Damn Deer . . .

Damn deer cost me $500 last night.  A doe charged out of the brush along Mikus Road on her way to the Roger Williams donkey park.  Well I call it the Donkey Park, it is the pasturage surrounding his mother's house just off Mikus Road.  The deer cross, hop the fence or otherwise go through it, traverse the property.  Sometimes the dally and feed along with donkeys or horses which ever is in the pasture along the road.  Looked like she was picking up speed to make a leap over the fence and could not stop and check for cars.  Dumb deer!

It was about 6:30 PM, getting dark, when the deer charged out in front of our SUV.  I could not avoid her, and hit her with the left front corner of the SUV.  She knocked the license plate holder and license plate off, and cracked the bumper cover (it appears to be fiber glass or plastic) by the grill and running light.  I am sure that is gonna cost a nice penny to replace; it appears to be one piece that stretches across the entire front end below the grill.  And of course we have $500 deductible insurance.

So the deer cost me $500 for starters.  We have them constantly in and around our yard.  We can not have flowers of any sort or garden plants like peppers, they eat all of them down to the ground.  We have a ground cover they generally leave alone and some ivy like plants they do not bother.  And they have yet to eat an Iris but all else is game.  They love to eat roses, pansies and anything green except for Rosemary.  Rosemary is okay but it is sort of a single color of grayish green, sort of blob.  Not much character to it.

I will take the car into Service King for a damage appraisal tomorrow.  Then I will set up a repair via Hooks Lincoln.  They use an outside fellow to do the work and he has worked on our cars before.  Does a great job.  May be use the local Ford dealer or Roger Williams Chrysler (Roger is now a Congressman from a district just south of Fort Worth).  I don't think it will matter to much, they are about the same.

This event happened about a mile from our house.  Probably the same a member of the same deer herd that harasses us all the time.    Well there is one less deer to worry about.