Running among Turtles

Today was an eleven mile run on the Towpath with Joy. I didn’t tell her we were doing eleven miles until we reached the turnaround at 5.5 because I’m sneaky that way.

Despite the fact that I am enormously suffering from seasonal allergies, I am really enjoying this weather. Normally April in Ohio blows. . .usually literally. It is so nice to run in capris and a tshirt and soak up some vitamin D.

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We saw a cute beaver, munching amid a bale of turtles. This was about a quarter of a mile away from the Beaver Marsh, where they hang out, but it is right next to one of the many beaver dams on the Towpath. (A quick digression--This week I was teaching my students about Oscar Wilde’s use of the pun as a satirical device, and I had to share this example with you, Peeps: Two fish swim into a wall. One turns to the other and says, “Dam!”) The family next to us on the Towpath told us that this is in fact a river otter, but I don’t think so. I’m going with beaver.

I always know that warm, beautiful weather is coming when I see turtles sunning themselves on logs in the river. It just makes me so happy to see the sun shining off their silver backs. We must have seen at least fifteen today, and that was without really looking.

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