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I've had a turtle for quite few years now, 5, I believe.

Here's why I'd suggest a turtle as your next pet.

• He's pretty low maintenance.  If you buy the right filter and lighting, then there isn't too much you have to do to keep the habitat up right.  I'd say I may clean the aquarium once every couple of months.  Not too shabby in my opinion.  Especially when you consider that stank that is Bucky's litter box in one weeks' time.
• He's a great talking piece.  People love to ask questions about him.  What do you feed him?  How often does he eat?  Why does he swim constantly?  Is he going to get bigger?  Can I touch him?  Will he bite me?  Is it a boy or a girl?  How do you know? etc. (Answers: pellets, every other day, yes, hopefully not, sure, hopefully so, boy, you should ask your mother that question)
• He doesn't eat much...just a sufficient amount of pellets that he is fed every other day.  And the best part is that the pellets aren't that expensive.  Which brings me to my main point...

Over the years, I've always fed Zo this ReptoMin pellets because:
1) He appears to enjoy eating them
2) They are easy to handle and cheap enough to keep 'em coming

However, I did just learn a lesson in quantity.

This is the usual can that I buy from Wal-Mart for something in the range of $3.00 to $4.00 (1.94 oz)

Then I found some on Amazon...thanks to my buddy Matt and my new Amazon Prime membership, with free shipping, I just bought this next one off of Amazon for $8.99. (10.59 oz)

Now that's what you call quantity.

Guess where I'm buying next time?  (In 2016, when these finally run out, that is)

World Travels

My sister Anna left for a 5 month mission adventure today.  I say adventure, because I don't think the word "trip" really qualifies in what she's doing.  As part of the World Race organization, her team is travelling in Cambodia, Thailand, India, and then back to Atlanta all while focusing on the growing issue of Human Trafficking.

What's that, you ask?  Hopefully you are kidding.  Surely you know what Sex Trafficking is and surely you've heard that it has been a mounting concern over the past few years and surely you haven't overlooked the statistics about this grotesque injustice not just overseas, but in our own country/State/CITY.  Surely.

Here are some sobering statistics.

 

That's unreal.

If you are interested in keeping up with what she's doing, check out her blog(s) with her updates --> 

http://apennyforannasthoughts.blogspot.com/  or

http://annabearden.theworldrace.org/

In the meantime, maybe the question is what am I doing about it?

What are you doing about it?

There's a film recently made on the subject, an allegorical look, and it's definitely worth a look too.  

It's called "The Candy Shop" and you can watch it over at http://www.thedoorpost.com/