Animals!!

Recently we ended up with quite the menagerie in our backyard.  Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but see for yourself.

The Beelining Tortroise

While driving home from work my brother, Todd, saw a tortoise crossing the road and, bless him, he had to stop and save the wee soul from getting run over.  They are widening Queen Creek Rd in Gilbert and if that tortoise was making it a habit of crossing the road, her days were numbered because it is a high traffic road and Todd was surprised to be able to find it alive when he turned around to go back for it.

She's almost there...

Well, he didn't have time to take it home because he was meeting Christina and the girls for dinner; so on his way he thought it better to drop it off at our house.  I tried finding it some vituals but it had no interest in any of that nonsense and beelined it (as much as a tortoise can beeline anything (see the story "The Tortoise and the Hare)) for our grapevines as a nice resting spot from her stress encounter.  It stayed there until Todd and Tyla came and picked her up to give her a more permanent home in their backyard, and proper name.  Tyla, the animal-lover that she is, was beaming from ear to ear and got to hold it on her lap for the drive home.

The Wee Soul

 Later that week, Rosie found this little guy in our bedroom.  I've seen plenty of Geccos in our backyard but never in our house and this looks nothing like the geccos I've seen around.  When she found it, it was quite a surprise and it gave her a good startle.  She screamed, "Bug!" and ran to me in our bathroom.  She is now educated abit more about the difference between lizards and bugs.  To her defense she only got glance of it before turning and running. 
Obviously I got to relocate it to a potted plant in our back yard, but it didn't stay there long as it was gone when I got home from work.