I drove up to the MIA Shalom girls camp to do gate guard duty on Friday night and help pack up and pull the trailer home on Saturday morning so I didn't run on Saturday. While on guard duty at the gate, about 2:20am a car stopped at the beginning of the road up to the camp. I watched it for a while. When I finally got out I think they caught a glimpse of my 52 year old 5'7" overweight body and were scared off. Either that or they saw the light come on in my vehicle and realized someone was watching them. Whatever the reason, I was glad to see them leave. The next morning someone said they saw a couple of beer cans down there as they were driving in. When we were leaving Saturday morning they said there were runners doing a race in the Fairview direction and recommended we drive home via Scofield. My daughter Emily and I decided to go the Scofield direction and really enjoyed the drive home, including stopping to buy buffalo jerky and watching up close as a firefighting helicopter lowered to fill its bucket with water just off the side of the highway. Some who drove the other direction past the runners said that at one point there was a flock of about 300 sheep crossing the road. They said it was funny watching the runners trying to make their way through the closely packed sheep, who were also leaving droppings all over the road as they crossed. |