6/3/2006: Tortoise as healer

We lived about 50 yards from a lake recently and our garden was the perfect distance for the terrapins to lay their eggs. After digging-up one batch I looked-up the timing and we learned to check out the hatching of the babies and help them to the lake (they had to cross the open space at a dead-end road). It was a very special time each year, I miss it.