In which we are blessed...

[jesshartley]

For almost two years now, we've known that there were deer out in the woods behind our house (we live on a property that abuts dozens, if not hundreds of acres of nature conservation land.) However, with the exception of a young buck that crossed the road in front of the Valkyrie and I miles and miles away from our house one morning this spring while we were out garage saling, we hadn't seen a single deer in Easthampton in the two years we'd been here.

Until this morning.

I woke up ungodly early, unable to sleep. I started working on my current White Wolf project and when the Viking woke up at 5:30 or so, I was ready to take a break. I went down to make him breakfast and while I was emptying the dishwasher I looked out our kitchen window to see this regal young stag in our back yard. If you look carefully, you can see his shy mate just behind him and to the left under the canopy of the big pine at the end of our property.

I'm just... tickled... to have been visited now, less than two weeks before we'll be gone for good. It was just a blessing.

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

What a majestic, beautiful figure he cuts. Awesome.

[thebitterguy]

Man, he's practically posing for the camera. What a ham. Nice rack, though.

[sabbathunter.livejournal.com]

"Nice rack, though."

I wonder how often that is actually used to describe a set of antlers rather than......a woman's huge tracts of land.

[thebitterguy]

I don't know, but it was too perfect an opportunity to pass up.

[sabbathunter.livejournal.com]

you should have put a salt lick out there for the deer. you may have had many more visitors.

but that is sooooo awesome that the two of them visited this morning.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

They advise against it in this area. From a purely practical point of view, deer ticks are horrible in this area and encouraging large numbers of them to frequent one location only increases the possibility of virulent epidemics of lyme disease and the like.

But if anything, it made it more magical that they did show.

[sabbathunter.livejournal.com]

I would think that they would set up a salt lick somewhere and so they can figure out a way to innoculate the deer against lyme disease, try to reduce the spread that way.

[rumpleteasah.livejournal.com]

I think it's more to prevent PEOPLE from getting lyme disease.

[sabbathunter.livejournal.com]

well i was thinking that if deer arent carries of the lyme disease then people down the road would be less likely to get it. :)

[kbr41.livejournal.com]

That is amazing. We are moving out into the country and I'm hoping we will see some 'wildlife' out there too.

That happened to me, once

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

It was about 1994 or so. I was visiting friends in Bournemouth, on the English South coast. Monday morning, the day of departure, I was in the kitchen at some hour of the day I'd never even heard of before, and there was this doe outside, just grazing in the dim morning light.

Theretofore, the most exotic creatures I'd ever seen in any garden had been a buzzard, once, and another time a family of hedgehogs.

But a stag trumps my doe any day.

Nice one. Yup. Blessed by Cernunnos. Way to go. :)

[extrajoker.livejournal.com]

Things to Do Before Leaving New England:

• see deer in backyard

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I'm living in Pittsburgh, and one day, as I was riding the light rail, I was watching the landscape go by, and I saw a family of deer grazing near the trees up on the hill between two stops.

Obviously, they were much more domesticated than the deer I'd seen when I'd lived in the middle of nowhere, but it made me smile for the rest of the day.

Seeing deer is just a magical experience. :)

(Random sidenote: My copy of Skinchangers came in today! I can't wait to finish Promethean and crack it open. <3. What else have you written and gotten lead credit on? I'm honestly too lazy to look... >_> )

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

There's not really a "lead" writing credit for most White Wolf game supplements. (Novels are something different, and there's occasionally something like "Monte Cook's World of Darkness" but that's a different thing altogether).

I've written part of:
Predators (W:tF)
Skinchangers (WoD)
Compass of the Celestial Directions 1: The Blessed Isle (Exalted)
Pandora's Book (P:tC)
Strange Alchemies (P:tC)
Magnum Opus (P:tC)
Saturnine Night (P:tC)
Free Council (M:tA)
Mysterium (M:tA)
Changeling: The Lost
Autumn Nightmares (C:tL)
Another yet-unannounced Changeling supplement
Scion: Demigod
Scion: God
Reliquary (WoD) (Which I also developed)

I've got two more World of Darkness projects waiting for me when I get out to Arizona, and some of the ones listed above aren't out yet, but will be before the end of the year, I think...

Thanks for asking! :)

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. I'm a huge WoD fangirl, and even thought I haven't read any of the Exalted books yet, I have enough of a working knowledge to hobble along in a game of that, too ;) In fact, I just ordered the core for that, finally.

I think it's funny that you've written for every P:tC book except the core.

My friend ordered C:tL as an early Christmas present for me, so I can't wait to read it. I'll be ordering the Prommie books as soon as I can afford them, and the same with the Changeling books--especially since I loved the oWoD Changeling.

What is Reliquary?

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

Reliquary is a World of Darkness supplement I developed. It should be out later this fall, I believe.

A reliquary is a container or vessel for relics, items imbued with powers, usually due to their connection with historic or religious figures.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Is it a general supplement, or for a specific line? I'm just mildly confused, I guess. And if you're bound by a NDA, go ahead and tell me! I totally understand, trust me.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

It's a general World of Darkness supplement, useable with any of the lines, including mortals.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Oh, SWEET. That's awesome. I have insane love for mortals.