I can still recall the sight of this tall imposing creature as he loomed in shadowy darkness outside the side door of my grandmother's house. He was basically an antlered buck deer who walked around on two legs like a man. To describe him now, he seems a bit comical. It wasn't as if every time I went to sleep at that house I was visited by that scary creature, but he was a frequent visitor to my dreams. This monstrous creature haunted my dreams, nightmares that I only seemed to have when sleeping at Grandma's Poconos house. However, there was one thing I did not look forward to. The Hemlock Farms beach the site of lots of non-scary memories, except for that time we got stuck in the middle of the lake on an inflatable boat. Naturally, I looked forward to trips up the Poconos. Even during those cold and snowy Poconos winters we would get bundled up and go for exhilarating toboggan rides. If you were especially patient a chickadee would land in your hand to nibble the bird seed there. It was a fun place for a kid to visit, where we could spend hours wandering the woods and picking huckleberries, swing on the rope swing in the driveway, play wiffle ball in the quiet cul de sac where the house was located, ride bikes along peaceful wooded roads or have our parents take us to one of the community's pools or the lake. When I was a kid, my grandmother owned a vacation home in the Poconos and my family would spend the occasional long weekend there or even spend a few weeks there during the summer, especially at those times when we happened to be between homes. That's what makes a recurring nightmare I had as a child, all the more perplexing. I'm a little bit nervous about their habit of darting out in front of my vehicle when I'm driving on dark country roads at night and I could do without those awful ticks they carry, but deer themselves are not something that frighten me. They're sweet, gentle creatures, who other than interfering with some gardening efforts, have never given me any trouble. Let me first state, that I'm not afraid of deer.
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