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Charles, I would like to reprint this article in the Blomidon Naturalists quarterly newsletter. What's your policy?

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Hi Doug: That would be terrific. Please include my byline at the top, and at the end of the article I'd appreciate it if you could link to my Substack (https://charlesmandel.substack.com/) and run the following: Journalist Charles Mandel writes a free email newsletter on off-grid, sustainable living.

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Will do. Thanks.

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That is so cool. I think she might have been interested in the septic tank cover as a marker location ?

When I was a kid, a turtle laid eggs in the ground out back of the cottage near the lake & I made a circle of tape ribbon around that area to keep people away from there. When the eggs hatched the little turtles made their way to the lake, like radar. I don't think the mother actually leads them, they just know. Pretty cool.

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We were getting ready to flag off the area if she did lay eggs. I'm not sure why, but ultimately after two days in the yard she decided it was unsuitable. We tried to leave her alone as much as we could.

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Yeah....& now you're all disappointed ...lol

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wow! now i’m a bit jealous. a turtle might even be more interesting to have in the yard than a moose. nature does have the best „tv channels“ (tv = turtle vision?).

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Ha, ha: Turtle vision. I don't know. I imagine a moose would be fairly interesting.

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