A Fine Adventure

Baba and Margaret Rose called on their way home from the grocery to tell me they had picked up an extra passenger. Seems they had spotted a turtle attempting to cross a busy highway and had stopped to rescue it. Mary Clare couldn't wait for them to get home so she could see. She suggested we make it some clothes while we waited on them and was a little upset when I told her that we couldn't keep it for a pet. Her Godmother has a pet turtle amongst other things with fur and feathers and MC really wants a pet. MC petted Mr. Turtle gently and ooh-ed and ah-ed over it while her sister made disgusted faces and passed on her turn to touch it. Mr. Turtle hung out in the tub while we ate supper and then we loaded him up in a box and set out for the woods by the river to release him. Margaret Rose did finally agree to help carry the box after we convinced her that he was entirely too short to reach up and nip her fingers through the handles. Mr. Turtle proved quite the disappointment when he refused to come out of his shell before we had to leave for home but Mary Clare still declared it a "fine adventure" and Margaret Rose decided that she and Baba were just like the Wonder Pets.

On the way home we passed a church that had a large steeple bell outside on the lawn. Mary Clare was very excited and exclaimed, "Wow! Dat's a very big Taco Bell!"