God day / bad day

Well...today was the bad day if yesterday was the God day.

Went running with the Lu at Slater and guess what...

A poor little garden snake was run over by a bike right in the middle of the trail.

And the worse thing is that Slater is not a bike trail.  Its so short - only 2.25 miles long - that mostly old folks, mothers and kids walk/run there.

Unfortunately, dumb ass people or their ignorant kids just plow over anything in their way.  That's how people grow up to be assholes...

Wow

Today on a bike ride along the Blackstone Riverway, I saw a couple of interesting things.

On the way out, the first was a beautiful egret standing right next to a bunch of cat-tails waiting for something to swim by. At first I barely saw it out of the corner of my eye, but then I stopped to look closely. It saw me too but stayed motionless.

On the way back, across the path I saw what I thought was a dead snake.  When I got closer, I saw it was alive but not really moving.  I thought it would likely get run over by a careless biker so I used a long stick and tried to get it to move in the direction it seemed to be going in.  It did move much faster but it was also not happy with me at all and started spitting and rattling it tail.  It took me awhile since I didn't want to hurt it and I didn't want to stress it too much.  Finally it went all the way across and through the fence but would not go any further.  I figured I did my good deed for the day and hoped it wouldn't come back across.

Ruining our world

Went to Slater Park three times this week. Yesterday we saw a beautiful egret. We also saw a large frog that I moved across the trail so she wouldn't get run over by a bike. A couple of days ago I saw a flock of ducks flying along the little river to land in the very low water. The swans also look gigantic.

A couple of years ago I saw a young beaver terrified and trying to get back in the river but the fence was messing him up. The water level is unbelievably low right now. I haven't seen anything like this in 12 years.

What I really wanted to talk about is the pollution collected along the giant tree down across the river. This trail is only 2.25 miles long. There are garbage cans at the beginning and the end. There are also a bunch of cans 1/3 along the way - which is less than an 1/8 mile from the collection of garbage. So, along a 1/3 mile of trail/river there are about 10 garbage cans available but lazy people that don't deserve this world at all just throw their Duncan Donuts plastic cups and other garbage in the river. There was a spray can of some poison there as well.

Then there's the other idiots with dogs that don't pick up the shit. If you walk a dog you should own bags to pick up their dropping. But at Slater they provide bags for you if you've forgotten! Imagine that! But these less than idiot brained assh.... just leave the shit there to pollute the water, get on the shoes of others, and worse yet - make it so responsible dog owners either get blamed or will eventually not have use of the park. People like these are ruining our world and don't deserve it.

Bike ride on the rail trail

Did a 17 mile bike ride along the Blackstone Riverway. A poor squirrel had been hit by a bike I'm sure and was dead. Blood coming out of its mouth. Yes, there are times when animals run out on the trail, but I have always slowed down completely and made a lot of noise so they run back in woods. There is absolutely no reason a bike ride has priority over a life. Those people are just self-serving assholes.