Early this morning with the sun already up, I went on a quick solo hiking trip. Mainly to please my grand, expensive day hiking backpack I bought recently. It was looking all too disparagingly at me for not using it as much as I planned when I bought it a month ago.
At just after eight I crossed a bridge over a major highway here. Traffic was light. On my right, four lanes afar, I suddenly spotted movement. Two dark gray animals popped up. They looked like squirrels, but bigger, so I was pretty sure they were something else. Have never seen all-gray, and that dark, squirrels. And their heads looked different too, and they were slightly larger than I know most squirrels are. Maybe plattepoesies? (Platypuses.) Will have to ask around. (UPDATE: Google to the rescue, I found out a bit later they were two mongoose, or is the plural for that mongeese?)
