Recap

For those of you who haven't heard the wonderful stories of the animal life in Chester, here is a recap.....When we were originally buying the house, we found an animal hole in the basement and a rabbit outside. Kyle shot the rabbit and we thought our critter problem was solved. Well, the day we moved in, we not only found 5 birds (4 dead) in our chimney, but a rock chuck roaming around our basement. Kyle decided he wanted it dead so he shot his .45 in our basement and it rumbled so badly, I felt it tingling my fingers upstairs. Another one of my favorite events since living here is the deer incident. I went to Wal Mart at 9pm one night to get Kyle some medicine and on my way back a huge black shadow filled my headlights. While slamming on my brakes I saw a big bull elk in the middle of my lane. He eventually walked off the road and I continued home, quite a bit shaken. A mile or two further on I saw a deer in the road. I slowed down and honked my horn and as soon as it was out of my lane, I started to accelerate again, just as an entire herd of deer slam into the back passenger side door of my car. Kodiak was in the back seat falling asleep and it scared the crap out of us both. I got home and was near tears and when I went to tell Kyle about it he said "did it dent the car?" and then went to bed. No sympathy there. A couple days later, I was driving home and a flock of geese ran into the road. I almost hit about 3 of them. The latest occurance is a couple nights ago, I was on my way to Wal Mart (do you notice a pattern) and Kyle was cussing out the slow drivers when, on the left side of the highway, there was a herd of elk, at least a hundred, all facing the road single file. I have never seen an elk before that time I almost hit it, and this was an aweing sight. Now I have this urge to go hunting. Don't ask me how. Anyway, this, is the life in Chester.