sam and the coyote

Sam is a fourteen year old (overweight) yorkie. I cater to his needs. This morning at 3:30, I let him out to pee. He usually wanders around the cul de sac for awhile before heading back to my front door.  I heard him snarling so I ran out to see what was up and a silver coyote had run out of the woods and was not scared off by the snarling much smaller canine. I started hollering and Sam and the coyote continued to go back and forth in the street. Suddenly the van delivering the morning paper headed down our street and that's when the coyote hightailed it back into the woods via the empty lot next door. This will make a delightful story to tell the second graders when I sub later today.

no excuses

I have not journaled here as much lately. I have been subbing quite a bit. It always picks up in April and May as every teacher alive has other things they want to do. I don't mind filling in. I still enjoy spending the day with little kids. Tuesday I was in kindergarten and we happened to be in the middle of hatching baby chicks! Loved every minute! Yesterday I exercised: I crosstrained one mile. Lifted over 11,000 lbs., and walked/ran three miles on the Greenway trail. Outside the redbuds are now in bloom but I didn't stop long enough to take a picture. Tomorrow I'm back in second grade. They're hatching Painted Lady butterflies. Lots of exciting things going on!