Friday, May 4, 2007

The fox and the cat

Had a great ride home last night 66minutes of ride time - last week it took me 74 minutes. Coming home is always slower as I work an appropriately named area called 'Great Valley'.

Unfortunately I got a flat about a mile from home. I had to stop and fill it twice to get home.

After a quick burrito dinner, we went to my daughter's National Honor Society induction. We're so proud and blessed to have two very intelligent children. The school principle gave the key note - 'it's not enough to be smart, you have to do something with it', encouraging action and volunteerism.

Getting home I fixed my flat tire and my daughter's flat tire while watching survivor, then headed to bed pretty wiped out.

At 2am we are wakened by this god awful sound - it sounded like a wounded animal. We have 3 cats and we were afraid one of them got hit by a car or something. So we do a pet inventory and all cats are home. We take the car out and spot a fox in the bushes at the base of a tree. We try to scare it away from a distance, but it wants nothing to do with us. We go back in the house, thinking we can throw something at it from the deck, but by the time we get out there, the fox is gone. We point a flashlight and see two eyes climbing down from the tree into the bushes. The dark shape of a cat emerges and runs for saftey. I climb back to bed and thankfully fall asleep straight away.

I got up this morning, drove to Valley Forge park and ran 5 miles and barely got back to the office to shower and make it to my first meeting.

Sleep - I need more sleep.

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