While we were out of town last Saturday, someone gifted me with this turtle. Nobody in the neighborhood will own up to placing it in this flower bed where I would be sure to spot it from a window in the house. This post was edited by gazania on Tue, Jul 15, 14 at 10:26

Jasdip we've had a very hot summer which we are all loving. Highs of 30 in the day (not all days, but several and it's usually above 23 in the day) and very little rain. Lawns are turning brown - a downside to all the hot temps. It's unusual for us here in eastern Newfoundland to have such warm temperatures (western and central Newfoundland always have warmer summer temps than we do). I think we've only had rain 1 afternoon in the past two and a half weeks!

Pic taken from my porch across my very busy road. That doe and her 2 fawns cross that road daily causing some real heart stopping moments. They come out of the woods over there, nibble around that apple tree then cross the road into my yard to browse around and check the bird feeder. Then they disappear into the woods behind me.

Thanks, Jasdip. She did. She passed on in 2007. She was 10 years old when I got Rocket as a kitten. He tormented her every day of the last two years of her life. I often regretted having him, but did what I could to keep her life from being too miserable. Seeing Rocket now, at age 14, it is hard to remember what a terror he was as a youngster.