I never knew that our deer family would turn into a multi-post saga but somehow it did. Just when I thought our dim, misfit reindeer family was all settled we experienced a little Christmas miracle. But before I get to all of that, if you need to catch up on the saga of our reindeer family here all of the posts:
The story of how we came to own the deer family
Our first try at plugging in the deer family
Our second try at bringing the deer family to life, complete with replacement Jason(s)
Now that you are caught up on all of that, I will take you to Wednesday evening. I had just posted my last blog about the deer family which now consisted of dim Jason and misfit Jason. About an hour later I was, of all things, sitting on the toilet when I heard a noise in our front yard. The toilet conveniently has a window located next to it so I looked outside. I didn’t see anything amiss, but upon a second glance I noticed something different. After a month of looking at dim Jason’s head and neck being dark, it was lit up.
I immediately rushed out of the bathroom yelling at Jason, “Your head is lit up! Do you hear me, your head is lit up!!” Jason rushed out the door and stood in amazement on our front porch. Dim Jason’s neck, head and antlers were proudly glowing, with golden misfit Jason watching.
When Carter saw dim Jason fully lit up, he demanded to know how dim Jason had been repaired. Jason and I have no idea what happened, so I told Carter that one of Santa’s elves had come to fix it. Since I heard a strange noise and suddenly dim Jason was lit up, that is my story and I’m sticking with it.
For five nights in a row dim Jason has not been dim. We both assumed the next day that dim Jason would be dim again, but he is still proudly glowing in the dark. Since misfit Jason had already been integrated into the herd I guess we’re leaving him for now. I’ve been referring to misfit Jason as cousin Eddie the last few days.
Who knows what the future will bring with our deer family.
misfit Jason (aka cousin Eddie), fully lit up but formerly dim Jason, Carter and me
as a reminder this is the “before” picture of with dim Jason looking pretty dim while misfit Jason (now cousin Eddie) stares at him
Lotus, Cocomo, Lofty and Donneur (that’s Romeo hiding in the back)
Taylor and Alfie
Art and Baner
Cino and Renny
Missy, Maggie and Cinnamon
Cuffie and Charlotte
Romeo and Gibson
Lofty and Flyer
Apollo and Thomas
Revy and Moe playing
Penny, Jake and Calimba
Lotus and Silver
Nemo, B-Rad, Ascot and Taco . . .
. . . a closer look at Nemo, B-Rad and Ascot . . .
. . . a closer look at Ascot
Blu
Bruno and Renny
Cuffie and Norman
Asterik and George
I have absolutely LOVED getting caught up on the deer family posts! And I can’t believe that Deer Jason suddenly “turned on.” In my lifetime experience it’s always the opposite.
In fact last night, in the freezing cold, I had just finished laboriously stringing lights on the back steps handrail. (Note: I had asked my soon-to-be-25-years-old daughter to do this five days ago, but no, so I was out there in my Michelin man down coat in the pitch dark doing it my d*mn self as we mothers are wont to do when requests have been ignored…) I had plugged them into the extension cord before I got started so I could see what I was doing. I got done and went to hide the extension cord. Aaaaaand, gone. Boom. Lights turned off, never to return. Had to unwind them and drag them in the house to see if it was the cold. Nope, apparently they just decided they were not ever going to light up again. Into the trash they went and I, grumbling the entire time, had to hang up a whole new string. Ugh!
In case I don’t get back here in time, I wish the Webb family a most joyous and MERRY CHRISTMAS!