There's a toad in our freezer

I’m not kidding, it’s right next to the waffles. This is what happens when you have a house full of scientists. It’ll only get worse as we grow older, Professor B has shown us some of her prizes, I can’t wait to have a glass cabinet full of animal bone, sea glass, and shells! Right now I’m only collecting feathers. I have a wild turkey and several others I haven’t I.D.’d yet. They toad is from my two of my housemates (who I shall now refer to as Cricket and Peanut). Everyone in the house is wonderfully insane. Its been nothing but inappropriate jokes, zoology references, and non-stop giggling…and food, lots and lots of food! We’ve gone to Stop and Shop maybe three times this week already, the fridge is packed, and we’ll probably run out of food my Friday. Don’t judge, “we’re four grown women with vaginas and periods” so says Peanut. Peanut is hilarious, with the metabolism of a roadrunner! Cricket is just as funny, and speaks Hungarian and Japanese! Yay! We also like to show each other goofy clips and speak in quotes, tour current fav is End of Ze World, or nostalgic if you’re my age.

On a more serious note, we have begun the first lull of the turtle-nesting season. From what I’ve been told there is two nesting peaks with a quite period in between them. So far there are only one or two turtles nesting. We’ve found some more nests (with some predated, sad I know, but that’s nature) and we’re stopping our egg count because most of the eggs we’ll find now are older, and turning them may cause the egg-embryo bond to break and kill the babies.

…Oh my everything…I definitely earned my sleep tonight. Yesterday and today was a marathon of everything we’ve learned to do so far: patrolling, wading, kayaking, etc. all day. I’m not complaining; I just feel like a geriatric patient. On the bright side, I take my lunch breaks on the beach! OH YEAH! It was a perfect day;

The sun was warm and bright, the ocean half-heartedly rolling on the shore. Emily and I enjoyed a leisurely lunch beneath a drift an old lean-to compiled of driftwood and other flotsam and jetsam. A lazy breeze ruffling the dune grass as we stared into the faded denim scenery, the sky and water seamlessly melded until the horizon fading into nothingness.

This is me trying to be poetic, take what you will from it.

PS- Since we are stopping the egg count I’m just going to post the total number of turtles and nests as we find them! Tootles!

Today’s terrapins: 6

Total terrapins: 48 (almost at 50!)

Nest total: 9 (7 are viable)