Or, this week I am grateful for the Candwich
Two years ago we found this turtle in our backyard. Now, we live in the middle of the city and you don’t often see turtles just wandering around, so I was afraid it was somebody’s pet and sent my oldest boy to knock on the neighbor’s door to see if they were missing a turtle.
He comes back to tell me that our next door neighbor said that she’d thrown the turtle in our yard because she didn’t want it in hers. Okay. I guess that makes sense. Anyway, we had great fun with the turtle for a couple of days then it was gone so I figured it had moved on to a better yard.
Until a few months later when we were raking all of the leaves out of the garden beds and found a completely empty turtle shell. Although I knew it was a stupid question, I asked my husband if turtles molted because I couldn’t quite stand the thought of there being a dead, decaying turtle in my hostas for who knows how long but he gave me the roll eyes. We never found any bones and I’m still wondering what happened to those and how they got out of the shell, because it was completely empty.
The whole thing still gives me the willies.
Enough stories about the good old days, let’s get to the link-up. One awesome thing I’m finding out lately is whenever traffic seems to be slowing, something happens to get things moving again. Either a post will go big on Stumble Upon or I’ll get linked on a big site or some guy misappropriates money to invest in the Candwich and thousands of people will post on the internet “You think that’s bad? Have you seen this thing in a can on IHMMB?”
This week on Money Ning I posted Warning: Are Any of These Five Things Keeping You From Being Frugal
There is nothing worse than thinking you’ve found a great deal on something you need, only to find out a few weeks later, you already had a perfectly good one at home. I’ve learned this the hard way many times.
On HealthCompare Guide I posted two stories:
Are You Trapped in a Time Cage of Your Own Creation?
Do you feel like you have absolutely no control over your time and that it’s being stolen from you by all of your obligations? That if only everyone else would ease up on their demands you would have plenty of time to do with as you please?
You don’t have to feel like your life is doomed to be the same thing every day with no hope for change. The first step is the hardest – it’s a cliché but it’s the truth. Once you start taking action to live the life you want, your progress will snowball and each step will be easier than the last.
This week I’m going to link to posts by other people that had me thinking long after I closed the browser window. You know, I find it’s not usually the BIG QUESTIONS posts that do that to me but the little every day questions.
Even though we’ve absolutely no plans for Baby #6, I read Nancy’s Baby Names several times a week. What can I say? I like names. This week she posted a dilemma about using Family Names as Baby Names. And I don’t know what I would do. I really can’t make up my mind and that’s why I haven’t commented yet.
Selfish Blogger posted Be a Jerk and be More Successful where he asks:
Why does it seem to me that so many successful people have a “jerk gene”?
And while I know what he’s talking about, I am still not sure if it’s really so or if it’s a matter of only remembering what stands out. Any thoughts?
On the How to be Rich and Happy Blog, John P Strelecky posted Hope is Not Enough where he talks about Mad How disease. It made me think a lot about things I’ve just assumed were far too difficult without putting any effort into finding out how to do them by asking somebody how. It is amazing what people will tell you if you just ask.
I also felt a bit stupid for finally throwing out all the leftover fish and cheese sausages instead of selling them as iPhone styluses. And heck yeah that was an affiliate link, I ATE one of those, I should be getting PAID.
What did you read that was great this week?
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Those were all really great links, and I will be sure to check them out as soon as I know what happened to the turtle? Did you ever find out? Have you asked the Google? I need to know because my daughter wants a turtle (that's why we have two hermit crabs, I couldn't find a turtle and they were easier to get and I thought they would die but so far they have been with us for over a year. Of course they could be dead and I wouldn't know it, which really makes them the perfect pet, but she still wants a turtle).
Sounds like Mr. Turtle became someone else's dinner. It's the circle of life playing out right there in your own backyard.
But how did they eat it? I thought maybe the stray cats did, but I’ve never seen a cat use a twig as like a nutpick on a turtle shell before.
On the other hand, we have some scary, mutant strays in our neighborhood.
Some scavengers swallow bones as well as meat–maybe that's why the bones weren't nearby?
I really, really hope they send you some Candwiches. I'm dying to get the lowdown on those.
(Thank you for the link, btw!)
Anytime Nancy! Haven’t heard about the candwiches yet. Maybe they are going to surprise me with a big box one day?
Great! Now I really need to know what happened to the turtle!!
See Meleah, it’s like I want to know, I need to know but I also don’t want to know and it will probably haunt me forever if I did know.
I bet there’s this skinny hairless creature wandering around your yard thinking “Shit, it’s cold for this time of year. Oh well, at least my backache has mysteriously cleared up”
Tim Brownson´s last blog ..When Panic Strikes-
Hi Tim! Heh, just like those cartoon turtles, eh? That’s a bright, happy, life coachy type thought .Thank you.
I never really pondered what happened to the turtle bones. Perhaps because I had a daughter I had to physically restrain from bringing in more than 10 turtle shells @ a time, actually 2 daughters. I may have to look this up.
BLESS you for the links, you’ve always got great ones, the baby names? Not so much I hope??? Gimme a break I’m almost 53 with step grandkids getting into college….
TC´s last blog ..Womans Manifesto
Hi TC! You had multiple empty turtle shells? That would freak me out. At least I didn’t have to hear them rattle around in there, because that would have reminded me that I have bones in my body and I just don’t like thinking about that sort of thing.
No new plans for baby number 6 made me laugh because for a while this month we thought baby number 5 might have been a possibility. It’s not happening though. But for a while we wondered. Scary!
Dave´s last blog ..Remarkably Annoyed
Oh Dave, you don’t even want to know what it’s like with five boys in the house at once. They are all lovely individuals with fine characters and great personalities but in a group? Bloodthirsty little savages, they are.
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