We got another lone visitor at the feed today.  Not the same one as yesterday, as this one has the dark patch on its chest.

And it is definitely the aggressive one that usually comes with another deer.  The other deer did show up later on.  The only reason I saw it was because this one suddenly dashed off to chase it away. :-(

In going through the photos I took today – especially the ones where the deer was eating at the feed closest to the house – I realized that I could see our house reflected in his eyes.

In all my years growing up in this house, while we certainly saw deer, we never had anything that encouraged them to come so close to the house like this.  This is the closest I have ever been to a live, wild deer.  Just a few feet away, with nothing but glass between us.

On the wish list, I would love to build a long, narrow deck on that side of the house, with a ramp on one end.  This way, we could use the actual “front” door, and my husband would have a ramp for his walker, and not have to lift it up and down those two steps at the door that we use now.

I can see us, some day in the future, sitting outside on the deck and having the deer used to our presence enough to come right up to us.

The Re-Farmer