June 4, 2007
Turtles!
We learned a few interesting facts about snapping turtles this weekend:
1) A mother turtle will lay her eggs in the first sandy pile she can find. Even if it's your supposedly temporary ash pile from burning brush right, smack in the middle of your backyard.
2) Those eggs will take eight weeks to hatch, during which time you can't move or clean up the burn pile right, smack in the middle of your backyard.
3) After the eggs hatch, the baby turtles will spend the long, cold Vermont winter in the nest from which they hatched. During which time you can't move or clean up the burn pile right, smack in the middle of your backyard.
So it appears that we have a semi-permanent company of turtles, and that the burn pile is here until next spring.
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