March/11/09 Was a great day to be outdoors! Warm morning temps,fresh air and the sounds of spring. Sparrows,Gold Finch,Crows,Woodpeckers,Cardinals,Robins and of course Wild Turkey.Turkeys where very vocal this morning,both male and females. Spent close to three hours in the woods. Didn't come across any sheds. Did find a shell from a Box Turtle and found two Thunder Head tipped 2117 aluminum shafts. From the looks of these shafts,someoneearlier in the year,had some action.With less than desired results. The shafts where less than 6ft. apart and no evidence of a hit from either arrow. [/align]

Several years ageI found a box turtle in my field, neat little guys.

Yeah they are Jim! Two years ago my loving,caring wife thought she was doing me and Box Turtle a favor. She was coming home from the store and found one on the road. Well she brings it home with her and puts the Box Turtle in our garden pond that I built right off the patio. When she had told me this, I said that's nice dear. But Box Turtles don't live in water! She said, I was wondering why it was on the road? I said besides, you go one about how beautiful the water lilies are. I told her,turtles would eat the Lilly tubers.She said, I'll put it back where I found it, but off the road. Good idea dear![/align]

we had boss at work that almost all hated.

we took a SNAPPER turtle and put in his locker on top shelf.

he opened the locker, we were all sitting there and out came that big turtles neck with mouth wide open..
i thought i was going to pee myself laughing.


i then took turtle and wrote his name on back with a crayon and i released it.

about week later,in came bigshots from new york city headquarters.

the president said in front of 500 of us.

he said, HEY WHO IS MARVIN

well up stood MARVIN with his hand raised, he even brushed his teeth that day expecting to kiss some butt

he said,YES SIR, I AM MARVIN.

well, president said, WHILE DRIVING IN ROAD HERE WE SAW A TURTLE WITH YOUR NAME ON HIS BACK.

you should have heard the laughter,oh my gosh.

next day he swore he would get me fired, if he could.


now thats a TURTLE story.

Might've been even more fun iff'n you'd have caught a snapper Sproul!

let me go back and correct that,IT WAS SNAPPER TURTLE.

You must have caught him on a good day Sproul! Them snappers can be a little ornery![/align]

i use stick,when he bites it, i pick them up that way.

we used to have one as big as a garbage can lid.

i had doghouse for him and he ate a whole dozen of eggs per day.

that was about 1965,boy, those were days.

Did you ever make soup from one? I never made it myself, but had some that someone else made. It was very good.

Tried cooking one once. A royal pain to clean and after cooking all day it was still bulletproof[:'(]. Must be some trick no one told us about