Vacation feeding--last year vs. this year.
I'm leaving for a conference tomorrow and my husband is working intense hours at his job. Plus it's hot here this week. Food is going to left out in the morning and hopefully doesn't melt before lunch.
Last year, as a brand new owner, this is the kind of thing I would prepare in advance of my departure. Carefully curated containers of sturdy greens that would get placed out each day in a small water saucer to keep them from wilting. Plus a flower, because I felt guilty about leaving her.
This year:
Head of frisee: one minute at the grocery store, one dollar to buy, one handful dumped out per day. Frisee is one of my favorite foods for hot weather; stays the crunchiest. Feeding an outdoor tortoise seems the reverse of an indoor tortoise; she gets more spring mix in summer than any other time of the year.
Next year I imagine I'll just soak her and let her fend for herself.
I'm leaving for a conference tomorrow and my husband is working intense hours at his job. Plus it's hot here this week. Food is going to left out in the morning and hopefully doesn't melt before lunch.
Last year, as a brand new owner, this is the kind of thing I would prepare in advance of my departure. Carefully curated containers of sturdy greens that would get placed out each day in a small water saucer to keep them from wilting. Plus a flower, because I felt guilty about leaving her.
This year:
Head of frisee: one minute at the grocery store, one dollar to buy, one handful dumped out per day. Frisee is one of my favorite foods for hot weather; stays the crunchiest. Feeding an outdoor tortoise seems the reverse of an indoor tortoise; she gets more spring mix in summer than any other time of the year.
Next year I imagine I'll just soak her and let her fend for herself.