{"id":2446,"date":"2014-06-14T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2014-06-14T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:32:14","slug":"lookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Poor Snake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took my first run today since my 28 miler on Wednesday. \u00a0I took Thursday and Friday off as rest days. \u00a0I was really tired and decided to be lazy for a few days. \u00a0It was glorious!<\/p>\n

Today dawned bright and sunny. \u00a0Beautiful morning for a run.<\/p>\n

MFH (My Favorite Husband) was out for the day with our neighbor. \u00a0Our neighbor has his own trucking business. \u00a0He hauls asphalt, dirt, etc. for construction and all that kind of a thing. \u00a0MFH had studied and gotten his CDL learners permit and today was a practice driving day with our neighbor. \u00a0You have a certain amount of time to get some miles under your belt to earn your real license. \u00a0So, they were off doing that this morning.<\/p>\n

I lolly-gagged around. \u00a0Dawdled over my breakfast and coffee. \u00a0Finally decided to go for my run. \u00a0It was around 9:00 am. \u00a0Burning daylight.<\/p>\n

Off I went. \u00a0I only had to do 7 miles this morning. \u00a0Nice!<\/p>\n

As you all know, we live in the country in Mississippi. \u00a0Seeing as I do most of my training on country roads, I have a tendency to run right smack dab down the middle of the road. \u00a0I really do have a reason for this. \u00a0I am not trying to pig up the entire stretch of road.<\/p>\n

Our roads have quite the crown to them. \u00a0That makes my knees unhappy. \u00a0So, if I run towards the middle of the road, I have happier knees. \u00a0That problem~solved.<\/p>\n

The other reason I run down the middle of the road is because I am a great big chicken. \u00a0See, we have snakes where we live. \u00a0Sure, there are the non-venomous snakes here but we have our fair share of water moccasins and rattle snakes. \u00a0They like to sun themselves on the shoulder of the roads. \u00a0THAT is why I really run down the middle of the road. \u00a0I do NOT like snake encounters.<\/p>\n

So, this past week, if you recall from Wednesdays blog, they were picking up tornado damage debris from the edges of the road. \u00a0We had received a boat load of rain this week. \u00a0That meant the ditches were full of water and covered up by tornado debris. \u00a0Perfect hiding places for snakes.<\/p>\n

The guys working on picking up the debris, in my opinion, deserve a gold medal for walking into that stuff and making nice neat piles for the trucks to pick up and haul away. \u00a0There is no way you would get me to do that! \u00a0Walk into snake infested ditches!?! \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Not this gal!<\/p>\n

Finally, we move onto this morning. \u00a0I ran my seven. \u00a0On my way out, I was trucking along the middle of the road when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something. \u00a0I stopped (dumb, I know) and looked. \u00a0It was white. \u00a0Ewwww!!! \u00a0It was a snake skeleton! \u00a0Nasty. \u00a0I immediately wanted a pic but did not want to stop my run. \u00a0I decided to snap a pic on my way back.<\/p>\n

On my way back, I was keeping an eye out for that skeleton. \u00a0Instead, I ran into the guys. \u00a0They were STILL picking up tornado debris! \u00a0(Some of our neighbors really got slammed). \u00a0I thought, “Oh, no. \u00a0They parked their truck on top of my skeleton. \u00a0Rats.” \u00a0They guys waved at me, I waved back and kept on running. \u00a0I knew I should have taken the pic when I had the chance.<\/p>\n

Running along, kicking myself for a missed photo opp, there, right at my feet was the skeleton! \u00a0I had not missed it after all!<\/p>\n

I stopped and inspected it. \u00a0It had been a BIG snake! \u00a0Maybe 4-4.5 ft long. \u00a0The head and about another 12″ of the snake body were close to a foot away from the rest of the skeleton. \u00a0The tornado guys must have met the poor snake. \u00a0They must have had a shovel or a hoe or something because they have taken the head off of that thing! \u00a0Poor snake. \u00a0I think.<\/p>\n

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Took my first run today since my 28 miler on Wednesday. \u00a0I took Thursday and Friday off as rest days. \u00a0I was really tired and decided to be lazy for a few days. \u00a0It was glorious! Today dawned bright and sunny. \u00a0Beautiful morning for a run. MFH (My Favorite Husband) was out for the day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3,1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}