Monthly Archives: October 2014

New Deer in the Neighborhood

New DeerI saw a new buck last month. The the deer in the lead is the one with the wide spread of antlers that I’ve seen frequently, but the second one was a spike buck I’ve never seen before. This is a picture from the camera which looks up 117th. They were out early that night. Previously I have been seeing them from around midnight to 0200hrs although lately I have been seeing them between 2000hrs and 2100hrs when they walk up my driveway headed for the Helmers’ apple trees or the Hurst’s bushes.

Where’s My Package?

UPS verified delivery of the package to my front door at 1451hrs. Only problem – – it wasn’t there. So I checked the camera which shows anyone at my front door. I was shown leaving the house at 0954hrs and returning at 1525hrs., but of the UPS man – nothing.

So I checked my street camera and did indeed see the UPS truck – pass my house at 1449hrs going further up the cul-de-sac, and returning past my house at 1451:43hrs. Just enough time to drop off a package somewhere.

Since there are only three houses past my house, I started by going to the Gulbransen’ s. They were not home, but my package was snuggled against their front door. I would have eventually gotten my package, when one of the Gulbransens arrived home, found it and brought it over, but it was nice that I was able to track the UPS man, and have an idea of where my package must have been delivered.

It’s nice to have cameras. If someone had stolen the package from my front door I would have had a pictorial record of them, from several cameras, all time stamped and everything, to show police.

This was a far cry from the time several years ago BC (before cameras) when the USPS said it had delivered a package with some important papers, but then could not tell me where they were and I had no proof that they had not delivered the package.