I Got My Deer!! Or... He Got Me!!

While it is true that I passed Hunter's Safety as a teen I did not shoot this

deer.  I've never shot one and never hope to.
I come from a family of hunters and don't have issues with it at all.
Just don't want to be the one out there doing it myself.

However, someone shot AT this one just as dusk was settling 

in with rain and fog last evening and it came running into the 

road and directly into the driver's side of my van.

Warren has the gross photos.  I chose to just focus on this guy's

beauty.  He was a great buck.  I'm so sorry he lost his life in this way.

Here's the damage.

It was more caved in until Warren pulled it out 

so that it wasn't rubbing against the tire.

I wasn't sure I would be able to drive it home.

 I didn't see the deer coming.

So I was so shocked when I heard and felt the huge impact.

My heart was beating so hard!

But I did manage to stay calm so that was good.

Crazy thing was I had just come from the Chiropractor where I had 

gotten a much needed adjustment.

I'll be going back soon because I was so tense

I probably undid all the good things....

It took me a bit to get turned around and back to the scene.

In that time others had dealt with getting it off the road and had claimed

it for the meat or the rack.  I'm honestly not sure which but at least 

it isn't going completely to waste.

I hope to never have that experience again but was relieved that on the police report

the "other driver" is listed as deer.

No humans were hurt.

And that means EVERYTHING!!

When one stops to think what could have happened in that dark stormy 

weather with wet roads, heavy traffic and tons of fog

I consider that a blessing.

And that the deer hit where it did and not my window.

That would have been a completely different story.

I saw what that looks like when I was a dental assistant 

and we had a patient who suffered immensely after a deer came through her

windshield.  She was still removing glass from her skin a long time after.

And she had become addicted to the pain meds.

It is something I will never forget and therefore am so very 

thankful for how this particular event went down.

It was just another reminder to me that we never know what can happen 

in any given moment.

Some things are just not in our control.

Be careful out there, my Friends.

Ending with a bit of humor from the scene.

About 20 minutes after this happened a man showed up and introduced
himself as the farmer who, with hand sweeping said, "I'm the farmer
who owns ALL of this land.  We claimed another one that got hit
here recently."  The man who had claimed the deer stood up a bit
straighter and replied,
 "The deer wasn't on ALL of this land.
It was on the road!".

Haha!
The tension was high in that moment
but the humor of that reply hit me this morning.