Oh deer

I gave myself a haircut this weekend. Chopped of a few inches, which always helps. I'm still working on learning to cut in some layers, but I think I did a little better this time. The back is still the part I have the most trouble with for layers.

We had a sad event last night. About 8:30 dh was sitting on the loveseat chatting away about some youtube channel he's been watching and I could see car lights out the front door side windows behind him, as I'm looking at him and he could see the lights reflected in the back windows, so we looked out the front door windows to see what was going on. It totally looked like a vehicle was right on our road outside our front gate, stopped. DH went to go get his coat on to check it out and I'm seeing the car back up and pull forward again.

Well, turns out they were actually stopped on the main road (runs parallel to our little street, with a strip of field grass in between). They hit a deer. The whole herd was running across the road. He was checking out his truck because he had some damage. He had a flashlight and he thought the deer was dead, but when he shined it on her, she was still alive, barely. Ugh. They pulled her off the road but she was just struggling to breath and couldn't move. I guess it's against the law here to put the animal out of it's misery after hitting it. No, first you have to call the state patrol/sheriff or Fish and Wildlife to report it and wait (could be hours) for them to come. I guess the reasoning behind it is so someone doesn't poach/shoot an animal and then say they ran into it.

But, dang. She was suffering and dh and the guy both knew it was from an accident. The guy said he has a gun in his truck, so they both agreed to just put her out of her misery. The guy asked dh if he wanted her (for meat) but dh said no, you can take her (since he had a pickup bed to put her in). Otherwise she would have been laying there for who knows probably how many days, basically right out in front of our house, with all the hawks, ravens, etc, coming to eat on her. Not to mention our dogs and neighbors dogs being curious to go see what was out there. No thanks.

I didn't go out there, but dh was super sad about it all. Just broke his heart to watch her suffer and then have to see her shot, but it had to be done. It just reinforced that he won't be a hunter. Dh said it was a guy and his family in the truck. They live about 15 miles away and said they were just out taking a drive because it helps their baby fall asleep to ride in the truck and they were on their way back towards home. Whatever was wrong with his truck, it still drove, but wasn't sounding too good, dh said.

When our friends hit a bear a couple years ago, they were in an area with no cell service, so they had to drive a mile or so to get to service to call it in. When they then drove back to where they hit it the bear was gone. They were pretty certain it was dead before they left to call it in, so either it really wasn't and ran off or someone drove by and picked it up. But, they stayed until sheriff showed up, so they could document the damage to their brand new car they literally just got that day, for putting in the insurance claim to fix the big dent it left in the side of their car. But, it was a long wait for someone to show up and file the report.