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7:33 am
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September 15, 2012
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This is Bots being disturbed by the morning sun.
I found him in Santander and brought him home.
He’s 120 years old and, unfortunately, dead.
(Click on the Attachments image title below for a better view.)
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11:51 am
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December 2, 2012
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Mandrake
Santander (will have to look it up to find location) must be hellish hot because that’s the
worst looking sunburn I’ve ever seen on a turtle!
Was it alive when you found it and just recently passed away?
Sorry to hear about his death but you have to admit he did pretty good to make it to 120.
Dale.
12:29 pm
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September 15, 2012
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Dale… Santander is on the northern coast of Spain. I was there in 1959 aboard the Empire State III.
Actually, I do remember that it was unbearably hot. I recall that we (the freshmen cadets) were chipping rust
from the metal decks. The rubber soles of our sneakers would melt against the deck if we left them in one spot
too long. Strange that I can remember this so clearly.
It was there that I purchased Bots. (An impulsive buy.) Yes, he was already dead. He made the voyage home
in my locker. We never went through customs, for some inexplicable reason, so he made it to New York without incident.
I really have no idea how old he is. I just made that up. I’ve had this thing for 55 years, so maybe he is 120 years old.
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8:20 am
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September 15, 2012
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Dale.. You were right. Much too red.
I took some out.
-- Mandrake --
OMG, Mandrake. It is a bit scary.
I use to have a life turtle and she escaped from me. I took her for a walk and started playing with my friends and kind of forgot about her. First time some man found her about 3 houses down. Second time she was nowhere to be found. 🙁
Who knew? They can be fast, if they want to.
12:46 pm
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OMG, Mandrake. It is a bit scary.
This guy is kinda big. He’s 15 inches from stem to stern.
I keep him in the living room. The first time Samantha saw him she let out a scream.
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4:33 am
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March 23, 2013
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I can see why…
4:48 am
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September 15, 2012
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Mandrake said
Santander is on the northern coast of Spain. I was there in 1959 aboard the Empire State III.
The Captain of the Empire State III was Italian.
He once, with some animation, told me to “get off of his ship”. We were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
I named the turtle after what we used to call our Captain.
-- Mandrake --
11:16 am
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September 15, 2012
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One last shot of the old guy.
I tried to see what I could do with the drop shadow effect in PSE.
The shadow on the wall behind him kind of confuses things a bit. I’ll try again another time.
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7:17 pm
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December 2, 2012
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Mandrake
Thanks for the info. Old Bots doesn’t look too bad (in a morbid kind of way) in the
last pic you posted here. We bought the kids a large aquatic toad once and it used
to live in an aquarium. Well, one day the toad was gone and we turned the place
upside down trying to find the damned thing. No luck. So, to make a long story short…
a couple of months or so went by and the cat brought this “really large round flat thing”
into the living room and dropped it on the carpet. It was the toad. Looked like a brownish/green
frisbee with a couple of black raisins (it’s eyes) stuck on the top of it. That was the last aquatic toad purchased
by our family. I should have thrown it to see if it flew like a frisbee lol!
Dale.
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