Jeannie Marie & Company

It isn't far, one house down...just turn the corner and there is a path into the woods.  Today, after living here for almost nine months, I ventured in.   My sister Patty and Bro-in-law Wayne were my guides.   Once through the woods....it's all sandy.  Well, it's actually sandy through the woods as well..all the way to the Gulf of Mexico a scant quarter mile away. This brave soul never gets lost.  Patty and I were turned around not long after the first stop!  We saw Tortoise tracks  I forgot what he said these were, but in the middle there was some sort of skirmish. Snake tracks from one side to the other.  Can you guess which way the snake was going?  Wayne knew.  Right to left.    There was more vegetation as we got closer to the canal  An entrance through the vegetation to the freshwater canal.  I was waiting for an alligator to run out at us, if you open ...

Today we discovered very tiny Rambo Jr in our driveway.  Tortoise Cottage is now a nursery!   We will have to be watching now every time we use the driveway because where there is one baby tortoise there may be more.    We are busting our buttons over him! We set out the small  matchbox so you can gauge the size Look how fast Rambo Jr can crawl! It looks like he may not be a fan of the camera, or of us...he is hurrying away pretty fast!   Actually you can see here that Rambo Jr is about the size of six keys on your computer.  Rambo Senior, our resident tortoise, is larger than the entire keyboard!   For a look at our full grown tortoise, Rambo, click HERE We have unofficially adopted him, but he only makes an appearance occasionally.  The tortoises live on the vacant lot next door and used to spend a lot of time over here, but only occasionally now.  Rambo has made it clear he is not fond of our dog, Gracie....