I started my almost-nightly walk around my block and suddenly decided to go to the middle school’s track tonight. I was going to try jogging, and needed an absolutely flat surface. When I got there, three deer were eating grass in the middle. No antlers among them; they looked like whitetail deer. (Also a big group of birds were apparently sleeping in the grass. They took off when I arrived.) One deer ran away immediately, but the other two didn’t seem to know what to make of me, so I walked closer, stopped and let them stare and they kept eating grass; then I walked closer and closer since the track circle led their direction. They let me walk very near, and past them, and didn’t move

I found I could actually jog for short distances — my knees are improving. Deer kind of scare me since my encounter with an angry one at the cemetery once. On my next lap I decided the deer should leave, so I tried to scare them through the gate, but they didn’t seem to know where it was.

So I ran through it, to show them, then came back to the track. They were still just staring, standing there looking stupid. I walked past them and continued my lap around. Finally they had found the exit when I circled back around.

Unfortunately, the school turns the lights off about 11:15 so I didn’t want to stay, especially since a man without a shirt arrived in a car, evidently to do laps too. I do not walk in the dark with shirtless weird men. I told him it was all his, and got in my car to go home, and finished my walk circling my block about 6 more times.