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I got home from work today, and Dymphna was no longer in the bin with the moistened soil. How could I tell? The kitchen floor was covered in little muddy turtle footprints. Fortunately she ran out of mud before she reached the living room. Neither she nor G'Kwan are running around the house right now, which is a first for this week. The soil in the bin has been disturbed, and I saw something that looked like an egg right at the surface, but I'm going to cover it with some more mud and pretend there are viable eggs in there. We'll see what happens.

Keeping up with the turtles

It's a lot warmer these days, so I've been keeping the door between my kitchen and laundry room open. (The laundry room and back bedroom aren't heated.) There are two stairs heading down into the laundry room, so I figured the turtles would be smart enough to avoid them. Nope. I went in there to put a load in the machine, and who was there, trying to hide behind some tools? (Come on. You didn't think it would be G'Kwan.)

It gave me a chance to pick her up, give her a bath to get rid of the rest of the mud, and check her out. No sign of eggs, so if she had them before, she's laid them. I wondered why she was still wandering around so much, and it occurred to me that she must be extra hungry, so I checked their food dish. Empty. I put out some more food, cabbage this time. We'll see what she does next.