Around here you can just about bet on a skiff of snow before the end of September. Almost didn't make it this year. Outside plants almost always get frosted by middle of September and you can't plant outside before the middle of May. The only months it has never snowed here in town is July and August. But, we are surrounded by little mountain ranges that get white spots easily. To the North east the Judiths, SE the Little Snowies, the south the Big Snowies, then the Little Belts to the south west, then the Highwoods, you have to go across the Missouri Breaks to the north to find the Little Rockies to complete the circle and form what is known as the Judith basin.
Big news around here right now is the lion that keeps getting sighted around town. Probably because there are deer everywhere. NW corner of town Muleys. South to north along the creeks that run through town whitetail and to the east another bunch of Muleys. This spring the news was the Moose at the ponds. There is a system of interconnected asphalt and gravel trails that kind of follows the creeks and will take you though and around town. Seeing someone walking around with a fishing pole in town is not unusual. There is a couple of "swimming holes" and tube floating is popular in the summer. Kids walking along lugging inner tubes headed upstream or back home is a common sight, more common is a pickup full of tubes.
Yes, I like it here. In the winter it has gets colt enough with enough snow to keep the "pests" away. Plus, we live in "nowhere" on the way to "no place". Nearest interstate is over 100 miles away. There is a 5 mile chunk of 4 lane only 80 miles from here though.
I have seen a deer cut through McDs while waiting in the drive through, a nice muley buck munching the scrubs at the courthouse steps, 3 nice bucks eating the shrubbery in the closest elementary school yard, the other day I saw a real nice whitetail buck when I was coming out of the post office.
Way more apt to hit a deer than a car in town. But, most of them are pretty road smart, except the fawns or if a dog gets out. The rut can cause problems. The road between the creek and the golf course is the worst in the morning and evening. I go that way to the grocery store. I saw over 20 deer going to the store the other evening before it stormed, its just 2 miles, door to door. The drivers here are usually in no hurry and polite. For what it is that many deer don't get hit.
I live on the south east corner of town, just above the main creek. A little bunch of whitetail does lives in our neighborhood. A doe always has and keeps her fawn in a hidden corner of my back yard, I stay out of and don't mow till around July. When I see her I always speak to her in a low calm voice, she pretty much accepts me. I have thrown carrots and apples at them and they just go get them. I don't usually see any bucks near here till about now, then the start to wonder around what I call "hoping" cause its to early for rut. I keep an eye on them because they can get aggressive to in the rut and should not be trusted. People have been severely injured by "pet" deer in the rut.
It is kind of funny when your loading up your camping gear and putting rifles in your truck and some deer is standing 20ft away watching you do it.
Another important sign that hunting season is coming.
I am sporting a couple weeks of beard.
