When you say "painted" you are referring to a painted type slider
right, not a turtle with its shell painted!
Do you recall many many years ago when they used to sell baby turtles
in the 5 & 10 cent type stores that had designs painted on their
shells, or their shells were painted in all different colors........

On 14 Jun 2005 07:47:50 -0700, "kathy" wrote:

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===Finally got some decent water hyacinth
===here locally. One of my ponding friends
===picked me up some yesterday. She stopped
===by to visit the new turtle and the new
===turtle came out to be charming. I told my
===15-yr-old son to name her and he came up
===with Lily. So now Lily, a painted turtle,
===has joined the pond family. (And will probably
===eat all the new water hyacinths by week's
===end ;-)
===
===kathy :-) www.blogfromthebog.com
===this week ~ a snake story
===
===Pond 101 page for new pond keepers ~
===http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html


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