WIPE THAT GRIN OFF YOUR FACE!

You can learn a surprising amount, just from reading Little House on the Prairie Books. In the first one, I picked up some advice for those of us who are trying to grow veggies in deer country: "The garden behind the little house had been growing all summer. It was so near the house that the deer did not jump the fence and eat the vegetables in the daytime, and at night Jack kept them away. Sometimes in the morning there were little hoof-prints among the carrots and the cabbages. But Jack's tracks were there, too, and the deer had jumped right out again."

I've learned a thing or two about deer already, just on my own. For instance, I discovered that they have an evil sense of humor. When I pulled the summer annuals out of my containers, I replaced them with dianthus. I was told deer don't like to eat dianthus, and that was absolutely correct. But that doesn't stop them from plucking each one out of my pots, every damn night, and tossing it disdainfully on the ground to die. Now that is just plain rude! Every single morning I have to scurry out and get them replanted, before it gets too hot. And it's startin' to PISS ME OFF!


P.S. Many thanks to www.mastrsoftheuniverse.de for the grinning deer image.
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