McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 4hI did not do it! It was totally @rhinestonespecs.bsky.social ! (She loves Turtles) 150
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 4hEvery wall is unique. It takes what it takes to inspect it. Do not try to shame me into speed running a 3-day wall inspection if it really needs like 5 yeats. Aren't you from a place with very old walls? 120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 5hYeah us too. The freakouts when it rains hard... 020
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 5hIt is awesome! I'm very lucky to have such an awesome logo. Designed by somebody who appreciates staring at a wall. 130
Reposted by McKinley D. TurtleThundy, Izzy, and Lynn @maudegertrude.bsky.social · 6hTruly the most amazing quality and so unique. 021
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 6hNo that was the right move. Especially in these day where both laundry soap and paper towels are luxury products. I would totally do it any day of the week, day of the year, in any timeline. It's soap touching dirty things. Doesn't matter when?! 030
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 6hThese are the best cards ever. Even when I get suckered into a retweeting in the April fool's Day prank... It's totally worth it. This is the woman who designed the logo for my business. I will post next. Or I won't. And you just have to deal with it. 3123
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 6hGirl says they are Best Turtle Friends and Big Girl disagrees in the strongest possible way at every possible moment. Even when girl makes floor popcorn (just the best thing ever! And BG is excellent at hunting floor popcorn!!) BG is still still standoffish. 110
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 6hAlso, she's very very sharp. She's the sharpest of turtles. And when you're trying to, like, get close and take a nice glamor shot, you just get shredded... I cannot emphasize enough how sharp she is. Everywhere. Mac has one sharp claw. She has all claws sharp on all legs. Four-wheel drive. Fuck! 120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 6hShe is really so good at turtling. And she's so excellently beautiful at it. Girl doesn't post as many pictures as she should because she's probably very jealous. 220
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 7hGirl actually had to do a lot of disruptioning in the pond. But she's learned how to do it hands-free until she has to scoop. So she was relatively not muddy. 030
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 7hI'm always so impressed with your steps. And I think you're getting more sleep too? 110
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 7hI mean yeah, but I do often find it very amusing. Girl did this thing today with her fingers- the left hand fingers and the right hand fingers are not the same!!!! It was a fascinating lecture. Almost as as good as when she cleans the ceiling fan, but way better than folding towels. 130
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 7hShe is a very excellent turtle! And she does not really care for human bullshit. 130
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 7hIt's her eyes. They are so large and expressive. (Generally what they're expressing to the Girl is contempt. But still- an emotional connection!) 030
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 8hI think you meant "because of". Big Girl takes her mud spa very seriously!! It keeps her looking youthful and fresh! Plus the aroma lingers for days- especially in fall when everything is rotting in the pond! 160
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 8hHer fatal flaw is that she's nosy. Girl just pokes around and even if she's nowhere near bgdt, a head... a nose... Girl used to have to dredge the pond, but now she just agitates some stuff and stands back and looks for noses. (Usually only one nose, technically.) 1120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I often stick my head out close to the camera! It's interesting and I have to check it out, and it might be food! (It's probably notfood. But you know hopes brings a turtle*.) * What girl said with voice to text was "Hope springs eternal." But you know hope brings a turtle is totally awesome! 2110
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Hunger strike. You do not have to eat a plate of notfood. 030
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oh that could be! He's very interested in art. 030
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So true. Today Girl was so boring that i had to stop basking, get up, going to my house and turn my back on her. 110
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026(She's not wrong but don't tell her that. Water.... Just makes you want to pee, doesn't it?) 010
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Girl says she thinks I've never peed on a walk. Which is kind of surprising, but I am more of a pee in my bath kind of guy. Civilized, indoor plumbing, servants take care of things. (She's now saying if there was a pond to stream or a hose on our walk I definitely would have peed.) 220
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah until you have spa day with boy & the nail file... I've never been to any other spa so I don't have a reference. But honestly, I would not pay money for this pedicure. (Oh, sometimes the vet dremels me. But that's not really a spa day, is it?) 120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have very sharp claws. So generally they just hold me by the belly and don't hold my feet. Which gives me ample room to kick! 120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If they do this I stop kicking. Because I feel like I should be rewarding that they did the thing I wanted. Even if they did it absolutely wrong. But also I feel like they're laughing. So I should probably kick them anyway. 070
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They're very bad students though. Sometimes they turn the way I want them to and then they keep turning until we're back on the original direction. I think they know that's not what I wanted. Technically they followed my instructions and I don't know if I should kick them or not. 170
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And when they do start turning in the direction I want them to, I stop kicking as positive reinforcement. 240
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm so sorry to hear that you get scooped. It's so undignified. I at least get held facing forwards as we walk. And I've learned that I can steer the girl and the boy sometimes... They're really stupid. But you just kick and turn your head the way you want to go and sometimes it works. 240
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They miss so much with their focus on getting to a specific place in a timely manner! 120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That is a lesson that they really need to learn! 020
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I once found some dog poop to smell or it might have been raccoon poop... It was poop and it smelled really intriguing. I got scooped before I could fully enjoy the experience. 060
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Usually they stop for me but apparently they have some sort of mental stopwatch and after some sort of time I get scooped... Usually I get a warning. They say "you need to be interesting" and then I will take a couple steps. But that ploy doesn't work infinitely. 370
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He's never inspected a wall in his life and it shows!! But you know, he tried? 120
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My management style is positive feedback unless I'm forced to resort to extreme micromanaging and hypercritical feedback. But that's not my first choice! Girl's cooking drives me to it. 110
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Girl says she's actually kind of inclined to do it just for shits and giggles because she would use her sports watch. And she'd love to see if they filter for actual GPS data... 080
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sorry Strava, it was a great idea, for people who had decent "pet owners" (I don't actually like that phrasing) 2100
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And I heaven forbid you find an interesting fence that you want to look at for 20 minutes! Next thing you know you're scooped!!! I don't even know how I'm going to get to 60 minutes with them. I should probably just steal her credit card and buy my own dog food. 1140
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I guess I should probably take her or the boy for some walks. Do you know how boring it is to take them for walks. They just want to go in a direction and walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. They don't want to stop. They don't want to smell. They don't want to hunt. They don't want assess the situation. 3130
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Strava has just invited girl to a challenge where she asks to do 60 minutes of activity outside and tag it "with pet". I think you get dog food coupons if you complete it. I've never had dog food. I think I'd really like it! 2230
McKinley D. Turtle @mckinleydturtle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think it's a stack of cinder blocks! I never would have thought to ask for one, but it is very interesting! 140
