My terrific daughter Elisabeth texted me a photo of a dirty turtle.
She quickly followed it with another of some sort of crustacean.
And left it to my imagination to respond … OK, I give up, why are these things at your orthopedic office in Hamilton.
It turns out that the turtle and crawfish both crawled out of a nearby creek bed to their parking lot, to be brought inside for a cleaning by concerned co-workers before repositioning back in the shallow water bed.
Who knew that crawfish lived in little creeks in Central New York? I pictured them swimming around in Louisiana swamps, to be caught, boiled and seasoned, and eaten by merry Cajun-food lovers.
Turtles up here, sure.
Yet I was still somewhat surprised at the story and photo to follow about the turtle they caught in late June in what they’re pretty sure was an egg-laying process.
They’ve yet to see the babies, yet, though.
They do good orthopedic work, too, I promise.
Mark Bialczak 
I’m glad those two received amazing care. It’s no surprise they might have orthopedic issues; particularly after their travels! They landed at the right spot!
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Great to see you back, Karla! Yes the critters were cared for!
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Thank you, Mark!
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Always fun to see new turtles!
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These text photos truly made me smile too Kerbey.
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Amazing!
We just had a guy post pictures on Facebook of all the baby turtles that just hatched by the lake. Who knew?
And I use to catch crawfish, when I was a kid, in the creeks here in Pennsylvania. So you have them there tooooo!
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Things I can still learn, Nance, and be glad for it!
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Maybe they will keep those creatures around to help clip off toe nails? Isn’t that what orthopedic doctors do?
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That would change the business structure I’m pretty sure, ladysighs.
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How kind!
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Yes I am glad for that, MBC.
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aw, that’s so sweet that they did that
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They treated them right, Beth.
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