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Deer Runs Through Car Wash

Viewer Video: Deer Runs Through Car Wash - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire.

A deer ran thru a New Hampshire car wash, which was caught on surveillance video. The door was closed at the other end. Somehow the deer made it thru the 24" gap between the door panel and the wall.

Double Take

I was out gardening yesterday and as I was walking by the cotoneaster by the gate, I saw a snake "sunning" (it was very cloudy) itself on the branches.

 
After the initial glance, I did a double take because soemthing caught my eye, this snake had 3 heads. Not really, there were three snakes however.

 
I moved off and did some more chores, then came back later and they hadn't moved much.

 
Nature is so cool to watch!

The Birds Know

I spent much of the morning outside getting things under shelter. It was very quiet - very few bird calls where normally the woods are atwitter with blue jay, chickadee, nuthatch and chipping sparrow calls. I got the funiture and cathouse off the deck, no birds were scared from the feeders. For the last 45 minutes, I have been in the kitchen cleaning birdie's cage and watering plants. I can see the bird feedrs and I've only seen 1 female hummingbird and 2 goldfinches. It also occurs to me that I've neither seen nor heard any chipmunks or squirrels.

Guess they are busy battening down the hatches too.

A Friend in Need . . .

Just for the awe factor

Link stolen from Scott and Ellen

My bike was in the shop last week to have the front lowering springs put in (drops the front about 1") I met WS at work (the shop is in Concord) and we started the shuffle of getting 3 vehicles home. He had picked up my bike out of the shop, as I wouldn't get to Concord until after the place closed. WS had ridden his bike in, so our first trip was riding both bikes home.

We were behind a line of traffic on 202, when everyone slowed and started edging toward the right. We did the same and noticed people in the oncoming lane, edging toward the middle of the road. We were probably doing about 40 at that time (in a 55), so there must have been some obstruction in the road (as opposed to an accident).

Sure enough, when we got closer, we saw a large turtle (probably a snapper) doing it's own version of the 50 yard dash across the road. I don't think I've seen a turtle working so hard to make some speed. I'm not sure if it was because of the traffic, or the heat (it was in the 90's so the road must have been pretty darn hot). It immediatly brought to mind the pictures I've seen on nature shows, showing the mad dash of freshly hatched turtles from sandy beaches to the ocean - just this was on a much larger scale, turtle-wise.

Yes, this has a happy ending - the turtle made it safely across the road.