Today we had an interesting experience. As Adam and I left to pick up Annaka from the Pep Clinic she has been attending at the high school, we saw a Tortoise trying to cross the street! We couldn't let him get hurt so we stopped the car and tried knocking on the door of the house he was closest to. Nobody was home. So we moved the tortoise (Adam picked him up and moved him, not me) to the grass in front of a big tree away from the street. Then on our way home as we rounded the corner telling Annaka about the little guy, there he was again! Only this time he was really in the middle of the street. We stopped the car and I told the kids to pick him up and take him down to our yard. They thought it was great! They nicknamed him Speedy because for a tortoise he was pretty fast! We spent about an hour watching him and feeding him some lettuce leaves. When we saw the neighbors come home we asked if they had lost a tortoise and they said no but that their neighbor had a tortoise so they went to check to see if it was missing. Sure enough it was theirs, and turns out it was a girl and her name was DT, short for Desert Tortoise. I was sure glad we found out where it belonged because I wasn't too sure about having a new pet. And it just goes to show you never know what you might find just a walkin' down the street!
