Awesome Courtney!  I know you have been looking hard for one all year!!!

Yeah the spider was a trip. I still can't believe we found that pig..lol  I thought it was a small Copperhead, just because..well that's all we usually see.
Now I'm on to r/c some Timbers for pics..and I'll have to find new target species.  The salamander and coyote pups were new for me too.
Although so was the armadillo necrophilia.  It's been a year for firsts.

WHEEEE!  Is that what the pyg said on its roller-coaster ride????  HA!

'twas a nice pyg, for sure.  I think a bit of rain right now could really help the road cruising efforts even more.  The frolicking coyote pups we saw on several passes were super cute.

I still am trying to ID the spider.  I'm pretty sure it's Lycosidae, maybe Hogna carolinensis.  Freaky looking thing!  I dunno what it is with me and spiders, I seem to find tons of them.  I can't tell you how many spider webs I must've cleared out. 
Thankfully, they don't freak me out like the stupid worms and slugs...and apparently caterpillars.

you know better than I do!! lol  I just know it was a creepy looking fuzzy spider..and HAYOOJ

Courtney, you are the Queen of road cruising!!!!!!  Im tired of cruising dirt roads. Its hard for me to see them. Got to find some good black top!!!!!!

Get to feeling better, there's plenty of habitat around here we should be able to find some neat animals.  We've seen some neat stuff, the coyote pups were way cool...lol Didn't see them tonight, though.

Big.  I haven't weighed it yet, it did take a F/T hopper mouse today.  I tried to get out earlier, but I have apparently scratched my eye at some point and I could barely see the road..I certainly didn't see the Kamikaze deer that flung itself in front of my car until it was too late.  I have had better nights

So is there a deer steak cookout at your house this weekend????

Not roadcruising, but hanging out at the river, my little one spotted one of the many Nerodia swimming about.  She just HAD to catch it.                        (dunno where she gets THAT from!) But I was pretty impressed that she managed to properly ID it and get it. 

Went out with John & Seth for a little bit around Benton Co.
This is pretty much how it went down:
2 Black Rats, Serenity took a black rat bite to the face (which she laughed about), 1 AOR Pigmy, 1 amazing snag by Seth to save said Pigmy from becoming a DOR while I scuttlebutted across the road to avoid an oncoming truck, and 1 DOR pigmy that was PROBABLY taken out by said truck.

This first black rat delivered Serenity's 4th bite of the summer (2 Nerodia, this rat snake, and 1 Ball Python..she takes them like a champ, laughs and goes on)

I'm still not sure how I spotted this snake on a fresh blacktop road and can't ID a Pigmy in the headlights. lol

Hardcore, I said.

2nd Rat of the night:  Black Rat Top Road, these used to be boring to me, because I used to see them so frequently, but these are the first two AOR rats I've seen this year!

AAAGH! Just heartbreaking.. Dead as a doornail DOR

Size comparison (and YEAH I checked to make sure it was dead BEFORE I stuck my foot there)

Seth made a pretty good grab rescuing this one off the road before it became a DOR!  *Snagged for Kory*