I  have a chair in my kitchen at the storm door where my cat, Daisy can sit and watch squirrels, chipmunks, birds, and whatever wild life passes by.  As I was sitting there recently myself, a doe came slowly walking up my driveway and she was so close I could have reached out and petted her.  

   When she spotted me, she quickly jumped over a barrier we have between my yard and my neighbor’s yard. Earlier in the week, my son Mike told me to look out my bedroom window because there was a deer in my front yard, eating leaves from one of my bushes. 

A neighbor of mine told me that the deer often comes to their property and his wife worries about the possibility of her getting hit by a car.  That neighbor thinks like I do, that the deer were here first and we took over their territory.  He knows that I’ve lived here longer than he and he asked me if I ever saw deer when I first moved in which was over 60 yrs ago.  My answer to him was “No.” 

I remember once returning from my home in Callicoon Center and not seeing any deer the entire time I was there, which was very unusual. As soon as I got to Paramus, deer were crossing the road in front of me.  Go figure!  My newest neighbor is a doctor and at 6AM he saw deer in my front yard and took photos of them and sent them to me by text on my phone. There was a doe and  her fawn.  

That was a thrill for me that I didn’t expect especially from a busy doctor, who has just moved here a few months ago.