And how was your weekend...?

[wraithfodder]

Let' see, car accident, pit bull encounter, found skull in river, and oh, waxed the car!

Details below.

I was driving along, minding my own business, when I saw a car pull out of a parking lot. This is way ahead of me. Alas, the car swung wide, into the left lane, which was occupied by another car. Ker-runch! What I remember most is seeing bits and pieces of red tailight fly in the air, and the cars sorta meander all over the road. They pulled into a parking lot, I followed to see if they were okay - they were, just rattled - but one car had a crunched fender and the other, well, they're gonna need a whole new driver's side. Ouch.

After that, got gas (ohmygawd, it was $2.95!!!! which used to be outrageous but is now cheap). Then I went to pick up pet food. Went into the pet store and a guy was there with a dog and puppy. I thought, oh, they're terriers. The little puppy, only 11 weeks old, was very friendly and started chewing (not at all hard) when I petted him. He was teething. He was also a pit bull. You know, you hear a lot of bad press but these were well-behaved dogs and the pup was so cute you could squeeze it.

As for the skull. Went to a local park this morning after getting newspaper, and wandered down the less-than-beaten path which wounded down by the river. Decided to actually go down to the river where I found the skull, ribcage, some leg bones. I've seen lots of dead deer, but never actually seen the skeleton, so since I had a camera, I took photos. Here's one.



I also saw a live deer in the park, which saw me, and boy, I've seen 'em run but not leap and bound. They can fly!

And then I went home, did housework, ran virus check, and then went, oh, I'd better wash and wax the car. That way if a hurricane comes up, if a tree doesn't fall on it, it will repel water ;)

Comments

[dejla.livejournal.com]

Pit bulls are usually sweet dogs. Any dog will be vicious if you teach it to be, but some of the sweetest dogs I've known have been pit bulls and Rottweilers.

Glad it wasn't your car that got crunched!

Hmm. With that skeleton, you'd expect to see one of those tainted waterholes and vultures hanging over things. And boy, yep, can deer jump. Imagine one of those, at 600-800 pounds or more landing on your front hood and you'll know how those of us brought up driving in Michigan feel about dark nights on roads without lights.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

This one looked like a young deer, at least the skull looked small and well, I didn't have the whole carcass, just bones, to try to determine its age (yeah, a forensics expert, I'm not!)

I'm glad my car wasn't crunched either! And hopefully I never run into a deer. I've seen enough dented/smashed cars from deer impacts.