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[which_chick]

Busy day at work -- fixed floor collapsing underneath toilet, fixed leaking sink trap thing, fixed circulator pump and leaking radiator. Chatted up tenant about gun found on top of building and sound of gunfire at night. It's telling how the area has changed that instead of "spotlighting", I immediately thought "drug dealers" even though it was an unsawed off shotgun with a flashlight strapped to the barrel. *sigh* And the gunfire was accompanied by very bright lights, enough to light up a bedroom like it was morning. And *still* I thought "drug dealers" instead of "spotlighting". Definitely we have a heroin problem around here.

On the way home from work, I picked up half a loaf of banana bread from cousin Heather's house. It is quite good, has walnuts, and is even better because it's got I did not have to cook this written all over it.

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[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

mmm. Wish I had some!

Uh, the tasty treat, not the heroin.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

What's spotlighting?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Poor west-coaster. :) Spotlighting is going out at night with a very strong light for the purposes of seeing what for deer are out there. It's legal as long as it's just you, maybe a few friends, a vehicle, and a spotlight or three. It gets to be illegal when you take along some beer (because, y'know, DUI and open container) or a firearm (I don't care how gifted you are with gab, you're not going to be able to convince Mr. Pennsylvania Policeman that you were not planning on shooting the deer you spotlit if you have a gun in your vehicle. Mr. Pennsylvania Policeman did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday.)

The general procedure is as follows: Someone drives fairly slowly along country back roads in the dark of night. (You can also do this while parked, but you see more deer if you are driving along.) The not-driver person takes the very strong light and shines it upon the fields and woods and hollows where there might be speed beef (aka Whitetailed Deer) lurking. In the dark of night, the eyeballs of deer glow when a bright light is made to shine upon them. Also, I'm told that shining very bright lights onto the eyes of deer in the dark of night rather blinds the little buggers so that they stand still long enough for you to count them and/or assess the quality of the deer for later, daytime, in-season hunting purposes.

The less law-abiding of my friends inform me that a prepared mind (fortune favors the prepared mind) can hoist a firearm to shoulder, aim, and pot the spotlit deer before it escapes into the welcoming arms of the night. This is, I should point out, illegal and even more illegal if you're shooting (a) from a vehicle (b) while drunk (c) at night (d) without a license (e) in residential areas... the ways this can get more illegal simply boggle the mind.

But that's spotlighting. The basic idea is you, bright light, deer, night-time.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. That seems like such a hilarious middle of nowhere type activity to me. Like cow tipping. I am such a city person, despite living in an area where raccoons and possums feel free to mosey into my kitchen at their leisure.

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

Actually, deer are such nuisance critters here in Pennsylvania that even I've gone spotlighting, back when I was a kid in the Seventies. And I live just ten miles from Philadelphia.