Late night walk

We decided to take the dogs for a walk the other day around 9:30pm (its dark out at that time now) so we walked down the river walk since it has lights along the path. The walk is about 2 miles which is a nice distance for everyone. It was so much cooler out then when we go at 6 o'clock and we had the whole path to ourselves so it made for a very peaceful walk. There might not have been any other people out, but there was lots of critters. There is usually big fat night crawlers, beetles, frogs, and snakes moving across the path but we also had an opossum and an armadillo cross the path so that was fun to see; I think armadillos are so interesting. However, the highlight of the night was by far the beaver. On the way in we saw a shadow move across the wooden bridge that crosses over the path and Pekoe got really excited but we didn't know what it was. Well, on the way back over the bridge Jeramie says "hey look, there's what Pekoe saw!" so I looked down and low and behold there was a beaver paddling along the top of the river. I have never seen one in its natural habitat so I was pretty excited. Its amazing how such an awkward looking creature can be so graceful. :D We watched him swim along until he reached a brushy embankment and then ducked under the water to enter his little "lodge" underneath. Too cool!

We are now going to try and take an evening walk at least 3 times a week so we (dogs and people) can all get a little exercise. I hope we stick with it.... seems like we don't meet to many of our health goals these days.... sigh..... must do better!!