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Post by duff on May 25, 2008 19:29:01 GMT -5
This time it was with a dang deer! First deer accident for our family. Heading home from visiting my father in law who was camping at Shades when the dang dude stepped out infront of us. Kicker is I had just pulled over to help another family change a tire not 2 miles back. They were out of town camping at Waverly and had a blow out right in front of us. This was about 9:30 PM we had 2 tired cranky kids, my wife and I were tired ready to get home but couldn't leave those guys hanging. Good thing we stopped as they didn't have a working jack.
Then whamo, waited 1 hour for the county sherif to give us our accident report. The van took it pretty bad but overall we didn't even feel a thing and the airbags didn't deploy so it could have been a lot worse. See what the $$ is later this week.
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Post by old3arrows on May 25, 2008 19:42:45 GMT -5
Man Duff! Sorry to hear that! I hit a doe in January driving home from work to the tune of $3500 in the big blue truck. I'm glad that I still keep full coverage on her! ;D
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Post by danf on May 25, 2008 20:37:28 GMT -5
Ummm, wish I hadn't heard you've had two incidents in as many weeks! We're headed to Parke Co first thing in the morning for a little while. Hope you've got all of the "road incidents" out of the Parke County system already!!  |
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Post by dbd870 on May 26, 2008 5:20:16 GMT -5
They are not fun at all.; do you hae comprehensive?
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Post by duff on May 26, 2008 6:15:28 GMT -5
Yea comprehensive with a $500 deductible.
Dan I sure hope we got them taken care of too. If you see a maroon van with a busted headlight run away!
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Post by deerdude on May 26, 2008 7:00:07 GMT -5
a buddy of mine hit one about 2 weeks ago coming to work and done about 3000.00 dollars damage to his truck. another guy at work just had bought a new crossfire last year and hit a coon with it and did 3500.00 dollars damage to the underneath side of it. that was one expensive coon.
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Post by danf on May 26, 2008 7:34:00 GMT -5
Dan I sure hope we got them taken care of too. If you see a maroon van with a busted headlight run away! Stay away from Mecca today, please! ;D ;D Good you've got comprehensive. |
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Post by duff on May 26, 2008 18:43:21 GMT -5
Dan I sure hope we got them taken care of too. If you see a maroon van with a busted headlight run away! Stay away from Mecca today, please! ;D ;D Good you've got comprehensive. I usually try to!!! Just kidding we spent a few hours at Billie Creek Village then drove down to Brazil, nothing happened. How boring ;D |
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Post by danf on May 26, 2008 19:36:45 GMT -5
We made it home without incident, other than turning off of 41 about 100 yards too soon. ;D
Gotta do some cemetery restoration work over there in 2 weeks.
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Post by duff on May 27, 2008 18:12:07 GMT -5
Glad to here it, I think we have just hit our saturation point for good luck and just getting the other variety for a while. How in the world do you get into the business of cemetery restoration work?  Market for everything I guess! |
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Post by danf on May 27, 2008 20:30:41 GMT -5
How in the world do you get into the business of cemetery restoration work? Market for everything I guess! LOL It's a long story, and it starts with buying a house. ;D My wife started researching the past owners of our house and land (got a lot of the info at the purchase) and realized that many of them were buried close by. I think she visited a few of the cemeteries and realized just bad of shape many of them are in. She eventually got in touch with another local guy who was interested in cemeteries and they took a class/seminar from the DNR several years back. Since then, she's completely restored enough cemeteries that I can't keep track of all of them (somewhere around 6-7 complete restorations) and restored parts of 2-3 more. She has visited and cataloged all of the cemeteries in Hendricks County (~150 of them) and has a website dedicated to it. There are people who make a decent living restoring cemeteries, and it's something we've discussed trying ourselves when the kids are older and more bills have been paid. The "work" in 2 weeks is actually a restoration seminar; teaching others proper techniques on restoration. The "classroom" part will be in Rockville, the "hands-on" will be a cemetery near Mecca. I'm just along for the ride. ;D I will say this though; if she hadn't gotten this weird obsession, we most likely wouldn't be going on a 2 1/2 week long trip to New England in a few weeks!! |
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Post by duff on May 27, 2008 20:52:24 GMT -5
That is awsome, funny how life takes us on these rides. Good luck to you guys! Hope you enjoy New England, don't come back a Pats fan though! I'd hate to see Woody ban you from here.
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Post by danf on May 27, 2008 21:00:29 GMT -5
Not gonna happen (the pat's thing, that is). ;D
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Post by DEERTRACKS on May 28, 2008 5:58:30 GMT -5
Bummer duff!
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Market for everything I guess!