Growing up on a farm in South Georgia in the olden days (clue: You could buy a pack of Lucky Strikes plus a box of penny matches for 25 cents), I learned all the names for God's creatures. There was a large land tortoise which lived in burrows in the ground. Our neighbor kept one in the fenced yard for months, feeding him turnip greens and other vegetables. We kids would take turns standing on his back while he carried us around. He was about 20 inches in diameter. Anyway, they were called gophers. Now, we also had gophers (the pocket gopher), but they were called salamanders. Strangely enough, we also had salamanders which lived in the small streams or branches, but they were known as spring lizards.
I was so mixed up by the time I learned the "real" names that I have been mixed up ever since.
A nice day at the office today. I finished a medium-large wild cherry bowl and roughed out seven more bowls.