365 Project. Day 170, June 19: I took a moment during our weekly paddle tennis potluck gathering to photograph Julia's sulcata (African spurred) tortoise, Speedy. When she first got him, he was the size of a chicken egg. He's 11 years old now, and as you can see from the salt container I placed next to him in his dog house hutch for perspective (he hissed at me), he's enormous. No matter how much I moan about the last dog I'll ever own, at least I'm relatively sure I'll outlive him. Speedy may live to be 150, according to the internet... this is the tortoise whose poop (pictured in the foreground, now the size of a hoagie) my old dog Charlie gorged on...
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