deer in the snow, and a house update

[ilanarama]

I took these pictures last week but just got around to uploading them to Flickr. Remember the big pile of branches and tree limbs that were left from the big honking snowstorm? Turns out that's a deer buffet. ETA: Hee, they're out there again today!


Nibbling on the branches: the photo's glare-y because I shot through the window, not wanting to startle them.


But then a car came up the street, and that got their attention, so I opened the window for this shot:

Also, an update on the roof situation: while I was at the movies last Saturday with a friend, Britt dragged out the ladder, our ropes, and his sawzall (reciprocating saw) and got most of the tree limbs off the roof. When I came back, I helped with the rest. The biggest and scariest pieces turned out to be not so bad, as Britt tied one end of a rope to the limb and the other to our pickup truck, and I slowly backed up in 4-low and pulled the suckers off. So it took maybe six hours over the weekend, not too bad, and nothing got broken or destroyed. Whew.

(I think in the spring, though, we're going to have the tree guy come out and get rid of the worst offender.)

Comments

[triestine.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's beautiful.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

That's a relief re the roof. I didn't like thinking of you with big scary things looming over your head.

And oooh! Nice deer pics! Cool. :-)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I was ready to pay the $$$, but Britt is very much Mr. Do It Myself, and he's frighteningly competent. Which I suppose is a Good Thing.

[frosch.livejournal.com]

I guess that's true. Broken things suck, especially when you're waiting for someone to come fix them.

I knew somebody who killed himself falling off his roof while reshingling it last summer, though, so it *does* happen. I fell ten or twelve feet off scaffolding when I was 17, but I got off easy, with just a hairline skull fracture and a week and a half in the hospital.

[trobadora]

Oh, deer! How lovely. And I'm glad about the roof.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I like the deer! They are back today!

[bradipo.livejournal.com]

Are those mule deer? They were the common deer when I lived in Utah. (White-tailed are what we see where I live now.)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

They sure are. Those floppy ears are kind of funny - they're out there again this morning, and when they walk their ears do this odd little twitching thing.

I remember white-tailed deer from when I lived on the east coast, but I think they are all mule deer in the west.

[bradipo.livejournal.com]

The thing about mule deer that made the biggest impression on me was that something about their gate makes them sound like two-legged creature when they run.

A group of five or six came running up to where I was hiking (near Moab), and I thought it must be a jogging club--it sounded just like a half-dozen people out running. We were all surprised when a small herd of mule deer came around a canyon wall and found me there.

White-tailed deer sound like proper four-legged animals when they run.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Huh, I never noticed this about them - although mostly I've been exposed to running mule deer, so.

[fabularasa.livejournal.com]

Mule deer! Those ears look so funny. Hee.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

They do! They are flapping in Seekrit Semaphore Code!

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

awwwwwww, they lovely. The first pic is so sweet.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing what I assume is the same group of deer. They're all does, so I guess they're girlfriends hangin' out.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Some fine deer there. Probably tasty, too. ;)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee, hunting's illegal within city limits. And anyway, our freezer's still full of elk.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! Snow! Deer right in your front yard! *envies*

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I have heard you got snow briefly, but I can't help with the deer, I'm afraid.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

Woo woo ... first bears ... now deer! What next?

All we got is raccoons.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hee, we saw a raccoon the other day crossing 3rd Avenue. I don't know what we'll get next - possibly elk, which we occasionally see in the valley just north of town. Maybe a fox. Mostly we just see neighborhood dogs, though...

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

Deer are also pretty. *g* And I much prefer the wildlife that you get in your neighbourhood, though one of my neighbours has a very pretty kitty that seems to think my apartment belongs to her as well.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Deer are pretty! And we have one of those kitties also, which our own personal kitty objects to strenuously.

[mulberryfields.livejournal.com]

Wow! Great deer pictures.

Glad to hear you got most of the branches off safely.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Thank you. (And pretty polar bears!)

I'm just as relieved not to have to shell out the $$$ for the branch removal.