HAPPY 175TH HARRIET!!!

I love stories like these.
One of the world's oldest living animals, Harriet the tortoise, celebrated her 175th birthday on Tuesday -- with a pink hibiscus flower cake at her retirement home in Northern Australia, where she has spent the past 17 years.
Australian Zoologists say the Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise was collected by scientist Charles Darwin in 1835, although some historians have disputed this.

There is no doubt however over the age of Harriet -- who for more than a century was thought to be a male and named Harry -- and she is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living chelonian, or reptile with a shell of bony plates.

"She would definitely be the oldest living animal on Earth ... I can't see why she shouldn't live till 200," Australian conservationist and television celebrity Steve Irwin, who owns Australia Zoo north of the city of Brisbane, told Guinness World Records.

I think our society has become so desensitized, that all we are interested in, is drama and catastrophy. We need to re-educate ourselves to appreciate the intriguingly positive occurances that take place on our home planet.
SO- I'm flippin' the scripts people!!! I'm all about Harriets Birthday today, and there's nothing the Prasident can do about it!

So the next time you're complaining about how OLD you are...it could be worse- you could be a turtle.
Then we would have to deal with your whining for another 125 years.

Happy Birthday Harriet!

Somebody get that shell back a shot of J.D. for Christs Sake!