Turtling

Hubby on patrol

It's that turtle time of year; today and yesterday (4/21) were our first days out on morning patrol; no live turtles or nests yet just this friend ----------->

But we know the loggerheads are in the bay and gulf just offshore --

Sea temperature is 22C/72F, so a little bit warmer and the females will be nesting on our beaches.

Thank you for this loggerhead photo Hubbard's Marina.

<--We have 99% loggerheads on our coast, and excitedly . . .

several leatherbacks, an endangered species, were spotted a few miles offshore yesterday! Watch the leatherback video here.


Looking skyward, what should mini me see .. but a helicopter with sea legs! First time to spot one of these flying above our beach.




Turtling, as mini me calls it, was a good way to celebrate Earth Day, along with helping out at the Sea Turtle Trackers booth at the community event.

You may recall I wrote about 'bird mobbing' last May 20 (with video) - well the blackbird and the Great Blue Heron are at it again! We heard a loud heron clacking noise  which drew us out onto our balcony to see what was going on.

Back to people, we just avoided a recall election of two city commissioners here in our beach community as
   

decided by judicial decree  - only in the nick of time as the ballots had already been mailed out.

I had never seen a recall ballot before and if you haven't here's what it looks like. Yup it is an old fashioned paper ballot with no possibility of hanging chads!

Just finished a table runner I salvaged from my Quilt First, Then Construct class at the March Lakeland Sewing & Quilt Expo. In between turtling this week, friends and I will be stuffing pillows for the local children's hospital dialysis unit. Then back to making a basket or
two . . .hope to make a turtle shaped one some day!

Quirkies - -recognize the focal squares?