I love the internet. I love staying in touch with everyone, even if it's just checking out their statuses on Facebook.  I'm terrible at staying in touch with letters and the like.  This is a huge failing of mine.  My dad said to me that, when I was in Iraq, he heard more from me in that year than the three since then... Sigh. 

One of my friends said the other day on FB that she wouldn't let her dogs out when there were deer in the yard because they might chase them, etc.  So, she was standing at her window, waiting for a deer to go away, when she had a sudden, ugly suspicion.  She went and fetched her glasses and, yep, she was holding up the dogs inside for a harmless little bush.  Here's my take on it: