Driving home from "TOWN"

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I live 30 miles from the nearest town, so driving home is a bit of a long drive. It's never boring of course and even less boring at night. One night on the way home I hit a wild pig. I didn't mean to but I couldn't stop in time to miss the massive beast. That, of course, is another story that I will relay later. This is about last night's trip home. Bill, my boy friend, and I were exhausted from all the shopping along with my having worked in the antique and collectible shop where I have items displayed. It was very quiet as we started the long drive home. Suddenly Bill hit the brakes and the car lurched to a stop. Just outside our vehicle was a huge elk! He very calmly and nonchalantly sauntered across the road while we gaped in awe at the size and beauty of the animal. He finally got to the other side of the road and we continued our journey. We had gone about three miles when we again lurched to a stop as Bill stomped on the brakes. Passing in front of us was a teen aged mountain lion. He was the size of a sheep dog and absolutely beautiful!! Again we gaped in awe at the beauty of the animal. I would have loved to take him home with us, but of course it wouldn't have worked out well. But I do love cats so very much...my desire to take the cat home was cut short as we started to continue our journey home again. We traveled another 5 miles and I'll be darned if we didn't lurch to a stop yet again! Crossing our path was a kit fox! He too was a younger fox as could be determined by his size. He sauntered across the road like he owned it, giving us the chance to marvel at his absolute beauty. Finally with a flick of his bushy tail he disappeared into the shrubs at the side of the road. We continued on with our journey, figuring that our personalized viewing was over with...but we were wrong. We were nearing home when we lurched to yet one more stop as our path was crossed yet again. This time with a mama raccoon with her three youngsters. I love watching raccoons, they are natures clowns to put it mildly. Mama was no exception. She had stopped to clean something from her hind foot. Between our headlights and her children pestering her she was having a horrible time dealing with the item that had dirtied her foot. Soon mama was absent mindedly cleaning which involved licking the foot and chewing gently on the area and licking it again. Suddenly mama jumped, startled. Mama had gone from absent mindedly licking and gently chewing to licking and biting the daylights out of her foot. Bill and I couldn't help but to laugh! Mama stopped long enough to lick the pain away on the area of her foot that she bit, then she gathered up her young ones and went on with her journey. So did we, getting home several minutes late in our journey but still loving every minute of the beautiful creatures we were allowed to see and marvel at, those creatures provided both by Mother Nature and others.