October 28, 2007

• WE’RE BACK

  

  Probably the most thrilling thing about the most recent “sister trip” Alice and I took was that we both got to pet and feed deer . . . in the wild . . . up close and personal.  Every morning about 7:30 the deer would make their way down from the hills and walk right through the area surrounding our cabin.  Then again about 5:00 or 5:30 in the evening they’d be heading back up into the hills and would again walk right by our cabin.  We got brave on the third day and went out to see if they would let us get a good picture of them.  Boy, did they let us get pictures of them. The first time we did this, one of the deer walked right up to Alice as if to say, “What kind of food do you have for me?”. We were not at all prepared for that, but from then on we met them bearing apples, peanut butter cookies and finally peanuts. Unlike what the lady in the park office had told us, these deer did NOT like apples, so the rest of the bag of apples we’d purchased at the grocery store became part of our supper . . . fried apples . . . YUM.  Their loss was our gain.

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