I’m giggling in my rockety computer chair pretty darn hard….Let me show you why.

Ok, here’s a shot I did from my 365 day Project. I had done some pictures earlier in the evening but I wasn’t happy with them so I decided to do a shot of this deer skull that my daughter, who was seven at the time, was particularly insistent that we bring home from a trip in central Utah. Lora, one my dearest friends, of course wholeheartedly supported the idea of hauling a dried up carcass in the back of my car (not hers). And Hot Pants, my hubby, agreed.

I can’t remember if finding the skull was before Lora shot the rattlesnake or after but it certainly was before one of my most memorable “Ambien” moments around the campfire that evening. Lora later remarked to her son, “Let that be lesson to never get high, especially in front of your friends.” Really, the comment was entirely unnecessary. Tyler, Lora’s son (now sixteen) will still to this day shake his head with a smile and ask, “Remember that time you got high?”

Prescription RX sometimes don’t kick in like you think they will and I think the fact I took another one (we were camping, the ground was hard, it was cold) but still stayed awake added to…let’s just say a fun filled night that fortunately both my children were asleep for. Lora does occasionally remark, “Oh, you’d be such a fun drunk. ” I think my Ambien moments more than compensate for the fact that I don’t drink. Anyway, we brought the deer skull home and for the last four years I’ve been wanting to snap some type of picture of it. So I did last night…before the Ambien.

Here’s a before, notice the crinkle of the paper in the back…

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