We’ve met a bunch of little friends since moving to the property almost three years ago.  I think one of our most favorite kinds of visitors are box turtles though.  The kids found one about two years ago and just fell in love with “her.”  We’ve found a few since, but this newest little guy just stole everyone’s hearts.  We kept him in our official box turtle habitat (which is really just a makeshift home created out of collected odds and ends) for entirely too long.  Everyone enjoyed watching him eat up all the goodies that were brought to him, and it was especially fun to watch him get sprayed with cold water (it’s been hot these past few days!).

I finally convinced Lovebug to free him back into the wild a few days ago, but it wasn’t without pomp and circumstance and several goodbyes.  So long, for now, little fellow!