Comments on: As it was, there were deer

By: mig

mig — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:41:46 +0000

It is frozen here and the hunters feed the deer corn and sugar beets and hay and have salt licks and whenever I see the deer gathered there, huddled against the cold within easy shooting distance of the hunters’ blinds, I think, thank god I’m a human and not a deer cause things are sure different for me, boy.

By: anne

anne — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:31:47 +0000

if i could just know you would say “golden paper clip” to me from time to time, i think my life would be nearly perfect.

that was nice. not just the part that made me laugh out loud, but all of it.

By: ruth

ruth — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:27:30 +0000

hey mig. just checkin in cos you ain’t here and you should be cos we have VISIBLE TO DAUGHTERS deer here…xxxxx

By: chris

chris — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:50:12 +0000

Odd that your daughter never sees the deer- hell, I can see them very clearly from here every time.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:58:33 +0000

Funny thing, dads and deer. I do try to stay in my lane. Our family animal/dad driving joke was monkeys. Actually, it was more my father’s joke. He would honk the horn and say, Did you see that monkey? We found it interesting up to about the age of 5.

By: francis s.

francis s. — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:50:52 +0000

You know, in my family we have a longstanding joke about fathers and looking at deer while driving.

Every time, and I mean every time my father would be driving with other people in the car from or to O’Hare airport in the northern suburbs of Chicago, at certain spots along the way, he would turn his head and look for deer, saying “there are deer in those woods.” And as the car veered out of its lane, whoever was in the car would scream “Dad!!!!!” partially in sheer fear, partially in utter exasperation.