On June 6th I was driving home from a short hike at my local lake. As I pulled onto my road, and l I was nearing my driveway, i noticed something peculiar. A fairly flattened dead box turtle on the road. I knew for a fact it wasn't there when I left for the lake no more than a couple of hours prior. So I parked my car in my drive and went to examine it. It was a sad sight to see for sure. I even saw all the eggs inside her were crushed beyond saving... Or I thought that was all of them... There was what I thought was just guts at first about a foot away from her... But then I realized they were actually the female's turtles reproductive organs with two eggs still inside. I believed they must've shot out of her when she was ran over, far enough away to be safely away from the tires.. I immediately ran inside, put on my last latex glove, and grabbed a pair of scissors. I then came back out to the scene and cut the eggs free and brought them indoors .. I then proceeded to carefully remove the organ from the eggs with an xacto knife, then wiped them clean gently with a damp paper towel. I grabbed some incubation media, dampened it, and started incubating at 77 f daytime temps give or take. (Sidenote- I had everything on hand that I needed to incubate eggs, as I used to breed and incubate crested and leopard geckos years ago. I'm glad I never got rid of those supplies.) Anyways I really wasn't expecting anything to happen... My hopes definitely weren't through the roof. I knew the odds were low.. But, sure enough, against all odds and after only a few days of incubating, they started "chalking" or turning white from the top downwards. I immediately knew I had healthy, fertile eggs. And I had hope. I decided I'd dig out my old reptibator incubator out of storage since I knew they were viable eggs. I figured that would give them a more controlled environment to develop... I incubated for females at around 85 f and 90% relative humidity..... And two months later they finally hatched. And they're the cutest things I've ever seen.... Two healthy little three toed box turtles. Anyways it really was quite the journey, for them and for me. And I'm still kinda left scratching my head a bit. But man o man am I happy with these little ladies. Their names are Kismet and Kōan. https://www.reddit.com/r/turtle/comments/wkictp/update_both_box_turtle_eggs_i_found_on_the_road/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share This is the link to my reddit post. I give my full consent for you to use any of those photos as well if you would like. Although I'd prefer to stay anonymous. I just know this story can inspire and touch the hearts of many like it did to mine.
So I bought this drone DJI mini 2. Maybe it sounds cliché but I had a dream once about the drones and decided it was something important (so I bought it). It was on vacation with friends. I never tried to fly my drone at a distance greater than 100meters. I heard that drones can fly up to about 2000 meters so I decided it was a good time to try it out. It happens that u loose a little bit of focus (especially with friends) and started up my drone with only 60 % battery on. At first I was flying near taking some cool shots, and then when the battery was 40% I decided to fly as far I could (I forgot completely to check the battery status). When I reached 1200 meters, I got a low battery notification and the drone started returning by itself. It flew so slow (due to wind (I didn't know this at the time)) and I was a little nervous and decided to take control by myself. I switched to the sport mode (which was a bad idea, cuz it drains a battery way faster). I was actually pretty near to successfully return (friends could see the drone, it was maybe 150-200 meters away). So ya it crashed, but the energy, the moment I saw the drone on my screen going down is unforgettable and funny too. I posted the video on WCGW on Reddit (maybe u saw it) and on r/drones. People on r/WCGW got pretty annoyed because of the title 😅. I wrote 2/4 battery instead 1/2. Pretty much every comment was about the fractions "why not the 8/16 or 1200/2400?" something like that but I found some nice comments too. Those comments really helped me to understand my mistakes. So that's my story, and I would be really glad if you could show my clip in one of your videos. That could maybe help me gain some new followers on Instagram since I just bought a new drone and have some plans with it. (I just created an account after the video went viral. I was going to do it earlier but you know how it is, "I will do it later, still have time". When the video went viral it motivated me a lot) Ps: I don't know if I sent two clips one wirmth watermark on and the other without