Spiders, mushrooms, and snakes... oh my

I started my jogging yesterday. The burn feels so good. I am a little sore today, but it was totally worth it. I forget how much I love this. I love the endorphin rush you get after exercising. It makes you feel happy and full of life. This morning I am in a wonderful mood and I slept great last night.

My husband and I went jogging at the Tom Triplet Park here in Pooler Georgia. We didn’t jog the track, instead we jogged the trails off in the woods. I really wish that I had my camera, because you wouldn’t believe the size of the spiders out there. Omg, it was outrageous. Also because of our recent line of storms we had last week, there were ton of crazy looking mushrooms growing. They were beautiful. The woods in Costal Georgia is waaaay different than Southern Texas. But none the less, it’s just as fun. I always felt that it’s always a good idea to mix your outdoor hobbies with your exercise routine.

In this case we mixed my husband’s hobby with exercise today. He is an outdoors kind of man. Anything dealing the with the Georgia woods, he’s as happy as a kid in a candy store. There are so many plants to discover and there are so many animals to see. It’s never a dull moment out there. Luckily there were no snakes out. Not that I have a fear of snakes, I actually love snakes to death. I just don’t want one, who blends in with his surrounding to spring forward and bite me in the ankle. This has happed twice to my husband. But thank god it has never been a poisonous snake. Youch.

Today we plan on doing more exercise. Since I am alittle sore I assume that we are going to a nice brisk walk, but I could be wrong. My husband could push me into running. Lol it’s always a good thing to have an exercise partner you push you… but I know my limitations for now. I have to work my way back up to the level I was last year when I lived in Texas. This reminds me, I need to buy another curling bar.

Mixing hobbies with exercise (birding)

Jogging at the Hazel Bazemore Park is pretty peaceful. It is an excellent spot to go bird watching and get your exercise on.  This has always been one of my favorite places to come to just to clear my mind. Every time my husband and I would drive through this park, I always wondered out loud, that it would be an awesome place to run. I was in no shape before to jog the entire park until now. Every other morning we come here, we spend the first half of our time here jogging, and the other half going through trails and bird watching.

If I had a better camera I would totally get pictures of the amazing birds we have seen. Here is a small lest of the few birds we have seen so far.

• Green Jay
• crested caracara 
• belted kingfisher
• great kiskadee
• cooper's hawk
• American Kestrel 
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Greater Roadrunner
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Baltimore Oriole 
• Ruby throat humming bird
• eastern kingbird
• couches kingbird
• olive sparrows
• mocking birds
• cardnials
• house sparrows
• Long-billed curlew
• white tipped doves, Inca doves, morning doves, white winged doves, common ground doves, and Eurasian collared doves

there's also a bunch of other birds there that i have been having a hard time identifying. going trough the trails you'll see tons of tiny little warbler type birds hopping from tree to tree. during the spring time there are tons of humming birds that i have never seen in my bird book. it's amazing.

 

Jogging

Going through the trails

 

View from the top of one of the trails. i jog this entire track every other day. there's more up hill action to the left, but it is all covered up by trees. i will try to get a better picture soon.