More money couldn't save the bunny.

Interesting run today. Lots happened...let's take it from the top.

The girls are out of school and it's official. Summer has started. I have goals. I've been telling myself that someday I'd like to train for a marathon. Well, maybe marathon is a little extreme...I can barely do 5 miles without dying. So why wait for someday? Why not now? I'm ready to start training...even if it takes the next 2 years of training, I want to do it.
So I'm going to try and run everyday M-F. Weekends if I feel like it. I don't want to start hating this. Burn out is NOT my goal.

I got out there at 7:30 am and ran Otter Trail.
Not much happened until I got back to my street.
After I found another quarter on the road, I looked up and saw a jack rabbit sitting on the side of the road a short ways up.
Odd? I thought. They never do that.
So I walked up and looked him over...keeping some distance. He's been hurt. I decided to run over to the security maintance yard and let them know. They already knew and was planning on killing him.
I told them not to do it. Maybe he just has a broken leg, maybe he can be saved!
"Call the wildlife rescue then." they suggested.
"Okay, I will."
I called and a woman name "Dottie" told me to bring him to the animal medical clinic in Auburn.

Sure.
Right.
No problem...I'll just go catch a large, wild, injured jack rabbit and haul him through the canyon in a cardboard box hoping that he won't chew through the box, leaping to his emanate death once he jumps over the side of the truck bed.

So I did.
Only I had to have help catching him. They are fast!
Soon I had the box secured in the bed and we left the house.
Katie had an orthodontist appt. so I dropped her off first.
Megan and I went to the vet hospital and waited to find out what was to become of our wild little friend.

He had been hit by a car. He was suffering from internal bleeding. He has to be euthanized.

We drove back to the dentist, a bit sad.

At least he won't die in the heat of the sun and picked apart by vultures...even though that's the way it's suppose to be.

Life and death is rough. I'll chalk this up to another lesson to teach me something.

Learning is in the experiencing.