Deer Tales

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Deer are amazing creatures to watch!  During the fall, buck will stake out territory by scraping the ground, rubbing their antlers on small trees and leaving plentiful scent reminders. 

nice rack!

In the spring, a pregnant doe will generally remain with her herd or family until she gets close to her delivery time.  At that time, she will separate from the other deer and stake out her own territory to give birth.  And there’s good reason for that. After birth is a very dangerous time for both the mother and fawn.  The smell of the afterbirth is a powerful attractant to many predators in the woods—bear, fox, and others.  So once a doe gives birth, she immediately cleans the young fawn as best she can, and then gets it moving.    She needs to find a place to safely hide the fawn and will only return to feed it several times a day. 

Once a doe finds an area she feels safe in, and can find food and water nearby, she generally returns to that spot to give birth year after year.  We have several doe who use the area around our house as birthing areas.  There is the pond and some grass, but mostly trees and brush so tiny deer can hide safely while the doe can eat and still be close enough to her baby should she sense danger.

After a few weeks, the doe will introduce her young to us. She’ll allow herself and her fawn to be seen in the open, giving the other fawns a chance to play and run together. Mostly they stay hidden until the does are around, but there are some that can’t wait to explore on their own.

Mama and twins last year

Last spring, a few doe had twins and several of them loved to lay on the well hill in front of the garden fence basking in the sunshine.

It’s these 3 particular deer we’ve been watching all winter.  We believe it’s them because they are not startled by seeing us.  They watch, definitely, but they don’t run. They’ve adopted this as their home and us as part of it.  The 3 are constantly together.  Except for the last 2 days.   The larger one is missing and we see her by herself down below the big pine tree.  She comes out from the treeline…eats some grass or weeds, lays in the sun for a while and then retreats.  Too early for her to give birth, but I believe she’s already claiming her spot!

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        1. So far! Making some actual progress on my english paper notes. I’m a bit of a procrastinator when it comes to English. Doing some house work and getting food marinated for later. How is your day going?

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          1. Fine – same/same. Having fun finding memes! LOL – Sunny day, 57 now, but of course, windy! English was one of my best subjects, as I’m sure you guessed.

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            3. I was going to write about the economics of local growing vs. the global supply chain, but it was too much of a mess for a 6-10 page paper.

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              2. Thanks! English has always been my worst subject and I have been struggling with this assignment. I only have this research paper and a short reflection essay left to go before I finish. This is my third attempt at college!…lol!

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  15. this is a comment i found posted in response to an article about a group of black teenagers who attack a Hasidic Jew in NYC at random. long, but interesting…written in 2015
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    The Black Dilemma

    “For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites. The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?

    The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.

    Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedmans Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.

    Their new laws intruded into peoples lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice-versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless hand wringing to close the achievement gap. To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to Celebrate Diversity! and Say No to Racism. Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.

    Some thought that what W. E. B. DuBois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.

    Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.

    Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.

    But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue its a problem of culture, as if culture creates peoples behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.

    But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country’s violent crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.

    The experiment has failed. Not because of white culture, or white privilege, or white racism. The fundamental problem is that American black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime ridden mess. *They do not want to change their culture or society, and expect others to tolerate their violence and amoral behavior. They have become socially incompatible with other races by their own design, not because of the racism of others – but by their own hatred of non-blacks.*

    Our leaders don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. *They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.* The elites explain everything with racism, and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.”

    “You can’t legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government doesn’t first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don’t have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

    Ian Duncan | May 30, 2015

    https://headlineusa.com/hasidic-jew-attacked-by-black-teens-in-nyc/

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    1. Brilliant summation!!! Bottom line? A genetic history of tribal culture, IMO, exacerbated by permissiveness and a complete lack of morality. They can get by with it, so they do…..

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  16. EXCERPT: “Number of COVID patients in US hospitals reaches record low”

    NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge. The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.

    The freed up beds are expected to help U.S. hospitals retain exhausted staff, treat non-COVID-19 patients more quickly and cut down on inflated costs. More family members can visit loved ones. And doctors hope to see a correction to the slide in pediatric visits, yearly checkups and cancer screenings.

    “We should all be smiling that the number of people sitting in the hospital right now with COVID, and people in intensive care units with COVID, are at this low point,” said University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi. But, he said, the nation “paid a steep price to get to this stage. … A lot of people got sick and a lot of people died.”

    Hospitalizations are now at their lowest point since summer 2020, when comprehensive national data first became available. The average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last week nationwide dropped to 11,860, the lowest since 2020 and a steep decline from the peak of more than 145,000 set in mid-January. The previous low was 12,041 last June, before the delta variant took hold.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/news/number-of-covid-patients-in-us-hospitals-reaches-record-low/

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  17. GREAT POINT!!! vaxes and boosters are still under EUA…because the declared emergency has not been ended. so if there is still an emergency, how can shit-for-brains end title 42? both cannot be true

    If we are still authorizing booster vaccines under Emergency Use then how are we ending Title 42?

    — Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 3, 2022

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  18. 5 school board members that were ousted by a judge, were reinstated 3 days later…their lawyer, sniff, sniff, misread the petition and thought he had more time! so judge reverses decision–gives lawyer till tomorrow to respond to the petition…whine like a little crybaby and the judge falls apart…
    FTA
    Five Democrats who were removed from a Pennsylvania school board last week after voting to require masks in schools have been reinstated.

    “Removal of school board members cripples the school district,” Court of Common Pleas Judge William Mahon said Friday to a courtroom filled with more than 300 parents, teachers and community members, according to Patch.

    Mahon originally ordered the board members’ removal on March 29 after their attorney failed to issue a timely response to a parent petition calling for their ouster.

    The petition was started in February by a West Chester Area School District parent after the five Democrats voted in favor of requiring masks in schools back in August. The parent contends that, because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared the state-imposed mask mandate unconstitutional in December, the board had no authority to require all students to wear masks.

    But the judge vacated his initial ruling just three days after it had been issued. He said Friday’s ruling was unrelated to the petition filed over the face-covering requirement.

    The lawyer representing the school board, Kenneth Roos, said he was unaware that the deadline to file a response to the petition was as early as it was. He told the judge he thought the deadline was in early April when the actual deadline was March 15.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/landonmion/2022/04/03/pennsylvania-school-board-members-ousted-after-mandating-masks-have-been-reinstat-n2605425

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