Have a nice life little turtle!

Remy found this little guy when we had lots of rain and the swamp/bayou by our house overflowed into a drainage/creek area behind our house. He played with him a while but I made him set him free because we have the mammoths they bought all those years ago in our house and we don't need three of them.

They named him Cosmo.

What a sad walk...

Setting him free!

Now he has an empty habitat to put something else in!

Remy had a blast this year. He found so many neat animals that he kept and played with for a time before letting go. I love that he loves the animals so much.

A Prayer From Remy...

My little Remy boy tried for weeks to catch a wild mouse with a humane trap he had. He sat it out with crackers and peanut butter, he prayed, and no little mouse was to be seen on any of the mornings. But Remy kept praying...

Matthew went out to clean the pool one morning and he came in with THIS!

A little wild mouse that was swimming like CRAZY and trying to live!

Remy watched him for a while and then I convinced him that maybe it was a mama mouse or a daddy mouse and it needed to go home to get dry and tend to its babies. :( Remy cried, but we promised him something in returen, something I will show you all later. He had prayed and hoped for that little mouse and now we were making him let it go. He had grand visions of letting his crawfish go from the tank and keeping little wild mouse in the tank as a pet. *sigh*

But he did the right thing...

...and he said goodbye to little wild mouse. But he held us to our promise! I will show you what it was in another post.

Turtle Conservation in the Spring!

Okay, so the turtle that Remy found too far away from his water source the other day, was set free. He was so upset that his favorite creature find ever was leaving him for the wide open wild. But we told him how by doing this he was doing a grown up job called conservation. That is was a conservationist! He liked that idea...being caretaker of his small outside world.

Matthew took them down to the water before he left for work and this little turtle smelled the water and went NUTS! *laugh*

Today we had a normal Saturday at home. We are staying home more often so we can afford some splurges during vacation. We live for Disney this coming Saturday! YAY!

I did take them to the library because I had some movies on hold for them. And then I went and bought the bathroom stuff we would need on our trip.

Matthew had work early and then a photo shoot at a Prom for the local paper. He just arrived home.

On my way out to the library today I checked the mail. And a very interesting spider was flung onto me. I was shocked, but thought it was only a bee. It was quite stocky. I flung it to the middle console and saw it wasn't a bee! I was a very suspicious spider!

I put him in a playdoh cup with a lid and brought him into the house. Here he is.

I haven't had a chance to look up what it is just yet, but I do think Remy has a spider book. This thing had a web bundle on a Dominoes flyer in my box. I think he traveled a bit! I will update when I find out what he is...but I am sure Rhonda will come through for me. :)

While in the front yard I had to take some photos of Spring once again. Enjoy!

I wonder if the strawberries will bear some fruit???

Update on our Spider from What's that bug website:

Jumping Spider(03/01/2005) bug definitionI have these Spiders in my Garage. Last year my wife flipped out and killed one that was between 1/2" and 3/4". All the ones that we have seen since have bee half that size. We live in the pacific Northwest. If it helps any, these spiders are very aware. I had one on the hood of my car while I was waxing it. I tried to sneak up on it. As I got about 4 feet away it turned towards and me and reared up it's head as if it had no fear of me whatsoever and wanted me to know it.

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/images/jumping_spider_nw.jpg

You have a species of Jumping Spider from the Family Salticidae. They are small, often colorful, do not build webs but stalk their prey, and are harmless to humans. They have excellent eyesight and have very rapid movements

Here is the page:

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/spiders3.html