snowing, just not enough
Driving home Monday night, it was looking like a winter storm had made its way to the northwoods. Woke up Tuesday morning to just a coating of the white gold, but still nice to see it was still winter.
Then again on Wednesday we were on the northern edge of another system. Driving home that night in white out conditions. Tomahawk received around 4 inches when I left work and driving home was a slow go at reduced speeds.I snapped a couple of pictures coming through Eagle river. I made it all the way just north of Conover rental center when 3 deer popped out of the woods and just had to cross when I was coming through. I was doing about 45mph in a 55, 2 does and a basket 6 point from what I could tell. I had a vehicle about a half mile in front of me coming from the opposite direction. So I was trying like heck not to swerve toward the center lane. I hit the brakes and the antilock kicked in, I started to slide and knew I’d impact the deer but didn’t know how bad it was going to be. I was honking the horn hoping they’d turn back but wasn’t that lucky. When I impacted the deer only only one of the three cleared the truck and I got a double hit, first the buck then the buck hit the doe and they both went down off to the right of the truck. The sound when I hit was more like a thump than a crunch. When I made it up to 45 & K, I stopped to check the damage. To my surprise I couldn’t see any damage. I was like holy crap could I get this lucky. I made it home and got a flashlight out and did see hair form the deer and a couple of brown smug marks. The bumper on the right side did move about ¾’s of an inch back but hardly noticeable. I remember back in the day the bumpers had a shock absorber for small impacts but don’t think they do that on todays vehicles. Pictures from Thursday morning of the truck. Yes, I bought a lottery ticket that afternoon…lol.
On Saturday was determined to organize a small section of my garage and put some shelves up. This 2 hours project turned into 5. Not being a woodworker but willing to attempt anything, in the end it will serve its purpose. Now that I had a workbench to work on again, I started working on my high powered pellet gun. Cool gun purchased from Farm & Fleet with a silencer on it. Don’t really think a pellet gun makes a lot of noise anyway, but it looks cool with a 3x9x40 Centerline scope on it. A Crosman 12 shot semi-automatic for around $235. Taking the trigger from a 5 pound pull to a half pound pull with some machining and a lighter spring. Hopefully will create a smoother firing gun with more accuracy. The pesty red squirrel is about to be a head mount in the home bar.
The plan for this Sunday was to kick back and watch the Nascar Daytona 500, but looks to be a rain out with the weather in Florida today.
Till next time...RWM
