morning elliptical after work, ran my 9 mile p-town loop. I was excited because the wind had finally shifted and was blowing from the SW instead of the NW. I was glad to have the wind in my face the first half of the run instead of the last half. What I hadn't planned on was someone being out spraying herbicide/pesticide in the fields on a day when there are 15 mph winds. I kept smelling something different in the air, and I just couldn't figure out what it was, until after smelling it for 2 miles, I finally saw the tractor spraying the fields. I'd been breathing that crap for 2 miles!! No wonder I was feeling icky! The good news was that after mile 3, I got completely behind the fields (from the wind standpoint) and had a really good 5 miles of fresh pollen-filled air. The last mile I was back in the windfall from the fields, but I was almost home and didn't care as much. I saw my first road-kill snake of the season. It was a good 2 1/2 feet long, so not a baby snake at all. Oh goody! On the railroad tracks, there was a short train stopped and it had a real old-fashioned caboose. It was bright red and said "Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road" on it. I tried so hard to get a good photo of it, but the trees made it difficult. It made me happy to see. I was excited to see that the insecticide was working, because when I got home all of the gnats all over my face and neck were dead.
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