MR and I went out for a bike ride after sleeping in...yea!!! We weren't out for long when we saw a little critter in the cotton fields. 
A puppy tent! We rescued him and he's safe in our garage now. There wasn't a home within a mile or more, so we didn't feel bad about rescuing him. We also rescued a big brown spider living in him...but had to leave him at the sanctuary we ended up at later in our ride. MR also spotted a nice place to get his photo taken. His quote for the photo was, "King of the Castle" in his best Borat voice. No treasures to take home from this stop except the photo.
We were out maybe 12 miles from home, and the heavens opened up and poured rain on us. It was neat watching the sheets of rain blow across the fields, but after a mile or so, we were drenched and the rain wasn't letting up. If you've never been in a southern downpour, it's not like any other kind of rain storm around. We saw a church and took a little break in the covered driveway they had. 
That's where we found the spider stow-away and left him behind. After 20 minutes and 1/2 a bag of gummy worms, the rain let up a little and we headed home. It was the first time we'd been caught in a rainstorm on our bikes. Other than the unpleasant wet-seat problem, it wasn't too bad. It was actually kind of fun in a "trying something new" kind of a way. Then we got home and made peach jam with our little buccaneer. Tasty-tasty.
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