So I'm driving home from work today, down some of Houston's finest freeways. Something caught my eye on the feeder road, so I took a quick look. OMG, it's a cherry '61 Chevy Impala "bubble top", red and white on a car carrier! Two quick lane changes and I'm on the feeder road. I slow down to let the hauler get ahead of me. Oh sh*t! Somebody had rear ended this pristene piece of styling and engineering. Both rear quarter panels were buckled, the trunk was mangled, both rear wheel covers were missing, bumper had been thrown in the trunk and bungee corded down. I felt bad all the rest of the home. But it gets better. I promised SWMBO that I would cook up some of my world renown homemade chicken noodle soup tonight for us to enjoy all weekend. My stomach stopped hurting from seeing the carnage, so I opened up the package containing this whole chicken and immediately got the same feeling I had experienced a couple of hours previous. Nothing will make your stomach turn like smelling a chicken that has gone bad!
Deer God! That's where that deer I hit went. The car you described sounds like how my G's gonna look if the friggin' deer keep playing on the highway like they are! I have seen a deer (dead (mostly) or alive) EVERY FRIGGIN" DAY! I can't get the thought of me hitting one once I start driving my truck out of my mind! I know ya'll'd say I wouldn't be hurting anything if my truck took one to the mug, but It'd piss me off to know my rattle can paint job would be ruined!!! Ken~ at least the house wasn't filled with smoke, like when you tried doing steaks! I'm starting to wonder about your cooking abilities... I make my dogs baked chicken with rice and vitamins. I usually get Wally's chicken leg quarters. Nothin' pisses me off more than to get a bag with a "bad" date more than two weeks out, only to find when I cut it open, I could start coughing out maggots due to how rank it smells! I just take it back to Wally's- again-
Rotten chicken can be refrozen and saved to savor again. It makes the very good alligator bait as well. Ziggy, you should not push your AD fast enough that a healthy deer can't get out of your way. Most deer get hit by autos at night, drive in the daytime. Jim
Ya Know Ken ; ...If you watch old 70's Cop shows on cable , they use L.A. junkyards a lot ~ next time took in the background to see the '59 Chevy CONVERTIBLE that was being crushed because it had a dented front fender.... or the 70,000 original mile '54 BeAir that went to the crusher because it had two bald tires and shredded seat covers..... The list goes on forever . As I live in the City now , I don't have many Deers , they tend to stay over on the golf course . Where I live , we have Coyotes , Bobcats , Opossums by the thousands and Racoons , Porcupines and so on ... Do Deer whistles work ? .
Deer whistles The deer I munched with my Jeep had a close look at the deer whistles I had on the bumper. The whistles were still there after the deer was long gone. If they work, I can only assume one of mine had swallowed a bug and couldn't whistle. That or the deer was deaf. I'd LOVE to wait until it was light out to go to work~ but when you gotta go, you gotta go. Now that time has bumped back an hour, I have a couple of weeks of light in the morning before it turns into darkness on both ends...
Early AM Drive I rather enjoy my 04:00 commute , there's little traffic and sometimes I can see the ocean as I pass over the grade . It's nice and quiet , good to meditate .
Don't Imagine It , Just GO DO IT ! I do in my '49 and I love it , esp. at this time of year when the desert breeze is creeping over the mountains , smelling sweetly of sage and heat , the City's lights twinkling away in the clear pre-dawn air , Cowl vent 1/4 open , radio mumbling softly below the sound of my mystery 235 clattering it's way over the grade as rthe grease whine quietly...... Life is good when you drive an old truck I suppose I could be content driving and Fo~ a Fr.... ..One of those other brand of trucks , once I'd tuned it and put my stamp on it .
