Well, I finally got one! There's a saying up here that if you live in Northern Michigan you WILL hit a deer. After driving up here for 18 years, I got mine yesterday. On Friday we spent $125 to detail the truck and another $50 to list it for sale in the paper. The detail job lasted 48 hours. I'm glad I'm old and my full coverage insurance is cheap. The kids and I were on our way home from church when it happened. The deer actually came out of a parking lot and wove through the on-coming traffic, somehow missed the car in front of me and I got him (actually her). There wasn't much left of the deer unfortunately. The kids were a little shaken up but the truck got the worst of it. It's hard to tell but the top picture is the before.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Welcome to Northern Michigan! Monday and Tuesday it was in the 70's. This morning we woke up to this. I've been trying to deny it for a month now but I can see that summer is finally over. 10/13/06-This morning I had to take my truck into Petoskey and I saw three guys surfing on the bay! It was crazy, snow on the ground, people in the water! The water is warmer now than it was in June but I still wouldn't do it.