Oh, deer

Yes, it’s hunting season here. Even so, the deer population has not seemed to diminish much. See, where I currently live, I can count up to a dozen deer on the way home most days. It’s only a 4 mile drive, and all of it is a residential setting. I’ve seen 3 deer hit by cars this season just in this short commute. I think part of the problem is that they named one of the roads “Deerhaven”. I think if they change the name to “WolfCreekRoad” or something similar it would help out some.
Oh well.
The office is still capturing my time. Covering for Lloyd, I still get to do all the shipping, as well as price out shipping on international orders, keep inventory, and generally do all that type of stuff. It hasn’t consumed all my time, though today it was a little stressful. We had an overnight delivery to go out, but it depended on some inventory coming from Canada. 2:30, still no Canadians! UPS came to pick up at 3:00pm yesterday, so I was a little antsy (sp?) (Not to mention that there has been major communication to get this order figured out - not only within our office, but with the CDN office and the customer—he’s going overseas tomorrow and wanted to take this w/ him.)
Well, the CDN’s arrived—with 2 cases of English instead of French. I’ll have to chalk this one up to better communication on my part. I didn’t enjoy calling the customer and telling him the story, but he was gracious and we’ll have to try better next time!
I’m still under the weather, but working late tonight anyhow. I think I already know, but we’ll see if it’s a smart decision tomorrow!

changing the name of the road sounds like a good idea.

Posted by julie  on  10/19  at  07:20 PM

Jed has another idea for a name change for that road.  How about “Coyote Lane”?  We’ve been encountering our share of deer here, too.  Jed shot a button buck two weeks ago during the youth hunt.  He got it at 8:30 on opening morning on the very first day he ever went deer hunting!  Ryan hit one on the road last week with the Lumina so that goes into the garage next week for repairs.  One night Jake was on his way home from work and a deer ran right into the driver’s side of the car taking out his side mirror.  Ryan and a friend are out hunting in a special CWD hunt this morning but it is raining and they are cold and wet.  They only saw the tail of one deer so far so they are going to come home and dry out and try their luck again this evening.

Posted by Jake & Phyllis Amstutz  on  10/21  at  04:32 PM