Deer are stupid. There's a lot of deer where my parents live. Once I was driving and had to slam on the brakes to avoid a deer. The deer proceeded to run down the road. I mean, right down the middle of the road. I couldn't get around it, so I just had to drive along behind it until it figured out that maybe the road wasn't the safest place to be it it wanted to get away from the big bad Mercury Marquis....

I will post pate reciepe at some time in the future

possible as early as friday

not tonight , may do the early bed thing or watch tv all night. it could go either way

I haven't had large critters around until recently and am now quite skittish about us meeting on the road.

Did I ever tell y'all about the time my mom accidentally whacked a moose on the butt with our front door as we left to go to school?

Cash, I'm glad your mom is okay. Scary stuff, though!!

I've never had a car vs. deer encounter myself, but there was one long weekend when 4 of my friends totalled their cars on deer in 3 days. Pests. (But tasty, if not allergic.)

Deer hunting season is the worst time for car/deer accidents, as deer are generally running around like crazy and forgetting to look both ways before crossing traffic....

Unless you count my mother and her Chrysler.

No chance it's Christine, is there?

Punctuation and ~ma for EM, Cash's mom, and anyone else who needs it.

Did I ever tell y'all about the time my mom accidentally whacked a moose on the butt with our front door as we left to go to school?

I still love seeing deer. Because I don't have my own landscaping yet, likely. But they are gorgeous.

Okay, went to sleep early. Now awake again. When did I revert to an infant only sleeping a few hours at a time? Thinking sleepy thoughts... Thinking very sleepy thoughts...

I had an ex go into Stalker Lite mode and it scared the hell out of me.

It's just about the scariest thing in the world. I can't imagine what EM, and you, Hec, are going through.

I never thought I had the capacity to kill someone (and I hope I never find out for sure). But some years ago, when my sister was - briefly, thank god - being stalked - it's like nothing else. I've seen some else, and nothing ever scared me so much. If this man had appeared in front of me, and I was armed, there's a part of me that would have felt totally justified in killing him.

One thing I remember - this guy would always call collect, and I tried to get the phone company to tell me where he was calling from. (This was a stranger stalking - her cat went missing and she put up signs and he claimed - though clearly not - to have found the cat, and kept showing up and calling places, etc., for several weeks.) So down the street v across town - at least you could gauge something there, threat wise.

Their answer - accept the call and then wait for the bill to see where it came from. The fuck?

Being stalked by a crazy ex is the scariest thing that's ever happened to me. Twice! I can pick 'em, all right. Hec, I'm glad you're there for EM and she has safe places/people to go to. May EMEX get his shit together quick.

I once: drove to Tennessee, hit a deer on the way, broke out the headlight of my car, fixed the car for a not-small sum, drove back to Virginia, hit a deer on the way, broke the very same headlight. Have never otherwise ever hit a deer.

Which I hope doesn't jinx me, because I'm about to drive to Virginia. Have a great holiday, all y'all who are celebrating. Oh, what the heck, everybody else have a great weekend too!