There is a petrified zoo hanging around outside Casa de la Flaming Bore. Right now the numbers stand at four cats, three gorillas, two rabbits, and one turtle. None of them have names, but the favorite of the neighbor kids is the turtle.I've lost track how many times they've hidden it from Big Bore this summer. ("Hey, let's hide the turtle from Jeff!") He originally placed it in the flower area around our elm tree. Then the kids moved it to the front bird bath. ("Look! It floats!") It has since travelled to the front ground cover, then the backyard coleus, underneath the coneflowers, then to the back bird bath, and now it's beneath a barberry bush. They've moved it so many times that the 5-year-old (no longer 4, as of last Sunday) forgot where he put it and had to go on a mad search yesterday.
It's a good thing turtles are slow, or we'd never be able to keep up with it!
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