The Raw Truth About Deer.........

I feel so sorry for all the deer here in Michigan; if they are not killed by people with guns they are killed by people with cars.
I think that I may have mentioned in one of my previous blogs that I drive for a delivery company.....so....needless to say I see a lot of things happening on the road everyday. And, the most that I see is dead deer. There is whole deer and then there is the poor deer that is completely ground into hamburger.
I see dented cars that are at the side of the road after hitting a deer and then I see no cars anywhere in sight but the deer is very evident that it died a horrific death.

I understand that we do have an over population of deer and our state joked about making the deer our state animal instead of our state bird the Robin.

This past Friday on the 16th of November....which is one day after hunting season opened up, I was driving East on I-96 and then West on I-96 coming back to the company....which is over 300 miles round trip, and I came across a few police cars that were stopped with a few different cars and each one of them cars had been involved in a deer crash. A couple of the cars were quite damaged and with them damaged cars were deer insides and outsides so strewn across the highway that they were barely recognized.

Secondly....I was fueling up and started talking to a tow truck driver and he told me he was just returning from a fatal accident that happened on a highway that travels south through Michigan. He said and I quote...."I just came from a fatal accident where a woman had a deer run out in front of her car and she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting the deer....the deer was a 5-point Buck. She managed to not hit the deer and saved his life just long enough to loose it on the other side of the highway....and in doing so, someone hit the back end of her car going 70+ MPH and killed her on the spot." Then the tow truck driver told me he had asked the police man if he could keep the antlers from the deer and the police man told him he could not have them as for he promised to give them to the other tow truck driver, who picked up the car from the other side of the highway, the one that actually hit the deer and took its life.

Now in saying all this....I am the type that would do her best not to hit a deer or any other animal that I see on the highway....but sometimes you just don't have a chance to get out of the way.
Later in the night I was driving home from work....which is about a 40 minute drive and the fog was so heavy that I had to drive 35-40mph on the highway just to get home safely.....but.....the whole time I was driving all I could picture was a deer is going to jump out in front of me and then I am going to get very hurt in the small car I'm driving, because how do you see anything especially the deer in the thick fog.

I know we have to do something about the deer population because they are claiming lots of lives, but when my town tried to shoot off some deer and donate the meat to local food pantries, they just kept multiplying. There are also small wire fences that go the entire length of all the major highways but they are to short to keep the deer from jumping over them.
Don't get me wrong I love all GOD'S animals and it saddens me so much to see these deer strewn over 50 feet and nothing left of them, every piece of deer is pounded into the pavement of the highways over and over and what is scary enough is the splatter of blood almost the entire stretch of every highway.

Please be very careful while driving and try not to let someone tailgate you because if you do find yourself braking for any animal it might be the last time you live to do that. ( Tailgating with be another story for later)
If you are a believer of Christ please pray for everyone on the highway and for the animals to stay off the highway......so all can live.
I wish they would clean up the carcases that way I wouldn't have such high anxiety driving over all of their strewn out innards.

Please don't swerve or slam on your brakes if you have an animal in your path.....only if you have no traffic around you, can you attempt such a thing and in a slow safe manner. I know what you may be thinking....I'm afraid to hit this animal it might kill me by going through my windshield or it's going to destroy my vehicle or both; those are my exact thoughts as well.....and knock on wood I haven't hit an animal yet.

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The Raw Truth About Texting While Driving...

Texting while driving has been a problem for a few years now. I was on my way to Ohio and found myself stuck in a traffic jam....and I passed quite a few cars where the drivers were texting. Now much to my surprise every one that I saw was older. I want to say that the age bracket that was texting was from 30 to 50.
Now every day that I'm driving I see mostly women texting.....driving over 70mph and weaving in and out of lanes and sometimes almost side swiping other drivers; which are blind to the fact that they are so close to having an accident.

We put a lot of the blame on younger children and teens for texting expecially while driving....now don't get me wrong there are kids texting while driving, but every young person I see driving I don't see them texting.
Maybe we should have all drivers that carry a cell phone watch a short video on what happens when you text and drive....even though I personally don't text and drive I do have to briefly look at a map and the 2 or 3 seconds that I take my eyes off the road, I find myself getting close to the lines in my lane. when this happened a couple times I decided to add a turn by turn app on my cell phone that way my eyes never leave the road....and I'm a driver by proffession so I feel I did my part to keep the other drivers driving by me safe.
Please if you text and drive at least get a phone that lets you record your texting instead of typing your texts.....or please call...or if it can wait then please let it wait. All our lives depend on it.

Thank you and God Bless you all.

P.S. Stay tuned for the raw truth on Fashion. We are going to buy a complete outfit.....head to toe for just $5.00. the outfit and the prices will be posted next Sunday on the 11th. Hope you enjoy what we pick out....any questions feel free to comment on here.

Bye, Bye and Good Night!!!!
Hugs................Karla

Raw Truth about Faith

***FAITH***I have had Faith all my life; Faith that things would go well, Faith that jobs would come my way and Faith that my Lord loved me. Now comes the testing of my Faith.
When I was 16 I was pushed into a very abusive relationship because my mom decided to move away from us kids and move into a boyfriends house.....leaving us the apartment with no money to pay for it. I decided to follow an older man to Chicago because I couldn't pay the rent with no job, so I dropped out of school and moved to Chicago.
6 Years of beatings and hiding I finely managed to escape for the final time.....Faith got me through it all. Then at 22 I got married and had my son at 23, another 6 years of cheating and verbal abuse and I managed to break free again....still holding on to Faith.
Then after finely feeling free I met another man that became my husband a year later. We stayed married just over ten years; life was almost perfect. I had gotten a divorce and for 3 years I was homeless, jobless and vehicle-less.....I am still struggling with all the above problems, but....my biggest test of Faith came after a positive test for Hepatitis C.
I do have a lot of health problems and I will be disabled for life, but when someone says you are real sick it hits like a ton of bricks. I had a lot of people praying for me; I asked my doctor how possible is it for a blood test to read wrong.....Well, she said, you have a 1% chance that it was a false positive, so we did another test. My Faith still holding on but scared all the same and with all the prayers my test came back clear......I don't have the sickness. 35 years of Faith and never once let down...now that is powerful and that's the Raw Truth!!!   (Although it says 35 years of Faith and I am almost 45, it did take me at least 10 years to learn about Faith :0)  )