One of my MOST favorite pastimes is hiking with muh-COMRADS. Not only do I enjoy the exercise, but also the fresh air and peacefulness of the forest. I am quickly able to get the most recent radio song from repeating in my head by switching it to the song of nature. The birds and squirrels chirping, almost rythmatically, the sound of the tree leaves rustling in the wind, the dive bomb buzzing of the horse flies and other insects that come to circle my head several times as a warning to GET OUT OF THEIR TERRITORY, :| which always follows the sound of my footsteps as I run as fast as I possibly can, while proclaiming "I'm leaving, I'm leaving!"
Sometimes I run through a spider web that is crossing the trail and at that point I hear INVOLuntary screams that echo quite beautifully throughout the land. :| I digress. 
Once or twice I take a spill only to open my eyes to muh-COMRADS hovered around me, almost as if to say "This is no time for a nap, what is she doing, sniff sniff sniff?" These guys run free during our hikes, SHHHHHHHH don't tell the rangers, and the sight of them running full doggy speed through the woods, and happily bouncing around in celebration at each creek entrance, just fills my heart and makes it all gooey and such. There's nothing better than a free running dog....that is on a mental leash, of course. :) These pictures convey the paradise, until the next night when your husband wakes up to 3 ticks crawing up his arm and one going across is forehead. :| Oops. Well i told them not to go into the long grasses!
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