My husband is a hunter. He hunts for the sport, for the adventure, for the enjoyment of being outdoors and in the ‘wilderness’, but mostly for the meat. September 1st is a big holiday at our house because it’s the first day of Deer Season (for hunting with a bow).
THESE beautiful specimens were in our front yard, in town, on the day before hunting season started…. eating crabapples from our tree, and fiercely taunting my husband. It’s weird, like they KNEW that season was opening at dawn the next day, and the safest place to be was on the hunter’s front lawn, in town, where it’s against the law to hunt. Sweetie wondered if there was any way to coax this little buck inside the house so he could claim that we had to kill it in self-defense!
We have deer in our front yard all the time, starting about now through the winter, because of the crabapples. We really do love it, even when it’s obvious they are toying with my Sweetie and messing with is head!
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lol that is just funny 🙂
I thought it was very funny! Hubby felt a little antsy about it though! LOL!
Makes you wish you could sit on your front porch and hunt. 🙂
Makes Sweetie wish it was legal to do that – we most certainly COULD… the deer are like pets around here!
We have a herd of Whitetail deer that live in our valley year round.
They graze right up to my fence. The dogs go nuts when they see them. The deer know the dogs can’t get through the fence, so they ignore the dogs…
We have these mule deer that come around lots of times in the year – in the summer we don’t see them as often because they have lots to eat, but when the crabapples get ripe and then all through the winter they are here ALL THE TIME. It was REALLY funny that this happened the day before hunting season! LOL!
So much for a garden – cute little guys though.
We have a garden in the back yard, which is fenced. And last year I only lost 2 lilies in the front flower bed to the deer. This year they had lots of other stuff to eat so my flowers were safe. And we have PLENTY of crabapples to share, so we don’t mind them eating those! 🙂
Raylene,
That is so funny. My husband is an avid hunter too and that would have just tortured him! I had a weird thing happen to me last week. A lady threatened to beat me up (using very salty language, I might add) because she thought I was just sitting in my car taking up a space at a pump at the gas station. I guess from where she was, she couldn’t see that I was actually filling up. Then when she realized that I was using the pump, she still didn’t apologize for her rant. I was in such shock, I couldn’t say anything back. What has gotten into people anyway?!
~Erin
I think it was a bit torturous for my Sweetie. He was laughing, but it was kind of an agitated laugh! LOL!
And that IS weird about the lady at the gas station…. WOW! No apology either, eh? SOME PEOPLE!
WOW!!!
I’ll have to check and see if the pictures from yesterday turned out, but I was outside yesterday, standing right by that van in the photo above, when there was a deer in the yard, on the near-side of the apple tree. That can’t be more than 10 feet away, and the deer was aware of me, but not bothered by me. It was amazing! They are fairly tame, but still crazy wild animals, too! LOL!
LOL that is hillarious. My hubby would be leaving an apple trail towards the house hoping.
Raylene, that is tooooo funny! The deer never come that close up to our house out here, because of the dogs, I am sure. However, we live on 13 acres, and they are out in our back pasture all the time. It eats my hubby up that he can’t get this one HUGE buck out there every year! He’s tried every year, but its a smart buck, and has a huge rack (10 point or more, it’s hard to count because he snorts and runs when he sees us!). Sometimes when my husband is out filling the feeder, he’ll hear that buck snort in the tree line, and it just irritates him to no end!