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Doris the Destroyer has out stayed her welcome !

7/13/2012

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These past nights have been hot, hot and humid. Alergies have run rampant. Carla has sneezed and snuffled, she has had so many “God Bless’s” her Heaven pass must be a sure thing!! Last night our intrepid WOOFER elected to camp out. Not quite under the stars…she intended to check out the “new to her” tent she recently purchased and not quite real hard core camping…the tent was to be positioned in front of the door for quick and easy access to you know where ! Well, I guess she will know this morning if her canvas is porous…It RAINED…it didn’t just rain, it thundered and it thundered over our freshly mown hay field. Disaster !! Hopefully the sun will shine today, dry the grass and we will be able to fill our barn tomorrow. The troops have been drafted and are lined up ready for action..all we need now is a little celestial help….this morning the sky is angry and grey but the forecast is hopeful.  I guess that’s farming !!!

Doris the Destroyer, the black tailed deer that has taken up residence on our ranch has apparently invited the neighbours to share her dining table,.everything in my orchard, vegetable garden and all my bedding plants ! A doe and two fawns were sighted sampling the delicacies which we have spent countless back breaking hours planting and weeding. Each bean sprout has been beheaded.(quality assurance, deer style I guess). The peas have been checked out and clearly were quite palatable because they have apparently revisited our smorgasbord, possibly as desert following the first course consisting of my pansies geraniums and fuscias and the family choice for entrée was my Rose of Sharon which was just coming into flower. It appears that a 10 foot fence is apparently the answer to my problems…what, on all 40 acres ??  There is (according to Google, after a frantic search on How to “persuade” Doris and co. to evict) an alternative (and no, the Dept.of Fish and Game did NOT advocate the use of a good, well aimed bullet)….TOLERANCE !!! You know what, tolerance has got old. Tolerance would be great if Doris and her dastardly deer friends restricted their munching to our forests and pastures, tolerance would be great if Doris and her associates didn’t break our fences and scare our livestock…but they don’t. I USED to love deer !!

Well, Holly one of our earlier and returning WOOFERS has just arrived, Carla has appeared ( it seems that there was no chance of rain so she didn’t use the rain sheet…DOH !!) Quatra had changed her schedule to be here for the hay which now isn’t going to be and Mom Sikora leaves today. I’d better sign off and get this Diary of despair posted. Take care, keep safe, M 
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Angie
7/14/2012 04:53:41 am

Deer - a.k.a. "rats on stilts." I feel your pain, Maureen!

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