Gonna lose 10lbs this month, I can feel it. Or at least shift 10 from the wrong place to the right place. On this morning’s ride I was pleased to see another turtle. She’s a fairly old Red-eared Slider, and has lost a bit of her color/markings. I know I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like to intervene when I see a turtle on the road. I always thought I could be placing the turtle on the WRONG side of wherever she was heading. However in this morning’s case, it was 5:50am, I roll out of my neighborhood to meet my ridding buddy, turn down a main road and see his bluish LED coming 1/4mi away. Then I see a line of school buses crest the hill behind him, breaking from dispatch on their routes to pick up the high-schoolers… Then I spot something dark from the glare off the road ahead and it’s moving. I thought it was an opossum at first, because that’s pretty common, but as I passed it I noticed it was a freakin turtle – about football size and movin’ like she had somewhere to be. Well, her “there” to be was directly in the path of these 3 oncoming buses, so since God made us ruler of all the other beasts of the earth, I made an executive decision to circle back real quick in the dark (cars coming up behind me, too) and swoop her up. Anyways, a 6″ vertical curb was greeting her should she have made it through the gauntlet. There’s a small pond a block up the road (in the direction she was scuttling) so I pedaled her over and placed her in the grass near the bank. You owe me one, Nature. I’ll take a 20+mph tailwind on my next ride, I’m not picky. Ride yer bike! (and be nice to Mother Nature)