I call this video "tender mercy" because I was anticipating some real pain at this exact moment and then the deer appeared instead, and I was reminded.
Thank God for the reminder. Tender mercies. Tender mercies.
Off topic, I gotta complain that in order to upload a video to youtube I have to use IE because for some reason Firefox isn't doing it for me. As I said to Manila the other day everytime I bring up IE my laptop interrupts the script and begs me for electronic condoms:
there are tons of deer around here. they are quite used to people.
ReplyDeleteevery year there are vocal people that want them all dead because they eat their "landscaping" and then there are the hunters and the wildlife managers that say the herds should be thinned(i understand that, but i don't have to like it)
but around here i don't think anyone should hunt. the homes are just too close.
the WORST reason for killing them was a few years back some people got all in a frenzy because(gasp)the trillium wildflowers on trillum trail(in the heart of fox chapel)were disappearing because of the deer. so the police went down with bait and night scopes on high powered weapons and "harvested" a lot of them in a few nights.
they did donate the meat to shelters and my dad was a hunter for years, but it just seems a bit of ghastly to sort of ambush them.
anyway, i wandered off track again.
beautiful film. thanks for sharing it. : )
Ha, you're a total YouTube fiend now. You'll soon be troubled by thoughts of what your next video post will be. Speaking of YouTube, the 35 Percenters just hit over 100 subscribers yesterday. Let us rejoice and be glad.
ReplyDeleteI used to be part of a crew of camp counselors who took great pride and satisfaction in tearing down "tree stands" used by so-called "hunters" here in the Garden State, in the woods at a camp where I worked for a couple summers in college. These manly men would build these stands up in a tree, drop bait down on the ground below them, and then wait for Bambi (or his mom here) to walk on by. Then they'd blow the animals' brains out and very close range without having to do much else. How very sporting.
ReplyDeleteWe'd shimmy up the trees and rip the suckers down, then bust all the pieces up into little pieces and leave them in nice, neat piles at the base of the trees where we'd found them. THAT was great fun.
Yes, we have a lot of deer here, too. We live on the edge of what're called the Pine Barrens, and there's no ecosystem like it anywhere else on the planet. And the deer were there first.
"I thought mamma walked over because she read my blog but then she kinda snubbed me?"
ReplyDeleteGoddam fascist deer.
'I used to be part of a crew of camp counselors who took great pride and satisfaction in tearing down "tree stands" used by so-called "hunters" here in the Garden State'
Uh, ya know, Dave, those tree stands, in addition to being perfectly legal, are also kind of expensive. I don't hunt from stands myself, but I'm a little concerned at sending the message that it's okay to trash other people's property because you don't like the way they hunt. And my ancestors baited deer, too; cultivating clover in specific areas to encourage the deer to come by. They also hunted from trees. I mean, what do you want, man? Guys to chase deer down wielding only a flint knife?
YouTube can be addicting, huh?
ReplyDeletemy dad and his family were hunters ever since my greatgrandparents came over.
ReplyDeletewe lived on deer meat all winter because my dad would be laid off every year as he drove cement trucks and low boys for a road construction company.
i'm not anti-hunting but i do think one should hunt, not sit and bait.
i've chased a hunter off of one of my trees who was in a stand and i live in the suburbs of the city. this guy was well within striking distance of homes and a road that school busses travel. seems my old neighbor was tired of the deer eating his shrubs so he told the hunter to get them as they came thru my yard from the teeny patch of woods between my home and the road!
if you're gonna hunt, pack up your stuff and go into the places where it's good for hunting, not shooting semi-tame deer that stand there and look at you.
my folks went into the pa. mountains and walked and never ever left a wounded deer to die in agony as i've seen in recent years.
they tracked. they hunted.
i'm proud of you dave, tho you were risking injury all round.
yeah, i know, i'm an old 60's era tree hugger at heart. ; )
Those tree stands we took down were on PRIVATE property (belonging to the camp), or on STATE LAND, where they are ILLEGAL in this state. We only did the job the rangers would've done. If the tree stands had been on someone else's property, we wouldn't have touched them, because... well, because we wouldn't have been there to start with.
ReplyDeleteNo, LC, forget the knives. I want the deer to have guns, too. Now THAT'D be a "sport."
"Those tree stands we took down were on PRIVATE property (belonging to the camp), or on STATE LAND, where they are ILLEGAL in this state"
ReplyDeleteThen I stand corrected.
BG, mamma was just coming in for her close-up. And as for continuing to walk on by ... well, a grrl can't be too careful these days!
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Then I stand corrected.
ReplyDeleteJust hopefully not in a tree stand, my friend.
Peace out, y'all.
Peace out, QD. Always and forevah.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just gotta say I always thought it was kinda sick that in western PA where I went to high school we got the first day of doe and buck season off as announced holidays for that purpose.
And by the way? These jokes are especially about western Pennsylvania where I grew up. The fastest way to Philly is the turnpike, my friends.
ReplyDeletethey still get the 1st day of deer season off.
ReplyDeleteand i love those jokes. the best jokes have truth to them.
; )
Damn.
ReplyDeleteYou made me cry.
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