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- Good morning.
I'm groggy.
Hopefully you guys are not.
- It's Monday morning, which means there's a lot to do.
I guess that's kind of the same thing for all of you.
It doesn't matter what we do or who we are,
but I just want to do a quick journal entry here about
how things weathered the heavy rain yesterday.
We're going to check on the baby tortoises,
some of the adult tortoises, some of the turtles.
And, also want to show you how after just two days,
two days ago,
I posted that grow your own food for tortoises
about the hibiscus flowers.
I'm going to show you how crazy
they've already come back in.
It's only been two days.
Rain helped.
So let's get started. Huh?
Look at that!
(chuckles)
Just a ton of fresh flowers,
all ready to go.
Like I said, so these are budding.
This is their blooming seasons. Every single day,
we're going to have a new crop of them.
So like I said,
in the grow your own food video
in the journal from just two days ago,
this is free food.
The gift that keeps on giving after the initial cost of just
buying these plants.
Isn't that great?
And a couple of you in that video had asked about a couple
other plants.
And I think you noticed some of the different species of
plant in my tortoise enclosures.
And yeah, I use lavender.
I use rosemary,
sedum,
spirea,
different grasses, African grasses, zebra grasses, dwarf,
and dwarf fountain and dwarf meeting grasses.
Blue grasses.
Remember providing for your animals
is what comes first and foremost.
Your needs and anything else comes second.
Gotta love that rain folks,
just makes everything look amazing.
Replenishes, cleans up, it's like a natural cleanse. Sorry.
So let's go see what the baby tortoises are doing.
All right! Checking on the babies!
Let's unlatch this hatchling unit,
lift up this ridiculously heavy lid.
Sun is hitting them.
Oh, look at this, this is great.
You can see they weathered the storm beautifully.
That wasn't even a storm. It was just heavy rain.
They look great.
Yeah, not surprised.
This is all stuff that they benefit from.
These are baby Hermann's tortoises here.
Next door, we've got baby marginated tortoises.
They're looking pretty great as well.
Huh.
And you can see it because, we build these things up,
and we make sure that they're set up
on a well-drained ground.
That there's no, there's no flooding.
And even this grass is already, you know, brittle.
It's dry.
Some, a Greek tortoise's here.
They look fantastic!
Baby radiated tortoises over here.
They loved that rain!
Look at the growth coming in on these little beauties.
Again,
like I said, in that hatching video,
raising them outdoors like this,
when you plan it out right, and set it up right,
this is what you get.
He's absolutely gorgeous!
Bright-eyed strong, robust,
sometimes fast moving hatchlings.
So they all did well.
We got some more hatchlings to check out.
We're going to see what a couple of the adults are doing
before we wrap up this journal entry.
Gypson tortoises are looking good!
I just threw them some fresh flowers.
And even they handled the rain fine.
Got themselves a drink.
And just helping themselves here.
Couple of them are still hiding.
Let's see, somebody under there,
a couple more back there, in their little cold frame.
Gonna let them enjoy their breakfast of flowers,
and move on.
So the sun is coming up over the pines
and hitting certain pens
and tortoises are starting to bask.
See that?
From rainy day to just completely safely drying off.
That's not the hottest day today.
It's actually a really nice temperature.
It's going to be easy to work in.
Whoop, there goes a spotted turtle.
But, everybody is looking amazing.
Look at that three toed box turtle.
As if he didn't get enough water yesterday, right?
(chuckles)
Things looking great.
Might have to start weed whacking
some of these pens again soon.
Not a big deal though.
What are you up to right here?
All right, we get a spotted turtle
that's just hanging out right here in this grass.
Beautiful little male.
Yeah, buddy. Whoop!
Ah!
Good stuff people!
Well, there you go.
That's that.
Quick spot checks on everybody.
Everybody did well.
Rain is a good thing, until we see it again.
I hope you guys have an amazing day.
Time to get started.
I've got a lot to do.
I'll see you in the next journal.
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