Dedicated to Fredrina

Our two red eared sliders were given to us by a friend and Casey lovingly named them, Fred and Fredrina after our dead fish, Fred, (who mysteriously died while in the care of our brother-in-law…..) And it was time once again to clean their tank. Because of the sun finally coming out and the snow finally gone we decided to let the turtles hang out in the back yard instead of their usual spot in the bathroom sink. Fredrina promptly found a great hiding spot up against the house while Fred wandered around. Our backyard is fenced in so we felt they were relatively safe. After about ten minutes the tank was clean and we were ready for the turtles……. Fredrina was in her hiding place, but Fred? Nowhere, we searched under every plastic kid toy in the backyard including a perimeter of about 100 feet outside of the fence. Nothing, it didn’t help that Fred is the exact same color as the grass and sagebrush. So after searching for about 20 minutes we decided he was on his own. By that time it was time for us to go to the concert (I talk about that in the next post) so we put Fredrina in the bathroom sink with some water to wash off and went to have some fun. Upon returning home Fredrina was still…..she had gone back to live with Heavenly Father. We were devastated, losing both turtles in one night! The next day was also very nice and sunny, after putting Megan down for a nap I settled down in the grass in our backyard to read my book. Then, a rustling in the sagebrush made me look up…a little too loud to be the wind, a bird? A snake? Fred!! There he was trying to make his way up the little hill. He’s now safely back in his tank after his big adventure, sadly without his companion Fredrina, who is now in turtle paradise.