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Hello, Frankie, how are you? I am great! This place…this place is fantastic! Where is this? This is where you’re meant to be. We’ve been waiting for you. Am I dead? Your body was no longer needed. Your spirit is forever free Can I still have carrots and dandelions? Of course! And Mom, is...

This year turned out to be very wet, damp, rainy, drenched, soggy....well, you get the picture. Frankie's yard never saw a lack of water. I only turned on the hose to clean and fill Frankie's big-honking mini-pool water dish. I cringed every time it needed cleaning dumping even more water on...

Made it through our first official Hurricane on the coast. Well, we were visiting family in Oklahoma so technically we participated from afar. Frankie, on the other hand, made it through his first official Hurricane. From afar, guiding caretakers on how to secure the sulcata monster in a...

June is officially happening. Frankie transitioned from Winter-Blues to Spring-Burst-Of-Joy-For-70º-Weather! then tumbling quickly down to Summer-Can-It-Really-Be-That-Hot? miserable tortoise. I'm miserable for other reasons. I spent late winter through Spring sprucing up Frankie yard with new...

I am not paranoid. Really, I am not. I'm not all that interesting. I don't attract attention. I am quite ordinary. No one is after me. My secret is this: the smallest person in the room wins. Survival tactics from growing up in a family of five kids. Who get's called to do the dishes...

Tuesday the Hubby tells me that the chance of rain on Saturday is 100% and the temperature predictions are cool. Awe. We've had plans since November last to take Frankie to the April Mobile Autism Funky Fun Run. Ten years of Frankie's attendance harkens spring much like the spring rain brings...

I've been working on this Frankie Tortoise Tail for a while but just couldn't get it "framed" right. Just didn't seem to have a start or a finish so it's been left undone. Surrendering to pressure to post "anything" about what Frankie is up to I thus present this: Over last year's holidays I...

Frankie and I are gonna have a big discussion. Big Discussion real, real soon. No matter that Frankie wants me to believe he doesn't understand English. He does. Ask any pet owner. Pets understand what we are saying. And I have something to say to Frankie. Something must be done. It's...

With Frankie Tortoise Tails, I only ever want to tell the truth about sulcata tortoises and give a clear warning to potential owners and those ooging I-wanna-cute-wittle-big-eye-tortoise-like-'tis-wittle-pet-shop-baby-sulcata-dat-the-clerk-says-will-never-get-bigger-then-da-tank-I-put-it-in...

Fear not, Frankie and I still exist. I'm visiting one of my Deep Depressions which occasionally stops by like an unwanted guest. I'm pretty good at surviving them. This depression is no charmer but it's not a record breaker: The worse lasted two years. I've developed a sense of humor about...

A Day In Frankie's Life (video) Ever wonder what a day is like for Frankie? What can a sulcata tortoise do all day? The list isn't all that long: Get some beauty sleep Bask in the glory of sunlight till the shell hums with warmth Walk everywhere Drink as much water as you want Check out the...

A reprieve....I have a day's reprieve. It's raining outside, Frankie is hanging out inside his greenhouse, I get to sit and write a Frankie Tortoise Tail. New problem in the Frankie's Backyard Paradise. Two years ago when we moved here our neighbor let us know we had a fruit tree in our...

Frankie and I used to go everywhere. We would go to the park, Petsmart, Petco, to pet parades, to schools and day care centers, and libraries, more parks, art festivals, around the block, down the street and wherever we wanted to go......when Frankie was smaller. I would pick up Frankie, toss...

The Internet story of the red foot tortoise found alive in a box 32 years after it disappeared is so amusing to me that I thought I would add a bit of logic to this....as in Sherlock Holmes logic. Hold on to your shells. We are going to use some smarts. The story of the turtle is a riddle...

Because I can, this morning I walked outside and across the backyard in 30º F. weather, a cup of coffee in hand, so I can check on Frankie snoozing in his warm 72º F greenhouse. That's right. Frankie sleeps in his new greenhouse...outside, not in my house but in his new Frankie shelter, even...

Under construction...literally the post and Frankie's house is under construction. Keep watching for updates...to the post and to Frankie's house. To accommodate Frankie's increasing size and weight we decided to go really, really big with the hopes this may be the last installment of Frankie...

It was the first really, really cold night in Mobile this season. There was no choice than to bring Frankie inside. Pretty much Frankie has torn up and outgrown his current outdoor habitat. He couldn't turn around inside anymore so I modified his inside box so he would fit. Then he tore out...

Frankie went to Pet Supermarket to show off his Frank-O-Lantern costume. Didn't win but he go more attention and photos than any other pet all afternoon. Here he is strutting his stuff.

Waffles, you near your third year and thus far think yourself a mere tot of a tortoise. Behold, young tortoise, this is the greatest time of your life: you are discovering who you really are. I am here to walk you through this special time as you come full into being one of the greatest of...

Nothing is more pitiful than a bored sulcata. Nothing is more scary than Frankie looking for something to ram. There are things I don't want Frankie to ram. I am top of that list. The young Frankie would occasionally bump into me. Bumping is a very close behavior and ramming is just a few...