Paola Lunch Run
My son, Bryan, and I rarely get to ride together because of his job and family responsibilities. When he suggested a ride today I was eager to go. We originally planned a morning ride to beat the heat, leaving at 7:00 am and eating breakfast somewhere. As luck would have it, when we awoke this morning it was raining. Our breakfast ride became a lunch ride and we decided our destination would be Paola, KS. We left at about 11:30, maybe a little later. Two blocks into our ride, as were leaving my subdivision, I looked to my right and saw a deer approaching. It was very close to the road. I scared it as much as it scared me. It did an about-face and took off away from the road . . . . . thank God! A short time later, westbound in the 15300 block of Johnson Drive, we approached cars stopped alongside the road. As we passed by slowly we could see a deer in the road by the curb with all its legs folded under its body. Its head was up looking around and a woman stood by it with her hand