It's a sure sign that Spring is here once we wake Benita, our 24 year old water turtle, from her winter sleep. Between November and April she sits quietly in 6 inches of water in the cellar demanding neither food nor attention. A convenient pet to have! Now she's looking forward to her spring diet of tadpoles and we need to locate batches of unhatched frogspawn to nurture for her. We expect still to find some in the colder pools at higher altitudes. One year when we got home from such an expedition we found a beautiful red-bellied newt in our bucket, which we had obviously unwittingly scooped up with the frogspawn.The ban on flights across Europe this past weekend because of the high altitude ash from the icelandic volcano brought us unexpected guests. We appreciated greatly the fellowship with a family from London on their way home from Italy in a hire car. It was good too to have our first Sunday picnic lunch of the season in the garden after our morning worship service.
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