Lise and I enjoyed being with David at Haywood Smokehouse, the barbecue place with my favorite sauce, Raspberry Chipotle. Lise’s exclamation was that she couldn’t believe she was here for over a week before having her first meal of barbecue. I’m sure she thought it was worth waiting for. We’ve already planned to go to the nearest BBQ place next week.
After having our fill of wonderful meat with the sauce of our choice, we had dessert. Lise chose peach cobbler, while David opted for chocolate pecan bourbon pie. They let me have a taste of each, which was all I wanted.
Lise spotted wild turkeys, perhaps 10 of them, on the way home from walking to the stop sign. We were too far away to see them clearly, but she took a quick photo. This shows them marching down the road, heading back into the woods.
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Oh! That reminds me of when we saw the guinea hens!
David and Lise’s desserts sound divine!
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I had forgotten about the guinea hens.
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Raspberry chipotle? Sounds wonderful!
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I made a mistake. It is strawberry chipotle.
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Close enough!
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Dessert sounds yummy – glad you got a bite of each. I hope the turkeys march up to the house next time for you!
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That group of turkeys was in the pasture a day or so ago, but they were far away.
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Well, maybe you’ll see them again soon and you or Lise will have the camera ready. I thought of you today as the traffic reporter for our tri-county area said the state police reported a herd of elk that were traveling across an expressway near Gaylord, Michigan. That’s 250 miles from me, but still – it must have been a sight to see … the traffic reporter, who has been in this biz for a while, said “giving an elk reporting/sighting/warning is a first for me!”
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A deer crossed I-40 right in front of Lise when Magda and I were with her. It was a heart-stopping moment.
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Yes, it can be scary. I never drive in rural areas when it is deer rutting season (November) as the bucks chase the does relentlessly and often run right into the traffic, even onto the expressway. My former boss had a friend who was driving up north with his wife to their cottage and a buck crossed the expressway and got disoriented, and plowed through their vehicle’s windshield, shattering the glass, cutting its throat and its head ended up on the console between the two of them, its body on the hood of the vehicle. Can you imagine? The buck stopped the vehicle as Sam didn’t have time to brake. Their SUV was totaled because the buck bent the front of the vehicle, hood, around the window and there was blood everywhere.
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Boy! That was dramatic!
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It sure was and I was worried about deer versus vehicle encounters before that happened, but now I am even more wary of them. I had never heard we had elk in Michigan until yesterday, so I Googled and learned that there are a herd of between 1,000 to 1,200 elk in the Lower Peninsula right near where those were sighted. It would be something to see – that’s why you enjoy seeing yours.
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We have always enjoyed seeing the elk here.
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