Little Acts

Slow enough to do some good. Out on the roads in the middle of a summer type storm. A little cold here, a little warm there. Some rain, some sun. It looked like a bad storm, but it was not bad at all. Going down the roads I see so often. Thinking about the training. The gears, the speed, the heart rate. Then there it was. 42" of big fat, slow moving Gopher Snake. Huge! It stretched from the white line to the middle yellow line. Just enormous. I stopped to move this monarch of the fields to the side of the road. The snake was moving very slow! Trying to warm it self on the black top road. It was going to be Vulture food in a matter of mins. I just could not bear the thought. I asked it to move along. The Gopher Snake was so full of mice and maybe eggs or young it could barely move. The snake was to cold. I picked it up by the tail and moved it's heavy mass off to the side of the road. I hope it lived through the day. I did my best for this friend on the road.