Out of Hibernation

Early this morning we had a knock at our door. It was my brother on his way to work with three boxes. Our Junior was ready to wake up from his winter slumber. He was box one. In box two was my moms tortoise Chip. Hibernation didn't go so well for him, but hopefully he will recover soon. In the third box was Nugget. Oh man. Nugget is Junior, Chip, and Rocky's father and he is a little bigger then what I am used to.

I put all of the boxes in the bathroom so that the kids wouldn't stumble over them or get into them too much until I got everyone situated. I walked into the bathroom to check on Chip and Junior and just about jumped out of my pants when Nugget hissed at me. It was quite loud and caught me off guard. I wasn't so sure about housing Nugget until his new home was ready, but it only took a few minutes outside for him to find a special little tortoise place in my heart.

A little family reunion. Rocky is about five or six months old, Junior is two and a half years old and big daddy there is ten or eleven years old.

To give you an idea of how big Nugget is, here is Andrew with him. We really had a good time with him outside today.