Muskrat fry anyone?

Running:
Saturday morning I got an early start.  I knew it was going to be a nice day and warm up later, but I had to get going early to get the run in I wanted to do.  Temps were probably in the low teens when I started out before the sun was over the horizon.  I ran three loops of one of my normal training routes for a total of 21 miles.  Running these three loops allows me to drop water about a mile out, then I pass this same place two additional times.  Makes the logistics of the long run fairly easy.  Each loop is nice mostly through portions of the state forest and quiet rural subdivisions.  Lots of rolling hills and varied terrain.  I ran the 21 miles in 3:00:22 or about an 8:35 pace.  On Sunday I ran in the morning again.   I ran 8.5 miles in 1:7:59.  This is the fastest I've run this loop in many months.  I was pleased with this considering the 21 miles the day before and the big totals over the last 4 weeks in particular.     I managed 60 miles for this week.  Not bad for a cut back week.  Through today.

WTD 60
MTD 60
YTD 545
ODO 25711

Gardening:
Saturday afternoon I managed to complete all my fruit tree pruning.  I also cleaned up a few branches on some other trees that were broken over the winter.  Glad to have this chore completed.  On an update to my muskrat story of a few weeks ago.  I haven't seen any fish in the pond the last several weeks.  I wasn't sure what muskrats eat so I looked it up on the internet.  As I suspected they primarily eat vegetation, but will sometimes eat frogs or fish if they are easy to come by.  I don't think he could have eaten all of them, but I'm worried.  Hopefully they are just hiding well.  I did notice this interesting detail on Wikipedia about muskrats.  Hence the title for this posting.

"Muskrats have sometimes been a food resource for humans. Muskrat meat is said to taste like rabbit or duck. In the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, there is a longstanding dispensation allowing Catholics to consume muskrat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent (when the eating of meat, except for fish, is prohibited): because the muskrat lives in water, it is considered equivalent to fish.

Lenten dinners of muskrat are traditional in parts of Michigan. The meat is occasionally consumed in Belgium and The Netherlands, and is traditional dish on the Delmarva Peninsula and in certain other areas and population segments of the United States."