Ran 3 this morning. It was pretty nice at 48*F.

QOTD: Any wildlife sightings in the new year on runs?

I saw a large turkey gobbler this morning about 60 yards from the corner of my house.

Overslept and barely squeaked out 4.30 of the 5 miles that were on schedule.  If I'd done the full 5, I would've been late to work (yes, I'm that slow).

I got home yesterday to the surprise of Sam sleeping in the same cat bed with Tucker (our 2 new kitties).  If we're both home, we close off the computer room and their bedroom, thus forcing Sam to be out and about.  Oh, and I also taped up the underside of a lounge chair where he found a hidey hole.  We'll open their bedroom door after a couple of hours in case he has to go to the bathroom, then he gets shooed out and the door closed again.  He's getting braver about walking around the house, just not about letting us touch him outside his safe zone . . . unless there's canned food involved and he's suddenly able to overcome his skittishness for that treat. 

Sam (L), Tucker the Terrorist (R)

QOTD: I saw an opossum this morning, does that count?  There's timberland owned in this area by Green Diamond.  For years, they gave out passes for people to run on what's known as the McKay Tract.  A few years ago, they sold some of their land to the City of Eureka for the city to build its own community forest trail system (which is a work in progress).  Last year, Green Diamond stopped giving out passes because they want to discourage people from using their property.  It sucks because it was a really great place to run - lots of old, overgrown logging roads and one really well-maintained 6-mile main dirt road that was good for just getting a run done.  Whenever I ran there, I would see wildlife in a regular basis.  Came across bear a number of times, deer, bobcats.  A lot of people still trespass on the property, but I don't feel right doing that, so no more running out there.  

 

QOTD: Nothing unusual. We did see a blue heron the other day down in the hollow by the pond on the local trail. New Year's day we saw a deer loping away in the distance on our run in GA. It was sort of cool as the deer was 100 foot or so below us bounding down the hill sort of far away and mostly all you saw was the white tail.

 

LB2 - Seems you have turkey on your mind already!

I do. I am currently planning our trip to Nebraska in May. I have been completely consumed with my BaseMap App and overlaying it with Google Earth for street views around public access areas and WMA's. Also, looking at going back to Alabama in late March. And I am keeping an eye on these birds around here. I only need one to be happy, but I hope I don't have to wait until May.

I'm going to do some core/back stull and then head out to do 5mi.  Nothing special.

qotd: Nothing out of the ordinary lately.  A while back I did see a dead hog laying by the side of the hike/bike trail near a road intersection, obviously it had been hit by a vehicle.  The thing was huge, probably left a pretty big dent, unless it was hit by a monster pickup truck (we have lots of them down here).

5.4 miles with intervals.

Fatozzig, cute that the cats were snuggling.

LB, giving new meaning to the notion that we don't want to know how the sausage is made.

QOTD: There's always some wildlife in my house, between three parrots, but nothing much outside.  There was a lagoon full of birds at Crissy Field in SF when I did my 6 hour run last Friday, and that was pretty cool to watch while running in circles.