Sunday, April 03, 2005
One step ahead?
I'm never quite sure whether I'm one step ahead or one step behind the resident critters here. The deer herd just this last week picked up two new members, both young deer who don't know the rules yet; the deer have the run of the place except for one acre, which is fenced in for the garden. I previously have shown the Sun Gates, the gates protecting the main entrance to the garden. Last year, one day I went into the garden, and there were five full grown deer inside the fence, munching on the hostas. I opened all the gates and chased them out, then spent a half hour walking around, trying to figure out how they got in... I finally found they had bent in one of the sun rays on the main gate and had all, one by one, crawled through that small space. I called for help from our friend Dennis, who made the gates, and he made a second set of gates to place in front of the Sun Gates, and so far this has worked perfectly. However, newcomers like this young deer photographed this morning, are always looking for an opening... it's a story without an ending. Also in our back yard this morning was a wild turkey, but he took off before I could get a picture. Pretty soon we saw this three foot tall turkey running pell mell up the hill, and right behind was Snickers, our fearless kitten who weighs five pounds soaking wet. She now thinks she's such hot stuff!
// posted by IBOY @ 7:20 AM 
