so many or I could have planned it better.

He has been molting for a few weeks. The only tumbleweeds of fur I notice are in his cage and those aren't too bad. Of course mix in the stray bits of hay and poops and it's not as noticeable. I do clean his cage every day including using the hose on my vacuum to get off any hair from the bars of the cage. I also vacuum every day. Now that he's eating so much more hay there is so much more hay bits on the floor plus this way his shed hair doesn't build up too much. The hair does seem to stay confined to his room or my clothes. Ha! It's the hay that seems to travel outside his room.

I wouldn't recommend picking it up either! They can really do some damage. What I did was to get a broom and a dust pan. The dust pan was the kind with the long handle so you don't have to bend over. I had the box lying on it's side. I placed the dust pan in front of the turtle and pushed with the broom and got him as far onto the dust pan as he would fit and also used the broom at his rump to help support that while I then lifted and placed him in the box.

Once the girls were on the bus I sat and had a cup of coffee while I caught up here for a little while and then started on my work.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Morgan! You need to call the Turtle Man! [ame]http://youtu.be/Gn8EQ0azXpQ[/ame]
YEAYEAHYEAH!!!!!!

 

[whitelop]

I'm going to say that Kentucky could have kept him a secret! bahahahaha. OMG! He was crawling on hands and knees through a farm pond. EW. I don't know how he hasn't gotten some kind of weird flesh eating something or other. Good god almighty that was ridiculous!
My pond doesn't have the green algae on top of it, its just muddy right now since the rain. But there is no way, that would crawl through it or swim in it like that. I have gotten in up to my knees to do something in there, but that was it. I was scared of Snappy the whole time. haha.
Thanks for sharing that Katie, I laughed pretty hard that The Turtleman. Do people just call him and get him to come get their snappers out? He has to eat a lot of turtle, I wonder how healthy that is in large quantities? LOL

 

[Katielovesleo3]

I love that dude. Cracks me up every time I watch it. Yeah I wonder about the flesh eating bacterias. Seems reeeal scary I wouldn't wanna jump in there like that. He got his own show on tv finally, Call of the Wildman I believe. I watched an episode and he also caught possums and coons and his payment was food from an old lady lol!!!! My favorite part is when he says his truck doesn't have a horn so he just sticks his head out the window and goes YEEEEYEAHYEAAYEAH!!!! xD hahahaha!

 

[whitelop]

Well, if I didn't have a horn I would do the same thing. You have to let people know you're coming!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Have missed coming on here a few days....all these strange animals. Can´t really tell by the wildlife when it´s spring over here...we can usually tell by the fruit....seasonal fruit starts in the spring and continues over the summer. Strawberry season will last about another month, melons and watermelons will get really good from June onwards and the sardines are best in May, June, July and August. Nothing nicer than sardines bbq´d on the beach...yummy can´t wait.

Katie, I couldn´t see the video :bawl:

 

[whitelop]

I LOVE sardines! Just another reason I need to go to Spain! haha.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Morgan, I must take a pic of how they do them over here, most beach bars have a old boat raised up and filled with sand. They then stick the bamboo skewers with the sardine on over hot coals and cook...they are the best thing ever and I could eat them forever....they are so good with just a simple salad.

I´ve just remembered I´ve got some photos from the sardine festival a couple of years ago which takes place every July....if you like sardines, you´d love this....free sardines and a beer, tinto de verano or a soft drink for free on the beach....tooooo much haha. I´ll upload them and post just to make you jealous.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

I'm just catching up on your blog, after I got my teeth pulled I wasn't really on RO much. So I'm catching up.

Those kittens are so cute! They are getting bigger. I love them! They so adorable!

I love the pictures of Thumper, how old is he now? You should get a picture of your hand on him so we can see how big he is now.

The scull does look like it could be a bird, or maybe a deer like Morgan said. I'm not sure.

Yeah, I think spring is finally here. We get days that are like spring and some days that are not. According to weather.com a few days from now we are going to have a 28 degree night. What the heck?! I thought spring was here!

Morgan, we saw a snapping turtle when we lived in Missouri. It was sitting near our house and we put it in a box and we put a stick near it and it snapped at the stick and crushed it. Than we took it to a pond a few yards away and we never saw it again. They are dangerous! I read that if you swim in a place were they are and you step on them accidentally they can snap one of your toes off.

Chris and Morgan, I love sardines too! We have some packs of them here.

 

[PaGal]

I hope you are feeling better!

The kittens are getting to be fun. They still have a lot of trouble walking but at the same time they try to attach each other. Then when they bite another kitten they make faces and you can tell they are not sure about the taste and fuzziness of what they just bit.

I would like to find out someday what the skull is but have no idea how to go about it other than try to contact either someone at a museum that deals with skeletons or I know there are people that enjoy piecing skeletons back together as a hobby or some do it for a living. Like they could take your pet after it passes and put the skeleton back together so you could have it in your home.

It got into the 80's here today which is a good jump from just a few days ago.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Thanks Denise, I am feeling better.

Aww, those kittens are so cute! I'm sure it will be hard to give them away when the time comes. That's funny that when one kitten bites another kitten he makes a face, haha. That is so cute!

Yeah maybe you could contact someone like that, or on yahoo answers you could try asking what people think it is. But I tend to find that some of the people on yahoo answers are kind of rude that's why I don't ask many questions there. Or maybe there is a bone foum where people discuss sculls and other bones parts, I'm not sure if there is a forum like that though. But I agree, it would be cool to find out what kind of skull it is.

 

[Pipsqueak]

I loved having kittens on our farm, they all made faces when they sucked on each other, and they're just so cute when they start walking!

 

[PaGal]

First of all what is up with fresh eggs? I make deviled eggs. Twice now I have tried making deviled eggs with fresh eggs from the neighbor and each time they look like a three year old peeled them. No matter how careful I am I just can't get the peels off without taking some of the egg. I don't have this problem with store bought. It is really frustrating!

I am not happy as someone ran over and crushed a turtle in our drive way! There are a bunch of people over but all claim they did not hit a turtle. It's probably the darn hunters that went back behind our place. Why do people have to be like this? It's not like the turtle was hard to see and they could have moved over and avoided it.

We will be at the sand drags tomorrow so I won't be on here. I want to wish all of the mothers a very happy and enjoyable Mother's Day!!!!!

 

[Pipsqueak]

Some fresh eggs have a thick skin on the inside, maybe that makes it harder to peel? Poor turtle.

 

[whitelop]

The more fresh the egg the harder they are to peel. I have a hard time with some of mine too. I eat hard boiled eggs like every morning and half the time I tear them in half because the shell sticks to the egg. Its irritating sometimes. I can also tell the difference between my older eggs and the fresher eggs. The older they are, the easier they are to peel. So it says that store bought eggs are OLD! haha. Well, you have to think that eggs can stay good on the counter for like 4-6 months and in the fridge for longer than that, so who knows how old the store eggs really are!
Whenever I make deviled eggs for other people other than me, I make sure to use the older eggs. You can usually tell which ones are older if they float a little bit when you put them in the water.

 

[Chrisdoc]

THe eggs I buy must be old cos I hardly ever have trouble peeling them. I do love eggs though, any way but I do like a fried egg with a really yellow runny yoke and crispy underneath...haven´t had one for ages as I am trying to eat healthy!!!!

 

[PaGal]

Well I guess if I want to make deviled eggs for company I'll just buy some from the store. I wasted all that time and didn't serve them because they looked horrible but we'll eat them.

I guess the store bought eggs really are old then because I have no problems peeling those.

 

[PaGal]

I like eggs but sometimes they don't like me and give me such a bad stomach ache. I can eat ten eggs over a period of time and then the eleventh will just tear me up. I have trouble though when it comes to greasy food so bacon can have the same affect. I eat it but I usually hold back on foods like that and don't eat as much as I might like. So even though I might be hungry enough to eat two eggs I'll only eat one.

The temps dropped last night and we have a frost advisory this morning. That's why we don't plant a garden till the end of the month. I am trying to be patient. It's funny because my hubby is allergic to fruit. He can't eat fresh fruit or his throat swells. He can eat processed fruit so fruit cups or frozen but we all know that's not the same. Well a few years back we grew sugar baby watermelons which are the smaller round ones. Well we found out that my hubby can eat those for some reason so he was finally able to eat watermelon after not having it for like 20 years. Our first year we had so many at the end of the season that we had all the neighbors come get as many as they wanted and after that we filled a 4' X 3' cart with watermelons and put it by the road with a free watermelon sign.