9/18: birds, deer, and beer

We live in a dry county, so if we want to buy beer, wine, or any other kind of alcoholic spirit, we need to drive about half an hour to a neighboring county. This evening we decided to go on a beer run. On the way down to Morgan I kept admiring the numbers of birds sitting on the utility wires along the roadside: it's been raining pretty steadily for the past few days, but today was relatively dry, so I guess the birds were enjoying some time out in the open en masse. And as we pulled up our driveway after our liquor-store trip, we saw two deer jump from the yard into our woods. I hadn't seen deer around the house for some time, so I'm glad to know they're back.