Thanks, Bearhunter, I hadn't considered trying to by a surplus second deer permit. The worst they can say is NO, right?
My wife and I went over there saturday. I was surprised at how small five acres is! Should be good, though. The house is in the middle of the property, and it is surrounded by woods. The deer come from the adjacent twenty wooded acres, come into the yard, eat the apples, the blackberries, the garden, etc. There are deer beds right where the lawn meets the blackberries and trees. They told us that sometimes the deer just lay all over their lawn.