Roadside kills and pick-em-up's

In the summer especially.

I believe PennDot put those contracts out for bid

Ran into the warden, actually two of them delivering a doe to the dump on 37. Hadn't seen much activity this year that doe was the first I've seen there.

Got a couple of big cuts going on though at the end of Park Hill and up at white birch acres off Carpenter Rd. Doing a bunch of road work on Stephenshouse from the beaver ponds on down replacing all the culverts. Giving the porkies something to chew on for winter.

Speaking of which Sunday evening our golden retriever got tangled with a porky and I had to hit the vet. She took one look at our dog and said what did he do trip over the porky? No one likes a smart ass Doctor I said. She knocked him for a loop and pulled the quills that we didn't get. He's back to his normal doofy self today. The beagle was spared or was smart enough not to mess with Vlad the Impaler.

Worst carnage I've ever seen, was heading west on I-80 in the mid 1980s. Picked up boss's youngest daughter in State College before dawn, were heading out for the PSU-Notre Dame game that fall, in his motor home. When it started to get light out, dead deer almost every mile.

His wife always had to sit up front.She spotted something and as we passed it, wanted know WTH that was. Deer's head, sitting perfectly between both lanes on the dotted lines and facing oncoming traffic. After I told her what it was, a few minutes passed, she looks at me and wanted to know if it had just landed there, or some sicko positioned it like that?

Nothing like a semi rolling 75 MPH, to mess up a deer in the roadway. One of the farm families up at camp, raises beef and bales/hauls hay a good distance. They have two semi rigs and several trailer they haul hay in. Some years ago the wife told me she was coming back from a hay delivery, stopped at a truck stop. Another driver told her there was part of a deer wedged in the truck's front axle, more of it back on the tandem drive axles. The deer's head was still on the front axle when she got home.

I-81 near where we live, has a long, wide wooded stretch of median that always has a few dead deer near it. Was heading south past there once, deer ran out of that median in front of a semi in the passing lane. That truck hit it, sent it flying end over end thru the air = right in front of another cabover semi's windshield. That driver locked 'er up and ran off on the shoulder. Still deer hair raining down, as I passed.

TPlank once called me to go up on the overpass near our place, to see if a roadkill laying there when he was headed to work, was a buck or a doe.

With the election season almost over I'm reminded of a neighbor's sign.... Homemade but a very nice job..It went something like this:


I'm an ***hole
I'm not voting for anyone
but I do like signs

I kind of think it fits me as well (except the part about liking signs and not voting)