We finally decided to fix the back porch. Today was going to be one of those stay at home and work around the house sort of day. I was a little nervous about tearing down the old porch after my night last night.
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Two of the kiddos and I were driving home from our VBS workparty at church. We were about 7 minutes from home and a deer jumps right out into my van.
Hubby teaches a AAA class for senior citizens, and one of the safety things he told me was that people die from deer jumping out in front of their vehicles because:
- They swerve into oncoming traffic and have head on collisions or
- They slam on their brakes which causes the vehicle to go down in the front and the deer to go up over the hood into their windshield.
So he kept grilling me not to step on the brake. I would practice not being scared with squirrels that would run out in front of me. When the deer jump out at me last night, I knew we were going to share a moment and it wasn't going to be a pleasant one. At first I lifted off of the gas to go hit the brake, but I quickly remembered hubby's warning, and I gunned the gas. This caused the deer to fly backward and then an oncoming Jeep Cheroke finished the deer off. It was sad, the deer looked like a doe.
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Praise the Lord we all are all right except the deer, and today's demolition went down with no injuries!
