re: #231 Blind Frog Belly White

Practically the whole San Francisco Peninsula is closed to hunting. It’s either suburbs, parks, Open Space, or Watershed land. Part of the last one is an estate that dates to the 1920s, the Filoli estate. It’s along a very pretty road, with no stop signs or cross roads for 4 miles. There’s a large herd of Blacktail deer, and a growing flock of turkeys there. Fat lazy bastards, both of them. No hunters, bears, or wolves to worry with.

I ride past them and there’ll be 20-30 deer sometimes, and about half that many turkeys, just standing there, not a care in the world. Makes me hungry just thinking of it.

My wife and I frequently go to FE Warren AFB in Cheyenne. (That is the headquarters of the intercontinental land-based ballistic missile forces.)

They have bunches of pronghorn antelope and white-tailed deer all over the base (possibly more than airman). Driving along a street there are sometimes scores of deer or antelope munching grass only a couple feet from the road, as they know they are safe on the base. (They also look both ways before crossing the road. Deer do that here in my town, too - it’s kind of odd to see that deer are smarter than a lot of people in that regard).