Yesterday was Daisy’s birthday. On the way home I bought her a cupcake from Publix. As I was turning right onto Okeechobee (6 lane road), a rat ran around my car from the back and decided to take the traffic head on. I was impressed with his determination to cross all 6 lanes to make it to the river. He didn’t make it past the first lane closest to me. After being run over by one car, the rat kept going, pushing with his legs to get to the next lane. The next set of cars totally missed it. Then a big truck got the rat. All that was left was a splat on the road. I was totally captured and horrified during this episode of Nature.
When the rat first got hit, I wanted to jump out of my car and go rescue it. Thank goodness my sense of reality kicked in. I would have been toast running into three lanes of traffic for a river rat! I couldn’t turn away as each car just kept coming. Even the guy in the car behind me was enraptured. Finally when the traffic cleared, I turned right and drove the measly two blocks home.
Life is so fleeting. You just never know when it is to end.
So, I end this post with a picture of my dog. We had just sang Happy Birthday to her and I was helping her to blow out the candle, she turned and licked me. Nate got that picture. There are some days where Daisy is what helps me to return to sanity.
I just have to remember that I am an unstoppable warrior each and every day.