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beetigerLast night, as I was driving home rather late, I saw a deer lying on the side of the road. I got the impression it hadn’t been killed very long before, though I’m not really sure how I got that impression. I started wondering what the law in NY was around picking up someone else’s roadkill and having it butchered. I love venison.
We’ve got lots and lots of deer in in my neighborhood, considering I live in a third-of-an-acre-of-land-per-house chunk of suburbia, not far from the highway and the shopping mall. But there’s a power line right-of-way not too far from my home, and it seems to be a major deer habitat. I’ve seen deer bound across six lanes of traffic and a divider on the Taconic State Parkway. I’ve mistaken a deer for my husband when it was standing next to my mailbox. (Yes, I was tired). I’ve lost several years worth of prime quality tulips shipped to my from Holland by one of my vendors, the tops munched neatly off the morning before they would have opened fully. I even lost a young pear tree to one of them, which totally ruined the holiday partridge crop.
So I was not really that surprised, except in the “Holy Guacamole there’s something in the road” kind of way, to have a deer jump out from my yard in front of me just before I turned into the driveway last night. I braked and missed it, of course. But I admit I was tempted in that moment to speed up and fill the freezer instead.
The winter infestation of suburban lawn deer is due in a few weeks though, right after Thanksgiving. They’re made of white lights and wire, and they seem to show up on a large proportion of the lawns in my neighborhood as holiday decorations. Maybe this year I’ll follow my inspiration, and make a wire and lights sculpture of a wolf taking down one of those light up deer.
We’ve got lots and lots of deer in in my neighborhood, considering I live in a third-of-an-acre-of-land-per-house chunk of suburbia, not far from the highway and the shopping mall. But there’s a power line right-of-way not too far from my home, and it seems to be a major deer habitat. I’ve seen deer bound across six lanes of traffic and a divider on the Taconic State Parkway. I’ve mistaken a deer for my husband when it was standing next to my mailbox. (Yes, I was tired). I’ve lost several years worth of prime quality tulips shipped to my from Holland by one of my vendors, the tops munched neatly off the morning before they would have opened fully. I even lost a young pear tree to one of them, which totally ruined the holiday partridge crop.
So I was not really that surprised, except in the “Holy Guacamole there’s something in the road” kind of way, to have a deer jump out from my yard in front of me just before I turned into the driveway last night. I braked and missed it, of course. But I admit I was tempted in that moment to speed up and fill the freezer instead.
The winter infestation of suburban lawn deer is due in a few weeks though, right after Thanksgiving. They’re made of white lights and wire, and they seem to show up on a large proportion of the lawns in my neighborhood as holiday decorations. Maybe this year I’ll follow my inspiration, and make a wire and lights sculpture of a wolf taking down one of those light up deer.
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Date: 2002-11-15 01:16 pm (UTC)The cost to repair your car would probably be more than the cost of the meat. Damn deer. ;)
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Date: 2002-11-15 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-15 01:35 pm (UTC)How about you?
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Date: 2002-11-15 01:45 pm (UTC)Thank you
I don't know hunters and venison is expensive.
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Date: 2002-11-15 01:43 pm (UTC)Take photos! The more I think about this idea, the more I like it. Those wireframe deer were neat the first time around, but they're growing wearying fast. My favorite sighting last year was someone who'd thoughtfully stacked the forebody of one over the hindquarters of another...
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Be sure to get some red food dye for the groundsnow, too.
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Date: 2002-11-18 08:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-16 11:17 am (UTC)I, too, love this idea.
Tell you what...
Date: 2002-11-18 06:42 pm (UTC)And yes, I know I still owe you a bottle of mead. It's still aging, unbottled. But getting close to being suitable for bottling.