Hannah Kirk via Morning Coffee With Abba Ltd
Lately we’ve been meeting a lot more deer as we drive back and forth from town.
I’ve been told it’s rutting season, and then told the does are trying to stay AWAY from the males, and then told it’s because of the weather getting colder.
I don’t have a clue what the real reason(s) is/are, but I love seeing them – as long as we don’t hit them with our car, or as is the usual case with us, they run into US!
Years ago our son was heading out to go back to college. It was dusk. He left, and then returned several minutes later, thoroughly shaken. He had gone around a curve close to the house and a deer had jumped just when he was passing and hit his car in the front-driver’s side of the vehicle. Our son was fine, and he said the deer ran off. We’re not sure that the deer was okay, though. We had to pay a couple thousand dollars to fix the damage to the vehicle.
Another time, my husband left to do errands in our ‘Vette. He came back, thoroughly shaken and angry. TWO deer jumped and hit the front of the Vette. My husband was all right, other than being pissed. Both deer ran off, so we don’t know if they were okay or not. The Vette was totally smushed in the front and spent several weeks in the shop being repaired.
A third time my husband was on his motorcycle. He rounded a curve and a deer jumped out of the woods on his right and just clipped the front of the cycle. My husband was fine, though shaken, managing to keep the bike going and not fall down. The deer ran off. We had to replace a light and a handle bar on the motorcycle.
We have lucked out in our encounters with deer. Even though you’re careful and watching for them, things happen really fast.
My favorite times are when we see the deer in plenty of time to slow WAAAAY down, watching as a whole group of them cross the road, one at a time in parade fashion, looking at us with interest.
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